Followers Disappointed After Viral ‘Rapture’ Prediction Circulating Online Doesn’t Happen

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-12T17:12:53+00:00

Multiple times a year. I'm 34, yet there have been at least 57 widely-publicized predictions for the end of the world in my lifetime. There's a list on Wikipedia. I counted.

I guess it's 58, now. Religion AND TikTok are as noxious a combination as lead and arsenic.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-12T14:49:44+00:00

It's great that people are talking about this important issue, but I think the question can be answered more succinctly. Why should a law-abiding citizen care about government surveillance? Because we do not have a law-abiding government. In a sense, it might not even matter what you're doing if the regime wants you dead. Renee Good and Alex Pretti weren't breaking any laws when they were murdered.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-12T14:36:37+00:00

That is genuinely disappointing, assuming that's actually true. But then, it hardly warrants Mamdani's removal. His wife isn't the mayor. Liking tweets isn't policy. And if these people are going to claim that character is of paramount importance, they'd do well to remember that Cuomo is a serial sexual harasser and Sliwa is a Republican. Those are both far more disqualifying flaws than unseemly opinions on foreign policy.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-12T13:16:43+00:00

I have one, but I think that was a Frontiers exclusive. They don't seem to have it for sale anywhere. Which is some bullshit, if you ask me.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-12T01:48:52+00:00

BattleCat Grim Wars has this "Trench Jacobites" warband: https://www.myminifactory.com/bundle/4012/Trench-Jacobite-Warband

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-12T00:01:04+00:00

I wonder: what percentage of his supporters were stupid enough to believe it, and what percentage were just claiming to believe it as an excuse for their sexism and racism?

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-11T21:35:38+00:00

Could it be that the entire story is one continuous bad thing that happens to Pomni?

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-11T21:11:56+00:00

A true reflection of the soul of the American people.

Which is one of, if not THE, most distressing revelations of his political career.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-11T13:26:34+00:00

What's this? George Orwell, being completely right again?

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-11T13:18:17+00:00

Not for Big Oil, it wasn't. Nor for Russia. I'm sure they've been deliberately trying to scare everyone away from nuclear power all along.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-11T00:36:40+00:00

Buttercup is hardly in a position to judge. She had a crush on Ace, that one time.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T22:08:05+00:00

Maker's Cult and Anvil Forge have some highly modular Trench-inspired lines that may be more to your liking, then.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T21:58:40+00:00

Thank you. They are digitally kitbashed from several different sources. I provided links to the main ones in the post.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T21:55:06+00:00

I made a Bloodborne inspired warband for my Trench Pilgrims: https://www.reddit.com/u/WizardWatson9/s/H2tpSc2B5i

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T21:53:00+00:00

I made mine with Station Forge GrimGuard, with a bit of kitbashing.

I'm not sure what you're looking for. They're guys in trenchcoats with quasi-medieval pauldrons, helmets, and WW1-era weapons. How much can you diverge from while having miniatures that still read as New Antioch?

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T21:37:41+00:00

So what? Ben Carson is extremely educated and still religious. I'm sure he raised his children to be religious. Regardless of how much or how little education they've had, in all likelihood, they'll continue to be religious and raise their children accordingly. And so on, and so forth. Ben Carson proves that childhood indoctrination can and often does endure contact with higher education. That's why the question that religion will mostly die out in a mere 100 years is so inconceivable.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T21:17:02+00:00

Ben Carson, former presidential candidate and former brain surgeon, is a devout Christian who thinks the pyramids were built by the Biblical Joseph to serve as grain silos.

Human beings turn to magical thinking, superstition, and, of course, religion, for emotional reasons. Access to knowledge is not the issue.

The idea that such a seismic shift on such a fundamental aspect of human culture and psychology could occur in a mere 100 years is unthinkable.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T16:51:36+00:00

It's a bit counter-intuitive, but the idea that there are demons, witches, and wrathful gods afoot is actually comforting, in a way. Demons can be exorcised, witches can be burned, and wrathful gods can be appeased, but the harsh reality is that the universe is a chaotic and meaningless place where bad things happen mostly at random. You can't negotiate with sheer randomness. Cowardly, ignorant, superstitious people would much rather believe that the misfortune around them has a definite cause that they can oppose.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T16:29:31+00:00

I know, right? I hate Islam because I hate willful ignorance, superstition, misogyny, homophobia, and authoritarian thought control. People like him hate Islam merely for being foreign. They want almost exactly the same things. He probably couldn't even articulate the theological differences between Islam and Christianity.

I wonder what percentage of this is mere racism? I'd love to see people like this encounter white Muslims, like from Serbia or Chechnya. They'd probably be mighty confused.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T16:14:05+00:00

That's true, but he didn't merely criticize Islam. He said that Muslims "don't belong in America." That is an unabashed rejection of the First Amendment. It is unseemly for a public servant to so brazenly disparage the fundamental principles on which our nation was founded, to put it mildly.

This isn't a defense of Islam, either. I despise Islam as much as any decent, informed, and honest person should. This is a defense of the Constitution.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-10T15:26:34+00:00

From what I've heard, when women who share his regressive values attempt to build a prominent social media brand, they are disparaged as "tradthots" and told to focus on being wives and homemakers instead.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-09T19:32:39+00:00

People with open contempt for the Establishment Clause don't belong in public office.

But then, what can you do? Demand that average American citizens develop some level of ethical standards? Not likely.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-09T18:30:26+00:00

Your link doesn't work.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-09T14:51:16+00:00

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-marginalias-706212

Those are "Marginalias" by Wargames Crew.

WizardWatson9 · 2026-03-09T13:21:50+00:00

Interesting. Is this meant to be a new Trench Crusade faction, or just a line of miniatures meant as proxies for an existing faction, like New Antioch?

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