/lit/ - Literature

I plan to read the entirety of the Bible, But I don't really know much about it's history or christianity, where should I start? what order should I read it in?

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Related to this, the Club of Rome’s report “Limits to Growth” (1972). It’s been heavily criticized but even the fact that the world’s elites and high-level planners have such a Malthusian worldview, is itself scary enough, and probable evidence enough, that they don’t view a controlled and deliberate collapse of Western civilization as necessarily totally off-limits in response to issues like massive population growth and resource depletion.

There’s also the conspiracy classic, “The Report from Iron Mountain,” a possible satire, but from the reputed POV of this same type of elite setting up their think-tank meeting, and deciding that waging unofficial war through various means against the populace of the world is in order, or, conversely, instituting “substitute forms of war,” to unify societies & give the economic impetus that war traditionally fulfills (such as a “war” for the saving of the environment, as well as even a fake extraterrestrial threat (!?)). Published 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Report_from_Iron_Mountain

Finally, there’s just the overall vibe that the decadence, security, comfort and safety at the peak of Western civilization, of the modern first-world nations, can’t last forever — like the legend of Atlantis, sunk and destroyed at its heigh of technological prosperity, its peak, or the decadence of Rome, one of the most powerful and flourishing civilizations of the world, falling into decay at the end of its lifespan.

P.S. if you combine the aforementioned books with the other conspiracy classic, “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars,” you get a plausible picture (if fictionalized) of how we are basically already unknowingly under the occupation of a malevolent elite deciding to wage war against their own populace while also psy-opping us to contribute to our own demise and not believe we’re being attacked by an enemy. (No /pol/-like implications intended.)