The Dullest

Some will be saved simply by their inability to abide boredom.

There is nothing so sacred the devil won’t pervert it; but neither is there anything so black it can’t be sanctified and become a link in the chain for someone.

After all, ‘others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.’
The more boring the apocalypse, the better; it’s God that wants us to awake and arise from the dust, not Satan.

@G ” I don’t think we are literally currently experiencing the apocalypse. It can get duller, seedier, and stupider yet.”

I agree that things can get a great deal worse – the point is whether or not they will continue to get worse, and at what point God decides it it best (overall?) to wind-up the project of mortal life on earth.

Of course it is Not really a matter of mathematics; but it would perhaps be counter-productive to the Plan of Salvation if the net effect of mortal life was that more people were lost than saved. In *that* respect it *looks* as if the world is now worse than it ever has been (especially in terms of moral and other value inversions), that there are fewer exceptions to the hellish trend, and that things will continue to get worse.

I am assuming here that another ‘mortal incarnate life on earth’ (or equivalent) could be created as and when necessary.

My point is that the Apocalype will presumably be related to the prospects for Mens’ salvation (and deification) – and not about material conditions as such.