@jeanne-mayell Thank you, and to everyone who makes the predictions and compiles them!
In a sense we're already broken up. The U.S. is already comprised of regions that were settled by different immigrants groups and are very different from each other. Hence our difficulty in getting along. Here's is a cool NPR article from over a decade ago:
https://www.npr.org/2013/11/11/244527860/forget-the-50-states-u-s-is-really-11-nations-says-author
FWIW, I don't see us breaking up (as in becoming different countries) because we are already kind of broken up. I see us going through hell based on divisions fomented by people whose primary purpose is to profit from those divisions, plus add in racism to that equation. We'll endure, but as Jeanne has predicted, we'll emerge battered. Maybe better? I hope so.
The only perspective I can speak from is my own.... I would rather have a more realist view so I can prepare for things but in my own opinion if you have no hope at all, its hard not to fall in despair and give up. So I tend to try to prepare for things in my life by doing everything I can control to make it the best for me and my family but also try to have a strong belief or faith that good will win out over bad. If the only thing I hear or see is all negativity, then I tend to withdraw into myself. Sometimes you have to do that for your own sanity. However, hope, faith and belief in goodness and light in people is what keeps you going too. Years ago when I was a college student, I took a lot of fine arts classes. One teacher I had ruled his classroom by so much negativity that many promising artists quit and felt that they would never be good enough. The teacher had no idea that he had such an impact....when he found out he was horrified. The thing I've found is that a sense of balance and control helps. If everything is negative, the world feels so very dark but if there are ways that you can make some things better even in little ways you at least feel like there are possibilities of things being better. I don't want false positivity but I will tell you right now I live in a lot of fear and uncertainty. Like today, when the federal funding shut down, I didn't even know if I could go to my doctor appointment coming up, would the federal funding for transportation in my area still be available to take me, would I still get my check, a new place to live still is in question and on and on. I worry about losing all my health coverage, being homeless at some point and how I'm going to keep myself and my family safe. It is important to be prepared but I (and at least people like me) still need a light to grab onto in the darkness that is going on. I am trying so very hard to hold onto hope and positivity...and not end each day in tears or fear. I spend a lot of time taking deep breaths, trying to focus on what I can do and maybe yes I do hope to hear something to makes me feel like change and good things are still there even if its hard for the moment.
Tomorrow at 7 pm EST 4 pm PST is Jeanne's Wednesday Circle of Light. Please, folks on this thread, and anyone who can, come to the Circle of Light meditation on ZOOM. I sense it is much needed by many here.
I encourage you, again, to attend if you can.
Apparently, I have inadvertently implied that I believe the prediction about the physical/political breakup of the US. I would like to make it clear that I do not; I was only acknowledging that the prediction mentioned by @carmen has been out there for many years and providing an example of it from my admittedly faded memory of it. @lynn 's statement about going through hell because of the created/amplified divisions and differences is much more in line with my own belief, and I would agree that @jeanne-mayell 's prediction that we will come out bruised is almost guaranteed. There will be a lot to clean up, and the US will need to eat a rather large slice of humble pie from the things it has fostered/encouraged/instigated over the last 250 years. I'm hoping that any US government that follows this one will finally stop slavishly pandering to the "USA Good! Everything else bad! We are the best ever and always will be!" mentality and finally step up to the plate not as a superpower or "the leader of the free world", but finally taking our place as just another citizen nation on this lonely little mudball in space.
@tgraf66 yes. I've expanded my horizons, so to speak, greatly since the election looking for honesty, unvarnished truth and unbiased opinions in predictions. I do not wish to hear only happy/light/positive things. I only wish to hear the truth.
@impassionate How do you discern what is unvarnished truth and unbiased opinion in predictions? I'm serious...how does someone know? Like you, I don't want to hear only positive things, but I don't want to read wild speculation, either.
@impassionate How do you discern what is unvarnished truth and unbiased opinion in predictions? I'm serious...how does someone know? Like you, I don't want to hear only positive things, but I don't want to read wild speculation, either.
That's a great question. I wish I could tell you how, but I'm pretty good at it. I think it is because I have moderately good intuitive skills combined with a doctorate's worth of scientific training.
I can read people pretty well too. One time my department was considering a person to hire for an important position. A colleague asked what I thought of the person. I said- spontaneously-- she presents well, but she'll put a knife in your back, no question. She was hired, and after a couple of years I turned out to be right.
Who else had a good BS detector? And why do you think it's so?