I did but I always felt that this (all of the Trump administration's many, many crimes) combined with his fan boys embedded in the Justice Department would take at least a year or more to unravel this. I know we all want quick justice but this is beyond anything anyone has seen before. I also believe that as these crimes are laid out (especially related to Jan 6) combined with the passage of the voting rights bill in some form, that the Dems will hold both the House and the Senate. Once that happens it's "Katie bar the door".
@theungamer I found comfort in AG Garlands speech. It was just what I've been saying for months, he just needed to reafirm that the DOJ is indeed taking things seriously. I know that investigation like this always start at the bottom, easy to prove alagations and work thier way up the the "big fish". I feel much more confident that the DOJ is back on the job. Things should get very interesting as summer approches.
So I was just watching the Amazon production of the Wheel of Time series, a fantasy series based on on a saga of 13 main and one prequel book (said books are awesome by the way, and I highly recommend them for those who might like the series!). No spoilers but in the series there is a great Wheel with seven spokes, each an age, and with time as a circle with no beginnings and ends but in time the age will come again. The Wheel, reality itself, is powered by the Source as laid down by the Creator at the dawn.
Within the world there are beings called Channelers, men and women who can use the Source, through the lens of the One Power, which itself has a male and a female half, and which also flows as five powers as one (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Spirit).
In the Second Age, with the 'current' period of the story being the Third Age, the channelers were called the Aes Sedai - which meant servants of all in the Old Tongue. The thing that gets to me is that for all their cosmic power - and they have that - they were given honor and glory by working to better the world. That service brought power.
One of the elements of the story's backstory is that our world, that is the world right now, is considered the First Age. In said Age there was no understanding or use of the One Power. The discovery, and then the use of it, is what brought about the end of the age and the start of the what would become a unified and glorious Second Age.
Now, obviously, I am not saying its real or realistic or that it doesn't have its issues - lol - but there is something interesting to me about the idea. About humanity tapping into an energy field and because of that maturing as a species.
Anyway, just wanted to share the element and the thought and whatnot.
PS. I put this here because I couldn't help but think of 'the great turning' as 'the turning of the wheel'. hehe
@herukane I've read the books and watched the series, what has been released so far, and it is fantastic. I am impressed with how they have kept to the store line given the amount of time alloted. I was reading it in 2019-2020 and had to stop for awhile because some of the story line was to close to home. The wheel turns as the wheel wills. Looking forward to our next age, a more peaceful time.
Something right, just and noteworthy happened in the world today. The 3 men found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison, 2 without parol.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/07/1070618256/ahmaud-arbery-killers-sentence
This paragraph out of this chapter I'm reading today for my Post Graduate degree really stuck out to me as relevant as part of the great turning. And I don't need my third eye to see a leader right now who is doing his best to "cultivate" it :-)