Reply To: Alan…
When the Dalia Lama originally left and the PRC played the betrayal card the people of Tibet saw through it because they knew he left to maintain his, and by extension their, religious freedom. Now, I think if he were to move the government in exile to a Seastead as a permanent fixture seeking diplomatic recognition, the betrayal card would have a bit more weight. As for your take on the Israeli/Palestinian issue, sorry Dude, I just have to flatly disagree. In 1948 when Ben Gurion announced the creation of the State of Israel, to a large degree for most of the survivors of the holocaust, it may have been true that they had no place else to go but that's no longer true. For the Palestinian people, their refugee problem is one that they created almost by themselves. You and I and I dare say most of the people on this site and around the world live in places where we don't have to worry about getting shot or blown up on a daily basis, or having to step over dead bodies to go to work/school. For the Israelis and Palestinians, their faith allows them to endure it and keep enduring it. As for those who do leave, they carry their hatred with them like a poison disguised as love for 'their' homeland! Abandon 'Their' promised land given them by Almighty God for which they have sacrificed so much and killed so many for? Not a chance!
Horton, I don't believe that these are the 'End Times'. Period. While there are a lot of people who do, most of them believe and repeat what they hear out of ignorance rather than reading the scriptures for themselves. "This to shall pass..."
Xnsdvd, I think the countries to look at would be the countries and places that already have so-called 'Sea People' Myanmar, Malaya, Indonesia and the ones that will have them like Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippines even Singapore (leaves not with standing) and all the rest that have large shore based populations with no money to buy land inland. These people WILL be displaced, somewhere. At sea is a logical choice!
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