A world without America

When it comes to a post-American landscape, if you believe Christian prophecy, it’s got a lot to do with America being Mystery Babylon itself. The nation-state said to corrupt the entire planet with its filth and abominations, as to warrant declining real badly and then getting destroyed. Though the cultural side of things can be harder to patch up that a substitute would have to do, however awkward it maybe (which is how I feel about sermons from things I follow or like). Actually I have been interceding for a lot of people, both strangers and relatives, to cope with certain phenomena like traditional Han Chinese clothing and precolonial clothing getting popularised here in the Philippines. Or to those coming from Ghana, Canada and the like with something similar, that this could lead to very different versions of both Canada and the Philippines by then.

The answers might turn out differently, in the case with the Philippines we might see much less English speakers here, or with so much western influence getting revoked in the Philippines that the only traces are in both religion and names, due to the Philippines not living up to what it proclaims itself to be that over time it will become like any other East Asian nation to a huge degree. Admittedly this is what I wanted since I don’t like how westernised the Philippines is, though the actual answer might be much more than what I wanted. But as a consequence of the Philippines not living up to what its own reputation that in the future, it will be a lot more like its neighbours (including China and Vietnam, which it will look up to more once it becomes socialist) than at present. One where Mandarin replaces English as the other national language of the Philippines, a very different Philippines that’s more sympathetic to China whether if others like it or not.

I have prayed for various Canadian cartoonists to cope with Canada joining Russia, as well as the popularisation of things like Swedish music there, which would also result in a very different Canada as well. It would be nice if something like Georgian folk costumes and Kazakh folk costumes get popularised there, but realistically there’ll still be a demarcation between formal and informal clothing. It’s even like this in China where there’s a distinction between hanfu as worn by commoners and in casual situations, and hanfu as worn by the upper classes and during more formal circumstances. The only real difference this time is that the American version of casual clothing would be no more or at least substantially reduced, particularly when it comes to rather racy garments that draw ire from Christians a lot, not helped by that some clothing companies make a deal with the Devil. To the point where we might even see the last of them in this decade.

Considering that a number of European folk costumes are so elaborately sewn and patterned, that it’s more feasible for them to become influences for a new type of formal clothing in Canada. Likewise a good number of hanfu can be impractical in some circumstances that they could become the new standard or canon for formal or fashionable clothing in the Philippines, with western athleisure being reserved for farming (and may become a marker of provinciality over time). Casual clothing wouldn’t disappear from these countries as much as they take on entirely new permutations and influences, just as formal clothing might take on another permutation for the same reason and circumstance. It’s plausible that athleisure might not disappear from the Philippines but might take on a rustic character instead, seeing that hanfu might not seem practical for farming here as to be more popular among those in more cosmopolitan areas and anywhere close to China.

Conversely speaking, if something like Kazakh and Uzbek folk clothing were to get popularised in Canada, they might result in a new kind of Canadian street style though that’s got to do with Kazakhs and Uzbeks having learnt to dress well for the climate they’re in for centuries. Seeing Canada as we know it is formed much more recently with the earliest European immigrants coming from the more temperate climates predominanting in western Europe, but then again Kazakhstan’s close to China so there’s going to be some cross-pollination between the two before. Something Canada lacked, because it’s so isolated from Eurasia. Getting Swedish, Danish and Norwegian folk costumes popularised in Canada doesn’t constitute that much of a learning curve compared to say Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as they’re also similar to Canada, and Canada has a good number of citizens descended from these countries’ peoples. It wouldn’t be any different if Swedish, Danish and Norwegian music got popularised there.

If because Canada has been exposed to them before to some extent when it comes to bands like Aqua, though in a post-American landscape where American influence has been largely revoked and undone as much as America disappears without much of a trace, such bands become weirdly precious and valuable as reminders that a country called America used to rule the world and its airwaves. Maybe not necessarily so but their own US contemporaries might be mostly forgotten by then, like you’d have to jog your memory in 2063 to know who or what the Backstreet Boys are. Aqua might be seen as a quaint band beloved by senior citizens by then, the equivalent to what the Platters (also an American band) are currently seen as. Let’s not forget that the Backstreet Boys will be judged for their own sins or vices, that no sooner or later more scandals will emerge in public.

Nick Carter might not just be outed for abusing more women (even in snuff videos alongside animals), but also for cheating on his wife by having a fan for a mistress who’s even younger than both of them. AJ McLean has done something similar before, though it would be terrifying if others like Kevin, Howie and Brian might also have their own. If I’m not mistaken, Brian Littrell’s in the news for even suing a police officer for ‘intruding’ on his beach property. He’s been doing this since 2023, while there’s no mistaking that he himself also wants privacy from time to time. But it does make one wonder if he’s not as nice to the general public as previously assumed to be, often telling visitors to back off whilst indulging in his band’s fans in their cruises. He’s kind of okay with getting attention but for as long as it comes from his fans, not from curious or unsuspecting strangers who happen to stumble upon his property from time to time.

I remember this sermon on YouTube insinuating that people like him are arrogant (though I also have this as well), another on the radio said that people like him are wicked. Or worse than you expect them to be, to the point where it seems Brian Littrell’s much unfriendlier to strangers than one realises, moreso that he’s fairly famous. There’s also a picture of Brian Littrell next to what appears to be a pentagram, but it’s not easily searchable for now. It’s even more surprising that he’s a practising Christian, but with people insinuating that he might be evil, so it seems either he isn’t sincere about worshipping God or that he’s gotten worldlier than he should be. Not helped by that he continues to be with his rather unsaved, unrepentant band members for so long that it’s not surprising why he turned out this way, mind you I’ve been around trolling websites fairly often nearly more than a decade ago and it’s only now that I’ve effectively abandoned them for something more edifying.

I even bullied a classmate because others were doing it until it got to me eventually, or similar things I’ve done recently so it proves the Bible right. Even then it does make you wonder how corrupting America (as Mystery Babylon) really gets, albeit in ways one doesn’t anticipate and expect, in terms of having a lot of globally famous musicians who either have dark secrets or are often engaged in scandals themselves. It should be noted that singer Ariana Grande is no stranger to taking men away from their significant others, but what really broke the camel’s back is that she had an affair with a married man who recently had a child with his wife. She might not be the only singer to do this, given AJ and the rest might be doing this for years. The Bible also said that marrying a divorced person could usually constitute as infidelity, as is merely lusting at somebody or something. This isn’t unique to American celebrities either, but that infidelity does often lead to divorce and consuming smut also risks ruining one’s love for their spouse, among other things (it’s like this with me before a lot).

What America has done is to kind of popularise and glamourise this, since many of these people who do these things are in showbiz themselves. A lot more people are exposed to popular music, Hollywood movies and programmes, than they are to more highbrow stuff that inevitably it kind of normalises these actions alongside things like polyamory (another form of consensual nonmonogamy like polygyny of yore), also a number of these celebrities doing this are those people are aware of before. In some cases these are people that fans grew up with together in a way, in being not only privy to these things but also kind of normalising these actions in another way. It’s like this with sexualised garments that people like Cher and Catherine Bach have effectively popularised and normalised over time, mind you short shorts were once considered really risque that Bach had to wear tights with those later on. Cher also got into trouble for showing her bellybutton in public, but come the 2010s and 2020s these garments have become normal, everyday wear for women who may not even be prostitutes themselves.

(Or are they in a way?)

There’s a Bible verse that explicitly links sexualised garments to hyperssexuality that even if it’s not true for all women who dress this way, it’s often like this with a number of female celebrities which proves it right. I have dressed immodestly before and I also struggle with lust, which is likely also the same with one cousin of mine who lost her own husband to her lusting over the books she reads (the whole reaping what you sow thing). It’s very much the case with somebody like Britney Spears who admitted to reading smutty books and wanking, having gone through men like tissues and wears immodestly too, or her own contemporary Christina Aguilera as well. There’s a blogger that I follow who doesn’t like Christian modesty and get this, she doesn’t just appear in sexy calendars herself, she even reads porn too. Cher had dressed like this and also went through husbands like tissue paper, or Ariana Grande but with boyfriends and then having an affair with someone else’s husband. Even Beyonce’s actually like this in addition to doing witchcraft herself, that she even has affairs with women too.

Though victim blaming is wrong but it’s not particularly coincidental that a number of women who elect to dress this way also tend to be really horny themselves, that makes one wonder why some men want more modestly dressed, submissive women as their wives and girlfriends. Admittedly I struggle with this towards a former classmate before, but I feel this has to also be reframed in light of women’s own struggles with lust, that makes the need to heed to a husband’s advice all the more meaningful. Like if your husband tells you to stop dressing this way, going to certain websites/places, consuming certain media that’s not edifying and so on, or reading smut then you have to heed to him however awkward it may be. At times the Bible does speak highly of being celibate, being away from distractions (including annoying women). It should be noted that in the other Bible verse, God does say that if someone’s unable to control their lust so badly they should be able to channel it through marriage. Than to go on dumping one person after another, consuming porn and masturbating.

(I’ve gotten into trouble for consuming porn before, this is also true for my cousin in a way, it’s often this way like losing pets or in her case, losing a husband in her lifetime.)

I said many times before that America’s a very double-minded country on the verge of civil instability that it’s also due for physiogeographical instability, Celestial’s prophecy about Florida getting destroyed does have some implications for the Backstreet Boys. Seeing how and why they’re largely residing there that should an earthquake ever destroy part of Florida, there’s a possibility that they’ll die for being evil and rebellious, for God won’t let them live for long. Even if they don’t seem to be outright evil at first, well Satan can appear as an angel of light. They might be hiding something evil in them, with a feeling they know they’re doing wrong but do it anyways. I have made idols out of other people, things and bands before, though it’s kind of sad and sadly weird why Brian Littrell even enables this from his fans. Odder still is that he wanted to work in ministry before, which is something his own contemporary Zac Hanson ended up doing in a way (since he’s also much younger than him). Unfortunately he ended up mmmaking God even mmmader than ever before, though it’s also like this with me towards sermons before. One would suspect Zac’s own mistake is what got him closer to God, as God can turn evil into good.

He’s also not above his own faults, which is why he faced a backlash from his fans from getting arrogance into his head multiple times before (I also struggle with this a lot, along with anger and unforgiveness from being traumatised a lot). Or Ace of Base for another matter just the same, that the Berggren siblings had their grandmother killed and one of them got traumatised for life, which is also what brought Jenny closer to God and she admitted it’s own fault why this happened (confessing one’s sins and owning up to it). I have been unrepentant in my own sins before and I’m trying really hard to do right, even if it tends to backfire despite trying hard not to sin. I try really hard not to be bitter, angry, unforgiving, arrogant, rebellious, disobedient, unbelieving, idolatrous and horny, though at times it doesn’t go as expected (and getting affected by those a lot) and I still struggle with those after deliberately giving into them before. It’s probably like this with Zac and Jenny before, or Brian Littrell for another matter.

Though I’m afraid Brian Littrell and friends might get the boot for their own unrepentant evils/sins/vices that ultimately they’ll all die together when Florida gets destroyed, it does make one wonder why would America house such confusing and contradictory materials, in some regards far moreso than others have done due to it being such a superpower that ultimately it is evil incarnate and Hell on Earth. Evil might still persist in the world for as long as the headquarters move somewhere to Europe, either Russia or most likely Italy as the Vatican City is within it and it will house the Antichrist in a way. But it’s still telling that America is Babylon the Great in a way others aren’t and why it will go away for good, along with its influence around the world.

Whither K-Pop

Nakita has a lot of videos concerning the spiritual state of the K-Pop industry and by extension, its originator South Korea itself, that it seems less appealing from the inside out. Not just that K-Pop trainees have to undergo grueling schedules to get to where they are or could be if they never become K-Pop musicians at all (E-Jay auditioned as one but ended up writing songs for the film ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ instead), but there’s also the odd possibility of Satanic rituals getting done behind close doors that some K-Pop producers’ and musicians’ ascent to popularity takes on a more dubiously Faustinian quality. No different from their western counterparts to the extent of K-Pop musicians repeatedly alluding to the occult and the Devil himself, for they are rebellious and proud per the Bible’s stance on the same. There are even people who also said that JY Park is a false teacher who leads people astray with his dubious teachings and equally dubious music, which would explain why Stray Kids are called Stray Kids. He might even molest all members behind closed doors, but it’s not hidden to God and it will be found out in public.

I feel the issue of idolatry would be the same if somebody substitutes BTS for INXS, but what will differ is a change in sentiment towards South Korean mass culture/Hallyu. I suppose if more scandals were to be uncovered surrounding the K-Pop industry that it might even become unfashionable to publicly admit to liking K-Pop and Hallyu, that it may become highly stigmatised in the future. The issue of idolatry would remain if something like Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish and Polish music were to get really popularised in Canada, but it would become more socially acceptable to partake in anti-Korean sentiment there that to defend K-Pop is to be an outcast. And even then K-Pop is pretty questionable in and of itself, where you have others admitting they couldn’t get into K-Pop because they found the male musicians to be too effeminate and cartoonish. That’s not to say K-Pop boy bands and male solo musicians are necessarily effeminate, but they do things that are really strange for bands like Backstreet Boys and One Direction to regularly do. It’s not uncommon for K-Pop boy band members to dye their hair in strange colours, wear makeup and act cutesy. It would be really weird if many Backstreet Boys members did the same.

(The Backstreet Boys would also be judged for the same things their K-Pop counterparts do, to the point where they all die ingloriously as well as get found out for adultery, sex trafficking and filming snuff videos featuring women, children and animals.)

The western male musicians who do regularly wear makeup in any way are far likelier to be not at all from prefabricated boy bands, something like those from the Prodigy, Tokio Hotel, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Bauhaus, The Damned and the like, that if Bill Kaulitz had been a boy band member (if both Robbie Williams and Harry Styles are any indication), then he’d have to put on a facade of being somebody contrary to his usual presentation. Then again it’s possible it’s not uncommon for western boy bands to be molested by their producers, that they too get corrupted spiritually over time provided when occult activity’s involved at all (even Boyzone’s Shane Lynch said this). This makes their Korean counterparts even more peculiar given how popular they really are outside of South Korea, the way Japanese boy bands aren’t to the same extent and even those who aren’t from prefab bands aren’t well-known to the general public outside of Japanophiles. K-Pop might be popular among certain sectors of the general public, but it’s something that gets more international airplay than J-Pop does, at least for now if K-Pop were to end for real.

That’s from my experience listening to K-Pop not only on local (Philippine) radio stations but also their Mexican counterparts like Radio Disney (believe it or not, it’s still a thing in Latin America for now as the original one’s gone as it will sold to Brazil’s Globo to become Radio Jovem or something due to Disney’s failings), that K-Pop is really more popular among overseas audiences in a way J-Pop isn’t that you can be into K-Pop without really being into anime productions. It’s possible for one’s interest in J-Pop to grow independent of being into anime, but they’re generally entwined not just due to the nature of anime soundtracks containing those but also an overall Japanophilia. In the Philippines I kind of get the impression that Hallyu/South Korean mass culture’s more popular among non-anime fans, but it could be that Hallyu’s better marketed to those outside of geek circles. And even then it’s strange why would both South Korea and the Philippines, both East Asian countries with substantial Christian populations, would openly partake in idolatry that they will get comeuppances for what they do as to be given over to China forever.

South Korea might end up reuniting with North Korea, that the later version of Hallyu (if it were to persist in some way) would evolve to fit the new Korean reality at best. But even then the K-Pop industry as we know it might not exist anymore and likely the same for offshoots like P-Pop, where if a P-Pop industry were to grow substantially and since these musicians are openly referred to as idols, that such an industry and likely a degree of Korean (and moreso Western/American) influence in the Philippines will be revoked forever. If because the Philippines loves its sins and chooses to do evil, that the things that make it distinctive in East Asia will either be revoked or minimised, that eventually in the near future the Philippines will really be no different from the rest of its neighbours in most regards. South Korea would be no different either as it’s been suspected that K-Pop takes its cues from American music and more specifically African American music, quite unsurprisingly some of the earliest K-Pop musicians like Seo Taji were also into hip hop at some point, that such an industry would collapse and get revoked over time as well. Ultimately the K-Pop industry and its offshoots will be over, same goes for the J-Pop idol industry that it will look very different in the future.

And even if J-Pop were to continue existing in the future, it would be one where there are no openly proclaimed idols at all. It would be a different music industry in the wider East Asian region by then where there were once prefab boy bands and girl groups, now there are going to be more K-Rock, Trot, K-Rap and Ballad musicians as Trot is a genre specific to South Korea. There might still be singers who don’t write their own songs and play instruments, there might still be pop bands in the molds of Aqua and Ace of Base, but the boy band and girl group schools will be over by then. If because with these bands there’s a tendency to deliberate cultish interest in them, where members have to adopt personae to appeal to these people regardless of who they really are in person. And even their social media presence is more likely to be highly curated, considering that it might not fully reflect on what else interests them offline. It would be frightening if somebody like AJ McLean doesn’t have affairs with his fans (same with Nick Carter), but also films himself abusing women and animals (which Nick also does) that goes to show you their own public online presences don’t fully represent their actual personalities, given the nature of dark web.

And it would be pretty frightening if Nick Carter also films himself abusing women and animals mixed with Satanic rituals, that there will even come a time when all the Backstreet Boys will show up onstage dressed as demons and flashing the Satanic pentagram onscreen that makes you wonder who they actually serve, and it’s much likelier they don’t really serve God at all, despite Brian Littrell proclaiming himself to be a Christian. This is also true for their K-Pop counterparts and why such curated personae exist, even when the musicians themselves don’t consistently live up to it even in private and online. It’s not necessarily wrong to be in a vocal group and boy bands really do have their roots in doo-wop, but the way boy bands and girl groups are made deliberate idolatry in their fans that it’s likely why such affections exist in the first place. To the extent it’s wiser to do a Zac Hanson than to do a Brian Littrell, losing fans by mistake only to come closer to God and do the Great Commission (that Littrell himself wanted to do at some point). A would-be member named Burk Parsons went on to become a pastor instead, dodging a bullet that would’ve had fans writing pornographic stories about him by then. (This would’ve been called visuals at the height of BSB’s popularity.)

The way such obsession’s engineered and deliberated to even induce sexual obsessions with them at various points, even if it’s not unique to boy bands as others undergo this in a way as well, that even if not all boy band fans (much less K-Pop and BSB fans) remain like this, but it’s terribly not uncommon to find pornographic fanfictions with K-Pop and BSB really. And why it speaks volumes to this sort of engineered rebellion and idolatry that those who could’ve formed families (sometimes it doesn’t go as expected due to their own shortcomings affecting things) end up getting really devoted to those bands instead. The problem’s the same if you substitute Stray Kids with Stray Cats, but what’s different with K-Pop is how upfront it is about these things as to warrant getting removed for good. To close things though I didn’t get into any K-Pop band for real, I do have my moments of idolatry towards musicians and bands as to get disappointed at times, and I listened to K-Pop before until God told me to stop listening to this and eventually I did. Angelamarie Ucci said that idols can disappoint people (as it did to me before), that there’s a current backlash to Taylor Swift (her former favourite musician) for having a man she truly loves in her life.

It’s like this with one musician, though I’ve prayed for it, it does prove Ucci’s point right. She’s likely praying for Taylor Swift too and will be saved in due time, though it remains to be seen if it gets fulfilled at all, but ultimately there’s something about the showbiz industry that deliberates obsessive behaviours towards otherwise unlikable people that it feels like a cosmic prank played by Satan to go after people the public doesn’t genuinely trust and like all the time and why idolatry’s bad, which is something I still struggle with at times, to the point where things happen if I can’t worship God and Mammon. I do pray for them, though some will be answered in due time, as for others it might not be answered at all if they continue to do evil, so said the Lord.

Smells like reprobate spirit

Here’s somebody prophesising that Seattle will actually get nuked by Russia, which is one of those cities in the Pacific Northwest. This is something specific to the North American continent where it’s characterised by a climate comparable to parts of Europe as well as having a kind of cultural character that’s open to anything kind of politically leftist, it should also be noted that Seattle is the city that begat the likes of grunge rock music and Microsoft. The latter is the one that gives us the most commonly used operating system, though China’s Huawei might introduce something that wouldn’t just preserve things from whatever Microsoft’s browsers and the like had (for want of a better phrasing) but also improve on it significantly. Like if you use your browser from a previous OS, Huawei’s own Windows might preserve all the websites you go there (your bookmarks as well) and so on.

A case of the pupil becoming better than their teacher, bluer than blue and gladder than glad. One might wonder if either China’s Huawei or perhaps Russia’s Ucoz might introduce something that improves on other existing American technologies like web browsers for instance, where Huawei might introduce something like Microsoft Edge but better. Russia’s Ucoz (or China’s own versions) might improve on existing software needed to make websites more easily with to the point of getting popularised all over the world and becoming the new world standard in a way, an even more telling sign is when both China and Russia introduce softwares that help preserve bookmarks from a previous browser and operating system when updating the computer or changing to another operating system at all. Which is practically what I said before, wherein China and Russia improve on the technologies America introduced.

In the same way America improved on the technologies countries like France introduced, especially when it comes to something like animation. Then we get to Seattle’s other best known export as first introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, you may know this as grunge and this is best typified by the likes of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Although Pearl Jam might not be any better in some or similar regards either, but being more familiar with the former two both of them are no strangers to blaspheming God at all. To the point of mocking the crucification of Jesus Christ, don’t be deceived as you don’t God without not getting away with it. Which is the crux of this person’s prophecy and whilst this isn’t even unique to these bands alone, but being well-around around the world carries a weighty (ir)responsibility that Seattle bears and wrought onto the world.

(Similar things can be said of Nine Inch Nails too, though Trent Reznor might not have come from Seattle or even the general Pacific Northwest himself and will get punished for the same thing. Maybe he already did when he developed a drug addiction after the release of Closer’s music video.)

Before grunge it could be said that the best-known musician to emerge from Seattle was Jimi Hendrix and he does similarly gritty-sounding music, though both the physiogeographical and socioeconomic conditions has what made Seattle beget grunge is more specific. In addition to being kind of grey and remote, for a time being it wasn’t that prosperous so bands would spent time improving and playing at home. That and developing a peculiar sound and mentality that reflects on the circumstances they came from, but since grunge also means dirt and the Bible also likens spiritual defilement to dirt. So it befits that bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana also churn out filth, especially something of the spiritual variety. Kurt Cobain was even so angry at God at to blaspheme him repeatedly, though it could also be said that he was deeply traumatised by his parents’ divorce that it’s a wound that’s never healed.

(Somebody said that my issues with unforgiveness might stem from the unhealed wounds of trauma, so this might explain why I have recurring issues with it and the like.)

There’s a video somewhere online where somebody insinuated that they saw Kurt Cobain in hell or something, admittedly I’ve gotten mad at God for being able to let a pet live as this happened to me before something like that since I didn’t want her to die at the time. Kurt Cobain could’ve eventually been reconciled to God at some point, but from rejecting him so much that he ended up killing himself eventually. Although it could be said that Nirvana’s legacy continues in a tangible way as one member from this band went on to form Foo Fighters, but since he admitted to having been in an affair with another woman that perhaps Nirvana’s own legacy is more questionable than one realises. It should be noted that Soundgarden’s very own Chris Cornell also killed himself, prompting Chester Bennington to do the same thing, that it seems Seattle’s up to no good in a way.

A kind of Sodom and Gomorrah where evil or embarassment hides behind a cool veneer, I remember this sermon where somebody said that even if Bill Gates does good things he’s not necessarily a (consistently) good person behind closed doors. Eventually it turned out he too had an affair with another woman, there’s also another statement by someone else that he’s actually really evil. Seattle might not seem like the go-for American city of sin at first when compared to Los Angeles and New York, but if you look hard enough it’s also got its own vices that it popularises onto the world. Another one would be Hooters where workers for that restaurant dress provocatively and then get sexually harassed for it, that it does make one wonder why would a country like America even popularise this thing to begin with. Even if countries like Japan aren’t without their own issues with sexual harassment as well, but America’s case is more peculiar.

In the sense that America proclaims itself to be a Christian country, yet it also continues to do much to the contrary without collectively trying to better itself that it’s pointless (this also goes for the Philippines too as what many preachers have pointed out). It’s kind of surreal to think that the nation that has some of the most prominent and widely distributed Christian ministries today also widely distributes and popularises filth like porn magazines and porn films, it’s a house divided and so double-minded as to get unstable over time. Hooters and arguably grunge bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden are no different either, with the latter two they even get international airplay in places like Mexico and the Philippines. Seattle still seems like an unlikely target of God’s ire the way Los Angeles and New York are, but still warranting this as it’s really no better either. To the point where you’d have to get out in time.

Or before that as Seattle will hit by Russian nuclear bombs five times, enough to wipe out people in an instant. Seattle will be terribly irradiated when this happens, it should be noted that North America faces Russia to its west. As soon as Russia takes back Alaska, it will bomb the Pacific Northwest. It will nuke cities like Portland, Seattle and Aberdeen, America will be so terribly irradiated that the whole world plunges into a kind of nuclear winter lasting for years. A kind of global cooling happens, as a result of the most disastrous world war to ever be unleashed. There would be so many casualties that makes the previous World War seem like child’s play, per another woman’s wording of the same prophetic vision given to Emmanuel Minos before he passed away. Whilst WWII is the first time nuclear bombs were ever carried out in combat, WWIII’s usage of the same would be more widespread.

This is because there were really only two nuclear bombs that got detonated in just two Japanese cities, WWIII’s use of nuclear warfare happens on multiple sites like Moscow, New York and Minneapolis. Living conditions will worsen to the point where Americans may even eat their own children and fur kids alike, America might even cease to exist as a nation-state due to its own sins. Before this, America may invade Iran very soon. This further exacerbates tensions between America and West Asia, to the extent that they will come to ally more with Russia from then on. America will be wiped off from the planet in both ways (physiogeographically and culturally) because it is the highest sinner, the most arrogant nation-state to ever exist in recent memory. Even if it were possible for America to remain in some manner, its influence would still get undone as it already is elsewhere.

It’s a kind of befitting coincidence that the emergence and popularisation of grunge music coincided with the start of America as either the world’s only superpower or a true hyperpower if there ever was one at all, or for another matter Microsoft since it also comes from Seattle. There are also prophecies of Florida getting destroyed big time, very much where the Backstreet Boys started out there and will also get judged themselves along with the entire state. Another musical phenomenon from America to emerge when America was the unchallenged superpower in the 1990s and 2000s, with many more scandals revolving around them that the next ones will arrive swiftly. Not just with the rape accusations but also accusations of adultery behind all their wives’ backs, human trafficking and involvement in snuff videos that it seem this band’s worse than they think of themselves as. much worse than fans would realise.

In a sense they are also symptomatic of America’s duplicity, both as missionary and corrupter of people. As much as I have had nostalgia for the 1990s and early 2000s, it was also a decade where America/Mystery Babylon truly reigned supreme. The most evil country and civilisation at this point in time, spewing good and evil at the same time. Utterly evil, worthy of destruction and judgement.

How would fashion be without America?

I suspect if American influence were to be reduced at the very least, the less powerful America gets over time, that this would also affect the global fashion industry to a possible extent. That’s not to say casual clothing will be entirely done away with, as there was a distinction between formal and informal clothing in China before, most especially the differences between the more educated classes and those involved in agriculture. I suspect if the Philippines were to willingly ally with China the more America makes a lot of disastrous mistakes towards its allies, considering how Canada feels about it enough to have its citizens patronise local products more that it’s possible American fashion will be considered passe and unstylish by then. If something like hanfu were to get popularised big time here, alongside pre-colonial clothing, that it’s plausible the rural areas are going to be strongholds of western fashion as we recognise it as.

But primarily because rural areas are generally isolated from urban areas unless if the locals there have good Internet connections to get around in some way, also if you have people involved in agriculture that they’re more likely to dress practically. Though practical, agricultural hanfu did exist but I feel it’s still going to be part of a phenomenon that would be first popularised in cosmopolitan areas like suburbs and cities, albeit one that might affect Philippine clothing in very unexpected or perhaps creative ways. As a lot of hanfu are designed to have a 2D effect, that’s being designed without much regard for the human body. To the extent that if hanfu were to get popularised in the Philippines, Filipiniana (both the familiar variety and the precolonial one) might also be shaped by the same design philosophy hanfu always has.

That and Filipinos pairing or combining Filipiniana with hanfu in multiple ways, also if hanfu were to be first popularised in cosmopolitan areas alongside precolonial clothing that both of them will communicate the message that to dress in a nonwesternised fashion is to be fashionable. This might break away the Philippines’ tie to the United States in another way, where America will no longer exert much sartorial influence on us anymore. Perhaps even further than at present, given the current Korean influence here. South Korea’s also generally more beholden to the US than China is, so willingly allying more with China would further sever western ties that a South Korean influence wouldn’t do, given China’s a legitimate superpower now. Though it’s a question if such garments would even be normalised.

And if they do get normalised at all, that is both hanfu and precolonial Philippine clothing, then newer influences would be more fashionable the next time around. Familiarity wouldn’t necessarily breed contempt, it would however pave way for such characters to look to the Philippines’ other neighbours for inspiration. Something like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos and Malaysia would kind of help matters in a way, assuming if both precolonial clothing and hanfu have gotten so popularised in the Philippines as to be rather normalised in the near future. It’s a matter of time when Indonesian folk clothing would also get popularised in the Philippines like hanfu might do at all, but it would still signify that dressing fashionably is dressing in a nonwestern way.

It would be no different if it’s Vietnamese folk clothing, Cambodian folk clothing, Thai folk clothing, Burmese folk clothing or Laotian folk clothing that gets popularised here, it would be no different if these also happens in the aggregate because by then if somebody dresses in a westernised way, they’ll also be seen as unfashionable and highly unstylish. Maybe not necessarily so unfashionable but in a way that stands out negatively because future Filipinos might align more with nonwestern countries like China and Vietnam, moreso if America really does stop being a superpower at any point in time that anything American will be seen as highly unfashionable. Sort of like what’s happening in Canada at present that it will willingly turn to alternatives, now that America has burnt the bridge real badly for it. Though revoking or minimising American influence in Canada would be logistically harder.

One it shares the same landmass as America does to the extent that it’s going to be hard patronising local products alone that if it doesn’t want American products in its stores anymore, it might as well get the same products from Europe instead, which is what Canada might already be doing. Two, if Russia were to get back Alaska (according to this prophecy) and also if America were to plunge into a civil war, likely due to its own doublemindedness as to be unstable over time, that Canada could get Russified this way. If I’m being honest here, I’ve actually been praying to God for various people to cope with such things if they were to happen in the future at all, be it the popularisation of Chinese customs and holidays here (if they’re Filipino) or the popularisation of Russian and Danish music in Canada. It’s possible they could get answered in an unexpected way, but it would still convey the plausibility of American irrelevance.

If American influence were to be nearly undone the world over, it’s going to be logistically tricky at first to make up for a loss of US influence in some industries even when this makes substitutes all the more necessary or appealing, especially if some countries might not have large comics or fashion industries themselves. The comics industry in Japan is much larger than in Russia that if Philippine publishing houses were to develop a habit of translating Japanese comics into the Philippine vernacular, it would do more than suffice for a loss of US influence here. Having Canadian publishers translate comics coming from Moldova, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Slovakia, Czechia, Russia, Lithuania and Estonia would be tricky, even in the aggregate as many of them don’t have particularly large comics industries due to a prior distrust of all things American.

It’s conceivable that the Philippine fashion industry might still buoy well with stronger East Asian influences (but this time also coming from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia), the Canadian fashion industry would be in a more awkward shape because it’s this tied to the US fashion industry. The one situation where this would be alleviated is if Russia succeeds in getting Alaska back from America, that this is where the Russification of Canada begins in earnest and moreso if Canada even willingly joins Russia at all. A Russified Canada might be one where nearly all aspects of Russian culture gets popularised there, whether if this includes fashion at all, but the fashion part is just as tricky. Russian fashion brands do exist but they’re not particularly well-known outside of Russia, whereas American fashion brands are world-famous.

Given Calvin Klein, Guess, Abercrombie and Fitch, Forever 21 and The Gap are well-known American brands it’s inevitable they’ll be present in Philippine stores at all at present, but the loss of US influence would inevitably involve a loss of US influence in the sartorial sphere. It wouldn’t be a complete loss but it would still be felt in a big way, like if a US civil war were to happen again coupled with America continuing to alienate its allies that ultimately America might no longer be the tastemaker of the world anymore. The writing’s on the wall when Elon Musk turned Twitter into a superapp because he realised that superapps are popular in China, although short-form videos did get their start on Vine they only gained further traction when China’s Tiktok came along. It’s a matter of time when China’s Weibo gets popularised, but it’s plausible the more people turn away from Musk’s mishandling of the Twitter brand.

I don’t think casual clothing will entirely disappear as a version of it did exist in China, maybe not necessarily in the form we usually understand it to be, but I suppose if something like hanfu were to get popularised big time in the Philippines coupled with a similar popularisation of precolonial clothing here that a different version of informal clothing will be appear here. Or perhaps a different way of dressing stylishly and one that’s not beholden to American trends and influence anymore, where it might be fashionable to pair a hanyuansu Filipiniana blouse with a poqun (a wrap skirt with alternating sewn-in pieces of fabric). It might not be a stretch to witness hanyuansu ternos among Philippine women and girls once or after the Philippines willingly allies with China enough to observe a more sinicised Philippines from then on, but it still tells you that dressing like an American might be considered frumpy in the future.

A Russified Canada where Russian folk clothing gets popularised there would be no different, though it remains to be seen if additional influences from countries like Norway and Sweden may follow suit. Assuming if things like Armenian folk clothing were to even get popularised in Canada at all, that it’s likely it would be part of a possible trend of embracing nearly all things from both the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. That is the more Canada cuts off ties to America that turning to countries like Armenia, Georgia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Russia for sartorial inspirations is very likely, but the Russian influence is the likeliest of the all as it’s another superpower returning to former glory and that Alaska’s right next to time, So Canadian fashion would be subsequently and consequently Russified from then on.

One would wonder if a brand like Canada Goose might end up taking cues from its newest allies in the former Soviet Union wherein it could take advantage of things like camel fabric, which is already been a thing for years in Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan. To do so would be to import Bactrian camels from Central Asia, even if it risks posing certain problems like introducing yet another invasive species. But it is an intriguing likelihood the more Canada cuts off ties to America, that perhaps turning to Central Asian and Eastern European alternatives would be pretty feasible. This might be another step in Canada becoming less Americanised (less America-lite if you will), that taking sartorial cues from Central Asian countries like Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan would further sever symbolic ties to America.

This could extend to taking sartorial cues from Baltic countries like Estonia one day. But it’s going to be telling that when Canada does get sartorially influenced by the Baltic countries, that’s when nearly all ties to America have been symbolically severed by then. This would be exacerbated by not only a forthcoming US civil war in years, but also another World War where America gets defeated there. I remember Celestial having this dream of seeing women in ridiculously tight clothing and the like that it’s clear America is the world leader in popularising sexualised garments, that even if it didn’t orignate such attire it does popularise them in a way their originators don’t get to. There was even a time in the past where both short shorts and showing the midriff were considered very provocative, so it’s likely they’d still be seen as such in other countries where sartorial modesty for women continues to be more deeply embedded there.

Mind you Cher pretty much put midriff baring and provocative clothing for pop singers on the map that subsequent female singers like Madonna, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and the like would follow her lead, that they can even be considered Cherlikes (as in any video game reminding people of Dark Souls would be called Soulslike). Even after America goes away that somebody prophesises there might be another epicentre of evil that perhaps this person from whatever country that could be the next America will be someone else’s Cher, whoever they may be in the future. Cher might be one of the earliest female musicians to set or influence the template for the prototypical pop dame, as in she dresses provocatively, sings songs most men aren’t into and has a big gay following to boot, things singers like Britney Spears would inherit from in some manner.

America being Mystery Babylon carries weight in that the nation-state that will become Mystery Babylon is another superpower, the original Babylon having been considered the queen of kingdoms. One who will decline ingloriously, one whose own parent will witness it die. Celestial even said somewhere that America will be affected by a nuclear bomb that was mentioned in the Bible, even if it’s not above doing this to itself for as long as it’s towards indigenous territory for some reason. But these further nuclear attacks would take place in cosmopolitan areas like New York, among other cities though Chicago wouldn’t be spared either. This does line up with a passage in the Bible where Mystery Babylon (as personified by a woman) gets killed by the monster she rides on, in fact she’s even burnt to death that will befall America one day.

If Mystery Babylon is the mother of all abominations that it’s befitting America would popularise certain things that contemporary gay culture takes for granted, even if both Sweden and France were ahead of it when it goes to legalising gay activity. This includes things that gay men would usually gravitate to like musical theatre, campy female pop singers, house music and gay porn magazines, even if some of these things were there outside of America before. Although things like music and theatre aren’t inherently bad things in and of themselves, there are even things like Passion plays where people reneact the cruxification of Jesus Christ every Easter season. Music’s also been used in service of the church that there are localised versions of this matter in countries like Ghana and Vietnam for instance, but what America did is to create worldly versions of them.

Whereas church music often glorifies and honours God, house music (and most secular music in general) usually don’t. When it comes to the area of plausible deniability whenever such songs are neutral enough to be open for interpretation, there’s always the risk of failing to do what’s right even if people do make mistakes and try to learn from it the next time around. The thing with the Backstreet Boys is that they have a Christian member, sort of like with Hanson and Ace of Base (their contemporaries), but since Backstreet Boys are still very much in the public eye with Hanson having practically become a cult band and Ace of Base being defunct as of late, that this carries a particular set of responsibilities that Brian Littrell rarely, if ever, does at all. At any point where he could’ve gone the way of Zac Hanson, he prefers to remain in the world for some reason.

Both men are practising Christians but Mr Hanson seemed to have plunged deeper in his calling in the church after his band faced a backlash for his prior antics that it’s really wiser to be dedicated to God even if this risks committing social suicide to the public (well, half of their fans), than to remain in the world and commit spiritual suicide. I even prayed for those in Ace of Base to take their fans to church and stuff, lest they risk repeating the past in some way where a fan attacked them and killed one of their relatives. It kind of backfired before but even then this is a responsibility they ought to carry, lest it get into their heads all over again. There are likely some Backstreet Boys fans who do the same thing, though unfortunately Brian Littrell never seemed to be concerned for one of his fans going knee deep in her idolatry for them (though I struggle with this as well).

Perhaps it would be for the better for the Backstreet Boys to go away for good, lest they get much worse than they already are. The timing of their rise and peak went hand in hand with America’s brief moment as a hyperpower, wherein it was the only superpower for a time being, as to have unprecedented unilaterla influence all over the world. I remember some book where those in India would leer at the sight of the Baywatch women in red leotards, yet demand their daughters to dress more modestly. Baywatch was one of those programmes that rose and peaked in tandem with America’s time as a hyperpower, that in hindsight what was globalisation was really Americanisation. If the original Babylon is the daughter of Sumer, then America being Mystery Babylon is the daughter of Britain. Britain is also wicked and may get dissolved into three separate countries not seen since centuries.

This might mark the true end or decline of English as the lingua franca, but this would be more drastic in the Philippines that due to our close ties to Mystery Babylon, that English will no longer be spoken here as it will be replaced by Mandarin instead. Both Spanish and English will become extinct in the Philippines, especially as older generations die and western influence gets revoked, to the point where the Philippines becomes like any other East Asian country in most regards due to its inability to consistently lead a Christian life and never repenting (as what preachers have previously pointed out). America is really going into decline and may decline even further once both WWIII and a new civil war both start in earnest together. Whether or not the American fashion style will be undone has yet to be played out.

But supposing if God does answer prayers when it comes to interceding for somebody and anybody to cope with the popularisation of certain folk garments of other countries in places like the Philippines and Canada that it could happen, albeit unexpectedly where it might no longer be fashionable to dress like Americans anymore. Not that there won’t be any casual dress anymore at all, but that both Canada and the Philippines will follow their new masters more closely this time (Russia for Canada, China for the Philippines). Canadian fashion might end up taking more cues from European countries this time, Philippine fashion might become more heavily influenced by its closest neighbours from then on. But it’s not going to remain the same once American influence does get revoked or reduced the world over.

California dreaming on such a winter’s day

There are actually a lot of prophecies of an earthquake coming to California, that if the big one were to come much sooner than expected, then it would be wiser to leave before time even when it’s currently running out. Since I even have family there, it would be better to intercede for them to leave soon enough. Lest they become one of many casualties there, that it would be really distressing to lose loved ones there. Or even your favourite celebrities for another matter, that it’s better to leave than to stay for long. (I did mess up before with this one earlier this year.) There are even people who say that America is Mystery Babylon, in which an earthquake will be given to it, if because it’s gotten so evil that it really has to be revoked to keep it from getting even worse than it already is.

In this regard America can be regarded as a hero that lived long enough to be a villain, as what others suspected it even sows discord in the name of democracy. Especially towards the former Yugoslavia among many others, not to mention as America has been the hub of celebrity culture that no sooner or later entertainment careers will end sooner than expected. America might no longer be the centre of attention anymore, though at this point it could be on its way out. The idea that America is Mystery Babylon is salient for a number of Christians like Dumitru Duduman, where its transformation into something anti-Christian is all the more alarming given its roots as a Christian colony. America is a double-minded country on the verge of civil and geological instability, unsure where to stand on regarding its culture wars.

Perhaps getting rid of it would be a way to keep it from getting much worse than it already is, though that involves letting go of America in our hearts and souls, however hard it may be at first. God might save a remnant for as long as it serves Christians around the world, but that will be all there is to it, we might live in a future where radio stations might no longer may play American music anymore (perhaps save for Christian music). We might live in a future where American publications no longer get exported to and localised overseas, a world where American musicians largely have no more influence on us anymore. For those who were young in the 1990s and 2000s, we might live in a world where the Backstreet Boys are gone for reasons. Not just because America in general is wicked, but they are wicked themselves (as what one pastor insinuated before).

To the point where one might be truly better off without them, however difficult it may be, because they’d rather live and die for the world than for the word of God. If an earthquake were to happen to destroy both California and Florida in a single go, then the Backstreet Boys will go down as well. Not just in infamy due to all members having affairs with their fans and doing some sex trafficking themselves, which will be revealed this year, but also how and why a Christian like Brian Littrell would continue to enable his fans’ idolatry of them. To the point where getting rid of them would be the only way to stop this for good, since God doesn’t want any competition from others.

The dirt of Hollywood

When it comes to America, there are people who think it’s morally rotten to the core. Somebody like AA Allen said that American culture has a habit of both producing and popularising filth, that if America is Mystery Babylon then it makes sense it would house these abominations to begin with. Celestial even said that people get molested in Hollywood as part of these occult rituals to get rich and famous, though she pretty much mentioned one Disney alumna of the 1990s, that is Britney Spears though similar things can be said of others like her costar Christina Aguilera and then Sabrina Carpenter. All three women started out as wholesome and twee, especially with the former two very early on in their careers. If all three of them got sodomised and sodomy is one abhorrent sex act, then this might partly explain why they turned out this way.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising why #MeToo happened in Hollywood, I remember reading somewhere that actresses are even made to sleep with directors to get to where they want to be. This should hint at something spiritually odious in Hollywood that not many realise, that these people get raped in sex acts as part of evil rituals designed to degrade them from the inside out. Even Beyonce herself isn’t spared from these sex acts, and quite horribly her own husband Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) even makes other people sleep with her. Like he even encourages this sort of cuckoldry onto himself, but he’s also a Satanist and and so is she in kind. A match made in Hell if there ever was one at all, if water attracts its own level then that’s why they’re like this.

The idea that Lady Gaga is in league with the Devil is not lost on other people, there are some people who say that the woman who’s getting ripped apart in Lady Gaga’s nightmare is Lady Gaga herself, portending what will happen to her in the afterlife. At any point where she could’ve turned to God, she ended up turning to false teachers more. It’s true that any celebrity can get saved, I’ve done this before to others in the past. But on the other hand, it does explain why Lady Gaga has a rather preternatural appeal that makes people think she’s much better than she really is. Like you have people saying that she’s a genius, but there are others who have her calibre yet don’t possess the fame she has. One thing that’s more plausible to secular people is that she had good connections before, she even wrote some songs for the band Pussycat Dolls.

My father said that there are filmmakers who might be more talented than their better known counterparts are, but barely gain traction in the film industry as they don’t have the connections needed to get by. It would be no different with Lady Gaga in a way as she’s connected to other people who made their mark in the music industry before, thus she’s able to have the popularity that truly struggling musicians wish to have. There could be Soundcloud musicians who’re far more talented than she is in the same things she’s famous for, but don’t gain the same traction as they never worked with another celebrity before, much less a better known one at that. A rather Kafkasque example (and one who’s most similar to Chappell Roan) is Katy Perry.

She came from a Christian family and started out as a Christian singer, but I remember her saying that her upbringing was too strict. Somebody else said that it’s likely something went wrong in the Perry household, given she is the daughter of a pastor herself. All these unrealistic expectations placed upon her had her questioning her faith eventually and going over to the dark side, I said that Chappell Roan’s like the 2020s version of Katy Perry in terms of upbringing and trajectory. If Katy Perry were to be starting out in the late 2010s, she would’ve been a lot more like Chappell Roan by then. My sister said that her parents do pray for it, as confirmed in this article. Both women’s cases are more sobering than infurirating, given they started out as Christians.

Backstreet Boys might be equal parts sobering and infurirating, in fact both at the same time, because of the way Brian Littrell chooses to lead his band and his own life. If actions and choices have consequences, then it shouldn’t come as a surprise that for a man who professes to be a Christian and yet makes his fans attend his band’s sponsored cruises, one of his bandmates is really a serial rapist and another is known to cheat on his ex-wife by dating his fans, that makes one wonder if Littrell made himself a stumbling block for not only his fans but also his bandmembers. The ones who personally know him better than fans do, that it would be horrifying if they have the audacity to show up as demons one day, then getting killed by a flood or something. If BSB members got sodomised, then Nick’s own mum Jane was onto something.

Lou Pearlman was noted to molest his trainees or employees (to borrow something from K-Pop because it’s practically no different), he even formed the Backstreet Boys as a synthesis of both New Kids On The Block (also derivative of an earlier black vocal group called New Edition) and the less wholesome Chippendale dancers. This might explain things like ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’, which is really alarming because this video was made when Nick Carter was legally a minor in other places. Even when Lou Pearlman didn’t molest Nick Carter, he still would’ve been inappropriate to him in another way. Backstreet Boys first got popular in Europe, where some countries like Britain, Ireland and Germany have a lower age of consent enough for Pearlman to get away with this, so Jane was really onto something.

Burk Parsons was set to join the Backstreet Boys and despite briefly entertaining thoughts of joining them, he decided against it to both honour God and his father’s wishes. Otherwise we could’ve gotten pornographic fanfiction featuring him and his would-be bandmembers, so he really did dodge a bullet by refusing to join them. Given writing pornographic stories about a celebrity amounts to writing pornographic stories about a stranger, it’s actually kind of creepy that somebody has sexual fantasies of a person they personally don’t know much. Projecting their sexual fantasies onto them, that should give you an idea of how unsettling this would’ve been to Burk if somebody wrote porn about him and his would-be bandmembers. It’s shocking why Brian Littrell never seemed to mind it much, since he’s a Christian himself.

But as what other people said, guys like him aren’t just arrogant but evil to the core. Or at least somebody who got worse over time because Littrell also wanted to join ministry himself, though unfortunately it seems his own contemporary Zac Hanson is living out what he wanted to do at some point. It’s wiser to do a Zac Hanson than a Brian Littrell in the sense of committing social suicide by accident to draw closer to God, as he turns mishaps into blessings, than to deliberately commit spiritual suicide by wallowing a lot in the attention fans give to him and his band. It’s perhaps befitting why Brian Littrell seems to condone the song ‘Everybody’ despite knowing it blasphemes God, that no sooner or later his band will face many more scandals but ones that reveal that all members have affairs with their fans.

This will be big news in the future when this gets revealed, perhaps it’s rather disturbing why Brian Littrell chooses to stay with them and never rebuking them if they sin. And if all of them have affairs with fans that will be publicised in the future, it’s as if they exploit their fans for sexual gratification. It’s actually kind of abusive of them to do this to their fans, but if sodomy’s shown to corrupt people, then it shouldn’t be surprising why they turned out to be this way. Burk Parsons’s father knew how corrupting American showbiz is to people and Celestial’s words confirm it in a way, but one particularly tragic instance from the late 2000s would be the Jonas Brothers. They also come from a Christian family and likely were sodomised, to the point of drifting away from the faith.

At any point where Nick Jonas could’ve married a nice Christian woman, he married a practising Hindu instead. Unequally yoked, he could practise Hinduism for real. He is in the early stages of doing it, it would be grim he might convert to Hinduism for real. Sabrina Carpenter is one recent example of a Disney star who became less wholesome over time, her early 2000s counterpart would be Christina Aguilera. If there’s nothing new under the sun, both women do have a habit of blaspheming God a lot. That’s in addition to having a very sexualised public image, if I’m not mistaken Christina Aguilera’s fine with dating women. Sabrina Carpenter does no differently in some regards, save for a lack of interest in women. But there’s something kind of wicked about these women.

Or at least the way they carry themselves actually makes them repulsive to men seeking long-term marital partners, women they’d bring home to their mothers and fathers (parents in other words). These two are also the sort of women certain men would happily bash for being promiscuous and oversexualised, but it still points to a possibility that some men really do want good, decent women around in their lives. Kind of makes you wonder why the tradwife phenomenon took root, though precedents to it have been formenting before. Admittedly not all tradwives truly live up to what they want to be, let alone all the time, but the other extreme’s not any better either. Taylor Swift has actually been suspected of doing witchcraft before, as well as doing things to the contrary.

Even then there was something fishy about her girl next door reputation, regarding her dating history until now, that it seems she wasn’t that wholesome to those who have the misfortune of being around her on a bad day. An even more shocking revelation with celebrity fandoms and the like is that it feels like a cosmic prank pulled by the Devil where people make idols out of the most unlikable and insufferable people one would meet on a bad day in person, particularly some celebrities with really obnoxious fans. Similar things could be said of Nick Carter, given how ridiculously defensive a number of his fans are of him. Even without the spiritual angle being involved, Mr Carter would still be kind of repulsive to some people. Especially some women who can’t stand that such men pay more mind to video games than to relationships.

This is particularly true that if it weren’t for him being a celebrity and all that nostalgia involved, many women wouldn’t find him that attractive when it comes to his hobbies. (This brings new meaning to the song ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’, especially for women who can’t stand their men playing video games.) Celebrity culture still feels like a cosmic prank by Satan where people fall for the most unlikable and insufferable folks in town, whilst gossip is technically a sin it doesn’t help when you have people already distrusting the nature of American showbiz that ultimately there’s no point in liking such people to begin with. Whilst it’s true that Jesus and his cohorts weren’t always liked by others either, for his disciples this is sometimes due to their own sins that got them there, but celebrity culture is another matter.

It’s basically glamourising the lives of the rich and suspicious, in the sense that people will always suspect them of being annoying, abusive, mentally ill, promiscuous or gay, it’s going after really unlikable people. Angelamarie Ucci said that idols do have the ability to disappoint people and it has happened to me before multiple times, particularly disliking what I like, and although I do pray for these people, it does make you wonder if there are others who might fulfill this ideals better. If Gerard Way is everything fans make Nick Carter out to to be, since the latter could’ve easily joined Gamergate if he never joined a boy band and was a young man in the 2010s due to him being exposed to sexist media in his youth and him being a massive rapist to boot, similar things can be said of other people in a way just the same.

Or better still God in the sense of somebody who’s actually good, given it seems a number of these celebrities seem to be unrepentant criminals. Be it Michael Jackson, Nick Carter, Simon Le Bon, David Bowie and who else, Celestial said that Michael Jackson sacrifices people to the Devil and such people shouldn’t even bother listening to his music to begin with. Angelica Zambrano said that Michael Jackson made a deal with the Devil, alarming he’s in hell so his afterlife is far from satisfying. There are also other people who have visions of seeing celebrities in hell, including somebody like Joey Ramone for instance. He’s from the band The Ramones, they were historically more popular in Britain and Latin America than they were in America, they also highly rejected God when somebody wanted them saved. So that’s why all the original members died.

The only surviving members at this point are the substitutes like Marky Ramone, Clem Burke and Ritchie Ramone, those who could be saved and repent at this point whilst they still have a chance to live to meet him through somebody. I guess the real reason why people fear death, including myself, especially the fear of themselves dying is really wanting to live in an endles present without much regard for their future. Much less an afterlife in mind, where the Bible talks about the narrow road to Heaven and the wide road to Hell. There’s something oddly and interestingly harrowing about the actual afterlives of celebrities like Joey Ramone and Marilyn Monroe, where it’s one thing to be immortalised in secular media, it’s another to discover where they actually went to once they died.

Marilyn Monroe also rejected God and then she died young, she also led a very ungodly lifestyle beforehand. I’ve rejected God before and faced the music a lot, but that’s sometimes due to my desire to keep a cool head. It’s kind of hard trying not to commit a sin and then do another, like either I’m in bondage to my sins or that I rely on my own efforts to get it right. Even then it seems wise to think of celebrity culture as a prank pulled by Satan, where it seems the biggest role models in pop culture/mass culture are also the most spiritually and morally suspicious. I remember a radio preacher saying that people like Brian Littrell are wicked, it would be even more alarming to think that Brian and the rest of the Backstreet Boys are all destined to go to Hell for whatever they’re doing at present.

This revelation or epiphany goes hand in hand with all of them turning out to have had affairs with their fans, that it does make one wonder if they actually sexually exploit them for their own gratification. It makes more sense to think of groupies as victims who find themselves exploited by their favourite musicians for certain favours, but this means these musicians are practically grooming them to be their playthings. It’s like if Nick Carter has a secret account somewhere online to groom one fan to be his mistress, despite being a married man with children, coupled with him being absent from his house for days that he manages to lead a double life that’ll be found out in due time. The one thing more horrifying than both Nick and AJ having affairs with their fans is learning that Kevin, Howie and Brian also do the same thing too.

The way the Backstreet Boys treat women could be misogynistic in its own right, in the sense that you have people saying that the Backstreet Boys would always look for women to date in their prime, Brian Littrell having the audacity to photograph his wife’s buttocks, Nick Carter raping women and AJ McLean having affairs with his own fans prior to his divorce, that in reality they’re just as bad as the Beatles were. Somebody like Gerard Way has the audacity to refuse making women undress for him, even if he does slip up he seems like the sort of guy who drinks his respect women beverages a lot more often than Nick Carter does, essentially the person the latter gets made out to be. Something tells you what the Backstreet Boys actually think of women when their members have watched porn, abuse women, cheat on their wives with their fans and objectify their wives, that it’s far from feminist.

They most likely think of women as playthings who exist to gratify them, not when they start rebuking them of being cruel that’s when their actual attitudes to women come into play. Gerard Way doesn’t do this often but it seems BSB fans are some of the most defensive people I’ve ever encountered, like some of them are in denial that their favourites do abuse people. And others are in denial that fellow fans do make porn based on the BSB themselves, it’s even noted somewhere online that such stories were called visuals before. Given Brian Littrell made the conscious decision to join a boy band instead of ministry that this is what he sowed: popularity with fans, then comes drug addictions and porn addictions, then comes rape allegations. It seems Brian Littrell actually prefers the world over the word of God, that this explains why he never brings his fans to church.

Though similar things could be said of Ace of Base in a way, but the difference is that this band’s been defunct for a long time. Additionally Jenny Berggren sings in church these days, whereas Brian Littrell continues to be in the secular music industry. Zac Hanson, who’s much younger than him, serves in church as a deacon after being rejected by his own fans. They’re not without their own faults and I do pray for them to stop doing bad things themselves, keep them from doing worse and so on, but the Backstreet Boys is really a tragic example of what happens when a Christian elects to do wrong and be of the world. Or the Jonas Brothers for another matter as they have pastors for parents, that it’s going to be alarming if Nick Jonas ever converts to Hinduism in earnest. It might be possible to prevent them from doing worse through intercessions, but it’s disturbingly plausible for him to become a Hindu for real.

It would be alarming if there’s a place in Hell for both bands to reside in, it would be just as horrifying to think that somebody like Michael Hutchence is also in Hell. He was the singer of this band called INXS and this is one of the bands I’ve encountered whilst watching Channel V (a music channel not unlike MTV) when I was younger, from the outset he seemed to have it all. Wealth, lots of adoring fans, chart-topping hits, touring nearly all over the world, yet he struggled with demons. Not just the colloquial meaning of having problems, but also that he alluded to the King of Demons in some songs like ‘Devil Inside’ and ‘Original Sin’, that makes you wonder if he himself is of the world. I remember a pastor discussing about the same things about Chester Bennington (and implicitly about my cousin), that it seems the worldly life isn’t holy and isn’t worth admiring either.

No surprise why these celebrities openly struggle with drug addiction, sex addiction, porn addiction, alcoholism and the like, that it’s one thing to know that they’re human. It’s another to make paragons out of people who really aren’t in person, most especially people like Nick Carter, Michael Jackson and David Bowie regarding the subject of rape, that it’s not surprising why a good number of people don’t trust or like showbiz. It’s not always that it’s unintelligent or whatever but there’s really no point in going after public figures that other people don’t really fully trust, if such magazines are to be believed in a way, that it seems somebody like Nick Carter and Taylor Swift were kind of moral failures themselves in their own right. Others like Nick Jonas, Chappell Roan and Katy Perry are kind of depressing in a way, regarding that they all come from Christian families and become anti-Christian themselves eventually.

If Satan was the angel of music and got kicked out for his arrogance, maybe it’s not surprising why showbiz is highly susceptible to his influence. So susceptible that it’s actually common for aspiring musicians to turn to the occult and/or become arrogant in a way, it’s not just rockers that turn to the occult to get their 15 minutes of fame. So do pop musicians, electronic musicians (I remember this book called Electronic Punks where somebody like Maxim turned to a palmist to know what his future could be when he wasn’t a well-established musician), rappers and even classical musicians like Niccolo Paganini (pagan), that secular musicians making nice with the Devil is the norm. It’s possible to pray for your favourite musicians to stop doing these things, making them read the Bible and so on. I actually prayed for this band called The Prodigy, where Maxim’s from, and there were signs of it getting answered.

First, I had a dream of them in church. Then comes encountering somebody on 444ProphecyNews with the same surname as Maxim’s own bandmate, Liam Howlett (it’s surreal), and then there’s a dream of them swimming around in a building, hinting at their baptism. Since I also prayed for everybody in Ace of Base to get saved, first was that one of them is a Christian, then comes prophecies with keywords also found in their songs and then a devotional called Prisoners of Hope, which is also both a Bible verse and another keyword in one of their own songs. So these prayers got answered in very surreal ways, I even have a document called Of God and Maxim Guns: Presbyterianism in Nigeria, another unexpected answer. The one thing even more surreal than these things is seeing members of these bands together in church, like I said I had a dream of the Prodigy members in church.

I guess if this is true, it’s better to stay away from the world. Not necessarily in near total seclusion, but being more judicious and selective with what you read (this is what I strive to do), listen, associate with and so on as to avoid being badly influenced for long. I’ve been exposed to an anti-Christian environment for so long that it’s going to take time to overcome them, I even think some of the Newsboys’ problems stem from being too friendly with the secular world that makes it harder for one member to overcome his own sins, having a road pastor helps to keep him in check. But it’s still better to actively avoid secular venues, if it makes it harder to overcome certain sins. It’s been like this with me before and I do my hardest to try to avoid these things, but this means being this selective with what I consume. If it means letting go of certain things, then it’s going to help me more in the long run.

And perhaps if the showbiz world is truly wedded to the Devil, it’s not a surprise why it aims to be as filthy as possible in many senses of the word. Christina Aguilera didn’t just blaspheme God when she was younger, she’s also terribly promiscuous and sex-obsessed that it does make one wonder why some men prefer to have more wholesome women in their lives instead. It’s common to have women complain about their menfolk having affairs and watching porn, though the reverse has to be considered in light of things like wives having to submit to their husbands, that one can make an argument of men being similarly grieved whenever their wives have affairs of sorts. It does make one wonder why the tradwife thing happened, deep down inside it seems some people yearn for a world where women do willingly follow their husbands’ and boyfriends’ better judgements.

But I feel this is lost on some women that it amounts to being boybossed around a lot, why there’s a Bible verse stating that it’s better to be single than to live with an annoying broad, that makes one wonder why some men wouldn’t want to marry Christina Aguilera. Or why her own marriage to one man’s short lived, with her being more sexually attracted to women than men, it seems her marriage seemed performative and perhaps no sooner or later, she might come out as a lesbian. Then she’ll epitomise two misogynistic stereotypes at once: the sex-obsessed attention grabbing woman and the man-hating lesbian, where it seems some people’s suspicions of feminism being full of man-hating lesbians were not entirely off. With some reports of Aguilera herself being open to relationships with women, it seemed she never really could handle becoming a submissive housewife type.

Again another example of the showbiz industry promoting worldliness and lies where it seems okay to write songs about being single despite being married in reality (see also Beyonce Knowles and now Taylor Swift), it seems okay to be in an unhappy marriage with a man whilst pursuing adulterous relationships with women, it seems okay to have affairs with your fans and so on. It seems people like Christina Aguilera were never really good role models for women, much less women seeking lifelong relationships with men so I don’t think Taylor Swift’s entirely to blame for this, even though she’s a more relevant example at present. It’s one thing to criticse Tay for dumping one guy after another until she met somebody she actually likes, it’s another to deal with that Christina was never really that into guys and being more sexually attracted to women might explain why her relationships with men don’t go well.

Celestial even said that Beyonce’s actually bisexual because she had affairs with both men and women alike, that it wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that Christina Aguilera herself could be in the lines of this as well. She’s even done the same things as Taylor Swift did, that it seems Aguilera wouldn’t be the best role model to look up to when seeking lifelong monogamous relationships with men either. Actually the argument would be stronger in her case, because she admits to being sexually attracted to women and she even has a picture by Bansky of the late Queen Elizabeth as a lesbian. So she’s not going to be a good role model for women seeking lifelong relationships with men, especially if her own relationships with men tend to be short-lived and a possibly stronger attraction to women to boot.

Although idolising the likes of say Jenny Berggren, Tracey Thorn and the like wouldn’t be any better either, or Taylor Swift for this matter but the main difference is that Taylor Swift never seemed to struggle with same-sex attraction (I kind of do from time to time). Like if you want to be in a lifelong relationship with one man, if Taylor Swift isn’t the right one but so is Christina Aguilera (well, it’s worse in her case really), that you’re better off not idolising her whilst being on the quest to be with a loving husband for long. Even then it seems those in showbiz really do kind of glamourise and even popularise such bad habits, that people are far better off not idolising them for long. Even if not all celebrities do this for long, they’re needles in a haystack. And the showbiz industry really is a cosmic prank by Satan to beguile people with.

They’ve been gone astray

When it comes to Nakita pointing out that Stray Kids’s own manager, JY Park, is a false teacher and he does a lot to lead people astray, it does make people wonder why he’d call this band as such? Pretending to be a pastor yet doing a lot to the contrary at times, even calling himself the Asian counterpart to P Diddy (who’s involved in human trafficking himself) and possibly molesting or abusing his own trainees even, what sort of man he really is and why he’ll be judged for this. Nakita went on saying that when the Stray Kids first appeared in public, they weren’t this muscular before. She went on saying that K-Pop is anti-Christian, because it promotes and propagates worldly values a lot.

For the longest period in my life, I listened to a lot of secular music. But as of late, the closer I get to God, the less time I have for secular music even when I felt like doing this at times. I’m still not there yet, getting it wrong even when I wanted to do right many times over, it kind of hurts not doing the good you want to do. He also made groups I have listened to before Stray Kids got big, something like Wonder Girls (I Got Nobody But You) and Miss A. The weird thing about K-Pop is that I listened to that sort of music before, but I never developed a strong fascination with any K-Pop band. Even more remarkable still is that at this point in my life, I have some interest in K-Pop but never particularly interested in any one K-Pop musician and band for long. Well I know some people who’re way more into K-Pop than I’ll ever be.

One wrote for various outfits like Teen Vogue, Rebellion (what a minute, does this tie into what K-Pop’s been doing all along?) and the like over the years, the other is also a Backstreet Boys whose very own JY Park is none other than Brian Littrell. Not so much that he’s the manager of the group, but in the sense of being an outspoken Christian who does a lot to the contrary. When Burk Parsons got interviewed by Tim Challies years ago, he said that Littrell was going to serve in ministry himself. He also said that he was going to be part of the Backstreet Boys himself, but by following God’s plan he dodged a bullet. Otherwise we could’ve gotten porn fanfics of Burk Parsons on somewhere like AO3, there was a time when these stories were called visuals during the height of the Backstreet Boys’ popularity.

It would be painfully horrid if all the Backstreet Boys have fans for mistresses, but it seems Littrell seems more wedded to the world than he thinks of himself as. It’s even odder still to think that his contemporary Zac Hanson is actually living out the dream he had before, who also came from the same background as he did. But once Hansongate happened to him, it was that pivotal moment that drew him back to God, and his walk back to him was certainly awkward since I also backslided before and come from the same background as he did. Just replace Eastern Orthodoxy with Roman Catholicism, even though I’ve yet to convert to Catholicism myself. But even then there’s something wrong with Littrell choosing to love the world, even though he’s a Christian that it seems he might be double-minded.

Or perhaps he might not be double-minded at first, but he never stops his bandmates from blaspheming God, abusing people themselves (especially Nick Carter over the years), so on and so forth that he practically enables them. Or that being around in their company for so long it has dulled his judgement of sin, but either way it seems Brian Littrell arguably got worse over time. It’s really oddly telling why Brian Littrell never really quit the limelight for long to focus more on doing church service in private, the way both Zac Hanson and Jenny Berggren of Ace of Base (also a contemporary of the Backstreet Boys) did or ended up doing, the Berggren siblings survived a stalker attack but got one of them traumatised for long as to retire from the spotlight in order to take time to recover and heal. This also got Berggren closer to God this way.

Even then it seems there’s something wrong about the Backstreet Boys where it’s telling that when somebody on YouTube insinuated that people like him are arrogant (I struggle with this as well) and a radio preacher insinuated that people like him are wicked, it’s telling why Brian Littrell ended up this way that if he did start out wanting to serve God in earnest but got off-track for long and never repented, never tried doing better in any way the next time comes and stuff, it seems he’ll die at any point along with all his colleagues. Or JY Park and his family for another matter for corrupting people, that ultimately both Stray Kids and Backstreet Boys are going to be doomed in the future and so will the entire K-Pop industry. Even more alarming is when the entire K-Pop industry collapses for good.

Never to be seen again in any form along with its counterparts on anywhere else in East Asia, including the Philippines when it comes to P-Pop.

Between holiness and unholiness

There’s a French phrase used to describe midnight called ‘entre chien et loup’ in the sense that not only are dogs a subspecies of wolves, but they’re practically indistinguishable at night. Thus making it harder to tell friend from foe, harder to know what to trust and what not to. The Bible also speaks of the Devil dwelling in darkness, deceiving others as an angel of light, and evil people being likened to wolves themselves, despite the odd verse of the wolf living in harmony with the sheep. One would wonder if this could also be used to describe the situation the Backstreet Boys in just as well, given somebody like Burk Parsons was going to join them himself at some point.

And even if Burk Parsons might’ve fancied the idea of joining them for a brief while, he ultimately conceded to his father’s advice, knowing his father wouldn’t approve of him joining such a group only to be sexualised in public. This kind of also spares him from being the subject of pornographic fanfictions, which a number of Backstreet Boys do write, these were known as visuals during their peak. Looks like it proves his father right, lest he get accused of rape and abuse by various women like Shannon Ruth. Another woman who had the misfortune of being around Nick Carter on a bad day like Kaya Jones, she said that he watched porn when she was around and was so angry he even punched a wall or something. In a sense the Backstreet Boys live in a kind of midnight, where it’s hard to tell if they’re good or not at first.

But if you can tell a tree by its fruit, then it seems the Backstreet Boys have kind of resigned themselves to darkness, one radio preacher insinuated that people like them are wicked. Or at least have unsound actions, as the heart is deceitful. The Backstreet Boys seem to be one of the spiritually least controversial bands around, although some criticisms of them did exist if I remember, they never seemed particularly that offensive compared to say Nine Inch Nails. But in reality both of them blasphemed God, just in their own respective ways, where Trent Reznor blasphemed God by crucifying a monkey. The Backstreet Boys blasphemed God by merely misusing his name, one would wonder when will they ever get further comeuppances. It’s a matter of time before they die, being too rebellious for their own good.

It’s even weirder still why Brian Littrell never forbade his band from using this song, but being a Christian he condones this in some way anyways. I struggle with blasphemy and it hurts me, but sometimes I blaspheme God in an attempt to calm down, sometimes it backfires and it makes me sad. It’s weird why Brian Littrell condones this song in some way, instead of revoking it altogether, knowing it’ll offend God in some manner or another. But I remember this pastor saying that people like him are proud (I do struggle with this from time to time, sometimes to my detriment as it did before). Or at least seems more wedded to the world than he is to the word of God, it’s shocking to think his contemporary Zac Hanson is living out his old dream of serving in church.

Well he and his band got too proud for their own good and lost sight of God that the Lord had to engineer something to get them back on track, you may know this as Hansongate and as of late, Zac serves in church as a deacon. Zac’s not without his own faults every now and then, but he seems more willing to cut himself off from the world more than Brian does, even if the road to obedience would’ve been awkward for him as he may’ve also backslided before as it is with me. I did backslide and lost stuff, my road back to God is awkward, I’m still in the process of getting sanctified, trying to reign in on my sins, even if they don’t always end well (I rely on my own strength). Zac Hanson’s on a similar path where it is awkward actually serving in church, whilst yearning for the world.

But if you can’t serve God and Mammon, then Zac Hanson learnt this the hard way and likewise myself at various points with sermons from different channels and the like, hard to admit it but it does feel this way. Or for another matter, Ace of Base just the same really. Even then doing a Zac Hanson’s preferable to doing a Brian Littrell, even if this means alienating the fanbase to end up serving God more. Tim Challies’s interview with Burk Parsons indicates that when it comes to serving God and the world, it seemed as if Brian Littrell made the conscious decision to serve the world more. If our choices affect the world around us, unfortunately Brian chose the world and faces scandals. It would be horrifying if all members have fans for mistresses, that it does make wonder if they love the world more than God. And why they turned out this way.

About a certain fan

There’s actually a Backstreet Boys fan who was on her way to becoming a practising Christian, but this didn’t go as expected as she remained devoted to the Backstreet Boys, admittedly I do have problems with idolatry every now and then, sometimes as an attempt to do good like not getting mad at somebody and stuff, but still getting judged for this before many times over. It’s actually kind of unfortunate that Brian Littrell never seemed concerned for her welfare, or at times Jenny Berggren towards some fans, even though this obsession has gotten out of hand for her that she ended up doing a lot of bad things. Or for another matter this AOB fan, though he’s not a Christian for now, I even prayed to God to help Jenny Berggren make her fans worship him.

My attempts backfired, even when I wanted others to do right by God, I guess I was relying on my own strength a lot back then. Even then I feel it would be kind of terrible for somebody like Jenny Berggren to turn a blind eye to this, to the point where I have to pray for her to stop enabling this in a way, to the best of my abilities, and also repent herself lest there be a repeat of what has happened to her before. There was a time when a stalker came to them and killed their grandmother, traumatising her older sister Malin (and the middle child between the Berggren siblings, the oldest being Jonas) for life. Given I have a fear of the past coming back again and again, since I often have negative experiences of those sorts of things (missing sermons and stuff), I do wish for Berggren to stop or minimise this herself, to keep herself close to God.

And to make sure her sister’s mental health will recover well enough, that she better stop making her fans make idols out of her and her band. So I did a lot to pray for her this morning and to make sure she has to stop doing this, lest it get into her head again and risk something bad again like the last time it happened before (I often know this from experience). Or even Zac Hanson for another matter, even Shane Lynch is no different as he’s in the same position as they are. But it still goes to show you that it’s better to live for God and make others do the same with their conduct (it’s kind of hard in my case) and also actively praying for them just the same, which is clear that Brian Littrell is paying lip service to God at this point. One could pray for him to repent, but I’m afraid it’s hard holding him accountable when his fans continue to worship him and his band, that it would be better for all the Backstreet Boys to get the boot and kick the bucket.

Don’t let a rebellious person live. So said the Lord about the Backstreet Boys and why those in Hanson, Ace of Base and Boyzone need to stop enabling this sort of thing soon enough, lest they all get the boot together just the same.

Something sick behind the scenes

Celestial said that the Backstreet Boys might have really been abused by their manager on video, or at least some of them were, and even if Lou Pearlman really didn’t molest Nick Carter himself he would’ve been inappropriate to him in some other way. That’s by encouraging him to watch porn, which means he developed a habit of watching porn because of him. Kaya Jones had the misfortune of encountering him enjoying this sort of thing in person, that he’d get real angry at her to the point of destroying walls, makes me wonder why he ended up this way. Coupled with being really entitled to get any woman he wants and with him possibly cheating on his wife with a fan (which all the Backstreet Boys will turn out to be doing this just the same), it seems being in this environment by merely watching porn alone would’ve negatively affeced his perception of women.

The rest of Celestial’s post seems to indulge in a kind of kink shaming to some people, but there’s still the possibility that somebody’s favourite celebrity could’ve been abused by somebody else in the entertainment industry. Maybe not all of them but it does explain certain things like what Jane Carter, Nick’s mum, thought that Lou Pearlman did something inappropriate to him at the time. I even said that even when no real sexual abuse occurred between the two, Pearlman would still be inappropriate to him by encouraging him to watch porn, and when Carter grew up he kept the habit well onto adulthood if Jones’s testimony is any indication. There was also an expose by Vanity Fair about Lou Pearlman abusing other people in his care, though there’s the possibility of the Backstreet Boys being actually abused by him. As of late, it’s Lance Bass who admitted to being abused by him.

But it does make one wonder just how sexualised the Backstreet Boys actually were at their prime and why they got away with this for so long, since Carter was legally a child in some places when ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’ got played on telly. As the Backstreet Boys were first popular in some European countries, knowing that some of these countries have lower ages of consent, so this is partly why they got away with this. It would be more shocking if Pearlman actually filmed himself abusing all the Backstreet Boys, if not all of them then at least some of them, but this would confirm Jane Carter’s suspicions about him. Celestial even said that certain sex acts are demonic, aimed at debasing people to the point of bringing them real low. Or at least certain sex acts are ungodly, unbiblical and so on, whether if it’s something like sodomy or BDSM. And then given the Bible’s low regard for LGBT sex, there’s still the possibility that some sex acts are demonic and even masturbation would count in a way.

Actually even merely having sexual thoughts about something or somebody amounts to a kind of adultery, whether if the luster is in a relationship themself or not. This also goes for merely reading smut to the point of where when I prayed to God to help pastors help a certain cousin of mine stop reading porn herself, she ended up losing her husband along the way as I found out twice. Or I deliberately did the same thing and lost a classmate who was going to marry me, and then lose another who too was going to marry me a few years later due to my wickedness at the time. There’s still something strange about the Backstreet Boys is that they remained in the music industry longer than Ace of Base has (which has Christians in it, one of them sings in church these days), remained active in the charts longer than Hanson does (which also has Christians in it) yet prefer to have fans worship them instead of God. Admittedly the latter two aren’t any better, to the point of getting comeuppances eventually.

Even then the Backstreet Boys are kind of strange that since they remained in the public eye longer together, at any point where they could’ve used their platform to bring people to God, they’d rather have fans worship them like there’s no tomorrow to the point where all of them will turn out have fans for mistresses and then die by drowning. Even if Ace of Base and Hanson still aren’t any better, but it’s surreal to think that Zac Hanson is living out the desire Brian Littrell initially had before joining the Backstreet Boys in a way, or for another matter Jenny Berggren just the same. Not to mention Ace of Base has been defunct for years, thus giving Berggren ample time to devote herself to God for real, as much as she can and for most of the part. I guess it’s kind of unfortunate that the Backstreet Boys still not only remaining in the public eye together, but also continuining to have their new songs get radio airplay to this day, especially those that aren’t retreads of some songs before.

Especially if it’s keeping them from God where being out of the spotlight would’ve brought them closer to him as it is with both Hanson and Ace of Base, or for another matter Boyzone as it’s been defunct for years just the same. Backstreet Boys are in a really disadvantageous place where it’s clear they love the world more than they love God, that it’s going to be horrifying this Christmas when they all show up as demons to celebrate something like Krampusnacht when playing the song ‘Everybody’, which has blasphemous lyrics and it’s depressing why Brian Littrell never made his band stop playing this song, knowing it’ll grieve God a lot. But if bad company corrupts good character, then it clearly negatively affected his conduct a lot. Which is also the case with me, to the point where lately I’ve been revoking things that negatively influence me or will negatively influence me, however awkward and hard this is.

But it’s necessary to minimise this from happening over time, as well as trying not to get angry at others or hating them, even when I wanted to inflict harm on them (it’s my problem too). If it means minimising unwanted curse words in your head, it’s a hard decision at first, but necessary to keep rubbish from infiltrating your mind where it shouldn’t be. Or anything else that’ll pose a problem, which is just as awkward and painful. The journey isn’t over, but it would be necessary to let go of things that might pose problems later on. But it seems the Backstreet Boys would rather love the world, than the word of God, preferring to be at the centre of attention, instead of making God the centre instead. And the Backstreet Boys would rather have fans worship them, instead of making them worship God more. So they’ll be judged for this, bringing an end to what they’re doing.