Didactic Mind, Ep 91: The Year of Reckoning

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!!! May Our Lord's blessings and peace be upon you in 2022, in the name of Christ Jesus! Let us look forward to the new year in hope, faith, and love, as we strive always to give glory to the Almighty. Here is the New Year's podcast, as always, and today is a special day indeed, for it also happens to mark the 9th birthday of the Didact persona. (Well, my version of the Didact, obviously - the HALO character had been around for a little bit longer than that.)

As always, I will start off the year by giving an update on traffic, and I expand on these points in the podcast itself:

• Total pageviews of about 270K when adding up both the old Didact's Reach Blogger site and the current shared-hosting WordPress platform;
• A total of 37,402 unique readers from all over the world;
• Readers posted a total of 825 comments on 332 posts in 2021, and posts averaged about 1,750 words in length;

The geographical distribution of my readers is also something to behold - check this out:

As you can see, the site and podcast reach quite a wide range of people from around the world, which is genuinely fascinating, and quite inspirational.

Furthermore, as I state repeatedly in the podcast, I do all of this for myself, and no one else - but it is YOU, the reader and the listener, that makes it worthwhile. I have been really amazed and humbled by the feedback that I have received from many of you in the past year, and have taken great comfort and inspiration from the fact that I was able to provide guidance, strength, and hope to some of you going through really harsh times.

I am extremely grateful to all of you who read, comment on, subscribe to, and share my work. You guys have kept me going for 9 YEARS and running now. I look forward to raising a glass of good whiskey to you all, this time next year, as I celebrate the 10th anniversary of this work.

This podcast covers all of the above, and also talks about three major megatrends that I see emerging in 2022:

1. The collapse of Islam and the dangers present therein;
2. The increasingly obvious moral vacuum of atheism and the rise of explicitly Christian nations;
3. The destruction of trust between people and their governments, which will likely lead to catastrophe later this year;

I anticipate that I will be spending a lot of my time in 2022 discussing and expanding upon these topics, for the stress fractures in our societies are becoming more obvious by the day. Some of them will widen to the point where the fissures will swallow whole entire sectors of society, and we need to prepare ourselves for that eventuality.

So prepare yourselves, brothers, for the coming year is going to be one of reckoning and action.

Video References

• Dr. David Wood on the most important apologetics book of 2022;
• Also from Dr. David Wood, the serious problem of apostasy within Islam;
• Apostate Prophet's hilarious alter-ego, Sheik Yabooty, asks you to send him money to "stop" apostasy;

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