Sorry of this word offends you but I truly think this is the best word for it.

Through a series of unfortunate events in my personal life, I’m beginning to question what I know and what religion has taught. Specifically, I’m speaking about the end times prophecies. I’ve heard these passages before, and not being religious at all, I’ve dismissed them. I have a friend which is a pastor at a local church, he fully is under the impression we are seeing the beginning of the end times. These two passages:

• Isaiah 5:20:
• "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" This verse specifically warns against the inversion of moral values, where evil is celebrated as good and vice versa.

• 2 Timothy 3:1-5:
• "But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." This passage describes a time when moral values are turned upside down and what is wrong becomes common and accepted.

Something has changed in a very short period, I’m not sure what has happened.

My wife and my business were forced to close by the landlord over an air conditioner he refused to repair. Since we moved in the air conditioner didn’t function correctly, I wrote a demand letter stating it is affecting my business because we must close due to the heat. I also told him I would prorate the rent for every day we had to close. He lawyered up and forced us to close. We lost our business, and he is out the rest of our lease.

The neighbor tenant to our business started to vandalize our property. While I was moving our crap out, we have had few interactions with these people in the past. Since our business was successful, thinking is just jealousy. Not sure….

The community in which I live is one of the most conservative counties in the country, I just found out that we have a group of people who meet regularly to discuss how they want to change things (the new county commissioner is among these). This group wants to tell others how they must live their lives through county ordinances. This commissioner made a specific ordinance for one single landowner with a restaurant. He would allow restaurant guests to stay on his personal property overnight occasionally. These people didn’t like it and they passed an ordinance just for this landowner. Here is the deal, we are very remote and rural, every property owner has an RV on it in virtuous states of decay and habitation, sometimes 2, 3 or 4 RVs. This ordinance is forcing he to not have guest stay the night. He is suing the county, but this is ridiculous on its own merits.

These same people are now working on a new ordinance that says people cannot light the outside of their property at night. They are calling it “dark sky ordinance” and are already looking on enforcing it on his business; A business must light its parking lot. His restaurant is a very successful high-end steakhouse.

This same county is retroactively trying to apply a new ordinance to my property forcing me to change my address. There is no need for this and is extremely disruptive as I own three business entities that use this address. Changing this with the IRS is going to be hell. I’m fighting this, if they want to take my easement from me and make it a country road, they should have done it when the property was subdivided and not now that the last property is being developed.

Finding health insurance for a business owner is difficult enough but my wife has MS and they are forcing her to be on Medicare. We don’t want that, but the insurance industry is forcing this upon us. Okay, they don’t want to insure a MS patent, I get that. The shit is that I must prove continued coverage for her going all the way back to 2010. I was a federal employee in 2010, I left because people in the government don’t deserve my labor. Medicare (federal) required proof I covered her through my insurance as a federal employee and the “feudal” (typo, though I leave it) government doesn’t even respond to phones or e-mail period. The federal government was keeping from complying with the “feudal” (staying with it) government for health coverage we don’t want. Fuck me. We were able to prove this through the insurance company… Get this, when she submitted the proof, the idiots didn’t even look at it and marked it off as complaint.

I have an employee that has got it in her head that she can play hardball with me, as her employer. I need her at the moment to cover this shift but what the fuck is she thinking trying to ridicule me in front of other employees. The type that has moved well beyond play and is way too serious. After being warned she doubled down and trying to make me her bitch. LOL this will not end well for her, I just don’t understand after 12 months she pulls this shit.

So… Why the litany of fuckery, anyone of these on their own is a typical challenge of life, nothing out of the ordinary. My question is why all the sudden and why now to this extent? This is an extreme amount of fuckery.

Have others noticed an uptick of fuckery in their personal lives recently or is this just me and shit luck? The rational mind says its shit luck, my friend says it’s the end-times. I’m listening now…