The Challenge#
The world faces existential self-made threats — nuclear war, pandemics, misguided artificial superintelligence. These are not acts of fate. They arise from patterns in how humanity makes decisions, and those patterns can be understood, named, and changed.
A framework for understanding human behavior#
To address these threats, it helps to have a clear-eyed vocabulary for the different ways humans relate to the systems that sustain life. The following framework — drawn from the concept of a Balance-o-stat Species — offers one way to think about this.
A Balospe is a Balance-o-stat Species: a generally intelligent species that uses all its intelligence and resources to guard and evolve the dynamic balances of ecosystems and innovation economies by working with Reality.
Homo balospe is a human individual who has learned to live as a Balance-o-stat Species. Only Jesus, as revealed in Revelation, has fully achieved this — as far as Laurence Loewe of Laodicea (LLoL) can tell.
Homo transiens is a human dedicated to learning to become a Homo balospe. In practice, this means someone who chooses to support the work of understanding and implementing the Jubilee System.
Homo amnesiens — a forgetful human — keeps forgetting what matters most overall.
Homo serpens — a self-serving human — exploits others for short-term gain at the expense of long-term stability.
Homo “sapiens” — the supposedly “knowing” human — is defined by the gap between what it claims to know and how it actually behaves. When a species calls itself “wise” but acts with systematic forgetfulness or self-interest, the label becomes a dangerous fiction.
Why frame it this way?
This taxonomy is not meant as insult. It’s a diagnostic framework — comparable to how medicine names conditions not to shame patients but to enable treatment. Naming the patterns of human failure is a prerequisite for changing them.
The Four Horsemen: systemic failure patterns#
The biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse serve as a powerful metaphor for the feedback loops that drive humanity toward self-destruction. These patterns trick humanity into dramatic increases in self-made existential threats — nuclear war, pandemics, misguided artificial superintelligence, and more.
Whether these threats are inevitable depends on a fundamental decision: either everyone commits to confronting their own misguiding illusions through a shared, transparent search for truth — or those deadly illusions will eventually destroy everyone through escalating cycles of “friendly fire.”
All who reject conclusions merely because they are new, or old, or known, or unknown have fallen for traps that demonstrably accelerate these cycles. The challenge is to break the pattern — not to assign blame.
Revelation offers a choice: can we decode it responsibly?#
Humanity faces a grave choice at its Great Filter. Too many disasters to individually predict and avert are currently building momentum.
Warning
“As you believe, so it shall be” defines a work-logic cascade that either dooms the world or leads to its rescue. Revelation shows how, and LLoL discovered by accident what looks like a key to decipher it.
Therefore, Revelation offers a choice. You get to decide whether this choice will receive appropriate review or be buried in the sands of time.
To the extent possible, any reader who can substantially help with LLoL’s task of decoding Revelation is called to do so — with the understanding that the smallest contribution may make a life-or-death difference for the whole world.
Anyone who destroys a life, destroys the world. Anyone who saves a life saves the world.
This ancient assessment gains a striking literal meaning in the context of LLoL’s forecast of waiting times until accidental nuclear winter. See the probability simulations for details.