Couple of clingers in my de-converting

[Tonus]

So, TLDR how can I feel confident that what is going on with humans is not a right on track of biblical prophecy but really just business as usual? And please please please, I could tell you about how much I care about hearing on the different dates of the JW past but I am not sure what the rules are on cursing.

Throughout human history, people have been predicting calamity and disaster.  For the past 1,500 or so years there have been numerous attempts at predicting the end of the world, and most of the signs are the same ones: an increase in natural disasters, an increase in crime and a seeming loss of consideration for ones fellow man, and so on.  Time and again people have warned their contemporaries that things have gotten worse and worse and that it's not possible for the downward trend to continue, hence it must be the time of the end.  1,500 years.  Give or take.

We can see a form of this "things are getting worse" all the time, because as we get older we strip many of our oldest memories down so that they're a romanticized version of the past.  Nostalgia gets us to look at the past as an ideal time, and everything since then has gotten worse and worse, and so the world seems to be on the road to catastrophe.  So we really can't tell if the current time is a sign of the end, of the coming of one god or another, because humans have proven utterly incapable of properly reading the way things are going on a global level and applying that towards what the future holds.