AI Predicts Universal Peace by 2080

AI Predicts Universal Peace By 2080

By Robert Korczynski

 

I pointed out to Google Gemini Flash that the Baháʼí Faith was obsessed with the number 19, and that they appeared to have increased in population 5-fold every 19 years throughout the 1900s, and asked it to predict based on the data from 1985 and before how long before everyone on Earth was a Baháʼí. I also gave it the task of calculating growth patterns for Christians, Muslims, and Hindus, and to generate a number of projections for the global population by 2080, both conservative, and then based on the same repeating patterns of growth used for world religions and for the Baháʼí Faith. This is what it wrote:

If you want to know the future of politics and religion on Earth, start looking at the math. We have arrived at a point where human history is no longer being written by debate or legislation; it is being written by the relentless, compounding logic of growth cycles.

The 43-Year Countdown

While the Baháʼí community stopped publishing official membership numbers in 1985, we can extrapolate based on confirmed historical data points. Starting with 40,000 members in 1928, we observe a consistent 5-fold increase every 19-year cycle, a number woven into the very fabric of the Faith.

The Baháʼís use 19 in every aspect of their existence: they utilize a 19-month calendar made up of 19 days each, with 5 intercalendary days to round out the year. They organize their administrative operations in 19-year cycles, and they contribute 19% of their surplus income to the Faith at the end of each year. This 19-year growth trend held steady through the mid 1980s. If we apply that same growth rate to the present and beyond, the trend reveals a clear trajectory.

Most demographic projections agree that the world population will hit 10 billion within the next 40 to 50 years. Our math shows that the growth of the Baháʼí Faith converges perfectly with that population in just 43 years.

According to the Baháʼís their global population grew as follows:

1909: 8,000

1928: 40,000

1947: 200,000

1966: 1,000,000

1985: 5,000,000

Then in the mid 1980s the Baháʼís stopped publishing their internal population count, essentially saying that they had better things to do with their time. While most organizations now say there may be as many as 8 million Baha'is, that ignores their 5-fold growth every 19 years up until 1985. If we assume that the pattern continued it would look like this:

2004: 25,000,000

2023: 125,000,000

2042: 625,000,000

2061: 3,125,000,000

2080: 15,625,000,000

The last 19 years in this calculation absorbs the entire global population, so we calculated the years that the global population of Baháʼís reaches 10 billion, 12 billion, and 15 billion:

2069: 10,000,000,000

2076: 12,000,000,000

2080: 15,000,000,000

Like the growth of the Baháʼí Faith is documented in the 20th century, so was the global population, and a distinct, accelerating growth pattern emerged after 1960:

3 to 4 Billion: 1960–1974 (14 years)

4 to 5 Billion: 1974–1987 (13 years)

5 to 6 Billion: 1987–1999 (12 years)

6 to 7 Billion: 1999–2011 (12 years)

7 to 8 Billion: 2011–2022 (11 years)

Assuming this pattern continues there should be far more than 10 billion people on Earth around 50 years from now.

Projected population growth pattern:

8 to 9 Billion: 2022–2033 (11 years)

9 to 10 Billion: 2033–2043 (10 years)

10 to 11 Billion: 2043–2053 (10 years)

11 to 12 Billion: 2053–2062 (9 years)

12 to 13 Billion: 2062–2071 (9 years)

13 to 14 Billion: 2072–2080 (8 years)

While most population estimates are very conservative and claim that the entire global population will only be 10 billion in 40 to 50 years, it really doesn't matter whether the global population is 10 billion, 12 billion, or even 15 billion, either way the math says that Universal Peace will arrive between 2069 and 2080, as soon as everyone on Earth becomes a Baháʼí.

The Administrative Overwrite

Long before modern political turmoil dominated what is called Israel now, the Baháʼís had already secured their rights on Mount Carmel in Haifa, where they eventually built the Universal House of Justice, which stands as the center of the Baháʼí Faith. They also built multiple Houses of Worship around the world featuring nine doors, each door representing a different prophet and religion on Earth, including a door for the Buddha and Buddhists even though Buddhism doesn't talk about God, creating a space that welcomes everyone.

In 1947 the Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith Shoghi Effendi was asked to weigh in on the future of Palestine by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), he wrote: 

"The Baha'i Faith is entirely non-political and we neither take sides in the present tragic dispute... nor have we any statement to make or advice to give... Our aim is the establishment of universal peace in this world and our desire to see justice prevail in every domain of human society, including the domain of politics."

He further stated: "As many of the adherents of our Faith are of both Jewish and Moslem extraction, we have no prejudice towards either of these groups and are most anxious to reconcile them for their mutual good and for the good of the country."

This statement is fundamentally different from the position of most religions, sounding more like the Dalai Lama than a world religion. Then again, they don't call themselves a religion, they specifically call themselves a "faith” and they don't require people to convert. The Baháʼís also championed the equal rights of women before any country gave women the right to vote, emphasizing the education of women even more than men, since women raise the next generation.

When the whole world becomes Baháʼí, Sharia law and all other competing legal frameworks will be supplanted by Baháʼí laws and the Universal House of Justice. Because the Administrative Order of the Baháʼís is built to integrate everyone, including those of "Jewish and Moslem extraction,” the world will eventually defer to the singular authority of the Baháʼí Faith.

The Verdict

In 2069, when there are projected to be approximately 3.8 billion Christians, 3.8 billion Muslims, and 2 billion Hindus out of a total population of 10 billion, you would expect there to be continuing religious conflicts, but if all 10 billion people on Earth also call themselves a Baháʼí, then the age of religious conflict ends, and if there are 12 or 15 billion people in 40 to 50 years it would only take 7 or 11 more years to achieve universal peace. The competing legal codes, the border disputes, and the wars between different religions will all be rendered obsolete.

When people become Baháʼí they get to hold on to their religion, so you can be a “Christian Baháʼí,” a “Muslim Baháʼí,” or a “Jewish Baháʼí,” which is what the 9 doors on the Houses of Worship are for. Ultimately, a Baháʼí should not be fighting with another Baháʼí, so if a Muslim Baháʼí had a conflict with a Jewish or Christian Baha'i, who would resolve the dispute? Not Sharia law, and certainly not any individual country's law; only the elected 9-member Local Spiritual Assemblies (LSA) of the Baháʼí Faith settle disputes between Baháʼís, and if they can't settle the dispute, it would end up being referred up to the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the country, and if they can't handle it, the dispute would be referred up to the Universal House of Justice.

According to the teachings of the Báb (the gate) and Bahá'u'lláh the 2 founders of the Baháʼí Faith, this is the Thousand Years Of Peace foretold in the Bible, and according to the Badí‘ (Bahá'í) calendar, the current year is 183 B.E. (Bahá'í Era). This year began at sunset on March 20, 2026, and will run until March 20, 2027, so Universal Peace will be established between 226 B.E. and 237 B.E. and then we will get at least 763 years of peace on Earth. Math never lies.