And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans, Chapter 12.
I keep seeing this kind of shit; prayer, "Spiritual Warfare, various and endless threats of revenge for all type of shit, both real and (mostly, IMO) imagined.
Authoritarianism, Inc. The Global, political "Right" or whatever one wants to call it, is trending towards terrorism.
They want to be the angry, bearded men shouting Allah Akbar as they fire their Kalashnikovs into the air. You know, the same shit these same fucking people spent 20 years being loudly and performatively afraid of. Call it "Spiritual Terrorism."
All type of people make it sound like these assholes are something something Gazpacho politically unstoppable because reasons (Mostly, the media thinks it'll make more money off of covering right-wing Crazy) but clearly they're not accomplishing whatever by purely political-let alone democratic-means fast enough...and if you look at the whole damn situation in Ukraine, militarily the picture isn't so hot either.
See, here's the thing, when you've conditioned yourself to be afraid all the time, it becomes real hard to be brave.
Of course, the actual problem is that nothing is ever good enough for these right-wing fanatics, and that seems true in any country whether it's Israel, Russia, the USA, or anywhere else.
And if these fucking people were nearly as Christian (or Jewish, and I'm sure I could find Islamic examples if I wanted to) as they say they are...there wouldn't be famous people who buy into this bullshit spouting off about "Telepathy" on Twitter.
All of the Abrahamic religions view that kind of stuff as Magic and therefore Sin, and the prohibitions spring from the same sources in Jewish scriptures that Christians condensed and mangled and reinterpreted into the Old Testament.
Or, as us plain old Secular people put it, it's just bullshit. Telepathy makes for cool stories (having been a gamer and fan of superhero stuff since I was a kid, I can attest to this) but it's not a real thing.
But the truth, of course, is worse than that.
These motherfuckers could be living in a Promised Land of milk and honey and the rest of us could be living in shit and they'd still find something to bitch about, it's simply the nature of the beast.
You're better off if you don't indulge in that crap, or hang around with people who do it.
I mean, shit, these fucking people will be mad about Barack Obama getting elected until they die, and at least some of them will teach their descendants to be mad about it, too. I mean, yeah, it's a combination of bitterness and racism from people who are perpetually unhappy with the world. Religiosity and Revenge, on the part of the same fucking people who are why Moses smashed the stone tablets after he came down off the mountain. What else is new??
That's a new one, but one I see popping up a lot lately.
And it's always the same kind of animatronic Ken Doll, smooth, unshaven, yet-categorizing-countries-by-ages-of-consent creepy Jared Kushner-looking dudes who are the ones saying it...that or the kind of creepy old preachers who look like they know where every Glory Hole and skeevy Gay Bathhouse within 100 Klicks of their house is located. And they have them all categorized with annotated notes.
By the way, if either of these dudes has any calluses on their hands, those are from jacking off. Just sayin.'
I mean, seriously, no joke, have you seen what the average "Conservative" white dude over the age of about 25 looks like these days?? There's a hell of a lot of bearded dude-bros out there who look like balding, paunchy garden gnomes. An awful lot of them have only ever seen naked women in Porn, yo.
And your ass is trying to tell me they don't use pornography on a lot more of a scale than I've ever had to??
Shut the fuck up!
Not that there's anything particularly wrong with Porn. I just don't find most of it all that interesting, and I find it very strange indeed that the people who use the shit the most are the ones claiming to be so against it. I mean it's literally been scientifically proven that conservative religious white men use porn the most, the Deep South and Utah (of all fucking places) have the highest rates of porn use in America.
Of course, if these fucking people didn't have hate and hypocrisy they wouldn't have anything at all. And that, too, is somebody else's fault.
It's funny how the people who quote "Vengeance is mine, Saith the Lord" have been very busy trying to make God in their own image...if they can't just up and declare themselves gods.
And because of America's perverse fascination with religiosity and right-wing Crazy, in the (extremely) likely event that they get their ass kicked electorally (not least because nobody but them wants to ban porn or make Donald Trump god) they're going to try for a Civil War...or at least a right-wing insurgency.
It won't be much of either, Al Qaeda, they ain't. And TL:DR it will probably mostly end up being an excuse to commit crimes...but people will still die.
And if they do succeed in breaking off a piece of America for themselves, the odds are high it'll be both a nexus of global organized crime and a Russian satellite state, Cold War style.
Might be a fun place for elites, but you or I wouldn't wanna go there. The only Opiate they wanna give the masses is religion. It'll be like the Deep South, but the alcohol, the Chick-Fil-A and the porn will be reserved for the elites. The only thing the Peasants will have to eat...is each other. But they'll have plenty of internal conflicts to kill each other in. I can't imagine that the Pentecostals and the Traditional Catholics and the Russian Orthodox will get along (or share power) for very long.
Hate and Politics and Power...and the joy of bowing and scraping for profit? Those, these assholes will reserve for themselves. "Orwellian" will not even begin to describe it. These fuckers want to live in The Empire from Star Wars...and at lesser levels they're competing to be the guy who goes around shouting "On Program!" at the other prisoners.
It's real easy to say Vengeance belongs to some god when you think that god is (or at least represents) you.
But the truth is, at the end of the day a lot of these idiots just want to be a better class of slave than some of the other slaves, and I guess that's what one gets if one goes too far into religiosity and right-wing politics, or believes in the Apostle Paul rather than Jesus Christ (and yeah, read the pull-quote to see what Paul had to say about this crap.)
Every damn thing is Magic Words And Phrases with these fucking people. Anything to maintain the social memes of bigotry and grievance and vengeance.
I couldn't do it.
Being a free citizen in a secular society and at least trying to "Love thy neighbor" (let alone your own country) might seem a little bit harder...but it sure beats that kind of crap. You have to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything, apparently.
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"Life is sacred"? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told 'em it was a good idea. The sword of god, the blood of the lamb, 'vengeance is mine'; millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to The God Question: "Do you believe in God?" "No." BAM! Dead. "Do you believe in God?" "Yes." "...Do you believe in my God?" "No." BAM! Dead. "My God has a bigger dick than your God!" ~George Carlin
Two
My black face fades,
hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn't
dammit: No tears.
I'm stone. I'm flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning.
I turn this way—the stone lets me go.
I turn that way—I'm inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke.
I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap's white flash.
Names shimmer on a woman's blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet's image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I'm a window.
He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.
~Facing It, by Yusef Komunyakaa, US Army Veteran
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