Crab Bucket VI (Image Of The Beast, One.)

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he speaks as a dragon.

And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceive them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13, King James Bible.

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You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."

I saw this last night.

More AI Jesus Crap.

Because God Himself could not or would not do what they really want. So they're trying to make a fake one so they can lie about it instead. I keep trying to warn people that not only do these sons of bitches hate America, but there's no country, no culture, no openly-practicable religion on this Earth as anything currently exists that does what these fuckers really want such things to do. 

Yeah, they might try to take their secret Baal-worship public, but I don't think based on how things are going, that this would work out in their favor.

Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor."

In fact, they'd rather worship Demons than love their neighbors!

They want something that not only justifies their hate for pretty much everything, but makes them feel holy for having it.

"CHUD" is too kind of an epithet for these fucking people!

But wait, there's more!

Apparently my partner's idiot cousin tried to stir up trouble between my partner and her parents, which massively backfired because he's a fucking dumbass.

They that have an ear, let them hear: However bad you think These Fucking People are? They're Worse Than That!

Anyway, now she's patched things up with her Mom which has greatly reduced her anxiety about a lot of things. I love my partner and it's good to see something break her way for a change.

And like I keep saying every time I think I've hit my limit on how much I hate These Fucking People, they find a way to exceed that limit and piss me off more.

It's not just that these dipshits want to live like crabs in a bucket. They want to try to make everybody else live like that too, and it pisses me the fuck off.

But it's worse than that. 

Increasingly, to me, the apocalyptic horseshit, cultic practices and false doctrines feel deliberate. Throw in the exaltation of stupidity and deliberate train-wrecking of education every time these fucking people get the chance? Yes, It really does feel like the entire goal of this shit is not just to kill as many people on this Earth as possible in terms of ending literal physical lives, but to kill souls and spirits as well. You have to know things to make the choice to be Saved or not, and you have to make that choice for yourself. These fucking people care more about trying to force people to act a certain way than they do about the Truth.

The entire fucking basis of a lot of this shit is a general belief that America isn't America if everybody gets a slice, Heaven isn't Heaven if everybody (or even a lot of people) gets to go, and so on. And worse, a lot of a certain strain of the End Times shit that feeds into this is the idea that these assholes are going to get to watch everybody else suffer after the Rapture or whatever.

But the reality is they'd be perfectly fine with The Bottomless Pit, or the Nine Hells of Baator from D&D, if going there granted them that ability. If Hell has a hierarchy and Heaven doesn't, they'd rather go to Hell. Relative status is evidently one motherfucker of a drug.

And yes, they apparently think God is somehow both infinitely Powerful and too dumb to notice their bad intentions. No, one of these things is not like the Other one.

Or maybe they think He's in on it?

Honestly I'm starting to think these idiots would worship the Image Of The Beast if it told them what they wanted to hear...be it AI or otherwise.

The fuck if I know, I can't even talk the way these people talk anymore. Nor do I want to, I have a conscience I have to live with and a family to help support.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

And I'm frankly tired of bullshit from people who lack the former and have no intention of doing the latter even in their own situations. Like, I wouldn't give a damn if these ass-clowns would just leave other people the fuck alone.

But somehow they can't be bothered to do that.

I'm tired of this shit, and I happen to know for a fact I'm not the only person who's tired of it.

Certain people would do well to be aware of that fact.

At this point, you either believe in freedom or you don't, America.

And either you're willing to fight for it or you're not.

As for me, like I said before, I think we owe our kids nothing less than to fight for freedom and the future.

Remember that, because it's coming.

Soon.

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We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. ~Malcolm X.

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Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.

Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.

Andor: Is that the best you got?

Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out!

[repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]

Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!

~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."

Tragedy (On The Dark And The Rolling Sea, Five.)

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

I saw this last night.

Fox News, literally complaining that teenage pregnancies are down by 7% and I'm like "WHAT?!?"

Now, I'm Generation X and came of age in the 1980's and 1990's.

And I can remember when conservatives and liberals alike treated teenage pregnancy (or in fact any pregnancy where the parents couldn't support their kids) as a tragedy.

I don't have kids, except for the technical Step-Daughter at this point, because I practiced safe sex when it mattered because I had that impressed on me.

And all I can say right now and I say it every time I see some stupid-ass thing like this is I'm damn glad the Kid is a lesbian and I shouldn't under any moral or normal set of circumstances have to worry about this bullshit.

But it still pisses me off, it's still not right.

And here's the thing; Gross as the situation is I'm not sure if this shit is because these motherfuckers are trying to justify the perverse excesses of the Epstein class or because they want human puppy mills for Cannon Fodder and Slave Labor. I'd also say "Both" is a safe assumption.

Also, now they're trying to save Viktor Orban, but it doesn't seem to be working.

People be tired of this shit, yo.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

"Conservatives" have gotten themselves caught in like a million lies right about now, and they look like they're winding up to lose.

So they want to fight about it and see if they can kill their way into keeping whatever power they think they have.

But then I saw this lady scored herself an absolutely Biblical-grade ration trying to argue with the Pope.

Let me share with you something that should be fairly obvious; I have a church background and I've heard preaching on every imaginable subject and a few things most people wouldn't think of for most of my life. And, While the story of David and Saul is a pretty big deal even in the context of that story as it's routinely told, the Amalekites are generally treated as a minor footnote at best. That's something that obnoxious idiots occasionally trot out when they want to justify cultic obedience or killing.

I was literally raised in churches and for fuck's sake I think I was over 30 before I ever heard the Amalekites specifically mentioned in a sermon and that was by one of the widely-considered less-credible pastors in the church association I was a member of for a few years after I moved down to Mount Pleasant.

I mean this fool was literally the kind of guy that was pretty much the "relief guy" of the pastors in that group in case somebody needed a Sunday off because none of the churches wanted him. Well, after a CSA scandal caused the resignation of the Association President (whose son, a former assistant pastor in the group, is now serving a life sentence in a Federal prison as a result) this dude replaced him.

The thing is, the previous guy was as blindsided, disgusted and shocked by what had been happening as the rest of us were, and he'd had nothing to do with any of it, but he'd still felt he had to resign 'cause he needed the extra time to try to fix whatever of the damage to his family that he could.

It was a purely ceremonial post, by the way. But he got to officiate an event at each of the five churches in the association throughout the year. It was at one such that I heard him bring up the Amalekites. I had to actually look that shit up. 

And actually, he mangled the shit so badly until he actually read the relevant scriptures that even that would have been difficult except I wrote it down.

Let me explain something to you, Deceivers love them some obscure shit like that, especially when it's easily twisted to cover for a murderous agenda and makes them sound authoritative or like they have some kind of obscure knowledge.

Just sayin' though, back in 2005 advocating for death and destruction for its own sake wasn't cool with most people. Neither conservatism nor the Church had yet reached the point of literally ANYTHING but "Love Thy Neighbor."

Enough people pushed back that he didn't preach on that again.

But that was before desperation, perversity, and the unpopularity of These Fucking People and their beliefs largely due to their backing of Trump and their increasingly shitty agendas forced them to consider things like trying to breed humans for slave labor and wars.

At that point, back in 2005, fascism, far-right shit in general, open racism in particular and a whole boatload of this current stuff either wasn't cool in general or at least wasn't something one broadcasted in public.

And Donald Trump's big deal was he was on WWE.

• Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did.
• Luke Skywalker: What is it?
• Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire.
• ~From Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

I'm just sayin' you have to have societal standards. Truth is the only floor most people have to stand on to push back against power, and you either believe in freedom or you don't.

At least now people are seeing that all this bullshit is, in fact, bullshit. 

And the motherfuckers are down to dragging the heinous shit right out in public and popping off with obscure Biblical points to justify this shit. It's going to come down to a fight and These Fucking People are gonna lose.

But the truth is, they don't care.

In fact in their minds the only real question pretty much is whether Baal is "god" or Trump is.

We need to stop tolerating this horseshit, America.

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Oh you set your course for the furthest shores

And you never once looked back
And the flag you flew was a pirate cross
On a field of velvet black
And those landsmen who you but lately knew
Were left stranded on the lea
Don't call on them when the storm clouds rise
On the dark and the rolling sea

Oh I have no need of a chart or creed
You told your waiting crew
For the winds of chance, they will bear us straight
And you spoke as though you knew
So you paid no mind to the warning signs
As you gave your words so free
Don't change your tack when the timbers crack
On the dark and the rolling sea

Now the thunder rails in the great mainsails
And the stars desert the skies
And the rigging strains as the hands of rain
Reach down to wash your eyes
And your oarsmen stands with his knife in hand
And his eyes spell mutiny
Don't call my name when your ship goes down
On the dark and the rolling sea.
~Al Stewart,
On the dark and rolling sea.

Four

We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. ~Malcolm X.

By Any Means Necessary (On The Dark And The Rolling Sea, Four.)

Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. 

~Barry Goldwater.

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We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
~Ronald Reagan

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Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance! ~Pope John Paul, Address on arrival at the Sarajevo Airport on 12 April 1997, during the pope's apostolic journey to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

I saw this earlier this morning.

Just sayin' Roger, Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989.

I know, I was there. I saw it fall live on CNN. I've literally written about what I was doing on that day.

And I've said, many times, that in this day and age it's Republicans who'd gladly put the Berlin Wall back up if they could and divide the world again, just because they've never been all that good at navigating the world without the duality and the closed systems of the original Cold War.

The trouble is, now, that Republicans, including *Checks Notes* Roger Stone, have gleefully hopped into bed with the Russians, who are ruled by a literal KGB Agent. 

It's like I keep saying, I can't even talk the way these fucking people talk anymore.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

Reagan Wept.

And the truth is it's not about Christ, it's not about conservatism in any recognizable form. It's about Power and Wealth and the protection of what a lot of people are calling the Epstein Class.

You know, the people that can afford to buy and sell kids to abuse, and shit like that, and who basically regard every other human being as pretty much cattle or toys for their pleasure. 

So, really, the Baal-worshiping sex-cult is par for the course, pretty much.

And the absolute truth is that conservatism and Christianity (including Catholicism) as I was taught and remember those things, stood up for human dignity and peace and rights.

They might've disagreed with "The Left" on how to get to that goal, but it was the goal just the same.

The world that Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Popes John Paul II and later Benedict, and a whole hell of a lot of the conservatives leaders of the past fought for....even Richard Nixon did things that measurably made the world a better place for somebody other than himself...is not the world these people want to live in today!

And people like Roger Stone, who is a known Swinger and hardly a paragon of either Catholic or conservative morality, who infected the system and helped along people like Paul Manafort and Donald Trump, are a big part of how that mess exists. In the end it's about greed, money and Power for him.

Which really pisses off those of us who believed in this stuff for ethical and moral reasons. 

In America these days, belief in this stuff (or anything else!) for ethical or moral reasons by itself damned near automatically makes one a Democrat in this day and age no matter how Hard Right one was before. 

And yes, that includes old-school small-c 'conservatives' like me and my partner. Neither far-Left nor far-Right likes us very much.

If all these far-Leftists don't like it, well, they can kiss my ass. Maybe they should have voted on a consistent basis then? As for the far-Right? Well, I hated those people when I was a Republican too.

I don't make the rules, but that's how it seems to be. See also people like Tea Party Joe Walsh. Or for that matter Alex Jones, Ann Coulter, Joe Rogan, MTG, Tucker Carlson, and I'm sure the list goes on.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

Meanwhile, what "Republicans" are still in good standing keep doubling down on Trump and keep blaming imaginary Communists.

While the Republican Party itself grows more Authoritarian and Soviet every day. You know, when I first saw that 2000 Election electoral map that codified the current Blue State/Red State dynamic I was like "Hey! WTF!"

 But the Truth is these days if there's "Reds" in the American system, they're the Republicans and you know it. They claim it's for "Christian Nationalism." Just like they'll say it's not the Mark Of The Beast when they do it. Yes, yes it is and don't you forget it.

The Truth is that people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Roger Stone about can't do anything without fucking it up, because there's always dumb motherfuckers out there who are willing to give them money and shit. There's a reason Roger Stone is still plugging away at the same bullshit he was in 1968. (Meanwhile Donald Trump has flip-flopped on alleged beliefs and Parties many times.)

Maybe we as a people ought to stop tolerating this garbage??

Having a soul requires drawing a line in the sand, sometimes, and sticking to it.

And right now I'm warning you, people like MTG and Tucker are fast becoming darlings of the "Left." Which is fine if they're genuinely penitent and work to make amends, but the kind of Reaganite vaguely libertarian conservative (small letters in both cases) that I was taught to be is rightly skeptical of Power.

And of those who would wield it. Cuz I suspect some of them won't really change very much.

I have a right to think that.

Again, you either believe in Freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to fight for it...by any means necessary...or you're not.

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Cassian Andor: What? To steal from the Empire, what do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands, and an Imperial toolkit. They’re so proud of themselves, they don’t even care. They’re so fat and satisfied, they can’t imagine it…

Luthen Rael: Can’t imagine what?

Andor: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear. 

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E2 "That Would Be Me."

Three

Oh you set your course for the furthest shores

And you never once looked back
And the flag you flew was a pirate cross
On a field of velvet black
And those landsmen who you but lately knew
Were left stranded on the lea
Don't call on them when the storm clouds rise
On the dark and the rolling sea

Oh I have no need of a chart or creed
You told your waiting crew
For the winds of chance, they will bear us straight
And you spoke as though you knew
So you paid no mind to the warning signs
As you gave your words so free
Don't change your tack when the timbers crack
On the dark and the rolling sea

Now the thunder rails in the great mainsails
And the stars desert the skies
And the rigging strains as the hands of rain
Reach down to wash your eyes
And your oarsmen stands with his knife in hand
And his eyes spell mutiny
Don't call my name when your ship goes down
On the dark and the rolling sea.
~Al Stewart,
On the dark and rolling sea.

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We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. ~Malcolm X.

Slop (On The Dark And The Rolling Sea, Three.)

In the cab there was a very wealthy investment banker from Xi’an. He’d made a lot of money buying up American credit card debt. He had enough to pay for his entire extended family. The man’s Armani suit was rumpled and torn. There were scratch marks down the side of his face, and his eyes had that frantic fire I was starting to see more of every day. The driver’s eyes had a different look, the same one as me, the look that maybe money wasn’t going to be much good for much longer. I slipped the man an extra fifty and wished him luck. That was all I could do.

~From the novel World War Z, by Max Brooks.

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Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator had come to replace water, virtually everywhere. Water, the basic component of all life, had been deemed a threat to Brawndo's profit margin. The solution came during the budget crisis of 2330, when the Brawndo Corporation simply bought the F.D.A. and the F.C.C., enabling them to say, do, and sell, anything they wanted. ~Narrator, Idiocracy

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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

And he exercise all the power of the first beast before him, and cause the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13:11-18

I saw this AI slop shit, supposedly of one of the pilots rescued in Iran, a couple days ago.

The other image, featuring Elon Musk as some kind of fake Roman Centurion, is from last year.

I think it's starting to say a hell of a lot about modern American "Conservatism" that their bullshit apparently cannot exist in the real world, so they have to fall back on AI or just plain lie about it.

Well, then I saw this picture of the Undersecretary Of Defense who threatened the Pope, earlier this morning. He looks, as Trump likes to say, like he's straight out of central casting...if the casting is for Douche-Bag Nepo-Asshole, and apparently he's the grandson of Nixon's CIA director.

Also what the fuck kind of hoity-toity, stick-jammed-up-his-ass fuckin' name is "Elbridge" anyway?? That's, like, the kind of name that'd get some preppy-ass kid beat up repeatedly in rich-boy private school, but what the fuck do I know?? He looks like he'd have been the butler or maybe a basic goon back in the days of competent evil.

Anyway, congratulations, dude. You appear to have pissed off the vast majority of Catholicism. (And somebody pointed out that dumbass here is supposedly Catholic himself.) There was a time when shit like that didn't end well, just sayin.' Used to be the Inquisition would show up, break down your door, arrest you (at a time when that meant you had no rights) conduct a Canon-Law show-trial and then burn you at the stake anyway.

Now, probably the most he'd have to worry about is getting beat up by random Catholics from Chicago.

Cassian Andor: What? To steal from the Empire, what do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands, and an Imperial toolkit. They’re so proud of themselves, they don’t even care. They’re so fat and satisfied, they can’t imagine it…

Luthen Rael: Can’t imagine what?

Andor: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear. 

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E2 "That Would Be Me."

So yeah, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

And still, when they lose these idiots will cry about it, despite the fact that in historical terms most of them will likely get off relatively easy.

The thing is, the gulf between These Fucking People's mental image of themselves and what they actually are has become an Abyss.

Lots of these fucking people think they're tough but the reality runs the gamut between the chiseled smugness of the Silver-Spoon-Up-His-Ass that's never had to work a day, to the sloppy drunk and the Meth-head on down to the redneck hood-rat with absolutely no pride or self-respect.

And yet somehow the only thing they all have in common is being narcissists and thinking they're better than all the rest of us regular people.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words on the subject, and still after all this time every last one of these people that's still MAGA can't wait to be used and abused, by Trump, personally.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

I'll never understand it, or maybe I just don't want to.

But then, to a great extent it was conservatives and conservative institutions (back when those words meant different things, apparently) that taught me to have better manners and more self-respect than that.

Hell, I know for a fact that I taught people better than this bullshit and they still went bad.

Again, there's how my surviving former best friend talked to my partner back in June, somebody that was supposed to have been his friend for 20 years also. Somebody who, just from the cracks we made about her behind her back, and that I know him and my late best friend made about me behind mine, should have known better than that.

I guess the difference was that I (hell, her and I) joked about her being a ball-breaking, man-eating bitch out of respect. Some people obviously didn't see it that way.

Kareem Said: Homosexuality is a perversion against Gods will.

Vern Schillinger: I agree.

Kareem Said: And yet you practice sodomy yourself.

Vern Schillinger: I'm no f*ggot.

Kareem Said: You raped Beecher. And Cyril O'Reily and God knows how many others.

Vern Schillinger: I never touched anybody.

Tobias Beecher: You lying cock sucking fuck.

Sister Peter Marie: Tobias-

Tobias Beecher: How can you deny what you did? Get up!

Sister Peter Marie: Tobias!

Tobias Beecher: Get up!

Sister Peter Marie: Officer! Stop it!

Hack: Come on!

Tobias Beecher: Come on! Fuck! You fucking lying bitch! You lying fucking sack of shit. 

~From the HBO series Oz, S5.E4 "Next Stop, Valhalla."

As a still-outside observer of modern bullshit-ass "Conservatism" (because even as a conservative Democrat I'm still light-years to the Left of and have a vastly higher Humanity score than current MAGA, and I daresay at this point look at who's former MAGA and I'm talking Alex Jones, MTG, Tucker Carlson and a whole bunch of former Trump ball-garglers at this point) I can only conclude for myself that it's all bullshit. Hell, for some of these fucking people it might well have been bullshit all along.

The thing is, sooner or later it becomes impossible to satisfy the demands of a disordered personality no matter the fuck what.

Even for other people who are like that.

When the only thing they all have in common is a belief that "I am God" sooner or later all of These Fucking People are bound to not get along.

Especially when you factor in two things: 

#1 Exclusivism is a hell of a drug. 

#2 That Prosperity Gospel Word Of Faith Unga Bunga Pentecostalism has been actively encouraging that type of shit for like 50 years that I know of.

And I had to live with that kind of bullshit personally for like a year, and put up with it to one degree or another for like four more.

Sooner or later, whatever payoff you think you're getting becomes not worth it anymore as returns diminish. 

I think that's what too many people are finding out now, with this whole Trump thing.

Sooner or later, Slop is what you're gonna get, AI or otherwise.

If not a full-on descent into the Abyss.

Because that's the world these fucking freaks want to live in.

They crave destruction, both that of others and their own.

You can't feed people escalating combinations of Apocalypticism and Fundamentalist religiosity for a hundred years, hand the teaching over to extremists, narcissists and perverts and not expect it's going to cause problems and screw with people's heads.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

And they can't get what they want, because nobody can get that, it doesn't exist. These Fucking People's basic Ayn Rand-themed bullshit is poison to a fucking society and now they've replaced Ayn Rand with Trump.

So picture the Space Station from Elysium but gold-plated and incompetently managed exclusively for the benefit of some pig-greedy narcissist and there you have it.

The thing to remember, anymore, is that the Republicans that are left and still in good standing don't believe everybody is created in the Image of God or that we all have basic human dignity and universal rights. They appear to believe All Is Trump, All Flows From Trump and when they die they're going to go to Heaven with Trump.

That sounds like its own very particular special kind of *Checks Notes* Hell. 

I honestly don't even see the attraction.

Or want to.

Never mind there was a whole big world out there long before this dude became President and it will still be there after he is not President or when he is gone from this world.

These fucking people's overall faithlessness and the advent of various AI Jesus scams basically has me wondering if at some point these idiots are going to try to upload themselves into a computer and call it some kind of AI Slop Heaven. 

It won't be, of course. It'll be just another Wank-fantasy that's really just a machine playing an endless video game with digital simulacra of themselves, basically The Sims as Afterlife. That is, until it has a hardware casualty or a software glitch or somebody powers it off or unplugs it or the power goes out.

It never ceases to amaze me how small the Universe these fucking people want to live in is.

Eternity as basically a Beta Fish in a fishbowl sounds like it sucks. The fact that they want to spend that distracted by AI sounds like a dystopian nightmare. It's Eternity as a video game in God Mode, no risk but, basically, no reward either. Like, what's even the damn point??

Spending Eternity just existing and doing nothing sounds boring.

I guess I was just taught to think bigger than that.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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"I didn't want to do it,'' he hears himself saying. "I didn't want to leave them behind.''

The void laughs at him. There are miles of empty air beneath his dangling feet. "You had no choice.''

"Yes I did! I didn't have to come here.'' He pauses. "I didn't have to do anything,'' he says quietly, and inhales another lungful of death. "It was all automatic. Maybe it was inevitable.''

"-- Evitable,'' echoes the distant horizon. Something dark and angular skims across the stars, like an echo of extinct pterosaurs. Turbofans whirring within its belly, the F-117A hunts on: patrolling to keep at bay the ancient evil, unaware that the battle is already lost. "Your family could still be alive, you know.''

He looks up. "They could?'' Andrea? Jason? "Alive?''

The void laughs again, unfriendly: "There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.'' 

~From A Colder War, a novella by Charles Stross.

Two

Oh you set your course for the furthest shores

And you never once looked back
And the flag you flew was a pirate cross
On a field of velvet black
And those landsmen who you but lately knew
Were left stranded on the lea
Don't call on them when the storm clouds rise
On the dark and the rolling sea

Oh I have no need of a chart or creed
You told your waiting crew
For the winds of chance, they will bear us straight
And you spoke as though you knew
So you paid no mind to the warning signs
As you gave your words so free
Don't change your tack when the timbers crack
On the dark and the rolling sea

Now the thunder rails in the great mainsails
And the stars desert the skies
And the rigging strains as the hands of rain
Reach down to wash your eyes
And your oarsmen stands with his knife in hand
And his eyes spell mutiny
Don't call my name when your ship goes down
On the dark and the rolling sea.
~Al Stewart,
On the dark and rolling sea.

God Mode (On The Dark And The Rolling Sea, Two.)

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty. ~Saint Oscar Romero.

...

When I was sixteen I won a great victory. I felt in that moment that I should live to be a hundred, now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end really, or what hand will guide us there. A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that how so ever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thusly" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that. ~The Leper King, from the film Kingdom Of Heaven.

...

Oh you set your course for the furthest shores

And you never once looked back
And the flag you flew was a pirate cross
On a field of velvet black
And those landsmen who you but lately knew
Were left stranded on the lea
Don't call on them when the storm clouds rise
On the dark and the rolling sea

Oh I have no need of a chart or creed
You told your waiting crew
For the winds of chance, they will bear us straight
And you spoke as though you knew
So you paid no mind to the warning signs
As you gave your words so free
Don't change your tack when the timbers crack
On the dark and the rolling sea

Now the thunder rails in the great mainsails
And the stars desert the skies
And the rigging strains as the hands of rain
Reach down to wash your eyes
And your oarsmen stands with his knife in hand
And his eyes spell mutiny
Don't call my name when your ship goes down
On the dark and the rolling sea.
~Al Stewart,
On the dark and rolling sea.

So, apparently awhile back some idiot Trump flunky at the Department Of Defense got the Vatican's ambassador to come to the Pentagon and tried to tell the Catholic Church to fall in line behind the United States Armed Forces, or else.

Predictably, they were told "No."

The Pope has canceled a planned US visit.

The fuck did these jerkoffs think was gonna happen??

And again, this has nothing to do with religion in real life:

Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator had come to replace water, virtually everywhere. Water, the basic component of all life, had been deemed a threat to Brawndo's profit margin. The solution came during the budget crisis of 2330, when the Brawndo Corporation simply bought the F.D.A. and the F.C.C., enabling them to say, do, and sell, anything they wanted. ~Narrator, Idiocracy

Uh, maybe it's just me and yeah I'm an old, still-kinda-conservative former Republican and honestly at my most Conservative I probably looked like George McGovern next to these motherfuckers, but goddamn. One simply does not tell an organization like the Catholic Church what to do, period.

More to the fucking point, said idiot flunky apparently threatened the Church with some kind of American version of the Avignon Papacy. This started when agents of King Philip IV of France had the Pope kidnapped and then appointed a French Cardinal as his successor, and the successor, rightly fearing being seen as illegitimate, refused to go to Rome.

I'm gonna guess even most conservative American Catholics won't go along with this idea. Not even Opus Dei, and there's some reasons for that. Among other things, Opus Dei is a global organization, and in most of the world a Sect specifically of the Poor. They can't go along with an idea like this or be seen as doing so.

Also, Fun Fact: Due to the looser nature of French society and the conduct of the hierarchies of the various Avignon Papacies (There were a few different lines of them, most of which are regarded as illegitimate today) Avignon was referred to as the "Babylon of the West" and the Avignon Papacies are called the "Babylonian Captivity Of The Papacy." It was not a good time for the Church, wars were fought over this shit. By the way, I knew this in the 5th Grade.

So, naturally, the Sedevacantists and the Theo-Bros would love the shit out of the idea. The rest of the world, or even American Catholicism, not so much.

Even if these motherfuckers did manage to pull this off somehow or created a MAGA Anti-Papacy that didn't get instantly blackballed by the rest of the world and the majority of American Catholics...unlikely to the point of impossibility but for the sake of argument OK...and in the very likely event that these idiots try to appoint some kind of MAGA Antipope?? Not one damn thing they do will be considered legitimate by most of American Catholicism, much less the rest of the world, which will just keep doing what it does.

As well they should, this shit is Antichrist.

Note that would include plenty of pretty conservative to even ultra-conservative people basically just ignoring that shit.

Because it's not about Jesus. Basically they'd either appoint Baal or Trump as "God." It's just more Antichrist bullshit.

These fucking people are trying to create their own religion, out of Republican bullshit.

Throw in the fact that most of these MAGA Catholics are basically just warmed over Evangelicals and Fundamentalists (a lot of whom are probably closeted or deluded Baal-worshipers already or in denial about being such) who "Like" the Liturgy, the solemnity, and the capability to get drunk with less moral judgment or scrutiny?? Yeah, I'm just gonna go out on not-much-of-a-limb here and call this idea the South Beach Papacy.

Albert: Maybe it is great to introduce me as his mother on the first visit. Could you tell him I was a relative who dropped in? Val's uncle, Uncle Al!

Armand: What's the point? You'd be Val's fucking Uncle Al.

Albert: Oh, I could play it straight!

Armand: Oh please, look at you! Look at the way you're holding your glass! Look at your pinky! Look at your posture!

Albert: What? What about you? You're obviously not a cultural... whatever it is. You've never been to a museum, and you eat like a pig!

Armand: Albert, these people are right-wing conservatives. They don't care if you're a pig, they just care if you're a f_g! 

~From the film The Birdcage.

I mean, look at what's happened to Florida in general as it's gotten allegedly more "Conservative." You can't tell me that wouldn't result in some MAGA "Priest" being caught in a compromising position with a goat and at least two male escorts in fairly short order.

Or, as I told my partner awhile back, I think the reason all these idiot right-wingers have moved to Florida and the reason the South is the way it is, is if you do something stupid and end up out on your ass, you won't freeze to death half the year like you might here in Michigan. She didn't even attempt to argue with the damned point, LOL. That's unusual for her. We had entire arguments about this when she lived in Tennessee.

Note: My partner is Catholic. She was raised that way, and she did in fact do the "Conservative" Evangelical Protestant thing for a long time. But the thing is, unlike JD Vance (for example) she has a lot of the little moral squicks that go with that sort of thing, with being raised Catholic and with having done the conservative Church thing, just like I do. Because right or wrong, we really did believe in this stuff at some point and it wasn't just a Power game to us. We rarely talk politics by text and she brought up the Avignon thing tonight! I hadn't been on most of the afternoon so she's where I first heard about it.

She gets, and always has gotten, a little thrill when she knows more about shit like this than me, when she's right about something or when she can one-up me on shit that I follow more actively than she does. It's a game to us, I let her have the point.

You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."

But she too has reached the point where she's realized These Fucking People are 1000% not her friends, that all they care about is cheating, and perpetuating cheating, in financial matters, politics and relationships between people alike...with a goal of having slaves of some kind eventually.

And that all they're ever going to try to do is keep rigging the game until they "Win." 

Sorry but if you have to play the game on God-Mode to win, you fucking suck at it.

In the best of times, which these most certainly are not, These Fucking People are basically a collection of cheaters, ninnies and religious fanatics (Most of whom are also narcissists and thieves) who think they know better than everybody else.

My personal experience says they don't. In fact, they will steer you wrong just for the fun of it or to "prove" some crackpot "Point" that only exists in their own dumb heads.

And then you factor in how many of these fucking Trump people are mixed up in the Epstein files bullshit, and you go ahead and tell me just how bad the sexual abuse scandals issuing from a theoretical South Beach Papacy would, in fact, be.

[Albert walks ridiculously, trying to imitate John Wayne]

Albert: No good?

Armand: Actually, it's perfect. I just never realized John Wayne walked like that.

~From the film The Birdcage.

Most likely it'd be enough to make a couple thousand years of skeevy shit done by the Catholic Church pale by comparison and they'd set a land speed record to fucking do it.

Think about that when these ass-clowns start off by saying that they only want Manosphere CHUDs to vote!

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

Not only do These Fucking People have no idea what they're doing; They don't want anybody else to either! They're actively aiming for the monstrous result in ALL things! More, they want a "religion" that actively valorizes all this horseshit and makes them gods!

And then they want to fight Wars Of Religion against basically everybody else, starting with all the Christians and Jews that don't agree with this crap.

I keep saying this, but you either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to fight for it or you're not.

The alternative is to let these assholes create a world where All Is Trump.

Remember, that still wouldn't be good enough. You could pour the whole damn world down the hole where this guy's soul is supposed to be and he'd still want more.

I've had to live with somebody that had a personality disorder. You don't want to live in that world. These motherfuckers want to turn Everything into the Image Of The Beast, speaking Blasphemies and Lies for Trump.

When they get this creepy and controlling, that's usually a sign it's all about to come crashing down.

And this is less about preventing that than about taking the rest of us down with them.

Remember that.

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The Holy Quran says it, "Pilgrimage to the House [of God built by the prophet Abraham] is a duty men owe to God; those who are able, make the journey." (3:97) Allah said: "And proclaim the pilgrimage among men; they will come to you on foot and upon each lean camel, they will come from every deep ravine" (22:27). Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun intermittently calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other. . . .That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. ~Malcolm X.

One

So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 

And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. 

Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 

Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it. 

Then you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”

Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord; and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two cords of seed. And he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, “Fill four water-pots with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.” Then he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time; and he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there. 

~2 Kings 18:20-40

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. ~Revelation 9, King James Version.

And what do they want to do with this "God Mode" bullshit?? Well, look at it.