Seven Days? (Image Of The Beast, Eight.)

Some say finding God is a glorious thing. They're wrong. It's dangerous. You spend your whole life in a world of men. But when you finally see his power, his greatness, other men fall out of view. Because you're so focused on him, you can barely see them from the corners of your eyes. You lose sight of them. 

~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E3 "God's Chillin'."

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Il Duce: You people have been chosen to reveal our existence to the world. You will witness what happens here today, and you will tell of it later. All eyes to the front. [Gently to a woman in front with her eyes turned down] You must watch dear. It'll all be over soon.

Connor: Now you will receive us.

Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.

Connor: We do not want your tired and sick.

Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim.

Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us.

Murphy: With every breath, we shall hunt them down.

Connor: Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies.

Murphy: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.

Connor: These are not polite suggestions. These are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.

Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.

Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it!

Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish.

[Murphy and Conner join II Duce behind Yakavetta]

Connor, Murphy and Il Duce: And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.

Il Duce: Ĭn nōmine Pătris …

Connor: [Showing "veritas" tattooed on left hand] … ĕt Fīliī …

Murphy: [Showing "aequitas" tattooed on right hand] … ĕt Spīritūs Sānctī.

[They execute Yakavetta] 

~From the film The Boondock Saints.

I saw this when I woke up.

Russell Brand admitting to having sex with a teenage girl. (And how fucked up is that? I don't give a damn if it's "legal" under UK Age-Of-Consent laws. Shit's still wrong.)

The sick part is, that's not even what caught my eye; What did was the "Author of 'How to become a Christian in 7 days.'"

#1 If Russell Brand was actually a Believer (especially the kind he's claiming to be) he would have come to understand that what he did was wrong on multiple fronts. 

I mean, you can Start with that he himself said "Forced" and that she had to physically defend herself to make him stop. I think that's sexual assault at a minimum, but more to the point it's not just illegal, it's morally wrong. No means No.

#2 let's look at this from the perspective of the kind of Christian that Brand is trying to tout himself as: The girl in question was not his wife, or even Engaged or having intention to be. Biblically, that's Fornication, which is a Sin. He's all but bragging about it.

#3 He's not sorry, there's no repentance, not even the perfunctory "I'm forgiven, thank you Jesus" kind of garbage that Evangelicals in these kinds of circumstances are known for.

Mr. "How to Become a Christian in 7 days" isn't even mailing it in.

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. ~Baba, from The Kite Runner.

I don't think These Fucking People are beating the allegations that they serve and worship Baal.

These idiots are all about "Insert Tab A into Slot B" or crossing legal T's and dotting legal I's, the "Jots and Tittles" that Jesus talked about, pretty much...but they ignore the deeper meanings and spiritual purposes and weightier matters of the Law because they don't care about any of that. They're not in this for a relationship with the divine, or even for Salvation from some real or imagined Damnation. No, that's not it! What they want is legalistic cover for their abuse, bullying, cheating and lying and the kind of fuck-fuck games that they play with each other.

In far too many cases, as Doug Wilson tells on himself here, their real "god" is some kind of secular politics or some sort of control or power in a very temporal and worldly fashion.

The religiosity just ends up being one big damned excuse.

I mean, Jesus literally warned about this shit! Multiple times, even! What more do you want!

And more than that, to take on Brand's premise directly, OK, 7 days?

As if it's "Instant Christian, just add water?"

According to what I was taught, one can have studied the Bible and this and that for 50 years and NOT be "Saved."

Or, one can have said the Sinner's Prayer five minutes ago and BE Saved.

Except as with most such things it's not quite that arbitrary or simple.

[Caprica-Cavil and Galactica-Cavil are in an airlock, about to be executed]

Caprica-Cavil: Is there a Resurrection Ship within range?

Galactica-Cavil: Yes, brother. But first we're gonna die in a vacuum.

Caprica-Cavil: There's a 170 foot long launch tube in front of us. We might die of our injuries before we get to the vacuum.

Galactica-Cavil: I don't like you.

Caprica-Cavil: I understand that.

Galactica-Cavil: Do you really believe it was a mistake to attack the humans?

Caprica-Cavil: Rather intensely, yes.

Galactica-Cavil: You know that when we download amongst the others your strange ideas will be shouted down.

Caprica-Cavil: Ideas always seem strange until you try them on, brother. We had a temper-tantrum in the form of a cataclysm because we wanted them to treasure us, the Ones, more than humanity. More than their own history and blood.

Galactica-Cavil: We didn't want to be loved. We wanted to be treated fairly.

Caprica-Cavil: We wanted to be held to a bosom. To be petted and perfumed and told we were the princes of the universe.

Galactica-Cavil: Yes, well if the humans were gone-

Caprica-Cavil: Our parents would mourn them. They'd love them more anyway.

Galactica-Cavil: I'm going to see to it that you get boxed. And then I'm going to prepare to wipe out humanity once and for all.

Caprica-Cavil: The anticipation is very unpleasant.

Galactica-Cavil: Yes.

[Caprica-Cavil offers his hand, Galactica-Cavil looks at it and accepts it. Galactica-Cavil closes his eyes while Caprica-Cavil keeps looking. They are then airlocked.]

~From Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Jesus Himself talked about stuff like this a lot, the central issues here are belief and faith, of course.

The actual issue here is that Salvation...faith...will, in due course, become evident through action.

That part isn't negotiable. If you really have, or had, faith in God...any interpretation thereof...it's gonna leave a mark. It will affect how you conduct yourself! This is true of both me and my partner, and often doesn't work in our favor...because that's not how believing in stuff even works.

And Russell Brand is still the same fucking guy. He isn't walking the walk, he's not doing anything but talking. Dude is facing trial for rape in the UK and I'm here to tell you (having been there) everybody finds the Lord when they think they might go to jail.

It's performative bullshit, trying to get something, either to beat the charges or have an easier time while locked up.

And it's the same way with this "Trump reads the Bible" bullshit.

These idiots think if they can get somebody with authority or political power to spew their crap they'll magically compel more people to be like them, or "believe" as they do, or whatever.

These people are unconcerned with the whole person, they just want to see people have to act like they do and say the bullshit that they do and dishonestly fawn over them and kiss their ass.

They'd bow down to the Image Of The Beast if doing so got them what they think they want.

I don't preach a social Gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Because it's about the brand, marketing, making sure their preachers get the offering plate full and not those "Woke" Catholics down the street. It's all crap, in the service of very worldly goals. They don't care about God or Jesus. These people would be godless Communists or even worship demons if it got them privilege. 

It's not about God or religion or the Law or right and wrong, they're just screwing for advantage, looking for the Death Star Plans to blow up the giant space station that they see as other guy's rationalizations. They don't even understand people really believe stuff.

[Darth Vader is choking a Rebel Officer]
Stormtrooper: [to Vader] The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.
Darth Vader: [to Rebel] Where are those transmissions you intercepted? What have you done with those plans?
Rebel Captain: [Gasping for breath] We intercepted no transmissions. This is a consular ship. We're on a diplomatic mission...
Darth Vader: If this is a consular ship, where is the Ambassador? [crushes the officer's neck, then throws him against the wall] Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans, and bring me the passengers. I want them alive!

~From Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

These Fucking People, these MAGA "Nationalist" Idiocracy types think Liberals are Liberals because Barack Obama or Bill and Hillary Clinton or the Southern Poverty Law Center or some shit told them to be. I mean, same goes for their view of conservatives or Republicans but since these people, on the sole basis of numbers, dominate those philosophies and have taken them over...those of us who actually believed in conservatism for any reason besides using it as a cover for bigotry and stealing just get lumped in with the "Left" because we're too inconvenient to face and that's all there is to it.

It was quite the shock to my partner back in January or so, to find out that she's a "Liberal" simply by dint of education and having the kind of job where things have to be done a certain way and was thus seen by her relatives a somebody fit only to exploit and use, same as it was for me back in 2008 when conspiracy theories and racism crossed every line I ever imagined having. 

She didn't understand me at the time.

But now she does.

And this shit has only gotten worse since.

"Christian Nationalism" is actually neither Christian nor giving a fuck about the actual nation you already have.

If you want to believe in any of those things for real, or anything else, sooner or later you're going to have to fight for them.

Слава Україна!

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

Seven

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.

Repenting Not (Image Of The Beast, Seven.)

 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.

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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.

So the Iranians are mocking the shit out of Pete Keg-Breath and his alcoholism again.

Like, literally we are the debauched idiots all of our current enemies accuse us of being, at this point.

And these idiots think getting Trump to read the Bible is some kind of massive win. (It's not. Even him Believing would not be. The Word says even the Demons 'Believe' and tremble.)

I was gonna write about that but then I saw this shit about some idiot Republican influencer...Brilyn Hollyhand (also what the fuck kind of a boy's name is that??) acting all offended because a hypothetical 12-year-pld girl could travel to get an abortion. Also not one damn word about the rapist (because that's what such a case would be, rape) nor about anybody but the kid being responsible or held to account for this situation. I saw this and I'm like "Fuck you, asshole!"

I'm sorry but there's nothing "Left" about my disgust for this shit. According to how I was taught any teenage pregnancy is a tragedy. When I was coming up, everybody thought that! I don't give a shit if you're against abortion or not, nobody needs to be in favor of babies having babies and if you don't understand that or understand why? Fuck You, too.

I don't give a shit if you're an idiot far-right 18-year-old or not, if it's crossed your mind to do that type of shit you need to be in jail. I didn't go around thinking about that type of shit when I was that age.

I'm halfway responsible for a kiddo myself, she's a lesbian and doesn't believe in any of this shit and if something like that happened to her? 

Well, it's her Choice how she deals with that part of the problem (which is the whole damned point.) As for the dude? I'm an armed veteran, my partner has rage issues and if they're an adult?? Dude would be lucky to make it to jail. 

This has been a conservative point of view. 

Not only that, but this type of shit...even like, waiting up with guns after a first date and shit to make sure kid didn't have any problems and any potential partners understood the gravity of the situation...is something we discussed literally years ago.

Children are to be protected, even...in fact especially...from that kind of harm. 

There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. ~Baba, from The Kite Runner.

This isn't difficult, yo.

I'm sorry, but if a young girl turns up pregnant in a place like *Checks Notes* Iran?? Not only are the cops getting called (along with probably a bunch of other agencies and groups, armed and otherwise) but they won't be the only ones investigating who did it (because the men of the family will be dealing with matters their way too) and if the culprit turns up dead before the cops get to him? Probably not gonna be much of an investigation of that mess. Those people are old-school and over there shit like that starts blood feuds and that is not a joke. Arabic and Muslim folks take this stuff serious.

The great Unsaid here is that the reason these CHUDs want Patriarchy without protection or responsibility is, very likely, because they want to do all type of bad shit and not face the logical and obvious serious consequences for it.

I've seen Americans...mostly American men at that...treat rape and sexual assault as jokes. Yes, including the rape of *Checks Notes* Men. 

I used to see all type of memes, signs, T-shirts and shit that said "Pedophiles will be dealt with by Smith & Wesson" and shit like that. Such used to be especially common among conservative men. But now?? If you see a dude wearing a shirt that says something like that, they're probably a liberal or at least a Democrat or Never-Trump Republican.

Il Duce: You people have been chosen to reveal our existence to the world. You will witness what happens here today, and you will tell of it later. All eyes to the front. [Gently to a woman in front with her eyes turned down] You must watch dear. It'll all be over soon.

Connor: Now you will receive us.

Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.

Connor: We do not want your tired and sick.

Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim.

Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us.

Murphy: With every breath, we shall hunt them down.

Connor: Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies.

Murphy: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.

Connor: These are not polite suggestions. These are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.

Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.

Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it!

Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish.

[Murphy and Conner join II Duce behind Yakavetta]

Connor, Murphy and Il Duce: And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.

Il Duce: Ĭn nōmine Pătris …

Connor: [Showing "veritas" tattooed on left hand] … ĕt Fīliī …

Murphy: [Showing "aequitas" tattooed on right hand] … ĕt Spīritūs Sānctī.

[They execute Yakavetta] ~From the film The Boondock Saints.

The reason that changed was Trump.

I was there, in 2015, it's like a switch flipped damn near overnight.

Same with last year when it came out that the Epstein files wasn't all liberals and shit, and in fact most of the evidence pointed to Trump in some way and all that Q-Anon shit pretty much instantly died.

Protecting kids and women the old-school way used to be a conservative thing, and liberals called the cops. 

Now? 

It's been a complete and entirely bad-faith changeover.

Pretty much anybody who takes offense to any kind of anti-Pedo screed is very likely to be MAGA at this point. Anybody defending anybody that's in the Epstein files, likewise, has so far been MAGA. Hell, MAGA brought up Bill Clinton. Liberals said "Lock him up too! We're not a personality cult!"

"Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts" is pretty much the Republican campaign slogan now.

And it's Evangelicals and Republicans who keep bringing up debauchery and perversion. Not as things to be against, but in service of their policy goals. Including, evidently, a lot of shit they don't feel safe talking about in public or where somebody might see just yet.

These Fucking People are not beating my allegation that they want human puppy mills for slave labor and war. There is no other reason but that or sexual perversion to say that children should have children.

And they'd rather bow down to the Image Of The Beast than simply "Love Thy Neighbor."

Imma tap the sign; Either you believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either gonna fight for it or you're not.

Слава Україна!

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

Six

I don't preach a social Gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Selfish Nation (Image Of The Beast, Six.)

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou does thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when thou does alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which sees in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

And when you pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which sees in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knows what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in Earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which sees in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

~Matthew 6:1-2

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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. ~Baba, from The Kite Runner.

I saw this crap last night.

Some idiot Chick-fil-A manager engaging in a loud public prayer in his restaurant during the lunch rush. Like, fucking why, dude??

Saw another goddamn idiot trying to say states need to ban adultery...as if that wouldn't land pretty much every Republican Man in jail at some point?? Also what the fuck does that even do when These Fucking People all follow a confessed, proud adulterer??

One has to wonder how these idiots really see the world or if any of them believe a word that comes out of their own mouths...but then I've seem these kind of people get positively Soviet in terms of delusions and self-deception when they get called on their bullshit and can't lie to somebody else anymore.

Then, a little bit later, I added to the god-level ration on some idiot Republican chick whose Threads feed looked for all the world like she was trying to catfish people over to her OnlyFans and ya know, she'd likely be a Communist if being that got her more views.

(Ya know, at least the porn ladies on Blue Sky are pretty honest about what they are, just sayin.')

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."

Also, Paula White, literally saying she self-inserts when reading the Bible...and I can't decide if that's heresy or mental illness but my ex-wife used to do something like that pretty often but to her dubious credit I don't think she ever went that far!

These fucking people don't believe in anything...except their own narcissism.

The Truth is most of these nuts can't see anything but themselves.

It's all rules for everybody else, shit, they don't care if they get stomped on by the jackboots too as long as they're the ones holding the shock-wand in the dystopia. Seems like that doesn't work too well when it all comes crashing down.

But they don't care, they just want to feel powerful for a minute. Their entire social meme is that they should get to have their boot on somebody else's throat before they, too, die a horrible death.

And their own behavior is working hard on ensuring that exactly this will come to pass.

You do not abuse the people carrying the guns if you want to have a long career as an autocrat. This should be perfectly well obvious and I say that as a veteran myself.

I don't preach a social Gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Like if somebody handed me a mostly-empty tray with that kind of crap on it, I'd throw the shit in the trash. Fuck these motherfuckers. And RFK Jr. wants to *Checks Notes* screw up this situation worse??

I literally do not understand the thought process here. It seems like a hell of a way to see the world. I get that these people are trying to beat some idea of obedience into everybody else but it's not working. Seems like they might wanna back off before they make it worse on themselves. I don't know, I was never that kind of conservative.

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.

This is not the behavior of people who think they're gonna be around for a long time, this is assholes, bullies and cheaters trying to get their last kicks in before they know somebody's big brother is gonna show up and beat the ever-living fuck out of them.

Like, if These Fucking People are so right, or so righteous, why are they all drunk or high all the goddamned time??

Why is this even a question somebody like me has to ask? I'm barely a liberal, I'm basically a conservative Democrat and there's a reason for that. Secular liberalism is not rising to the occasion and dealing with this bullshit. In fact, people like Chuck and Hakeem are making it worse to the point of being enablers by doing nothing at all!

Some people would rather bow down before the Image Of The Beast than grow some balls.

So, why aren't the Other Conservatives asking these kinds of questions??

(Oh, that's why.)

I mean, seriously, how the hell do these fucking people have no self-respect whatsoever??

The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calendar for five years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and all the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food. Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice - difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke. ~The Man, from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (Film.)

And like I said, the worst part of this shit is that none of it's even working.

America has effectively shouted itself into Oblivion and off the world stage (except as a dangerous joke) and way too many of these morons don't even notice. And when they do...because eventually it's going to hit them...I think one hell of a lot of these people will destroy themselves. I'd say even at this late stage something like 20% of America has basically made Trump their identity. 20% of America is still to the tune of 60 million or so people.

For comparison, losing One Million people during COVID-19 damned near wrecked our shit. If 60 Million of us drink ourselves to death, OD or go full Cormac McCarthy's The Road because they cannot react rationally to the massive global levels of comeuppance that we're already facing, and they cannot admit they fucked up...well that's going to be a terrible damn problem, isn't it?? 

Or as I've said before, it's like The Walking Dead, but with idiots.

The scary thing is the Zombies may have been more intelligent.

Like, daily, I'm in the mode of thinking what in the "It's Got Electrolytes" bullshit is this??

The trouble is our country's operating system was designed by our Founders with a certain amount of courage and intelligence as baselines, and right now all that is lacking.

Christianity, likewise, requires a certain amount of intelligence or at least ability to follow instructions so as to avoid becoming the same basic-ass Unga Bunga religiosity those same people used to routinely condemn.

Trump didn't do that, Christians have done it to themselves by taking the Self as their God.

America has become the Nation Of The Self.

It all comes down to one question, really. Either you believe in freedom or you don't.

So what are we going to do about it??

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

Five

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.

Abomination (Image Of The Beast, Five.)

When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so reads, let him understand)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:15-27

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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft....When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. ~Baba, from The Kite Runner.

Like I said in my last post, I'm a man and I choose the goddamned Bear over other men, too.

Is it possible to order up MORE Bears?

Like I said Imma tell my partner she should dye her hair, although in her case a serious RBF and a man-hating reputation directed specifically at these dudes (Seriously a bunch of these kind of guys at our old job hated my partner 20 years ago) usually works.

But if she dyes her hair? Maybe it'll work against these idiots like wearing a Hijab, but she won't have to submit to male dominance or even imply doing so. It's worth a shot, the next time she has trouble with some dude, Imma suggest it. We were on Third Shift, once, we lived to screw with people.

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 have a partner because I treat her like a person, it's pretty much that damned simple.

Why is that so hard for these kind of "Men?"

Seriously though, the level of Narcissism of these guys is absolutely off the hook, and for no damn reason that I can see, either.

Oh, right, cuz every once in awhile these Jabronis find themselves a woman who'll carry water for this bullshit, no matter how stupid it is. So, they see that and they think everyone should do it.

Fuck all that.

We need to all start telling these idiots "No."

And mean it. And be prepared to back up that "No" with legal and physical and spiritual Force.

Like my friend pointed out, apparently the fact that Jesus called Peter "The Rock" upon which He would build His Church completely escapes these morons. But then, I'm here to tell you from personal experience that These Fucking People don't read the Lord's Word anymore than they read anything else.

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.

These Fucking People need to be told to Go Fuck Themselves. It's as simple as that. There's no kinder way to put it at this point.

Anything less than violent refusal will be taken as license by these idiots to continue their bullshit.

That's one of the lessons I learned from my ex-wife and her church people when things got really bad, and that was one of the few times in my life since I was in the military that I've ever felt the need to carry or even have ready access to a weapon on a regular basis.

Some idiots just think they are entitled to not take "No" for an answer, and frankly I found that a hell of a lot scarier than being shot at. Bullets only kill the body. These idiots want to destroy your Soul.

Seriously these fucking people have now gotten it into their heads that they can abuse anybody they damned well see fit.

Imma just point out that historically, that shit does not end well.

Yes makin' mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep, Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap; An' hustling drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit Is five times better business than parading in full kit. Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, how's your soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'heroes" when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'heroes" when the drums begin to roll. ~Tommy, Rudyard Kipling

And don't think the fucking troops don't know that, either. They will only take so much, same as the rest of us.

The thing is, I don't think the idiots making these decisions care. I think they think they're making some grand point in the name of Assholery and honestly, I think they think the World Ends when They do. You'll notice that these motherfuckers act like Trump is never going to die, and like they never will. They act like things will continue as they are for Eternity.

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.

They won't, that's simply physics and spirituality, the metaphysics of the Universe, right or wrong.

That's not conservatism, it's mental illness, it's straight Narcissism. Again, I don't have any other way to put this.

This is basically 70 million motherfuckers, most of them "Men" all thinking they're going to be the Abomination Of Desolation that Jesus described in the Book of Matthew someday...and taking it as a fucking complement.

They don't even understand that person is one of the villains of Scripture.

These idiots would rather bow before the Image Of The Beast than give up whatever little bit of Power they think they have.

And they think they all have a right to act like this.

They don't.

But if you want this crap to stop, sooner or later it's going to come down to a fight.

Soon.

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The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. ~Ronald Reagan

Four

Indiana Jones: Half the German Army's on our tail, and you want me to go to Berlin? Into the Lion's den?

Henry Jones, Sr.: Yes! The only thing that matters, is the Grail.

Indiana Jones, Sr.: What about Marcus?

Henry Jones, Sr.: Marcus would agree with me!

Indiana Jones: Two selfless martyrs. Jesus Christ- [Henry Sr. slaps Indy]

Henry Jones, Sr.: That's for blasphemy! The quest for the Grail is not archaeology; it's a race against evil! If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the Earth! Do you understand me?

Indiana Jones: This is an obsession, Dad! I never understood it. Never! Neither did Mom.

Henry Jones, Sr.: Oh yes she did. Only too well. Unfortunately, she kept her illness from me. Until all I could do was mourn her. ~From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.