Where do these people get off? (Repent! Six.)

(In a classroom. The Homeboys are getting high.)

Wangler: Bitches. All women is bitches.

Markstrom: Yeah, man, we don't know Mavis is cheating, man.

Keane: I know.

(Kareem Said comes in.)

Said: That boy is 16 years old, he's in for 20, which means he can be out in 6. He could be back on the street by the time he's 22. He can still have a life!

Keane: Get the fuck out of here, Kenny.

Wangler: What?

Keane: You heard me, kid. I said get the fuck goin'!

Markstrom: Come on, Kenny, let's give him some privacy. Later. (He and Wangler leave.)

Said: You wanna rage at the faith? You fear the fire, my brother. Fear the fire! I am done with you.

(Keane collapses, suffering a flashback)

Arabic Voiceover: Allah-U-Akbar!

Keane: Reverend. I do. I do feel the fire. Save me.

Said: No. You saved me. (Said places his Khufi on Keane's head.)

(Hill narrating.)

Hill: 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. 'Cause you're so focused on Him, you can barely see them from the corners of your eyes. You lose sight of them. ~From the HBO Series Oz S1.E3 "God's Chillin.'"

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
For I hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. ~Matthew 25:31-45

I saw this last night.

Trump, again, trying to make the World Cup all about himself.

Just sort of worked out that way that in my feed it was right above where I'd asked, because of a post that I saw with some CHUD asking a woman a bunch of ridiculously personal questions as a prelude to a defense of James Dobson "Just where do these people get off, anyway?? So Imma ask again, where the fuck do these fucking people get off, anyway??

Not least because all this White Conservative Christian Male religiosity bullshit seems all about helping abusive, evil, irresponsible "Men" avoid accountability or even basic responsibility to other people, especially women or their own kids. I see this shit every day.

I see it in how other men in her life have treated my partner.

And it pisses me the fuck off.

(For the record, if we're being honest, some women--especially conservative and religious White women--aren't any damn better.)

We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley

But I'm a Man and I'm calling out the "Men" here.

I also saw this, just before I started writing.

One of the Spanish players, a refugee from Ghana, gave his mother his World Cup championship medal, making a point of sharing his moment on the world stage with his mama.

This Is The Way.

[The Mandalorian brings together the entire Mandalorian covert after Carson Teva makes a surprise visit and asks him to help Greef Karga's situation on Nevarro when the New Republic won't lift a finger]

Mando: Now, many of you don't know Greef Karga. And those that do fought against him when you rescued me from his ambush many cycles ago on the streets of Nevarro. Since then, he's had a change of heart and has risked his life to save mine as well as the Foundling in my charge. [Grogu coos] I stand before you to petition an intervention. To help rescue Nevarro before it's too late. I am in no position to ask any more of you. However... However, the enemy that decimated this very covert were Imperials, not Greef Karga's bounty hunters. Greef Karga is now a High Magistrate and has offered me a tract of land on his independent world. Perhaps it is time for us to live in the light once again on a planet where we are welcome. So our culture may flourish and our children can feel what it is to play in the sunlight.

Armorer: Does anyone else wish to speak?

Mando: It's up to them now.

Paz Vizsla: I do. I was there on Nevarro that night. I fought against Greef Karga and his hunters. I saw my brothers and sisters fall at the hands of the Imperial butchers that hunted us in the sewers. I saw many die to save the life of [gestures to Grogu] this one, tiny Foundling. And now we are asked to sacrifice yet again. The question we should be asking ourselves is, "Why? Why should we lay our lives down yet again?" Because we are Mandalorians! I have had my disagreements with this man, but he risked his life to save my son. And Bo-Katan Kryze did not give up on my child's life even when the rest of us did. These two are asking us to take up arms in the name of a brighter future, and I for one will take up arms to fight by their side. [Mandalorians agree] This is the Way!

Mandalorians: This is the Way.

Armorer: This is the Way.

~From The Mandalorian S3.E5 "The Pirate."

I don't know what more needs to be said here except this is how you Human properly. It says in the Book of Exodus "Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother."

Why is this shit so hard for so many of these fucking people??

And while we're at it, if an African Refugee kid, as the post says the son of parents who walked 2,000 miles across the Sahara Desert, can rise to be a fucking world champion, why do I see so many American men that can't even be bothered to go to work, that won't pay their child support, that won't treat the women in their lives correctly, who think they can ask massively inappropriate questions of any woman that presents herself in public life??

I don't know that I've ever even heard of a man being asked what their "Body count" is!

And somehow all of these people, most but not all of them men, are basically the same basic-ass type of White Conservative Evangelical??

I mean, I tend to think I'm a fairly average guy, and I can't wait for this goddamned Age Of Mediocrity and Narcissism to come to an end.

And the absolute truth is, one hell of a lot of these fucking people see Trump as their icon, their protector, if not their god.

We are all fortunate that the rest of the world...doesn't.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

In my view, a main part of the fucking problem here is that American conservative Christianity/Evangelicalism keeps enabling this fucking bullshit, and specifically trying to keep fueling White Male Narcissism besides that!

The world is changing, has changed, it changed 50 fucking years ago. Hell, you could argue it changed 100 years ago and honestly at the end of the day, the biggest driver for why that is so has been Capitalism, not Liberalism. 

The way things are, women need jobs just so families can survive. That anybody would think otherwise in today's world just doesn't compute. And if you need a job you need a voice in politics and society in order to be able to simply protect yourself.

Hell, a lot of dudes I know don't work.

And that's before the fact that a lot of dudes don't seem to understand concepts like faithfulness or fidelity or treating a girlfriend or wife properly in the first damn place! And that, too, is before you get to the idea that Other People in general should be treated correctly.

So there's simply put, a lot of single mothers and single women out there in general, and too many men don't care to acknowledge their part in why this is so.

Let alone the fact that a lot of people with no home training seem to expect Wealth Without Work these days.

In fact, a lot of these morons seem to spend the most time shitting all over those they claim to care about, which is specifically another behavior modeled by Trump. Nobody has to put up with this bullshit.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

And way the fuck too many people seem to regard even basic humanity or morality as Partisan or at least relative.

Actually, a lot of people apparently on both sides of the alleged line want to use their voice in politics and society primarily to defend an alleged "right" to be assholes.

So in the end it's not just "Where the fuck do these people get off?"

It's "What the fuck is wrong with people" in general!

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

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

The Truth is simple. Man tries to make it complicated so that he does not have to Obey it.

You gotta want to be Saved.

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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35

Five

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2

Small Dick Energy (Repent! Five.)

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35

...

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

...

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thundering, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! ~Revelation 8 (KJV)

I saw this last night, Andrew Tate and his brother got arrested in Miami on a UK extradition warrant for human trafficking and rape.

Good.

And they managed to get busted while Andrew Tate was wearing the sort of girly shoes my freaking partner won't wear.

But, ya know, for the goddamned trillionth time, I guess that totally tracks with These Fucking People.

My first like, serious post about Tate was in December of 2022 when his dumb ass got worked over on Twitter by Greta Thunberg, and honestly it wasn't even entirely about him. It was titled (and about) These Fucking People's "Small Dick Energy" which I took directly from Greta Thunberg's insult to Andrew Tate.

We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley

None of these guys are ever beating the allegations. 

They're all massive bundles of male insecurity on a good day, and a hell of a lot of these guys come off as Closeted-As-Fuck now if they didn't before.

And then of course there's Peter Theil, who is gay and apparently keeps giving "Lectures" about the Antichrist without ever looking in a damn mirror.

As I said he's apparently unaware of what the End Times nuts say the Mark Of The Beast will be (A computer chip) or that the Beast of Revelation would get the technology from *Checks Notes* a big-time tech guy like him or that *Checks Notes Again* you'd need things like *Checks Notes Yet Again* Data centers all over the fucking place to run the shit, not to mention to bring about a bunch of the other effects of Revelations if you go through the latter half of the narrative and the Biblical Book itself where you have things like all the plants being burned up or all the water being poisoned.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

The sad part is, these guys are starting to come off as wanting to live in the "New Babylon" of the Left Behind books, which is never well described but always kind of insinuated as a Middle Eastern equivalent to, say, the fantasy Berlin of the future Hitler wanted, but with more of a Saddam Hussein affect, perhaps? 

I'll note that LaHaye and Jenkins both  insinuate at points (perhaps as a way of marking their timeline as different from the present realities of that time and even today) that there s a thriving gay subculture both in "New Babylon" and in other places in the Middle East.

Yeah, these guys think about gay stuff more than gay people do.

Eli Sunday: Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston!  

Daniel Plainview: I'd be happy to work with you.

Eli Sunday: You would? Yes, yes, of course. That’s wonderful.

Daniel Plainview: But there is one condition for this work.

Eli Sunday: All right.

Daniel Plainview: I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet. I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet, and that God is a superstition.

~From the film There Will Be Blood.

So when I see shit like this (knowing that Communism fell in 1989) and these fucking people's 1950's fetishization in general, I sort of wonder if, sure, they want The John Birch Society, McCarthyism, and all that tight-assed 1950's horseshit, but also with a place where they (and they alone, mind you) can blow off steam and unwind that could, charitably, be called Roy Cohn's House Of Dicks.

These Motherfuckers want the vastly evil, immoral yet high-control society that the 1990's End Times Prophecy narrative says that the Beast of Revelations will create, but they want it for themselves, with them in control and with some kind of capability to wrap all that bullshit in "Christian Nationalism" and hope that nobody will notice.

Remember that, as I've always said, a government that can tell a woman she can't have an Abortion can tell any person that they want that they have to put this computer chip in their right hand.

Let me put it another way. Not only will these people try to say that the Mark Of The Beast and One-World Government is fine when they do it, but when the inevitable happens (Actually, I think it happening already) there will be God's Wrath Deniers who look at all the judgments and plagues and try to find a way to try to blame the "Left." 

Especially if the Beast is Trump or somebody like that. Note that the reason Daniel and Revelation hit pretty close with stuff like this is cults of personality around rulers were normal in the Ancient World.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

Of course if the Rapture really happened and removed all the Truly Faithful and that included a bunch of people they didn't like, watch and see if they wouldn't change that entire doctrine to "They were wrong and God removed all the bad people" in mid-freaking-speech and trust that their Cult-Followers either wouldn't care or wouldn't notice.

And yes, many would at least pretend not to.

The funny yet really stupid part of this whole thing is a big chunk of that Democratic Party that a lot of these clowns hate so much and are obsessed with fucking over for basically no reason is, in effect, a more polite version of the same fucking bullshit.

A lot of Democratic voters know this and are tired of it.

But a lot of Republicans act like even slightly-different Other People existing somehow threatens their ego or their manhood and I can't imagine why, because when I see some of the mealy-mouthed bullshit some of these Anti-DSA Democrats are pushing?? Bro, just go join the Republicans, I never heard of you before you posted this.

A lot of it really is all the same bullshit and power structure and even in our present time it's clearly not working well for America or the world and you can certainly see where, exactly, Revelation (even if only as a condemnation of Empire) would be applicable to the present day. Also if you wonder how all these small-dick Republicans got so much power? Well, some of the "men" among their opposition apparently have Negative Penis.

A lot of this stuff is just male ego and stupid bullshit and that's the same kind of crap that, if you want to get really technical about it, oozes from a lot of Greek and Roman and other ancient mythology. 

A lot of it really is just narcissism but somebody managed to turn it into legend and myth instead of Idiocracy Babylon, which if I had to guess is why these dipshits keep trying to turn everything into mythology now.

And I wonder if that's also where these idiots are getting their constant repressed-gay vibe, too?

Like I said, don't tread on me with that crap.

It's 2026, none of this bullshit should even be necessary.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

It really is that simple.

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[As the four newly-revealed Cylons aboard Galactica struggle to deal with the information, the call to action stations sounds]

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta: [over the loudspeaker] ...Inbound Cylon fleet! I repeat: action stations, action stations. Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill.

Tory Foster: Oh gods... what're we going to do?

Saul Tigh: The ship is under attack. We do our jobs. Report to your stations!

Chief Galen Tyrol: Report to stations?

Saul Tigh: My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be. ~From Battlestar Galactica (2003) S3.E20 "Crossroads, Part 2."

Four

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

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2

Hellfire III (Repent! Four.)

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thundering, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! ~Revelation 8 (KJV)

As if we're not already testing the Wrath of God enough today, I just saw this.

Do these clowns not know how that kind of thing works in real life??

Also, have these fucking people never heard the words "Good order and discipline?"

I served post-Tailhook scandal.

I HAD my first sexual harassment training during Air Force BMT at Lackland Air Force Base in 1993. It would not be the last.

Do these fucking people not realize, this kind of thing would get us kicked out of countries and start wars BY ITSELF?? 

Ya'll don't think the Chinese or the Emiratis or the Filipinos gonna protect their women? Do they think *Checks Notes* that Americans would not??

Hell, do they think women would not protect themselves??

'Cause I've not only already had that discussion....

I've actively shit-canned people with fully-"I know where you live" level threats of violence to people I actually cared about and who I thought understood things like right from wrong and that I taught them better than this...that I'm more than capable of delivering on because of my belief that women should not have to put up with this kind of crap.

Whether it was my partner or anybody else!

This shit ain't right and you shouldn't need somebody like me to tell you that, Period.

 

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."

There's nothing conservative about any of this.

Women are not your sexual property, guys.

Now I fully well realize that Jesse Watters is an utter Chuckle-fuck with no home training whatever, but I can remember when just talking like that would get a dude's ass beat, get him fired from his job, and you never saw that dude again...and it was worse in public life. 

If this is the kind of thing these dudes go around thinking about, no wonder we're getting punked by the Iranians, and we deserve it.

As I've written about before, I used to work with dudes that talked like this at my old job, old and middle-aged White dudes with some level of erectile dysfunction who wouldn't shut up about the one time they solicited certain acts from women of questionable integrity in someplace like Japan or Thailand while they were in the Navy, or whatever.

I did IT work for some of those guys, too. 90% of the time it amounted to just cleaning out all the viruses they would get from porn sites and shit, and it finally got to the point where I instituted a $50 Stupid Tax and a $100 I-Don't-Wanna-See-That-Again Tax and compiled a list of reputable sites that wouldn't fuck their shit up. 

None of it mattered, they'd take the stuff I gave them, ignore it, get their shit infected again, pay the money and do it again. It finally just got to the point where it wasn't worth doing the work.

Quitting was easier than getting these old fools to be responsible for their own behavior and hell, their own damn property that they had in some cases spent considerable amounts of money on. And none of these guys were rich. They were all janitors in a casino.

And I should point out all of these guys were the same crew I've written about, staring Zombie-eyed at the breakroom TV like ADHD kids zonking out on cartoons whenever FOX News was on.

Guess I know where they were getting their attitudes from, huh?

I wonder, when the Hell-fire of God's wrath starts raining down on America directly, will these fucking people repent or will they try and deny that, too, just like they did COVID-19??

Freedom requires belief in Truth.

You think these men, given the full run of their desires, would only abuse Women?? LOL.

The persistent thread of homoeroticism with these dudes should be terrifying the Evangelicals. It isn't. Women aren't the only ones who get sexually assaulted, and at this point Romans 1 can easily be said to describe the American Church.

His Wrath ain't just coming, it's already here.

When is Enough going to be Enough??

You either believe in the Truth or you don't.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

Three

[As the four newly-revealed Cylons aboard Galactica struggle to deal with the information, the call to action stations sounds]

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta: [over the loudspeaker] ...Inbound Cylon fleet! I repeat: action stations, action stations. Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill.

Tory Foster: Oh gods... what're we going to do?

Saul Tigh: The ship is under attack. We do our jobs. Report to your stations!

Chief Galen Tyrol: Report to stations?

Saul Tigh: My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be. ~From Battlestar Galactica (2003) S3.E20 "Crossroads, Part 2."

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2

Hellfire II (Repent! Three.)

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 

~Revelation 8 (KJV)

...

(In a classroom. The Homeboys are getting high.)

Wangler: Bitches. All women is bitches.

Markstrom: Yeah, man, we don't know Mavis is cheating, man.

Keane: I know.

(Kareem Said comes in.)

Said: That boy is 16 years old, he's in for twenty, which means he can be out in 6. He could be back on the street by the time he's 22. He can still have a life!

Keane: Get the fuck out of here, Kenny.

Wangler: What?

Keane: You heard me, kid. I said get the fuck goin'!

Markstrom: Come on, Kenny, let's give him some privacy. Later. (He and Wangler leave.)

Said: You wanna rage at the faith? You fear the fire, my brother. Fear the fire! I am done with you.

(Keane collapses, suffering a flashback)

Arabic Voiceover: Allah-U-Akbar!

Keane: Reverend. I do. I do feel the fire. Save me.

Said: No. You saved me. (Said places his Khufi on Keane's head.)

(Hill narrating.)

Hill: 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. 'Cause you're so focused on him, you can barely see them from the corners of your eyes. You lose sight of them. 

~From the HBO Series Oz S1.E3 "God's Chillin.'"

These pictures are screenshots taken from a video I watched last night. TikTok via Facebook or Threads or some such, taken by the crew of a locomotive engulfed by fire somewhere in Northern Ontario. 

They made it out, but if feels like it was probably a close-run thing.

I took this one off my back deck on Wednesday morning. 

It's not any better today.

Like I just said on Facebook; I'm just sayin' if I was some hypothetical Unsaved non-Believer of Evangelical fantasy who'd never heard the Lord's Word before??

Between that video of damned near literal Hell-fire engulfing that train in northern Canada that I saw last night and the deeds described in what I've seen of the Epstein files, I'm pretty sure I'd at least think Hell and a fair portion of the Old Testament was accurate and true just from that.

 
Same with all the stuff from Daniel about Nebuchadnezzar because America has its own, now.

And, do you really think he wouldn't throw people in a burning fiery furnace if he thought he could get away with it??

Also, a certain percentage of right-wing Christians are still freaking in love with the guy. 

Think about that for a second.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

Just sayin' there's going to come a point where the only goddamned American thing to do is tell These Fucking People "No."

Thanks to the forest fires in Canada, I look out my window and see that there's a sickly Hades-like gray haze over everything.

Climate Change is working up some Biblical-grade consequences all by itself at this point.

Note: And the "Conservatives" want to ignore that, too.

And all the fucking President can be bothered to do is stand there and talk about nonsense and grievances and how he's still mad that he lost an election six fucking years ago. One that, if he really believed he'd won, he shouldn't be President NOW.
That's right, the world is burning and all our leaders wanna talk about is themselves. 

That and some of these people keep posting pictures or videos of themselves that it looks like they figure they're gonna beat off to it later. 

Come on now.

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.

Get the fuck with it and get over yourself, America. 

I don't think God is gonna keep indulging all this garbage much longer.

In the 1990's I was a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement, this started when I was in the Air Force. 

It's a long story and maybe I'll tell how it started sometime, or maybe I won't, but I've already written extensively about the overall sweep of things over the years.

Like what part of "And Hell followed with him" is so damn hard to read?

Kinda feels like we're there, except it's reality.

Not religion, not theology, I can look out my window and see it.

Same with all the conspiracy theories. I was a conservative and a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement in Bill Clinton's America. The gigantic fiasco that was the Y2K conspiracy theory cured me of belief in that crap but I was one of those fucking people long before it was cool and when it would definitely get you laughed at on a bipartisan basis.

That said, it kinda feels like all the bullshit conspiracy theories of 2017-2020 like Pizzagate and Q-Anon were actually These Fucking People telling on themselves, doesn't it??

And the thing is (and I've also written about this, too) I knew 30+ years ago that all the far-right Militia nuts and shit were fucking scumbags, I had a few altercations with them in fact, one while I was literally IN UNIFORM on my way back to the base, it happened not too far from here in fact.

When these guys don't wash their hands or wipe their ass and they're bragging about that...or they look like something that fell out of a can of Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut, even before the fact that every word that comes out of their damn mouths is a lie, that should tell you something.

When some billionaire or politician looks like a guy you wouldn't leave your Cat alone with much less your kid, that should in fact be a fucking clue.

Why the fuck do we tolerate this bullshit, America??

Why do we keep elevating the worst of us, and people who are by any conventional understanding both Godless and utterly fucking stupid, to positions of Power??

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And pretty soon you're not gonna have a choice but to decide.

What's it gonna take to make people give a shit again??

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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2