And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment ascends for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, said the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. ~Revelation 14:1-15
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Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me, it's not my family
In your head, in your head they are fighting
With their tanks, and their bombs, and their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head they are crying
In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
What's in your head? In your head?
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie-ie, oh
~Zombie, The Cranberries
Apparently, now we're back to "Christian Nationalists" trying to take over remote areas.
As if that shit hasn't collapsed in embarrassing scandal and shame every single damned time somebody tries it??
They want to kick out anybody who isn't some kind of "Heritage American" whatever that even
means. These fucking people are the Dusty Deevers, Ryan Walters crowd, the ones in Tennessee keep having those kind of guys from Oklahoma over, anyway...in case you wonder where the fools in Oklahoma are trying to go with this shit. Because apparently
already having a Baptist church on about every city block simply isn't
good enough for these motherfuckers.
So, one has to ask, what the hell is?
Basically, These Fucking People's answer to that question is to just keep exiling or killing people until they have what they think is a "Perfect" society which means immanentizing some kind of far-right Eschaton.
Pro tip from somebody who's read the Bible cover-to-cover multiple times; The Lord's Word says Man is not able to be perfected.
Man's true Nature, Humanity's problem, in effect, is that Sin is intrinsic to our being. We all struggle with the Darkness and the Light inside of ourselves.
And lots of fucking people honestly don't know which is which, because on the one hand they're stupid and on the other hand American Christianity has a long history of glorifying savagery for its own sake.
Basically, they want to turn people into Zombies for their particular fucked up interpretation, and then claim absolute power for themselves.
Don't ask what they'd do to get there, you don't want to know.
I mean, you want my honest take? Ryan Walters basically strikes me as not even
one Zombie Apocalypse away from being Negan in
The Walking Dead. He doesn't give a shit about Christianity, he wants to impose whatever line of bullshit he thinks will make him the "boss" with the least amount of effort...and he doesn't care if it's legal or right or even if he wrecks his own line of shit in the process. Like most small men, he just wants to feel like a Big Man for a few minutes, how much that
costs never enters his brainpan.
It's not Trump that scares me.
It's These Fucking People.
Left to their own devices, Trump and his clown-car of cabinet picks and congressional Republicans will spend most of their time fighting among themselves with palace intrigues that run amok, pass some tax cuts, and spend most of the rest of the time tripping over their own dicks, while they manage to provide no leadership in any crises that happen.
They will happen, they're already happening.
Trouble is, it's these idiots that are the crisis, and Trump has spent a decade promising these fucking people the Moon for free, and recently got Elon to throw in Mars just because he thinks it sounds good.
They have no idea how to get there and no plans to actually
try.
Going somewhere like Mars would cost a fuck-ton of money, for one thing, and there's not much there unless you're interested in doing science for its own sake.
These fucking people don't care about that.
We are collectively just not the people we were in 1969 when we went to the Moon. Look at our politics for fuck's sake!
And a big damn part of why is that Republicans have spent forever...explicitly so for the last 30 years...telling White idiots that they can get rich while sitting on the couch getting fat, eating cake, so long as they let Republicans steal old people's Social Security and poor people's welfare...which by the way, do not even add up to very much money, Republicans just hate social safety nets.
And if you don't think their next move is going to be stealing from the big kahuna in the Federal budget (the Military) next, you have another thing coming.
They just want to talk real big for the sake of talking real big and impressing the idiot mob, then use all these idiots and all of their contradictory bullshit to rip apart America, break up the country, loot Federal coffers, sell what they can for parts and leave the rest to rot and then disappear to places like Dubai and Russia where somebody will protect them and their stolen wealth from the rest of us.
Like, seriously, just for one example there's the "Sex is only for procreation" Christian Chuds and then there's the Incels who basically think that Trump is going to give them each a free female sex slave.
One of these things is not like the other one.
As far as I know, rape has
always been illegal and considered wrong. The things these fucking people want to do...either way...cut at the most basic level of what it takes to even
have a civilization, like family units and shit like that.
And it mostly, I think, comes down to the fact that people have had it way too easy for way too long and they've gotten stupid.
Not just stupid, but cruel and evil, to the point that given the chance to enact any of their bullshit, Men On The Internet would pretty much be as bad as (Or even worse than) the Taliban.
And for no better reason than they think it's funny.
They're going to start fucking over health care next, because a lot of these fucking idiots worship Eugenics and no matter how much woo woo you dress it up with, that's what it's really about.
Again, these people's objective is to destroy America, make no mistake about it.
Just look at what they're actually saying.
We have a population of 330 MILLION people. Just to use Dr. Ooze here as an example: "Two or three percent" of a given population might not seem like much...but just losing
ONE MILLION people during COVID-19 (Actually not even that, more like the first 100,000 or so during the height of the Pandemic) utterly overwhelmed American mortuary systems and had us burying people in mass graves and storing corpses in freezer trucks.
For some reason literally nobody wants to think about that, and by the way hundreds of thousands of medical professionals quit because of it. I personally know several who retired as soon as they could, or who do other things now, either because they had to get out for their own health reasons or because it was too traumatic.
We've got a guy like that where I work, he's a retired psychologist. Doing counseling and shit during the Pandemic overwhelmed him and caused his own mental breakdown.
Now, consider what a fascism-induced breakdown of government, not to mention a Civil War that these fucking people's voters want, is gonna do to all type of other professional people in the government and the military?
Yeah, I get it, a lot of motherfuckers have been basically brainwashed into hating anybody who knows anything or who has done anything of consequence...but come on, those people are still people no matter what, aren't they??
You'd think.
But that would require thinking that a lot of people who are just used to getting their narcissism jerked off by entertainment and politics (but I repeat myself here) don't want to do.
That would require people who've been primed by a generation of Ayn Rand being preached in politics and religion to let go of their selfishness...which they have basically been taught is the highest virtue.
That would mean people would have to cut out their racist and sexist bullshit and other petty bigotries.
And way, way the hell too many of us don't want to do that.
Think about it, how in the fuck did a country as advanced as this one have the bottom drop out of its education systems so hard that 21% of people are illiterate and half the population can barely read a book to their kids??
My fear is that it's going to take a war or two, people having no choice but to witness suffering and death...and stupidity actually becoming dangerous to themselves...before we, as a people in a now-sundered nation fucking get it. They're gonna have to get saved by Black soldiers and treated by female doctors and have to work with Latino construction and agricultural workers and have to do survival-level labor and learn how to survive this shit from Jewish, Muslim and LGBT people, among other things.
If you're lucky enough to be a survivor, because you cannot maintain a society off of mass delusion and mass stupidity.
Because yes, that's what it's gonna come to.
Remember the whole big argument about "Does a woman feel safer with a Bear in the woods, or with a Man?"
A majority of women chose the Bear.
So here's my question for the world:
Which would you feel safer around?
A bunch of American Idiots or a horde of Zombies??
You pick.
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Sure, we were unprepared, our tools, our training, everything I just talked about, all one class-A, gold-standard clusterfuck, but the weapon that really failed wasn’t something that rolled off an assembly line. It’s as old as…I don’t know, I guess as old as war. It’s fear, dude, just fear and you don’t have to be Sun freaking Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day... “Shock and Awe”? Perfect name, “Shock and Awe”! But what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t! That’s what happened that day outside New York City, that’s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn’t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They’re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid! ~Todd Waino, World War Z (Novel by Max Brooks)
Seven
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
Bonus Post
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.
Remember, Man doesn't get to choose who gets Saved.
