For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, RACA, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
But I say unto you, That whosoever look on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou cannot make one hair white or black.
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Give to him that ask thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ~Matthew 5:17-48
I'm a tell you something right now, and make no mistake about it;
I'm getting really tired of incompetent, mediocre, narcissistic White People who think they're entitled to an audience and to Power. For one thing, you are not. I'm even more tired of these idiots and their rock-solid certainties that they are entitled to...whatever, something something Gazpacho. I mean, seriously, this bullshit makes no sense to me.
People have a right not to care, a right not to participate, a literal Constitutional right to not have to follow your beliefs or your religion. People have a right to not have to put up with yo bullshit.
It's not "Bigotry" for people to just want to be people and not be made into players in whatever little game you think you've got going on...and make no mistake about this either; to people like RFK Jr. this crank bullshit is a game, they do this shit because they're stupid and they think it's funny.
The whole point of America is we're citizens, not subjects, not play-toys for fucking kings and inbred idiotic nobility...which, sorry, but that's basically what the Kennedys are at this point. And in modern America they're about as relevant as some 19th Century Earl of Ass-Crack, too.
But most of them have the sense to at least stick with their traditional political "side" and not make too much of a spectacle of themselves.
More to the point; This is the United States of America in the 21st goddamn century, a secular Republic. More to the point, a secular Republic with almost entirely Protestant roots, which should rule out wannabe-Crusader (Catholic) bullshit on general principle if you really want to play the religious angle. However, this is America and you don't have to engage that crap. Somebody saying "Deus Vult!" OR having it tattooed on themselves should be about as relevant as Sir-Mix-A-Lot getting in a time machine, going back to the 12th Century and walking up to somebody and busting out with "I like big butts and I cannot lie!"
You can say it. You have that right.
And we have the right to believe, to know, that not one damn bit of this has anything to do with God, Jesus, or Christianity.
While I'm at it...I thought these fuckers hated the "Left" and discounted everything they said?
Why then since BlueSky has gained a couple million users in the last few days are there all these right-wing and "Centrist" idiots following any given even nominal "Left" person over there and petulantly demanding "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!" and then being surprised when that person does the logical thing and simply...blocks them??
I mean, why??
(It's all about getting attention, deny them that, all they can even do is get impotently mad about it. Same goes for all these Christians claiming "Persecution." It's a lie, don't give it free air.)
Why would it surprise you that people don't want to hear what you have to say, when you have a well-established track record of being a fucking jackass?? Why would it surprise you that they don't want to talk to you??
Why do you think yourself entitled to an audience from people that you don't like, anyway??
Why do modern "Conservatives" have such a visceral need for internet drama and an audience??
Why the fuck do you think you have some kind of a right to ruin somebody else's day for your own entertainment??
Why do you think you're entitled to fight with people??
If you do not have the right to barge into somebody's house uninvited (which is a good way to get physically thrown out or the cops called on you, if not get shot in America) and just spew crap, why do you think you have a personal right to someone's online space, much less physical or public life??
Sorry, but that kind of shit is why I had to quit Twitter, it was starting to impact my mental health (again) and since I got the same (or more) levels of engagement with two accounts on smaller platforms (BlueSky and Threads) even though I had a much smaller follower count...why would I stay??
My mental health, my personal time, hell, my breaks when I'm at work are not a Public Good, they're mine. Buddha Ferret is not a public utility. Fuck You.
Why wouldn't the same go for anybody else??
For fuck's sake we have enough problems right now.
And the thing that gets me is, all these cosplay grifters and hack Republicans and priggish keyboard warriors out there picking fights have no fucking idea what they're getting themselves into, all the cute little Leftists who couldn't be bothered to get off they ass and vote for Kamala have no idea what the fuck they've gotten the rest of us into, either.
When the shit really starts to hit the fan, they are not going to be any better off or any safer than anybody else.
Oh yeah, sure, when the deep dark well of American Crazy gets well and truly uncorked, some of these Republicans will be right up in there with the Nazis marching in the streets, but most of these motherfuckers are far more likely to be on that table than seated at it.
And the trouble with all this Trump bullshit is that one hell of a lot of the worst damn people in the world thought he was promising them the Moon, too.
(And again, I don't give a damn who you think you are; My literal, lived experience is that those kind of assholes hate Republicans, too.)
The thing that's starting to bother me about this mess, is the same as bothered me during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic...is very much that it seems like a lot of Americans care more about feeling "Special" or making money than they do about having a country or even staying alive.
It's a little hard to feel like the Belle of the Ball or spend money when you're, ya know, dead. I'm just sayin.' Whether it's from disease or the direct kinetic or indirect economic or social effects of a civil war, dead is dead.
I said Two Weeks and we're already having minor incidents start stacking up, how much worse is it gonna be in a couple years especially if Republicans have crashed the Federal government by then??
What happens when all the crazies don't get everything they thought they were promised??
What, exactly, happens when all the little Gaza Leftist Special Snowflake motherfuckers don't get whatever they thought they were gonna get by kicking over the apple-cart, either??
It's not just that I think, say, we're in the Load-screen phase of a Civil War or some such bullshit, right now, although I do think that (and, honestly, have thought so for a long time.)
It's that I think it's mostly Republican unreasonableness that created this BS.
It's that I think...if you think you're on some kind of a mission from GOD to bother Transgender people or say racist shit and you're following people around to random platforms to bug them, where you're unwelcome and you're surprised you get blocked, you need to be sent home, and made to walk while wearing a sign that says "I am a dipshit."
It's that I think this shit is gonna be the absolute dumbest Civil War that there ever has been, and it'll be all the more dangerous for the levels of conspiracy theories and other idiocy involved.
How long before that starts running hot?
And that's before I get to all the idiot Leftists that didn't vote or voted Third Party because of Gaza...knowing that Trump was on the phone with Bibi and would make that shit worse if he could. Now, he will.
If you want to Kamikaze yourself for ideology and stupidity, go ahead.
I can't stop you, and lately I'm disinclined to try.
Stupid should hurt.
But don't call me "Anti-Christian" for saying that it's wrong and you're nuts and that none of this bullshit has anything to do with the Lord's Word.
Not least because that is the Truth.
You motherfuckers are the crowd that chose Barabbas, and the situation has not improved one bit since then.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
If you believe in feeling "special" or getting attention or having "privilege" more than you believe in being free, you're part of the problem and you deserve every bit of what's coming.
But ya know, maybe the rest of us didn't.
A lot of innocent people will die from this crap.
(And you can't say you didn't know, the assholes said what they were gonna do.)
And maybe, just maybe, I don't wanna see people die or get hurt or suffer through unnecessary conflict so some other moron can feel "Special."
It's one thing if you wanna Kamikaze yourself. It's your life.
Leave other people the fuck out of it.
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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)
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Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ~Chief Seattle.
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