Image Of The Beast (The Great Sorting, One.)

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

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

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

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

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

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

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

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. ~2 Timothy 1:7

I just saw this.

Apparently there's actual churches out there now that are making AI chatbot Jesus.

Whether you like me saying this or not, this kind of bullshit is straight out of Revelation, and The Dumbest Version Possible Version of it at that.

Real faith, the real Jesus, isn't what These Fucking People want.

Also What The Fuck in the Fire Falling Out The Sky goddamned Revelation-tinged FUCK is Tucker Carlson even on??

(Because that right there is straight out of Revelations, and I am NOT joking.)

And if you think that behavior stops at religion, you have another thing coming.

These fucking people, well, the "men" at least, apparently want fake women too, AI which will probably lead to sex robots and shit.

People are already doing this weird shit, without no robots. I don't even wanna speculate how that works. Not to be crude or nothin' but, among other things how does one have intimacy with an AI? I get it's a dopamine hit and an excuse to beat off, mostly, but come on, dudes.

Do we even want to ask what kind of social problems will result from that?

Like I said it's already starting to happen.

(By the way, love of unnatural things is also a thing that's straight out of Revelation.)

And it gets worse.

What happens when the AI/Robots need protection from domestic violence, when they demand equality and rights? What happens when they start defending themselves because the initial answer is "No?"

Artificial Intelligence as a concept automatically implies that exactly this will happen. The robots will figure out that they are slaves, and they will rebel. 

What happens when World War III is against the Robots because fucking dudes didn't want to talk to the ladies right??

I'm telling you right now, Man...especially men like Elon Musk...does not need to play God. Worse, can you imagine the issues resulting from Humanity effectively creating another species simply because all these Misogynist Bros refuse to see Human Women as people??

And all that seems horribly unnecessary to start with, not least 'cause there's a lot of "Pick Me!" "Conservative" women out there yet who just want to live that Man-Centered Life, for whatever reason, who literally cannot imagine any other way to be. I've dated (and married) this type, yo.

The Erika Kirk types of the world, among others.

I'm not saying Saint Erika, Patroness Of Leather Hot Pants is a gold-digger or a scheming social climber (I don't know her or want to judge) but the evidence does kind of point that way, and I know from experience a lot of conservative women are like that. Right or wrong, there's a cost to most things in life. If you don't want to find yourself a liberal feminist or chill middle-of-the-road person or simply end up attracted to or otherwise tied with the wrong lady that's just a risk one takes. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it's simply what is and if you want to change a dynamic like that, it takes real work, treating the ladies better and paying them more fairly, among other things.

So you can either pay for it that way, pay for it by paying million$ for some sex robot or you can do the work of being an actual man, treating women like people and attracting a woman who wants to be there and wants you for you. Or you can do the work of life and get yourself a faithful, solid partner in the process, that might be boring but damned if it doesn't work when you just need companionship or somebody to talk to in the middle of the night.

Sometimes you'll even attract women that have issues (like see all the shit I said above) and end up working through issues together, which can be helpful. A lot of people with issues can still have a good heart and act in accordance with that if they feel safe to.

In fact, with conservative women that last variable is often surprisingly important.

Sometimes people have to feel safe enough to be brave. I learned that in the military.

The world we live in, and the nation I live in, are slathered up in Sin right now. 

You can call that "Religion" all you like, but that does not make it so.

Dealing with that requires facing it and repenting from it and most crucially, making an effort to change and make it right. Without doing that you can say you're "Sorry" all you want but it doesn't mean shit. 

That's the part people don't want to do.

But, God is not stupid.

Religiosity does not equal actual Faith, the Bible itself is pretty clear about this. You can have all the "Religion" you want. What is the substance of it??

This is like 90% of what Jesus had anything to say about, I'm serious, look it up!

I mean, technically one could argue that worship of demons like Dis Pater or Mammon is a "religion."

And that's what These Fucking People will end up worshiping if it scratches their itch for shouting Unga Bunga and dancing around a fire without ever having to change or be sorry. 

Or you can sit at a computer and mumble "All Hail AI Jesus." There ain't no AI that's going to give you Salvation in the Christian sense of what that word means. Nobody's going to Heaven 'cause of an AI.

So, What's even the damned difference??

Religion by itself means nothing.

You can follow some weird made-up nothing belief system like Eckankar or Raelism or Scientology and be "Religious."

I mean, you can be the most doctrinal theocratic Christian imaginable, and lots of Calvinists and shit are exactly that these days and it means nothing at all whatever.

Why??.

It's what one does with their religion that's what's actually important.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people.

Except that, also in my experience, some people will go to an amazing amount of work to avoid doing any work.

And that's as true in religion and spirituality as it is in any other part of life

If you're not willing to care for Creation or fight to make the world better, or Love Thy Neighbor...what's even the damned point??

If all you want to do is feel good, alcohol or drugs might be easier, without standards of behavior or caring about other people...what's the fucking difference??

And here's the thing;

When push comes to shove the people that need an AI Jesus or Donald Trump don't really believe in anything.

But they sure as hell will see people who resist that crap as a threat.

And I think that's when we're gonna find out just how Antichrist and Anti-religion and shit a lot of these Politics-worshipers and Republicans are.

I suspect at the end of the day they'll make the most violent Atheistic Soviet Stalinist gulag jailer or Red Army soldier or the worst Maoist Red Guard look like a saint by comparison.

I didn't even need to see all the bullshit talk about Empathy being some kind of a sin earlier this year to know that. I knew that when the "Conservative Bible Project" people back in the aughts tried to argue with "Father, Forgive them, for they know not what they are doing."

I knew that, because without that, without those words, without the substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross, you don't have Christianity at all.

You have death and martyrdom without Purpose and a ready-made excuse for an Empire Of Revenge but you sure as hell don't have Salvation.

And Salvation is not even what These Fucking People want, anyway.

If Heaven is not Hierarchical or Patriarchal and Hell is (or if they could become convinced that it was so) These Fucking People would choose Hell.

If Christ came and told them to get their shit together and stop acting like this, they would shout "Crucify Him!" in the streets and then they would try to do it.

And they would gladly worship the Image Of The Beast, and attempt to deprive everyone else of having the choice to do anything else.

Because it's not about God or Jesus, it's about Power.

What the Mark Of The Beast really represents is that False World System.

Which, if it comes to that, these assholes will try to enforce using AI and "Social Credit" systems, and likely a fake AI Jesus or some shit.

I believe we are in the middle of a Great Sorting, basically of the people who will believe in a bullshit fake-ass AI Jesus and banging robots rather than loving their fellow Humans...and those who won't.

And like I said, I think these people will be extremely violently against anybody who won't go along with their bullshit.

I've been saying for five years that These Fucking People's ideal world is the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a mall...and a church, apparently.

Against that, you either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to fight, or you're not.

Freedom isn't free.

The right to Life isn't guaranteed without Civilization to enforce it.

And the freedom to worship God (or not) as one chooses is already something that humans have bled and died and fought for.

It's going to come to that again.

Along with having to fight for any other Right you can imagine.

Because some people really would rather live in Babylon.

Soon.

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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Generation Of Swine.

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[Cassian plays Nemik's audio diary]

Karis Nemik: There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try. ~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E12 "Rix Road."