The Virgins Are All Trimming Their Wicks (American Reformation I, Three.)

"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity". ~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Watch ye therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. ~Matthew 25:1-13

The more I see of this shooting in Minneapolis, the more it looks like just straight-up murder.

For no reason, because that ICE "Agent" thug wanted to shoot somebody.

He wanted to murder for amusement, or simply to see if his pistol worked yesterday.

There was a time not so long ago when professions of arms actively sought to weed out people like that as early as possible in the selection process and training pipeline.

Now?? Fox News chuds like Jesse Watters are openly trying to say it's Okay that she got murdered because she was a Lesbian, or because she had a kid from a previous relationship, or because she had "pronouns" in her bio on social media.

Bro, everybody has pronouns, even God.

I don't give a fuck what you think about any of that stuff. This is not right. What part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" or even "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder" don't you understand??

I get it, I really do. 

These fucking idiots spank the monkey to the idea of living in a world where Power can do whatever it wants, or kill anybody for any reason, even if it's them because the Meme of Power, the imagination that being "Conservative" and "White" (all of which are social constructs revocable at any time, especially in their kind of world) will somehow "protect" them (but not other people, even other White people) is more important to these ass-clowns than their own shitty lives.

And they're utterly ignorant, by choice, of how shitty that kind of world was for the vast majority of people in it. There's a reason that way of life ended in blood and fire, wars of religion, and Guillotines in the city squares. 

These Fucking People simply don't care because they think they'd either be in or live by sucking up to the "Ruling Class" and they'll get to enjoy themselves in the most debased ways possible before the Revolution kicks in the door.

And that shit is all they really care about.

Also, they figure if they make the world bad enough, Jesus will come back and somehow either "Save" them or be Okay with all the Sins they've committed, or in the worst cases they think they'll get to go to Heaven and you won't.

None of this is Christian or conservative, it is however extremely narcissistic.

This shit is exactly why I say an American Reformation, a fundamental redefinition of how we do religion, is necessary.

Either God is on the Throne or the Self is on the Throne, it cannot be both.

This is all going to blow up, soon. Pick a side.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

The Virgins are all trimming their wicks.

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There's a man goin' 'round, takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There will be a golden ladder reachin' down
… When the man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter's ground
… When the man comes around?
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin'
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettledrum
Voices callin' and voices cryin'
Some are born and some are dyin'
… Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimmin' their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
… It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

~Johnny Cash, When The Man Comes Around

Two

Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on a race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength of the world. That is the American way. ~Ronald Reagan