Hell Is Too Good For These People I (Babylon Or Sodom? Seven.)

 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

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During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God. 

~Malcolm X, 
Letter following the Hajj.

I'm gonna be totally honest about something.

The more I see of all this Epstein files shit, the more I think that Hell is too good for these people who did all these crimes.

Like, dressing up as Jesus to murder and rape somebody?? Honestly, I think Hell is too good for anybody who'd even think of something like that.

Blasphemy, Demon-worship, murder, rape, very probable treason and all of that likely on an industrial scale? I'm assuming vast levels of financial and other criminalities, and this demonic madness touches pretty much all type of shit??

These fucking people are bringing God's wrath on America.

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

It's not Bad Bunny.

It's not the Gay people.

It's not the Atheists or the Jews or the Muslims.

It's not People of Color doing this.

It's not the young people making 6-7 jokes.

It's Rich. White. Men.

It's a society that thinks a fake AI Jesus is some kind of an acceptable damned thing that's the damned problem.

That someone's selling this as an actual product is worse, if you ask me.

Or, from a Biblical perspective, same as it ever was, especially if you trade out "White" for the more coded or then-relevant terms like "Babylonian" or "Roman."

Empire, and the debasement it creates in people, is the goddamned problem.

I guess some people just really like the taste of boot-leather.

It's not just that, though.

It's that some people love the idea of a Caesar, or of an Empire, or of some other bullshit social meme, more than they love their own freaking children.

Even if they will never benefit, even if they will never get to participate.

Babylon or Sodom??

They don't care, as long as they get to know somebody else is suffering and to claim relative status over those people.

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

Even if all they get to do is work for next to nothing and spend too much of the rest of their time falling-down drunk because their lives are miserable and they lack either the desire or the imagination to change anything about their lives or themselves.

Even if MISERY is their politics, their religion, and their theology because they haven't been given anything the fuck else.

In fact, it seems like it's especially then that you get the worst fucking cases.

Some dude shot his own daughter in Texas recently because she spoke up against Trump.

Evidently he was drunk, and claimed it was a negligent discharge. You know, in most countries and even a lot of states in this one, handling firearms while intoxicated or even having a negligent discharge can be a criminal act. In some countries just that will get you locked up.

In most countries, just for being drunk with a gun or having an actual, no-shit Negligent Discharge you'll automatically lose your weapon and your license to have it for anything of the sort even if nobody gets hurt. In Texas, you can do a MAGA Honor Killing and lie about it saying it was an "accident" and no one will care.

So that's what level of this bullshit we're on now? Instead of a Christ-less Christianity, we're cool with basically a Godless version of Radical Islam??

I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck. ~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

Fuck these people and this bullshit.

How long before "Conservative" social beliefs and the memes thereof are simply appended to the worship of Baal and whatever other ancient demon-gods these fucking people dig up? I mean, I've studied history quite a bit, it's not like the pre-Islamic Middle East was all that great for women, either. In fact, to a great extent Islam was an improvement. (As long as it's combined with a little common sense, empathy and humanity, anyway, that's true.)

I think the truth is worse, I think as long as these nuts got to keep their bigotry, greed, hate and uptight social beliefs, they'd gladly worship Baal and Mammon and various Idols of Gold...not even out of any religious inclination, but simply because they think it's funny.

I find this shit incomprehensible and utterly horrific but basically, a Godless and Inhumane version of any existing religion probably won't even do it for these motherfuckers no more.

And not only because of my own beliefs or morals but because I love my partner and my kid, I don't wanna live in that kind of world.

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."

The more I see of this bullshit, though, the worse it gets.

And I'd already seen enough.

But the truth is worse.

These fucking people see being an amoral, unnatural pervert as a sacred mission.

Not just being an amoral unnatural pervert, but refusing to even enjoy it, let alone to be dirty in an understandable fashion or to be perverse in any but the worst ways imaginable. 

These fucking people treat perversion the way their ancestors treated miserable Calvinist religiosity 50 years ago or how their parents treated Pentecostal narcissism and hungover altar calls 25 years ago, as some kind of joyless duty. They couldn't religiously bully everybody else into being miserable bastards so now they're trying to shock people into it.

And claiming "Shareholder Value" as rationalization is just a bit too much.

It's the worship of Baal and Mammon, but as performed by tight-assed Southern Baptists.

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.

When is enough gonna be enough, America??

Because as bad as things are, these assholes will keep pushing for doing worse.

Because a third of the population will accept it no matter what, more often than not.

I had to explain to somebody earlier today, like, sure if you think about it the Right-wing mania for control and totalitarian belief will arrive at the Mark Of The Beast sooner or later, but who needs that when you've got FOX News, right-wing Cancel Culture and consumption of total junk from some washed-up star that should've quit 20 years ago as a sign of some kind of bullshit partisan loyalty??

And when the people locked up in all that shit will accept damn near anything so long as it's got the label of "their" side on it??

We were talking about the dueling Halftime shows for the Super Bowl and how some people make all this crap their fucking identity.

And the sick truth is a lot of White dudes aspire to be the kind of men that ended up in the Epstein files.

There's a difference between a secular society, which follows no particular god but gives space for those who wish to, and a Godless one where mocking the Lord while committing sexual abuse is something that the moneyed classes might get away with, even for a time.

There's a difference between being amoral and immoral. Anybody who's ever been to jail can tell you there's plenty of people with bad morals out there that'd never hurt a kid.

If we wanna fix this, it's probably going to come down to a fight.

'Cause I guarantee you these monsters have done worse than we know, and I'm willing to bet they'll do almost anything to hide that shit.

You have been warned.

Now what are you going to do about it??

Слава Україна!

Valin Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?

Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"

Six

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.