Clankers Of Sin (Rationalizing Themselves Into Revelation, Prequel.)

I put no stock in religion. By the word religion, I've seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the "Will of God". I've seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves. And goodness - what God desires - [pointing at his head then heart] is here and here. And what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man...or not. ~The Hospitaler, from the film Kingdom Of Heaven.

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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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[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."

I saw this last night.

Literal "Christian Nationalist" AI Slop put out by a sitting Congressman featuring himself as a Knight Templar. Except, ya know, I've been to Nashville (his district is a part of the Nashville metro) and it's pretty often the sort of place where a lot of people look askance at obvious Catholics.

Not that the actual reality of anything matters to these assholes and their Great Baal-Worshiping Macho Bullshit Penis-Cult Of AI-Slop.

For fuck's sake, I was a 1990's End Times Prophecy guy. If somebody from the future would have come and explained "AI Slop" and what it meant to me, back then?? Well, to be honest I'd have assumed...that it was a Sign of the End Times and likely treated the person to an hour-long screed about exactly that.

But of course, none of These Fucking People care about that anymore because we're so far from the concept of Truth at this point that These Fucking People couldn't find their way to it with the light of a returning Jesus to guide their way. 

Yes, I'm being fucking serious here:

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

And honestly, that's probably literally the point of all this garbage.

Like I said on Threads; This crap is disgusting.

Woman has had the franchise in America for over 100 years. 

Our ancestors made this decision and these fucking guys lost, and that was in the context of a far more conservative America.

Women got the vote at the point of the absolute nadir not only of American but global race relations. You can look this up.

These Fucking People are not conservative. Conservatism is supposed to be based on revealed truth in the wisdom of the ancestors. Those are things these fucking people despise. More to the point, these CHUDs can have my mom's rights, my partner's rights, or my kid's future over My Dead Body.

Also I think it needs to be said that the sad reality is most of these guys would ejaculate themselves if a woman talked to them in a sexy voice...much less anything else.

I mean, we're talking there was a Lonely Island Song about this 20 years ago.

Maybe I'm just old, but I don't understand the point of hating the people you allegedly want to have sex with or possibly get other nice things from. 

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.

Of course, same people are all nice and submissive to *Checks Notes* people like Donald Trump.

Not just "Nice" but...nice in about the same way that I was all nice to my ex-wife back in the day when I was trying to get with her. on a serious basis. Nice like I was to my partner for about the first five days or so until she called me on my bullshit and told me I didn't have to be that way and we partnered up for real.

And without trying to do or be anything more than kind to the kiddo for the sake of "Goddamn but Shorty needs something nice too" I figured out what it really took.

I think they are perhaps telling on themselves.

Like, seriously.

It's not just the "Mar-A-Lago Face" hags, it's...there is a lot of weird homoerotic BS around Trump from certain MAGA's.

(Almost always from men.)

But then it's often weird to me who went MAGA and who didn't.

Again it's probably worth noting and a little scary that so far as I know even my ex-wife of all people Is. Still. NOT. MAGA.

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."

My partner sure as hell isn't.

I have to wonder how much of that is these fucking people's harsh-for-the-sake-of-harshness religiosity and their escalating weird hostility to women.

It's like my grandma used to say you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
Why is this so difficult for current republicans?

I'll never understand the Republican "Cult of being an absolute Son Of A Bitch" simply because it's been my actual experience lived experience that all that kind of shit generates is an ass whuppin' in real time.

Of course, I likewise don't understand how the fact that the financier of so much of this horseshit is a gay man isn't setting off a whole shit-ton of alarm bells with the Christian Fundamentalist Nationalist wannabe-Templar crowd.

But then, I spent most of my life as a conservative Protestant. Nowhere in my often extensive if too often near-Fundamentalist education in this stuff did I ever get the idea that the often-murderous, conspiratorial, spiritualist, usury-practicing, allegedly-magic using CATHOLIC Knights Templar (disbanded by the French King over alleged devil worship...a claim that was itself likely BS) who were on record for killing plenty of Arab Christians WERE THE FUCKIN' GOOD GUYS.

In fact the truth was pretty much the opposite.

Not just in religious terms either, ever played Assassin's Creed?? The Templars are the Enemy.

Same generally goes for Billionaires. Super-rich people used to be staple villains of Christian End Times fanfiction. It was in fact a feature of the genre in the 1990's and early 00's.

In fact, in the post-Left Behind Series add-on's where the authors were still trying to make more money off of that crap, one of the villains (also a minor villain in the original series) and a financier of the later-Antichrist was *Checks Notes* a heavily-insinuated-to-be-gay billionaire.

But then, lots of stuff has Billionaires and Corporations as the bad guys, Resident Evil for example.

These fucking people are telling on themselves.

And when Donald Trump doesn't turn out to be the King Of Kings arriving on a White Horse, they'll try AI Slop Umbrella Corporation Jesus.

With a CHUD Skynet "Holy Spirit" to back it up.

When that fizzles far more quickly than even their effort to turn the Iran War into an End Times thing?

I don't know what the actual next step is but my guess is that's about the time these motherfuckers start going public with their Baal-worship just because there's not any Christian supernatural stuff actually manifesting on their side.

Their whole bit is that Power is Power, they don't Care where it comes from.

The trouble is, that kind of Power-seeking Hubris is, in terms of mythology exactly how people destroy themselves.

And I think that's the point.

These fucking people don't care if they destroy themselves, in fact I think that's at least one of the goals.

Elisabet Sobeck: I remember yelling that I didn’t care. And that’s when my mother took my face in her hands and…spoke.

GAIA: Query: What did she say?

Elisabet Sobeck: She said I had to care. She said, “Elisabet, being smart will count for nothing if you don’t make the world a better place. You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death.”

~From the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.

They're in the process of figuring out that the only way they can ever have the "world" they think they want is AI and other artificial means.

But they've forgotten the rest of us don't have to go along with it.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

You're either willing to make the effort and take the time to read the Lord's Word and all that for yourself or you're not.

It's really that simple at this point.

You can live according to the Truth in whatever way you understand it and stay grounded in reality and/or spirituality.

Or you can live in These Fucking People's increasingly artificial world.

It's not even the Man of Sin anymore, it's the Clanker of Sin.

One of these things is not like the other one.

And their shit will get worse.

These Fucking People are so fucking Godless they're trying to AI-slop their way into a New Religious Movement. 

Don't play theological Whack-A-Mole trying to engage with this crap like it's in some kind of good "faith." Just tell these people "No" vote accordingly, be prepared to fight if needed.

They're gonna Rationalize themselves into all the torments of Revelation just trying to justify their own bullshit.

The problem is they crave self-destruction because they wanna take everybody else with them.

Because they think we'll somehow get it worse.

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And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. ~Revelation 9, King James Version.

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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