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 kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes 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 deceive 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 caused 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 Bible.
Just some jerkoff billionaire running his mouth about dumping New York City's homeless population in Uganda.
I'm just sayin', people, if anybody's ever going to try to implement that "One World Government" that the End Times Prophecy Movement taught me to fear and hate even the idea of??
Yeah, it's probably These Fucking People.
More to the goddamned point, pitch it as One World Government, Inc. and most likely every damn Evangelical and Republican would try to buy stock in that shit, at the fucking least.
And they'd do it for no better reasons than to lower their taxes and so they could dump anybody they didn't like in some out-of-the-way remote place, just because they could. Like goddamn, even the Trail of Tears still led to a place on the same continent. Come on, what the fuck?!?!
Billionaires as they are currently constituted aren't the least bit compatible with the idea of freedom, not least because these motherfuckers seem pathologically incapable of leaving other people the fuck alone.
I'm just sayin' when I acted like that as a kid I got my ass beat and maybe had to go stand in a corner.
Sooner or later, all the rest of us are gonna have to reign this bullshit in. I'd strongly suggest we #1 take a bunch of these fucking people's money and use it to fix all the shit that allowing them to accumulate such wealth has caused us to societally neglect. #2 We treat these infantile motherfuckers like infantile motherfuckers. Send that dude to Uganda with eight bucks to live on, let him see how he likes it.
Set that as the conditions? I'm willing to bet a lot of these absolute CHUDs will think they can make it back on pure bluster and bombast and the truth is I suspect nearly all of them are narcissists who'd rather die in the jungle than admit they did wrong.
It's going to come down to Guillotines, the National Razor, either before, during or after this shit gets worse.
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.
It's not just that these assholes don't care about anybody or know anything about anything (except making money) it's that they don't want to.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.
The only things that "Trickle Down" about any of this "Wealth" are the Evil, Hubris and Selfishness.
And somehow way too much of the Church in America has gotten itself all mixed up in that shit.
I'm here to tell you I think that at this point the Evangelical religion can not be considered a part of Christianity anymore. It's about Selling Jesus, not obeying Him.
It's about the Power of Politics and social bonus points, not the Power of God.
When the Baal-worshipers go public a lot of these fuckers will switch sides.
And a whole bunch of the rest for whom any talk of "Interfaith" anything would have provoked a full-on Fundamentalist screed the week before will be very, very interested in interfaith cooperation and understanding.
In their mania for control, Republicans and the wealthy will, sooner or later, hit on the idea that "It's Not The Mark Of The Beast When THEY Do It!!"
Yes, Yes It IS.
It's simply the worship of Power and the Self.
The Mark Of The Beast is simply the acceptance of the False world-system of Political Power and Wealth and that's been a thing...well, since John Of Patmos wrote down whatever he wrote down that got turned into the Book of Revelation, and I'm sure it was there before, too.
Dude wasn't writing about Future Events.* He was writing about Rome.
*A Prophet isn't some fortune-teller divining the Future, a Prophet is supposed to be a spiritual leader, who may or may not know or see things others cannot, *Technically* anyone can speak Prophetically.
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.
But you have to watch for the fruit of the Spirit, in what they do and what they say.
And either you're willing to fight for it or you're not.
It's really that damned simple.
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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
[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."
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