Hellfire III (Repent! Four.)

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thundering, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! ~Revelation 8 (KJV)

As if we're not already testing the Wrath of God enough today, I just saw this.

Do these clowns not know how that kind of thing works in real life??

Also, have these fucking people never heard the words "Good order and discipline?"

I served post-Tailhook scandal.

I HAD my first sexual harassment training during Air Force BMT at Lackland Air Force Base in 1993. It would not be the last.

Do these fucking people not realize, this kind of thing would get us kicked out of countries and start wars BY ITSELF?? 

Ya'll don't think the Chinese or the Emiratis or the Filipinos gonna protect their women? Do they think *Checks Notes* that Americans would not??

Hell, do they think women would not protect themselves??

'Cause I've not only already had that discussion....

I've actively shit-canned people with fully-"I know where you live" level threats of violence to people I actually cared about and who I thought understood things like right from wrong and that I taught them better than this...that I'm more than capable of delivering on because of my belief that women should not have to put up with this kind of crap.

Whether it was my partner or anybody else!

This shit ain't right and you shouldn't need somebody like me to tell you that, Period.

 

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."

There's nothing conservative about any of this.

Women are not your sexual property, guys.

Now I fully well realize that Jesse Watters is an utter Chuckle-fuck with no home training whatever, but I can remember when just talking like that would get a dude's ass beat, get him fired from his job, and you never saw that dude again...and it was worse in public life. 

If this is the kind of thing these dudes go around thinking about, no wonder we're getting punked by the Iranians, and we deserve it.

As I've written about before, I used to work with dudes that talked like this at my old job, old and middle-aged White dudes with some level of erectile dysfunction who wouldn't shut up about the one time they solicited certain acts from women of questionable integrity in someplace like Japan or Thailand while they were in the Navy, or whatever.

I did IT work for some of those guys, too. 90% of the time it amounted to just cleaning out all the viruses they would get from porn sites and shit, and it finally got to the point where I instituted a $50 Stupid Tax and a $100 I-Don't-Wanna-See-That-Again Tax and compiled a list of reputable sites that wouldn't fuck their shit up. 

None of it mattered, they'd take the stuff I gave them, ignore it, get their shit infected again, pay the money and do it again. It finally just got to the point where it wasn't worth doing the work.

Quitting was easier than getting these old fools to be responsible for their own behavior and hell, their own damn property that they had in some cases spent considerable amounts of money on. And none of these guys were rich. They were all janitors in a casino.

And I should point out all of these guys were the same crew I've written about, staring Zombie-eyed at the breakroom TV like ADHD kids zonking out on cartoons whenever FOX News was on.

Guess I know where they were getting their attitudes from, huh?

I wonder, when the Hell-fire of God's wrath starts raining down on America directly, will these fucking people repent or will they try and deny that, too, just like they did COVID-19??

Freedom requires belief in Truth.

You think these men, given the full run of their desires, would only abuse Women?? LOL.

The persistent thread of homoeroticism with these dudes should be terrifying the Evangelicals. It isn't. Women aren't the only ones who get sexually assaulted, and at this point Romans 1 can easily be said to describe the American Church.

His Wrath ain't just coming, it's already here.

When is Enough going to be Enough??

You either believe in the Truth or you don't.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

Three

[As the four newly-revealed Cylons aboard Galactica struggle to deal with the information, the call to action stations sounds]

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta: [over the loudspeaker] ...Inbound Cylon fleet! I repeat: action stations, action stations. Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill.

Tory Foster: Oh gods... what're we going to do?

Saul Tigh: The ship is under attack. We do our jobs. Report to your stations!

Chief Galen Tyrol: Report to stations?

Saul Tigh: My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be. ~From Battlestar Galactica (2003) S3.E20 "Crossroads, Part 2."

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2