Hellfire I (Repent! Two.)

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
For I hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. ~Matthew 25:31-45

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(In a classroom. The Homeboys are getting high.)

Wangler: Bitches. All women is bitches.

Markstrom: Yeah, man, we don't know Mavis is cheating, man.

Keane: I know.

(Kareem Said comes in.)

Said: That boy is 16 years old, he's in for twenty, which means he can be out in 6. He could be back on the street by the time he's 22. He can still have a life!

Keane: Get the fuck out of here, Kenny.

Wangler: What?

Keane: You heard me, kid. I said get the fuck goin'!

Markstrom: Come on, Kenny, let's give him some privacy. Later. (He and Wangler leave.)

Said: You wanna rage at the faith? You fear the fire, my brother. Fear the fire! I am done with you.

(Keane collapses, suffering a flashback)

Arabic Voiceover: Allah-U-Akbar!

Keane: Reverend. I do. I do feel the fire. Save me.

Said: No. You saved me. (Said places his Khufi on Keane's head.)

(Hill narrating.)

Hill: Some say finding God is a glorious thing. They're wrong. It's dangerous. You spend your whole life in a world of men, but when you finally see his power, his greatness, other men fall out of view. 'Cause you're so focused on him, you can barely see them from the corners of your eyes. You lose sight of them. ~From the HBO Series Oz S1.E3 "God's Chillin.'"

I woke up last night to a slew of comments on Trump's bullshit speech about the 2020 election.

I didn't bother watching it myself. From what I heard it was the same old rehashed, warmed-over bullshit 'cause Trump can't get over losing in 2020. (If he thinks that's bad, he has no idea what's coming. People are pissed off.)

And, well, if we're being honest, I kept re-watching a video from a train crew in Northern Ontario whose locomotive was literally engulfed in a fire and all they could do was keep going and hope they made it through before something cooked off. They made it, passing another train on a siding in the process. Think about that.

The world is on fire.

I don't know how much more literally you want me to put that.

We've been being smoked out here in Northern Michigan for days already, and all Trump can keep doing is talking about himself and all his nonsense and petty grievances in a voice that sounds like Chloroform, enunciated.

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. ~ Mark Twain

I'm just sayin' if I was some hypothetical Unsaved non-Believer who'd never heard the Lord's Word before, between that video of damned near literal Hell-fire from northern Canada and the deeds described in what I've seen of the Epstein files, I'm pretty sure I'd at least think Hell and a fair portion of the Old Testament was accurate and true just from that, same with all the stuff from Daniel about Nebuchadnezzar because America has its own, now.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

And Trump and all these CHUDs are all-but demanding blood sacrifice and worship and levels of cowering compliance that they just will not get from America.

No, fuck you. Sooner or later somebody's gonna be That Guy.

Don't Tread On Me with this bullshit.

And I keep seeing pictures and videos of all these MAGA CHUDs striking a pose like they think they're going to jerk off to it later.

No one will ever love this one Wyoming Republican candidate nearly as much as he appears to love himself.

I don't mean to be crude or anything, but there's no other way to even describe this idiocy.

Seriously, the level of narcissism with these fucking idiots is off the damn hook.

It's not just that they deserve to lose, it's that if they don't, God is going to continue to rain shit down on this country.

I mean, come on, who even does shit like that??

And if we, as a people, keep tolerating this garbage...even if there is no punishment, which I believe at this point, there is and it is ongoing...God, the rest of the world, the Universe etc. is just going to wash their hands of this place, move on without us and let us suffer the consequences of our own actions until we figure it the fuck out.

I mean, for fuck's sake, look outside! When I was at the stop sign on the main street on my way home from work you could see the smoke in the headlights of a truck that passed by. 

The world here is seen through a sickly-looking gray veil this morning. It sucks enough here in Michigan that my partner and the kiddo are going to Florida to her Mom and Dad's for the weekend. Have fun, yo. I gotta work and it it sucks here.

It's been that way since Wednesday here, at least.

I am the way into the city of woe.

I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence, primordial love and ultimate intellect
Only those elements time cannot wear are beyond me,
and beyond time I stand.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.'
~Sign above the gates of hell (variant translation) Canto III, Dante's Inferno, the Divine Comedy.

And these fucking people basically keep jerking off, each to their own Golden Image.

They don't care that it looks like the first circle of Hell across half the country.

It's no wonder we're losing to the Iranians, send these motherfuckers into battle, they're gonna pull their pants down and grab their gun instead of their rifle and check their appearance in the mirror before they go charging at the enemy, and the result will be quite predictable.

You cannot technologize your way out of just plain old Godless arrogance and stupidity.

This shit is reaching Biblical proportions and we're all gonna pay for it. You watch and see if we don't.

Note I say that as a former Republican myself.

And at that point, you either believe in Freedom or you don't.

You either believe in the God of the Universe or you believe in Donald Trump.

One of these things is not like the other one.

You cannot have it both ways at this point. I didn't make it that way, he did.

Make your choice.

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Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ~Barry Goldwater

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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

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