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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • voodooattack@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•He has a point, eh?English
    7·
    6 days ago

    when everything is acting up

    the server, kid, and stage

    sometimes the bravest thing to do

    is turn a single page

    not every bit needs pushing through

    not every load needs borne

    a rest is not a missing note —

    it’s how the song is formed

    you left a little comment here

    a small and cozy light

    and someone read it, felt it land,

    and held it through the night

    so post your little posts, my friend

    the network needs the thread

    a system with no idle time

    is one that’s nearly dead

  • voodooattack@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Man who talked down hospital bomber says would-be attacker asked for a cuddleEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Look at everything he’s done so far:

    • Sabotaged public health
    • Sabotaged environmental protection
    • Sabotaged international relations
    • Sabotaged economy and taxation
    • Sabotaged internal stability
    • Instigated violence with every decision, saying, or act
    • Just started another war in the Middle East with Israel as the fulcrum.
    • Netenyahu has been offending quite literally the entire world, and recently said “you’re letting the bad guys win” to the EU when they are reluctant to join the war. Not that exact citation but here’s a random one I just found with a quick search: https://en.haberler.com/netanyahu-explaining-why-we-struck-iran-we-are-the-19618702/

    Does this seem irrational to you? Well, it’s not if you put on your detective hat and consider them religious nuts trying to bring about the apocalypse by fulfilling the requirements themselves.

    Jewish end times:

    Christianity: There are multiple passages in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, which speak of a time of terrible tribulation such as has never been known, a time of natural and human-made disasters on an awesome scale. Jesus said that at the time of his coming, “There will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever will be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, those days will be shortened.” [Matt 24:21–22]

    Islam: (Sunni and Shia versions differ on some details, because Shia belief centres on “The Mehdi” character)

    1. A huge black cloud of smoke (dukhan) will cover the earth.[note 3]
    2. Three sinkings of the earth, one in the East.[note 3]
    3. One sinking of the earth in the West.[note 3]
    4. One sinking of the earth in Arabia.[note 3]
    5. The false messiah—anti-Christ, Masih ad-Dajjal—shall appear with great powers as a one-eyed man with his right eye blind and deformed like a grape. Although believers will not be deceived, he will claim to be God, to hold the keys to heaven and hell, and will lead many astray.[82] In reality, his heaven is hell, and his hell is heaven. The Dajjal will be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.[note 4]
    6. The return of Isa (Jesus), from the fourth sky, to kill Dajjal.[83]
    7. Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj (Gog and Magog), a Japhetic tribe of vicious beings who had been imprisoned by Dhul-Qarnayn, will break out. They will ravage the earth, drink all the water of Lake Tiberias, and kill all believers in their way. Isa, Imam Al-Mahdi, and the believers with them will go to the top of a mountain and pray for the destruction of Gog and Magog. God eventually will send disease and worms to wipe them out.[note 5][84]
    8. The sun will rise from the West.[85][86][87]
    9. The Dabbat al-ard, or Beast of the Earth, will come out of the ground to talk to people.[note 6]
    10. The second blow of the trumpet will be sounded, the dead will return to life, and a fire will come out of Yemen that shall gather all to Mahshar Al Qiy’amah (The Gathering for Judgment).[88]

    Now look at these as allegories. How would a group of zealots interpret them?

  • voodooattack@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.world•me_irl
    16·
    10 days ago

    Huh. This is new

    Anyways, she could have left a note back at the nursing home under her pillow: “I wanted this” in her handwriting would have saved hin a lot of headache. But I’m assuming she could write and that’s not her specific handicap from the disability? Can’t tell without access to the article.

  • voodooattack@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba
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    13 days ago

    US is the Andrew Tate of global politics right now. They were a lot more subtle about it before though. But the core values that have always held throughout history are absolute self-interest, entitlement, and hubris.

    Apply Gestalt Theory to the US and watch how unrestrained capitalism raised this baby from an idealist freedom seeker and into a narcissistic bully with self-aggrandising sophist reasoning and a pure Machiavellian outlook on life.

    Trump only did away with the pretences, by firing the people who took care of the subtle masquerade. He didn’t like the pushback from them on global policy, and because the shoes already fit, decided to just do it live on stage without the makeup.

    Unfortunately for US citizens, that means that they get to experience the splashback as he pisses on their international credibility.

    A historically meticulously curated and maintained image that’s now irrevocably ruined forevermore. No sane person can trust a promise or a treaty made through US foreign policy ever again.