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3 hours ago, Disco Strangler said:

You looking to throw hands?  Chili’s on 45th.  Tonight.  I will be in the handicapped stall in the men’s room.  You will want to bring a towel.  

 

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Whoa, whoa, whoa.   Who says Gen X did anything half ass?   I have put as little ass into everything as possible.  Way, way less than half.

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41 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Whoa, whoa, whoa.   Who says Gen X did anything half ass?   I have put as little ass into everything as possible.  Way, way less than half.

I pretty much quarter-assed through high school. It’s amazing I got into UT and then law school.

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7 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

yo lets fight when Im back in Austin.  Parking lot of Brodie HEB

This had my interest for a while until I realized that nobody had named their seconds.

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8 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

yo lets fight when Im back in Austin.  Parking lot of Brodie HEB

I'm willing to fight you, but I only settle business in the texags.com parking lot.

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I just came to a realization...

Donald Trump has never beaten a man in a Presidential race.

Dear women, you had a chance to shut the Orange Leopard down twice, but you can't seem to vote for your own interests.

Women seemed to complain about DEI the most. It seemed like women (especially the majority) thought DEI was code for Lesbian Black Woman (hell, at one point I wasn't so sure that wasnt the case, because all of the CDOs and Heads of Diversity I interacted with were exactly that, but I digress.)

Of all the faces that I would think would be wise enough not to invite a leopard BACK into their house, it's the woman voting against her own self interest face getting chewed on the most.

"You just grab'em by the pussy."

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Just now, Chad Fuck said:


I woke up in a SoHo doorway

A policeman knew my name

You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away. 

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9 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I staggered back to the underground where a priest blew back my hair

A priest may have blown something, but it was a breeze that got your hair.

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3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I was just trying to force the incorrect lyric into peoples’ subconscious. 

Well I do remember you throwing punches around and preaching from your chair.

So maybe it was you.

Groos.

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19 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

 

This is the truth, and the problem. How do you change people's minds when their entire purpose for being politically active is to make others suffer? They will gladly accept a masochistic role long as they can also dole out their sadistic desires.

They do it because they are in a war dealing with enemies.

When I made a very diplomatic plea on facebook for people to vote for Harris largely based on character, a high school acquaintance answered in firm opposition. She cited abortions and sex changes and proclaimed these things "Kingdom issues."

Years ago, I got a hint about this movement when I saw placard advertising a call to people to hear a guy known for leading a philosophy of holy warrior voters or something like that. Nothing about this on major news outlets. Now, someone has pulled it together.

Atlantic has a great article on the Christian Kingdom movement.

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What was happening in the barn in Lancaster County did not represent some fringe of American Christianity, but rather what much of the faith is becoming. A shift is under way, one that scholars have been tracking for years and that has become startlingly visible with the rise of Trumpism. At this point, tens of millions of believers—about 40 percent of American Christians, including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy. It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian. It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political.

Early leaders called it the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, although some of those same leaders are now engaged in a rebranding effort as the antidemocratic character of the movement has come to light. And people who have never heard the name are nonetheless adopting the movement’s central ideas. These include the belief that God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets. That demonic forces can control not only individuals, but entire territories and institutions. That the Church is not so much a place as an active “army of God,” one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times.

Although the secular establishment has struggled to take all of this seriously, Trump has harnessed this apocalyptic energy to win the presidency twice.

If you were curious why Tucker Carlson, who was raised Episcopalian, recently spoke of being mauled in his sleep by a demon, it may be because he is absorbing the language and beliefs of this movement. If you were questioning why Elon Musk would bother speaking at an NAR church called Life Center in Harrisburg, it is because Musk surely knows that a movement that wants less government and more God works well with his libertarian vision. If you wanted to know why there were news stories about House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Southern Baptist, displaying a white flag with a green pine tree and the words An Appeal to Heaven outside his office, or the same flag being flown outside the vacation home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a Catholic, the reason is that the Revolutionary War–era banner has become the battle flag for a movement with ideological allies across the Christian right. The NAR is supplying the ground troops to dismantle the secular state.

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By 1996, Wagner and a group of like-minded colleagues were rolling these ideas into what they were calling the New Apostolic Reformation, a term meant to evoke their conviction that a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit was moving around the globe, endowing believers with supernatural power and the authority to battle demonic forces and establish God’s Kingdom on Earth. The NAR vision was not technically conservative but radical: Constructing the Kingdom meant destroying the secular state with equal rights for all, and replacing it with a system in which Christianity is supreme. As a practical matter, the movement put the full force of God on the side of free-market capitalism. In that sense, Wagner and his colleagues had found the answer to liberation theology that they’d been seeking for decades.

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What happened next is the story of these ideas spreading far and wide into an American culture primed to accept them. Churches interested in growing found that the NAR formula worked, delivering followers a sense of purpose and value in the Kingdom

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After the 2016 election, a group of the nation’s ultra-wealthy conservative Christians organized as an invitation-only charity called Ziklag, a reference to the biblical city where David found refuge during his war against King Saul. According to an investigation by ProPublica, the group stated in internal documents that its purpose was to “take dominion over the Seven Mountains.” 

By last year, 42 percent of American Christians agreed with the statement “God wants Christians to stand atop the ‘7 Mountains of Society,’ ” according to Paul Djupe, a Denison University political scientist 

Roughly half agreed that “there are demonic ‘principalities’ and ‘powers’ who control physical territory,” and that the Church should “organize campaigns of spiritual warfare and prayer to displace high-level demons.

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A new book called Unhumans, co-authored by the far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and endorsed by J. D. Vance, describes political opponents as “unhumans” who want to “undo civilization itself” and who currently “run operations in media, government, education, economy, family, religion, and arts and entertainment”—the seven mountains. The book argues that these “unhumans” must be “crushed.”

“Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans,” the authors write. “It is time to stop playing by rules they won’t.”

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[Mega church experience] Where I ended up one Sunday in 2021 was a church in Fort Worth, Texas, called Mercy Culture. Roughly 1,500 people were streaming through the doors for one of four weekend services, one of which was in Spanish. Ushers offered earplugs. 

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[The congreagation faced huge video screens showing] apocalyptic images, including a mushroom cloud. A digital clock was counting down, and when it hit zero, a band—keyboard, guitars, drums—began blasting music ...

Lights flashed. Machine-made fog drifted through the crowd. People waved colored flags, calling the Holy Spirit in for a landing. Cameras swooped around, zooming in on a grown man crying and a woman lying prostrate, praying. Eventually, the pastor, a young man in skinny jeans, came onstage and demon-mapped the whole city of Fort Worth. The west side was controlled by the principality of Greed, the north by the demonic spirit of Rebellion; the south belonged to Lust. He spoke of surrendering to God’s laws.

...[It's fucking everywhere!]

After that, I started seeing the futuristic world of the NAR all over the place. Sprawling megachurches outside Atlanta, Phoenix, and Harrisburg with Broadway-level production values; lower-budget operations in strip malls and the husks of defunct traditional churches. Lots of screens, lots of flags. Conferences with names like Open the Heavens. A training course called Vanquish Academy where people could learn “advanced prophetic weaponry” and “dream intelligence.” Schools such as Kingdom University, in Tennessee, where students can learn their “Kingdom Assignment.” In a way, the movement was a world with its own language. People spoke of convergence and alignment and demon portals and whether certain businesses were Kingdom or not.

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But every day, she followed online prophets and apostles such as Dutch Sheets, an acolyte of Wagner’s who has hundreds of thousands of followers and is known for interpreting dreams.

[Sheets] telling fellow prophets and apostles that [Trump's] victory would bring “new levels of demonic desperation.” In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Sheets began releasing daily prophetic updates called Give Him 15, casting Trump’s attempt to steal the election as a great spiritual battle against the forces of darkness. 

[Their part in the insurreciton]

In his most recent book, The Violent Take It by Force, the scholar Matthew Taylor details the role that major NAR leaders played that day, calling them “the principal theological architects” of the insurrection.

 Sheets described a dream in which he was charging on horseback to the U.S. Capitol to stand for the Kingdom...Others from Wagner’s old inner circle were there too. Wallnau streamed live from near the U.S. Capitol that day and, that night, from the Trump International Hotel. Cindy Jacobs conducted spiritual warfare just outside the Capitol as rioters were smashing their way inside, telling her followers that the Lord had given her a vision “that they would break through and go all the way to the top.” 

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I watched YouTube videos of prophets broadcasting from their basements. I watched a streaming show called FlashPoint, where apostles and prophets deliver news from God; guests have included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, because another dimension of the NAR is that the movement is a prominent advocate of Christian Zionism.

I came to understand how the movement amounts to a sprawling political machine. The apostles and prophets, speaking for God, decide which candidates and policies advance the Kingdom. The movement’s prayer networks and newsletters amount to voter lists and voter guides. A growing ecosystem of podcasts and streaming shows such as FlashPoint amounts to a Kingdom media empire. And the overall vision of the movement means that people are not engaged just during election years.

That's long but worth it. It's not the aggregate effect of many different preachers railing on about this stuff. It's organized and nationwide and possessed of the belief they are moved by God Himself.

When I was driving from Lakeway to Clarksville late in the evening of the 9/11 attacks, I wondered if there was anything we could have done to prevent the attempt of such an attack. I concluded not much because how can a person believing he is ordered by God do otherwise.

Sadly, it has wider application than I considered at the time.

I also decided that late night to never criticize religious hypocrisy; without it, religion is unbearable.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Slacks said:

I just came to a realization...

Donald Trump has never beaten a man in a Presidential race.

Dear women, you had a chance to shut the Orange Leopard down twice, but you can't seem to vote for your own interests.

Women seemed to complain about DEI the most. It seemed like women (especially the majority) thought DEI was code for Lesbian Black Woman (hell, at one point I wasn't so sure that wasnt the case, because all of the CDOs and Heads of Diversity I interacted with were exactly that, but I digress.)

Of all the faces that I would think would be wise enough not to invite a leopard BACK into their house, it's the woman voting against her own self interest face getting chewed on the most.

"You just grab'em by the pussy."

Now start one with "Dear men." Or dear white men.

Your idle speculation on all topics is welcome. Homogenize a hundred million people again and let us know what you think.

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3 hours ago, Slacks said:

I just came to a realization...

Donald Trump has never beaten a man in a Presidential race.

Dear women, you had a chance to shut the Orange Leopard down twice, but you can't seem to vote for your own interests.

Women seemed to complain about DEI the most. It seemed like women (especially the majority) thought DEI was code for Lesbian Black Woman (hell, at one point I wasn't so sure that wasnt the case, because all of the CDOs and Heads of Diversity I interacted with were exactly that, but I digress.)

Of all the faces that I would think would be wise enough not to invite a leopard BACK into their house, it's the woman voting against her own self interest face getting chewed on the most.

"You just grab'em by the pussy."

I agree. Kamala Harris would have won like 400 EVs if the election was held among women so let's blame them. They just didn't do enough to pull this country out of a nose dive piloted almost exclusively by men. It would be totally unreasonable to expect men to do anything about it. Great post. We should totally play this game.



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