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jisforjosh posted:When UPC codes first came out there was a moral panic on the Christian Right about the "mark of the beast" and it being needed to buy and sell. The "guard bars", the three pairs of longer bars at the beginning, middle, and end of the bar code, were claimed to be 6s and the religious folk ate it up lol it's really funny how every new thing is The Mark Of The Beast to these cranks
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hawowanlawow posted:one time I made fun of the paint job on some wire management assembly I was using and the guy I was working with quietly informed me they were made by mentally disabled people I used to buy material for my employer from a workshop employing mentally disabled people (I'm not a doctor but I took the same bus to work as it was on the way, and I'm fairly confident in my unofficial diagnosis. One of them used to always wake me up at their stop and shout "HERÄÄ HERÄÄ, HÖLMÖLÄSSÄ OLLAAN!"* because I guess he thought I worked there too), and the paint job on everything was always immaculate. The numbers were always wrong but the paint was great. Then the workshop disappeared so now my colleague orders the same stuff from India, and the paintjob is always complete poo poo. Moral of the story? IDK. *) "WAKE UP WAKE UP, WE'RE IN DUMBVILLE!"
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Quebec Bagnet posted:United States craft-goods chain store Hobby Lobby purchased looted ancient artifacts from the Islamic State also they were fake so they were just supporting IS for no real gain
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HashtagGirlboss posted:The best and worst thing about evangelicals is that they’re all complete and total credulous rubes The founders of Seventh Day Adventism put a specific date to the end of the world, that day came and went, and the congregation just... kept showing up to put money in the plate.
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They now run one of the biggest health systems in the country!
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John Charity Spring posted:it's really funny how every new thing is The Mark Of The Beast to these cranks Is The Mark Of The Beast part of the bible or is it expanded universe content?
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Is The Mark Of The Beast part of the bible or is it expanded universe content? The Mark/Number The Beast is from the Book of Revelation
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Is The Mark Of The Beast part of the bible or is it expanded universe content? It comes from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 13: (The first part doesn't have the relevant stuff so just skip the italics if you don't feel like reading it all) quote:And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads; and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of its heads seemed to have received a death-blow, but its mortal wound[a] had been healed. In amazement the whole earth followed the beast. 4 They worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” Who or what the beasts are is stuff denominations argue about in addition to whether or not Revelation is meant to be a book foretelling the future or whether it's just supposed to be invoking apocalyptic imagery to explain why states are rear end and why the world is hosed until One Day God comes down, unfucks it, and everybody gets what they deserve one way or the other.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Is The Mark Of The Beast part of the bible or is it expanded universe content? It’s a legitimate pretty metal thing from Revelations but they interpret it in the lamest way they can. quote:And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: Oooh yeah, we have this sweet prophesy about people having to get satanic marks which could be idk tattoos or brandings or all kinds of horrific stuff that’ll terrify people. Let’s make it about bar codes Benagain posted:They now run one of the biggest health systems in the country! loving owns
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Is The Mark Of The Beast part of the bible or is it expanded universe content? I read that as "Is The Mark Of The Beast the best part of the Bible?"
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the best part about the wackos freaking out about The Number of the Beast is that they usually consider themselves biblical literalists, except for that specific part which they instead think is a vague metaphor warning about bar codes or driver’s licenses or basically any person or organization whose name can in any way be related to the number 6, no matter how tenuously
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Mister Bates posted:the best part about the wackos freaking out about The Number of the Beast is that they usually consider themselves biblical literalists, except for that specific part which they instead think is a vague metaphor warning about bar codes or driver’s licenses or basically any person or organization whose name can in any way be related to the number 6, no matter how tenuously they also think the number of the beast is 666 lol according to a bunch of translations, its actually 616 But then every translation that isn't the King James is heresy 
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I know people irl who think the covid vaccine is the mark of the beast. Not any of the other vaccines from the last century, mind you, just the covid one
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chaleski posted:I know people irl who think the covid vaccine is the mark of the beast. Not any of the other vaccines from the last century, mind you, just the covid one Same. Pensacola is weird.
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Feldegast42 posted:they also think the number of the beast is 666 lol wtf have I found         Christ almighty
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Animal-Mother posted:The founders of Seventh Day Adventism put a specific date to the end of the world, that day came and went, and the congregation just... kept showing up to put money in the plate. Is that the one where after several failed doomsdays the leadership was like, "God was so impressed by our faith He decided to spare the world as long as we keep our cult going!"
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Jehovah’s Witnesses have had so many failed doomsdays they’ve stopped giving a date.
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Seems like it would be easier to form a cult around your rock that keeps tigers away rather than predicting that the tigers are inevitable and being constantly humiliated.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Seems like it would be easier to form a cult around your rock that keeps tigers away rather than predicting that the tigers are inevitable and being constantly humiliated. Logically yes but logic isn't the big driver of religion. Urgency and fear are much bigger motivations for people to do poo poo (like say, donate to your People aren't impressed when you keep away actually existing tigers, let alone imaginary ones. But you can cry wolf an apparently endless amount of times and at least some people will continue to take you very, very seriously. Because there might be a wolf and that's dangerous. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 11:16 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Trup got filled with so many rare occult covid treatments that he thought he was invincible
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Feldegast42 posted:they also think the number of the beast is 666 lol A reminder that the KJV was specifically made because the Vatican was going to excommunicate King James for having too much gay sex so he gave them a new translation as a bribe.
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the sex ghost posted:Trup got filled with so many rare occult covid treatments that he thought he was invincible so high on drugs he offered to kiss all the men in the crowd
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Imagine the kind of gutless worm staffer who talked him out of going out on the balcony and ripping his shirt off Hulk Hogan style to reveal a superman logo underneath
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Tesseraction posted:A reminder that the KJV was specifically made because the Vatican was going to excommunicate King James for having too much gay sex so he gave them a new translation as a bribe. Is this true? Wasn’t James a Protestant so why would he care about excommunication and didn’t the Catholic Church oppose translating the Bible out of Latin?
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Is this true? Wasn’t James a Protestant so why would he care about excommunication and didn’t the Catholic Church oppose translating the Bible out of Latin? Yeah the KJV came about after the Anglican split I mean that split came about because Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because she wasn't producing heirs for him which is its own funny politics thing Feldegast42 has issued a correction as of 15:48 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Orange Devil posted:Jehovah’s Witnesses have had so many failed doomsdays they’ve stopped giving a date. They're also second only to the Catholic church when it comes to raping children and covering it up. Literally tens of thousands of cases. Not so much "funny" but it's amazing how no one cared.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:They're also second only to the Catholic church when it comes to raping children and covering it up. Literally tens of thousands of cases. I know, one of my neighbours who was also my classmate for 12 years converted and it still breaks my brain a little bit.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disasterquote:In July 1184, Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the Peterskirche to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. This event is called Erfurter Latrinensturz (lit. 'Erfurt latrine fall') in several German sources
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Is this true? Wasn’t James a Protestant so why would he care about excommunication and didn’t the Catholic Church oppose translating the Bible out of Latin? Feldegast42 posted:Yeah the KJV came about after the Anglican split Oh the Catholic part is apparently me falling for it, but he was definitely gay as gently caress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I#Personal_relationships
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Democrat Party (epithet) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"HERÄÄ HERÄÄ, HÖLMÖLÄSSÄ OLLAAN!"
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12/14 never forget https://mobile.twitter.com/democracynow/status/1470760487876972553
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What was the get out the vote stuff to Hispanic voters used for the Hillary campaign again? The cringe one
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