Unspeakable horror. Yet to this day there are many old Russians (and some not so old) who think back with nostalgia of those times. It is out of consideration to them that Putin tempered his statement about the unacceptability of Russia ever returning to the old system when he said: "If you don't miss the Soviet Union you have no heart. If you want it back you have no brain."
BTW, if you ever want to edit a comment for typos, just click on the three dots at the bottom right of your comment. It opens up a menu that gives you an "Edit" option.
(I learned about this a while back... seems I am forever editing my own comments!)
Thank you, Anna. I have not discovered either how to write a new comment (that is not in reply to another). When I start writing a new comment it is superimposed on the comment below and does not post!...
Odd! If you go up to the comments box at the top of any commenting section and type your comment there (where it says "Write a comment..." in grey), it should come up as a new comment. But technology can be difficult to get along with...
Ariadne, does that happen on all the substacks or just this one? I'm still getting odd readings in my dashboard and am trying to get a handle on the shape of the problem.
So what kind of God would do that? He made us social creatures so that we have to exist within a society, and in order to exist within it--i.e., buy and sell, we have to get the "mark of the beast," and then *that* pisses God off? What a dopey God you worship.
And all the people who just made an honest "mistake," who didn't know about the "mark of the beast" or just didn't buy it, God is so vicious that he's going to burn them alive for eternity as punishment for their ignorance or honest mistake? I think even the Bolsheviks had a limit. Your God is even more sadistic and vicious than the Bolsheviks--history's most depraved monsters.
Listen, God cares about one thing and one thing only: how we treat each other as individuals. *That* is the proper realm of religion. Love, morals, compassion, ethics, kindness, friendship--that's God's purview. God doesn't give a shit whether you believe some fish swallowed a man then puked him up on the beach alive three days later. All that stuff has nothing to do with God or religion.
And that's another thing I don't get. If you are going to let "prophets" see stuff in the future in order to accomplish whatever it is you are trying to accomplish, why make it so cryptic. Why call it the "mark of the beast" whose number is man which is 666? WTF? Why not just call it an RFID compatible tatoo from SOMARK? It's like you are going to make this next to impossible to figure out, then punish people by burning them alive for eternity when they fail?
Unspeakable horror. Yet to this day there are many old Russians (and some not so old) who think back with nostalgia of those times. It is out of consideration to them that Putin tempered his statement about the unacceptability of Russia ever returning to the old system when he said: "If you don't miss the Soviet Union you have no heart. If you want it back you have no brain."
Very good point, Ariadna.
BTW, if you ever want to edit a comment for typos, just click on the three dots at the bottom right of your comment. It opens up a menu that gives you an "Edit" option.
(I learned about this a while back... seems I am forever editing my own comments!)
Thank you, Anna. I have not discovered either how to write a new comment (that is not in reply to another). When I start writing a new comment it is superimposed on the comment below and does not post!...
Odd! If you go up to the comments box at the top of any commenting section and type your comment there (where it says "Write a comment..." in grey), it should come up as a new comment. But technology can be difficult to get along with...
I do that and it appears superimposed on the comment below... It only happens on this site.
Thank you
Ariadne, does that happen on all the substacks or just this one? I'm still getting odd readings in my dashboard and am trying to get a handle on the shape of the problem.
Strange. Anyhow, I hope it doesn't limit your commenting! It's always great to hear your thoughts, Ariadna.
Best of luck to you, Prophet. Just remember, there are no magic books and no such thing as prophecy.
So what kind of God would do that? He made us social creatures so that we have to exist within a society, and in order to exist within it--i.e., buy and sell, we have to get the "mark of the beast," and then *that* pisses God off? What a dopey God you worship.
And all the people who just made an honest "mistake," who didn't know about the "mark of the beast" or just didn't buy it, God is so vicious that he's going to burn them alive for eternity as punishment for their ignorance or honest mistake? I think even the Bolsheviks had a limit. Your God is even more sadistic and vicious than the Bolsheviks--history's most depraved monsters.
Listen, God cares about one thing and one thing only: how we treat each other as individuals. *That* is the proper realm of religion. Love, morals, compassion, ethics, kindness, friendship--that's God's purview. God doesn't give a shit whether you believe some fish swallowed a man then puked him up on the beach alive three days later. All that stuff has nothing to do with God or religion.
And that's another thing I don't get. If you are going to let "prophets" see stuff in the future in order to accomplish whatever it is you are trying to accomplish, why make it so cryptic. Why call it the "mark of the beast" whose number is man which is 666? WTF? Why not just call it an RFID compatible tatoo from SOMARK? It's like you are going to make this next to impossible to figure out, then punish people by burning them alive for eternity when they fail?