Month: January 2024

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Oops!

From Shitposting4Satan:

All jokes aside, I think there's reasonable evidence that the "Rapture" may have already happened.

Here's my points…

The Covid pandemic would have been the perfect time for hundreds of thousands of people to vanish and nobody notice. I mean we couldn't even attend funerals.

Also in the Bible, Christians' favorite book they never read, Jesus warns repeatedly and clearly that LOTS of people will THINK they'Il make it into heaven and be in for a rude surprise (the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew, for example).

But wait, there's more.

The Bible says that Jesus will return "like a thief in the night."

And here's something I've been wondering about. Why do Christians think this means it will be a sudden and cataclysmic event? A thief in the night doesn't surprise you, that's the whole point, he's sneaky and steals your shit while you're sleeping and you don't notice. So maybe it REALLY means "the Rapture will happen and nobody will notice, at least not right away."

"But won't people notice a billion or so people suddenly vanishing from the Earth in an instant?" You might ask.

To which I point out Jesus' constant warnings that not everyone will make it into heaven. The sheep and the goats, narrow is the way, etc.

So why do we assume BILLIONS of Christians will go to heaven? Maybe the number will be a LOT smaller. Like so small that during the chaos of a global pandemic, it goes unnoticed.

Several Christian sects believe that only 144,000 people will make it into heaven, based on that number in the Bible. Most mainstream sects claim it's a metaphorical figure and not to be taken literally. But it's food for thought.

And of course, this would cause a problem, because who would be there to tell everyone after the Rapture happened?

Could it be, I don't know…
Someone like me, a former hardcore Christian and missionary, who left his faith?

This would also explain why Christians are such hate-filled assholes today. The few actually Christ-like ones among them were already raptured, leaving the assholes behind.

And we all know how obsessed Christians are with the end times, Mark of the Beast, the Rapture happening at any moment, blah blah blah. Maybe they're right, but they're so close to the obvious truth that they've missed the forest for the trees: The Rapture already happened, and you guys got left behind with us godless heathens.

Now you might say. You're a Satanist shitposting memes on Insta. Why should I believe you?

Well in the Bible, God made a donkey speak to a prophet because he was being too stubborn to listen.

I only wish I was hung like a horse, but maybe I'm that donkey.

You're welcome, and God bless!

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Further Adventures of an Aging Audiophile

So…I did a thing today. 😁 And yes…when all was said and done, IT LIVES! (Color me surprised!)

When I got this 1200MK2 turntable a couple years ago, it came wired with a European electrical plug with a US adapter tacked on. Being the anal-retentive bitch that I am, that wouldn't do. So I ordered a US cord (basically a meter-long extension cord that I cut the end off of) and replaced it. Sadly, I failed to take into account how much of the cable was actually inside the turntable, and the resulting length of the cord was much less than I would've liked, making it difficult to plug into my power strip.

When I pulled the entertainment center out from the wall a couple weeks ago to do some long-overdue cable maintenance, I decided it was time to do something about it. Despite my soldering skills being that of a six-year-old, I felt it was necessary to dive back into the guts of the machine and make this right.

While perusing YouTube later that day, I happened across a video that showed how replace the power cord with a socketed version and another that showed how to install an adapter that allowed you to use any signal cables instead of the mediocre OEM ones that came with the turntable.

I conferred with my friend John (an expert on Technics turntables), showed him the video, and verified he thought this was something I could do myself. (It wasn't rocket science, but with my soldering skills I was naturally nervous.)

Two weeks and about $85 (not counting shipping) later, I had the parts.

The process was surprisingly simple, even with my abilities. (TBH I've seen a lot of electronics repair videos since I initially swapped the power cord on this table so I now knew what mistakes to avoid.) In total, both swaps took about 45 minutes; a lot of that time being taken up with disassembly and reassembly of the table itself. And dare I say it, the new audio cables (nothing special; the same cables I have connecting everything else in my system) I bought for this project actually do improve the sound. (I never thought I'd find myself saying that cables improve sound, but here we are…)

If you've got a SL-1200/1210 MK2/3/4/5 (basically anything prior to the MK7) and hate the original Technics cables, this is a surprisingly easy and recommended project. You can order yours here.

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Telling It Like It Is

From Palmer Report:

There's a reason right wingers have spent the past three years falsely insisting that President Joe Biden is in cognitive decline. It's because they've seen their own guy Donald Trump going senile, and they've been trying to get out ahead of it. But at this point there's simply no way to distract from the fact that Trump's brain is gone. This sums up it quite well:

"Braindead psychopath" indeed. We need to start making the national political conversation all about how Donald Trump's cognitive abilities have vanished entirely. That's the quickest way to make him politically irrelevant.

Hashtags including #DementiaDon and #TrumpMentalHealth and #TrumpIsNotWell all began trending on Twitter as Friday night went on, due to the sheer number of people talking about Trump's cognitive collapse. It feels like everyone is finally taking this issue seriously. I've been saying for months that Trump's worsening senility is the biggest story in politics, and it's nice to see that it's finally starting to be treated that way.