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music lover, home cook, partnered dad of 2 in PHX, AZ, failed evangelical experiment #exChristian banner: bar roofbeam reads 'ALL I NEED IS JUST TO HEAR A SONG I KNOW' profile: a handsome man with an average mustache smiles

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · May 16

well friends, a 2&1/2 -year journey is complete..

today I listened to my first vinyl at home on my new 40th bday turntable that finally came in after a 6mo wait 🥰🎶..

gonna do a thread as I listen through my collection for the 1st time..

Sigur Rós ( ), 20th Anniversary edition

a white cabinet with two foot tall wooden speakers on shelves, each with about 30 records next to it, a record player is atop the cabinet

a turntable playing a black vinyl record, on the wall is a Now Playing record mount with Sigur Rós' 2002 album ( ) sitting on it

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 5h

ICE agent: drew the paperwork up in it up in crayon just like you wanted, boss, and made a professional looking TikTok video about it set to a song we don't have the rights to yet again

ICE boss: yup this is good, send it up the text chain to the big guy

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 5h

we have this invoice from animal costume dot com the only place where you can order these fuckin filthy animal things n lookie here it says on Sept 29th an order was placed for, and I quote "all the animals costumes to portland oregon please or my name isn't juan jose antifa the third" end quote

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 6h

love this whole album

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 8h

the techlords want to be seen as authoritative, but with no actual expertise, and that's why the swerve to 'grifty influencer/pastor' is such an easy part for them to play

they're like.. get an audience and feed them bullshit? ok! I can do that!

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 8h

look if we're talking cool comic references then let's talk about how Olive Chu from 'Chew' wears a lying cat ('Saga') shirt for a while scene

a comic of a girl with black hair and glasses holding up a small clear plastic bag with two toe stumps in it, she is wearing a green shirt featuring a hissing, long eared cat in a gold collar: it's the lying cat from 'Saga'

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 8h

referencing Watchmen and One Piece in an end times sermon is such a pastor dad ass move

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 8h

For many Christian Zionists, support for Israel is linked to a belief that Jewish control of the region portends the second coming of Christ—along with the death of anyone who doesn’t accept him as their savior.

Larry Huch, a prominent Texas-based evangelical pastor, said Gaza “has to be leveled.”🤬

The settlers' man in Washington

How Yossi Dagan is pushing US lawmakers to support Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

www.motherjones.com

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

"Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate in power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word may cause their enemies to be united."

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 27d

"Whenever [he] tried to visualize the Holy Trinity, the countenance of God the Father always became confused with the face of the abbot, which was normally very angry."

- a *word* about how hierarchical religion primes folks for authoritarianism from Walter M Miller Jr

the cover of Walter M Miller Jr 's A Canticle for Leibowitz, a papal figure with an ornate staff approaches many religious structures including a parade of figures as ending upwards on floating platforms

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 2d

the Fri night burger

sesame seed topbun
burger sauce
bacon onion jam
dill pickles
butter lettuce
salted tomato
3 slices of thickcut bacon
melted American cheese
cheddar beef patty
burger sauce
sesame seed underbun

a huge burger with green lettuce, brown bacon, orange burger sauce, army green pickles, brown bacon jam in-between light brown, sesame seed bun halves

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

legitimately got interested in long form journalism because of Matt Tiabbi articles in Rolling Stone magazine 😂

yyyyeah.. I got things from here, Matty-T.. you're washed, bro

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

this is a 15-page text only version of the article where Tiabbi goes undercover in John Hagee's church, titled 'Jesus Made Me Puke:'

undercover.hosting.nyu.edu

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

weirdly I discovered John Hagee's end times delusions in a **Matt Tiabbi** article in Rolling Stone in the mid-aughts

I'll see if I can find it and post it below..

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 1d

“Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States.”

I wish more people knew this.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

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CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

CW: sexual abuse..

in a sick, twisted overlap of things I rail against..

this creep used **AI image generation** to turn a real pic of his victim in undergarments into one that made them appear naked 🤬

CthulhuEatWorld(Tim)🦑🌍🎶 @t2thacoops.bsky.social · 1d

“It is evident that Pastor Kevin Jones used a communication device to contact the victim to entice.. (them) into a relationship while he remained married & was a person of trust”

The victim was a member of the Summit Church.. timestamps on images show that the victim was under 18..