• Dr_Box@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Lots of cults do this to seperate people from their former lives and reinforce their commitment to the group

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          3 days ago

          they’ve, as a whole, become a looot more like nazis than ever before….
          honestly i think we’re in a “the boy who cried wolf” situation. So many people have been running around saying stuff like, “seat belt ticket!?! they’re nazis!!!”.
          but now we actually have jackbooted thugs, kidnapping innocent people, not even accused of crimes, and shipping them off to life imprisonment/death, and we’re still having a hard time explaining that this is actually nazi shit.

          republicans have not always been nazis, nazi salutes and ethnic cleansing is nazi shit that’s actually happening now.

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            3 days ago

            I do not disagree and add that the cried wolf “dilution” is on purpose. In the same way “conspiracy nut” was tossed around with distracting fluff while shit like Tonkin was happening.

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    3 days ago

    Dude! This is the most prophetic thing in the whole Bible. Hear me out. Simon son of Jonah (not the whale guy), is a fisherman, and Jesus tells him to come along and fish people instead. Jesus gives him a nickname, Kephas, this nickname was then translated from Aramaic into Greek, Petros. Jesus later says that “On this rock I will build my church”, and that’s the meaning of the nickname Kephas/Petros, Stone, or Rock.

    Now considering that Simon’s full name was Simon bar Yonah, in English: Simon son of John, or even Simon Johnson, then his full name with Jesus’ nickname is: Simon the Rock Johnson!

    Funny coincidence? Skipping ahead a few thousand years, our current Rock is called Dwayne, and the meaning of that name happens to be Fishhook. And if you really wanna bring it home, Dwayne the Rock Johnson’s daughter is named… SIMONE! We’ve come full circle! The end times are near.

    Am I mad as a hatter?