I’m going to get back to you once I reread the chapter. But “the mark” needs to be on the forehead or the hand and must be mandatory to buy or sell. That does not apply at all.

I need to reread the chapter to check what else youre referring to and what the actual non-paraphrased text says.

See edit below the hr.

Here we go.

I assume you’re using Daniel 11 - 12 and Revelation 13 as your point of reference. If you are using a different book or chapter please let me know.

Things that seem to come from Daniel

Feuding with the king in the south? Being an unexpected candidate to seize the kingdom? Gaining power with a small force of people?

You are referreing to Daniel 11:21-24, the contemptible person. This prophecy specifies its starting area as Persia, and the “king in the south” you are using as Mexico is the same 'King in the south" that is allied with which you later use to mean Isreal. You can’t have it both ways, they’re the same kingdom.

Making an alliance with Israel and then turning to the coasts?

This is again in Daniel 11:14-20.

You notably skipped a huge chunk of detail… wonder why… "Then the king of the North will come and build up siege ramps and will capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will be powerless to resist; even their best troops will not have the strength to stand. 16 The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to destroy it. 17 He will determine to come with the might of his entire kingdom and will make an alliance with the king of the South. And he will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plans will not succeed or help him. Then he will turn his attention to the coastlands and will take many of them, but a commander will put an end to his insolence and will turn his insolence back on him. After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own country but will stumble and fall, to be seen no more. "

Notably THIS IS A DIFFERENT PERSON THAN THE “COMTEMPTABLE PERSON” above. One man cannot be both, as the king who allies with the south (which you here choose to be isreal, and later to be mexico) is “seen no more” before these bits: “Being an unexpected candidate to seize the kingdom? Gaining power with a small force of people?”

Things that seem to come from revelation

Suffering a head wound but surviving

"One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. "

My man, the word “fatal” is a pretty important one to not leave out of this sentence. While DT surely seemed to have a wound it at no point appeared to be fatal.

Blaspheming the name of god while speaking of great things?

DT has aligned himself strongly with christianity, the exact opposite of blasphemy.

the mark on his followers foreheads

This is notably not the same beast that was wounded, it is a separate entity. It is also meant to cause miraculous signs… which DT has not done, and furthermore the mark of the beast is on the hand or the head and required for commerce. This does not fit the MAGA caps.

The things I did not place

Trying to change set times and laws?

Literally the point of a ruler, this isn’t worth mentioning.

Food scarcity while preserving oil and wine? Desecrating a temple? The disappearing of farm workers?

Need a reference, could not find in the sections I read. I also am not aware of DT desecrating any temples.

When you strip key words and context you are engaging in disinformation.

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I don’t like when people use gay as an insult… that’s all.

Are you seriously using gay as in insult in response tl this story?

In what way do they “objectively” apply to Trump?

So youre just saying whatever you want huh? The whole point of prophecy is you can force it to resemble just about any figure you want if you squint. The Antichrist figure was “almost certainly” a direct reference to a figure of the time, not a prophetic vision of some future tyrant.

Idk man, Fettuccine Alfredo? But then I wasn’t able to find information about it actually being popular in Italy.

This may just be a myth. The Wikipedia pages you linked seems to believe something anyway.

Pizza was invented in Italy though.

Wish I had the nerve to blow up a data centre. But spending the rest of my life in prison seems a steep price to pay for setting a company back only a few months.

Omg… i totally did not notice what community i was on… my bad. This is like the exact opposite of the point of this thread.

Started playing MIO, which is a post-calamity robot on a spaceship themed metroidvania. The most impressive thing about it is the artstyle. Really strikingly beautiful.

Only a few hours in so far, but so far so good.

But they won’t be asked to replatform. Dropout have their own website. Them changing service provider should be mostly invisible to consumers.

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What a strange way to use the word jingoist.

Then he’s just an audience proxy, reflecting our own patheticness. :)

I’m not saying everyone has to like 1984, I’m not saying there is one concrete experience of it. I’m merely pointing out that unlikable protaganists are a choice, and there can be a strong narrative experience when that choice is made.

Yeah, i love using canned and frozen veggies. Way easier to stock up when theres a sale, and its still plenty healthy.

Idk, I likes that part. Ultimately Winston is flawed and weak and yet he thinks he’s making a grand defiant gesture, only to find out the party knew it all. All his secrets and triumphs where plainly and obviously known.

Effectively he builds himself up as a dramatic hero in his mind, and in narrative. The reader gets swept along, but when he falls, when he is crushed, we remember all the gross parts of his personality. We see him as the broken, pathetic man he becomes at the end lf the novel. I enjoyed how the experience of reading the text, and the experience of remembering the text tell two very different stories.

Dude was a cult leader who broke up families and disrupted people attending religious ceremonies. The bible is effectively cult propaganda and it still reveals that.

If you love someone and they go out in a snowstorm, then decide they were wrong and its too cold. Would you let them back into your house, or would you keep the door locked and let them freeze to death.

This is like the parable of the bridessmaids. God presents itself as vindictive and petty. We are told, endlessly that god has perfect love, but that is not what the bible shows us in the deeds of god or jesus, or the parables constructed to represent them.

They’re being pretty misleading IMO. The word “hell” doesnt appear anywhere in the original text, no. But neither does the word “heaven”.

And yet the concepts of heaven and hell, as Christians understand them, do exist in the text. There is the threat of eternal punishment after death. There is the promise of eternal reward after death.

That the english word we use doesnt exactly appear in the Hebrew, Greek or aramaic texts is quite frankly not worth mentioning.

Isn’t it wierd that ultimately Christianity is all about finding that one perfect human sacrifice to stop god being pissed at us.