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ok but irl when glenn got stuck in the parking garage and was having his thing he said that he called rob after to debrief about it. rob immediately was like “i know this story because he called me to tell me right after it all happened :)” sooooo…. since the plot of dtamhd is based on that… then…………..
#probably won’t follow the exact events this exact buuuuut yeah anyways#i make nothing but false predictions#a real false prophet#iasip#macdennis#to be fair this a an exaggerated retelling of what the said
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i technically respect zukk1 i just think zuko is the least bisexual person on this planet My apologies [standing by a window looking out it sadly]. though i suppose any sort of poly dynamic is still fine. actualy to be honest i don't care i don't think about this that
much woah i'm down here now hi. i saw a post is all and went aw cute.. wait a minute ☝️
#🐾#also such a funny ship name .. to me it's zu-k-ki. he's reduced to nothing but a k#anyway i like that suki was his cool bodyguard knight in the comics one of the only good parts of the comics. of which i pick and choose#what is real and what is False prophets spitting lies ..#and i saw a tt the other day of someone being like knight/royal dynamic LIKE i get it i just don't see it. romantically .. He's gay ..#and she is too cool for him...... I'm Sorry#this is zuko and this is his boyfriend sokka and this is sokka's boyfriend suki <- i didn't mean to say boyfriend but i'm keeping it#anyway like i reblogged that one post There's just a king in your house or whatveer. which is still funny#but in my heart you see ...
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What else can I do if I can't be a false prophet??
#yes this is costar#I don't believe astrology and tarot can predict the future but I do believe they can shape it#So I absolutely love using them for therapeutic insight#unfortunately both are v v mean to me >:(#and now I can't even be a false prophet!#how else am I gonna spread blasphemies against the lord??#Jesus will come 4/20/2069 but it'll be to deliver the best fuckin kush you've ever had#Judas kissed Jesus with tongue and the entire crucifixtion was a bit to get out of there so they could kiss more homosexually#uhhhh what else#the rapture isn't real he meant Rupture as in a rupture in heaven and hell's relationship where they fight#we have nothing to do with it and won't be affected in the slightest other than heaven acting collectively like divorced dads#ok that's it that's all of my prophecies have fun#ex christian#religious trauma
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No, Baba,
I am not going to join your lineage.
No matter how much you may tempt me;
With powers, smiles, energies--
I can see the vague shape of your Guru standing aghast behind you,
Like a washed-out watercolour,
Frozen, horrified
As he watches you;
Behind an invisible wall
He cannot get past,
Like ice.
No, Baba,
Take away your dirty hands--
Do not touch me!
I will not join your lineage.
If you were a true Aghori,
Fearless,
You would not hate the Muslims.
You would not preach against them;
You would seek them out,
Befriend them.
For a Sufi saint
Can teach you far more than an angry mob ever can,
Can give you far more than your power over the masses,
That false wealth you run after--
Oh, you're too afraid of losing their favour,
Too afraid of becoming unknown, unheard, unfeted?
Of being left alone,
With just you and God?
Just like you are afraid of the Muslims?
There--
Conquer *that*,
Says Prema,
And then come talk to me about Aghora.
--Prema Kalidasi
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False Consciousness is what makes Marxism a godless religion:
And a far less efficient godless religion than Confucianism, which was the core of one of the most successful systems in the history of systems for 2,000 years. It allows the Marxist to always be right, to never be in error, and to never have to account for the many, many ways the writing of a Prussian Lutheran in the 1840s Rhineland and Dickens's London doesn't work in an age of nuclear weapons, computers, and satellites that can see houses from space.
If an idea cannot be falsified then it operates on the premise of a religion and should be treated as such.
#falsifiability#false consciousness#aka why Karl Marx was a dollar store false prophet#who conned a lot of people who hated various traditional religions into a NRM#understanding this is the key to understanding the dynamics of communism from the 19th Century to the present#it's more of a religion than a political movement#in this sense its only real mirror is fascism which is a straight up BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD death cult
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dnd game For Real on friday and i’m already so hyped and love my oneshot character so much... they have never said a single true word in their life and they are actively taking your money
#the nemesis speaks#remember that post that's like 'false false prophet. i can tell the future i just love lying' yeah thats them#they cant literally tell the future but they can do very real psychic magic that they exclusively use to con people into#-thinking they can do psychic magic#shame theyre a oneshot character lmao bc one of their central abilities (nomadic mind) depends on a long rest#but o well#maybe ill bring em back someday..#this is also lowkey me testing the waters with how this group does with nb people#so like That would be a big indicator of whether they would come back
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love angle/neg
#you have bastardized the love triangle and created a false prophet#give me real love triangle#let them all kiss#love triangle discourse
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jon sims is not the antichrist he's actually a jesus figure
i've been doing a lot of research into revelation for writing stuff and martin is very incorrect when he calls himself the antichrist's plus one. that's melanie. and here's why
1) the antichrist is a figure that stems from the book of Revelation, the bible's apocalypse book. But the antichrist actually had nothing ot do with the apocalypse start, and actually doesnt even show up till like 19 chapters in its insane. He's just some random dude who starts a cult, and has a False Prophet hyping him up, so the antichrist is actually georgie and the false prophet is melanie.
2) the person who actually starts the apocalypse is 'the lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, that looked like it'd been slaughtered,' which is a metaphorical representation of jesus. (Funnily enough, if you look through revelation, its actually angels doing most of the tormenting, not demons!)
3) He has literally died and woken up before, and then some time later he dies for real, just like actual jesus. Not to mention him descending into the buried--literally being buried in a cave, just like jesus was on the cross, before emerging after 3 days. Peter even explicitly calls him a 'grubby jesus'.
4) Jesus as a character is all about self-sacrifice and needless suffering to bring about a better world. Wonder What That Reminds Me Of! Even his 3-day descent into the buried is explicitly a self-sacrifical, semi-suicidal act. And on a more literal level, Jon suffering on every level possible was what was necessary to bring about the Change, and then the expulsion of the Fears from this universe (and dooming a bunch of other universes, but just as the bible doesnt spare a thought for all the people trapped in hell for eternity when describing the post-apocalyptic utopia, we're not thinking about the other worlds rn. just this one.)
5) the amount of jon fanart i've seen mistaken for jesus is truly ridiculous
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religion is one of the most prominent recurring themes on the album, and it has been present in some capacity for quite a few records now. taylor previously compared love to religion: her saving grace, her belief system, and a fated divine intervention (false god, cornelia street, and cruel summer are the best examples of this). ‘sacred new beginnings that became my religion’ and ‘we’d still worship this love even if it’s a false god’ are two of the defining statements about her philosophy on the lover album.
taylor doesn’t want to leave all of that behind on ttpd, at least not at the beginning. the first supernatural force she mentions is the spaceship on down bad, which she compares to a skylight of freedom in the epilogue. *something* has finally come to save her from her life of suffering. she doesn’t care if it’s a force of good at first; if anything, she’s just fine being taken away by aliens. she views this man as her destiny. it isn’t until guilty as sin? that taylor starts to ponder the moral implications of what she’s doing. is she guilty as sin for wanting to leave her previous religion and relationship behind? she comes to the conclusion that, even if she rolls the stone away and gets resurrected/redeemed, she cannot avoid the fallout. she is okay with the thought of having to wait, as long as both lovers vow to be together forever, just as she once did with someone else in false god. ‘I choose you and me religiously’ finishes the bridge of the song in a direct callback to cornelia street.
the next mention of religion has murkier imagery. she claims that she does not need the Lord’s help to save this man. she sees the halo that he has, and she can fix him herself. now that she feels free of her prior cage, she isn’t looking for divine intervention anymore. she wants control. she is their route to salvation.
when the relationship falls apart, she retreats back into the position of a believer rather than a divine figure. she compares him to a Holy Ghost who promised to save her and take her to heaven. instead, she is in hell in every sense of the word: she’s down bad and feels guilty for digging up the grave. he was a jehovah’s witness who promised that she could break free of the cage imposed by love without changing her religion altogether; she would’ve just had to switch denominations. she could still have a marriage and kids! she could still have a blue tortured poet! the man was different, but not the dreams they had together. the story of the first part of the album ends here. her faith has been broken, and she has only found any semblance of sanity by refusing to mention these belief systems altogether.
side b/the anthology blends the christian imagery of side a with goddesses, sorcerers, and prophecies. she bargains with these powers to let her have the future she wants (the prophecy). she doesn’t sound like someone believing in salvation. if anything, she feels cursed. she decides that the concept of divinely ordained timing will never work in certain relationships (‘the goddess of timing once found us beguiling / she said she was trying / peter, was she lying?’). this disdain extends onto her perception of other people’s faith (‘bet they never spared a prayer for my soul’). she does position herself as a prophet in cassandra, but even then, she admits that the role has hurt her. perhaps the pain in thank you aimee was meant to be, or perhaps she was just strong enough to build a legacy in spite of it, boulder by boulder. is she a martyr? does she want to be? or did she save herself?
the only real love song on this half of the album makes no mention of fate or any divine forces. it wasn’t meant to be. it’s not a supernatural invisible string or lightning in a bottle. she is just in love.
the album ends with the manuscript, which revisits an old story of a defining, formative heartbreak. as she sings ‘at last, she knew what the agony had been for’ while describing the legacy of her writing, she seems to revert to thinking about the purpose of trauma. the only exception is that, in this case, she is the one who found meaning in her pain by turning it into a manuscript. writing is her belief system now, and she proselytizes by telling her stories and thus giving up the manuscript.
ultimately, her belief in destiny has chewed her up and spat her out. she so desperately clung to her existing belief systems that she was fooled by a conman, which left her feeling cursed. religion is supposed to be with someone even in their darkest moments, but the album explains that taylor often felt abandoned. the only constant in her life was, well, herself. she’ll be okay, but her pen will be her saving grace.
#idk why I wrote this essay but it needed to be said#this could be taken further by actually unpacking each mention of religion on midnights and lover but i ain’t doing all that#the manuscript#cassandra#Cornelia street#false god#cruel summer#lover#the prophecy#the smallest man who ever lived#but daddy I love him#I can fix him#guilty as sin#ttpd#thank you Aimee#peter
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Dune lore is fucking insane. I just finished the first book, and have concluded that Frank Herbert is a goddamn genius.
20,000 years in the future.
Matriarchal cult of eugenisist space-nuns with weird psychic powers
Houses that resemble the royalty of medieval earth, all still obsessed with power and profit over everything else
complex religions with clear inspirations of real-world present religions (specifically catholicism and islam)
Human supercomputers?? that are also assassins??
A prison planet that creates supersoldiers by killing the weak to filter out the strongest
the main villain being the physical embodiment of sin (gluttony, lust, greed)
politics. holy war. oppression of native peoples. false prophets. cults. drugs. worms.
and that just scratches the surface. theres five more books…
#dune#dune book#dune series#paul atreides#lady jessica#bene gesserit#arrakis#baron harkonnen#fremen#sandworm#shai hulud#muad’dib#lisan al gaib#mentat#thufir hawat#gurney halleck#chani kynes#duncan idaho#frank herbert#science fiction#classic literature#geidi primes#salusa secundus#sardaukar#padishah emperor#princess irulan
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The real tragedy of Dune (which the movies did an excellent job of portraying) is that almost none of the characters we see have any real choice in what they do. The only choices they have are in how they do them.
Duke Leto must take House Atreides to Arrakis, or be declared a traitor to the Imperium and hunted down. He knows it's a trap and that the Emperor is, in the very best case scenario, setting him and his family up for a serious reversal of their fortunes (far more likely, he's outright scheming to get them killed). But he doesn't have a choice. He must go to Arrakis. He does go to Arrakis. He dies.
Paul and Jessica must flee into the desert or the Harkonnen soldiers will kill them both brutally. They must go to the Fremen for refuge or the desert will kill them. They go. They find that the Fremen have already begun to mythologise Paul. He's the Mahdi, the Lisan al-Gaib. There is no option for Paul to be a normal person here. He is either the messiah or he is a false prophet, and false prophets in a nation of true believers don't live for long.
So Paul fits himself into the mold of the myth. He becomes Muad'dib and leads the Fremen in war because they believe too much in him to let him be anything less. Is it manipulation? Yes. But because the Bene Gesserit have been manipulating the Fremen for centuries, Paul has no choice but to continue it if he wants to live.
He sees the holy war at the end of every timeline by glimpses and he fights to avoid it. To avoid it, he becomes the Kwizatz Haderach and gains the ability to fully see timelines, and thereby he makes himself that much more of the Fremen messiah and brings himself one step closer to the holy war. Every choice he makes is a choice for survival and an attempt to avoid that war, the war he cannot escape because every step he makes along the path to survival is one more step towards the war. He has no more choice in what he becomes than his father had in whether or not he went to Arrakis.
The only people who ever had a choice were the Emperor and Gaius Helen Mohiam. They made their choice, to exterminate House Atreides, and thereby they took everyone's choices away, including their own. Once they sent House Atreides to Arrakis, the entire plot was inevitable.
#dune#dune part two#winter says things#paul atreides#jessica atreides#leto atreides#character analysis#paul is not the hero but neither is he the villain#he's a duke whose choices have been taken from him#just like his father
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Dead cabin guy and his technicolor dreamcoat have haunted me since the wardrobe reveal in season two, and today im going to make it everyone's problem.
Travis wears the coat first. He and Natalie take the blessing and go out to look for Javi. Travis hallucinates (prophesies?) that Javi is dead and buried beneath the snow, but Natalie shows him it's only a fox. Travis finds the strange, mossy tree stump. The next day Travis has strong feelings about which direction is best to search for Javi in, and we don't see more of him until Nat reveals the bloody pants. Not that weird, all things considered. New season, new wardrobe additions. Hiking on a caloric deficit with PTSD, you'll probably hallucinate. Pretty standard stuff.
Then Nat wears the coat. She takes it to lay Jackie's bones to rest at the crash site, and while she wears it she sees (hallucinates? prophesies? I'm not sure!) the white moose that they'll later lose to the lake (ergo the hunt, ergo Javi dies for real but more on that later).
We get to Old Wounds, the hunting competition, and Lottie wears the coat now. You see where I'm going with this but just to be thorough: she enters the realm of death dreams, talks with Laura Lee, almost freezes to death.
Episode five. Melissa wears the coat. Maybe that's not important! Maybe it's just to show that they all share the wardrobe, and that the side characters are as equally All In This Together as the main characters are. Or it could mean something that a peripheral character, wearing important wardrobe, framed in antlers (not unlike Travis in 2.01), has the line "maybe he did die, and that's his ghost." It's a little suspicious, and at this point starts to feel like a pattern.
Who wears it next, who wore it best!? That's right baby, it's Paul! For his dreamworld drifter, hallucination hunk Coach Ben Scott. Nicholas Urfe himself. Ben spends almost all of his time in a dream, until *drumroll please* Paul, very pointedly, takes the coat and walks out the door. "Where do you think you are, Ben?" he puts the coat on. "You had to have known you couldn't stay here forever. [...] What matters now is that you aren't welcome here anymore." Following Paul means committing to death (to dream), and until interruption that's the choice Ben makes. Because letting Paul (and the coat) go would mean committing entirely to reality.
Of course, the pièce de résistance is something I didn't even notice until I went looking for it. The first dozen times I watched, I thought that after Lottie's beating Shauna brought her a blanket. "Lottie's cold." But she doesn't. She brings her the coat. Lottie is laying with it when, in a fever dream, she witnesses/hallucinates/prophesies parts of the hunt.
It's there again (on the back of the chair) when she sits by the fire and speaks for the wilderness, appointing Nat their queen. Ben watches, having woken from the dream himself, as they all bow to Natalie and leave reality behind for good.
Of course, there are a lot of times when characters hallucinate strange things in the cabin while not wearing the coat, because they're all starving to death and traumatized. Mari. Shauna. Akilah. But in addition to that, it seems like a pattern worth noting that in each instance where a character wears the technicolor coat, the line between the real and the imagined seems to blur with more ease. Does dead cabin guy's technicolor dreamcoat help the Yellowjackets connect to the dream realm?
I'll be brief here with the biblical parallel: blah blah Joseph is the favorite son (you were always its favorite), his father gives him a technicolor coat (they're nothing special, they don't change color in the cold or anything). blah blah Joseph starts having prophetic dreams etc etc his jealous brothers throw Joseph down a pit (the wilderness chose) and bring his bloodstained coat back as false proof of his death (hanging on a branch. a couple miles back). You get my drift.
Does it mean anything? Who knows. But in a series where wardrobe is such an integral part of the storytelling, it felt worth paying attention to.
#yellowjackets#long post#travis martinez#lottie matthews#natalie scatorccio#melissa yellowjackets#paul yellowjackets#yellowjackets meta#javi martinez#shauna shipman#ben scott#akilah yellowjackets#mari yellowjackets
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Kim Rok Soo, and "Foresight"
You know, something occurred to me recently...
We all know that on Earth 2, the "lie" Cale told about being able to see the future was half-true, in a way. He'd seen a version of the future, in a different world. While the kid with "Lie Detection" power could tell that this was a lie – as in, "Foresight" wasn't actually an Ability – it was still true to some extent.
But you know, I started thinking... while it might have been a "lie" from Cale... it was actually NOT a lie for Kim Rok Soo. ...The other one. The 20-year-old KRS from Earth 2.
Think about it. By arriving via Sealed God's test, Cale possessed that KRS's body – but that wasn't all he did. He actually shared memories with him. It might be an aspect of "Record", or it might have been a side effect of a god placing two versions of the same person in one body. Either way, that KRS actually inherited those memories for good. The full 15 years of the other timeline, and all the knowledge that comes with it.
Thus, KRS actually became a prophet.
It must be incredibly interesting from an outsider's perspective. The older KRS was someone who eventually developed at least 2 time-related powers: Record, which allows him to remember the past flawlessly... and Instant, which allows him to transcend the limits of time. That means, the other KRS would eventually have at least 3 time-related powers. (And it's completely possible that there could be more, as the author had been teasing us with the possibility since forever.)
Now, as far as the Koreans of Earth 2 know, KRS was some 20-year-old punk who suddenly developed a bunch of super powerful abilities on top of "Foresight".... and then suddenly "lost them", for some reason. Since it's a trend in TCF that people never actually question our protagonist, and make up a bunch of quite-crazy-yet-quite-accurate theories about him instead... I'm pretty sure they're going to assume that KRS "sacrificed" those powers for the sake of changing the future. As in, that KRS was able to access those abilities because he saw himself having them in the future. Which, again, is not quite true, but not completely a lie either.
By changing the "future" of Earth 2, Cale actually did make KRS sacrifice the potential of eventually transmigrating as Cale Henituse and getting those Ancient Powers in another dimension. ...Meaning, it wouldn't be completely false. It would put "yet another" time-related Ability on KRS's tab: the ability to use your own "future powers", at the cost of losing them forever by abusing the ability. ....Again, which is not exactly what happened, but it's not totally wrong either.
Basically: by the whole misadventure of "getting possessed by yourself from another dimension", KRS got more "time-related abilities" on his tab – both as an actual thing, since the "future" memories were real, and also in the perception of other people.
In other words... KRS is constantly involved in time shenanigans, no matter what dimension, lol
#tcf#lcf#trash of the count's family#lout of the count’s family#cale henituse#cale#tcf cale#kim rok soo#earth 2 kim rok soo#tcf theory#tcf analysis#character analysis#tcf meta
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I have a few questions if you don’t mind answering them.
1. What does the lamb do while the false prophet runs the cult do they hide somewhere or are they apart of the cult as well.
2. Is the lamb immortal or at the very least not age.
3. Are the prophet and the lamb close friends.
4. Does the false prophet bring back the old gods and give them a second chance.
"Does the false prophet bring back the old gods and give them a second chance" was answered here
Putting these questions together because they are all about where The Lamb is and what are they doing while the false prophet leads the cult.
1.- Where's the Lamb?
Although they had to wait a bit to not alert Ratau, the lamb was the "second follower" to enter the cult. Part of the deal was to offer protection and a peaceful life in exchange for the crown, so what was safer than the cult's ground?
2.- Is the lamb immortal or at the very least not age?
Anon here is pretty close to what my interpretation is. Although it was for a fairly short period, the lamb was a bearer of the red crown, they were revived with its power to be exact and for this reason, they can only die in specifics circumstances (such as the crusades). Do they age? Yes, but at a pace so abysmally slow that they can be considered immortal.
*This is also my explanation as to why Ratau is alive (and can only die by sacrificing him to the Fox).
3. Are the prophet and the lamb close friends? + No one notice there are 2 lambs?
When you have been living with another immortal for so many years, it's impossible not to generate a bond. Although this started more as a "guardian-protege" relationship of sorts, when both were more comfortable in their own skin (lol) it was quite easy to end up as "partners in crime". Although the Lamb respects the Prophet as the leader of the cult, there is no real hierarchy between them, since their inclusion in the cult was due to the deal they made, not as a follower of the Prophet's word. The Lamb follow because they want to, with no duty involve in that decision.
And to answer the second question, whenever doubt arises in the cult, the leader gives a different answer. In the end, it's practically an inside joke and everyone pays attention when someone new dares to ask, just to be able to hear what answer the prophet will give.
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TEXT POST STARTERS III
a collection of quotes and quips from popular internet posts. change & alter as needed.
“So, apparently, the ‘bad vibes’ I’ve been feeling are actually ‘severe psychological distress’.”
“So... like... everything is real, and we just have to deal with it, huh?”
“So what if I’m in love with you? Mind your own business.”
“Some of you guys are fucked up. Not me, though, because I’m cool and hot.”
“Some of you act like murder is such a big deal.”
“Sorry about my huge cool muscles, everyone. Apologies for my large, powerful form.”
“Sorry for acting so strange and irregular. It will happen again.”
“Sorry I was willing to be vulnerable with you. Do you still think I’m hot?”
“The best love language is being irritating. I will annoy you because I love you.”
“These manmade horrors are beyond your comprehension. I get it, though.”
“Watch your fucking vibes when you speak to me.”
“What’s a little homoerotic telepathy between friends?”
“Why do people insist on surviving the apocalypse when you can just die?”
“Yeah, I’m a false prophet, but you believed me, so whose fault is it that we’re in this mess, really?”
“You call it a near-death experience, I call it a vibe check from God.”
“You expect me to act like a normal human being? I’m wearing a turtleneck.”
#rp meme#roleplay meme#rp starters#roleplay starters#dialogue prompts#rp memes#roleplay memes#rp starter#roleplay starter#sentence memes#sentence starters
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“I am going to become a false false prophet. my powers are real i just lie for fun.”
-artagon
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