If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
I saw a meme about how a guy 'isn't far-right', he's 'just a normal person from 1995'.
I looked into it and found that average people in 1995 tended to hold lots of views that we would now consider unacceptable.
Link below!
"I'm a polytheist who believes God was once a man, that He's married to a female goddess and they live on a planet called Kolob, that Jesus and Satan are brothers, that there's a potentially infinite number of gods and I'll one day become the god of my own planet populated with my celestial space babies, I deny every single essential Christian doctrine, and reject every historic Christian creed.
Now explain to me why I'm not a Christian right this second."
Grover Cleveland had cancer (sarcoma) in his mouth and jaw removed on a yacht at sea while the public thought he was on vacation, and no one knew until 24 years later
Woodrow Wilson had several strokes before and during his terms
Eisenhower had a heart attack that they described as gas
Chester Arthur’s kidneys were failing
Roosevelt contracted polio and became paralyzed, so they took no pictures below the waist afterward to hide it
JFK nearly died at least 5 times in his life due to Addison’s disease, including during his term, and was on a cocktail of drugs that included tons of steroids
If it's one thing we can count on, it's that our government will not tell us if our president is unwell/cannot do the job because it temporarily crashes the market, causing billions in losses for the wealthy
>Be aurochs, 10,000 BC
>Roam the steppes of Anatolia in vast herds
>Humans approach. Nervous.
>They don't kill you. They bring you grass.
>Something strange begins.
>Be domesticated cattle, 8,000 BC
>Humans shelter you from wolves
>You provide milk for their children
>Partnership forms. Mutual. Ancient.
>Your kind spreads across every continent with theirs.
>Be cattle, 3,000 BC
>Pull the plough that breaks the first agricultural soil
>Humans couldn't have done it without you
>Mesopotamia feeds thousands because of your shoulders
>Civilisation, technically, runs on ox power
>Be cattle, Roman Empire
>Armies march on leather boots you provided
>Shields made from your hide
>Legions fed on your meat
>Rome, technically, runs on you
>Be cattle, Medieval Britain
>The peasant's only source of winter protein
>Your tallow lights the candles they read by
>Your manure feeds the fields that feed everyone
>The feudal economy runs on you
>Be cattle, 1800s
>Power the industrial revolution's early leather belts and drive shafts
>Provide the tallow that lubricates every machine
>Your bones make the fertiliser that feeds the growing cities
>The industrial world, technically, still runs on you
>Be cattle, 1950s
>Scientists discover your organs saved millions during wartime
>Insulin extracted from your pancreas keeps diabetics alive
>Gelatin from your bones holds medicines together
>Modern healthcare, technically, runs on you too
>Be cattle, 2026
>The world decides your breath is a global threat
>The "solution" is a lab-grown burger in a plastic box
>The plastic is made from the oil that replaced your tallow
>The soil turns to dust because your hooves don't stir it
>The humans forget who pulled them out of the mud
>You aren't the engine of progress anymore; you're the exhaust.
>Be confused.
America used to be filled with local traditions like this based in superstition and whimsy. Groundhog Day is one of the last tethers connecting us to a world and culture that is actively being erased.
Do people born after 2005 even know a black cat walking across your path is bad luck? Do they still throw salt over their shoulder in the diner after spilling the shaker? Do they know to urgently rush home if they see the same rabbit twice?
This sort of superstition is what used to make America feel small. There used to be less strangers. A man from Oregon could reflexively turn away from a broken mirror and a man from Louisiana could see this and know exactly why. We knew inherently that we were cut from the same cloth.
When our past gets demonized so we stop teaching it and we replace our people with foreigners we lose these sorts of connections. The generational tethers binding us to the past and to a shared culture are eroded. Do people in America still avoid walking under ladders? Do Americans know to toss a coin into a well if they’re down on their luck? You shouldn’t open that umbrella indoors, anon.
What type of American are you? Do you know Phil?