otto the wonderdog

Micah 6:8 No DMs, please.

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

You want to see this savage, achingly beautiful story. You don't know how much you want to see this film but trust me, you do. #Amerikatsi

https://t.co/cwUMRcpCgf

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

They say the devil hates his servants the most.

Here's why...

This painting is called Allegory of Satan, or Lord of the World, painted around 1900 by the Polish artist Ludwik Stasiak. It is not the devil you might expect. There are no flames, no chaos and no horns leering out of the dark. Stasiak painted something far more unsettling.

Here the devil sits enthroned like a ruler of the world, with a sardonic grin on his face, surrounded by the symbols of earthly power: wealth, ambition, domination, and death. Evil, he suggests, never arrives as something horrifying that we instantly reject. It arrives as something attractive. It looks like success. It looks like money, and status, and control. It looks like everything the world tells us to want.

And that is what makes the painting feel so modern, more than a century after it was made. Stasiak was working at the turn of the twentieth century, an age obsessed, like ours, with progress and fortune and getting ahead. And he was warning that the most dangerous evil is not the kind that frightens us, but the kind that seduces us, the kind we serve willingly because it promises to make us powerful.

Which brings us back to the old saying. Look closely at what lies beneath his throne. Scattered at its base are the skulls of the powerful, still wearing their crowns and their helmets in death, the very people who traded their souls for money and power. And he sits above them, amused, because the joke is on them. This is why the devil hates his servants the most. He does not respect them for serving him. He despises them for it, because they handed over the only thing that ever mattered in exchange for things that rot.

That is the real power of the painting: Stasiak did not depict a devil we would run from, he painted a devil we would kneel to, and follow, and call our lord, mistaking our own chains for a crown. He was only giving form to a warning as old as the Gospels themselves: "No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money."

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

@TheNextAlan @JoshuaBarzon IOW in point 1 he simply quotes what the First Amendment says regarding religion. Point 2 is his interpretation of point 1.

This “wall of separation” was not so impenetrable as to prevent him from attending religious services in the Capitol which is something he did.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Never seen anything so Israeli in my life 😂

A Ballistic missile from the Islamic Republic of Iran hit a field in Israel and created a spring.

So Israelis have now used it recreationally and named it “The Rocket Spring”

These people are incredible

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

@RonnyHR487406 @DannyDeraney Glad I'm not you, really.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the iconic and brilliant Mel Brooks with one of the best videos you will ever see.

The time he and Anne Bancroft performed Sweet Georgia Brown on British TV.

In Polish. 😂

[Young George Washington @washingtonmovie]

Kelsey Grammer reviews George Washington's resume - is he the right man for the job?

Young Washington is in theaters this Independence Day. Tickets on sale NOW!

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

Red Sox rally past Yankees 5-4 in 10 innings to complete 4-game sweep after Gray loses no-hit bid

https://t.co/PojHgGNu0I

https://t.co/C0uZMkeCyR

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

I understand english well. That’s not the problem here. I know what I asked and what I didn’t ask. I know you are claiming somebody implied something which means you aren’t talking about what somebody actually said. You are arguing about what’s entirely in your head and nobody else’s.

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

@cc37876 @drleospaceman86 @redsteeze I didn’t ask about something that someone might have implied.

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

@cc37876 @drleospaceman86 @redsteeze Who said they lost the Battle of Bunker Hill?

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

@MRune @WR4NYGov @ouamoussi @TeslaAndDoge If only it was just Muslims. Stupid people do stupid things.

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

@tomsimplify @Israel2252 No less ridiculous than Trump doing foreign policy except as much as I might desperately want to I can’t mute Trump.

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

Get over yourself. I have little use for Trump or his cult but the woman is RIGHT. Trumpers are not always wrong. Acting like they are never right is no different than them acting like Trump is never wrong. We need our politics to be about ideas and stop being about some crackpot (on the right or the left) who has a good social media game.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

TSA warned Europeans not to try to fly home from the World Cup with bottles of ranch dressing.

Kraft is now releasing a pack of TSA-compliant ranch packets that add up to a full bottle.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

"We have people that are much less radicalised"

Reminder for everyone that on the same day the MOU was signed, the islamic regime hanged two January protesters and also began stealing the assets of a footballer who spoke up against them.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

The world said the people of Iran must rise up to free themselves.

They did. 30k (at minimum) were slaughtered.

That’s what the regime did at its most fragile.

What will it do to them when it’s $300 billion dollars richer, stronger, and more powerful?

That will be the end. There will never be a chance for revolution again.

And if Iranians can’t free themselves from the regime, the entire world remains under its eternal threat.

Don’t think that this doesn’t impact us all.

“As above, so below.”

[otto the wonderdog @GardnerRuggles]

Incroyable!

[Lj Priest (Formerly Trader Jill) @RealTraderJill]

Europeans in America for the first time for the World Cup is my absolute favorite content right now!

This Frenchman is hilarious!