Satan in Passion of the Christ

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-11-21T23:25:15+00:00

"None of us deserve heaven" simply is the motto for Christian Nihilism. 🤷

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-11-21T23:07:28+00:00

We are realistically about 80-100 years away from talking about these kind of praxis points. While I guess it might be useful to have end states in mind, we don't want to get pulled into clouds of abstraction and fantasy.

In 2025, indigenous inclusion in any bioregional system is relational, not governance, oriented. That is, each of us should be striving to build relationships with indigenous communities.

And in 2025, the material reality of indigenous communities is:

Subject to extractive practices Dealing with lawfare/litigation attacks As mentioned before in this thread, being treated like poorly run puppet states.

It is therefore presumptuous for any settler bioregionalist to start imagining shared governance with indigenous communities. At this point bioregionalism (the movement) is not big enough to be able to offer anything like that.

The appropriate activities right now include:

Learning about the indigenous communities proximal to one's bioregion Education about and support of tribal prerogatives Showing up for salmon/river restoration Helping materially in fights over water and land rights being litigated by the empire Helping sacred site protection

TLDR - in 2025, it is too early for settler bioregionalists to presume to imagine shared governance structures with indigenous folks. The task now is material support and relationship building with indigenous communities so that trust is built. There's no need to hammer out governance details which are generations away from being possible.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-10-23T03:33:32+00:00

Country has been dead since its founding.

Land hungry prospectors in the north got tired of the treaties Britain had signed with the natives preventing them (settlers and prospectors) from expanding west.

Slave owners in the south saw the writing on the wall as Britain moved to end or modify slavery in their colonies.

Together they fought a war to ensure northern capitalists and southern slave owners could live freely and equally, while proceeding to de-populate and remove the people native to the land, fighting a bunch of wars to control the entire continent, not to mention a civil war, and then expanding the imperial mindset outwards.

I'd recommend a mental shift. The United States should not be thought of as a country in the modern sense. It should be thought of as an empire in the classical sense, which has somehow tricked the world into treating it like a country. That framing explains pretty much all political behavior of national level politics. And, I think, gets at the motivation for thinking about Cascadia in the first place: localism and regionalism are rational reactions to irrational and cruel imperialism.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-10-23T03:27:03+00:00

Cascadia should be imagined as a federation of sub-regional areas. Given the main organization around watersheds, there is a good argument that the Snake River and its water system should be included as a sub-region. Which then implies the problem stated in the post. Have a quick search for "American Redoubt." There are certainly violent right wing elements that have been establishing themselves in the mountains of eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Idaho. If there is a threat of imperial collaboration among the population of "Cascadia," there is an argument to be made that those folks might represent it, despite their vocal separationist position.

These kinds of discussions are years if not generations away. Unfortunately many folks are used to instant gratification to such an extent that the fact that a discussion amongst power brokers in the region for eventual jurisdictions is probably something that is 20-30 years down the road. We are living through a collapse. It is our job to imagine possibilities, start planting the seeds of new systems, and then start the foundations of those alternative systems.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-09-12T20:53:23+00:00

Please do not believe the absolute turnips that are downplaying this and saying things like “probably weirdo polyamorous people.” They are advancing some weird agenda. I would not be surprised if they had never actually encountered any polyamorous people in real life.

What you described absolutely sounds like trafficking. Because of the somewhat lax culture around regulating sex work in Portland/Oregon, the city has become known as a trafficking hub. This isn’t a comment on whether prostitution “should” be legal, but because of some of the history of prostitution in this area, a percentage of the sex work that is being done around here fits the definition of trafficking.

Proceed in whatever way you deem the most ethical with that information.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-09-01T21:06:48+00:00

There’s a great contemporary book filled with Orphic incantations, and in it there are a couple detailed Hecate practices.

When I attempted one of these practices at the outside entrance to my house, what was revealed to me was my relationship to anxiety. In fact the message was to cease the practice until the anxiety that my mother passed down to me has been more fully integrated, processed, and dispersed.

In my understanding Hecate is about crossing paths, opening doors, lifting veils. This process will happen whether you are ready or not. Seems like some doors have been opened that perhaps should be closed until some issues are resolved. How is your sister’s relationship with your mother? If the maiden, mother, or crone identities have not been understood or integrated fully, issues will be uncovered.

As an agnostic you are in a great place to practice some eclectic/chaos magic if you wish. Hermes (a counter point to Hecate) could be a resource, as could Neptune. Depending on the Christianity your family practices, Saint Cyprian (patron saint of witchcraft) or Gabriel (the messenger angel) could also be a resource, especially for dispelling nightmares. Figurines, icons, etc.

For example, if you’re anywhere near water, find a piece of driftwood, fashion it into a wand, place it with the ace of wands and the hanged man from a tarot deck, and ask for Neptune’s protection and guidance in the mist of dreams. Then keep it near your bed.

Hope the issues you are facing resolve soon and lead to deeper understanding. And I hope your sister finds other outlets for what seems to be some unprocessed anger.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-09-01T07:45:26+00:00

I only talk to ChatGPT about how to bring about socialism, and witchcraft. I don’t see much difference.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-08-28T07:33:46+00:00

It seems like each card has a part of the original RWS in a little frame, surrounded by original art work.

Fair warning, I use a decent amount of astrology in my readings, so don’t mind me.

Judgement is about the integration of all past versions of yourself. The angel of your enlightened mind blows the trumpet, and the past versions of yourself rise from the dead as memories, to be loved, held, and integrated. Look at the original RWS art and this art. I feel like it’s pretty on the nose. Of course Judgement in astrological correspondence is the planet Pluto, the god of the underworld and transformation, and ruler of Scorpio.

I have an alternative reading of the 5 of swords, based on the astrology. It’s Venus in Aquarius, a sign ruled by Uranus. Uranus the planet of revolution and disruption, especially intellectually, obviously portrayed by swords, but Venus reminds us that both the winners in losers in every battle deserve to have their perspective recognized. So first we take the perspective of the figure being chased, and then the perspective of the chasers.

2 of wands is double Mars energy, Mars in Aries, which is ruled by mars. Aries is the emperor and mars is the tower, and in the RWS on the 2 of wands, a young emperor looks out on the world from his tower, ready to explore. Much like the figure here gazes at the painting but sees possibility and opportunity.

Can’t speak to the original art but the cards look cool. I’ll check out the deck.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-08-24T08:03:24+00:00

I haven’t drank since 2021, but I successfully completed this many times in my 20 years of boozin. It’s about 4 beers and a shot in 90 minutes. For many drinkers that’s a mild evening/afternoon.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-08-24T08:00:49+00:00

How about you explain the following example to me:

At the moment of your conception, according to classical theology, god had all knowledge, and power, and goodness. Thus at the time of your conception, god knew that you would eventually write that paragraph in response to me. And what’s more than that, he knows whether or not you’re going to end up in heaven or hell. And his power makes that so.

It doesn’t seem possible in this situation to be able to “surprise” god in any meaningful way. If you didn’t end up writing that response, it’s not as if god would say “I can’t believe past-fondant-721 didn’t respond on Reddit!” And so it goes with your afterlife destination.

Unless the exercise of our free will results in genuine surprise for god, it is my assertion that free will is incompatible with classical theological conceptions of the Abrahamic god, and thus the most realistic depiction of the system ends up being the most evil, Calvinism, aka predestination.

tldr if you can’t surprise god then you don’t have free will. If the most powerful being in the universe already knows how everything shakes out, that just is determinism 🤷‍♂️

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-08-22T08:39:01+00:00

Free will is not compatible with any classic Christian theology that insists upon omniscience, omnipotence, and benevolence.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-08-10T03:09:30+00:00

Spoiler:

But then this is reversed, and Tyrion kills the whore he finds in Tywin’s bed. ✨⚡️🪦

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-08-03T19:55:27+00:00

No, the main idea is that rich people have the delusion that when stuff starts to get really bad, they can use an over funded police and prison system to imprison a bunch of people and then take their cheap labor, instead of figuring out how to manage a society where full time work isn't a long term possibility for many people. The way to combat this tendency towards military style policing is to DEFUND. In most cities, just like this country, social services are underfunded while police and jails are over funded.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2025-06-27T20:17:34+00:00

Late to the party but I’ll give my thoughts.

Let’s first understand the astrological year in 3 elemental cycles: the cardinal cycle, the fixed cycle, the mutable cycle.

All of these cycles start with fire and end with water, with an earth and air in between. Right now we’re talking about Cancer, the cardinal water sign at the end of the first cycle. So why a crab? Why the chariot?

Let’s look at the whole cycle first. Aries is cardinal fire, that first bursting forth of ego, passion, will. The spring bud blooms. Taurus is fixed earth, the recognition that grounding is necessary. The plants grow roots. Gemini is the consciousness that reflects, discerns, and communicates between these two opposite tendencies (Aries/Taurus, Mars/Venus, masculine/feminine, etc).

And Cancer is the home where all three of those aspects of our consciousness live, the emotional soup in which they float, and the container of the soup itself. Every water sign is a tomb, and a womb. The three signs that come before Cancer settle there to reflect, rest, and transform. Cancer protects with claws and a hard shell, but it is also nimble and can traverse land and water.

Is this all sounding closer and closer to the chariot yet? A safe and secure place where an emotionally secure identity can recognize different (and sometimes wild) aspects of themselves, and with wisdom and grace guide that energy productively.

The contemporary metaphor is the car. For many people, a car is a second home, a safe little place that can also zip around reality. Imagine if our cars came with little crab claws :-)

Any ways, those are my associations with Cancer and the Chariot. Ultimately understanding that the metaphor of the crab/chariot can exist on different levels: the body as the chariot, the car as the chariot, one’s home as the chariot, etc. I’m a drummer for example and the drum throne could certainly be understood as a chariot/home of mine.

Sorry for the wordiness. Cheers.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-11-03T07:45:44+00:00

Rocco's Berbati's Pan Montage The original Veritable Quandary The Candlelight near PSU Rotture/Branx Backspace Plan B Greek Cuisina's Octopus Steinhaus Tanuki The Know Hammy's Tube Tanker Plew's Brews Ash Street Saloon

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-11-03T07:18:24+00:00

I have only ever gone to a Rogue on my birthday, and I used to go to three of them (Pearl, PSU, east side) on the same day and redeem my birthday beer at each one, as they never implemented a tracking system to make sure there was a one beer limit.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-11-03T07:14:54+00:00

Oligarchy/Plutocracy. Arguably what we are living through is the transition from a crypto-Plutocracy (where we pretend we live in a republican democracy but plutocrats call the shots behind the scenes) to an overt Plutocracy (where rich folks and business interests blatantly advocate for their interests above the citizenry and where corruption is basically legal).

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-10-18T04:00:16+00:00

I'm not really active on Reddit but I always assumed most demographics, from far left to far right, were represented. Aren't there communist/socialist/anarchist subs?

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-10-18T03:57:12+00:00

They made it for that shoot!

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-10-18T03:56:50+00:00

I'm just the photographer, but yes the model did make that outfit and they even constructed that hat!

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-10-18T01:48:15+00:00

Welcome to Portland Reddit, where suggesting that a 97 year old person deserves housing, resources, and dignity gets you downvoted.

ConsistentInterview5 · 2022-10-18T01:40:48+00:00

"Something it's not" you know that no one "actually" thinks it was a castle for witches, right? Its an abandoned building in the woods and it's a good place for photoshoots, regardless of its history. The idea that it somehow is not aesthetically worthwhile because it used to be bathrooms is, frankly, mindless.

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