Not to flex but I have not one but two personal, terrifying stories about skinwalkers
I’ll share the less terrifying one first and tbh might not share the second one because demon summoning and all that, even writing about this encounter feels like playing with fire.
so I don’t even live in ottawa but the shit is fucking bonkers. like it’s absurd.
the horrific event that is the protest convoy aside, the thing that boggles me is that no one in charge is doing anything. ppl of ottawa, of canada, are literally being chased off their own streets and everyone from the police chief to the fucking premier is like ‘well shit if we can do anything 🤷♂️’
as ppl get chased down, as businesses get destroyed, as honking keeps everyone up and fries their nerves, as ppl get harassed, they try to go to the police chief to do something – and he literally won’t do jack. the most he can be asked to do is give out traffic tickets that’re just going to get thrown away & draw up some hotline, but when it comes to actually moving these assholes along, oh no, they can’t do that. they’re funded and trained police force apparently isn’t up to the task and the protesters apparently have so much power, that this has become ‘bigger then a police issue’ or something akin. his hands are tied, don’t you know.
alright, so the chief won’t do anything. what about the mayor? oh, no, mayor won’t do anything either, agrees this situation is too volitale to do anything. what about the premier then? nope, nothing from him.
well if the big heads in charge won’t do something, should we try the RCMP then? well despite those big heads calling on them, the RCMP says they also have no plans to combat this issue either. meanwhile, protestors barge on, yelling racial slurs and throwing rocks at an ambulance trying to get someone to the hospital through the protest.
so the chief, the mayor, the premier and the RCMP won’t help, who’s left then??? trudeau??? but no!! trudeau won’t do shit either!! he’ll fucking condemn the protestors all live long day, but when it comes to forming any plans to help, he can’t be asked either (I can kind of understand why he won’t meet with them bc he doesn’t want to give their stupid demands merritt, but a tiny part of me is amused that as they throw a hissy fit demanding to have audience with him, trudeau is literally flat out like ‘lol no. fuck y’all’)
this is fucking ridiculous. this shit these ppl are playing, refusing to step in to help the people and instead just tossing the problem onto the next institution or person in charge hoping they’ll deal with it instead. they’ll condemn the protest with such vigor, but apparently they’re not upset enough to actually DO anything (‘do you condemn these protest events?’ ‘absolutely! what these protestors are doing is harmful and has no place in canada!’ ‘so what are your plans then to put an end to it?’ ‘oh no, we’re not going to ask them to leave are you crazy? they might have WEAPONS on them, it’s far too scary!’)
they act as if the longer they wait, the protestors will just move on. I can tell you right fucking now, by the looks of how it’s going, there’s no way on hell that’s happening – those ppl will fucking burn down the city before they leave. they keep repeating the same thing that they won’t leave and have shown signs of how serious they are, and STILL the police and gov are just acting like they’re simply throwing a big tantrum and will eventually tucker themselves out.
how many more bystanders have to get hurt in order for someone to take this seriously? how long will they let this go on bc they’re too scared to actually stand up to these assholes? the police chief saying how carefully they have to tread so it doesn’t erupt in violence – mf, you let this go in too long and it WILL evolve into violence!! and I’ll tell you who will suffer from it, it will be any and all POC, minorities and other vulnerable ppl in the vicinity. I get they’re tying to keep it from becoming a riot, but this lack of action is exactly what these assholes want. they want to feel like the institutions and ppl on the oustide are afraid of them, that they have the power – then they can just do whatever they want. it seems like they’re already doing that.
and it seems like our leaders are just going to let them.
>“the horrific event that is the protest convoy aside”
People don’t have a right to protest?
>“the thing that boggles me is that no one in charge is doing anything.”
>“ppl of ottawa, of canada, are literally being chased off their own streets”
Not a shred of proof this is happening.
>“as ppl get chased down”
That’s not happening.
>“as businesses get destroyed”
That’s not happening.
>“as ppl get harassed”
That’s not happening.
>“meanwhile, protestors barge on, yelling racial slurs and throwing rocks at an ambulance trying to get someone to the hospital through the protest.”
Lol, when?? How?? You’re making this shit up on the spot you little liar.
>“I can kind of understand why he won’t meet with them bc he doesn’t want to give their stupid demands merritt,”
Their “demands” consist of nothing but “don’t force us to do something”. Aren’t you an anarchist?
>“those ppl will fucking burn down the city before they leave.”
Not a single act of violence has been committed by the protesters you fucking liar.
>“how many more bystanders have to get hurt in order for someone to take this seriously?”
Nobody has been hurt you are blatantly lying.
>“mf, you let this go in too long and it WILL evolve into violence”
mf I thought you said its already violent?? So suddenly it’s peaceful but it might, possibly, maybe, somehow turn violent because….. You think it might?
>“and I’ll tell you who will suffer from it, it will be any and all POC, minorities and other vulnerable ppl in the vicinity.”
Oh fuck off! You don’t give a damn about anyone but yourself you statist bitch. You really expect everyone to believe that NOT A SINGLE person of color is with them? Not a single minority is with them? Not any one of them?
You’re not punk. You’re a bootlicking conformist and you should be embarrassed.
Darina*, an elderly woman and Believer from a Muslim Background, has been a Christian for many years. During the last two years she has been experiencing problems with her son, Keram*.
Keram is an alcoholic, which resulted in his wife divorcing him. After the divorce, he started to oppress Darina and blamed her Christian faith for all his problems. At a stage, he even beat her after she had been to church, and threw away her Bible and Christian books.
Now, Darina can’t attend church and other Christians can’t visit when Keram is home. She is tired and doesn’t feel like she has the strength to deal with the situation. “I need to communicate with other believers to grow spiritually, to feel peace in my heart. I’m afraid of my son – he needs salvation,” said Darina.
Please pray for Darina’s safety and that God will surprise her with opportunities to meet with other Christians. Pray also that God will work mightily in Keram’s life – may he encounter Jesus and be healed from alcoholism, and start serving the Lord with his mother.
*names changed and representative image used for security reasons
I watched Four Lions and good lord that has to be the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen, the only black comedy worthy of the name, it’s absolutely crushing.
I can’t get over how much Riz Ahmed resembles a hotter Elijah Wood.
just to be clear that’s not why it’s crushing.
A while ago I read a book about french people who had gone to join ISIS and then come back to France and it made me realise that Four Lions, which up until that point I thought of merely as a brillant and dark comedy, is actually a completely realistic depiction of jihadi terrorist i.e they are complete idiots.
I mean there are obviously smart ideologues and tacticians among radical islamists but they’re obviously not the ones who carry out the fighting or the terrorist attacks.
I’m convinced it’s the most accurate representation ever put to film, but it’s also so much more.
(did the Boston bombers watch it?? because either way jesus)
it is REALLY surprisingly accurate. especially lots of little details (some exagerrated, like swallowing sim cards where really they just take the sims out of the phone) but yeah. it exagerrates stupidity for comedic effect but it’s astonishingly accurate.
besides the amazing picture it paints of British Jihadi Lifestyle I think it’s also a fascinatingly well balanced psychological portrayal of the people involved, and that’s what makes it so gutting to watch.
the main axes of the group are between the two leaders, Omar and Barry, and the leaders and the followers, whose names I forget so let’s call them Dopey and DJ.
Barry loves domination, he’s a blustering bully, he can’t resist getting in people’s faces and causing a scene even when he’s notionally trying to stay undercover, he’s desperate to be important and he continually struggles to get anyone to take him seriously and it infuriates him; it’s no accident that he is drawn to the idea of bombing the mosque of all places, ostensibly to stoke a religious war but probably also because they’ve kicked him out in the past for being a massive dick.
Omar leads through inspiration, made easier by the fact that he’s the most handsome, charismatic and quick witted of the group, although admittedly that last attribute is not a particularly high bar to clear. Omar genuinely loves his comrades – and tolerates Barry – and he’s also honestly committed to the idea of real martyrdom, not just for glory in this world but for paradise in the next.
The followers are just looking for acceptance, excitement, brotherhood, and a sense of being part of something bigger.
All of them are shockingly and deliberately ignorant of the world, whether it’s Barry blaming his car breaking down on Jewish sparkplugs or Dopey knowing little of the creed he’s planning to die for, but their bigger problem is a lack of self awareness: they have no conception of where they stand, what they really want in life, or why they do any of the things they do, and that’s what makes the movie a tragic insight into the human condition.
Omar at least is self aware enough to know that they’re rubbish, and he despairs at the realisation that they can never make their plan work, but he’s not aware until far too late that he’s lying to himself about the followers wanting martyrdom, and that’s he’s been manipulating them the whole time to serve his own dreams, just like the manipulation that Barry takes a cruel pleasure in.
The followers also don’t realise until the end that they’ve been passively following Barry and Omar due to the sheer force of personality and their desire to fit in with the gang, and that their own hearts want something different out of life, like the opportunity to go on living it.
The movie shows the danger of abstractions: jihad, paradise, unbelievers, things that weigh more heavily in the mind than the realities of his wife and child, who are not so much characters as simply concrete representations of the choice Omar is making, the life he could have led but is deliberately throwing away.
Another painfully broken relationship is between Omar and his brother, who appears in a few brief but powerful scenes where he misses the opportunity to dissuade him from violence. He is unable to connect with Omar on a human level, and all his religious knowledge comes across as pompous posturing that lacks understanding, designed to reassure himself about his life choices rather than heal the broken bond between them which ultimately leads to their ruin.
Humans given every opportunity to find happiness, instead blundering in the dark.
The stuff with Omar’s family was brilliant.
First you’ve got the obvious thing – visually, and in terms of his beliefs around male and female mixing, Omar’s brother – the pacifist – is on the extreme end of ‘weird foreign Muslim’, while Omar, the terrorist, is clean-shaven and relatable and his wife is an equal partner in taking the piss out of said brother. (There’s a scene where she chases him round the house in mockery of his desire not to be in the same room with her.) This is both kinda unexpected to a lot of audiences at the time and, I’m given to understand, not inaccurate!
But I also like how, for a comedy movie, they were sensitive to the drama and didn’t try to cram character ‘development’ into, say, his wife, that the script didn’t have time for. It’s much more affecting to see in her performance that she supports him, and be aware that we don’t know her reasons..
Red State is a black comedy so dark its labeled as horror. But, it IS a black comedy. Incidentally it’s also about extremist Abrahamic religous communities and the violence they commit, so it’s a surprisingly similar movie in some thematic ways too. So, if you liked Four Lions, you might like Red State too. BTW it’s one of those films that, if you are up for “author chose not to warn” level shit, is better taken cold without reading reviews or otherwise knowing what is coming. That said, there’s definitely some triggers to warn for on it.
Anyways, Four Lions is really good, and yeeeeah I also wonder if the Tsarnaevs watched it too. It would feel too on the nose if it was made after the Boston Marathon Bombings, but it was made before.
interesting. I think i’ll try to watch red state today or tomorrow, that’s a strong reccommendation.
And yeah, regarding the thing @loki-zen mentioned about ‘
This is both kinda unexpected to a lot of audiences at the time and, I’m given to understand, not inaccurate’, while the specific example doesn’t really fit my experience (the extremists do the no freemixing thing more strictly than the ‘traditional’ conservatives), it’s got the right spirit in that usually the western born jihadi types are less sexist and have a more equal relationship with their spouse. And also of course that they often marry equally into the whole thing extremist women.
if any of my followers hasn’t seen four lions and wants to watch a very funny dark comedy that’s still astonishingly accurate about a lot of stuff regarding islamic extremists i’d strongly recommend it.
too many people prayed for the world to NOT end in 2012 and god panicked and started pulling out rough drafts. bonus years. side quests and horror stories. he dug up his flop era and started posting it for all to see. you fangirled too hard and now earth is running ten seasons past a perfectly written ending using unlikeable background characters and resurrecting terrible plot lines. congratulations you’ve supernatural’d the earth.
