Today I have... Thread.

[Megahertz]

Snagged good deals on Amazon for audio equipment I need. .... Now I just need to deposit money.

 

[Queen of Tarts]

Tried Darjeeling chilled, mostly out of curiosity. It loses a lot of it's taste, and there's not much difference between it and regular iced tea, save it tastes a bit better and has a heavier caffeine kick.

I like it. Kind of curious how Green Chai tastes chilled.

 

[Marvin]

Ahaha, so, I rode my bike to the UPS store to mail something, and on my way back, I ran into the ISUPK. I love these guys.

For those who aren't aware, the ISUPK is a black israelite group. They believe black people (and indians) are the true descendants of the 12 tribes of israel. Also, almost all of the people who claim to be jews are really just impostors. Also when Jesus comes back, he's going to enslave all the white people.

They hang out and preach to people on the median on South Broadway street in Baltimore.

Anyway, so, on my way home, I ran into them and I waved and smiled at them. They were not amused.

Spoiler: can you guess who they're looking at? hint: he got accidentally shot in the face

It's hard to see, but one of them is holding a picture of white Jesus with devil horns.

Edit: I didn't actually do this today, but I had the story written up a few days ago and forget to hit reply.

Double edit: I've talked to them before. They argued with me about how I'm an Edomite and how I'm going to be enslaved when jesus comes back. Also, they really flipped out when I mentioned I'm jewish. I'm going to end up on a youtube video entitled "Edomite impostor tries to argue against the biblical truth!" one of these days, just you watch.

 

[wristwatchswisswatch]

Today I have started some bullshit online class about "Computer Science" that encompasses how to open a browser and other dumb stuff. Why am I taking it? It's giving me a credit as well as a certificate. Why the fuck not.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Ahaha, so, I rode my bike to the UPS store to mail something, and on my way back, I ran into the ISUPK. I love these guys.

For those who aren't aware, the ISUPK is a black israelite group. They believe black people (and indians) are the true descendants of the 12 tribes of israel. Also, almost all of the people who claim to be jews are really just impostors. Also when Jesus comes back, he's going to enslave all the white people.

They hang out and preach to people on the median on South Broadway street in Baltimore.

Anyway, so, on my way home, I ran into them and I waved and smiled at them. They were not amused.

Spoiler: can you guess who they're looking at? hint: he got accidentally shot in the face

It's hard to see, but one of them is holding a picture of white Jesus with devil horns.

Edit: I didn't actually do this today, but I had the story written up a few days ago and forget to hit reply.

Double edit: I've talked to them before. They argued with me about how I'm an Edomite and how I'm going to be enslaved when jesus comes back. Also, they really flipped out when I mentioned I'm jewish. I'm going to end up on a youtube video entitled "Edomite impostor tries to argue against the biblical truth!" one of these days, just you watch.

Aw shit, I love these guys too! I used to have Black Israelite neighbors who were constantly inviting me to their events and stuff - apparently, having a Moorish ancestor sometime around the Battle of Hastings made me black from their perspective. Have you ever tried talking about human evolution out of Africa to them? They don't believe in evolution, so the conversation tends to go in interesting directions if you purport to agree with some of their conclusions from a premise they find untenable.

 

[Marvin]

Aw shit, I love these guys too! I used to have Black Israelite neighbors who were constantly inviting me to their events and stuff - apparently, having a Moorish ancestor sometime around the Battle of Hastings made me black from their perspective. Have you ever tried talking about human evolution out of Africa to them? They don't believe in evolution, so the conversation tends to go in interesting directions if you purport to agree with some of their conclusions from a premise they find untenable.

I like this idea.

Also, I wonder how educated the outer members are about their religious perspectives compared to the people who actually dictate the policy.

Like, what if there's someone with a single black paternal ancestor? Is this the one drop rule? At what point am I legally/religiously a black israelite?

 

[Carlos Thin]

Come into work late only to wait for my supervisor to come in

 

[ASoulMan]

I managed to acquire more hours at my workplace, so looks like I won't need to find another job after all!

 

[Queen of Tarts]

Experimented some more with chilled teas. English Breakfast and Chai Green this time. Chai Green is a no-go, it's much better hot and with milk.

 

[Abethedemon]

Today I got two awesome shirts (Candlemass and Boris) from a record store I visit as a graduation present.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Today, I managed to schedule eye surgery for the same day as an event I wasn't looking forward to, and now I don't have to go to the event. Yay!

I'm not so thrilled, though, about the number of people who just used "World Multiple Sclerosis Day" as a pretext to try and sell me quack cures via pyramid scheme. Really, dudes?? I'm busting my butt trying to get my feet back under me and do something productive with my life after this latest setback, yet you're going to waste my time and energy on this crap? And there's a definite sting to feeling you might be reconnecting with an old friend or making a new one, only to realize no - they actually see you as a disease with some dollar signs pinned on. Nomen amicitiae sic, quatenus expedit, haeret, I guess.

Well, that took a more negative turn than I'd intended - to end on a better note, I'll mention that I also picked up my town beach pass today, and I'm just about to go down and take pictures of the sunset. There's a cool breeze coming off the water carrying in these patchy, wispy clouds, so I expect it should make for a really pretty end to the day.

 

[APerson]

Today I weighed myself and was under 200 lb; I'm 6 feet tall and have been working on losing weight all year.

 

[Lady Houligan]

Today I weighed myself and was under 200 lb; I'm 6 feet tall and have been working on losing weight all year.

Yay congrats! I'm in the same boat (just hit the under 200lb mark last week) though I am much shorter.

Today I have potentially gotten a coworker fired for being a giant fucking pile of suck and I will talk more about it under the spoiler.

Spoiler: I'm taking what they're giving 'cause I'm working for a living

So the company I work for has three offices. We'll call the home office Gondor, where I work, and the other office that comes into this story Mordor, where P works. P is a very recent hire, after the regional manager at Mordor finally got sick of the old office manager's shit and sent her packing in March. P works with T, and while T seems to be genuinely trying to figure all everything out, P seems more interested in getting things done so she can take her next smoke break. I would also like to mention at this point that the only reason why P was hired is because her boyfriend is a long-time employee of the company.

So a week ago today my coworker K and I were sent to Mordor to do MORE training with P in billing, despite her and T having come to Gondor to learn about how to run their office two Fridays in a row. While we were up there, we spotted a lot of problems. Specifically that P didn't know what was right and wrong on invoices, so I came up with a plan where we would supervise P's billing so we could make corrections as necessary. I now hate this plan because I have spent most of my time thus far this work week cleaning up P's shit for her and getting passive-aggressive emails from her in turn. Today marked the breaking point as I got an email arguing the phrase a billing code generates in our software, something I have no control over, so I called our comptroller and filled her in on it. Last I knew, comptroller was going to call and speak to the regional manager of Mordor, and "we'll see where it goes from there". Which in my experience usually means someone is packing their desk. Part of me feels kind of shitty about it, because I don't actively want this woman to get fired and have to look for a new job? But part of me is also of the opinion that when two separate people are taking time out of their workload to make sure that your billing is consistent with the company standard, you would at least try to cooperate? Maybe?

So yeah. That was a thing.

 

[Sigyn]

Today I applied for my schools Transfer Alliance Program to go to a university. Whooo!

 

[Cute Anime Girl]

I had to put my dog down today. She was hiding in the closet this morning breathing heavy like she was about to die. She was just ready to go. She was 13 years old and I had her most of my life and I already miss her.

 

[Holdek]

(and indians)

Dots or feathers?

 

[Marvin]

Dots or feathers?

Feathers. I think South Asians are considered Edomites as well.

 

[Holdek]

Feathers.

That's kind of similar to Mormonism. Kind of.

Do they give a pass to blacks and Indians walking down the street? I thought I saw them harassing black people too, just on different grounds. They seem to be mostly angry people and want to take that out on everyone.

 

[Marvin]

Are Edomites the real Hebrews or pretend Hebrews (in their ideology). Do they give a pass to blacks and Indians walking down the street? I thought I saw them harassing black people too, just on different grounds. They seem to be mostly angry people and want to take that out on everyone.

Well, actually, they might have a different term for asians. This is a pretty good article on them. White people are Edomites. They descended from Esau. I'm not sure if Jews are Edomites pretending to be Jews or if they're some other group entirely.

I don't know how they treat Indians and blacks. I think they'd probably try to preach to them about how white jesus is lying to them and how they're being suckered in. Heh, apparently they also hate continental Africans for selling them into slavery.

And actually, the ones I encounter around here are pretty mild. They're somewhat reluctant to argue with me. Well, aside from when I took their picture, that pissed them off.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

I like this idea.

Also, I wonder how educated the outer members are about their religious perspectives compared to the people who actually dictate the policy.

Like, what if there's someone with a single black paternal ancestor? Is this the one drop rule? At what point am I legally/religiously a black israelite?

Yeah, the rise of the Black Israelite movements in the late 19th and early 20th century appears to parallel the codification of one-drop laws in the US; I'm pretty convinced that someone made a trenchant observation about how these rules ought to cut both ways, people took the idea and ran with it, and then at some point the inmates started running the asylum. And I guess there's also about a million different flavors of the sect who all hate each other?

To me, they seemed a lot like any other religious group that teaches members to expect suffering in this world and a reward in the afterlife; that is, lots of in-group busywork, an offputting attitude toward the outside world that reified their feeling of set-apart specialness, and all to the ultimate benefit of some charismatic leader. My neighbors seemed like genuinely pleasant people whose church activities took up so much of their time, the only way they could make friends outside of church was to bring them into the church.

That's kind of similar to Mormonism. Kind of.

Do they give a pass to blacks and Indians walking down the street? I thought I saw them harassing black people too, just on different grounds. They seem to be mostly angry people and want to take that out on everyone.

Apparently Mormon missionaries are phenomenally bad at actually converting people, but going on a mission makes it far more likely that the missionaries themselves will remain Mormon. I wonder if it's not the same with these street corner guys.