Secret "Jesus" Bible codes inscribed on American military weapons

Two points I want to make clear, and a lot of people already know these; 1) I'm an atheist, b) I'm prior military. I've personally witnessed many things that the military has said they didn't know about but really truly did. I have no doubt that this was known well before the contracts were signed. Bullshit like this makes me glad for two things; a) I'm an atheist, 2) I'm not in the military anymore.

Secret "Jesus" Bible codes inscribed on American military weapons: "ABC News reports that high-powered rifle sights provided to the US Army and Marines by Michigan weapons maker Trijicon include coded references to Bible passages about Jesus Christ:

The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious 'Crusade' in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents.

One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.'

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes (ABC News)

Trijicon (corporate website)


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Holy Awesome: star wars x clerks

Because anyone that knows me knows I love Clerks.

Holy Awesome: star wars x clerks

William Burroughs's Typewriter (and Other Stuff)

By far one of my favorite authors.

William Burroughs's Typewriter (and Other Stuff): "From The Morning News:

How did you end up photographing William Burroughs’s stuff?

William Burroughs lived for many years in the former locker room of an 1880s YMCA, on the Bowery in New York City. The almost windowless space was known as The Bunker. When he died in 1997, his friend and mine, John Giorno, kept the apartment intact, with many of Burroughs’s possessions sitting as they were. Part of the space is now used for Buddhist teachings, and the apartment is a wonderful mix of Buddhist wall hangings and pillows and carpets and Burroughs’ personal furniture and collections.

Is the room still intact?

His bedroom is as he left it, with all his stuff in place. Giorno looks after it, and occasionally houses visiting artists and friends and Buddhist teachers who come to teach in the main area of the space.

William Burroughs's Stuff at the Morning News

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Man Scout

My daughter is in Girl Scouts which means, by proxy, I am in Girl Scouts.  This is her first year in the scouts and I want her to do a good job so I posted the following at work, I think it might help;

"This is my daughter’s first year selling Girl Scout cookies which makes it the first of many years where I will be shilling away for her at work!  If you have received this letter and cookie sheet, thank you for taking the time to read them.  So first, let me give you some details;

·         Cookies are $4 a box

·         They are yummy

·         They will be available for delivery middle of February

·         Payment is not due until delivery

And, to make you all feel warm and fuzzy, her troop has decided to use some of the funds received from the sale to build a community garden in Maricopa, tentatively at the Veterans Center.  How can that not make you feel good?  A pretty place for those that deserve it built by a slew of 6 year olds in a town that’s been hit hard?  I’m getting teary right now just writing this!

But if that did not motivate you then maybe this will.  If 250 or more boxes are purchased by employees at GT I will deliver them in a Girl Scout uniform.  Yes, I love my daughter enough to do that.  Plus, 250 seems like a pretty steep number so I don’t think I have much to worry about, but please prove me wrong.

In closing, for $4 a box you get some sweet, sweet cookies, you get to help out a Girl Scouts troop, you get to help that troop help out their community, and quite possibly you might just get those cookies delivered by a grown man in a Girl Scout uniform.

Thank you for helping out!

Christian Schrader

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p.s.          If you do want to order please feel free to send me an email with your order.  All I need is an extension or phone number, and quantity per box.  I’ll fill in the rest.  Thank you."

So, would this motivate you to buy a box?

The Lie Counter

I've done pretty good so far, only one little lie to a customer service rep with Verizon.  I needed to get some information which I knew they wouldn't readily give so I went into interrogation mode and said what I knew would get me what I wanted.

I have noticed though that I am more conscious of what I do and say.  Like I thought last week I am making more of an effort to speak the truth and not stretch it for my own gain. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can continue this trend.

Interesting Question

If you were held accountable for your lies would you continue to lie?  And I mean accountable for even the littlest, tiniest of lies.  Like the time you remembered to take out the garbage but didn't because you were being lazy/rebellious/an ass, and then when you were confronted by your mother/wife/any other woman in your life you simple advised that "you forgot"?  Would you make a true effort to not lie or would you just lose the guilt?

My initial thought is that you would try not to lie for a long time (a week sounds like a long time) then you would slip up, you'd let a little lie fly and feel completely like shit.  But you'd admit it because that is the experiment I'm proposing and you'd find that the repercussion was not as bad as you expected, but you have a conscious and you'd try harder.  The the next lie slips out and you admit it and again not so bad again.  Now you're realizing that admitting your faults makes you a better person and the faults are what truly makes you YOU. So you stop trying not to lie and you go make to your normal ways and when you make a mistake you admit it and that's that.  I don't believe you would stop lying altogether and I don't believe in the long run your lies would decrease.  They might get smaller and that's a good thing but I don't think it's in our nature not to lie.

So test yourself.  If your uncomfortable sharing your lies just keep a log for yourself and review them at the end of each week.  See if the lies made a difference to the outcome of whatever you lied about.  See if they were necessary.  Personally I'm going to keep a list on me and log them as they happen.  I want to see how often I do lie, the outcome/worth of the lie, and other points I'm sure I'll figure out later on.  I want to see if my theory is right.  At the end of the week I'll post my lies, what's the use of me proposing this test if I have nothing to lose, right?

I'll post a link to my log (sounds perverted) in the next day or two, I honestly just came up with this and have nothing prepared.  And just because I'm going to try not to lie don't try to call me out on stuff, you might not want the truth!  Just remember, most of the lies people tell are not malicious, they're to protect the feelings of others.

New Stuff

I want to write.  Or maybe I want to draw.  Or maybe I will do both.  I don't think I will do neither of them, definitely at least one of them, I will let you know.


I read a lot, consume a lot, take in a lot but I don't produce a lot.  I fill very little space.  I'm not a riddle and this isn't a riddle but I wish we both were, that would be much more interesting than the truth, that what I have said is the truth.  I'd like to be a lot more complex then I am.  I'd like to be more than I am.  I will be big in the hearts of others.  Someday