#computer Jesus

[11oh1]

[chilfucked]

Every instance of Chilchuck blushing in season 1 (in order)

[buildoblivion]

[hiragis]

Don't know how this one ends till I die And the honest part of reliable is the lie. The greater the power, the more the abuse You are the hand, I worship the bruise

[spaciebabie]

im like actually begging for him to shut up for my own sanity. PLEASE god.

[4rrenstep]

A chunk from my essay on LotF that I wrote for english

- P.S. I really think the religious allegories in lotf are super interesting, so I decided to base my argumentative on them.

In Hebrew, the direct translation of the term ‘lord of the flies’ is Baal Zebub. In Greek, Beelzebub. Regarding Christian Mythology and the New Testament, Beezlebub is referred to as the prince of demons and a figure of Gluttony, chaos, and destruction; moreover, Beezlebub is even considered another name for Satan himself. William Golding’s choice of title for his novel Lord of the Flies–considering the derivation and linking of it to the themes Golding presents–steers and allows readers to observe the book through a religious lense that reveals more parables than they would get analyzing it at face value. The plot may appear very straightforward, but the descent to entropy and its catalysts aren’t simply just developing conflicts. Rather, it’s a combination–that of the circumstances interweaved with religious ideologies and the “ancient, inescapable” nature of mankind. The veridical reason the boys’ island falls apart is because of the human sin inherent in man (Golding 138).

Lord of the Flies explores the defects of humanity within society and the ethics of morality by forcing mankind (the boys) to start completely from scratch–strip it of everything it knows and allow a renew. When given this chance, marooned on a deserted island, man reverts back to his instincts, what he essentially was born with. He commits violence, incentifies fear, and justifies his evilness. During an assembly when the boys are trying to determine the actuality of the ‘Beast’, Simon proposes the idea that there is one, but it is only them. Golding primarily foreshadows the theme of his book with Simon’s hypothesis, in addition to confirming it later on when Simon encounters the pig head that Jack and his hunters speared on a stick as an offering for the 'Beast’. The head speaks to Simon during his hallucination, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! … You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s a no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding 143). The ‘Beast’ isn’t the pig head, the Lord of the Flies, or even the Devil–it’s the manifestation of humankind’s wickedness, which is ineliminable . The ‘Beast’ is simply just an entity on the island, a rationale for the sins the boys enact on, much like the same way the adults and soldiers–the very reason the boys end up on the island in the first place–justify their violence by stamping ‘war’ on it.

In an attempt to fully illustrate the fall of a unified civilization and its cause, Golding writes Lord of the Flies as a catalog of human sin, checking off each of the Seven Deadly Sins by exhibiting them through the boys. The children demonstrate Sloth when they refuse to be responsible (e.g. build huts, keep the fire lit, use the restroom properly). Jack experiences Envy for Ralph because he’s chief and he isn’t. The use of terms relative to sexual intercourse during the graphic scene of the mother pig enduring death brought upon by Jack and his hunters depicts Lust. Jack’s Tribe, in a downward tumble of unprincipled ideals, portrays Gluttony–willing to sacrifice anyone and everything. Greed is characterized when Jack, despite already being chief, sends his group out on a manhunt to kill Ralph. Wrath is identified when the forest is set wholly ablaze to flush Ralph out and trap him like a pig. Pride when, without thinking about the consequences of achieving their pursuit, what would happen if they murdered Ralph and never got rescued by the naval officers. All chances of survival would’ve been obsolete and, besides water, the trees that were abundant in fruit and the pigs that were a source of protein would’ve been ash.

Contrasting to the showcase of the Seven Deadly Sins and man’s sin as a whole, Golding additionally displays his ‘hero’–notably more amiable–cast as the Four Cardinal Virtues, including an indisputably Christ-like character.

Simon, while also representing Prudence among the Four Cardinal Virtues, is primarily the only character in the novel–not accounting for the littluns–that doesn’t conduct any immoral acts in any of his appearings. He is benevolent, kind, and wise–giving his own food to Piggy when everyone is okay with letting him not eat, reassuring Ralph that he would get back home, and trying to tell everyone that the ‘Beast’ on the mountain is just a dead parachuter whilst they are too afraid to get a closer look. Tom Gaman, the actor for Simon in the 1963 film adaptation, had even said in the documentary Living Lord of the Flies that later in his life he realized he’d had “the best role,” having been “the good guy,” and therefore he “never carried any baggage into the world that directly related to Simon.” The way Simon dies is also very symbolic of Christ’s crucifixion, as he was speared to death as retribution for trying to do good. Simon can even be viewed as a sacrificial lamb, the doing away with bad–Jack stating that the ‘Beast’ had taken the form of Simon after he was killed–similar to how worshippers of God sacrificed animals as repentance in the Old Testament.

After Piggy is killed, Samneric join Jack’s tribe by force, and later on in the book, they as well rat out Ralph’s hiding space-although if they hadn’t, it would’ve been at the expense of their own lives. Samneric’s “betrayals” can be seen as deeds that contradict their entitlement to representing one of the Cardinal Virtues, but when Ralph is essentially exiled and they are on guard duty at Castle Rock, they feed Ralph and warn him of the manhunt to come the following morning. Samneric demonstrate Fortitude–show that despite all, they stand firm in the face of adversity.

Throughout the novel, many of the boys view Piggy as the whiner–and granted he is a bit of a complainer, most of his gripes are justified and rather intelligent. While he may not be physically nifty, Piggy assists in practical, logical problems, takes care of the littluns, and serves as an advisor for Ralph. Even though Piggy’s not afraid to speak his mind, he still displays great patience–representing Temperance–all the way up to his death.

Ralph, the evident protagonist of the book, is a very strong character with a strong sense of righteousness. He is picked as chief in the first assembly, empowers the idea of civilization and order, and never truly loses sight of the idea of rescue. After Simon is murdered and Ralph speaks to Piggy, he says “that was murder,” and when Piggy tries to rationalize Simon’s death with the mass terror, Ralph argues that he “wasn’t scared” (Golding 156). At the very end of the novel Ralph mourns for “the end of innocence, the darkness of a man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Because Ralph experiences these feelings–because he acts the way he acts, he embodies Justice.

[cath-lic]

i understand Jesus cursing the fig tree because that’s exactly how i am with printers. oh u refuse to print for no good reason? Ye Shall Never Bear Scans Nor Copies Nor Double-Sided Sheets, Nay, In All The Years Ye Be Powered On

[morerichka8]

Forgive me, Father, for I’ve coded in sin

[bloodbuzz-ohio]

The O.C. 1.07 The Escape (requested by anonymous)

[hua-fei-hua]

bill gates personally shut down my computer for his stupid unwanted windows updates WITHOUT WARNING ME when i was over FIFTY-NINE GIGABYTES DEEP into ATTEMPT NUMBER SEVEN of downloading my export of this blog and for that THE MAN WILL PAY DEARLY

[spacepilotleela]

Why I can’t stand the Pelant Arc

Christopher Pelant is probably one of the most dangerous villains in Bones, presented as being a total computer master hacker and all-around deranged individual. Though the idea of a hacker villain is very interesting, the way it was executed is infuriating. It’s clear that nobody in the writer's room knew how malware and computers work in the real world.

I am not an expert in computer science, but I am currently a cybersecurity and computer networking operations major, I’m not very far in so my knowledge is limited but I do have a basic understanding of how malware works.

You cannot code malware onto a bone, that is not how computers work, and it’s not how malware works. There is more than one type of malware and they all work differently but there is not a single type of malware that could be coded onto a bone.

Malware can be hidden in an image file, this is entirely possible but not the way that it happened in Bones. Angela did not download anything to her computer that could have had a virus hidden in it. When Angela scanned the images of the bone into her computer, she created a brand new image file with a picture of code in it. A picture of code cannot harm your computer. I could print out the code for a virus, scan it into my computer, and make it my desktop background and absolutely nothing would happen because it’s not actually code. It’s no more harmful than a picture of a kitten.

The suspension of disbelief on the possibility of what Pelant does is not difficult for someone who doesn’t know about the way that malware works but once you understand even the basics it very quickly falls apart.

The one very unlikely possibility is that Pelant somehow wrote a QR code of sorts into the bone that led Angela’s computer to download and execute a file. I do not believe that is the case though, as for Angela’s computer to automatically open QR codes automatically download whatever without even checking for a confirmation, and automatically run anything downloaded without checking, would require awful cybersecurity on her machine.

Considering that Angela is shown to be proficient in computer science and how advanced her computer is supposed to be, I refuse to believe that she could be that stupid and have a computer that just downloaded anything it was promoted to download without some type of check. She works with the federal government, there is no way her system could be that insecure.

For the malware on the bone to work it would have to magically have been linked to an executable file of some type. I say magical because this is not how real computers work. Malware on a bone is about as realistic as if Pelant tattooed the virus onto his ass and infected the computer by scanning his cheeks on a printer.

[wall-eye]

the aurora protocol episode 5 is horrifying. the spaceship ai shushing them over the intercom after dropping the lights and the doors around them

[starbuck]

yesterday my coworkers were lamenting about how it’s so hard to figure out how to write a subject line for an email without chatgpt and let me just say, from the bottom of my heart, what

[the-red-butterfly]

Vladimir (Stardew Valley)

Commission for @rjjameshiii of their Stardew Valley OC!

I have a new blorbo, and it's that blue chicken right at his feet. Thank you for this new knowledge 😂

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Open for Commissions

[talentforlying]

interesting to think about how constantine isn't commonly read as being the most morally upright of characters, and that's generally a fair assessment. but at the same time he can still be a surprisingly ethical character, particularly in terms of the values he holds synonymous with being a good community member.

a couple examples of (what i think are) his most consistently held values throughout the hellblazer series:

constantine feels very strongly about things like defending people's bodily autonomy and showing kindness & compassion towards society's more vulnerable demographics, especially kids & unhoused people.

he frequently & sincerely upholds the basic principles of xenia (showing hospitality towards foreigners, guests, and anyone whose fate is in your hands), and possesses a deep, innate sense of justice that he is unafraid to uphold when he feels it necessary to do so.

he personally values survival above honor but still has a healthy appreciation for people that are committed to a code,

he respects integrity more than he'd respect a good liar (even if he fucking hates you, at least you're being true to yourself; can't help it if yourself is just a prick),

and he is CONSTANTLY PLAGUED by a deeply personal sense of social responsibility to try and nip potential threats to the world, to his city, or to his friends in the bud if he thinks it might be within his capabilities to do so.

of course, it's key to note that constantine's code of ethics was also founded primarily in accordance with the principles of '70s-'80s counterculture + still largely abides by the social beliefs of the same-era punk community, and thus also includes more subjectively-judged tenets such as challenging the establishment, defying the government, protecting individual liberties, taking direct action in support of your community, putting people above possessions at every turn, and actively addressing social issues wherever / whenever you encounter them. so he's not always viewed by other characters (particularly upper-class bootlicking ones) as being particularly ethical. doesn't change the fact that constantine still adamantly maintains certain major ethical principles in accordance with the social systems he inhabits and was raised in.

[sevicia]

it's genuinely veeeeery odd to me that I can be off antipsychotics and be regular for very very long periods of time then BAM something with no other explanation happens. like the kinda paranoia I experience sometimes is Not Normal but it's also not often enough or long enough to warrant a diagnosis/meds. I think. So what now