J. Kb

Salvation, atonement, and grifting

If you missed it (you probably did), Right-wing social media was buzzing about Michael Knowles interviewing Nala Ray.

 

The Christian Right on Twitter, by-and-large loves this girl and her testimony.

I’m have doubts.

I’m not a Christian.

We Jews do not believe in salvation. That is not a Jewish principle.

We believe in atonement. One must atone for their sins. Part of atonement is making right and reforming previous behavior.

So I watch this interview and this is my take-away.

This girl made $9 million doing hardcore pornography on OnlyFans and builds up a huge follower base.

She finds a man, falls in love, want to get married.

She finds Jesus, prays, and is saved.

She quits OnlyFans.

She transitions to making softcore content of her in scantily clad costumes and athletic clothing and calls it cosplay and fitness influencer content.

She starts making money with Christian influencer content.

She doesn’t give away her $9M from OnlyFans, she doesn’t reject her followers.

She doesn’t do good works, build church, fund missionaries, help Christian hospitals, etc.

She found Jesus and a sports bra and did substantially change her life.

Social media tells me I can’t judge her. Her sin has been washed away.

Didn’t Jesus save Mary Magdalene, who was a prostitute?

Yes, but I don’t remember in my Episcopalian high school days, learning that Mary went back to being a prostitute after becoming a follower of Jesus.

Nala Ray’s transformation looks like a grift to me.

She gave up hardcore for a husband and parlayed making money off incels to making money off Christians.

I remember from the history books when the Medieval Catholic Church would require people seeking forgiveness to fast for 40 days and take a vow of poverty.

At least make her buy a planetary indulgence for $9,000,001.

Make her demonstrate an act of contrition.

Thus just feels like a grift and I don’t understand why more people don’t see it that way.

I’ll admit, I don’t know salvation, but I do know atonement, and nothing I’ve seen her do looks like atonement.

 

Landlines

I wanted to do a deeper dive into the article embedded in the Tweet from the last post I made.

REVEALED: WiFi went down ALL DAY at LA cash storage facility as thieves stole $30m in daring heist

Neighbors of a cash storage facility robbed of $30 million claim internet signals went down and they heard an explosion during the daring heist.

The FBI and LAPD are still trying to piece together how burglars breached the roof of GardaWorld in Sylmar, Los Angeles, on Easter Sunday without triggering any alarms.

Issa Alhosry, 22, co-owner of the nearby Kwik Market Deli said their WiFi, phones, and servers were down for hours on Sunday morning and into the evening.

‘We couldn’t get or make calls, not even on my cell phone,’ Alhosry told DailyMail.com.

It does sound like the thrives used signal jammers to disable security measures or prevent people from calling the police if they saw something.

Cellphone jammer can be bought on Amazon, and they are becoming popular in robbery and home invasions.

I understand why wifi based security system are popular, they are much cheaper that hard wiring a home.

However, the technology to defeat them has also become cheaper and more prevalent.

If you are at all serious about security, a hardwired system tied to a landlines is much more secure.

Reactivating a home landline for emergencies might also be a good idea.

(I invite our resident security camera expert to do a follow-up post on this)

The importance of analog systems

 

There isn’t a signal jammer or RF blocking device that can stop my dogs from barking or jam my Sig P320 or Benelli Nova Tactical.

I’m with Miguel on this, that security systems and cameras are invaluable, but that doesn’t mean they are unassailable.

If your high end security goes down, what ar3 your backups.

Mine eat kibble and fire JHP or buckshot.

The Eclipse on Monday

I’m going to be in the path of totality on Monday.

If anybody wants me to wish for anything on their behalf from the Elder Gods during the human sacrifice, Venmo me $1,000 and put your request in the note.

I’ll only have four minutes and I’m going be be asking for a house, so it will need to be something quick.

 

Peak bureaucracy

After a year and a half in New Hampshire, I finally got my New Hampshire concealed-carry permit.

The reason is so that I can apply for my Massachusetts non-resident LTC.

New Hampshire’s carry permit comes printed out on an 8.5×11 inch sheet if paper.

It’s not a wallet card.

I guess since you don’t have to have it on you, being a Constitutional Carry state, they decided to save money and just give you letter.