And this one, from /pol/, takes "schematic reconstruction" to limit but somehow still works:
Update: I've decided I like this version better than the one in my last post:
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Good stuff! Keep it coming, if you see any more that is worthy.
Your focus on these ethically modified memes in recent posts and their "text removal" does connect rather well thematically with the earlier posts leading up to them and some thinking around them, oddly.
In the symbolism of The Raven, we have a picture of Perdition, or someone having committed the Unpardonable Sin and receiving no mercy. Or at least in some of the context you were writing about it, this was a fair symbolic interpretation.
The concept of something unforgiveable is rather vague - the mention of Unpardonable Sin appears really only once in the Book of Mormon (not counting Sherem's concerns about it), and it is defined by Alma as if you "deny the Holy Ghost when it once has had place in you, and ye know that ye deny it, behold, this is a sin which is unpardonable", and then suggesting that murdering "against the light and knowledge of God" is not quite unpardonable, but extremely difficult to receive forgiveness for.
The concept of someone not receiving mercy is a difficult one for me personally to imagine, but Mormon suggests that this is in fact so, invoking the Son of Perdition and citing Jesus' words in saying there is no mercy for him:
"Yea, and wo unto him that shall say at that day, to get gain, that there can be no miracle wrought by Jesus Christ; for he that doeth this shall become like unto the son of perdition, for whom there was no mercy, according to the word of Christ!"
The "to get gain" phrase is interesting as it focuses on this future day to Mormon, and links up with one of the purposes and intent of the Great and Abominable Church who will be in operation at that day.
Because the Unpardonable Sin is so vaguely defined, there are lots of guesses as to what someone would actually have do to fall into that category. I've also wondered, and I've found my thoughts keep coming back to the Book of the Lamb and its fate as seen in Nephi's vision as one example, perhaps.
In my story, I've guessed the Book of the Lamb will come from the Holy Ghost via the Rose Stone. Nephi sees that this Book will say some things very plainly when it is first written. However, the GAC will get their hands on it, and it will do exactly what these meme jokes you are writing about have done: it will remove and alter text, completely obscuring the original meaning. My guess is this will be done for some of the same reasons that people modifed the original memes and which the meme jokes are now making fun of - it will mask truth and some things that some people will find offensive, threating, and exposing.
GIven Alma's definition, and my guess as the source of the Book of the Lamb and the effect the modifications will have on those who read it (blinding them), I think removing and altering its text would probably fall in Unpardonable Sin territory, particularly so if those who are doing it understand what they are doing.
We're on the same wavelength here, Bill. I posted this latest meme just minutes after you wrote the above comment (and minutes before I read it).
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2026/06/this-ones-for-bill-and-leo.html
The idea behind the yes chad meme is one of the best meme ideas. To succinctly respond to a certain kind of attitude that was especially prevalent on the Internet years back, that if someone just says a certain thing then everyone is compelled to agree. And to just say, "well, I don't agree".
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