Loss I-IV

Wandered Into Nelson Mandela Place, Found a Piece of Asemic Writing

The Oneida Community - Cults of America no.3

Doctrines
(1) COMPLEX MARRIAGE - This is where every man and every woman is married to each other. They could engage in sexual intercourse, but could not be attached to each other as stated earlier.
(2) MALE CONTINENCE - This was a form of birth control where during and after sexual intercourse the man could not ejaculate.
(3) ASCENDING FELLOWSHIP - This is where the young virgins in the community were brought into the practice of Complex Marriage. The older godly members who were in a special group and were called Central Members would pick a virgin to be spiritually responsible for. This took place when the young people were about fourteen years old.
(4) MUTUAL CRITICISM - In Mutual Criticism, each member of the community that was being reprimanded was taken in front of either a committee or sometimes the whole community to be criticized for their action.
(5) CONFESSION - The members of the community, according to Noyes, were sinless after conversion, so no confession would be needed.
(6) REGENERATION - That Christ's death was not for the sins of man, but was the first blow to Satan. But that by believing in the death of Christ, one was released from sin, because Christ destroyed the central cause of sin. By believing then, one is regenerated (Whitworth 101-102).
(7) SEPARATION - The members did separate into a community, but their main separation was to be a sexual one.
(8) REVELATION - Noyes never said that he received special revelation, though he did have some twisted interpretations. Noyes once wrote an article in "The Berean" and emphasized the credibility of scripture and denounced those who denied the validity and relevance of scripture.
(9) EQUALITY OF THE SEXES - The Oneida Community believed in equality of the sexes as stated earlier.
(10) MILLENNIAL KINGDOM - That the Millennial Kingdom had been introduced in A.D. 70 at which time Noyes thought Christ had made His Second Coming (Hudson 186).

Sighs I

Sighs II

Sighs III

Sighs IV

Burning Bush

Electric Sun Babylon

Messiah Boy - A Televisual Event (Episode 1)

Messiah Boy - A Televisual Event (Introduction)

Messiah Boy is quite capable of taking over our television screens. He understands digital TV. He understands fibre optics. He is capable of invading our cable and satellite networks like a virus infecting the central nervous system.

From his birth as a sub-atomic particle, radiating energy, he hurtles through systems and circuits, gaining velocity, crashing into other speeding particles, transforming, mutating, until an image is formed, an outline, a faint glow at the edge of our TV screens. He enters our consciousness gently, a character in a sitcom, an occasional guest on chat shows, a feature in celebrity gossip magazines. He feeds on our lust for entertainment, drama, 24 hour news coverage, until, finally, Channel 4 offers him his own reality TV show.

We become obsessed, fixated. Every thought, every emotion is conveyed to the public via sensors attached to his body and head. Our nervous systems and brain functions are digitally pixelated. We become one cyber organism - Messiah Boy and his disciples. He leads, we follow; he speaks, we listen. Oh Messiah Boy, Son of the Most High Wired, we worship you!!! Oh Messiah Boy, wi-fi, hi-fi, wi-si-hi-pi, Most Highly Defined, we magnify Your Name!

A Vision of Words in the Afterlife

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One Year On

Today is the one year anniversary of Afterlights. Hip Hip - iouhfij! Here're a couple of cheery little numbers to celebrate . Thanks to everyone who's popped in and had a look over the year. Hope you've enjoyed what you've seen.

John Knox Meets the Buddha at the First Resurrection

Cartoon Buddha Aristocracy

Psychic Materiality

Wish Gate

1.

ocean spear path. vile head riot. dance. deliver. plastic forest.

cave curtain. quake denial. bury shine fin. uproot divine.

mass ascension. trust epiphany. salmon path. shalom. cajole.

blissful vine. unwind trapeze act. sodomise. licentious lull.

twist divan tease. rot pariah. silver shoot galactic tail.

rescue mermaid. salt perversion. statuesque. demure. demean.



2.

map bliss. uncertainty. wild future. dog drawings.

cult luck. veneration.



3.

ideal nerve surge. ripe sensation. elysium.



4.

dog draw cult cure quake core slow vine path sheen mist mail uprising.



5.

slush. field. woosh.



6.

marble. occult pantheon. demonology. wish gate.

The Plastic Forest