After letting us get the idea that Judas was probably a pretty cool guy from Jesus' point of view, we turn the National Geographic Channel to the problem of the Book of Revelations. The Apocalypse. Seems that people are concerned about what it means.
Well, I think it's pretty obvious. John the Revelator was on serious drugs. Great imagery -- sort de Quinceian, a bit of Lovecraft here, a bit of Norse Creation and Destruction myth -- the only difference I see between the "end times" and the gotterdamerung is that the supposed good guys win in the end times; nobody wins Ragnorak. So, I'm betting archetypes a la Jung and Claude Levi-Strauss, combined with Kif and maybe some poppy juice tea...
Maybe that's the secret to being into this whole "left behind thing." Opium and kif...in watered wine? Maybe baked in the communion bread? Do Protestants do that stuff? The only adulterant/nervous system stuff in the Catholic wafers I recall was saltpeter, but that was due to the whole Catholic men's college/high school/ grammar school (get 'em while they're young!!!) thing.
Israel/Palestine must have had some powerful shrooms back in John's day. That rivals Baudelaire's Hashish Eater and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for best drug literature of all time. Maybe I need to get high in order to understand the stuff...
It's nice to know that the two Reverends interviewed in the documentary hail from the county of Serrach & myself.
Posted by: Comandante Agi | 16 July 2006 at 07:17 PM
Yeah, I bet old John of Patmos got a real workout at the Evangelical churches yesterday. I bet they were really creamin' their jeans over this WWIII thing. "END TIMES! END TIMES!" But I don't think it was drugs. I think it's the effects of long-term cannibalism. Those folks eat flesh and drink blood, you know. So don't blame it on the poor mushrooms. Of course maybe he was having a Flesh&Blood Pizza and sprinkled some shrooms on there for a tasy topping.
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | 17 July 2006 at 08:50 AM
do evangelicals cream their pantalones?
Posted by: the serrach | 17 July 2006 at 08:58 AM
hmmm...my memory is often distorted (thank you, weed), & it's not like i speak ancient greek, but i think i once read that "Apocalypse" roughly translates to "revelations", or "to reveal"...? it makes sense to me...how many people truly know themselves? the Last Book of the Bible & all the Left Behind/Rapture mythology notwithstanding, "The Apocalypse",imo, refers to that most intensely personal event of every individuals life...their death...when all of life's illusions, dellusions, & subjectivity get left behind & there "you" are, w/ that other 90% of your mind wide open (?), & the "truth" of all your motivations & the context of all your actions in the "big picture" is revealed to you, in that instant you're already in the heaven or hell of your own making...or maybe you just rot in the ground...
Posted by: tassawwuf | 17 July 2006 at 11:45 AM
After the rapture, can I have your car?
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