It's the heart's the crazy bus driver
The Two Subcultures Rule still holds. The ‘Vark passed on a community of Evangelical Christian Insane Clown Posse Fans and their associated Universal Life Church Congregation at MSN Groups.
Exceptionally strong minds may be able to confront the poetry.
My favorite insane cult from the 1980s is the CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT, led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Her books were in the weirdo section and I was always fascinated. There was something about St. Germain, and new Christian prophecies, and aliens, and everything.
Like everyone else they had a compound. Theirs was by Yellowstone and they stockpiled weapons waiting for the inevitable pseudo-Christian apocalyptic disaster.
Ms. Prophet had a unique preaching style, and fortunately a recording of one service at least survives. This is from my 20th birthday! Many of you will have heard one of these tracks (“invocation for Judgement”) because it’s an attack on rock music that lists a long series of popular bands in 1984 that must be destroyed, and are comically mispronounced (Cindy Looper, etc.).
Decree 12.10 is only for completists, as it’s basically 27:57 of deranged cattle auctioneer/martian hoedown/speaking in tongues. The others are great though. If you just get one, get #4, the Great Divine Rector’s Call. Please download rather than streaming, and mirror if you want to share.
Wait, what?
http://www.businessroundtable.org/myths/index.html
You what?
You used WHO to prove WHAT? Oh man, Hindu people are gonna love your use of Ganesh there, buddy.
The poor ‘vark found this while looking for pictures of Norse Gods or something. Yeeow.
The Exploding Aardvark, via her del.icio.us posts, has introduced me to the only televangelist the matters: THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH.
Note: extreme profanity in audio.
LONG STORY SHORT I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING A PARTY BALL FROM THE ABSINTHE CLEARINGHOUSE BUT IT WAS TOTALLY NOT WHAT I THOUGHT
springheel_jack linked to digby’s post on the “Purity Ball” phenomenon. This is put on by the Abstinence Clearinghouse people, and is a ritual in which formally-dressed daughters make a pledge of abstinence to their formally-dressed fathers. It’s basically them marrying their fathers until they find husbands.
The abstinoids sell a purity ball planner, and you can browse a photo gallery of the 2005 and 2006 balls.
This is the best Rural Pakistan ever! By the way I hear the abstinence chicks are totally easy for oral and anal, dude.
A time of trials calls for heroes. Specifically, it calls for very large men who win eating competitions and record hip-hop records about it.
http://www.myspace.com/badlandsbooker
Also: isn’t that pandaxian‘s twin on the right? Audri?
Cactus Game Design specializes in board games for the churchy. Following the rule that everything in the secular world must have a Christian knock-off, they’ve been proud to bring us Redemption: The Gathering®, which takes the nerdy card collector game a step further into evangelically sound nerdiness.
A quote from the rules:
Special abilities on sites are not affected by character or enhancement cards. New Jerusalem (Site Card), Dragon Raid, and Promised Land are mainly used offensively as “access sites” and therefore their special abilities are written to take effect when they enter battle and at no other time. All the single color sites are mainly used defensively as “lost soul sites”. The special abilities on single color sites like Nero’s Realm and Leper Colony are written to take effect when they are holding a lost soul. Therefore, if you are using an “access site” defensively or a “lost soul site” offensively the special abilities don’t activate.
From a sample game:
Kurt
Draw 3: (Servant Angel, Lewd Men, Lost Soul). Lost Soul in Land of Bondage, draw
replacement (Angel of the Lord).
Prep: Lost Soul in Tree of Knowledge site.
Battle: Rescue attempt with Angel of Revelation (8/8 silver hero). Bryon blocks with
Oppressive Women (7/7 gray evil character). The evil character is losing, so Bryon has initiative.
Bryon plays Deluge of Rain (Gray enhancement “Discard all cards in battle, including yours.”).
Kurt has no silver enhancement that can negate that effect, so all cards in battle are discarded.
This is mutual destruction by mutual removal, so no Lost Soul is rescued. The score is still tied
2 to 2.
Discard to 8: Kurt places Servant Angel, Servant Girl, and Guiding Angel in his territory.
Card image courtesy of this Flickr set from Chris Noessel.
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