Archive for September, 2004

Presidential Debates

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Yeah, so I watched it. So what. Anyway, I didn’t mean to watch the whole thing, but then I got interested after a little while. I think it was because Kerry got Bush up on the ropes pretty quickly. I guess I was sitting around waiting for him to deal the death blow. He never […]

Kabbalah Killer goes on the rampage

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

An item from the UK, about a 25 year old woman, Phiona Davis who went on a bit of a killing spree. Miss Davis, apparently, is a member of the same Kabbalah group that Madonna is a major player in.
Unlike Madonna though, Davis killed her great-grandmother and her boyfriend. It’s actually quite gruesome. She […]

Minister promises to rise from the dead… and fails

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

A news article from Soweto South Africa: A 46-year old woman pastor died two months ago. She promised that she would rise from the dead like the Biblical Lazarus. Instead, she rotted in her garage for two months before police intervened. Apparently police knew this whole time and actually raided the house when she died, […]

Stained Glass Auctions on eBay

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

My brother and I have put together some fairly small stained glass panels with nice frames around them to try selling on eBay. I’m starting them out at $60, but eBay is such a crap-shoot, that who knows if we’ll have any success with it. But right now, it’s a good way to fill up […]

Bringing teenagers to God

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Here’s an article about different tricks which (mainly) Christian groups are playing in order to fool kids into embracing Jesus and a Christian lifestyle. It talks about different groups opening things like coffeehouses, and rec centers and like gospel rap, and piercing contests, and other stuff. Anyway, the most interesting part is this quote:
“It’s a […]

Joseph Campbell, Pop Culture, the Grateful Dead

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

There’s this article about the spirituality of rock concerts, or some kind of hippu crap to that effect. I don’t know because I didn’t read the whole thing. What I did read however was an excerpt of it on somebody else’s blog, which talks about Joseph Campbell, his distaste for pop culture and his love […]

False Messiahs

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

There is an interesting article over at New World Disorder which relates some information about apocryphal beliefs that Jesus was sexually active. Plus it goes into some details on a few different people who arose in the Middle Ages who claimed to be messiahs. Most of them were assassinated by the Church, which is not […]

Pop culture has become a new religion

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

I found a reference to an article in 1999 which was subtitled, “Pop culture has become a new religion.” While I couldn’t find the actual article itself, a google search using those terms did yield a variety of interesting results:

How pop culture icons become religious-like figures - Mostly this article just talks about how that […]

Boyfriend Arm Pillow

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Here’s another creepy invention from Japan. It’s a pillow which is is roughly shaped like the headless torso of a man. It’s wearing pajamas and it has one arm which sort of wraps around so it’s like “he’s” holding you while you go to sleep. It’s made by a company named Kameo and retails for […]

Aliens abducting kids

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Here’s a rather bizarre little website called Aliens and Children. It supposedly features drawings by kids who have been abducted by aliens of the aliens which abducted them. This part is weird:
“The pictures were drawn by children who successfully resisted the aliens by using a ‘thought screen helmet’ which blocks the telepathic control aliens have […]

Bad breath phone

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Stupidly enough, Siemens Mobile is developing a cell phone with a “microchip” which allows the user to detect bad breath. Their own, of course. I guess it’s supposed to be some sort of replacement for when you breath into your hand to see if it smells bad. But I don’t think I’ve ever once done […]

More time-travel dreams

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Speaking of travelling back in time, I just woke up from a dream where me and a handful of friends had somehow slipped back about fifty years in time, give or take. At first, we were trying to figure out how to get back to our own time. But then we realized what a good […]