Comments on: Overstanding Nuwaubianism

By: Shamans Adrift in Contemporary Culture - Pop Occulture

Shamans Adrift in Contemporary Culture - Pop Occulture — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:21:54 +0000

[...] s, I was mentally comparing a lot of it to the rantings of Dr. Malachi Z. York, founder of Nuwaubianism. And something struck me all at once. Now, while Mutwa doesn [...]

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:31:05 +0000

Yeah, they have some very gnostic elements. For example:

http://www.timboucher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=184

I think for me the biggest challenge is reconciling what seems very gnostic with a lot of the other stuff which seems very bewildering.

By: Kylark

Kylark — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:29:11 +0000

encouraging Nuwaubians to question received wisdom and the status quo. Belief, the basis of all other religious systems, is bad since it is based on… trust rather than truth.

Sounds a lot like gnosticism if you ask me.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:33:26 +0000

So, yeah, wow. I think this one trumps Scientology in general weird-principle coolness, I’m pretty sure…

Okay, I found a fun little propagandic “the time is now” animation here: http://nuworldorder.com/

And I also found through some clickiness (I was actually trying to find some info about the company that produced that little animation) a reference to something called “Genisis,” which… well, seems to fit into the Nuwaubian thing pretty well, so I dunno if you came across that too…

http://www.planetarymysteries.com/genisis-geneset.html

By: slomo

slomo — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:06:16 +0000

If he’s not just simply bonkers, Dr. Malachi Z. York-El seems to be adept at producing koans for the 21st Century.

By: James Russell

James Russell — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:47:54 +0000

Did you know that disco was crafted by the devil to ensnare black people?

That is priceless. I could’ve sworn it was invented to ensnare white people by making them want to dance and revealing in the process how bad they are.