We were warned of this coming so long ago
Immortal secrets... man shouldn't know
Entering a realm where we just don't belong
We called them and they're coming.
[The Misfits: Don't open till Doomsday]
Immortal secrets... man shouldn't know
Entering a realm where we just don't belong
We called them and they're coming.
[The Misfits: Don't open till Doomsday]
One week to go till class starts...
...you might want to read Revelation, to get a taste for the ancient, original apocalyptic thing - it may feel kind of long, once you start reading it, but it gets bloodier, more brutal, and weirder by the line. You may want to open your windows and start reading it aloud, so your neighbors can join in the apocalyptic fun. I'm sure they'd love to. If you find you're really, really into it, you might want to go on and read the book of Daniel (which precedes Revelation, both chronologically and in the bible canon), but you don't have to - I'm gonna drop a few words about it, come time.
I should add the precaution that I don't plan to bring a religious background to these religious texts - I'd prefer to read them, for the sake of this class, as works of fiction.
A little background information, thorough enough for our purposes, can be found here.
Also, feel free to bring hard copies of the Revelation text to class next week - I'm going to prepare a handout with select passages, but I'm not going to copy the entire thing several times over.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet...the bees are gone: the passing away of large parts of the worldwide bee population (some seem to have survived on Hawaii, though) really begs the question: is this a sign of the last times? Are the bees leaving the planet because its destruction is immiment? Who can say? The disappearance of so many bees should prove to have grave effects on agriculture, I should think...an apocalyptic scenario involving the massive failure of the agricultural industry, is John Christopher's The Death of Grass (or, in the US: No Blade of Grass), not part of our reading list in this class but still highly recommended as a very spooky book.
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Edit April 14 - and now it's the cellphones that are destryoing bee populations...
...you might want to read Revelation, to get a taste for the ancient, original apocalyptic thing - it may feel kind of long, once you start reading it, but it gets bloodier, more brutal, and weirder by the line. You may want to open your windows and start reading it aloud, so your neighbors can join in the apocalyptic fun. I'm sure they'd love to. If you find you're really, really into it, you might want to go on and read the book of Daniel (which precedes Revelation, both chronologically and in the bible canon), but you don't have to - I'm gonna drop a few words about it, come time.
I should add the precaution that I don't plan to bring a religious background to these religious texts - I'd prefer to read them, for the sake of this class, as works of fiction.
A little background information, thorough enough for our purposes, can be found here.
Also, feel free to bring hard copies of the Revelation text to class next week - I'm going to prepare a handout with select passages, but I'm not going to copy the entire thing several times over.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet...the bees are gone: the passing away of large parts of the worldwide bee population (some seem to have survived on Hawaii, though) really begs the question: is this a sign of the last times? Are the bees leaving the planet because its destruction is immiment? Who can say? The disappearance of so many bees should prove to have grave effects on agriculture, I should think...an apocalyptic scenario involving the massive failure of the agricultural industry, is John Christopher's The Death of Grass (or, in the US: No Blade of Grass), not part of our reading list in this class but still highly recommended as a very spooky book.
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Edit April 14 - and now it's the cellphones that are destryoing bee populations...
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