Educated people sending PowerPoint apocalypse:
"Credit chip, implanted seal and symbol of the Antichrist!"
These are adults, thinking men and women, prey of acid trips.
Load the Rapture's Ark, each animal accounted for and priced.
Seven signs and seven candles, seven trumpets' bombast blare
Deafens me into suggestive states, my will is not my own,
Rupturing my merely human inner ears beyond repair,
Tell me aught, for I am caught, a deer in headlights still as stone.
Clicking to the next bright flash of insight (key to Heaven's gate),
Pondering, meandering the zooming text and images,
Learning nothing new, the heart won't stew without a tired debate,
Just ignore the underlying lessons, truest messages:--
Making something out of nothing, crying over mist and smoke:
Turn into the thing you hate, become the punchline of the joke.
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Trochaic octameter, never tried it before, it was fun. Enjoy!
Thanks!
- Giovanni
Written March 4th, 2004
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falls over what?
but i want to live in a quiet garden! -
Brilliant. No suprise
This is dope. Great write as usual. "seven trumpets' bombast blare deafens me into suggestive states, my will is not my own" Great line. I am starting to view all organized religions as brain-washing entities, producing mass quantities of mindless zombies. They are all cults. -
wow you have penned a loaded piece that touches so much on the mental attitudes of many today, and the techno plans to keep all of the madness concise and easily located...i truly enjoyed the form and the thoughts that formulated it all....
thanks for the input on a very telling topic for the present time....Artis -
This piece was actually inspired after I received an e-mail with a PowerPoint attachment talking about a credit chip that Motorola is developing that would be implanted in the hand. The slide show ventured to draw parallels with quotes from the book of Revelations that were pulled out of context. What burned me about the situation is that this e-mail was being forwarded by seemingly rational people who should know better. In a nutshell, that's what was going through my head as I penned this piece.
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Well, as long as we are giving opinions as to the poems meaning. I pictured an email message or tract on the order of Hal Lindsey that used the details from the book of Revelation to make some sort of weird application. I did not picture main stream orthodox evangelical Christianity, but someone using the Bible for their own means (albeit with good motives). Modern day Charles Finney's ready to use the sophisticated technology of the day seeking to usurp the place of the Holy Spirit.
Let me know how off-base I am. I am not post-modern and believe in seeking the author's intent. Jennifer
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awesome! i loved the flow, i was entranced
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You're right; I wasn't thinking of that, although I'm slapping my forehead right now for not having thought of it (you can imagine how difficult it is to type with one hand with a stinging forehead
). Anyway, I'm happy I was able to make you think of something like that, the humility of the church you describe can only be admired and respected, and should serve as a model, at least in my view.
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This probably isn't what you had in mind, but you know what this made me think of? The really large churches that really do use weekly powerpoint presentations within the service, and have professional "worship teams" (and special effects) and cordoned parking, and are so big that you feel lost in the crowd. To be fair, I know a lot of them are good at connecting you in smaller groups, like churches within a church, and I have close friends that are very happy at a church like that, because they have a lot of opportunies to serve.
I don't know-- I had a chance to visit a church in Mozambique, and it was a just a hut with a dirt floor. A lot of the women had babies tied to their backs. The people were excited to be there, praising the God they loved together. They were so REAL and joyful, and they used bongo drums and danced, and sang praise with all their heart. Oh, it was beautiful! I thought, "This is real, this is as it should be, this is right." -
that last line is bit is AWESOME! "Making something out of nothing, crying over mist and smoke:
Turn into the thing you hate, become the punchline of the joke." woooooowwwww.... ahem.
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excellent
Haaa wonderful.. I could think of several ISP's to send this too..I like how you brought the PC world and human life together in forming the perfect work of art..Spam hmmm I used to only think it was a can of meat.
Anyways as always great write!!!!!!!!!!
~Lori
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