RM> Must be the season for it. They turned up at the gate on Saturday,
RM> and lectured Jan over it (it sticks a bit, and Bong makes a horrible
RM> wailing noise if it does open, amuses the milkman, terrifies almost
RM> everyone else) about Revelations for about 15 minutes (I was in the
RM> garage at the time, and I just coincidentally happened to overhear
RM> some of the conversation through the closed garage door), and ended
RM> up selling her a nice little 300 page hardcover containing an
RM> interpretation of (mainly) Revelations, for $4.50, which must
RM> actually be close to cost price, it's a nice looking book.

RM> I opened it up and looked for an introduction, to see how the authors
RM> describe the book. There isn't one, it launches straight into the
RM> happy stuff.

RM> I thought most sects treated Revelations with some caution.

Nope, the fringe loony ones like the Joveys have always been
into that sort of thing like a dog rolling in a good turd.

Its basically why they keep running around trying to convert us
heathens, so we too will be saved when that totally arsehole of a
god fucks the world over very comprehensively indeed and only the
'saved' pass directly to heaven, not even passing GO in the process.

In their fucking cars too would you believe if they happen to be driving
down the highway at the time. Car and all goes straight to heaven.

RM> These guys think it's marvellous, wonderful, and Imminent.

They do indeed. Corse they've been thinking that
for a hell of a long time now, on the imminent.

Taint just the Joveys either, its always been one of the weirder things
the barking mad loonys believe. And whenever there is some catastrophe
some think that its come to pass. There was a lot of it about during
the english civil war when they convinced themselves that things had
come so obscenely unstuck that their god must be doing it right then.

Nothing like having an explanation for every eventuality, no
matter how utterly obscene. Thats always been the secret of a
good long lasting religion, a religious book so riddled with
weird stuff that you can find something for any eventuality.

RM> The style of the writings in this book resembles a cross
RM> between you at your most spaced out, and Ron T in aggro mode.

Certainly distinctive.

The droids are fucking weird too when you start going thru the
list of the stuff that they claim has actually happened in the
list of stuff thats supposed to happen first just before the end.

One of them is pestilence everywhere. They say 'see, this is true'
You point out that one of the few things we really have managed to
do is make tremendous advances in the control of infectious disease,
particularly with vaccination, and reduce infant mortality to a hundredth
of what it once was in the first world, and for the first time in
human history, actually completely eliminated one disease, small
pox, from the wild, and they just start raving on about HIV/AIDS
which doesnt even kill as many people as asthma in a place like Aust.

RM> Since we've actually bought a book, we'll be on their list
RM> for a follow up visit. I'm kinda looking forward to it.

Certainly some of the most rigidly closed minds you are ever likely to see.

Almost without exception completely scientifically illiterate
too. Havent even got a hope in hell of grasping that there just aint
enough water for a Noah type flood, even in just the middle east.
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