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The Long View: Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric

In case anyone needs help with the terminology of millennial studies, I have a glossary in my lecture notes. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric by Stephen D. O'Leary Oxford University Press, 1994 314 Pages, US$19.95 ISBN 0-19-512125-2 The study of millennialism did not

The Long View: The Great Disappointment of 1844

John maintained the HTML for his website by hand. I also starting making webpages in the late nineties, and that was just how you did it. As such, he had indexes by topic for his major interests, for example eschatology. I debated recreating these for a long time, but I

The Long View 2004-09-08: Death Cult

Here, on the grounds of millenarian movements and apocalyptic expectations, I think John was at his best when describing what Islamic terrorism is. There is a link to esoteric fascism too, the ideology of Tradition. Pray that men such as these don't have their day in the sun.

The Red King Book Review

The Red King by Nick Cole Amazon Digital 2005 $0.00; 285 pages ASIN B019S9WEHA I don't usually read ebooks. I have an irrational love of physical books, with their scent of slowly oxidizing paper. I find that I will do almost anything to avoid reading ebooks. Thus

The Long View: The Apocalypse Kit

All these years later, the Heaven's Gate webpage is still up and running. That is an apt metaphor for John's point here: millennialism is a permanent [well, really really stable] feature of the human mind. You see the same pattern over and over again, in widely

The Long View: A Culture of Conspiracy

The world of conspiracy theories is a strange one. If anything, a lack of proof, or even disproof, only makes them more popular. There are a lot of durable memes that came out of the 1990s, things like the New World Order, or the Men in Black. Hollywood helped, and

The Long View 2003-12-22: Some Readings from Revelation

The DHS scrapped the color code warning system in 2011. Which is a good thing, I never really gave it much heed. Some Readings from Revelation Here is one way to look at the uptick of the security level to Orange: ---Revelation 12:12 Yes. Rejoice. Whoopee. I have great