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[yesterdaysprint]

Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, January 11, 1929

[oldshowbiz]

Jack Van Impe: End Times in the 1990s

[r0seb100d]

Ethel Cain’s “Strangers” is not about cannibalism being a metaphor for love.

There is nothing loving about the deep insecurity of a girl who fears that she still isn’t good enough for the man she loved despite him abusing, murdering, and cannibalising her.

The song mentions her mother crying for her lost baby girl, how Ethel hopes she knows that her mother knows she loved her and that they can one day be together in heaven.

It tells the story of a girl who was once again deceived by a lover whom she blindly trusted, and the fate it led her to and how she still sees herself and ‘love’ as her downfall.

[olbigjim]

Chapter One, Rapture Distress - Sawdust and Salvation

When I was growin’ up in northeast Alabama, revival season arrived with all the subtlety of a freight train in a thunderstorm. One day, the church bulletin board was hangin’ there mindin’ its own business. The next, it sprouted a sign three feet tall that hollered REVIVAL STARTS MONDAY. GET YOUR HEARTS RIGHT WITH GOD. I don’t know whose job it was to pick the dates, but they had the uncanny…

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[zippocreed501]

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Furious Anger: Preachers, Priests Nuns and Missionaries in Westerns

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The Way West  (1967) 5 Card Stud (1968) Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Cain's Cutthroats (1971) Buck and the Preacher (1972) God's Gun (1976) Pale Rider (1985) The Quick and the Dead (1995)

[bills-bible-basics]

AMBASSADORS -- a poem and song by BBB 

AMBASSADORS -- a poem and song by BBB #Poetry #Poem AMBASSADORS by Bill Kochman https://www.billkochman.com/Poetry 10-26-2024 Well, I am no kind of prophet, And certainly I am not a king, I don't have loads of money, But of this I will gladly sing. Even though I am not worthy, In fact, I am quite the mess, God led me into His Kingdom, Thus the Son I must confess. Many people are just like me, We are not special not at all, Yet God reached down to us, We heard His heavenly call. Out from this world we came, With a holy mission to fulfill, Striving to please Him daily, As we go about doing His will. God's ambassadors we are, His Kingdom we represent, We tell folks about the story, Of a dear Savior that He sent. Some do not understand us, They say that we are not well, If they were to have their way, We would be locked in a cell. Tho the world may not like us, Yet the truth we try to preach, Sharing the Gospel with them, Hoping at least a few we reach. Someday our task will be over, And we will each take our rest, God will reward us accordingly, If we have done our very best.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Zero. Zero preachers and mega-churches is plenty. Zero is the correct number.