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Rhetorical questions such as these right off the bat may well put you off. A major difficulty is that no consensus as to when and in what sequence these predicted events must take place. This topic has always been a particular source of schism and polemic. I will be proposing specific dates as numerous have in each generation before me. And as many have been before me, I can be refuted by the mere passage of time.

The majority view espoused by most evangelicals is pretribulational premillennalism, which I only partially agree with. I will point out that part of this view is in fact based on a historical novelty that only traces back to the nineteenth century. What I mean here is that in terms of the glacially slow movement of theology (remember that the canon was finalized some two thousand years ago), the majority view is a relatively recent innovation.

I prefer a distinctly minority position, which would be called multiple-rapture postmillennialism. The postmillennial position holds that many of the predictions made in the New Testament, including those of the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24, Mk 13, Luke 21), were accomplished in the early Christian era, and their past fulfillment limits the future events to be expected. There exists one school, represented by, for example, Max King and Timothy James, which holds that each and every prophecy of the entire New Testament was accomplished during the early Church age. However, I feel this view neglects proper consideration of the Book of Revelation.

Postmillennialism is also sometimes referred to as preterism, which implies that the text is allowed to speak without exegesis. Thus, when Jesus repeatedly predicts the Kingdom within a generation, I do not write off the statement as a mistake or excess of enthusiasm. Instead, I draw up a timetable that shows the Kingdom beginning a generation after the Crucifixion. Then, when John of Patmos says the Millennium starts at this date of the beginning of the Kingdom, I duly go to my chart (see Timetable at my site) and set the Thousand Year Clock ticking. There was in fact a specific date a generation after the Crucifixion - the pivotal date of A.D. 70. This was the historical date of the Fall of Jerusalem, which is not a particularly prominent date in more mainstream discussions. This is the date of the First Resurrection in the terminology of John of Patmos that begins the Millennium.

What happened in A.D. 70? After a lengthy siege by the Roman legions, Jerusalem was ransacked and leveled. To the secular eye, as detailed by Josephus in THE JEWISH WAR in gory detail, the scene was one of mass destruction in which not even the Temple was spared. A.D 70 blew it to Kingdom Come and the prophesied Kingdom did come. For to the spiritual eye, as Russell’s PAROUSIA demonstrated more than a century ago, these events were the fulfillment of the Olivet Discourse and the return of Jesus and His conquering armies in the clouds to inaugurate the spiritual reign with the saints and martyrs. Other sources listed in the bibliography including Chilton’s PARADISE RESTORED espouse this view. Chilton nominated Jerusalem as the Whore of Babylon and Rome as the Beast. (Note added 2006: In my 1986 Timetable I followed Chilton. I have since reversed my opinion. I now see Rome as the Whore and Jerusalem as the Beast.)

I need to stop for a moment to consider the question of the dating of the Book of Revelation. The presently accepted date for the appearance of the Book of Revelation is A.D. 95. If this is the correct date, the fulfillment of the predictions made so far would be merely a matter of hindsight. I recommend John A. T. Robinson’s examination of this question in REDATING THE NEW TESTAMENT. Robinson cites extensive internal and external evidence for moving the date of the Book of Revelation back to the A.D. 70 timeframe. Further, he traces the standard A.D. 95 view back to a single source. This source is a statement by Irenaeus that the Apocalypse first appeared “toward the end of Domitian’s reign.” This statement is ambiguous and may even be merely mistaken. Other sources listed in the bibliography (including Chilton and James) accept an earlier date.

The Book of Revelation represents a significant amplification of the preceding Gospels and Epistles. Here the concept of the Millennium is introduced for the first and only time. The timetable presented by John of Patmos extends forward to the future Judgment Day and the establishment of the New Jerusalem, thereby completing the New Testament Canon.

Turning to the time period of the Millennium, lasting approximately from A.D. 70 to A.D. 1070, the starting point was the spiritual event, the Parousia, as detailed by Russell and Chilton. But secular historians looking back at this time period as a whole have labeled it the Dark Ages. More recently this verdict has been tempered by the demonstration of the development and technical progress that occurred in the Middle and Far East during these years. But it does remain true that for Western Civilization, primarily Western Europe for these years, these were times of unprecedented barbarism and ignorance. During these times the blood of countless martyrs was spilled in belatedly laying down the Roman Empire and establishing the Church. Violence was the order of the day and sugarcoating or rose-colored glasses are unnecessary. The First Resurrection was an event of mass destruction and the Kingdom or Millennium was an era of barbarism. In other words, it is not an accident or coincidence that the fulfillment of the prophecies was apocalyptic. Instead, there is an important principle to remember here, since I will point out that Judgment Day will also be mass destruction and the New Jerusalem to follow will appear to secular eyes again be relative barbarism. I will take up these thoughts again in later chapters.

Why didn’t Judgment Day begin about A.D.1070 with the end of the Millennium? Historically, many of the people living then did expect to see the Messiah return. I answer instead that this was the date when Satan was unbound for his season. Here I part company with many of the sources listed in the bibliography. They prefer to see the Millennium as an indeterminate period extending potentially thousands of years with Satan loosed for his season only shortly prior to the Second Coming. They see the Church still in the Millennial period expanding and consolidating its gains to ultimately convert the entire world immediately prior to the Advent. On the contrary, I hold that John of Patmos really meant a time period of approximately one thousand years, and that Satan has been at work sowing his evil. I admit that the season has now lasted nearly a thousand years in its own right. One consolation is that this extended period is finally about to come to a close. Satan has been quite busy from my point of view during the last centuries. Examples of his infamous work would be such events as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution on down to the contemporary horrific mass movements. I could be accused of being a feudalist or an obscurantist here. However, I do not look back to the Kingdom so much as forward to the approaching New Jerusalem. At this point in time I feel we are reaching the low point of the curve descending to Hell, immediately prior to the Messiah’s return.

Thus, I teach hellfire and damnation, as do most of the right wing evangelists who hold the premillennial view. But, as I have said, the postmillennialists of the bibliography, who are also uniformly conservative for the most part, place much less emphasis on this aspect.

I am also in agreement with the premillennialists with respect to the Rapture. Historically, for eighteen centuries the Rapture was taken as essentially simultaneous with the Advent. This is detailed by, among others, MacPherson in THE GREAT RAPTURE HOAX and Kimball in THE RAPTURE: A QUESTION OF TIMING. MacPherson demonstrates that the nineteenth century so-called Scotch seer Margaret MacDonald in 1830 introduced the pretribulational Rapture - a temporal separation of a Secret Rapture from the Second Coming. This introduction was a theological novelty or innovation. MacPherson traces the concept from its introduction through the nineteenth century figures Darby and Scofield to the mainstream electronic evangelists of today. I have said that I accept the multiple-Rapture view, which is a variation of the pretribulational Rapture. I agree, based on the work of my sources, that this view had its origins only in the nineteenth century. I will indicate why I hold that view in the last part of Chapter Three.

I should note that because I take a preterist perspective, I place less emphasis on seeing the events that occurred with the First Resurrection exactly duplicated on Judgment Day. For example, Nero was clearly the Antichrist for A.D. 70, but I don’t necessarily expect to see a new Antichrist prior to the Second Coming. If forced to, one could select from many twentieth century candidates for this post. Similarly, I don’t expect to see the coming events occurring at the actual Jerusalem this time. I predict in Chapter Four they will more likely begin in one of the advanced Western nations.

Beginning with the next chapter, I will be using apparently incongruous sources, such as left wing sources from the sixties. I will delve into films and the media in general. These sources I will bring up are relevant to the issues of this chapter. So far I have outlined a plausible but not mainstream view of Christian eschatology. From this point forward, as promised, expect the view presented to be ‘weird‘.

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A FIRST LOOK AT NORMAN O. BROWN

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. -Brown quotng Shakespeare

There is a good possibility you have never heard of Norman O. Brown or come across any of his writings. His books are now a generation old and partly out of print. Perhaps certain of the issues he raised have become moot with the passage of time.

I think when his books originally came out Brown was taken as merely a sexual radical. I say merely here in the sense that Brown would not be under discussion if I felt that was solely what he was about. A superficial reading of his cryptic, aphoristic style indeed does give this impression. It has been said of Brown's later books, 'They are largely a dazzling, nonlinear patische of fragments and quotations from different writers which Brown has made his own and, whatever the source, one can assume the voice is that of Brown'. However, the actual subject of two of his books, LOVE’S BODY (1966) and CLOSING TIME (1973) was religion. Of the two books, CLOSING TIME is currently out of print but necessary for a complete picture. With these two books Brown actually solved the mysteries of religion. Am I here claiming that if you comprehend these books you will have all your questions answered on religion? Yes, that is indeed what I am claiming. Brown did get all the way to the inner sanctum. If you are able to solve Brown’s puzzles, you will simultaneously solve the mysteries of religion. I say this fully aware that Brown’s erudition makes this a monumental task.

If I have piqued your curiosity, and you decide to take a look at Brown, the best procedure might be to look at some other sources as a preliminary. It’s all there in Brown in plain English, you understand, but you may have more success by circling in from the periphery. One good out of print source from the same time period is Eric Gutkind’s THE BODY OF GOD: FIRST STEPS TOWARD AN ANTI-THEOLOGY. This book is also written in an aphoristic style. Comparing the title of this book with LOVE’S BODY will give you a clue to start you on the road to solving Brown. In my correspondence with Brown, he told only me he had to only open Gutkind's book to see the nearly word for word similarities with LOVE’S BODY.

Gutkind as a Jew was familiar with this Kabbalistic concept of Adam Kadmon, which William Blake referred to the Grand Man, and by which the Jew Spinoza derived his One Substance. But later to downgrade that idea, Brown in 'Closing Time' quotes Vico: '- -were frightened and astonished by the great effect whose cause they could not know, and raised their eyes and became aware of the sky. They pictured the sky to themselves as a great animated body, which in that aspect they called Jove, who meant to tell them something by the hiss of his bolts and the clap of his thunder.
Thus it was fear which created gods in the world'.

Gutkind's writing was shrill. He was disturbed because he unconsciously understood The Taboo (see my Address) was being violated, primarily by means of TV.

Looking from the philosophical side, Michael Harrington’s THE POLITICS AT GOD’S FUNERAL astutely asks the right questions. The best book ever written on Jesus is Constantin Brunner's OUR CHRIST: THE REVOLT OF THE MYSTICAL GENIUS (1921). Here's an interesting sentence out of the book: ’There he hung, the blasphemer of God and slanderer of the most notable men, the poor malicious fool, the incorrigible wretch, the whoreson and whoremonger, the swindler, the liar, the seducer.’ The so-called radical Freudians, in general, such as Marcuse, Reich and Roheim in addition to Brown, are pertinent. See Paul Robinson’s 'The Freudian Left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim and Herbert Marcuse.'

There isn’t space for an exegesis of Brown. Instead I’ll outline a central idea - the importance of the Primal Scene. For the uninitiated, the Primal Scene is what Dad and Mom did in the bedroom. Now even Freud’s disciples had difficulty seeing the significance of the Oedipal Primal Scene and repeatedly attempted to revise their Master. Perhaps the best way to get an inkling of its significance is to set up a confrontation between the Joker (the little 'castrated' clown portrayed by Brown) and you. Put yourself in the following scene as a male:

You are standing on the outskirts of the big, modern city where you live as the Joker approaches.

The Joker begins, “You know, stranger, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately and have seen several cities, including this one. I must say I don’t like what I’ve been seeing at all. In every town the residents use elaborate locks on their doors and seen to be afraid to get outside on their own sidewalks at night. One minute they use each other’s bodies as pleasure objects, and the next they sue each other at the slightest provocation. I see noise, confusion, mayhem and worse at each turn. I can’t think of a thing that happened in Sodom that hasn’t happened here many times over. Tell me, when you first came here was the city the same as it is now?”

You reply, “More or less it was, indeed.”

The Joker says, “This town is a hard place to try to make a living in. Life is so hectic, there is such a constant rush and din, that I sometimes believe I’m really caught in a nightmare and will wake up at any moment. This is no place to try to start a family or to raise a child. There’s no place for the kids to play here. You know, although I’ve had plenty of opportunities to unzip my pants and pull out my gun here, I just haven’t felt right about it and so far decided to keep my pants zipped up. But I see by the ring on your finger that the situation here apparently didn’t deter you. You had the same opportunity, after all, to look around and see what was going on. But I see that no matter what you saw, you weren’t about to stay away. You had to have it. I admit that I am only a Fool. But I ask you - who’s the better man?”

You: (Speechless).

The Joker resumes, “ Because I care about the evil I see and you don’t particularly care, you end up with a child to carry on your line, and I don’t. I ask you, which man has the greater love?”

You finally speak, “Before I punch you out, do you have anything more to say? - Any last words?”

The Joker ignores this and pauses a moment to scan the distant skyline. He then points a finger at the tallest skyscraper, rising in the mists - a source of civic pride known to all residents (and an indisputable phallic symbol). (Note added: I here 'prophesied' the World Trade Center attack 20 years ago.) The Joker turns and asks, “How? - that building there - Tell me how that modern Tower of Babel was constructed? No, let me answer the question. It was constructed by men who at some time or other unzipped their pants. Not that a single one of them was ever forced to you understand. It is after all a voluntary act. Now I ask you to consider for a moment with me what would have happened if not one of these same men had ever unzipped their pants at all - not even one single time. How much of what you see around here now would still be here? I’ll answer - not a bit of it would here, including the building I just pointed to. I’ve been wondering these days why we put up with the perpetual nightmares here that we go through to get these massive monuments constructed. If we could just get all the women under control, we could sit around all day and drink beer and play cards.”

You reply, “Leave it to a shiftless ne’er-do-well to --”

The Joker interrupts, “What we really need here is a King - the absolute biggest Fool we can find with the largest member. I think you may agree that I am the perfect candidate for this job, as I’m absolutely no good for anything else.”

The pair glare at each other, ready to fight.

Let me make the important point about this tale that the ‘you” of the dialogue could just as well be the Joker’s father as anyone else - not a single line of the preceding would need to be changed. (In the original tale of Oedipus meeting his father at the crossroads, the pair had been separated and there was a disguise and neither seemed to recognize the other, at least consciously.) If the ’you’ of the narrative were indeed the Joker’s father, the Joker would then literally be a son of a gun. This would also make the Joker on his mother’s side literally an S.O.B.

In the dialogue that took place at the Temptation of Christ (Matt. 4:1-11, Mk. 2:13, Luke 4:1-13), Jesus rejected Satan’s offer of the kingdoms of this world. Brown says we are indeed in Satan’s kingdom, i.e., Hell, especially in the big cities. Jesus will one day accept dominion over the earthly kingdoms, but only on Judgment Day when His enemies have been made into footstools. When He does return, He will bring the keys to Hell and to Death. This implies that a massive restructuring of present urban life - our man-made Hell - will begin at this point.

To change the subject, if you have an interest in James Joyce, you should examine the excerpts Brown has collected in CLOSING TIME. Joyce either imitates (or himself actually is) the insane, and the WAKE is from start to finish nothing but the gibberings of a madman. FINNEGANS WAKE is a textual Rorschach test, by which I mean that in its voluminous pages, any phrase you are looking for before you open the book can likely be found. But all the excerpts Brown has assembled taken together conclusively demonstrate that Joyce ‘cracked’ religion, i.e., that all the answers were set down in the WAKE. In other words, Brown demonstrates that Joyce earlier pioneered the same trail in that Brown found. I don’t want to go beyond fair use and start quoting text, so I’ll stop.

CHAPTER THREE
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THE MEDIA MESSIAH: LOOKING FOR JESUS ON TV

Let me start with a lengthy list:

PURPLE RAIN COLORED RAIN GREEN RAIN FAIRY RAIN INVISIBLE RAIN BLOWING THE WIND REAPING THE WHIRLWIND IDIOT WIND THE WHISPERING WIND WEATHER WAR THE STARS FALL OUT REICHIAN ORGONE RADAR LOVE THE CALL LONDON CALLING THE BIG BROADCAST WEIRD RADIO RADIO GAGA SHIP OF FOOLS PLANET WAVES THE CRAZY RAY BLOWING THE HORN SOUNDING THE TRUMPET HORSE WHISPERING MIND WAR FAIRY GOLD FAIRY BLIGHT FAIRY BASEBALL FAIRY BOWLING WALLS TUMBLING DOWN BALLOON GOES UP THE FINAL COUNTDOWN THE LONG GOODBYE THE BIG SHOOTOUT THE LAST ROUNDUP DROPPING THE VIALS THE POWER AND THE GLORY FIRE AND BRIMSTONE THE FLOOD TWINKLING OF AN EYE RAPTURED OUT SWEPT UP THE SECRET RAPTURE MARCHING MORONS DEAD MAN'S CURVE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED LAND OF THE GIANTS DROPPING THE BIG ONE THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL THE MACHINE STOPS THE FINAL SOLUTION THE ELEPHANT BURIAL GROUNDS THE ROAD TO HOLOCAUST TIMEBOMB TICKING OVER SODOM LAYING THE DEVIL DOWN RADIO SILENCE LIGHTS OUT SHUTTING IT DOWN TURNING IT OFF PULLING THE PLUG PUSHING THE PANIC BUTTON PUNCHING THE DELETE BUTTON SLIP SLIDING AWAY FLUSHED AWAY THE SCREEN GOES DARK CLOSING TIME JUDGMENT DAY SIGNING OFF NIGHTFALL THE BIG SLEEP THE FAIRY DUMP

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.”

'♪ She sends a cable comin' in from above
Don't need no phone at all
We've got a thing that's called Radar Love
We've got a wave in the air, Radar Love' (Golden Earring)

'♪ No one likes us
I dont know why
We may not be perfect
but heaven knows we try

But all around
ever our old friends
put us down
Lets drop the big one and see what happens

Asia's crowded
Europe's too old
Africa's far too hot
and Canada's too cold
South America stole our name
Lets drop the big one
(There'll be no one left to blame us)

We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too

Boom goes London and boom Paree
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
And there'll be Italian shoes for me

They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now ' (Randy Newman)

I’ll ask some questions about this list to clarify it. At first sight, looking over this by no means exhaustive list, it appears we need to get out our umbrellas (or perhaps a degree in meteorology). The first question to ask is: How many of these phrases have you ever come across before? Try to think where, if anywhere, any of these phrases can be found. After thinking it over, you might decide that some show up in literature, some may be from the Bible, but many of them come from the media.

The next question about the list would be: by grouping all these phrases together as I did, did I thus intend to imply that each phrase is identical or synonymous with each other phrase in the list? No, they are interchangeable in only a few cases, but they are interrelated. What then do the phrases have in common? My answer is that all bear a direct relationship to a single phrase:

MASS PSYCHOSIS!

This particular phrase, Mass Psychosis, you are probably less likely to have come across. Mass Psychosis is in fact the actual meaning of the Secret Rapture doctrine of the Fundamentalists.

Now I’m sure if one had the opportunity to interview rock star Prince and ask him what he meant by Purple Rain that he would not immediately reply, “a codeword for mass psychosis.” Similarly, Bob Dylan wouldn’t be inclined to say, “When I sang about Idiot Wind, I meant mass psychosis.” I would instead expect convoluted explanations involving literary metaphors, etc., if I received any reply at all.

Incidentally, I mentioned Prince deliberately since there was controversy about his ‘explicit ’ lyrics when his songs came out. I note that his critics had nothing at all to say about the other dimension of his songs I am pointing to here - Judgment Day by 1999.

Here I want to stop discussion of the list and return at the end of this chapter with more comments. Let me briefly return to the general topic of the media. By media I mean all the conduits by which paid entertainment reaches us - film, radio, television, etc. Because television has such a voracious appetite, I will be using the term media and TV more or less interchangeably. Think of how TV, in order to fill each and every hour, gobbles up the output of the other media, from films to stage plays to even rock music in the form of music videos.

Here's a shot from an MTV video, showing Reich's Rainmaker:

Kate Bush – 'Cloudbusting' Video

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Some of us are logging in nearly a third of our lives glued to out sets these days. A clue according to Brown is, 'The phallus is so closely identified with magic in Roman religion that the word fascinum meaning 'enchantment', 'witchcraft' (cf. fascinate), is one of the standard Latin terms for the phallus.' As a baby boomer, I teethed on TV and took its pervasive influence for granted. But, after decades of exposure we have now had, I feel it is time we should begin a serious examination of the media. Its influence is probably considerably greater than literary sources today.

Already by the sixties we had the McLuhanesque dictum that the medium is the message. This idea is that the content is not particularly important, but rather the existence and ubiquitousness of the medium itself is the most significant fact.

Let me look at media criticism in terms of increasing level of profundity. At the lowest, most abysmal level, the media are seen as providing harmless entertainment. But the billions of dollars we dump into the media demonstrate that much more is going on. Slightly better is the extreme right wing evangelical view that TV and films are the devil’s picture book and rock music is the devil’s music. This approach has the virtue of being factually correct, but has fallen on increasingly hard times as all but the diehards have capitulated and joined in the media cacophony themselves. Massive blocks of radio broadcast time and entire cable networks are devoted to selling Jesus sandwiched in between the ads for soap and used cars.

Slightly more discriminating is the idea that TV is a boob tube and rock music is subversive trash, and exposure to one or both may permanently warp your brain. Is the ultimate objective to produce a race of mindless, godless, zombie giants (the return of the “men of renown” of Genesis as described by Brown in CLOSING TIME)?

What indeed keeps us mesmerized by the flickering images hour after hour? Why are so many of us couch potatoes - practically frozen into stone statues? What are we really watching? Joyce in the Wakes calls it, 'swishingsight teilweisioned'.

The answer from Norman O. Brown is that we are seeing the Oedipal Primal Scene reenacted night

after night in endless repetition with slight variations. You object, “I beg your pardon. I watched

a game show followed by a situation comedy last night.” What we are really doing here is paying

performers to put on the only show we want to see.

Finally, at the highest level of criticism, we also simultaneously get the final verdict on the media. We are watching Jesus get crucified night after night in excruciating detail, although we may not be consciously aware of it. After decades of this, I think it is likely to catch up with us some day. In other words, the lurid violence and evil we see depicted in the media may eventually come to us in real life.

In spite of the blanket condemnation of the last paragraph, I’m going to turn around and list some movies. Ideally you should stay away. But the payoff is going to come to us all, whether or not we individually may or may not have watched. In the meantime, perhaps we can use the opportunity to study both the overt and the subtle techniques being employed.

The primary genre to keep an eye on is science fiction. As Susan Sontag said in the sixties, this is the genre of apocalypse and mass destruction. Typically, as in the prototype FRANKENSTEIN (1932), a man attempts to appropriate the prerogatives of God (technically blasphemy) and reaps madness and disaster. These are rigidly moral parables where retribution is swift and sure.

Look, for example, at Rene Clair’s THE CRAZY RAY (1923) from the infancy of the industry. The elements that were to become cliches with decades of continuous repetition were already present. A mad scientist invents a ray machine he constructs inside the Eiffel Tower that freezes the inhabitants of Paris into stone statues.

The Crazy Ray

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An aircraft initially out of range of the ray lands, and the passengers are astonished when they disembark.

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) (study the Joker)

The Joker - Despised Suitor for Lady's Hand

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HANCOCK (2008) (drunken superhero)
*EVAN ALMIGHTY (2007) (sequel to BRUCE ALMIGHTY. God commands Evan to build an Ark) THE INVISIBLE (2007) LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (2007) (delusional – prefers sex toy doll (mannequin) over the hassle of a woman)
'♪ I’m goin’ to buy a paper doll that I can call my own, a doll that other fellows cannot steal
And then those, flirty, flirty guys, with their flirty, flirty eyes will have to flirt with dollies that are real
When I come home at night she will be waiting, she’ll be the truest doll in all the world
I’d rather have a paper doll to call my own than have a fickle-minded real live girl'
Repeating from my Address: 'James Joyce had a fascination for women's underwear - - The biographer Richard Ellman
mentions that Joyce used to carry a pair of lace-trimmed doll's knickers in his trouser pocket'. Joyce could have
satisfied his white panty fetish by simply carrying a pair of knickers. The doll is a telling detail. Note that modern
dolls, such as Barbie, have the features of adult women. They are uncomplaining and compliant, unlike actual women. And
dolls are rigid, and can be knocked over, as in Fairy Bowling. Joyce was scanning for targets, seeing in his mind's eye
all the gorgeous living dolls around him!
*THE SIGNAL (2007) (the humming, buzzing monotone of the Weird Radio = Mass Psychosis)
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006) CLICK (2006) (really means TV gives God's eye view) STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006) CHICKEN LITTLE (2005) ('the sky is falling! the sky is falling!' *CONSTANTINE (2005) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2005) SIN CITY (2005) (cartoonish ultra violent nightmare - scary movie!) V FOR VENDETTA (2005) WHITE NOISE(2005)

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) ELLA ENCHANTED (2004) FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004) THE FINAL CUT (2004) (madman must die to save others) FINDING NEVERLAND (2004) (semiautobiography of Peter Pan, James M. Barrie, who couldn't cope with his wife) THE FORGOTTEN (2004) (alien abduction and sucked up to the sky – raptured out!) THE INCREDIBLES (2004) THE MACHINIST (2004) *SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMMOROW (2004) WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW!? (2004) *BRUCE ALMIGHTY (2003) *NORTHFORK (2003) (has an Ark, a Flood and recording angels) SPIDER (2003) (madman) CLOCKSTOPPERS (2002) (mass psychosis) DON'T SAY A WORD (2002) FINAL (2002) FRAILTY (2002) ('God told me too' - the 'Hand of God') HEARTS IN ATLANTIS (2002) THE IMPOSTER (2002) K-PAX (2002) (madman believes he's an alien) LILO AND STITCH (2002) NO SUCH THING (2002) SIGNS (2002) A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) EVOLUTION (2001) (aliens repeatedly slime – 'have a nice end of the world!') CHICKEN RUN (2000) END OF DAYS (1999) GLADIATOR (1998) THE MATRIX (1998) (TV screen as veil of Maya) *THE SIXTH SENSE (1998) WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (1998) KISS THE GIRLS (1997) (- - AND MAKE THEM DIE!) MEN IN BLACK (1997) INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) MARS ATTACKS! (1996) *PLEASANTVILLE (1996) FORREST GUMP (1994) *STARGATE (1994) CONSENTING ADULTS (1992) DROP DEAD FRED (1991)
THE RAPTURE (1991) THE FISHER KING (1990) THE HANDMAIDS TALE (1990) LOOSE CANNONS (1990) SPACED INVADERS (1990) EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1989) WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S (1989) BEETLEJUICE (1988) BIG (1988) RAINMAN (1988) THEY LIVE (1988) *WINGS OF DESIRE (1988) FIELD OF DREAMS (1987) *MAKING MR. RIGHT (1987) *MANNEQUIN (1987) PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) REAL MEN (1987) THE BOY WHO COULD FLY (1986) FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986) RIDERS OF THE STORM (1986) BETTER OFF DEAD (1985) CREATOR (1985) LIFEFORCE (1985) *LEGEND (1985) MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE (1985) MASS APPEAL (1985) MY SCIENCE PROJECT (1985) THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) REANIMATOR (1985) REAL GENIUS (1985) STARMAN (1985) WEIRD SCIENCE (1985) (horny nerds conjure Barbie Doll)

Repeat: 'Weird Science' (1985) Barbie Doll Sex Toy/Robot Conjured by Horny Nerds

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BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984) THE DEAD ZONE (1984) DREAMSCAPE (1984) GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)(see the ghost named Slimer!) THE LAST STARFIGHTER (1984) THE LONELY GUY (1984) THE NATURAL (1984) NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) RED DAWN (1984) REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984) SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1984) TERMINATOR (1984) TESTAMENT (1984) *ZELIG (1984) KRULL (1983) THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983) VIDEODROME (1983) E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

E.T. Finger (unconsciously light equals drop of sperm)

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E.T. Finger (unconsciously light equals drop of sperm) Boy Fascinated by Phallus (Frozen into Stone Statue)

*ROCK AND RULE (1982) THE SENDER (1982) ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) SCANNERS (1981) *THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1980-PBS) ALIEN (1979)

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Repeat: Dead 'Alien' Film Space Gunner

*BEING THERE (1979) CAPRICORN ONE (1979) THE LAST WAVE (1979) *SIMON (1979) HOLOCAUST 2000 (1978) STAR WARS (1977) CARRIE (1976) (sexually frustrated tormented girl calls up psychokinetic storm for revenge) THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) THE OMEN (1976) A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975) *THE DEVIL'S RAIN (1975) THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975) WIZARDS (1975) FLESH GORDON (1974-X) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) THE EXORCIST (1973) THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973) (forbidden zone circumscribed by painting the town red to mark) JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR (1973) SOYLENT GREEN (1973) THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973)

THE WICKER MAN (1973) WESTWORLD (1973) ZARDOZ (1973) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) FOOLS' PARADE (1971) THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) THE OMEGA MAN (1971) PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW (1971) *THE RULING CLASS (1971)(delusions of grandeur of madmen) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1971) WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) *WR: THE MYSTERIES OF THE ORGASM (1971) (on Wilhelm Reich) CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (1970) *THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (1970) THIS STUFF'LL KILL YA! (1970)

THE RAIN PEOPLE (1969) CHARLY (1968) MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1968) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) PLANET OF THE APES (1968) (forbidden zone circumscribed with an X to mark it) THE POWER (1968) FAHRENHEIT 451 (1967) THE FLIM FLAM MAN (1967) DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (1966) KING OF HEARTS (1966) DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1965) A THOUSAND CLOWNS (1965) *CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1964) DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964) THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) LORD OF THE FLIES (1963) THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963) THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) THE MUSIC MAN (1962) REPTILICUS (1962) WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (1962) ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961) MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961) ON THE BEACH (1960) PSYCHO (1960) *VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1959) ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958) *THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958) HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958)
I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958) THE MAGICIAN (1958) NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957) THE COURT JESTER (1956) FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) GIANT (1956) GODZILLA (1956) INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) GOG (1954) INVADERS FROM MARS (1954) IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) THE LOST PLANET (1953) *MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953) THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) MY SON JOHN (1952) RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON (1952) RED PLANET MARS (1952) ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1952) CAPTAIN VIDEO, MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1951) *THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951) WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) D.O.A. (1950) *THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR (1950) ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950) THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (1949) KING OF THE ROCKETMEN (1949) THE THIRD MAN (1949) NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1947) ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER (1946) THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES (1945) COBRA WOMAN (1944) THE LODGER (1944) NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944) I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY (1942) I MARRIED A WITCH (1942)

THE DEVIL COMMANDS (1941) THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) *FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE (1940) BUCK ROGERS (1939) DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE (1939) THE PHANTOM CREEPS (1939) *THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS (1938) FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS (1937) THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937) TIM TYLER'S LUCK (1937) TOPPER (1937) THE DEVIL DOLL (1936) FLASH GORDON (1936) THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936) THINGS TO COME (1936) UNDERSEA KINGDOM (1936) THE LOST CITY (1935) MURDER BY TELEVISION (1935) *THE PHANTOM EMPIRE (1935) GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933) THE INVISIVIBLE MAN (1933) KING KONG (1933) FRANKENSTEIN (1932) ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) M (1931) BLUE ANGEL (1930) METROPOLIS (1926) THE LAST LAUGH (1924) *THE CRAZY RAY (aka PARIS QUI DORT) (1923-Fr.)(WHILE PARIS SLEEPS) THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) FILM LIST
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ALIEN (1979) ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER (1946) ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961) ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958) A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) BEETLEJUICE (1988) *BEING THERE (1979) BETTER OFF DEAD (1985) BEWITCHED (2005) BIG (1988)
BLINDNESS (2005)
BLUE ANGEL (1930) A BOY AND HIS DOG (1975) THE BOY WHO COULD FLY (1986) *THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958) BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984) *BRUCE ALMIGHTY (2003) THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) CAPRICORN ONE (1979) CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (1970) CARRIE (1976) CHARLY (1968) CHICKEN LITTLE (2005) CHICKEN RUN (2000) *CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED (1964) CLICK (2006) CLOCKSTOPPERS (2002) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) COBRA WOMAN (1944) CONSENTING ADULTS (2005) *CONSTANTINE (2005) THE COURT JESTER (1956) *THE CRAZY RAY (aka PARIS QUI DORT) (1923-Fr.) CREATOR (1985)
THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (2004) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) THE DEAD ZONE (1984) THE DEVIL COMMANDS (1941) THE DEVIL DOLL (1936) *THE DEVIL’S RAIN (1975) D.O.A. (1950) DON’T SAY A WORD (2002) DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1965) DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (1966) DR. STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) DREAMSCAPE (1984) DROP DEAD FRED (1991)

E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (1989) ELLA ENCHANTED (2004) END OF DAYS (1999) ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2005) *EVAN ALMIGHTY (2007) EVOLUTION (2001) THE EXORCIST (1973) FAHRENHEIT 451 (1967) FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004) FIELD OF DREAMS (1987) FINAL (2002) THE FINAL CUT (2004) FINDING NEVERLAND (2004) THE FISHER KING (1990) FLESH GORDON (1974-X) FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (1986) THE FLIM FLAM MAN (1967) FOOLS’ PARADE (1971) FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) THE FORGOTTEN (2004) FORREST GUMP (1994) FRAILTY (2002) FRANKENSTEIN (1932) GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933) GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)(see the ghost named Slimer!) GIANT (1956) GLADIATOR (1998) GODZILLA (1956) GOG (1954) THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1990)
HANCOCK (2008) (drunken superhero) HEARTS IN ATLANTIS (2002) HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973) HOLOCAUST 2000 (1978) THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958) I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958) I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) THE IMPOSTER (2002) AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006) INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (1949)
THE INCREDIBLES (2004)
INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
THE INVISIBLE (2008) THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936) ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR (1973) KING KONG (1933) KING OF HEARTS (1966) KISS THE GIRLS (1997) K-PAX (2002) KRULL (1983) LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (2007) THE LAST AIRBENDER (2010) THE LAST LAUGH (1924) THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) THE LAST STARFIGHTER (1984) THE LAST WAVE (1979) *THE LATHE OF HEAVEN (1980-PBS) *LEGEND (1985) LIFEFORCE (1985) LILO AND STITCH (2002) THE LODGER (1944) THE LONELY GUY (1984) LOOSE CANNONS (1990) LORD OF THE FLIES (1963) M (1931) THE MACHINIST (2004) *THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (1970) THE MAGICIAN (1958) *MAKING MR. RIGHT (1987) THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951) THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983) THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1937) THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) *MANNEQUIN (1987) MARS ATTACKS (1996) MARS NEEDS WOMEN (1968) MASS APPEAL (1985) MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961) THE MATRIX (1998) *MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953) MEN IN BLACK (1997) MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (2009) METROPOLIS (1926) MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE (1985) MURDER BY TELEVISION (1935) THE MUSIC MAN (1962) MY SON JOHN (1952) MY SCIENCE PROJECT (1985) THE NATURAL (1984) *THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR (1950) NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) NO SUCH THING (2002) NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (1944) *NORTHFORK (2003) NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957) THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963) THE OMEGA MAN (1971) THE OMEN (1976) ON THE BEACH (1960) PLANET OF THE APES (1968) *PLEASANTVILLE (1996) THE POWER (1968) PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW (1971) PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) PSYCHO (1960) THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985) THE RAIN PEOPLE (1969) RAINMAN (1988) THE RAPTURE (1991) REAL GENIUS (1985) REAL MEN (1987) REANIMATOR (1985) RED DAWN (1984) RED PLANET MARS (1952) REPTILICUS (1962) REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984) RIDERS OF THE STORM (1986) *ROCK AND RULE (1982) ROCKETSHIP X-M (1950) *THE RULING CLASS (1971) SCANNERS (1981) THE SENDER (1982) SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964) SIGNS(2002)

*THE SIGNAL (2008) *SIMON (1979) SIN CITY (2005) *THE SIXTH SENSE (1998) *SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMMOROW (2004) SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1984) SOYLENT GREEN (1973) SPACED INVADERS (1990) SPIDER (2003) THE SPOOK WHO SAT BESIDE THE DOOR (1973) STAR WARS (1977) *STARGATE(1994) STARMAN (1985) STEPFORD WIVES (1987) STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006) SURROGATES (2009) TERMINATOR (1984) TESTAMENT (1984) THEY LIVE (1988) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1971) THINGS TO COME (1936) THE THIRD MAN (1949) THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) THIS STUFF'LL KILL YA! (1970) A THOUSAND CLOWNS (1965) TOPPER (1937) THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1947) V FOR VENDETTA (2005) *VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) VIDEODROME (1983) *VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S (1989) WEIRD SCIENCE (1985) WESTWORLD (1973) WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (1998) WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW!? (2004) WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (1962) WHITE NOISE (2005) THE WICKER MAN (1973) WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) *WINGS OF DESIRE (1988) *THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) WIZARDS (1975) THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1959) *WR: THE MYSTERIES OF THE ORGASM (1971) (on Wilhelm Reich) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) ZARDOZ (1973) *ZELIG (1984) FILM SERIALS
Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS BUCK ROGERS (1939) CAPTAIN VIDEO, MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1951)
DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE (1939) DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY (1942) FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS (1938) (the Lightning in a Zeppelin) FLASH GORDON (1936) (Ming the Merciless) *FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE (1940) FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS (1937) KING OF THE ROCKETMEN (1949) THE LOST CITY (1935) THE LOST PLANET (1953) THE PHANTOM CREEPS (1939) *THE PHANTOM EMPIRE (1935) (Space Cowboy) THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES (1945) RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON (1952) TIM TYLER’S LUCK (1937) (Elephant Burial Grounds) UNDERSEA KINGDOM (1936) ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1952)

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