{"id":648,"date":"2007-05-03T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/now-thats-nove\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:24:42","slug":"now-thats-nove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/now-thats-nove\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that&#8217;s novel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of doing the many, many things that I need to do this week, I&#8217;ve been reading about premillenial dispensational estatology on wikipedia.  Doesn&#8217;t that sound like something very scientific or researched and reasoned?  See, esatology is the science of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.  Premillenial dispensationalists believe that <i>normally<\/i> only so many angels will fit, but due to certain prophetic circumstances, infinite angels can be accommodated.  (This in contrast to postmillenialists who believe . . . I forgot joke I was going to make here.  I can&#8217;t even satirize something already so outrageous.)<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so those are a bunch of fancy words for trying to do sekrit magik with the bible.  It&#8217;s got sekrit prophesies in it, which you can learn about in bible &#8220;college&#8221; or via wikipedia.  Or via my coming potboiler end times novel.  Thanks to my <strike>exhausting<\/strike> exhaustive research, I can now provide an very rough outline, including some character names and prophetically required plot points.  It gets less structured as the tribulations drag on.<\/p>\n<h4>Outline<\/h4>\n<p>World Currency:  Euro used for international trade<br \/>\nAntiChrist:  Angel Caduto, head of UNICEF<br \/>\nWhore of Babylon &#8211; heads religion<\/p>\n<p>Back story: ww3 expanded Israel&#8217;s borders and lead to the breakup of the US<\/p>\n<p>Mary Sue is a very famous composer who teaches at the conservatory.<br \/>\nRalph teaches art at the art academy.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ruso-Ethopian war (told in flashback, witnessed by Ralph)<\/li>\n<li>Rapture<\/li>\n<li>Dutch disaster services<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li> this is not ww4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li>Caduto, head of UNICEF addresses world<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>no human technology could have caused this<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To be frank, we have no way of knowing what has happened or if the missing will be returned.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>no country has been spared<\/li>\n<li> therefore, must be natural or alien &#8211; at least not originating on earth.  Aliens!!!<\/li>\n<li>North America may have been hit so badly because it was facing the aliens<\/li>\n<li>Kids are smaller and maybe easier to transport  (also, tastier)<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t know why some people disappeared and others didn&#8217;t, but are looking into factors.  Many did not drink alcohol.  (not pre-marinated)<\/li>\n<li>We must unify to fend off possible invasion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li> Ralph wonders why Jews weren&#8217;t spared.  Mentions passover, Lot and Noah.  Meanwhile, TV shows pictures of huge disaster in North America &#8211; crash planes, fires burning, whole government vanishes live in C-Span.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>WOB commissions memorial piece from MS for the disappeared at world-wide interfaith memorial.  Calls for spiritual unity.<\/p>\n<p>Caduto calls for everyone to have an RFID chip implanted in them to make a better tracking system.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph goes back to Israel and joins sect making sacrifice on temple mound.<\/p>\n<p>WOB or Caduto reveals that all the adult disappeared were Christians and children.  To insure the protection of those left, alcohol is required and xtianity is outlawed.  &#8220;There is no heaven or hell, there is just survival!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>War breaks out  (war and rumors of same)<\/p>\n<p>giant earthquake (maybe change this to a meteor? &#8220;The sun goes dark, the moon turns blood-red, and meteors fall from the sky. &#8220;) 25% of those remaining die<\/p>\n<p>illegal religious group gets radio implants and organizes black market<\/p>\n<p>fire, smoke and sulphur hit<\/p>\n<p>Caduto is murdered along with 2 underground religious leaders and another political leader<\/p>\n<p>Caduto rises from the dead after 3 days &#8211; lightening storms.  moves to temple<\/p>\n<p>Those who have UN RFID chips get sick from them<\/p>\n<p>Oceans turn to blood &#038; rivers too  and whatnot<\/p>\n<p>sun scortches<\/p>\n<p>darkness &#8211; (finally some relief from the sun.  oh no, it&#8217;s dawn again and still august! augh!)<\/p>\n<p>Rivers dry up &#8211; which is probably not such a bad thing,s ince they&#8217;re full of blood<\/p>\n<p>giant hailstones (do these melt to restart the rivers?)<\/p>\n<p>Jesus comes back and kills a lot of people.  (The lion of god, the prince of war.  Reveals the Beatitudes were a bunch of bullshit thrown in to fool people who couldn&#8217;t crack the sekrit code, just like dinosaur bones, but for pacifists.)  All the disappeared and killed underground folks come back to life.  Zombies!!!!<\/p>\n<p>a bunch of other crazy shit happens.  jeebus, USA foreign policy is based on this crap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of doing the many, many things that I need to do this week, I&#8217;ve been reading about premillenial dispensational estatology on wikipedia. Doesn&#8217;t that sound like something very scientific or researched and reasoned? See, esatology is the science of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Premillenial dispensationalists believe that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/now-thats-nove\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now that&#8217;s novel!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258,76,201],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-apocalypse","tag-celesteh","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}