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I Don’t Belong Here: This Is Not Enough

Mar09
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

Francis Fukuyama wrote this pretty famous essay in 1989, The End Of History, later expanded into book form in 1992. The fall of the Berlin Wall had just happened, and with it the decades-long Cold War started to finally evaporate like the bad dream it was. Fukuyama argued that this end of the Cold War was not just any other old event in mankind’s history, but rather the end of history itself. That mankind had, with the victory of Western liberal democracy over the Evil Empire of communism, achieved the final point of human society and government. Western. Liberal. Democracy. In other words, Fukuyama looked around the world he lived in — in 1989, no less — and said “Yep, this is it! We’ve done it! It can’t get any better than this!”

And boy oh boy, I couldn’t possibly disagree more. READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: The Other Sweet Science

Mar02
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

I was bored. That’s how most of my stories begin. I was bored, so I started photoshopping word balloons onto pictures of my friends. I was bored, so I plotted a scenario to drive my girlfriend out of my life. I was bored, so I stopped going to my classes. In this case, I was bored, so I started shooting rubber-bands. This was at work, where the nature of the job dictates long periods of intense boredom punctuated by heavy bursts of frantic and desperate activity. This was the former. Hence the being bored, which I will keep hammering on until you are just as bored as I was. READ MORE »

Posted in Art, Culture, Guns, History, I Don't Belong Here, Joy, Life, Relationships, Secret Teaching, Self Reference, Technology - Tagged boredom, I Don't Belong Here, Noel Rogers, rubber band guns

I Don’t Belong Here: Digressions, 2004-2012

Feb24
2012 1 Comment Written by Noel Rogers

For the first time ever, here’s all the Digressions! Digressions #1, #2, and #3 were originally published in If You Don’t Give Me Heaven. Digressions #5 and #6 were originally published in Heroes And Hierophants. Digression #3 has never been published anywhere, and Digression #7 is brand spanking new! Whatever THAT means.

Digression #1: The Kingdom of Heaven and the nature of magic
Digression #2: Everything vs Nothing, Jesus, and Conway’s Game of Life
Digression #3: The Existence Of God and Crypto-Solipsism
Digression #4: Metaphorical evil and the EZ-Pass
Digression #5: December 21st, 2012
Digression #6: The Eye in the Triangle
Digression #7: People don’t believe what they believe they believe

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I Don’t Belong Here: Forever Suffering (Cut-And-Paste God Knowledge)

Feb17
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

(Excerpted and edited from private correspondence:)

If you’re hoping to avoid pain and death, you’re on a fool’s errand. Life is pain and it ends in death. Okay, life isn’t JUST pain — but suffering certainly seems to be a key aspect to it. If you try and shelter yourself from it you wind up either completely unprepared for it when it comes anyway or so dissatisfied with your safety that like the Buddha you reject the whole concept of safety and declare all of existence to be an illusion. READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: Faith Is For The Weak

Feb10
2012 1 Comment Written by Noel Rogers

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20:29)

I’m just going to put this one right out there. Fuck faith. People talk about faith like it’s a good thing, a positive thing. It’s not. Faith is a bunch of crap. Well, okay, no. I guess SOME faith is unavoidable. I am taking it on faith that the world I experience outside of myself actually exists and is not a product of my imagination or a show put on for my benefit. Et cetera. When I say faith, I mean, like all the other pundits of my day, RELIGIOUS faith. It’s a bunch of crap. A holdover from when our brains weren’t wired as tight and we were all tripping balls daily.

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Like Batman!

Posted in God Knowledge, Hate, I Don't Belong Here, Opinion, Philosophy, Religion - Tagged apocrypha, Batman, binocular vision, Caravaggio, conspiracy theory, Doubting Thomas, Ellery Queen, faith, God, House Of Cards, I Don't Belong Here, Jesus Christ, Leviticus, muskrats, Noel Rogers, opposable thumbs, religion, tumbleweed, Waring Blendor, YHWH

I Don’t Belong Here: Do Not Enter (or, “It’s A Marshmallow World”)

Feb03
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

So there I was, happily leaving Walmart with marshmallows for the hot chocolate. All in all it had been a painless visit to one of the most awful places on Earth, which in retrospect must have been divine foreshadowing.

And as I walked through the exit door through to the vestibule, approaching through the other side was the Rude family. Mr. Rude, Mrs. Rude and little Rudy Jr. The Rude family was attempting to ENTER through the same door I was trying to EXIT from. Or egress, if you prefer a fancy and slightly archaic vocabulary. Now the Rude family weren’t merely trying to enter through the wrong door; a crime of mere social convention I commit frequently myself. No, they were determined to walk through the door side by side, BLOCKING the door from honest hard working citizens like myself who take it on good faith that they will be able to leave the building through the door marked “EXIT.” READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: Phoning It In (The Best Of New Sun Rising)

Jan27
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

Yeah, so, I’m phoning it in this week. What can I say? The life of a social revolutionary and mental explorer doesn’t always leave time for new content. Personal issues. So here’s some things I already wrote, over at the blog no one reads, and, by virtue of being from the blog that no one reads, may as well be new. So, together again for the first time, the wit and wisdom of Noel R. Rogers, padded out with accompanying surreal original art: READ MORE »

Posted in Advice, America, Anger, Bad Taste, Cosmology, Culture, Current Events, Eschatology, Family, Futurism, God Knowledge, Hate, History, Humor, I Don't Belong Here, Life, Movies, New Age, Opinion, Perversion, Philosophy, Politics, Propaganda, Relationships, Religion, Satire, Secret Teaching, Self Reference - Tagged anarchy, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Chris Kozma, Cro-Magnon Man, eschatology, family, Gandhi, hate, Hollywood, I Don't Belong Here, Jesus Christ, love story, New Sun Rising, Noel Rogers, people, Pete Pettorossi, politics, religion, Shannon Doherty, The Vatican, violence

I Don’t Belong Here: Wake Me Up When It’s The Future

Jan20
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

I give up guys, I’m gonna go just do my thing, you guys have fun with your presidents and shit, and we’ll try to stay out of each other’s ways. ‘Kay? Wake me up when we’re in the future. Know why? Because I want to see space, that’s why. It’s totally within our grasp and we’re pretty much ignoring it. So wake me up when it’s the future.

I mean, literally. Wake me up. In the future. When you guys have the means to resurrect the essences of the dead. I’m not stupid. I know it’s not going to happen in my lifetime. So when it happens, wake me up. I’m done with the present.
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I Don’t Belong Here: Intelligent Design Theory Is Bunk

Jan13
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t believe in Intelligent Design Theory. They mostly boil down to, THEN WHY IS EVERYTHING SO FUCKING DUMB? READ MORE »

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I Don’t Belong Here: Optimus Prime Died For Your Sins

Jan06
2012 Leave a Comment Written by Noel Rogers

(This week’s I Don’t Belong Here originally published in 2006 in If You Don’t Give Me Heaven. Original content to resume shortly.)

I cried when Optimus Prime died.

As a child I had already had to accept that they killed Jesus and that they killed John Lennon – in fact, to look around the world it seemed like most everyone was crazy and people kept killing each other right and left. Back then we still lived under the bombscare and it even seemed like somebody might kill us all some day soon. When Grandpa died I numbly came to terms with it though the whole concept of death seemed very unfair. Already I began to understand that one day I too would die – it was in the fine print of this contract that I couldn’t quite recall signing. But all of that was the real world. The world of cartoons, the world of children’s stories, was a sacrosanct place where ugly realities like death weren’t supposed to tread. Then Optimus Prime died. It was as if one day Elmer Fudd killed Bugs Bunny or the Big Bad Wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood. It wasn’t supposed to happen. And certainly not to Optimus Prime. READ MORE »

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Posts in category I Don’t Belong Here

I Don’t Belong Here: This Is Not Enough

I Don’t Belong Here: The Other Sweet Science

I Don’t Belong Here: Digressions, 2004-2012

I Don’t Belong Here: Forever Suffering (Cut-And-Paste God Knowledge)

I Don’t Belong Here: Faith Is For The Weak

I Don’t Belong Here: Do Not Enter (or, “It’s A Marshmallow World”)

I Don’t Belong Here: Phoning It In (The Best Of New Sun Rising)

I Don’t Belong Here: Wake Me Up When It’s The Future

I Don’t Belong Here: Intelligent Design Theory Is Bunk

I Don’t Belong Here: Optimus Prime Died For Your Sins

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