Merry Frummas

Today is the day that John Frum might come back.


The cargo cult of Tannas, New Hebrides, believe that one day a messiah will come back, bearing gifts and prosperity. He will take away all pain and suffering. He'll send all the annoying white people they've had to deal with off the island.

He will come February 15, but no one knows the year.

This cult is clearly influenced by christian missionaries but damn, how it's backfired. John Frum hates the missionaries. He will send them away like Jesus dissing the pharisees. In fact there's a lot in common between John Frum and Jesus, such as the fact that they may or may not have been a real living person, but who knows anymore now that so much bullshit and mythology surrounds their name.

As pointed out by the Cargo Culters of the New Hebrides, their cult is actually less silly than Christianity, because they've only been waiting a couple of decades - Christians have been waiting a couple of millenia.





Don't believe me? Here's a link bomb to convince you:

• John Frum: A Millenarian Movement in Tanna, New Hebrides


• WIKI WIKI WIKIPEDIA! on John Frum


• Smithsonian: In John They Trust

Oh noes... was that culturally insensitive?

Feb 14 = Invasion Day

No, I know it's not Australia Day. This is a different kind of Invasion Day.

February 14 is St. Valentine's Day: the day we celebrate the invasion of someone else into our life and our reciprocal invasion into theirs, or we spend the day miserable, wishing that we could be annexed.

The US invaded Iraq to "liberate" it. That is, Iraq had many faults - y'know, torture and oppressive dictatorship and so on - so like a meddling girlfriend or controlling boyfriend, they tried to change them for the better.

The result: the place is going to shit. Same thing goes for trying to "save" someone from themself. It only causes problems. Just as a people can only emancipate themselves if they are to be truly free, no one is really changed unless they have some epiphany and change themselves. The US government should hardly complain about the shit it has to deal with as fallout from this disastrous war - they put themselves in that position. See where the analogy is going?

I won't harp on anymore about it, but the mantra for the day that I meditated upon was this:
MONOGAMY IS DICTATORSHIP

MARRIAGE IS SLAVERY

sorry... i just haven't used marquee in such a long time and felt like adding that little spice of annoyingness