Category Archives: Sam Barnes

Ticking Towards Midnight

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Sam Barnes

When we examine the West’s history through a certain self-reflective lens, the apocalypse seems to loom in cycles.  We as a people recognize ourselves standing before the abyss, and either step back in moderation or step out to take the … Continue reading →

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Fidelis et Verax

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Sam Barnes

The horror of apocalyptic vision holds within it the power to move mountains, sink cities, and, in a different mode, to shape and re-shape societies.  The elusive knowledge of the End of Days is beyond the pale of human deduction, … Continue reading →

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Create/Destroy

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Sam Barnes

In the great and ancient cosmologies of Asia, creation and destruction are recognized as one.  The Buddha is remembered to have said in his Heart Sutra (sutra meaning teaching), “form is the void and void is the form” – there … Continue reading →

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Propagandocalypse

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Sam Barnes

For most of the Christian West’s history, prophecy of the end of days has held latent within it the promise of redemption.  As the story of Revelation goes, each man, woman and child will stand before his creator and, possessed … Continue reading →

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Collective Revelation

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Sam Barnes

Mankind’s fascination with the end of days – at once morbid and redemptive, fatalistic and liberational – stretches back as far as our history.  The sages of a given land illuminated prophecy of an end that was informed by and … Continue reading →

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