derfunkatron

@derfunkatron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bobby won’t live long.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing! Thanks for taking the time to share. I figured there was an aesthetic interest in addition to the morbid curiosity.

  I went through a phase where I wanted to build a library of weird, bizarre, cult, occult, and outlandish books (which I why I had a copy of Dianetics among other religious texts). I abandoned the idea mostly because I didn’t want to dedicate space to books that I never wanted to read or felt repulsed by reading.

  If you like kitschy and bizarre books, I recommend checking out the following (if you haven’t already encountered them before):

  • Telecult Power by R. Durbin
  • Apocalypse Culture by A. Parfrey

  Telecult Power makes me laugh since it’s a how-to for developing telepathy and telekinesis. Apocalypse Culture creeps me out and reading parts of that book is like dropping into a conversation midway while no one cares to explain what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bobby won’t live long.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bibleman and A History of Christian Hymnody are wildly different theological materials; what’s the criteria for your collection?

  Do you study religions or is the there something else, like an aesthetic thing, that drives your collection?

  Also, how much of this have you read and is there any of it that you believe?

  Sorry for the barrage of questions, but I find the notion of collecting cult and religious media to be fascinating, especially if it’s for reasons other than faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bobby won’t live long.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you’ might be serious.

  I used to keep tabs on the weird religious stuff for fun, but most of it turns my stomach these days to the point that I can’t even laugh at it.

  Definitely got super drunk and riffed on Kirk Cameron videos back when he had that Way of the Master series (e.g. the banana video).

  I used to have a copy of Dianetics that you would have thoroughly enjoyed.

  You should try to acquire a copy of a Mormon seminary textbooks. There should be a series of four of them: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants/Church History (this is one is a gold mine). The Mormons apparently make them available as PDFs for the current versions, but the older ones are sure to be better.

  I’ve got you tagged now as “collects weird religious stuff”. Congrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bobby won’t live long.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You want me to send you free copies of the Book of Mormon and the Watchtower, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bobby won’t live long.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider it a civic duty to collect these whenever I find them and throw them in the trash.

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