Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with religion
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Tim Barrus: Face Full On
I have been visiting “Banjo Events.” I have no idea what I am doing. I go into the woods with cameras and click away. People usually laugh. But they will be suspicious. And that is fine. I am from the Land of Wolves. I do not know. What it means.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I cannot remember a single time when Ross has articulated another take on the BugaBuga that is religion, the same religion that wants converts to the cult of Niceness. None of us is sacred, Ross. Some of us will not go down in our beliefs that entire economic systems complicit…
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Fire and Dust
I am a communist. We are a patchwork of heritage you would be confused of having lived your entire life as a slave. Okay, let us revisit this history of religion. As it existed in the mirror of backwards how much backward can one go, Prayer. Mutiny. War. The Soldiership.…
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juvenile facilities
Rape was not a fun drug. It was dust it was death it was Delilah. Oh, no, Mister Tim. Not Delilah. The One And Only. Pussy for days this is how men talk. I stare directly at their dick. Women tell me, I don’t get it. I was 12. I…
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There Are No Aliens
Tim Barrus, New York Times Hollywood. Box office. As if, to spark our imaginations, what we buy is a paranoia of exploitation. Buy some plastic aliens for the kids. Homo sapiens have no problem destroying other species. We feed the fear of invasion (by Americans), facilitating fear of technology, corporate…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
PEOPLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ASK ME MANY, MANY THINGS. OFTEN, I HAVE NO ANSWERS. TODAY THE NEW YORK TIMES BRINGS QUESTIONS FROM READERS THAT ARE STUNNED BY THE ROLE RELIGION PLAYS IN DENIAL AND INTOLERANCE Religion has abandoned its roots of martyrdom for Institutional Martyrdom even as its…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Going Rogue We are the culture of greed, death, indifference, cruelty, mass incarceration, poverty, hunger, suspicion, hate, patriarchal monarchy disguised as democracy, and genocide. Within the context of that evil, bête noire – exactly how is that any different from the cultural nightmare that was ancient Rome’s legacy to the…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
It is not at all hard to imagine a monarchy. In 1658, Cromwell did it. As both head of state and head of government of the new republican commonwealth. He was the new king who chopped off the head of the old king. There are absolutely no facts to support…
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It’s just business
every sunday morning here in appalachiaville they take a head count to see who’s in church and who’s not in fucking church religion in america and what is so intricate so entangling as death you numberless infinities your mouths are filled with dust the absurd in the depth of winter…
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SWIMMING TO THE OTHER SIDE: I THINK SHE KNOWS
Arriving here, I must meet the dead. The boys I knew at that time had all lost their lives in Vietnam. The ones who survived as maimed and crippled had lost their lives as well. Many simply blew their brains out. When they fully realized what had become of them,…
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On Being Here
i have never wanted to be here because i am above it all all all all daddy tried beating it the fuck out of me and i was literally at-risk of being murdered. he bashed my head through walls and came after me with broken liquor bottles but i could…
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Identity: Are We What We Do
Is the whore hitchhiking to go somewhere or is there an assumption a whore is a whore is a whore. Is there anyone who doesn’t think this boy with his thumb out is not a whore. Or does my merely suggesting it color what you think you see. There but…