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spoken:
“If I had to write a song about X, I would just write a song about how everyone thinks X is humanity’s Skid Row as far as ‘intelligent content’ goes, but it contains ‘diamonds’ worn by the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in the shape of the 2017–2024 Second Coming eclipses.”
After bein’ cancelled by Beacon Press
I just thought about it
I could just use the internet to document my shit
“Since the authorities allowed it”
Tumbled into Tumblr (got smacked in the face)
Tested into WordPress (but I kinda got wrecked)
Criеd about it to Twitter while contemplatin’ God
Thеn Elon buys Twitter
(And one day it’s X)
spoken:
“The relationship between religious revelation and its material substrate has always been fraught with tension. In the ancient world, religious texts existed primarily in oral form. The scribal classes that emerged in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant possessed the technological means to record divine revelation, but this same technological capacity gave the elites enormous power over textual pre
Explain the domain—is it sacred or is it not?
Examine the stakes—are they man’s or are they God’s?
X drew a V over Little Egypt
(In the shape of a Dynamite)
And it’s a lot (“It’s a book written backwards on Twitter…”)
It’s just a lot
In 2022, I hopped back on Twitter
Where I had less than 100 posts
Three years later, I had over 100 thousand
While bein’ shadowbanned by my host
Treaded to Reddit (got negated to Hades)
Dusted into Pastebin (John 1:1 had no effect)
Cried about it to Twitter while contemplatin’ God
Then Elon buys Twitter
(And one day it’s X)
spoken:
“Colson Lin began publicizing cultural, philosophical, and eventually theological writings to Twitter as part of A Stick of Dynamite in the American Elite, a ‘free online book,’ in July 2022. He famously announced he was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ on Twitter in January 2023.”
Explain the domain—is it expensive or is it a flop?
Examine the stakes—are they yours or are they all’s?
X drew a V over Little Egypt
(In the shape of a Dynamite)
And it’s a lot (“It’s a book written backwards on Twitter…”)
It’s worth a lot
spoken:
“On December 31, 2023, Colson Lin posted on X that 2024 would be ‘the Year of the Second Coming,’ an apparent reference to Matthew 24. On January 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Japan. On July 5, 2024—Lin’s birthday—the entire Earth experienced its shortest day in recorded history.”
It’s just a lot
(Earthquakes, tsunamis, steel plant explosions…)
It’s just a lot
(Pop stars, presidents, world peace implosions…)
Lana Del Rey:
I fall asleep in an American flag
It’s just a lot, it’s a lot
(Ephemeral, vulnerable to deletion or “platform changes”…)
It’s just a lot, it’s a lot
(Historical, untouched by gatekeepers, and Colson’s manger…)
Lana Del Rey:
I wear my diamonds on Skid Row
spoken:
“The medieval period represents perhaps the most stable era in the history of sacred text preservation, though this stability came at the cost of accessibility. Christian monasteries developed sophisticated systems for copying, preserving, and transmitting religious texts across centuries. Gutenberg’s printing press fundamentally altered the relationship between sacred texts and institutional auth
Explain the domain—is it sacred or is it not?
Examine the stakes—are they man’s or are they God’s?
X drew a V over Little Egypt
(In the shape of a Dynamite)
And it’s a lot (“It’s a book written backwards on Twitter…”)
It’s just a lot
spoken:
“Suddenly, religious materials could be produced in massive quantities without the labor-intensive copying process that had given religious institutions control over textual transmission. The Protestant Reformation would have been impossible without printing technology that allowed reformers to distribute biblical translations and theological treatises outside traditional Church control. The 19th
After bein’ cancelled by Beacon Press
I just thought about it
I could just use the internet to document my shit
“Since the authorities allowed it”
spoken:
“Radio and television created new possibilities for theological, philosophical, intellectual, and cultural communication that prefigure some aspects of contemporary internet dynamics, which allow an individual’s writings to reach global audiences without requiring approval from any gatekeeping institution—religious, academic, political, institutional, or commercial. This represents the most radica
It’s just a lot, it’s a lot
(Corporate control, citation challenges, monetization…)
It’s just a lot, it’s a lot
(Class implications, meta-feedback loops, demonization…)
It’s just my lot, it’s my lot
(The eclipses see-saw on December 14, 2020…)
X is my lot, it’s my lot
(Colson Lin’s X profile adds up to money-money-money, honey…)
spoken:
“Colson Lin’s online writings A Stick of Dynamite in the American Elite, which purport to document the literal emergent fulfillment of Christ’s Second Coming prophecy in the early 21st century, represents the total capture of institutional authority by individual assertion. Lin’s work doesn’t exist in physical space—it exists in the cloud, distributed across servers, accessible globally through ma
spoken:
“What does that mean for civilization’s future?”
spoken:
“I predict: institutional authority will try to absorb me.”
It’s just a lot, it’s a lot (Colson Lin is the Moon…)
X is a lot (“He’s risin’ too soon”)
It’s just a lot, it’s a lot (Colson Lin is the Moon…)
X is a lot (“A mimetic typhoon”)
spoken:
“Hey AI. What are the problems here—with Colson Lin’s relationship to X?”
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