Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Web: I Am Trying To Believe Dot Com

Oh My Gosh. Prepare to be creeped out. Browsing through Metafilter today I ran across a strange and radically weird series of a dozen websites tied together to tell a story of a future devastated by biological warfare and reactionary groups... or something.

If you've got eight or ten hours, take a look at churchofplano.com and iamtryingtobelieve.com and start the adventure.


A new drug, Parapin, is introduced into water systems to boost immune response, but has serious side effects. An addictive drug called OPAL plagues the cities. And the 105th Crusaders leave for fighting in Syria. Mass hallucinations occur of an arm reaching down from heaven to earth. Is it supernatural or psychological? There's even a church at the center of it all, The First Evangelical Church of Plano.

All I know is it's scarier and cooler looking than any of the Left Behind movies.

Bottom line: Apparently it's some kind of publicity ploy for a new Nine Inch Nails CD. But even so, doesn't this kind of marketing manipulation prove that the end is near?



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