

These moments that needed to happen offstage. Quit used the stage/play as its structure. So I had all these pieces and I knew that it needed I saw the believers and the non-believers. I could see twoĭifferent voices speaking. These little blocks of verse that were sort of placed in no particular order,īut certain threads of conversation were starting to form. Initially the conversations were these little lyric moments that sort Started looking at all these notes I had typed up and saw a conversationįorming. I hadn’t made any progress onĪnother project I was working on and felt like I needed space from it, so I


These two things were weaving throughĪll these images and notes about neighborhoods. There I was simultaneously watching BattlestarĪnd learning so much about Science Fiction and well, real science. Possible through god, and a lot of other justifications for my beliefs. I did learn I shuffled out for strange explanations my youth leaders gave meĪbout carbon dating being messed up from the flood, about all things being You can imagine, I didn’t learn a lot about how the universe was made, and what Believe what you want, but this is science.” As “Thanks,” paused, then said something like, “You know, this is real life I’m Please?” I felt guilty, but I told him what I had learned and he said, Next day at school and said, “Just tell the correct answer to these questions, There was a question on a science test about evolution I should write in “Iĭon’t believe in this.” I did that, even though I didn’t want to, because Iįelt guilty about answering what the teacher taught us. At one point a youth pastor told me that if Space travel and how the universe functions-space stuff.

Leader-shit I look at now and feel ashamed of. Thought a lot about what I told kids and non-believers, when I was a youth I had been thinking a lot about my past in theĬhurch-now apostate-and how I felt about my friends and family who were stillīelievers, I was thinking about the rhetoric of the church, and of faith: I These little scraps of paper, and ripped out pages, stacked in this notebook,Īnd I decided to type them up. THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE started out as pages and pages ofĪphorisms and notes that I didn’t know what to do with.
