Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 27, 2009, 9:38 am
Esoteric rituals, secret gospels, demons, hidden biblical truths, paranormal encounters, cryptic messages … If you enjoy reading about any of the above then you will love The Omega Course. Stick wi...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Nov 27, 2009, 8:51 am
Seven weeks have passed since I last saw Leonard or Luke. Forty days exactly last Friday. I miss them both terribly and still cling to the hope that we can heal our wounded friendship, but I am also i...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 22, 2009, 6:03 am
Another religion related post today (well, I suppose it is a Sunday…) Love this live feed excerpt from God’s Twitter during the early stages of creation (well, actually from Melinda Taub at Melin...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Nov 21, 2009, 10:15 am
I stayed in bed all day yesterday, just feeling nauseous and aching inside and out. When I finally got out of bed to go to the toilet, the room started spinning and I had to practically crawl on my ha...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 20, 2009, 9:59 am
Last Tuesday I made my biennial pilgrimage to see The Flaming Lips, this time at the new O2 Academy in Birmingham. I’m always exceptionally bouncy before a Flaming Lips gig, like an excitable child ...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 17, 2009, 6:31 am
Dear Mr/Miss cat-sitter, Thank you for agreeing to look after my two cats while I am away on holiday. Jet, my large black moggy, needs feeding twice a day (although she often gets a third meal) and ...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Nov 17, 2009, 3:59 am
Something terrible has happened. Yesterday afternoon I gathered the strength to visit Elmfield House again and I didn’t need to knock the door to know that Leonard wasn’t there. I found fliers for...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 13, 2009, 3:41 pm
It’s nearly party season again!! Woop! Around 70% of the parties that I’ve attended this year have been fancy dress, which is great fun because I love dressing up in silly costumes at every given...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Nov 12, 2009, 3:15 am
Last night I had another session with the flower that Luke picked for me a while back. It is still in bloom and I think that my work on it is paying off. Luke, if you ever read this, I think it is w...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 10, 2009, 1:59 pm
University Biblical Studies Departments. Ok, ok, I’ll give you a second to snigger to yourselves and imagine lots of strange-looking, tweed clad men smoking pipes in the corner of a lecture room. Yo...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Nov 10, 2009, 8:55 am
Still no word from Leonard or Luke. Or from Alex, for that matter. And it is quite literally killing me. I miss Luke so very much and thoughts of him cloud every second of my day. In addition to the...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 8, 2009, 3:53 pm
Love this acapella version of my favourite Muse track. A little weird to watch at first, but bear with it...very funny....
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 8, 2009, 12:32 pm
Figures have been released on the eve of Remembrance Day revealing that war memorials are being desecrated at the rate of more than one a week. There has been a rash of these stories in the news recen...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 6, 2009, 9:47 am
There comes a time in every girl’s life when she has to make sacrifices. A time when she has to wrench herself away from those she loves and discard them, no matter how much it breaks her heart. A t...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Nov 6, 2009, 8:07 am
I really feel as though I am losing my mind. I just don't know what to believe anymore. I need to speak to Leonard, but I am too afraid to see him. All I have left of our friendship is the framed ...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Nov 4, 2009, 5:34 am
There are a number of mysteries that continue to confound modern man. Is there an afterlife? Why do we age? Is there life on other planets? Do all questions have an answer? Can you cry underwater? In ...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 31, 2009, 12:02 pm

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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 31, 2009, 10:50 am
I am writing this on my laptop on the floor of my front room, where I have been sat all afternoon in floods of inconsolable tears. The world around me is descending into madness and rapidly dragging m...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 25, 2009, 4:49 pm
I was woken around 7am on Saturday morning by the noise of the traffic outside and the clatter of Amber preparing breakfast in the kitchen downstairs. It was my last night in Amber’s spare room and ...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 23, 2009, 10:17 am
It was getting too late to visit Leonard that afternoon and I was still feeling a little nauseous, so I caught the bus straight back home. When I finally arrived at the house I found Alex packing his ...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 23, 2009, 9:45 am
I’ve been biting my tongue since receiving news of Stephen Gately’s death for two reasons. First, I was waiting to see how the media would handle the story. Second, I was waiting to see who would ...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 20, 2009, 11:37 am
I'm writing this on Amber's laptop in her front room, but before I go on to explain why I am here, let me share with you my latest poem from Luke. It is a poem by John Donne, his favourite poe...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 19, 2009, 12:00 pm
There seems be a lot of love in the room for Invasion, a psychadelic metal threesome from North London who are currently taking the metal scene by storm. Described by NME as ‘pretty much the most ex...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 18, 2009, 6:12 am
I haven't heard from Leonard since Monday afternoon. No phone call, no postcards. Nothing. And I have a horrible feeling that I know why... When I arrived home on Monday evening I could not fin...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 15, 2009, 10:10 am
A portion of this post link has been moved to a restricted area of the website and access is by invite only. “If this is true, then there is no hope,” I interrupted, “there is no salvation…�...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 14, 2009, 10:25 am
CALLING ALL MIDLANDS LIVE MUSIC FANS! This month British punk rockers Gallows will be taking the reigns of Topman CTRL and they have hand picked a line-up of hot new bands for the CTRL live gig, taki...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 13, 2009, 12:18 pm
I arrived over an hour late for the sitting at Elmfield House yesterday afternoon. There was an introductory talk for new postgraduates at the University and the speaker was a verbose man who was very...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 11, 2009, 6:09 am
Alex and I are arguing again. It is entirely my fault, I admit it. I just can't focus on him at the moment. I'm distracted by a number of things; the start of my postgraduate course, my increa...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 10, 2009, 9:13 am
Who - WHO - suddenly decided that we are in the Christmas season?! Last night I saw two Christmas adverts on TV – one for furniture and one for air freshener – both with animated snowmen, Christma...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 8, 2009, 10:45 am
Luke sent another poem this morning. Thankfully it was a love poem rather than one of his darker writings. Attached to the email were two small photographs; a photo of a portrait of Luke that Leonard ...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 7, 2009, 6:17 am
Well here’s something you don’t see every day. Derren Brown (the illusionist, mentalist, entertainer...yadder yadder...) doing an impression of Stewie from Family Guy! (although it is a little Pri...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 6, 2009, 11:34 am
My Twitter feed has been snarled up recently by a huge influx of propaganda, self pity and false rebellion from one person in particular. Lily Allen. She has been spouting nonsense about file sharing ...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 6, 2009, 10:29 am
Last night I had a dream that was so vivid that I scribbled down every tiny detail of the dream upon waking and the memory seemed as real as the real-life events of the previous day. I expect that a l...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 5, 2009, 2:12 pm
If there’s one thing that I am, well *was*, pretty sure of in life it is this; violins and rock music do not mix. And I don’t mean synth strings in the background of an 80s soft-rock anthem, that�...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 5, 2009, 4:38 am
A portion of this post link has been moved to a restricted area of the website and access is by invite only. I looked at him in silence, a little shaken by his fervour and desperately trying to proc...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Oct 2, 2009, 10:39 am
Yes, yes, I know it’s not big and it’s not clever…. If you ever find yourself sat at computer on a Friday afternoon, feeling a little downcast and waiting for the weekend to kick in, then cheer...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Oct 2, 2009, 8:26 am
This post link has been moved to a restricted area of the website and access is by invite only. Helen
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Sep 30, 2009, 6:12 am
I had an amazing time on Monday afternoon and my head is still spinning with visions, thoughts and ideas from those few hours spent with Leonard. The air was tense when I arrived at Elmfield House o...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Sep 30, 2009, 4:42 am
And just when I thought this whole ‘religion’ concept couldn’t get any weirder (see 'Jediism vs Tesco' post below) this just fell into my lap… According to The Metro, Bryan Killian, a...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Sep 29, 2009, 8:43 am
Another morning, another email from Luke and yet another set of random photographs. The photographs are from quite a long time ago and I look very happy - and very young! - in each of them. This time ...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Sep 27, 2009, 9:02 am
Daniel Jones, the 23-year-old founder of the Church of Jediism, was ejected from a Tesco store in Bangor, North Wales, for wearing his Jedi hood while shopping for his lunch. Tesco staff believed that...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Sep 27, 2009, 7:42 am
What a headline! A group of teenagers encountered this strange creature on Saturday 12th September at a lake in Cerro Azul, Panama. It (allegedly) emerged from a cave behind a waterfall and ran toward...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Sep 26, 2009, 8:24 am
Luke and I had a conversation yesterday afternoon during which he made one or two comments that intrigued me greatly and made me worry about his state of mind. He told me that the gods are angered whe...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Sep 25, 2009, 9:23 am
Smokers in Birmingham are being targeted by a (quite literally) hard-hitting campaign challenging them to fight back and stop smoking. The shocking video (below, directed by the famous photographer Ra...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Sep 23, 2009, 6:53 am
Last night I took a trip to the Symphony Hall in Birmingham to see Jimmy Carr on tour. It was my first ‘night out’ since my accident and thankfully my neon pink arm cast has been replaced by a Kei...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Sep 23, 2009, 6:20 am
The postcard that arrived this morning is by far one of the most touching correspondences that I have ever received from Leonard. From anyone, if truth be told. It is a simple, blank postcard. No b...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Sep 20, 2009, 4:33 am
I made a hard decision on Friday morning. I told Luke that I’m writing a postgraduate research paper on Jesus and ancient magic. It was a tough decision, but I decided to confide in him because he h...
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Helen posted an article on The Geek Muse - Sep 15, 2009, 9:53 am
Oh how how how much do I wish I had one of these cute fellas during my recent unscheduled hospital stay?! RIKEN’s RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) robotic bear was designed to help lift...
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Helen posted an article on The Omega Course - Sep 14, 2009, 1:45 pm
Another postcard from Leonard arrived this morning. The picture on the front is Ivan Albright's The Picture of Dorian Gray and the quotation is, appropriately, from the novel of the same title by ...
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