Talk:Outer Dimensional Forces

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The significance of a religious movement cannot be underestimated, as all religious movements are a reflection of or reaction to the society at large.

This is the reason why, for instance, the Heaven's Gate cult is seen as significant. On the whole, their suicide or lives had very little visible effect upon anybody, yet taken as a symptom of society's ills at large, their striving for absolute, unquestioned answers, and as an indicator of the lengths that people will go for irrational beliefs, they are valuable harbingers.

Although ODF did not commit suicide, as I point out in the conclusion, it is another interesting and enlightening example of the search for meaning, pursued in cults, that thrived at the end of the last century.

Additionally, this article is important in consolidating the largely spotty and inconclusive research on this group into one base; it has been referenced much, but probed little.

Finally, it is worth noting that O.T. Nodrog's biography is, in fact, published (by a third party) in Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters by Gene Fowler, to be put out in March of this year (link: [1]).

Please do not delete this valuable work on an interesting and quintessential product of the 20th Century's most bizarre era in religion.

(sorry about the four edits)

16:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)