Sooner or later, everyone comes to BABYLON 5

There were 3500 visitors between November 1996 and February 1997
There have been 12707 visitors since February 13, 1997.

What's New?
September 17:Joined the B5 Web Ring.

September 12:Fixed some broken links...

September 7: Well, after slacking off in the summer sun, I have finally sat down and updated the site. I added almost 30 new members, bringing us up to 265 members. I added some people from TNT to the Saints page. I added a link to the "Sisters Of Zathras" site. (It is in the sub-churches area.)

I also updated the Shrine Of Garibaldi. Some interesting info about Garibaldi and the whole purpose of the Line. Check it out to hear the news from the Sainted Lady T.

November 27 Coup Happened, Chocolate Watch rules the roost now!

Welcome to the Church Of Joe.

As of November 1, 1996 this page has gone public. It went up locally to the members of PDX-B5 on October 13 for the beta-testing phase. They helped me work out the bugs in my HTML code and give some general ideas for the site. Now the doors are open to everyone, so come on in and praise Joe!

What is the Church Of Joe?

The Church Of Joe is my way of honoring J. Michael Straczynski, Writer-Creator-Producer of Babylon 5. I hope to make this THE place to come for information relating to Joe. As of the opening of the site, you can find pictures of Joe, links to archives of his messages, a constantly under construction biography, and much more.

This "religion" is an amalgamation of whatever I think is cool. There are some Christian elements thrown in, such as the Ten Commandments. It is mostly based on Greek and Roman mythology though. Joe is the main god, like a Zeus. We will have demigods, such as Chris Franke, who are just under Joe. Whatever sounds like fun will be sucked into the church.

Sub-Churches? DemiGods? Saints?

I liken this to Greek mythology... Joe is the big God, Zeus if you will. There can be other gods, but they are lesser gods and (in the subtext of this "religion") would not be gods if it were not for Joe. Saints are those people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to spread the words of Joe. (People working on Babylon 5 are automatically saints) Sub-Churches are places for people to worship lesser gods and saints.

Mailing List

The Church Of Joe also has a mailing list. We talk about many things. Joe and his many projects, anything related to the sub-churches, and lots of topic drift during the rerun seasons. Here is how to join...

Just send e-mail to majordomo@pacifier.com with the text "subscribe coj-list" in the body. (Minus the quotes, of course...)

Also, in the middle of May I started offering a Digest version of the list. This is designed for people who prefer to get one big message instead of each individual message. Since I have to do this Digest by hand it doesn't always show up at the same time. But, each day's messages are collected and shipped out in no later than 48 hours. If you are interested in the Digest mode of the mailing list, send me e-mail asking to be put on the Digest list.

What does Joe think of all this?

You don't think I would do this without getting Joe's permission, do you? (I would, but that is beside the point.) Before going public, I sent Joe a message telling him my plans and asking him for a comment. Here it is...

Given that I am an atheist, if there is a Church of Joe I will have to
not believe in it, and thus not believe in the existence of myself, which
could lead to a reality implosion.  This could cause the entire fabric of
time and space to unravel, and who knows what could result?  We might
suddenly have a world in which John Kennedy wasn't able to pressure congress
into allowing him to run for a third term; a world in which the Lunar
colony did not exist...and no one would know about these horrible changes
since reality would have shifted.

     We will, however, have someone to blame for it, so consider yourself
warned.

                                                              smj

Why would I want to join?

When you are ready to worship Joe, you won't have to ask that question.

 Seriously, it is mostly just for kicks. It doesn't cost you anything to join.  You don't have to be a member of the COJ to access any of the imformation on this site, so I can't bribe you that way. In fact, there is nothing I can use to bribe you. (Perhaps laminated membership cards if I get enough interest in that.)

One plan I do have in the works will be of most benfit to non-internet types. I hope to collect messages from Joe and collect them in a newsletter form that will be mailed out to COJ members not on the net. (Or net people who want it.) This I might have to charge money for, to pay for copying and postage, but this is still in the works. Also, this will give non-netters a place to send questions. If the question is a new one, I can pass it along to Joe for them and mail them his answer. This will give EVERYONE access to Joe.

If this site takes off, who knows what it will grow into. On the other hand, it may die a slow, painfull, lingering death and nothing will ever come from it. Who knows when it comes to the net? (Or religious cults?)

So go look around and let me know what you think. The Church Of Joe doors are always open.

Lea Day, High Priest

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