Eternity

As mentioned before, during the time of the Church's Revolution, The Church of Maasa does not only support Maasa anymore, but also her fellow Hello! Project comrades and close friends. Also, one of our main goals is to spread the love for her and Hello! Project - which brings Eternity into it. Eternity is a Fangroup founded by ArielSoul and Risa/Misa on Hello! Online, with their main goal to spread the Hello! Project Love over the world. 

Now they have invented this wonderful website Eternity, to make information and news accessable for everyone. Like the members of the Church, they use their own spare time to make Eternity work, which is why they needed help. I, among others, have lately advanced from a member to a member off the Emergency Staff, meaning that I have access to the News section etc.

The fact that I am an Eternity member as well as a fellow Maaist, I thought of the possibility of the two organizations to work together, the main reason for this post. I ask everyone to pay Eternity a visit, and think of becoming a member (it's free). Our current Goals are to spread News and gain members, but we also want to make Hello! Project more known international. Certain projects to do that (e.g. handing out leaflets) are currently being planned.

At this point I want to apologize for the inactiveness of the Church and will present you with another picspam♥

Bestieeeeees!

July / August -2011 Calendar Bikini Picture ♥

Again from the Calendar, in different Seifuku

Calendar Yukata Outfit (not from the Original Calendar) sooo lovely. Although I would have prefered her with bangs, the color of the Yukata suits her, feminine as well as strong, cute hairstyle as well. Thank you, stylist. 

24th Single "Shining Power" Group Artist picture.  Why did they give the exact same hairstyle to our holy one as in Tomodachi wa Tomodachi nanda? O__O

Again the Calendar's Seifuku. Isn't she lovely?

May Maasa be with you.

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Away

It has recently come to the Church's attention that one of our great deacons, Keksi*Choc, known also as Mimi-Chama in some Hello! and Online circles, will soon depart for a pilgrimage to foreign lands (the exact locations of which will be kept secret).
She may be back later this month, or she may have to wait for several months.

Let us take a moment to pray to our Mama Deity that she has a safe and enjoyable trip.

As-Salamu Alaykum!




(This is probably more appropriate for the [terrestrial] head of the Church, but you guys are getting Garlix'd instead so nyeh.)

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The Church Expands!

 

It's come to my attention that this blog doesn't get nearly the same amount of attention that I want to give it, or that it deserves. And so I have decided that it's time to go back and put my initial plans into action.

When I first created this blog, I was inspired by other worship blogs on the blogosphere, while at the same time pushed into action by the conversations in Hello!Online's Maasa thread, how that led to the creation of the Church is now documented in the Origins entry, the first post I made to the blog.

But when I created it, I had in mind a blog and a church which was community driven. A Church where it didn't rely on me to dictate everything, but to where the believers had choice. They could put forward their own ideas about what Maaism trully was. Where people of all walks of life could be brought together by their desire to create and their love for the Holy Mother. Even now, 18 months later, this idea still lingers in my mind as the goal I want to achieve.

And so it comes to me now that perhaps it's time to throw open the doors to the Cathedral and let the people inside.

I posted an advertisement on, what I felt was the best place for it, the Hello!Online Maasa thread. The very place where the Church was born. And in this advertisement I said that I was looking for willing writers to take up positions of authority within the Church and help contribute to the blog. Response was fairly disconcerting. There were many people who said that they would love to join, but lacked the free time or the confidence in their English to do so. There are some promising results, however.

Garlix, who you would know if you read his first post on the blog Do You Read the Bible, decided that despite limitations to the time he can spend writing he would help out. He serves us now, not only as a member of the Clergy, but also as an Ambassador to the Captain Party, which you may remember the earlier post L'Entente Cordiale brought an end to a year of hostilities between the Church and the Party.

So please, continue to contribute and comment, everyone. In the name of Maasa, we can only grow stronger.

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Origins

In this, the first post of this blog, I'll try to explain a little about the blog and where the idea came from.

I tend to frequent Maasa's discussion thread over at Hello!Online, in fact it's one of the only threads on the forum I ever post in. There's a bit of a community developed in there. There are several members who frequent it. I don't know any these people, but I've become familiar with many of them, I understand their personality and character, and I would hope that they feel the same way about me. But because we have this little "community", there are some in-jokes and such that people who aren't a part of the discussion miss out on. I wonder if the other members' threads are the same.

But anyway, the whole thing started some time ago when the subtitle of the Maasa thread was "2nd Berryz Tower". Most people didn't like this. It kind of implies that Maasa is second-rate, so we tried to get that changed to something more appropriate. We decided that "World's Strongest Idol" was a good one, because it's fairly common knowledge that Maasa is strong, after a certain arm-wrestling tournament and a grip and pull test in the DVD Magazines. This and Maasa's build leads to frequent references to her having herculean strength or something of the sort. So it was agreed and the subtitle was changed. But a pretender and Captain-supporter (terms I will likely use often) by the name of sougisou disputed this title. Claiming that it should instead go to Captain.

This eventually led to me posting this;

"Now who do I speak to about starting the Church of Maasa. Once we're a church and religion, it means we're no longer a cult, right? And therefore Maasa doesn't have to bear any of the negative connotations that come with such a term.

I think that the first thing the church should do is to declare July 3rd, Maasa's Birthday, a religious holiday. And when the clock hits midnight in Japan, all followers over the world must then proceed to sing "Happy Birthday" to Maasa.

Who is with me!?"

And everything happened from there. Including the start of a rivalry between me (and anyone who supports the Church) and those fools from the Captain thread who would revoke Maasa's title.

Thanks for reading, please support this blog, and of course Maasa.

Oh, and as an added aside... On the topic I opened this entry with, I started talking about the kind of "community" there is in the Maasa thread. Well, The Incredible He-Hulk posted this message in the thread shortly after my post above. I think it sums the thread up pretty well.

"Oh, and who else believes that the Maasa thread is obviously the best thread in the H!O forum? Where else would a discussion about which grade an idol is in morph into a discussion about the relative strengths of various Berryz in martial disciplines, and ultimately into a proposal to form some sort of religious order based upon the Herculean strength of the world's strongest idol? No. Other. Thread. That’s where."

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