Censoring Paganism

[Abishai100]

Americans love horror films and comic books, since both speak to a pedestrian fascination with confluence intrigue.

America is after all a land of confluence where people from all backgrounds meet to forge social contracts.

Horror films and comic books present freakish and heroic characters who exemplify an American appreciation of civics gone haywire and times when vigilantism seems more sensible than jurisprudence.

The DC Comics character Lucifer Morningstar is a translation of the Christian Devil (Lucifer/Satan) and is the inspiration for the new comics-adapted television series Lucifer (Fox TV).

When Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 crime-glorification film Natural Born Killers motivated impressionable American youngsters to commit 'copycat crimes,' people started taking notice of the power the media and entertainment has in shaping American consciousness.

American media presents straightforward dialogue-catalytic stories/ideas that would otherwise be considered heretical and even censorship-worthy in more conservative nations such as Iran.

It is no surprise therefore that the paganism-oriented masquerading festival of Halloween (derived from an old Gaelic festival known as Samhain) is so popular and 'mainstream' in America.

Americans have been guilty of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism, but only in America can you find movies made about the events (e.g., The Crucible, The Majestic) for mass dialogue.

Imagine therefore the following hypothetical mock dialogue about tolerance of paganism (in America) between Batman (DC Comics), a fictional masked urban American vigilante, and Leatherface, the fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film series made in America.

Such a dialogue can help us better understand why Americans are willing to make movies about non-mainstream subjects so liberally (as compared to other countries).


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LEATHERFACE: Devil's Night before Halloween in Washington!
BATMAN: Halloween in America is not meant for mischief and mayhem.
LEATHERFACE: Halloween is Samhain!
BATMAN: You can't use Occultism curiosity to hype demon-worship.
LEATHERFACE: God versus Satan!
BATMAN: Dialogue is ok, but propaganda is questionable.
LEATHERFACE: I want my TV!
BATMAN: Free speech is not connected automatically to pornography.
LEATHERFACE: The Occult is a real force!
BATMAN: Americans want to evaluate what they commercialize.
LEATHERFACE: Censorship!
BATMAN: Debate.

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Americans love horror films and comic books, since both speak to a pedestrian fascination with confluence intrigue.

America is after all a land of confluence where people from all backgrounds meet to forge social contracts.

Horror films and comic books present freakish and heroic characters who exemplify an American appreciation of civics gone haywire and times when vigilantism seems more sensible than jurisprudence.

The DC Comics character Lucifer Morningstar is a translation of the Christian Devil (Lucifer/Satan) and is the inspiration for the new comics-adapted television series Lucifer (Fox TV).

When Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 crime-glorification film Natural Born Killers motivated impressionable American youngsters to commit 'copycat crimes,' people started taking notice of the power the media and entertainment has in shaping American consciousness.

American media presents straightforward dialogue-catalytic stories/ideas that would otherwise be considered heretical and even censorship-worthy in more conservative nations such as Iran.

It is no surprise therefore that the paganism-oriented masquerading festival of Halloween (derived from an old Gaelic festival known as Samhain) is so popular and 'mainstream' in America.

Americans have been guilty of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism, but only in America can you find movies made about the events (e.g., The Crucible, The Majestic) for mass dialogue.

Imagine therefore the following hypothetical mock dialogue about tolerance of paganism (in America) between Batman (DC Comics), a fictional masked urban American vigilante, and Leatherface, the fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film series made in America.

Such a dialogue can help us better understand why Americans are willing to make movies about non-mainstream subjects so liberally (as compared to other countries).


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LEATHERFACE: Devil's Night before Halloween in Washington!
BATMAN: Halloween in America is not meant for mischief and mayhem.
LEATHERFACE: Halloween is Samhain!
BATMAN: You can't use Occultism curiosity to hype demon-worship.
LEATHERFACE: God versus Satan!
BATMAN: Dialogue is ok, but propaganda is questionable.
LEATHERFACE: I want my TV!
BATMAN: Free speech is not connected automatically to pornography.
LEATHERFACE: The Occult is a real force!
BATMAN: Americans want to evaluate what they commercialize.
LEATHERFACE: Censorship!
BATMAN: Debate.

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You know what else American movie makers can't help but do? Put conservative values in movies. Americans eat that shit up.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Americans love horror films and comic books, since both speak to a pedestrian fascination with confluence intrigue.

America is after all a land of confluence where people from all backgrounds meet to forge social contracts.

Horror films and comic books present freakish and heroic characters who exemplify an American appreciation of civics gone haywire and times when vigilantism seems more sensible than jurisprudence.

The DC Comics character Lucifer Morningstar is a translation of the Christian Devil (Lucifer/Satan) and is the inspiration for the new comics-adapted television series Lucifer (Fox TV).

When Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 crime-glorification film Natural Born Killers motivated impressionable American youngsters to commit 'copycat crimes,' people started taking notice of the power the media and entertainment has in shaping American consciousness.

American media presents straightforward dialogue-catalytic stories/ideas that would otherwise be considered heretical and even censorship-worthy in more conservative nations such as Iran.

It is no surprise therefore that the paganism-oriented masquerading festival of Halloween (derived from an old Gaelic festival known as Samhain) is so popular and 'mainstream' in America.

Americans have been guilty of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism, but only in America can you find movies made about the events (e.g., The Crucible, The Majestic) for mass dialogue.

Imagine therefore the following hypothetical mock dialogue about tolerance of paganism (in America) between Batman (DC Comics), a fictional masked urban American vigilante, and Leatherface, the fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film series made in America.

Such a dialogue can help us better understand why Americans are willing to make movies about non-mainstream subjects so liberally (as compared to other countries).


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LEATHERFACE: Devil's Night before Halloween in Washington!
BATMAN: Halloween in America is not meant for mischief and mayhem.
LEATHERFACE: Halloween is Samhain!
BATMAN: You can't use Occultism curiosity to hype demon-worship.
LEATHERFACE: God versus Satan!
BATMAN: Dialogue is ok, but propaganda is questionable.
LEATHERFACE: I want my TV!
BATMAN: Free speech is not connected automatically to pornography.
LEATHERFACE: The Occult is a real force!
BATMAN: Americans want to evaluate what they commercialize.
LEATHERFACE: Censorship!
BATMAN: Debate.

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You know what else American movie makers can't help but do? Put conservative values in movies. Americans eat that shit up.

That's what a corporate media machine is for, indoctrination.

 

[guno]

Americans love horror films and comic books, since both speak to a pedestrian fascination with confluence intrigue.

America is after all a land of confluence where people from all backgrounds meet to forge social contracts.

Horror films and comic books present freakish and heroic characters who exemplify an American appreciation of civics gone haywire and times when vigilantism seems more sensible than jurisprudence.

The DC Comics character Lucifer Morningstar is a translation of the Christian Devil (Lucifer/Satan) and is the inspiration for the new comics-adapted television series Lucifer (Fox TV).

When Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 crime-glorification film Natural Born Killers motivated impressionable American youngsters to commit 'copycat crimes,' people started taking notice of the power the media and entertainment has in shaping American consciousness.

American media presents straightforward dialogue-catalytic stories/ideas that would otherwise be considered heretical and even censorship-worthy in more conservative nations such as Iran.

It is no surprise therefore that the paganism-oriented masquerading festival of Halloween (derived from an old Gaelic festival known as Samhain) is so popular and 'mainstream' in America.

Americans have been guilty of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism, but only in America can you find movies made about the events (e.g., The Crucible, The Majestic) for mass dialogue.

Imagine therefore the following hypothetical mock dialogue about tolerance of paganism (in America) between Batman (DC Comics), a fictional masked urban American vigilante, and Leatherface, the fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film series made in America.

Such a dialogue can help us better understand why Americans are willing to make movies about non-mainstream subjects so liberally (as compared to other countries).


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LEATHERFACE: Devil's Night before Halloween in Washington!
BATMAN: Halloween in America is not meant for mischief and mayhem.
LEATHERFACE: Halloween is Samhain!
BATMAN: You can't use Occultism curiosity to hype demon-worship.
LEATHERFACE: God versus Satan!
BATMAN: Dialogue is ok, but propaganda is questionable.
LEATHERFACE: I want my TV!
BATMAN: Free speech is not connected automatically to pornography.
LEATHERFACE: The Occult is a real force!
BATMAN: Americans want to evaluate what they commercialize.
LEATHERFACE: Censorship!
BATMAN: Debate.

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View attachment 100994

You know what else American movie makers can't help but do? Put conservative values in movies. Americans eat that shit up.

eat that shit up

and shit is what it is

 

[ding]

Americans love horror films and comic books, since both speak to a pedestrian fascination with confluence intrigue.

America is after all a land of confluence where people from all backgrounds meet to forge social contracts.

Horror films and comic books present freakish and heroic characters who exemplify an American appreciation of civics gone haywire and times when vigilantism seems more sensible than jurisprudence.

The DC Comics character Lucifer Morningstar is a translation of the Christian Devil (Lucifer/Satan) and is the inspiration for the new comics-adapted television series Lucifer (Fox TV).

When Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 crime-glorification film Natural Born Killers motivated impressionable American youngsters to commit 'copycat crimes,' people started taking notice of the power the media and entertainment has in shaping American consciousness.

American media presents straightforward dialogue-catalytic stories/ideas that would otherwise be considered heretical and even censorship-worthy in more conservative nations such as Iran.

It is no surprise therefore that the paganism-oriented masquerading festival of Halloween (derived from an old Gaelic festival known as Samhain) is so popular and 'mainstream' in America.

Americans have been guilty of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism, but only in America can you find movies made about the events (e.g., The Crucible, The Majestic) for mass dialogue.

Imagine therefore the following hypothetical mock dialogue about tolerance of paganism (in America) between Batman (DC Comics), a fictional masked urban American vigilante, and Leatherface, the fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film series made in America.

Such a dialogue can help us better understand why Americans are willing to make movies about non-mainstream subjects so liberally (as compared to other countries).


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LEATHERFACE: Devil's Night before Halloween in Washington!
BATMAN: Halloween in America is not meant for mischief and mayhem.
LEATHERFACE: Halloween is Samhain!
BATMAN: You can't use Occultism curiosity to hype demon-worship.
LEATHERFACE: God versus Satan!
BATMAN: Dialogue is ok, but propaganda is questionable.
LEATHERFACE: I want my TV!
BATMAN: Free speech is not connected automatically to pornography.
LEATHERFACE: The Occult is a real force!
BATMAN: Americans want to evaluate what they commercialize.
LEATHERFACE: Censorship!
BATMAN: Debate.

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You know what else American movie makers can't help but do? Put conservative values in movies. Americans eat that shit up.

eat that shit up

and shit is what it is

I will have to take accept your opinion on this because you do seem to be an expert on that.

 

[Abishai100]

Talk Radio


It seems that these topics were nicely explored in the Oliver Stone film Talk Radio starring Eric Bogosian.

A socially-shrewd but culturally-jaded American radio talk-show DJ named Barry goes through a series of tirades and interviews strange and interesting people who call in or come in to the radio station and discovers a 'lightness of being' as it relates to the metaphysical profundity of 'American philosophy.'

I like comparing Talk Radio with the Occultism-invasion film Halloween III: Season of the Witch, since they both present ideas about a culture-drenched Machiavellian paranoia (e.g., 'anti-social metaphysics').

So since we're talking about the proliferation of 'strange-world philosophies' in the media, here's a short-story I wrote that I think symbolizes American acceptance of Occultism intrigue (or controversies thereof).

Let me know what you think...as an American (or as an extra-terrestrial!).




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Eric was excited about tonight's radio show. Having been a talk-show DJ for about three years now, he had prepared some rough notes about how new-age mindless TV sitcoms were turning Americans into leaking vegetables. Having immigrated from Macedonia with his mother when he was a little boy, Eric grew up with an aspiration to become a 'national voice for social consciousness' after being overwhelmed with the 'in-your-face' optimism of the Statue of Liberty. Eric wanted to see who would call in to his radio-show tonight and comment on the night's theme. He was about to receive a phone call from a real witch.

Eric's first caller was an Indian-American who came to the USA in the late 1980s and had recently become a U.S. citizen. The young man, Ajay Patel, was concerned about strange trends in American culture regarding gender-rights as they paralleled some gender intrigue related controversies in India. Ajay called in and started telling Eric that he agreed with the overall assessment that TV was brainwashing America's youth and turning the working middle-class into a reliable group of couch-potato sitting susceptible vegetables, ready to serve as soldiers in a new consumer-based economy. Ajay started telling Eric about dowry-related bride-burnings in India and how these tragedies were related to caste-system obsessions.

Eric was somewhat disarmed by the Ajay phone call. He advised the idealistic young Indian-American to get involved and write to politicians about evolving gender-politics in America and that how someday Hillary Clinton may become the U.S. president and that maybe she would empathize with the cultural blight of dowry-burnings in India related to the caste-system. Eric's next caller was a strange-sounding Wiccan woman named Ernice. Ernice was offering comments about the appeal of identity-masquerading Halloween in America and how the allure of Halloween revealed an American demand for more Occultism philosophies.

Eric was most troubled by Ernice's call, since he was compelled to say (on air) some incendiary but controversial ideas about the need to use the media to generate political intrigue through socio-cultural criticism. Eric warned Ernice that if Americans use the simple 'accessibility' of the media to argue for the convenient marketing of alternative lifestyle advocacy (that seeped into culture and politics), such as Occultism free speech, there would be all kinds of unchecked extremism. Eric concluded that Ernice was right about the need for debate, but she was dead wrong about the convenience implications of media access. He was happy with the tone of the night's show and continued to wonder if Americans' love of media ironically created 'dead-weight free speech.'

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