#jim greco

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Jim Greco, 1997

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Baker 3

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Jim Greco’s part in zeros “misled youth” (1999)

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Jim Greco - Los Angeles, CA  (1999-2000)

Filmed & Edited by J. Strickland 

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Jim Greco and his girlfriend circa 2005

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if you could!?-‘

Could you make a list of unknown, not very mainstream??? (Man idk how to say it!!) facts about John??

Thansjk✅✝️🙏🙏 (no i haven’t taken deugs!!)

Well, we’ve got two problems here, anon. One is that my mind always goes completely blank when I get these types of asks. The other is that I never have any idea of what is mainstream or common knowledge - especially on tumblr where the more insane lore is often more well-known than the boring biographical stuff.

Anyway, I’ll just throw out some random facts and apologise if this is all common knowledge

John had 5 half-siblings. His mother Julia had three daughters - Victoria (adopted and renamed Ingrid), Julia and Jackie. I don’t believe John was aware of Victoria’s existence. His father Alfred (Freddie) remarried in 1968, and they had two sons, David and Robin

John didn't see his dad Freddie from the age of 5 until 1964. John initially refused to speak to him, and asked Brian Epstein to bury a song that Freddie was releasing (he did). In 1967, John and his dad did build up some kind of a relationship, with Freddie and his fiancée Pauline moving into Kenwood in 1968, and Pauline working for the fan club. After John went through Janov's primal scream therapy, he invited Freddie and Pauline to Tittenhurst Park, where John shouted at him and kicked them out. John didn't see his dad again, but they did reconcile on the phone shortly before he died, which was in 1976, two weeks after Paul's dad Jim.

As well as the two books published in his lifetime (In His Own Write and A Spaniard In The Works), John started another book in the 70s, which was published after his death as Skywriting by Word of Mouth. This includes a mini autobiography in which he sounds like a complete arse, as well as an innuendo-ridden story about Paris in which he sounds like a man who shagged Paul in Paris.

Speaking of Paris, the £100 that John used to take Paul to Paris with him has generally been seen (and described by Paul) as birthday money (from his Scottish dentist uncle) for his 21st. But one of John’s half sisters (Julia,I think) has since claimed that it was inheritance from their mum, due to him on his 21st. It’s not clear whether John knew this and didn’t tell Paul, or if he just didn’t know.

John had a bit of a weird obsession with finding a girl who was his ‘type’…

From Skywriting by Word of Mouth... 'I’d always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist (à la Juliette Greco)... After a short visit to India on my way home from Australia, the image changed slightly—she had to be a dark-eyed Oriental... Of course as a teenager, my sexual fantasies were full of Anita Ekberg and the usual giant Nordic goddesses. That is, until Brigitte Bardot became the “love of my life” in the late Fifties. All my girlfriends who weren’t darkhaired suffered under my constant pressure to become Brigitte. By the time I married my first wife (who was, I think, a natural auburn), she too had become a long-haired blonde with the obligatory bangs.'

During the Beatles Australia tour in 1964, John slept with a 17-year-old girl called Jenny Kee. Jenny said that, "I don't think he had been with an Asian girl before.  He was very aware of it.  He was quite excited by it.”

On at least one occasion, he said the word 'orgy' wrong. Which is ironic, because he and Yoko were members of a private members bar called Club Orgy

There’s a few anecdotes about John’s sexual encounters. Royston Ellis and David Bowie have both claimed to have a (MMF) threesome with John. Tony Manero claimed that John propositioned him in the 70s.. Jojo Laine (Denny Laine's ex-wife) claimed she had a one-night stand with him. In John Green's book Dakota Days, John is often talking about visiting 'whorehouses' during his supposed househusband years

Speaking of the househusband years, although it's true that John spent a lot of time at home in the 1970s, the idea of John as a 'househusband' is a myth - it was a story cooked up by John and Yoko to hide the fact that he'd lost his 'muse' and was unable to write songs anymore. In reality, Sean was looked after by nannies, and (according to John Green) John used to make Sean ride in a separate limo so he didn't have to listen to him crying. But, John did seem to get a closer to Sean when he got older, and spent a lot of time with him in Cold Spring Harbour and Bermuda while Yoko was working in New York.

Most people probably know that the 'lost weekend' that John referred to was actually an 18-month separation from Yoko, while he was in a relationship with May Pang. But according to May, John was back in her bed within days of him going back to Yoko, and they kept sleeping together for about a year afterwards.

Anyway, I think that's enough for now - apologies again if any of this is too obvious. The problem with John is a lot of the lesser known stuff is more about the darker side of his personality, which is just depressing

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From the Library of Anne Rice (Part 3)

Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. New York: Crown Publishing, 2011. Lightly annotated. 

Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars.  New York: Penguin Books, 2012. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. Ownership signature. Tabbed. 

Martin, George R.R. A Dance with Dragons. New York: Bantam Books, 2011. Ownership signature. 

Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place. New York: Julian Messner, 1957. Ownership signature. 

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones.  New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Sheldon, Sidney. The Other Side of Midnight. New York: Willam Morrow & Company, Inc., 1973. Ownership signature.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. Quo Vadis. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2002. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Silva, Daniel. The Kill Artist.  New York: Random House, 2000. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Susann, Jacqueline. Once is Not Enough. New York: Willam Morrow & Company, Inc., 1973. Ownership signature. Lightly annotated. 

Susann, Jacqueline. Valley of the Dolls. New York: New Market Home Library, 1996. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Turow, Scott. Identical. New York/London: Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Ownership signature. 

Turow, Scott. Identical. New York/London: Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Bowman, Carol. Children's Past Lives. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.

Burpo, Todd with Lynn Vincent. Heaven is for Real. Nashville, Dallas, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro: Thomas Nelson, 2010.

Fronkzac, Paul Joseph and Alex Tresniowski. The Foundling. New York: Howard Books, 2017.

Greven, Philip. Spare the Child. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Joyce, Stephen H. Suffer the Captive Children. By the Author, 2004.

Malarkey, Kevin & Alex The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven. Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2011.

Mcfarland, Hillary. Quivering Daughter. Dallas, Texas: Darklight Press, 2010.

Postman, Neil. The Disappearance of Childhood. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Rafferty, Mary and Eoin O'Sullivan. Suffer the Little Children. New York: Continuum, 1999.

Reilly, Frances. Suffer the Little Children. London: Hachett UK, 2008.

Szalavitz, Maia. Help at Any Cost. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

Taylor, Marjorie. Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Tucker, Jim B. Life Before Life. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005.

Woititz, Janet Geringer.  Adult Children of Alcoholics. Deerbeach, Florida: Health Communications, Inc., 1983.

Bloom, Harold. The Book of J. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Collins, Andrew. From the Ashes of Angels. Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2001. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Collins, John J. The Scepter and the Star. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Annotated.

Cook, John Granger. The Interpretation of the New Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism. Hendrickson Publish, 2002. Ownership signature.  

Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Scriptures. [Oxford]: Oxford University Press, 2003. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Enns, Peter. The Bible Tells Me So... HarperOne, 2014. Ownership signature.  

Fox, Everett. The Five Books of Moses. New York: Schocken Books, 1995. Ownership signature. Annotated.

House, H. Wayne. Charts of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1981. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Howard, Thomas. Evangelical is Not Enough. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1984. Ownership signature.  

Lockhart, Douglas, Jesus the Heretic. Shaftsbury, Dorset: Element, 1997. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Luckert, Karl W. Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire. State University of New York Press, 1991.  

Parenti, Michael. God and His Demons. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2010. Ownership signature.  

Shaw, Russell. Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitors Publishing, 1997. Annotated.

Sparrow, W. Shaw. The Gospels In Art. New York: Frederick A, Stokes Company, 1904. Annotated.

Townsend, Mark. The Gospel of Falling Down. Winchester, UK: O Books, 2007. Inscribed by author.  

Valenti, Connie Ann. Stories of Jesus. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2012. Inscribed by author.  

Yallop, David A. In God's Name. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1984. Annotated.

Zuesse, Eric. Christ's Ventriloquists. New York: Hyacinth Editions, 2012. Ownership signature. Annotated.

Cayce, Edgar.  On Atlantis. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1968. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Collins, Andrew. Gobekli, Tepe Genesis of the Gods.  Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2014. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Cremo, Michael A. and Richard L. Thompson. Forbidden Archaeology. Los Angeles: Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, 2003. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Eno, Paul F.  Faces at the Window.  By the Author, 1998. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Fiore, Edith. The Unquiet Dead. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Hoagland, Richard C. and Mike Bar. Dark Mission: The Secret History of Nasa.  Feral House, 2007. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Icke, David.  The Biggest Secret. David Icke Books, 1999. Ownership Signature.  

Joseph, Frank. The Atlantis Encyclopedia. Career Press, 2005. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Knight, Christopher and Alan Butler. Before the Pyramids.  London: Watkins Publishing. 1988. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Leshan, Lawrence. A New Science of the Paranormal. Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House, 2009. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Peake, Anthony. The Out-of-Body Experience. Watkins, 2011. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Redfern, Nick. Shapeshifters Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publication 2017. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Roberts, Scott Alan. The Secret History of the Reptilians.  Pompton, N.J.: New Page Books, 2013. Ownership Signature.  

Spence, Lewis. The Occult Sciences in Atlantis. London: The Aquarian Press, 1970. Ownership Signature. Annotated

Temple, Robert with Olivia Temple. The Sphinx Mystery. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2009. Ownership Signature. Lightly Annotated

Thyme, Lauren O. The Lemurian Way. Lakeville, Minnesota: Glade Press, 2012. Ownership Signature.  

Wilson, Colin and Rand Flem-Ath. The Atlantis Blueprint. Delta Trade Paperback, 2000. Ownership Signature. Annotated.

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“Jim Greco Mission Street” Deck

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My newest idea for my racing tunes series of posts. Inspired by the fact that I am missing Indycar so much, this is going through the starting grids for the Indy 500 each year & looking at the song in the charts according to the car numbers.

Starting with the year I was born, 1996 (fuck me I'm getting old 😂).

Enjoy 😊

Tony Stewart (Car 20) - Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check

Davy Jones (Car 70) - Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Eliseo Salazar (Car 7) - SWV - You're The One

Eddie Cheever (Car 3) - Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me

Buddy Lazier (Car 91) - Madonna - Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Roberto Guerrero (Car 21) - LL Cool J - Doin' It

Alessandro Zampedri (Car 8) - Whitney Houston & CeCe Winans - Count On Me

Michel Jourdain Jr (Car 22) - Joe - All The Things (Your Man Won't Do)

Buzz Calkins (Car 12) - MC Lyte ft Xscape - Keep On Keepin' On

Davey Hamilton (Car 14) - Hootie & The Blowfish - Old Man & Me (When I Get To Heaven)

Mike Groff (Car 60) - Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars

Michele Alboreto (Car 33) - Nonchalant - 5 O'Clock

Stephan Gregoire (Car 9) - Coolio - 1,2,3,4 (Sumpin' New)

Mark Dismore (Car 30) - Mary J.Blige - Not Gon' Cry

Richie Hearn (Car 4) - The Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows

Johnny Unser (Car 64) - Luke - Scarred

John Paul Jr (Car 18) - La Bouche - Sweet Dreams

Lyn St James (Car 45) - Tina Arena - Chains

Jim Guthrie (Car 27) - Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)

Arie Luyendyk (Car 5) - Alanis Morrisette - Ironic

Scott Sharp (Car 11) - Brandy - Sittin' Up In My Room

Marco Greco (Car 41) - Quad City DJ's - C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)

Robbie Buhl (Car 54) - Seal - Don't Cry

Paul Durant (Car 96) - Shai - I Don't Wanna Be Alone

Racin Gardner (Car 90) - Bryan Adams - The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You

Brad Murphey (Car 10) - Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down

Johnny Parsons (Car 16) - Jann Arden - Insensitive

Fermin Velez (Car 34) - Collective Soul - The World I Know

Johnny O'Connell (Car 75) - Genius/GZA ft Method Man - Shadowboxin'

Hideshi Matsuda (Car 52) - D'Angelo - Lady

Joe Gosek (Car 43) - Bush - Machinehead

Scott Harrington (Car 44) - Melissa Etheridge - I Want To Come Over

Danny Ongais (Car 32) - Montifah - You

And of course I made a Spotify playlist 😊😊

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Looking for an excuse to post one of my favorite tricks. Greco kills don’t @ me. Jim Greco fastplant from the deathwish video 2013

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Jim Greco, 1999

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X-Men 56 (May 1969)

Roy Thomas/Neal Adams

Here we....here we...here we fucking go!! It's Neal fucking Adams!!

So I usually write these entries without looking ahead too much but we might as well situate ourselves a bit here. X-Men, as has been clear for a while, was a bit of a mess, with constant creative changes and no very obvious direction. It had never reached the heights of Marvel's big books at the time - Spiderman, Fantastic Four - and by this point in 1969 it was on the verge of cancellation. This was when an artist named Neal Adams, who had already done acclaimed work for DC, was assigned to the title. He didn't save it from cancellation, ultimately, but in the issues that were left he did absolutely astonishing work that reminded everyone what it could and should have been.

Adams ended up a legendary figure, mostly after his return to DC in the 70s, where he did era-defining work on Batman, among others, but he was already on another level. Some of his brilliance, like the panel above, is very similar to Jim Steranko's: the surreal, trippy visuals, the incorporation of layered imagery and mental landscapes. His layouts were similarly innovative and dynamic:

What you can also see there, though, is what really makes his art stand out: his instantly recognisable faces, which are distorted, tortured, wracked with emotion, like something out of El Greco. Here's a full page that shows all of that at once: I especially love the face of the Pharoah in the bottom left corner.

That panel too shows off Adams' radical use of colour (enabled by his inking partner, Tom Palmer), which shifts constantly depending on the mood he wants to evoke.

What is this issue about? I mean...don't worry about it. Just enjoy the art. The Living Pharoah briefly supercharges himself using Alex Summers' mutant power and becomes the Living Monolith, a sort of evil stone giant, but he's dealt with in a few pages. I sort of feel like Adams arrived, decided the whole Egyptian thing - which had been begun by Arnold Drake, who was no longer writing for the title, because the title was a mess - was dumb, and dismissed it, with him and Roy Thomas salvaging the interesting element: Alex Summers and his powers, which is where the issue ends.

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Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

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Michael Jordan

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Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

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Panini

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Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

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Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

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Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba (Official God) .

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Lionel Messi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Muhammad Ali

Joan of Arc

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

Online Indie

J. K. Rowling

David Lean

Nadia Comaneci

Diego Maradona

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

Ludwig Van Beethoven

William W. Cargill

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Sam Walton

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Roy Thomson

Tim Berners-Lee

Marie Curie

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Roman Polanski

Samuel Slater

J. P. Morgan

Cary Grant

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Harvard

Alain Delon

Ramakrishna Paramhansa (Official God)

The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

Bruce Lee

Bhagwan Krishna (Official God)

Charlemagne

Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

Bhagwan Ganesha (Official God)

Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Alfred Hitchcock

Pythagoras

William Randolph Hearst

Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alec Guinness

Nostradamus

Christopher Plummer

Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

Amma Karunamayi/ Mata Parvati (Official God)

Peter Sellers

Gerard Depardieu

Joseph Safra

Robert Morris

Sean Connery

Petr Kellner

Aristotle Onassis

Usain Bolt

Jack Welch

Alfredo di Stefano

Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jordan

Paul Muni

Steven Spielberg

Louis Pasteur

Ingrid Bergman

Norma Shearer

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ayn Rand

Jesus Christ (Official God)

Luciano Pavarotti

Alain Resnais

Frank Sinatra

Allah (Official God)

Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Alva Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

George Lucas

Swami Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Carl Lewis

Brett Favre

Helen Keller

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Buddha (Official God)

Hugh Grant

K. L. Saigal

Roger Federer

Rash Behari Bose

Tiger Woods

William Blake

Jesse Owens

Claude Miller

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subhash Chandra Bose

Satyajit Ray

Hippocrates

Chiang Kai-Shek

John Logie Baird

Geeta Dutt

Raphael (painter)

Bhagwan Shiva (Official God)

Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

George Orwell

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Catherine Deneuve

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bill Gates

Bhagwan Ram (Official God)

Michael Phelps

Michael Faraday

Audrey Hepburn

Dalai Lama

Grace Kelly

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin

Galileo Galilei

Gary Cooper

Roger Moore

John Huston

Blaise Pascal

Humphrey Bogart

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Morse

Wayne Gretzky

Yogi Berra

Barry Levinson

Patrice Chereau (director)

Jerry Lewis

Louis Daguerre

James Watt

Henri Rousseau

Nikita Krushchev

Jack Dorsey

Dev Anand

Elia Kazan

Alexander Fleming

David Selznick

Frank Marshall

Viswanathan Anand

Major Dhyan Chand

Swami Vivekananda

Felix Rohatyn

Sam Spiegel

Anand Bakshi

Victor Hugo

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Official God)

Steve Jobs

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Lord Hanuman

Stanley Kubrick

Giotto

Voltaire

Diego Velazquez

Ernest Hemingway

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Mario Lemieux

Kishore Kumar

James Stewart

Douglas Fairbanks

Confucius

Babe Ruth

Raj Kapoor

Titian aka Tiziano Vecelli

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

Jim Carrey

Mohammad Rafi

Steffi Graf

Pele

Gustave Courbet

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

Milos Forman

Steve Wozniak

Georgia O’ Keeffe

Mala Sinha

Aryabhatta

Magic Johnson

Patanjali

Leo Tolstoy

Tansen

Henry Fonda

Albrecht Durer

Benazir Bhutto

Cal Ripken Jr

Samuel Goldwyn

Mumtaz (actress)

Panini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pablo Picasso

George Clooney

Olivia de Havilland

Prem Chand

Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

Queen Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

Gerardus Mercator

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Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba (Official God)

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Reminds me of similar pisspoor takes in the IWTV fandom where white people blamed Louis for the race riots cuz he killed the Alderman--like he deserved every bad thing that ever happened to him cuz he killed racists. I've already discussed how the NOLA Ordinances were REAL laws America passed during Jim Crow to normalize segregation & the politico-economic crippling of black communities, which actually caused the race riots. Louis was involved; what he did might be "extreme," but white folk had BEEN screwing over ALL black people. When you're being OPPRESSED, back to the frikkin wall, you might take extreme measures in search of JUSTICE, or just to level the playing field for EQUALITY.

Which takes me to Attack on Titan, what I ACTUALLY wanna talk about here. Iseyama based AoT on Slavery & the Holocaust; and Eren Yaeger was inspired by IRL "extremist" Freedom Fighters. That bred some of the worst fandom takes I've ever seen. The (blessedly deleted) Yaegerbomb subreddit was a racist fascist N*zi hellscape that showed its whole arse (X X); completely missing the point of what Eren & his Yaegerists wanted: FREEDOM for their RACIALLY PERSECUTED & OPPRESSED people, come HELL or high water.

These two REACTIONARY responses to racism by vampire!Louis (race riots) and titan!Eren (the Rumbling) were people who had had ENOUGH of being mistreated. Monsters are CREATED. But for some reason people have a hard time understanding that Louis & Eren wanted their people to finally BE FREE FROM SLAVERY; their actions did not CAUSE their people to BECOME enslaved, or justify WHY their enslavement was "deserved."

And this same mess where victims are blamed for being victims reminds me of how people will use even something as sacred as religion to justify their evil rhetoric: slaves deserve to be enslaved, the poor deserve to be poor, women deserve to be raped--God Wills It!

Like, folk just LOVE pulling up the Bible to talk nonsense about black!Ham vs white!Noah or black!Egyptians vs white!Hebrews (unless they whitewash the Egyptians too, in which case they contradict their own argument, LOL)--(PLEASE stop confusing modern-day Greco/Roman-descended Levantines & North Africans with the prehistoric/protohistoric Black/Brown diasporas who lived in Afro-Asia 1000+ years before Alexander the Great). They use all sorts of racist interpretations of scripture manipulated by slaveowners to justify the dehumanization of black & brown human beings they exploited for labor & natural resources (cuz they said the same crap about the Mexicans, Hispanics & Asians they enslaved, too).

But the entire point Iseyama was making in Attack on Titan was that religions/myths are created & twisted by PEOPLE (who didn't even know wtf the original scriptures were)! It's all just enemy propaganda & self-aggrandizement, feeding Idiocracies where you're TAUGHT to get validation from hating other people for no reason, or the dumbest/wrong reasons. And THAT is what Eren & his people fell victim to: systemic racism backed up by warped/twisted religious doctrines and geopolitical policies.

(AoT/SnK spoilers below)

Take the linked arms motif--the Eldians had no frikkin idea that Titans were in the walls, and just thought that pose symbolized the strength of the Wallists & the sacred walls--but even the church officials who KNEW what was in the walls & kept it secret didn't REALLY know what the Titans looked like in there--they came up with the arm-linking pose & this whole BS flowery imagery for them. The Titans inside were a HORROR when we actually got to see them!

So like, although only the head honchos at the very top had the slightest inkling about the REAL truths about their world, even THEY were lost in the sauce!

The priests and other "educated" ones were actively in bed with the royal family & aristocrats & autocrats lying to their own people to fall for an entire hoax (King Fritz mindwiping Eldian history from everyone's memories). The same was true on Paradis AND on Marley.

The Tybur AND Fritz families LET the everyone believe that Ymir was some ungodly jezebel and that the evil Eldians came from the Devil.

The Tyburs FABRICATED an entire "historical" narrative from thin air as their literal white knight/savior who defeated Eldian "Devils."

The Tyburs TOLD Marleyans that Eldians deserved being enslaved & treated as third class citizens & exploited as cannon fodder in Marley's imperialistic war to take over the entire frikkin world.

The Tyburs went on international news and told the entire world in 4k that Eren & the Eldians were "Island Devils" and that everyone on Paradis Island was dangerous & violent & must be eradicated.

Even though they KNEW King Fritz had mindwiped the island and that NONE of Paradis' Eldians had any effing idea that there were other humans on EARTH, let alone this big ole racist manifest destiny/white man's burden on some other frikkin continent. They were just minding their own business on their own land, until the outside world came to THEM. Marley sent the Titans to Paradis & unleashed this whole can of worms that caused the Rumbling. Marley ASKED for smoke, then got pissed when Eren & the Survey Corps pulled up in Marley like Repeat that to my FACE, cuh! 😡😤

The Tyburs' racist propaganda gaslit the entire planet into thinking that the dehumanization of an entire race of people was acceptable--to the extent that the Eldians THEMSELVES believed it (internalized racism)--a classic example of perpetuating cycles of hatred & violence that lasted even during APOCALYPSE, when people were supposed to be tryna come TOGETHER to defeat their REAL/common enemy; completely ignoring everything Muller told them at Fort Salta.

But what the Tyburs DIDN'T tell the Marleyans was that the Island Devil Eldians on Paradis were actually sitting on an untapped natural resource the Marleyan government wanted to extract in order to make nukes to win their imperialist war against the other nations. The gas fueling ODM Gear came from Iceburst Stone, AoT's vibranium/plutonium, and all modernization & militarization hinged on getting access to that natural resource the "Island Devils" didn't even know other countries wanted--and wanted them out of the way to get.

But once the whole world knew, Paradis became Ground Zero for every frikkin genocidal war that would happen from then on.

Which just goes to show how Iseyama was saying what I've said before: that racism actually doesn't REALLY come from nowhere--it's rooted in the greedy covetous geopolitical race for African, Asian & Indigenous Peoples' resources; going to other's people's land to take all their stuff for your own; and concocting various socio-religious reasons to justify why you deserve what they have and why they should suffer. That rhetoric is then taught to the next generations, to perpetuate the status quo and guarantee that the cycle keeps spinning; even if people go to extreme lengths to try breaking the wheel.

hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)

[arcticdementor]

Have had some thoughts bouncing around in my head trying to combine Rudyard Lynch's comment about the emergence of science when and where it occurred as the tempering of Greco-Roman philosophy's position on human reason with Abrahamic intellectual humility with the criticisms of modern peer review from places like Jim Donald's blog into a multidimensional model of perspectives on human capacity and methods in comprehending reality. The Lynch axis — the "capacity" or "humility" axis — goes from something like Aristotle and Laozi on one end, to Al-Ghazali and certain forms of Postmodernism on the other; while the Jim axis — the "consensus" or "tatemae" axis — goes from nullius in verba to vox populi, vox Dei, forming something like a diamond shape.