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Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by blupblup
This song influenced Charles Manson...
Really?
Maybe I should take a closer look at the history of pigs - I mean - maybe the reaction does have something to do with the actual animal...
Interesting that...
peace
Simon, a part of Ralph’s tribe, finds the head of the hunters’ dead pig on a stick, left as an offering to the beast. Simon then undergoes a peculiar experience, presumably by hallucination, in which he sees the pig head, swarming with scavenging flies, as the “Lord of the Flies,” and believes that it is talking to him, identifying itself as the real “Beast”. It discloses the truth about itself—that the boys themselves “created” the beast, and that the real beast was inside them all. Simon also locates the dead parachutist who had been mistaken for the beast, and is the sole member of the group to recognise that it is a cadaver instead of a sleeping monster. Simon eventually arrives at the peak of a tribal ritual at Jack’s tribe, pursued by the ravenous flies, and endeavours to explain the truth about the beast and the dead man atop the mountain. However, Jack’s tribe, still reeling in bloodlust from their first kill, blindly attack and murder Simon, whom they mistake for the beast. They kill him in the shadows in their now tribal dance and ominous chant “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”. As Ralph took part in the murder along with Piggy, though both indirectly, he now feels intense remorse.
Very much akin to seeing something like a bad car accident, and you want to look away, but can't. Was the same thing that kept me glued to the video, along with the fact I really did get an effect from it, which surprised me.
Fear never solves anything, I laugh...
I say they are hopeful for love, but not quite yet faithful.
If beautiful harmony is viewed as unattainable, and we must still be, we must celebrate something; it might as well be discord, as it is reflective of the hate, division, domination, manipulation, harrowing, judgmental, hypocritical, etc. that has so much power in our order. We must always have faith in something, even if it is faith in the nothing, nihilism. A mind without faith is a mind that cannot create; it is rather not a mind at all.
your totally missing the point of the video. its for the song. the video is second thought, probably an old stock reel from archive.org.
if you want to expound upon evil videos I can show you stuff that is actually SINISTER
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by Libertygal
Very much akin to seeing something like a bad car accident, and you want to look away, but can't. Was the same thing that kept me glued to the video, along with the fact I really did get an effect from it, which surprised me.
Thank you for a wonderful and insightful post.
I ran into the video searching for information on swine flue.
I also started watching, and then just couldn’t look away - much like the car accident situation you describe.
I’ve still not been able to pinpoint the *disturb* reaction either.
Is it the dichotomy of kids show vs. horrify pig?
I don't think so.
Subliminal messages?
I mean you have to admit those baby piggies are cute little buggies - then superimposed on that disgusting tongue and teeth motion?
It’s tough to say, but, it’s definitely hair raising.
Thanks for your input, most appreciated.
gracie
Hate animates us through a sort of theft of love's birthright (I know I am personifying).
Yes evil psychological/spiritual/mental systems exist. They manifest in individuals from time to time. But they are separate from the individual. The mere perspective of placing the sinister spiritualities onto the physical form of another human being (remember, we are in flux, not constant) has the very real, very nasty tendency of strengthening those evil thoughts within the very person placing these perspectives upon other people. Since a person who defines himself or herself as being good tends to get cognitive dissonance from facing the evil constructs that have been built within, this person tends to bury these things into seeming oblivion. However, when perceiving evil in the world (and yes, it does exist merely by "virtue" of its influence) those constructs of evil we carry within tend to surface emotionally in the form of stark fear. There is no greater fear than looking at an aspect of yourself in the mirror for the very first time.
All that being said, the hope cannot turn into faith unless there has been a tipping point, a critical mass of the self-willed perceptions of lacking judgment, forgiving self and other (because we understand another through the context of our very own selves, we are quite truly forgiving ourselves when we forgive another), and ceasing the cascade of projections of self onto other.
We then start to see the infinite connection of things, the other as well as the self, and love becomes obvious. Faith in love follows. Faith is the singularity of a dissolved hope/fear stick. Hope can flip to fear and back. Faith is steadfast.
If beautiful harmony is viewed as unattainable, and we must still be, we must celebrate something; it might as well be discord, as it is reflective of the hate, division, domination, manipulation, harrowing, judgmental, hypocritical, etc. that has so much power in our order. We must always have faith in something, even if it is faith in the nothing, nihilism. A mind without faith is a mind that cannot create; it is rather not a mind at all.