"I've skimmed the book." Translation: I looked at the pictures.I was all set to point out that Gaiman wrote Sandman, but you beat me to it.Your brother would just LOVE to set Jones straight on this topic!
"It's a New World Order threat...""They just love to advertise what they're doing..."Hahaha! Jones really can't tell fantasy from reality, eh? Didn't someone predict that his crowd would declare "Watchmen" to be "based on real events"? (Or perhaps they were already saying that before the film was released?)No surprise that he liked Rorschach...conspiranoids with psycopathic tendencies often seem to harbor infantile vigilante-wannabe fantasies about themselves.
Does he see a conspiracy theory in everything? I've never understood the conspiracy theorists' perception that symbols are evidence.In an irrelevant side note, I'm glad to see Wikipedia has increased the quality of the NWO article: they added a Criticism section.
If you think his Watchman criticism is bad, you should hear what he has to say about Brave New World. He thinks Julian Huxley spilled the beans about the NWO plot to his brother over coffee or something, and Aldous just wrote it down more or less verbatim and sold it as "fiction". Not much different from Lyndon LaRouche's idea that BNW is interpreted as a dystopian novel only in the States; everywhere else, it's accepted as a straightforward "mass organizing document".
Actually, the "Horus/Lucifer" correlation is fairly valid...especially when you consider that Horus was a Sky God and Lucifer was the "Morning Star"(or Day Star, or Shining One, or Shining Star) in the Bible, and who was originally more of an admonition against haughtiness and false pride in earthly works that were ultimately doomed to forgotten obscurity & futile obsolesence, no matter how far-reaching or long-lasting(a la the *original* Ozymandias' "look ye mighty and weep"-type reference by Percy Bysshe Shelley), ie: God and his plans are larger than any man can fathom("Nothing ever ends, Adrian"), and any man who thinks otherwise is doomed to failure and disappointment.Lucifer's association with Satan/the Devil/the Underworld came later(they're very distinct and separate from each other otherwise) and that is the only real connection that he possibly has to Set...going through the exact same demonization process to arrive at being a "bad guy"(with Set himself being associated with the definitely bad Greek Typhon). Set is actually much more of a good/hero character who happens to be at odds with other similar-minded heroes otherwise...to the point where he actually stands alongside his brother Horus in crowning some Pharaohs.
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"I've skimmed the book." Translation: I looked at the pictures.
I was all set to point out that Gaiman wrote Sandman, but you beat me to it.
Your brother would just LOVE to set Jones straight on this topic!
"It's a New World Order threat..."
"They just love to advertise what they're doing..."
Hahaha! Jones really can't tell fantasy from reality, eh? Didn't someone predict that his crowd would declare "Watchmen" to be "based on real events"? (Or perhaps they were already saying that before the film was released?)
No surprise that he liked Rorschach...conspiranoids with psycopathic tendencies often seem to harbor infantile vigilante-wannabe fantasies about themselves.
Does he see a conspiracy theory in everything? I've never understood the conspiracy theorists' perception that symbols are evidence.
In an irrelevant side note, I'm glad to see Wikipedia has increased the quality of the NWO article: they added a Criticism section.
If you think his Watchman criticism is bad, you should hear what he has to say about Brave New World. He thinks Julian Huxley spilled the beans about the NWO plot to his brother over coffee or something, and Aldous just wrote it down more or less verbatim and sold it as "fiction". Not much different from Lyndon LaRouche's idea that BNW is interpreted as a dystopian novel only in the States; everywhere else, it's accepted as a straightforward "mass organizing document".
Actually, the "Horus/Lucifer" correlation is fairly valid...especially when you consider that Horus was a Sky God and Lucifer was the "Morning Star"(or Day Star, or Shining One, or Shining Star) in the Bible, and who was originally more of an admonition against haughtiness and false pride in earthly works that were ultimately doomed to forgotten obscurity & futile obsolesence, no matter how far-reaching or long-lasting(a la the *original* Ozymandias' "look ye mighty and weep"-type reference by Percy Bysshe Shelley), ie: God and his plans are larger than any man can fathom("Nothing ever ends, Adrian"), and any man who thinks otherwise is doomed to failure and disappointment.
Lucifer's association with Satan/the Devil/the Underworld came later(they're very distinct and separate from each other otherwise) and that is the only real connection that he possibly has to Set...going through the exact same demonization process to arrive at being a "bad guy"(with Set himself being associated with the definitely bad Greek Typhon). Set is actually much more of a good/hero character who happens to be at odds with other similar-minded heroes otherwise...to the point where he actually stands alongside his brother Horus in crowning some Pharaohs.
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