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Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
Ok one superficial comment - I just hate the way she's always barring her teeth in pictures. I just strikes me wrong every time I see it.
[edit on 13/2/2009 by Iamonlyhuman]
Originally posted by amazed
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Gosh, can we say, some people really need to get on some medication?
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Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
Ok one superficial comment - I just hate the way she's always barring her teeth in pictures. I just strikes me wrong every time I see it.
[edit on 13/2/2009 by Iamonlyhuman]
The woman is just smiling, are you telling me that any time someone gives you a smile that shows their teeth they are "barring" their teeth at you?
I really hope your comment was sarcasm. If it was, I apologize.
You guys are "grasping at straws". Do me a favor, get in the same position, and see how your fingers relax, it is a NORMAL motor movement. DAAAANNNGG
You guys are "grasping at straws". Do me a favor, get in the same position, and see how your fingers relax, it is a NORMAL motor movement. DAAAANNNGG
Originally posted by YouAreDreaming
Her inner fingers are not closed enough to make the sign, that could just be how she relaxes her hand.
Not to be mean, but isn't Vogue front cover for beautiful women?
Baphomet is a name of unestablished origin, but probably an Old French corruption and misspelling of the name Mahomet (Muhammad). It first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century in clear reference to Muhammad, but later appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 1300s.
Over 100 different charges had been leveled against the Templars, most of them clearly false, as they were the same charges that were leveled against many of King Philip's enemies. For example, he had earlier kidnapped Pope Boniface VIII and charged him with near identical offenses of heresy, spitting and urinating on the cross, and sodomy. However, the charges about the worship of an idol named Baphomet, were unique to the Inquisition of the Templars. As Karen Ralls has pointed out, "There is no mention of Baphomet either in the Templar Rule or in other medieval period Templar documents".
The goat on the frontispiece carries the sign of the pentagram on the forehead, with one point at the top, a symbol of light, his two hands forming the sign of hermetism, the one pointing up to the white moon of Chesed, the other pointing down to the black one of Geburah. This sign expresses the perfect harmony of mercy with justice. His one arm is female, the other male like the ones of the androgyn of Khunrath, the attributes of which we had to unite with those of our goat because he is one and the same symbol. The flame of intelligence shining between his horns is the magic light of the universal balance, the image of the soul elevated above matter, as the flame, whilst being tied to matter, shines above it. The beast's head expresses the horror of the sinner, whose materially acting, solely responsible part has to bear the punishment exclusively; because the soul is insensitive according to its nature and can only suffer when it materializes. The rod standing instead of genitals symbolizes eternal life, the body covered with scales the water, the semi-circle above it the atmosphere, the feathers following above the volatile. Humanity is represented by the two breasts and the androgyn arms of this sphinx of the occult sciences.
Christian evangelist Jack Chick claims that Baphomet is a demon worshipped by Freemasons, a claim that apparently originated with the Taxil hoax.. Léo Taxil's elaborate hoax employed a version of Lévi's Baphomet on the cover of Les Mystères de la franc-maçonnerie dévoilés, his lurid paperback "exposé" of Freemasonry, which in 1897 he revealed as a hoax satirizing ultra-Catholic anti-Masonic propaganda.
The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of Man’s carnal self, as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton LaVey.