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Originally posted by aorAki
Since ad hominem is your way, I'll call you guys bullies and arseholes.
Is that better?
Originally posted by Getsmart
Do you also stalk people physically, or just over the Internet? Thanks for illustrating the flatulent stench of your spineless soul.
We know what you think,
but give us the space to follow the premise of this hypothesis now
as you just keep repeating yourselves ad infinitum
with personal abuse as well.
I guess you guys just can't be bothered doing any research into the periphery on mind control, shapping public opinion by popular culture, or anything to do with Laurel Canyon, the recurring Magical themes, the surrounding snippets of information here and there.
You guys are creeps and need to take a walk outside....preferably into a bus.
Originally posted by Getsmart
......a small group of Trolls has turned into a bash fest.
Their motivation isn't truth, only heckling, insulting and preventing us from having our own bandwidth to discuss ideas they want to suppress.
They are only showing their colors and those interested will notice this and have their number down pat. I couldn't care less about the personal harassment but find it does considerably pollute the thread. I am more alarmed at ATS Moderators for tolerating such blatant group attacks in their premises than by the existence of such trolls which are quite frequent on the Internet.
.....and hires ill-mannered uneducated goons to harrass others on discussion boards
Originally posted by Dakudo
but give us the space to follow the premise of this hypothesis now
You have all the space you want. Nobody is stopping you posting about it. But if we wish to dispute and debunk the claims we will. This is a FREE, PUBLIC forum where people can express whatever opinion and point they want to.
If you want to read PID posts where PIAers are censored then you are in the wrong forum. Kindly take yourself off to PID Miss Him where you will be quite free to read all the various threads of ridiculous nonsense without any 'hinderence' to stuPIDity from PIAers.
Originally posted by Dakudo
aorAki will not read the above - since in 'aorAki World', getsmart never posts insults and ad homein attacks on other posters.
edit on 6-1-2011 by Dakudo because: Getsmart never insults and posts ad homein attacks on other posters. This must be true because aorAki thinks so.
Originally posted by zorgonSo what does it matter that some think us 'fools'? Does that change anything? Will it ever change that there are some out there making bucks selling the tabloids? What do you hope to accomplish? Who is the real fool? Those that speculate on interesting possibilities (which the whole UFO/Alien forum is anyway SPECULATION) or those who do have answers that would make them seem part of the nut crowd? Perhaps if you spent a little less time calling everyone with different ideas a nut case, then maybe you wouldn't be in the quandary you are currently in The reason the thread has lasted so long is because MANY people are very interested in it... Not sure why it bothers you so much. You cannot make everyone believe your version of reality "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" - Albert Einstein My kind of nut case
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts Because it is this very thing that makes us all look like new age, hippy ignorant fools. I am interested in this subject, but hate not being able to discuss it in public (and trust me, I have some cool stuff to say) without people looking at me like I'm some kind of ignorant nut. Thanks to stuff like this.edit on 4-1-2011 by zorgon because: Classified
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by Dakudo
aorAki will not read the above - since in 'aorAki World', getsmart never posts insults and ad homein attacks on other posters.
edit on 6-1-2011 by Dakudo because: Getsmart never insults and posts ad homein attacks on other posters. This must be true because aorAki thinks so.
Originally posted by aorAki
No, not at all. Everyone is chiming in with personal attacks so I thought it only fair to do the same.
Originally posted by aorAki
Since ad hominem is your way, I'll call you guys bullies and arseholes.
Originally posted by aorAki
Quoted from another thread because it's relevant:
Originally posted by zorgonSo what does it matter that some think us 'fools'? Does that change anything? Will it ever change that there are some out there making bucks selling the tabloids? What do you hope to accomplish? Who is the real fool? Those that speculate on interesting possibilities (which the whole UFO/Alien forum is anyway SPECULATION) or those who do have answers that would make them seem part of the nut crowd? Perhaps if you spent a little less time calling everyone with different ideas a nut case, then maybe you wouldn't be in the quandary you are currently in The reason the thread has lasted so long is because MANY people are very interested in it... Not sure why it bothers you so much. You cannot make everyone believe your version of reality "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" - Albert Einstein My kind of nut case
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts Because it is this very thing that makes us all look like new age, hippy ignorant fools. I am interested in this subject, but hate not being able to discuss it in public (and trust me, I have some cool stuff to say) without people looking at me like I'm some kind of ignorant nut. Thanks to stuff like this.edit on 4-1-2011 by zorgon because: Classified
Originally posted by aorAki
Quoted from another thread because it's relevant:
Originally posted by zorgonSo what does it matter that some think us 'fools'? Does that change anything? Will it ever change that there are some out there making bucks selling the tabloids? What do you hope to accomplish? Who is the real fool? Those that speculate on interesting possibilities (which the whole UFO/Alien forum is anyway SPECULATION) or those who do have answers that would make them seem part of the nut crowd? Perhaps if you spent a little less time calling everyone with different ideas a nut case, then maybe you wouldn't be in the quandary you are currently in The reason the thread has lasted so long is because MANY people are very interested in it... Not sure why it bothers you so much. You cannot make everyone believe your version of reality "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" - Albert Einstein My kind of nut case
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts Because it is this very thing that makes us all look like new age, hippy ignorant fools. I am interested in this subject, but hate not being able to discuss it in public (and trust me, I have some cool stuff to say) without people looking at me like I'm some kind of ignorant nut. Thanks to stuff like this.edit on 4-1-2011 by zorgon because: Classified
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
Because it is this very thing that makes us all look like new age, hippy ignorant fools. I am interested in this subject, but hate not being able to discuss it in public (and trust me, I have some cool stuff to say) without people looking at me like I'm some kind of ignorant nut. Thanks to stuff like this.
Originally posted by aorAki
So what does it matter that some think us 'fools'? Does that change anything? Will it ever change that there are some out there making bucks selling the tabloids? What do you hope to accomplish? Who is the real fool? Those that speculate on interesting possibilities (which the whole UFO/Alien forum is anyway SPECULATION) or those who do have answers that would make them seem part of the nut crowd? Perhaps if you spent a little less time calling everyone with different ideas a nut case, then maybe you wouldn't be in the quandary you are currently in The reason the thread has lasted so long is because MANY people are very interested in it... Not sure why it bothers you so much. You cannot make everyone believe your version of reality "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" - Albert Einstein My kind of nut case
Originally posted by aorAki
reply to post by edmond dantes
If you can't make the connection edmond, it's a shame and illustrates a lack of progressive logical thinking on your behalf. .
It's not to do with aliens, by the way, but rather the fact that people are making connections that others disagree with.
Which one of you guys is 'Faul' anyway?
Originally posted by Getsmart
So let's not get sidetracked, that is the single minded objective of the group of trolls who post dozens of OFF TOPIC rants about Faul's hairdo, his alleged resemblance to the real Paul, calling anyone who dares post here a heretic gone bonkers. They can believe that, but I am most justified in criticizing the Mods in this section for not doing a proper job of preventing such grouped attacks which purposely DERAIL a thread onto an entirely different subject.
Originally posted by aorAki
reply to post by edmond dantes
If you can't make the connection edmond, it's a shame and illustrates a lack of progressive logical thinking on your behalf. .
Originally posted by Getsmart
Back side of Butcher album offering Human bowels to a High Priestess
On June 15, 1966, Capitol Records released a Beatles’ album without the Beatles’ consent entitled Yesterday and Today. This featured an image that has become known as the Butcher Cover and has become the most infamous picture of the Beatles.
On 25 March 1966, The Beatles went to Whitaker’s Chelsea studio for a photo session, intending to take photos for the cover of (and/or to promote) their forthcoming single, "Rain"/"Paperback Writer". The band and their photographer were determined to create something more than the run-of-the-mill publicity shots, and among the resulting images was one which has since become known as the "butcher" photo, in which The Beatles are depicted wearing white coats, draped with dismembered doll parts, slabs of meat and false teeth.
This now-legendary image, probably the single most famous image of the group, was originally conceived as one of a triptych of photographs, and intended as a surreal, satirical pop art observation on The Beatles’ fame. Whitaker’s inspirations for the images included the work of German surrealist Hans Bellmer, notably his 1937 book Die Puppe (La Poupée). Bellmer’s images of dismembered doll and mannequin parts were first published in the French Surrealist journal Minotaure in 1934.
t has often been claimed that The Beatles intended the "butcher cover" as a protest at the way their music was being "butchered" by their American label, Capitol Records. In a Nov. 15 1991 interview with Goldmine magazine, Whitaker discussed the butcher cover at length, and unequivocally put the protest claims to rest:
"How did that photo, featuring the Beatles among slabs of meat and decapitated dolls, come about? Was it your idea or the Beatles'?
"It was mine. Absolutely. It was part of three pictures that should have gone into an icon. And it was a rough. If you could imagine, the background of that picture should have been all gold. Around the heads would have gone silver halos, jewelled. Then there are two other pictures that are in the book [The Unseen Beatles], but not in colour.
"How did you prepare for the shoot?
"It was hard work. I had to go to the local butcher and get pork. I had to go to a doll factory and find the dolls. I had to go to an eye factory and find the eyes. False teeth. There's a lot in that photograph. I think John's almost-last written words were about that particular cover; that was pointed out to me by Martin Harrison, who wrote the text to my book. I didn't even know that, but I'm learning a lot.
"Why meat and dolls? There's been a lot of conjecture over the years about what that photo meant. The most popular theory is that it was a protest by the Beatles against Capitol Records for supposedly "butchering" their records in the States.
"Rubbish, absolute nonsense. If the trilogy or triptych of the three photographs had ever come together, it would have made sense. There is another set of photos in the book which is the Beatles with a girl with her back toward you, hanging on to sausages. Those sausages were meant to be an umbilical cord. Does this start to open a few chapters?
"Were you aware when you shot it that Capitol Records was going to use it as a record cover?"
"No."
"Were you upset when they did and then when they pulled it and replaced it with another photo?"
"Well, I shot that photo too, of them sitting on a trunk, the one that they pasted over it. I fairly remember being bewildered by the whole thing. I had no reason to be bewildered by it, purely and simply, because it could certainly be construed as a fairly shocking collection of bits and pieces to stick on a group of people and represent that in this country.
Quoted in 1966 in the British music magazine Disc and Music Echo, Whitaker said:
"I wanted to do a real experiment - people will jump to wrong conclusions about it being sick, but the whole thing is based on simplicity -- linking four very real people with something real. I got George to knock some nails into John’s head, and took some sausages along to get some other pictures, dressed them up in white smocks as butchers, and this is the result -- the use of the camera as a means of creating situations."
Whitaker was later quoted as saying that the basic motivation for making A Somnambulant Adventure came from the fact that he and The Beatles were "really fed up at taking what one had hoped would be designer-friendly publicity pictures". In the interview conducted just before his death in 1980 (referred to by Bob), John Lennon confirmed this.
John Lennon - "It was inspired by our boredom and resentment at having to do another photo session and another Beatles thing. We were sick to death of it. Bob was into Dali and making surreal pictures."
Whitaker had intended the triptych to be his "personal comment on the mass adulation of the group and the illusory nature of stardom … I had toured quite a lot of the world with them by then, and I was continually amused by the public adulation of four people".
The images in the triptych were actually intended as the foundation of a much more elaborate work. He had planned to retouch the photos to give them the appearance of a religious icon. The background was to be painted gold like a Russian icon and to have the Fab Four’s heads surrounded by jewelled halos, with the photos bordered in rainbow colours. This decoration, contrasted with the bizarre situations of the photos themselves, was evidently intended to create a surreal juxtaposition between the band's image and celebrity, and the underlying fact that they were just as real and human as everyone else.
"John played with all sorts of bits and pieces before we actually did the picture. I did a few outtake pictures which were of them actually playing with a box full of dolls which they pulled out and stuck all over themselves. There was an enormous amount of laughter. There was even George Harrison banging nails into John's head with a hammer. The actual conception of what is termed the ‘Butcher's Sleeve’ is a reasonably diverse piece of thinking ..."
" ... the [butcher] cover was an unfinished concept. It was just one of a series of photographs that would have made up a gate-fold cover. Behind the head of each Beatle would have been a golden halo and in the halo would have been placed a semi-precious stone. Then the background would have contained more gold, so it was rather like a Russian icon. It was just after John Lennon had said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. In a material world that was an extremely true statement."
The first photo shows The Beatles facing a woman who stands with her back to the camera, her hands raised as if in surprise (or worship) while The Beatles hold a string of sausages. This was meant to represent the 'birth' of the Beatles, with the sausages serving as an umbilical cord. Whitaker explained: "My own thought was how the hell do you show that they've been born out of a woman the same as anybody else? An umbilical cord was one way of doing it."
The centre panel of the triptych is the image nowadays referred to as the "butcher" photo. It shows the (obviously stoned) Beatles dressed in butchers’ coats, draped with slabs of red meat, false teeth, glass eyes and dismembered doll parts. This picture was actually titled "A Somnambulant Adventure" and Bob’s intention was to add other elements to it which would create a jarring juxtaposition between idolisation of The Beatles' as gods of the pop world and their flesh and blood reality as ordinary human beings, but he was never able to realise this.
The photograph that would have been used for the right-hand panel of the triptych is one of George Harrison standing behind a seated John Lennon, hammer in hand, apparently driving nails into John's head. Whitaker explained that this picture was intended to demonstrate that the Beatles were not an illusion, not something to be worshipped, but people as real and substantial as "a piece of wood".
A fourth picture taken at the same session, but apparently not intended to be part of the triptych, is also included in Whitaker’s book The Unseen Beatles. It shows John framing Ringo's head with a cardboard box, on one of the flaps of which is written "2,000,000".
"I wanted to illustrate that, in a way, there was nothing more amazing about Ringo than anyone else on this earth. In this life he was just one of two million members of the human race. The idolization of fans reminded me of the story of the worship of the golden calf."
Like the famous 1963 nude photo of Christine Keeler taken by his contemporary Lewis Morley, Whitaker's "butcher" photo soon passed out of his control and took on a life of its own. The Beatles themselves seem to have been behind the use of the photo in British trade advertisements and then on the cover of the Capitol album Yesterday and Today. The prime mover seems to have been Paul McCartney. In his book Shout, Beatles biographer Philip Norman claims that Brian Epstein had misgivings about the picture and felt it would disrupt the band’s meticulously managed image, which had taken a hammering in the wake of the recent "bigger than Jesus" controversy. But according to Norman, the band overruled him.
Interestingly, the butcher photo made three appearances in print in the UK before it was released in the USA on the cover of Yesterday And Today. It was first published on page 2 of New Musical Express on 3 June 1966' in an EMI advertisement promoting the forthcoming single. The same ad was published in Disc and Music Echo the next day, June 4. Both these versions were in B&W. Its third appearance (and its first in colour) was on the front page of Disc and Music Echo on 11 June 1966 under the headline, "BEATLES: WHAT A CARVE-UP!"
It can also reportedly be glimpsed in photos taken during the making of the "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" film-clips, filmed on 19 May, in which Paul McCartney can be seen inspecting transparencies from the 25 March photo session. None of these appearances seem to have caused any appreciable comment in the UK, even though they were published only days before Capitol’s promotional release of Yesterday And Today in th U.S.
It should be noted that, up to and including Revolver, all The Beatles' American LPs (released by Capitol Records) differed markedly from their original EMI UK releases. The Capitol LPs were collections of material culled from the Beatles' previously-released British albums and singles, selected and packaged by Capitol especially for the American market. Yesterday and Today included songs from the earlier Help! and Rubber Soul LPs plus, unusually, four songs from Revolver, which would not be released in Britain for another three weeks. It was Capitol’s habit of cherry-picking album tracks and singles to compiled their own albums that was the origin of the urban myth (referred to above) about the butcher cover being some kind of protest against the American label.
Capitol printed the cover in early June, using the "butcher" photo, and the release was scheduled for 15 June 1966. Estimates of how many copies of the album were printed and/or distributed vary considerably. Whitaker put the number at 250,000, but other sources range from as high as 750,000 to 400,000 to as low as 60,000. According to another estimate, about 25,000 copies were sold prior to the recall. Mojo magazine reported that 60,000 copies were distributed to radio, media and Capitol branch offices, who showed it to retailers.
"Having finished that particular picture, it was snatched away from me and sent off to America. It was reproduced as a record cover without ever having the artwork completed by me. The cover layout was somebody else's conception. It was a good idea to ban it at the time, because it made no sense at all. It was just this rather horrific image of four Beatles, whom everybody loved, covered in raw meat, the arms, legs and torsos of dolls, and false teeth. But they are only objects placed on the Beatles, rather like making a movie. I mean what you want to read into it is entirely up to you. I was trying to show that the Beatles were flesh and blood."
It has been suggested that Lennon was the main impetus behind the photo being used, but according to Alan Livingstone, Capitol’s former president, (quoted in Mojo magazine in 2002), the decision to use the photo Yesterday And Today was mainly at the insistence of Paul McCartney:
Alan Livingston - "The reaction came back that the dealers refused to handle them. I called London and we went back and forth. My contact was mainly with Paul McCartney. He was adamant and felt very strongly that we should go forward. He said 'It's our comment on the war'. I don’t know why it was a comment on the war or if it would be interpreted that way."
Capitol were understandably touchy and could ill afford another Beatles-related controversy -- they were still reeling from the public-relations disaster of John Lennon’s notorious "bigger than Jesus" comment in March that year, which had sparked a wave of protests and record burnings in conservative areas of the U.S. The company reacted swiftly, issuing letters of apology, and on Tuesday 14 June PR manager Ron Tepper issued an official letter of recall in which he quoted a statement from Capitol’s President Alan W. Livingston:
"The original cover, created in England, was intended as a ‘pop art' satire. However a sampling of public opinion in the United States indicates that the cover design is subject to misinterpretation. For this reason, and to avoid any possible controversy or undeserved harm to the Beatles' image or reputation, Capitol has chosen to withdraw the LP and substitute a more generally acceptable design."
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Originally posted by Getsmart
Back side of Butcher album offering Human bowels to a High Priestess
Originally posted by Getsmart
Faul and Fohn signaling to Satanists worldwide: we've Replaced the Beatles
I read the "article" on a page called Signs of Satan. I am honestly thinking that whoever wrote this did it just for the attention. If that's the case, I really hate giving them the satisfaction, but I just want to make sure that everyone knows that it is not true.
Signs of Satan says, and I quote, "If you think Miss Keller's hand sign is just a coincidence, then you are truly gullible. If you were deaf, and wanted to develop a hand sign to tell someone that you love them, what would it be? A hand over the heart would be reasonable. There is no way that any reasonable person would develop the hand sign that Keller invented, paralleling an existing hand salute to Satan. The above photo is one of Ozzy Osbourne's Rock-n-Roll album covers. It is abundantly clear to see that Keller's hand sign praises the Devil."
First of all, I don't think Helen Keller invented the I LOVE YOU sign language sign. But it wouldn't even matter if she did. The fact that she is thought to have been an occultist has no prevalence over what I'm about to show you.
If you are at all familiar with the alphabet in sign language, then you should know what I'm about to say...
Yes, there is a way that a reasonable person would develop this hand sign. I'll put it simply for you:
I Love You. Wow. Even I could have come up with that!
The American Sign Language I LOVE YOU sign has nothing to do with the devil.
www.start-american-sign-language.com...
Originally posted by Getsmart
In this last Yellow Submarine Album art we will note that Fohn Lennon is displaying the usual Satanist Hand SIgn while FAUL is displaying the more evocative 666 Hand Sign. The Satanic hand sign 666 used by Paul in the Yellow Submarine Album give reference once again to Aleister Crowley as well as to his subservience to the Illuminati Elite.
Originally posted by edmond dantes
Dakudo, that is great work. It proves again that the PIA people here do intensive research and provide hard facts and documentation to back up what they say.
Back side of Butcher album offering Human bowels to a High Priestess
- Posted by some anonymous, internet poster, calling himself (ironically) 'Getsmart'. No proof/evidence/substantiation provided whatsoever.
There is another set of photos in the book which is the Beatles with a girl with her back toward you, hanging on to sausages. Those sausages were meant to be an umbilical cord.
- Robert Whitaker - The actual photographer for the Beatles 'Butcher' Album.
Originally posted by switching yard
I wonder if the following anomalies are clues of some kind...
In the not too distant future, all of the suspected visual and auditory clues could be fed into an AI driven supercomputer for cryptology analysis and I'll bet the code can and will be cracked.
Originally posted by switching yard
I wonder if the following anomalies are clues of some kind...
On the butcher cover, John has on a white turtleneck and the others have on black.
I believe this anomaly pattern of 1 different than the other 3 is some kind of clue that needs further investigation.
My hunch is that the original Beatles were hijacked, killed and all four of them replaced.