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Perhaps more accurately, you'll see what you're capable of seeing because it is your truth.
Originally posted by KSigMason
You'll see want you want to see, whether its true or not.
Originally posted by Auguste133
Now do this same experiment with your friends (ask their permission first!). Do their arms make triangle shapes? If you can find a person who can bend their arm at the elbow without making two positive sides plus one negative side that together form a triangle please urge them to seek medical advice as they have probably broken or dislocated something.
Originally posted by Auguste133
You have an arm.
The arm has an elbow. This divides the arm into two parts.
Hold out your arm. Please, do this for me now. This is an experiment.
Now bend your arm at the elbow. Which direction and how much or how little doesn't matter.
Now imagine a line from your wrist to the shoulder. What shape do you get? Please write it in the space provided below:
X________________
Now do this same experiment with your friends (ask their permission first!). Do their arms make triangle shapes? If you can find a person who can bend their arm at the elbow without making two positive sides plus one negative side that together form a triangle please urge them to seek medical advice as they have probably broken or dislocated something.
Originally posted by Auguste133
You have an arm.
The arm has an elbow. This divides the arm into two parts.
Hold out your arm. Please, do this for me now. This is an experiment.
Now bend your arm at the elbow. Which direction and how much or how little doesn't matter.
Now imagine a line from your wrist to the shoulder. What shape do you get? Please write it in the space provided below:
X________________
Now do this same experiment with your friends (ask their permission first!). Do their arms make triangle shapes? If you can find a person who can bend their arm at the elbow without making two positive sides plus one negative side that together form a triangle please urge them to seek medical advice as they have probably broken or dislocated something.
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
You are missing the point. We know that anyone can make a triangle with their arms.
The question is about why so many photos use these same poses, over and over. This symbo0lism goes back to at least the 1600's.
Please try not to be so snide, when you obvious dont understand the conversation.
Originally posted by YourPopRock
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
You are missing the point. We know that anyone can make a triangle with their arms.
The question is about why so many photos use these same poses, over and over. This symbo0lism goes back to at least the 1600's.
Please try not to be so snide, when you obvious dont understand the conversation.
Take a look at wedding photos... the most recent ones you can find, then your parents, then at historical ones. There really aren't that many poses to chose from and you will find the same ones being used over and over. I don't think the last poster was being "snide", I think they were using humor to illustrate their point that there really doesn't seem to be a hidden message in the half-naked dude's pose.
I also stick by my claim that the Illuminati will probably not try to take dominion over humanity by a half-naked guy posing in an armani advertisement. That just sounds silly.
Just wanted to add this as well... the symbolism was used in photographs dating back to 1600? I recall photography being invented in 1814... (well, I don't actually recall it personally, as I am not that old)
[edit on 1/15/2010 by YourPopRock]
To someone really versed in symbolism, they are laughable.
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
To those versed in symbolism, they are unmistakable.
1)Who chose to use these poses?
Symbols, at their best, cause the viewer to make an association between the pictorial and the ideal represented in their mind. See Plato, Aristotle, Freud, Saussure, Lacan and a half-dozen others if you really want to start this conversation.
2)What power do these symbols have(they are used extensively enough that there MUST be somethng behind them)
Originally posted by JoshNorton
To someone really versed in symbolism, they are laughable.
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
To those versed in symbolism, they are unmistakable.
1)Who chose to use these poses?
The photographer and/or director on the set of the shoot; the editor or artistic director who narrowed down from the pool of shots to the ones presented to the client; and ultimately the client, whomever is paying to have the ad put in the magazines.
Symbols, at their best, cause the viewer to make an association between the pictorial and the ideal represented in their mind. See Plato, Aristotle, Freud, Saussure, Lacan and a half-dozen others if you really want to start this conversation.
2)What power do these symbols have(they are used extensively enough that there MUST be somethng behind them)
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
3)Again, thank you for illustrating my point. These are not just whim choices for poses, as some would have you believe. They are specific, time honored, and there for a reason.
Originally posted by Auguste133
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
3)Again, thank you for illustrating my point. These are not just whim choices for poses, as some would have you believe. They are specific, time honored, and there for a reason.
Ah thank you, thank you and thank you again. That is nice to know but I do be a little afraid for it seems that the job would be only half done. I be none to bright and while I do like to know that symbols are specific I have only a small brain and cannot see the specific bits. You know so perhaps you could tell me a little bit more. What are the symbols you see, what do they mean, who has time-honored used them in the past (ooh! pictures would be nice!) and what is the reason they are there? And you, being as bright as you can, can surely provide some writings from books by learned wise men from the past (from the honored times when the time honored symbols were used) who can tell me all about this stuff.
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
So here's my question:
if this is so ridiculous to all of you, why are you in this thread working so hard to shrug it off? Hmmmm...........
Makes one wonder.....