Bloody Friar's Theater of Pain

"We do not become enlightened by imagining beings of light, but by making the darkness conscious." ~ Carl Jung

Sex, Violence, Occultism and Dark Fantasy that will make your inner religious conservative cringe in horror.
biblicalbullshit: Serpents, unlike their biblical representation, are an ancient symbol of wisdom, fertility, and immortality. Don’t believe me? Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_%28symbolism%29 Or just look at the snakes entwined on the staff at your friendly family doctor where the serpent is the symbol of modern medicine. Asclepius, the God of medicine and healing, carried a staff with one serpent wrapped around it. This pre-Christian symbol utilizing the “evil” serpent was yet one more way that the budding study of medicine thumbed its nose at the superstitious Church who sought to ban scientific study. Anyhoo, serpents got a bad name in the bible for their role in the “fall” of mankind. In yet another move to brush away the beliefs of the past, serpents which were once powerfully positive symbols in mythology to being evil, and ultimately an incarnation of the devil. Interestingly, the serpent in Genesis is not stated as being the devil, that is only added later on by interpreters. The bible describes the serpent thus: “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made.” (Genesis 3.1) Craftiness here contrasts with the innocence of the humans and this intelligence leads to the fall of man. Here in the body of the serpent is the bible’s big first beef against knowledge, a thing believed to be the polar opposite of faith. We shall see how this fight goes down in the rest of the book, but just a teaser: the odds aren’t great for wisdom.

biblicalbullshit:

Serpents, unlike their biblical representation, are an ancient symbol of wisdom, fertility, and immortality. Don’t believe me? Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_%28symbolism%29 Or just look at the snakes entwined on the staff at your friendly family doctor where the serpent is the symbol of modern medicine. Asclepius, the God of medicine and healing, carried a staff with one serpent wrapped around it. This pre-Christian symbol utilizing the “evil” serpent was yet one more way that the budding study of medicine thumbed its nose at the superstitious Church who sought to ban scientific study.

Anyhoo, serpents got a bad name in the bible for their role in the “fall” of mankind. In yet another move to brush away the beliefs of the past, serpents which were once powerfully positive symbols in mythology to being evil, and ultimately an incarnation of the devil. Interestingly, the serpent in Genesis is not stated as being the devil, that is only added later on by interpreters. The bible describes the serpent thus:

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made.” (Genesis 3.1)

Craftiness here contrasts with the innocence of the humans and this intelligence leads to the fall of man. Here in the body of the serpent is the bible’s big first beef against knowledge, a thing believed to be the polar opposite of faith. We shall see how this fight goes down in the rest of the book, but just a teaser: the odds aren’t great for wisdom.

(via blackholesinaviolentuniverse)

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne  In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Tolkien

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
  In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Tolkien

(via elusivemusings)