The Rites of Mars

I finally watched Ironman last night. It is odd because during my pilgrimage to NYC in 2008, Ironman was all over everything. I just wasn't into some military-industrial complex fantasy back then. Not that I am now, but it's allegory - all gory - anyway. I thought it was cool that Jeff Bridges signed on. Hell, if the Big Lebowski liked it...

Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane:
Stark's business second-in-command. Bridges read the comics as a boy and liked Favreau's modern, realistic approach. He shaved his head and grew a gray beard for the role, which was something he had wanted to do for some time. Bridges googled the Book of Obadiah, and he was surprised to learn retribution is a major theme in that particular book of the Bible, something which Stane represents. ~wikipedia

The "Jericho weapon" is some kind of total ego killing machine, that destroys even the will of the enemy to fight, faced with such overpowering might.

Safely escaping the city, the two returned to Joshua and reported that the "whole land was melting with fear." ~the spies

On the seventh day they were to march around the city seven times and the priests were to blow their ram's horns. And Joshua ordered the people to shout. The walls of the city collapsed, and the Israelites were able to charge straight into the city. The city was completely destroyed, and every man, woman, child and animal in it was killed by Joshua's army as an offering to God. Only Rahab and her family were spared, because she had hidden the two spies sent by Joshua. ~wikipedia

Stark gives a demo of his new weapon in the holy land, and is conducted through an ego-death experience at the hands of terrorists or the 10 Rings. I'm a bit disappointed that they weren't the 7 Rings but whatever, I can't expect Hollywood to be spot on with the symbolism.

Through his ordeal he is helped by Yinsen, who saved his life by creating a magnetic "solar symbol" thing. He is Tony's shamanic guide, or "Jesus" figure. He gives him a new, indestructible heart, but dies at the end of his duty, it was what he wanted, anyway.

Yinsen helps Stark create a new iron skin, or ego. Something not so easily destroyed, because it is powered, at its core, not by ego, but by Id.

This oddly parallels my own ego-death journey, which was initiated by shaman and mushroom eater Jeff Fairhall, who died shortly after my own ego-death.

Tony Stark returns to America (EgoLand) a changed man, and decides that Stark Industries will no longer make weapons, and gets the typical media response.

Well, not exactly. Stark Industries continues to manufacture weapons, but for a different cause. Like Jericho, Stark has been conquered by Id, and now flies a different flag. Much to the chagrin of Moses, er... Obadiah.

I've learned to love Gwyneth Paltrow, she plays "the Grail" so well. As Pepper Potts, she's sexy, smart and moral, and if you want to woo her, you'd better appreciate all her qualities. We note that Tony never appreciates her until after his ego-death experience.

In the end, Tony changes his suit to Mars red, and admits that he IS a super hero, despite his many documented character deficiencies. In other words, his many sins are of no consequence, and he has been born again - saved by the blood of the lamb.

Dark Side of the Moon

I’ve always been intrigued that the gay “uniform” is Levi’s 501 Jeans (Levite blue genes), the same as the miner 49ers. Levi Strauss grew rich supplying sundries during the 1849 California Gold Rush, though the gays in San Francisco didn’t much care about the history, all they knew was that 501’s made your ass and your basket look sexy as hell.

Horus, you little Beetle

Remove the 0 from 501 gives us 51, or 3x17, the number of Osiris (thanks to Alan Green at the Happy Creatures for that little nugget), the dismembered or forgotten God. Isis never did find her husband’s phallus, so she fashioned a golden substitute, which shows that both miners and gay men were digging for “gold”, though each in their own way.

I’ve always used cars as symbolic grails and old race cars are a sync gold mine. On December 15th, Bring a Trailer (BaT) served up a 1971 (71 being the mirror of 17) race car, no. 51, named The Iron Rod:

And he shall rule them with a ROD OF IRON; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. --Revelation 2:27

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a ROD OF IRON: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. --Revelation 12:5

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a ROD OF IRON: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. --Revelation 19:15

I can feel my cock, hard as a fucking IRON ROD, jerking, hard, shooting a load that feels like it's going on forever. --FanTCMan

Which pretty much blew my mind, but next day BaT(man) served up THIS one, a Morgan 4/4 Roadster, number 144!

From Revelations 7 (of course):

Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

Which has 14 (the re-membered Osiris) and 44 (The Mysterious Stranger, Donald Duck, Double D vita-Min) encoded within. 144,000 is 12,000 x the 12 tribes of Judah, and well wouldn’t you know it, the upcoming Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse lands on 12.21, 21 being the mirror image of 12.

And by Jove, that 21 looks familiar:

This eclipse will be Double Dark, with both the sun AND the moon going out all at once. I suppose it’s always darkest before the Golden Dawn.

Jesus H. Crowley! I almost feel like someone should go sit in a black pyramid at midnight during the eclipse! I’ll bet you dollars to donuts the Louvre and the Luxor are booked on 12.21 with a few interesting “private functions”. As for me, I think I’ll just fly my rainbow flag: a little gay cheer on the dark side of the moon death star.

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 NOTES:

The Golden Dawn cocktail, winner ICC London, 1930. Made with Bombay Blue Saphire Gin.

San Francisco gay men were called “clones” because they all dressed alike - 501’s and a plaid flannel shirt. I note that yesterday the “Republic” repealed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, which means it finally got it's “clone army”.

Whale Watching

Actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since February 14, committed suicide, his father told reporters after his son's body was found Thursday in a park in Vancouver, British Columbia. --CNN

Walter Koenig lost his son on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day. He found him on the 25, in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. My heart goes out to Andrew’s family - I also lost my younger brother to depression in 2003. However, being a synch detective is sometimes a bit like being a triage surgeon - you have to put your personal emotions aside - and get to work.

Andrew Koenig played Richard “Boner” Stabone on TV’s “Growing Pains”, nicely summed up by wklaus23 in the comments at the Secret Sun:

So "boner" went missing, and now "boner" has been found. Osiris is whole again. Things are about to get interesting...

This is exactly the same conclusion I came to after the America’s Cup series - Osiris is whole again. Remember that Osiris was cut into 14 pieces (archetypes), and these have all been found except for one - his missing phallus. Feb. 14 is the feast day of St. Valentine (AKA Eros, the God of erotic love). Andrew was 41, the inverse of 14. Koenig means “king”.

This convergence got me to thinking about the elder Koenig, who played the endearing Pavel Chekov in Star Trek TOS. He was forever confusing V’s and W’s, and perhaps his most memorable line was in Star Trek IV, “The Voyage Home”, and his requests for “nuclear wessels”.

Star Trek IV was set in 1980’s San Francisco, where they were trying to get a whale back to the 23rd century in order to save earth, yet again. The crew and Osiris/Dionysus resonating Captain Kirk are flying a Klingon Bird of Prey, which they keep in Golden Gate Park, with the cloaking device activated. “Revealing the invisible” is a strong theme in the film, the giant Horus symbol suddenly appears to whaling poachers, Scotty makes “transparent aluminum” for the whale tank.

Golden Gate Park is also a notorious gay cruising area, a place where men still gather for "whale hunting", and to share erotic love. It is mostly done “under cover”, or in other words, under a “cloaking device”. Just like the hidden bird of Horus, hidden to everyone except those who know it’s there. Vancouver’s Stanley Park is also a notorious gay cruising ground, which means it holds a hidden bird of erotic prey, or at least it did, until Andrew was found there. Somehow, I think the Cloaking Device has been de-activated. God's underwear just gave way.

Giving the Bird

Whales are mythically Leviathan, a great beast of the subconscious - often aligned with concepts of fate, God or the Id. See Moby Dick for example. Whales are also synched with phallic, masculine power, Moby Dick was a SPERM whale. Whales are also symbolically sacrificial in nature, being hunted to the brink of extinction. Unlike that other monster of the deep, the Kraken (the sperm whale’s favorite prey, BTW) the whale is useful, and sometime even friendly to man.

So I have all these symbolic pointers to San Francisco, but also to Vancouver. I was thinking how it would be perfect timing if some kind of whale story were pointed toward Vancouver right about now (I was thinking some kind of stranding, or perhaps the Japanese), but what actually happened was that an Orca "bull" in a Florida Sea World drowned his trainer on Feb. 24th, in front of a horrified audience!? Is this "whale" tired of playing the clown? Free Willy indeed.

The whale was named Tilicum, which means “friends” or “relatives” in NW Coast Chinook jargon. We have a ferry boat named Tillicum on Puget Sound, and naturally, I’m in with the San Juan Island whale watching crowd since we lived there in 2002, a boat captain is even the godfather of Oliver, our Oztralian terrier! (dogfather?)

I think things are about to get very interesting indeed, and keep your all seeing eye on Vancouver.

Baiting the Master

Today, I was deep into a design on my drafting board and the creative juices were really flowing, and I look down, and I realize I have my hand in my pants... fondling my genitals? I've discovered I subconsciously do this when I'm alone and "in the moment" - focused on a creative endeavor. Which makes sense, given Cock = God = the Creative Impulse. I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed this, I mean, besides Salvador Dali?

The next step is what to do with the DNA. "Let's be clear about this. I have no intention of creating a cloned army of surrealist artists," said Dr Rieders, who sported a melting clock tie in honour of one of Dali's most famous images.

Star Crossed

An ongoing exploration of the red star and its association with homosexuality.

'Another Country' is a play by Julian Mitchell (and a movie starring Rupert Everett) loosely based upon the life of the spy Guy Burgess, examining the effect that his homosexuality and his exposure to Marxism have on him and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the British public school system. The country he spied for happened to fly a symbolic red star (It's a fabulous film, BTW).

Nowadays, even though Communism is virtually dead ("Red" China is even more capitalist than the USA, which is probably why it gets such bad press - outdoing the original rapists at their own game...) the great fear of global Communism always plays well with NWO conspiracy theorists.

I wonder what sort of economic system Jesus would set up in his millennial rule? Would it perhaps be similar to that set up in the book of Acts?

All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. --Acts 2:44-45

Oh, say it isn't so! The language of radical socialism reflects that of the Borg - collectives, workers (worker bees are drones) - and it reminds me how Hollywood's (and Satan's) job is to portray the Divine Collective (I AM) as something to be dreaded.

Star Man, from the Rush album 2112, released in 1976.

Rush presents more dystopian alien invasion. From Wikipedia: In the year 2062, a galaxy-wide war results in the union of all planets under the rule of the Red Star of the Solar Federation. The world is controlled by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, who determine the content of all reading matter, songs, pictures - every facet of life during the year 2112 ("The Temples of Syrinx").

"All it means is the abstract man against the masses. The red star symbolizes any collectivist mentality." - Neil Peart (Creem, 1982).

Fear the red star.

Inverting the meme, I figure alien Jesus will show up in a moon-shaped spaceship emblazoned with a big red star. It'll be filled with homosexual clones who can barely stop fucking each other long enough to get an invasion underway. Jesus will have sexy little horns (like a lamb) on his forehead, and a raging rod-of-iron (ready for his "bride"). The ship will stink of stale beer and cigar smoke (they all smoke like chimneys) and from giant speakers will blast 'It's Raining Men' by the Weather Girls.

No wonder Earth goes to war... heaven is a gay bar.

NOTES:

The original 1981 production of 'Another Country' opened at the Greenwich Theatre in south-east London, and then moved to the West End (girls). In the movie, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Diana, Princess of Wales's younger brother, is present in three scenes as an extra without any dialogue.

Heaven really IS a gay bar. Interesting logo.

"Commie pinko fag" was the classic mid 20th century American slur.

A gay bar in a Vigorsol Chewing Gum commercial, 1999.

Faggots of Fire

What's in a word?

faggot

noun 1 informal chiefly offensive a male homosexual. See usage at queer. 2 British spelling of fagot.

a bundle of sticks or twigs bound together as fuel.

a bundle of iron rods bound together for reheating, welding, and hammering into bars.

What's that... iron rods? Like the Rod of Iron? A bundle of "rods of iron"? A bundle of cocks... bound together. Fuel for the fire, that's what faggots are.

For our God is a consuming fire. --Hebrews 12:29

I have come to cast a fire on the earth; and what will I if already it has been kindled? --Luke 12:49

Is that bad? Sounds kinda hot.

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. --Hebrews 1:7

Jesus says: "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes." --Thomas 10

What kind of fire does a loving God guard? Maybe the flames of passion! The fire of sexual desire. Believe it or not, God thinks we're hot. We turn him on. We make him hard. Fuck, think of that... we have the power to give God a woody. Next time you look in the mirror, realize that you're looking at the Image of God (OK, maybe with a few extra pounds), and that is a big turn-on. That's why he's a jealous God, because he's a jealous lover. Would you really want it any different?

"...bound together for reheating, welding, and hammering into bars."

Sounds almost like holy alchemy. The turning of dross material into something of value. Like a smelter. It's interesting that The Simpsons - that synchromystical cauldron - has Homer taking Bart to a gay steel mill in order to make a real man of him.

The Rod of Iron

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. --Revelation 2:27

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. --Revelation 12:5

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. --Revelation 19:15

I can feel my cock, hard as a fucking iron rod, jerking, hard, shooting a load that feels like it's going on forever. --FanTCMan

How many times have I heard a cock described like that in gay porn? About a million. A steel rod. An iron rod, a rock hard pillar, a throbbing, hard fucking ROD.

The "rod of iron" is mentioned three times in the book of Revelation. Three times! That's three times more than the infamous 666, the subject of so much attention. What is so damn important about Jesus' rod of iron? Why is it mentioned not one, not two, but three times?

Forgive me for connecting a few rather obvious dots, but the rod of Jesus is his big dick!

Considering Rev 2:27 again. If "rod" means what I think it means, it sheds a provocative light onto the nature of Jesus' relationship with his Father. Jesus frequently referred to his heavenly father as "Abba", which translates into "Daddy". I know of only one kind of relationship where a grown man calls another man "Daddy".

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