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With the new issue out on Thursday (7 January 2010), I had thought that subscribers would have their copy already, but it appears no-one has yet. It'll turn up!
ramonmercado said:Probably caught up in the freeze. A postie is in a snowdrift clutching your copy.
edit to fix typo
original_fLeebLe said:illuminati x-factor - who really controls the worlds pop stars? - the occult celebrity conspiracy revealed
It's identical to something you'd read on Geocities in the late 90s. Just some guy rambling on about how fashion and music is run by inter-dimensional lizards. Seriously. I want it to be a joke, but it probably isn't. It's just a totally one-sided delusional, mentally ill rant about a conspiracy theory with no references or sources or anything, just someone gabbling on. Everything is "according to associates of David Icke" or "according to occult celebrity watchers". At one point he even says "according to bloggers". Then he lists the 10 secret mind control symbols in videos and movies. These include butterflies, dolls, pink, purple and rainbow colours and blonde women.
Seriously.
It doesn't once state what the point of controlling everyone via the media is, just that the illuminati want to control us and make things bad. Yeah. But why?
Ok I know what you're going to say, why am I surprised, I've seen this level of bollocks before. But it's because it's in the Fortean Times. I know they went shit a while back but this seems to be the final straw. Just printing some paranoid arseclatterings off the internet, that's basically what it is. I'm amazed they'd sink so low. I expect they will be hammered with emails about it. Crikey. All I can hope is that it's a joke and they've done it on purpose, but I can't see any evidence of that.
original_fLeebLe said:bleeding statues
escargot1 said:Mine's here, and there was a big sticker on the front saying 'THIS EDITION NOT AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA'. :lol:
escargot1 said:It is. That's EXACTLY what it is.
colpepper1 said:Patrick Harpur is back with Higgs bonus daemons. Always thought provoking
Stormkhan said:Gotta agree with the general comment on Lady Gaga's artificial persona, though: isn't so much occult as adolescent.
gncxx said:escargot1 said:It is. That's EXACTLY what it is.
Yup, just been reading it and after two excellent pop culture lead articles from the past two issues, this is a real comedown. I don't think trawling conspiracy message boards is much good for research.
I wouldn't have minded a "look at the funny man" perspective on it, but it almost takes this stuff at face value (writing "according to" before all those quotes doesn't really distance the author from the tittle-tattle).
wembley9 said:Stormkhan said:Gotta agree with the general comment on Lady Gaga's artificial persona, though: isn't so much occult as adolescent.
I might go further. Exactly how would you expect an attention-seeking pop star with a good grasp of popular culture to behave? I think Lady Gaga plays the media brilliantly - the Jesus to Madonna's John the Baptist, if you like.
colpepper1 said:From the Patrick Harpur article I took the idea this particle accelerator or whatever the hell it is looks like a gothic cathedral, which it does.
wembley9 said:Stormkhan said:Gotta agree with the general comment on Lady Gaga's artificial persona, though: isn't so much occult as adolescent.
I might go further. Exactly how would you expect an attention-seeking pop star with a good grasp of popular culture to behave? I think Lady Gaga plays the media brilliantly - the Jesus to Madonna's John the Baptist, if you like.
That's what happens when you treat science as purely symbolic and metaphorical. Take the maths away and treat it all as analogy. You don't have much left, except magical thinking.colpepper1 said:Patrick Harpur is back with Higgs bonus daemons. Always thought provoking and even when he's wrong he's more engaging than than most writers. I'll make a plea for fewer pop culture articles. Again. The film and games reviews look increasingly misplaced, if not dull.
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