Suggestion for the first one: Nightmare Alley (1947).
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Chapter Head JamesSTL
Nov 4 '14
Who is down for doing weekly virtual screenings of movies of interest to Satanists in the SIN chat... There are a bunch of full-length movies on youtube, and others could be uploaded...
Member Khandnalie
Nov 4 '14
I'd be chill with that. What night would we be doing it?
My suggestion: The Prophecy
JasinElric
Nov 4 '14
I can picture this. Watching the movie peacefully till one of you assholes goes, "*pst!*...that's a misconception..."
Sounds cool though. I second The Prophecy, haven't seen that since I was a little Elric.
Member Khandnalie
Nov 4 '14
I think we all understand that if we paused the movie to correct very theological misconception we find, we would be watching it for like a week.
JasinElric
Nov 4 '14
Would make a fun drinking game, we take a shot every time a movie Satanist does or says something a real life Christian would.
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Chapter Head JamesSTL
Nov 6 '14
The new movie Lucy (2014) by Luc Besson is about as Gnostic LHP as it has ever gotten on the movie screen. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.
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Chapter Head johnnywatts
Nov 12 '14
The new movie Lucy (2014) by Luc Besson is about as Gnostic LHP as it has ever gotten on the movie screen. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.
I saw it. Besides Scarlet Johanson spreading her legs for her captors, I didn't see any LHP stuff in it. Maybe I was too preoccupied with the bunk science that formed the primary plot of the show.
Chapter Head JamesSTL
Nov 12 '14
Johnny:
The exaltation of the Self. To become Godlike.
LHP does not begin and end with a shiftless declaration of Godhood. It is a quest for enlightenment -- to become Godlike through struggle and study. The ancient Greeks and Indians were onto these concepts in antiquity.
Nietzsche called it the ubermensch.
The Lucy film fictitiously demonstrates "Godliness", or what could be classified in modern times as biological saltation.
Somewhat related... a crude LHP influence flow chart:
LaVey -->
Rand -->
Nietzsche/Freud/Jung/et al -->
Schopenhauer/Blavatsky -->
Corpus Hermeticum (Greek origin) / Eastern philosophy (India/Vedic period)
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Chapter Head JamesSTL
Nov 12 '14
Additionally, I think Lucy was VERY philosophy intensive. There is a healthy dose of Eastern principles, such as the scene where Lucy stabs the crime boss in the hands and tells him that pain is an obstacle -- that all he knows now is pain.
The shaky scientific foundation is beside-the-point. It is a movie about ideas.
To digest art, one must sometimes "suspend disbelief".
If 1930's readers of Brave New World were to take the novel at face value, thinking the scientific premise absurd, they would certainly overlook the philosophical undertones. We citizens-of-the-future may find it remarkable that many of the points in Huxley's book were right-on-the-money.
Chapter Head JamesSTL
Nov 12 '14
And lastly, the scene toward the end where Lucy and the proto-human almost touch fingers, imitating The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, alludes to her transcendence into Godliness.
C'mon, guys. Am I the only one who picked up on this stuff? Really?
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Chapter Head johnnywatts
Nov 20 '14
No, I didn't pick it up. Actually, I think most people who saw Lucy would have missed it.
Like I said, too preoccupied cringing at the bunk science. I am, afterall, a man of science.
Member Berardo Rodriguez
Nov 20 '14
When Lucy time traveled to the past, she looked like a goddess on her throne. The movie takes the viewers to very beginning of everything. Thanks James for your insight on the movie. I learned a lot of the hidden LHP which it contains. Even the moment when the bodyguards who tried to kill her, they called her a "witch" after seeing the "magical" powers ( brain reaction to a drug) she was displaying.
