by Open mind 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Thank you Drew for setting me straight. The artist I was thinking of is Drew Struzan, I googled him. Actually I met him once, back in the day. You might enjoy reading and looking at his work.....very very cool. He is still a very sought after movie artist. Have no idea if still an active JW but I'd sure like to know ??? When I have time I will do some digging and let you all know.
I really enjoy you clever posts and comments. 1982 huh....I have shoes older than you
Sadly the September edition goes back to cheesey artwork !
No doubt those artists were assigned to floor scrubbing detail to curb their tendency to bring glory to themselves.
It seems that this guy had contact with Drew Struzan back in the 90s. According to this webpage Struzan is currently an inactive JW:
Pinkoski
It is a striking cover though...I said to the Mag Servant " Galadriel ! (Lord of the Rings)" - but there was not a flicker of recognition.
Thanks for that seeker4. It was a good read.
Someone recently bttt'd your thread from March about the long-time Bethel couple's take on the new, young, even more hardcore GB members.
How's this for a living hell scenario:
Gifted Bethel artist working under the ever-tightening GB fist as the years of middle age approach and slide by.
Makes me count my blessings.
Open Mind
" It really had a "new age", mystical, pagan, wicca, who knows(?) kind of feel to it."
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Looks to me like she is dressed in the perfect outfit and black/red color-combo to attend this year's Bohemian Grove "camp meeting" going on right now, Thurs. 7/12 to Sun. 7/29/2007. But since it's a Men Only type of thang, maybe she is set to be their annual "sacrifice" before their owl-god.
I wonder if there is a Bohemian LAKE out there by which she may have done the pose? ;-)
As for the demons in the rocks, LOL. I can see maybe three or four!
Oh my, I just did a quick search for a link to any news story re: this year's Bohemian Grove event, and this was the first link I clicked on - Free Press International - notice the "LAKESIDE" comment, LOL...
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http://freepressinternational.com/2007-bohemian-grove-july-12-29
2007 Bohemian Grove July 12-29
July 9th, 2007 by webmaster Bohemian Grove
PRESS DEMOCRAT
Critics fear the world’s government and business leaders are shaping the future without public oversight during discussions on defense, economic and public policy topics, particularly during daily “Lakeside Talks” presented by guest speakers.
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So there IS a Lake... :-/
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Here's the full news story, FWIW...
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20070707/NEWS/707070322&SearchID=73286582581203
No protests planned for Bohemian Grove event
By MARY CALLAHAN
THE [Santa Rosa] PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Saturday, Jul 7, 2007
The elite and secretive gathering at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio next week, greeted in past years by protesters, will go on this year without a formal demonstration, a longtime organizer said this week.
The reason?
Competing commitments, fatigue and limited time -- the same reasons so many other things don't get done in life, Camp Meeker activist Mary Moore said.
Moore, 72, first helped organize demonstrations outside the Bohemian Grove in 1980 and has been the primary torchbearer since as part of the Bohemian Grove Action Network. She said the protesters may have achieved their chief objective of bringing public attention to the annual rite.
"The corporate and government collusion that so impacts our lives today" is so "much more obvious to the average citizen" than it once was, she said.
The protests, which have drawn up to several hundred people, have been spearheaded over the past 27 years by a coalition of social and environmental organizations.
Though nothing formal is scheduled this year, it's still possible some critics will stake out the encampment, scheduled for Thursday to July 29, Moore said.
The all-male Bohemian Club, founded in 1872 by five San Francisco men seeking to connect "gentlemen" with art, literature, music and drama, has attracted some of the nation's most powerful captains of industry and government.
Members and guests who have attended the annual two-week retreat at the Bohemian Grove include presidents -- both Bushes, Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon -- one-time cabinet members including Colin Powell, George Schultz and Henry Kissinger, and industrialists Stephen David Bechtel, Leonard Firestone and David Rockefeller.
The motto of the 2,700-acre grove -- "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" -- is intended to discourage the conduct of business or world affairs during the encampment, which features ELABORATE RITUALS (caps added), dinners, plays and drag shows, speeches, drinking and parties.
Critics fear the world's government and business leaders are shaping the future without public oversight during discussions on defense, economic and public policy topics, particularly during daily "Lakeside Talks" presented by guest speakers.
"I've been saying," Moore said, "if they would publish those lakeside talks, we would go away. I don't care if they pee on trees up there or dance around in tutus."
You can reach Staff Writer Mary Callahan at 521-5249 or [email protected].
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http://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/asp/FullConv.asp?forumId=F100000035&convId=203073
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Bohemian Grove is the annual gathering of the global elite in California where they perform the 'Cremation of Care' ritual on the evening of July 15th, which is mid summer. In this, they pay homage to the owl god Moloch using an effigy of a child as a mock sacrifice.
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For more info, there's plenty of videos at YouTube w/film of the mock sacrifice and other Bohemian Grove facts/info/news, etc.:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Bohemian+Grove%22&search=
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I wasn't too wild about the butterfly pic either, but thanks for posting both of those WT covers.
/ag
