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Prisonwallet said:
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I want to say it was Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein wherein a character comments how inaccurate the emaciated portrayals of Jesus were; he was a carpenter, he would have been jacked.

edit, found it: "'How little' you mean. Still, you must know that, as craftsmanship, paintings and sculpture of the Crucifixion are usually atrocious-and the painted, realistic ones often used in churches are the worst of all . . . the blood looks like catsup and that ex-carpenter is usually portrayed as if he were a pansy . . . which He certainly was not if there is any truth in the four Gospels at all. He was a hearty man, probably muscular and of rugged health. But despite the almost uniformly poor portrayal in representations of the Crucifixion, a poor one is about as effective as a good one for most people. They don't see the defects; what they see is a symbol which inspires their deepest emotions; it recalls to them the Agony and Sacrifice of God."
 
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donksmanSupreme42 said:
i never understood the whole saturn storm cube thing, care to explain?
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The cube is the ultimate (geometric) expression of materiality/actuality: it efficiently packs objects in space with no waste, which is why we build a ton of stuff as squares and cubes.

Whereas the sphere is the ultimate (geometric) expression of potential; it is maximum hidden volume for minimum visible surface area. Think of an egg, or a pregnant belly. Shapes of pure potential.

Something fully actualized with no Potential remaining though, is dead - since everything that could've happened with it has happened - thus the cube itself represents death. While the sphere, being full of potential, represents life. Of course, we all have a foot in the material world, so all our seeds and eggs are somewhat oval rather than perfect spheres.

We generally find evil people and death cults, both secular and religious, tend to have an abundance of cubes in their worship - since they care more about having stuff than doing anything good - and the older cults make Saturn prominent. So when we found Saturn has a hexagon (a 2d drawing of a cube) storm on its North pole, it was yet another expression of that age-old truth.

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The Ugly One said:
No, Roehm had been involved since 1919, the year the party was founded and began organizing paramilitary activities in 1923. He wasn't executed for his homosexuality, but because he wanted to to turn the entire German military into a revolutionary faggot organization. Himmler had enough of him, and he'd become a political liability to Hitler's credibility with the established military.
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his homoshit was also not acknowledged, let alone endorsed by the nazi party (although it was kind of an open secret that their political enemies used in anti nazi propaganda)
the nazi party only acknowledged it after killing him in the purge, using it as part of their justification for getting rid of him
 
McMitch said:
I want to say it was Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein wherein a character comments how inaccurate the emaciated portrayals of Jesus were; he was a carpenter, he would have been jacked.

edit, found it: "'How little' you mean. Still, you must know that, as craftsmanship, paintings and sculpture of the Crucifixion are usually atrocious-and the painted, realistic ones often used in churches are the worst of all . . . the blood looks like catsup and that ex-carpenter is usually portrayed as if he were a pansy . . . which He certainly was not if there is any truth in the four Gospels at all. He was a hearty man, probably muscular and of rugged health. But despite the almost uniformly poor portrayal in representations of the Crucifixion, a poor one is about as effective as a good one for most people. They don't see the defects; what they see is a symbol which inspires their deepest emotions; it recalls to them the Agony and Sacrifice of God."
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