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Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

john martin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:42:42 -0000

Dear OLD_DAVY I am a born again follower of Jesus. I understand what you said and I too had a preacher give me a look just like you said , my brother and I left anyway. It was out in califonia, the paster was JIM JONES!!!! My Brother and I was jerred as we left as old jim ranted about us because we didn,t like what we were hearing. Those others did they follow jim to their death.FOLLOW JESUS NOT MEN! The people who wanted Jesus dead were very religious! Jesus is Love! God Bless you! John unklealbert99.5

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

Old_Davy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:38:48 -0000

Hi Gary,

1. Wow, this was written two years ago and you felt the need to comment on my rant. Thanks for caring.

2. You have no idea who I am or where my beliefs or spirituality lie. You don't know me, my actions, my way of life or how I treat others. Again, thanks for caring, but it's really not necessary. I believe in a higher power, but refuse the kool-aid of religion. I'm very comfortable in my beliefs and the path I'm walking upon. I don't steal, I'm kind to others, don't impose my views upon them and respect others' rights, even yours. Of course you are entitled to believe I am going to burn in the fires of hell, but nothing you can say will make ME believe it. So pray for me all you want. I'll do the same for you.

3. The man who lectured us was a charlatan of the worst kind, using Jesus and religious fear to make a buck. Maybe you missed it, but that was the main point of what I wrote, not that I was a Jesus-rejecting heretic. Where did I mock Jesus? I was mocking the lecturer who was trying to profit off of peoples' religions beliefs which I think is a heinous sin.

4. If I may, a little constructive criticism. Read what you wrote before you hit post. Written messages are much more effective without all the misspellings and grammatical errors.

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

gary — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:57:07 -0000

You are spiritully blind old davy. You mock Jesus, but you still have time to repent and Jesus will forgive you. If you think you are smarter then God than I can assure you that the day you die you will have to face the judgement of God and he will say to you, get the behind me for you rejected my son Jesus because of your hardened heart ,you now can join the others in the lake of fire, HELL, You still have time to repent and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and he will give you eternal life. What will it be? Jesus or damnation to hell because of your stubborn pride, just like satan, Please think and than choose Jesus, Your eternity in heavan or hell rest on your decicion!

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

jeshua — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:01:29 -0000

I found satanic subliminal backmasking message in the heavy metal band from USA - CAGE. It is in the CD release HELL DESTROYER - released in 2007 - track no. 10 - Cremation of care. If you play the song backwards you can hear the satanic message: "Rise master. Hail mighty satan! - 4x, We await your arrival. Deliver unto us armageddon."

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

bella0esme — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:41:04 -0000

Iam The Walrus ! unklealbert99@aol.com

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

Terry — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:29:56 -0000

I have wondered how someone who could music like ELO, could be guilty of Satanic backmasking. I just had an Elo song running thru my mind, and that question arose with it.

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

arensb — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:11:12 -0000

What if I forwarded the cassette to the end of “Fire on High,” turned the tape around in the player, and played it AT TOP VOLUME with my headphones on? Maybe, since the other side of the tape was blank, the backward “shadow” of “Fire on High” would play clearly enough that I could hear the spooky voice!

No, no, no! The way to do it (or at least, the way I found the secret message in The Wall) is to unscrew the cassette shell, then flip over the two tape spools, so that the tape is upside-down. The sound is muddy, but it still comes through the tape much better through the tape, than bleeding off onto adjacent tracks.

But having said that, EightE1 is right: the "Reverse" menu option in Audacity works much better.

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

Shrewd Dude — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:52:57 -0000

I remember being brainwashed by Micheal Mills in like '83 or '84...somehow it just isn't quite as gripping now as it was then. haha
It just annoys the fire out of me that Christianity (heavily in the Catholic church) historically has used fear and shame as a control mechanism. BLEH!

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

JonCummings — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:25:05 -0000

Eric, gay marriage is just a waiting game at this point--waiting for the polling numbers to move far enough (mostly through attrition, if you know what I'm sayng) for politicians to grow a pair and do what's right.

I would guess the moment will not happen during the next eight years; it likely will have to wait until early in Mark Warner's second term, in 2021.

When the moment comes, evangelicals will simply move on to the next fight, whichever one they can conjure in order to gin up more outrage (and more cash in the collection plate).

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

jefito — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:13:32 -0000

Who cares how "mainstream" it is? Plenty of heinous shit has been "mainstream," and you know it. Obama should know it too -- and should have the stones to say so during a national forum. Just because he doesn't, and just because plenty of people share your foolish views on this subject, doesn't mean you're right.

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

eric — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:46:35 -0000

I said we aren't "ALL" as gullible as that. In fact, you're looking at only a fraction of the evangelical universe.

The gay marriage battle is pretty mainstream, not just the rubes, not even just the evangelicals, or the strictly religious. Even Mr. Obama, last Saturday night at Saddleback, firmly defined marriage as between one man and one woman. I suppose he's one of the intolerant enemy too, now? Well, I hope you'll be happy in the voting booth choosing Mr. Nader. :)

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

JonCummings — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:40:34 -0000

I used to find all these old anti-rock tracts from the '50s and '60s in the local library (in southwestern Virginia), and I'd take them out and howl with laughter.

My favorite such story, though, is about my college friends Jason Cohen and Casey Seiler, who had a 2-to-4-a.m. radio show on the campus station. Casey (I believe) had arrived on campus with a copy of a book that dated from the '30s (I think) called "Catholic Girls' Problems." It was a book of do's and don'ts, and they would read hilarious passages from it on the air (in between playing one track after another from the Cure's "Head on the Door" LP).

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

BobCashill — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:36:30 -0000

Reading more about this on Wiki (the California and Arkansas state legislatures were all a-tizzy about this in 1983) I chuckled...then developed a nosebleed. Could it be...Satan?

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

EightE1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:34:49 -0000

As a parochial school student in the Bible Belt during the 80s, I had many opportunities to sit through "backmasking" demonstrations and anti-rock sermons. A few years ago, I decided to go looking for copies of the books they gave us back then, to further indoctrinate us -- books with titles like "Backward Masking Unmasked" and such. Found every one of them, too -- paid a penny each (plus 3 bucks shipping, of course). Had a great time reading and chuckling.

Afterward, I had to do a "demonstration" of my own, so I ripped a few choice excerpts, loaded them into Audacity, and hit the "Reverse" effect (which is SO much better than fucking up my brittle turntable). I put on a little "sermon" for the wife, who just shook her head and left the room. Too bad. She missed Queen intoning "Decide to smoke marijuana" or "The devil is number one" or, you know, "Tsud eht setib eno rehtona."

Rob
EightE1

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

JonCummings — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:23:56 -0000

You're so quick to walk away from the unattractive folks who operate at just a slightly greater extreme. Tell me "we aren't as gullible as that" after you re-watch some video of the post-"The Beatles are Bigger than Jesus" record-burnings, or after I describe (in some future column) the mid-'80s record burning I witnessed in Michigan after a Michael Mills appearance.

The epic battle against rock'n'roll is merely a battle (among many) that the Christian right has lost. Your "share of rubes" (how quaint! It makes intolerance sound like an episode of "Petticoat Junction"!) have simply absorbed the loss and moved on to other in-the-long-run pointless battles (gay marriage). I wish them no luck with that one, either.

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

Bible-thumping Jesus freak — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:47:23 -0000

Heck, listen to Zeppelin forward, you know R. Plant is of the devil! But don't you think he's seen the Light now, singing folk songs with sweet little ole' Alison Krauss?

But seriously, here in the Bible Belt we aren't all as gullible as that. Back in the era of back masking hysteria, being an audiophile and not wanting to damage my precious cartridge stylus, I hooked that devil music up to my 4-track reel to reel, then reversed the tape to hear for myself. Like I said, worry about what the music is about when spun the right direction. Just like a good conservative would -- the right direction. :)

I know the Religious Right is a source of endless amusement on this website -- the same function the religious left serves on talk radio. Both sides have their share of rubes, seeing eee-villl conspiracies where none exist.

Rock on, Brother Jon.

eric

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

Old_Davy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:06 -0000

Some nut job came to my college in '82 and delivered this kind of message to the mostly right-wing Christian audience. That was, except for me and a group of friends who showed up to listen to the examples of backwards masking because we all thought it was a cool phenomenon.

He played the usual suspects - Stairway To Heaven, Fire On High, Another One Bites The Dust, Revolution 9, but ... what was this? A song by Hall & Oates?? Oh no! Now we have to burn our Hall & Oates records too? SHIT

I knew we were being duped when - to prove his claim that church music was holy - he played a hymn backwards. He took the word "hallelujah" from a hymn, and played it backward, and lo and behold, it STILL sounded like "hallelujah". WOW! Really! Think about it. It's kind of like a palindrome pronunciation.

He brought up the point that a lot of the backward masking examples he presented were hard to understand because these were the works of the devil. Then he played another hymn that when played forward was pretty unintelligible. "But listen to this!" he proclaimed. "When you play THIS SONG OF GOD backward, the message comes out LOUD AND CLEAR" and so he plays the song backward and of course the vocals are crystal clear (because they were really backward on the tape to begin with) and the audience went WILD. Me and my friends kept shouting PLAY IT AGAIN FORWARD so the audience might realize they were being taken down the garden (of Eden) path, but we were ignored.

He told us that John Lennon was the most evil devil worshipper of all. How else could you explain the phenomenal popularity of the Beatles and their substandard, mediocre music (his words - I can still hear them to this day). "Jesus did indeed die" he said, "but Jesus arose. John Lennon is STILL DEAD". Again, the audience erupted in a bunch of hoots and hollers and "praise Jesus"'s and I shouted out "Lennon was a man of peace who was assassinated by a mad man". The lecturer looked in our general direction with a glare that would have vaporized all of us if looks could kill.

At the end of the lecture, the entire audience was invited on stage to engage in something called "fellowship" which looked more like a group grope to me. And tapes of the lecture were available for purchase at only $29.99 for three - THREE - COUNT THEM cassettes. Ah, now I see the light! Praise Jesus!

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

WHarrisBullzEye — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:16:01 -0000

Awesome. I, too, listened to that "sermon" on the evils of backwards masking, and it made me way more of a fan of the Beatles than I ever would've been. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Nicholas Shaffner's "The Beatles Forever" is one of my favorite books of all time.)

Re: Jesus of Cool: Satanic Messages! (Not)

D Ragland — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:48:54 -0000

Great post. I knew about the Zep and The Beatles but not not ELO. And listening to Michael Mills was a trip. He's pretty ridiculous.