Posted on 02/08/2023 7:16:56 PM PST by robowombat
Elon Musk Responds with 4 Words to Disturbing Satan Worship at Grammys Joe Saunders, The Western Journal By Joe Saunders, The Western Journal Published February 8, 2023 at 2:15pm
Most Americans probably never thought a literally satanic performance on national television would become part of the national conversation.
But after the Grammy Awards telecast Sunday, when a pair of sexually confused “entertainers” staged a primetime paean to the Prince of Darkness, it appears anything is possible.
And for all the social media comment the performance of the aptly titled song “Unholy” has generated, Twitter owner Elon Musk might have summed it up best in four words
“End of times vibes,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post published Monday.
End of days vibes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2023
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Even if sinuous, gyrating dancers, suffused in crimson, surrounding a horned-hatted figure belching out lyrics to the rhythmic screeching of tortured souls aren’t quite the Four Horsemen of Revelation, they were kindred spirits.
But in a typical Musk twist, he followed up with a tweet essentially mocking the banality of an entertainment world being driven to ever greater lengths to try to shock and awe the viewing public. And coming up short.
“If that’s satan, we have nothing to worry about,” he said.
If that’s satan, we have nothing to worry about
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2023
In one sense, Musk’s amused contempt was right on target.
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As morally and intellectually offensive as Sunday’s act was — by the allegedly nonbinary Sam Smith and the allegedly transgender Kim Petras — it carried an almost palpable reek of desperation more than the sulfurous reek of the underworld.
It was as though an entertainment world that has spent decades deliberately offending all that is decent finally realized it needs to pull out all the stops just to get a glimmer of attention.
And “all the stops” means Satan himself.
But on another level, Musk is a little too complacent.
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To name one easy example, the level of graphic sexual imagery on television screens in the 21st century (to say nothing of the pornography-ridden internet, of course) is light years beyond — or below — what would have been considered permissible only a generation earlier.
While no one expects married couples to be sleeping in separate beds, a la Rob and Laura Petrie, it’s not likely the country is better off for almost endless advertisements to cure erectile dysfunction or the all-but-incestuous intimacies of TLC’s “MILF Manor.” (The acronym in the title alone is obscene.)
In the schools, supposedly serious people mount arguments on why children should be exposed to blatantly erotic drag shows — featuring men dressed as women performing caricatures of women behaving erotically.
Meanwhile, administrators and leftist teachers are arrogating to themselves the right to determine whether minors are capable of making life-altering decisions about their sexuality without informing their parents.
So, sure, shock-value “satanism” in rock music is old hat. Ozzy Osbourne and the other members of Black Sabbath could be the grandfathers of the nubile succubi swirling on stage Sunday night.
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And it’s not a good one
These people will lecture you on disinformation while worshipping the father of lies.
— Kevin Hehmeyer (@spaceXcentric) February 7, 2023
Really .. lol.. it’s just one of his minions getting us used to them worshipping satan.. OUT IN THE OPEN..
— holly wiley (@hollyjayewiley) February 7, 2023
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I don’t think people are upset because they think Smith IS Satan. Many were alarmed about the show because it openly mocked Christian beliefs. Would they have been allowed to perform a show mocking Islamic beliefs? No, because THAT would be considered offensive. There’s also …
— JGill “████ ██” MAGA #turn22to0 (@jgillil2) February 7, 2023
Or as this Twitter user put it, “Satan stands for something really bad. Why would anyone stand for something that is bad?”
@elonmusk Its not really about if Sam Smith is Satan or not. He is clearly a human being. But the fact that his performance act was like he was Satan is just disturbing. Satan stands for something really bad. Why would anyone stand for something that is bad?
— Eda (@eda1da) February 7, 20
That is a good question. The answer might be, conscious or not, it’s a way of communicating the message there really is no objective “bad.” After all, this is a country that only recently put an end to the national regimen of barbarism known as Roe v. Wade, and the massed forces of entertainment, the establishment media and the liberal elite — including the “devout Catholic” in the White House — are pushing to establish abortion some other way.
And then there’s this:
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
— Cari Kelemen (@KelemenCari) February 7, 2023
That line is probably best known lately for appearing in the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects.” But it’s been around in various forms for at least a couple of centuries (and probably even longer).
What appeared on that Grammy stage, and on television screens around the country, might or might not have been legitimate Satan worship, but Musk was right about the “end of times vibe.”
He was wrong, though, about there being nothing to worry about.
Correct.
Elon claims to be an atheist. I’ve been getting “vibes” that he is coming around to accepting the existence of God. The good people at Babylon Bee might be having an affect on him.
I believe Peterson is having an effect on Elon.
Modern day Satanists will typically claim that they don’t actually believe Satan exists, only that they adhere to the general Satanic philosophy of selfishness and living only to serve yourself. That there is no absolute definition of right and wrong other than what does and does not feel good. Depravity is therefore the natural direction to go because it feels good. This is where the world is going, unsurprisingly.
A fat, pillsbury dough-boy pervert, wearing a cheap Walmart devil’s halloween costume, prancing around in a badly choreographed act.
I don’t see it so much as a terrible “end of times,” rather a pathetic, typical display of woke/gay narcissism and stupidity.
Perhaps this is America’s end-of-times. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
As someone here on FR once so eloquently called it, "it's a sewer pipe into your home."
I will admit to having a beautiful 55" Samsung 4k Curved TV hanging on my wall. When it's on, which is rare, it's typically because I have company and it's displaying pictures I've taken or famous artwork. Occasionally a baseball game during baseball season.
Even then, there are weeks that go by without it ever getting turned on, and I refuse to pay for cable TV.
Everything that's on the idiot box (as my dad called it) is just junk food for the brain. He was right.
I assume you are referring to Jordon Peterson. He’s had quite the personal transformation from both religious and political perspectives. There is something to be said about the vigor exerted by converts.
Ayb Rand articulated the ‘philosophy of selfishness and living only to serve yourself.’ Never understood how someone who had such clear ideas about the role of government and the the profit motive being the engine of wealth creation and prosperity could utter such crude stupidities.
Jordan Peterson?
yep
Ann Rand had no use for God, at least while she was alive.
He’s right. I really like Elon.
If they had mocked Islamic beliefs like that, they would be in danger of losing their heads.
They’re evil, but not stupid.
She was a complete atheist but many atheists don’t embrace the simpleminded so called ‘libertarian’ mantra she relentlessly intoned. She was as much or more detached from real politic realities as the most collectivist adherent of the secular religion of government and the godhood of the collective and ‘politics’.
woke collectivists who even think that far see Islam as a temporary ally in the war on the west and a battering ram to help topple white heteronormative society. Remember the woman woke Swedish PM who welcomed masses of illiterate, ignorant, violent Syrian and Iraqi men with the words that ‘Sweden would be utterly transformed in 30 years and that was very good thing. She knew what she meant and literally didn’t care that thousands of Swedish women would be raped and/or murdered and Swedish cities would look west African sewers. It was enough that whitey was going to be punished and killed. These people are evil to the core with their ‘virtue’, just as the ‘terrorists’ of the French Revolution
were. One can only hope for a Bonaparte.
If he starts writing books I would like the level of Jules Verne or CS Lewis.
“”Ayn Rand articulated the ‘philosophy of selfishness””
Rush often spoke of self-interest, and the necessity of same. Basic self-interest, food, water, shelter, etc. Extended self-interest: the more money I can earn, the more I can assist others. Rush also talked about the wealthy driving down the cost of new technology. He would often give the example of the first VCR machines. The cost $500. Once enough people started buying them, the price dropped.
Other thoughts. No poor person ever gave me a job.
I’ve never seen a squirrel or a deer pick up a hose and put out a forest fire.
Lovecraft would be better seeing we now know about how life systems operate.
True, I gather to Rand voluntarily going to the aid of those at risk in fires, floods, or other disasters. Assisting in epidemics, like the real flu epidemic of 1919, to be sucker bait. I never ever understood why she was (a) invited to speak at West Point both for her bizarre philosophy and after she called US participants in the Viet Nam war war criminals. and (b) Even more why did the cadets not give this ugly, unpleasant so called woman the ‘silence’ and turn their backs.
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