Jack Black -- Satanist?
Joe Gillis
Can anyone confirm this story? It was posted in rec.arts.movies.current-films:
> [Cut 'n' pasted from IMDB News - http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/. If anybody
knows where
> this quote is from, let me in on it.]
>
> Actor and music star Jack Black is an unashamed worshipper of Satan - and
even attributes
> the success of Star Wars to the dark lord of hell. Black, star of Shallow
Hal, who is now
> touring with his rock two-piece Tenacious D, believes the Devil to be more
preferable to
> the "boring" celebration of Jesus Christ - and is also integral to the
worldwide popularity
> of Star Wars. Says Black, tongue firmly in cheek, "I love Satan. Christianity
is so boring.
> If Star Wars didn't have that evil imprint, they wouldn't sell two tickets.
Satan sells
> tickets. That dude, Darth Maul, he was down with Satan. Put it this way,
Satan
> loves to party, he loves to f**k and he loves to eat rich, delicious food.
Actually that
> sounds a lot like Kyle Gass (his bandmate)."
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"I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy." -- Samuel Butler
Sponky
> Can anyone confirm this story? It was posted in
> rec.arts.movies.current-films:
>
> > [Cut 'n' pasted from IMDB News - http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/. If
> anybody knows where > this quote is from, let me in on it.] > > Actor and
> music star Jack Black is an unashamed worshipper of Satan - and even
> attributes > the success of Star Wars to the dark lord of hell. Black,
> star of Shallow Hal, who is now > touring with his rock two-piece
> Tenacious D, believes the Devil to be more preferable to > the "boring"
> celebration of Jesus Christ - and is also integral to the worldwide
> popularity > of Star Wars. Says Black, tongue firmly in cheek, "I love
> Satan. Christianity is so boring. > If Star Wars didn't have that evil
> imprint, they wouldn't sell two tickets. Satan sells > tickets. That dude,
> Darth Maul, he was down with Satan. Put it this way, Satan > loves to
> party, he loves to f**k and he loves to eat rich, delicious food. Actually
> that > sounds a lot like Kyle Gass (his bandmate)."
i think this line pretty much says it all
"Says Black, tongue firmly in cheek, "I love Satan. Christianity is so
boring."
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Sponky
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DustBunny
Evelyn
"Joe Gillis" <cinema...@aol.comedy> wrote in message
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PStaw57550
this I'm sure he was kidding....
Daniel B. Millette
Satan?
Hail Satan all of you.
In article <20020710152141...@mb-fp.aol.com>,
Smoot
<dan...@stopthisspam.net> wrote:
>Uh, would there be a problem if Jack Black IS a member of the Church of
>Satan?
And if he actually had been a mmeber, what if he wanted to lead the
Pledge of Allegence in a school and say "One Nation, Under Satan.."
That wouldn't be promoting Satanism would it?
Emma
Ambrose Meineke
that Athiesm and Satanism have taken root as the hyper-hip philosophy
amongst so-called edgy comedians, and otherwise comedy related acts.
From a psychological point of view, it sort of makes sense, commedians
who have often suffered a frustrated adolescence and deep sense of rejection
by the societial main stream, and there for feel intense anger and
resentment at the so-called normal world. If they have a certain facility
for words and a tepid sense of the ironic, coupled with a tragically-comical
visage, they are able to express in a public arena their angry at a world
that they believe only sees them as clowns. And part of the commedians
hatred of the world manifests in their resentment at the beliefs and rituals
of the "main stream" of society, which often is "so-called' traditional,
home, family and religion. "
Imagine, if you will, Jeanane Garafalo, who fits the profile (though I
don't know what her feelings about religion are, I'd be willing to bet she
claims Athiesm), and picture her in high school, short, dark,
strong-featured, and very over-weight, and it's not difficult to imagine
poor Jeanane looking at the tall, lithe, blonde, blue-eyed, very stylishly
dressed cheerleader who is dating the handsome, star football player. And
imagine Jeanane's excuriating feelings of deep exclusion, and isolation and
resentment for those who make her feel inferior. And in her young heart
there begins to burn a low flame of hatred, for all those who have laughed
at her as they passed her in the hall. And imagine all the nights young
Jeanane lay in bed, her face burning with hot tears as she wept into her
pillow, hating all the things she was not, and all the things, those who had
what she did not, believed and stood for. Only a God who didn't exist could
allow her to suffer so.
And then imagine a day, when freed of the curse of High School, she
entered college, and then one day she happened to wander into a comedy club
and saw someone up on stage, someone not that funny, but someone who was
getting laughs. And to Jeanane, who out of her pain had developed a talent
for filling in the spaces of silence when she was around her friends, those
few people she trusted, around whom she was always making jokes, making them
laugh with her snide comments, and observations about the people who
threatened her with their popularity, their beauty, their ease. And suddenly
that night it occured to her, that she could get back at all the people who
hurt her. She could laugh at them, she could make them the object of your
skillfully constructed redicule. ANd alond the way, if she worked hard, and
was lucky she found she had gottent famous and rich and . . . well, now
who's the cool one? And she did it all herself, out of her inner rage and
pain, and without need of "their" God. (Note: None of this is meant as
an offense to Ms. Garafalo or her fans, of whom I am one. I am merely using
her as a convenient subject for my conjectional analysis of Satanism or
Athiesm in the context of comedianship. {yikes, what a word?} )
In any case, rejection or denial of the beliefs of the main stream is
often a safe place within which to form a new, hip superior identity for a
person who suffers deep fragility of ego.
"Well, times up. That'll be fifty dollars and next week we'll discuss
your dream about having sex with Bill Clinton."
Ambrose--my own passable
sense of humor doesn't come from anger but from having trouble remembering
song lyrics. To kill time between songs while I went over the lyrics in my
head to make sure I remembered them I would say silly stuff. It's common in
small clubs. It's also a good way to kill time in a set so you wont have to
sing so many songs.
Daniel B. Millette
<Simpl...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:21:42 -0500, "Daniel B. Millette"
> <dan...@stopthisspam.net> wrote:
>
> >Uh, would there be a problem if Jack Black IS a member of the Church of
> >Satan?
>
> And if he actually had been a mmeber, what if he wanted to lead the
> Pledge of Allegence in a school and say "One Nation, Under Satan.."
> That wouldn't be promoting Satanism would it?
How retarded are you? Nobody that I know of is trying to get satan's
name into the pledge of allegiance.
You're really an idiot.
Daniel B. Millette
Millette" <dan...@stopthisspam.net> wrote:
> You're really an idiot.
My apologies. I now realize that you are Anna Nicole Smith. You just
cannot help it.
Smoot
I often thought my aunt became a fundamentalist Christian this way.
Unlike your example, she was pretty and popular. She had been a
cheerleader and was voted best dressed. But she came home from high
school every day, locked herself in her room and cried. She also let
the guys she dated walk all over her. Maybe it was because her parents
divorced at a time when families in our town usually didn't do that.
(She and my grandmother moved in with us, so I observed what happened
with her.) But she was very insecure and let her boyfriends treat her
poorly. Her boyfriend in high school decided to skip the prom she had
really been looking forward to and play poker with his friends and
she didn't dump and replace him for example. Then she married the boy
next door and he used to make jokes about her slowness and her not
being as intelligent as him to my family. (He had a PhD and thought he
was all that. He wasn't at all attractive and my aunt looked like
Natalie Wood. But she lacked self confidence and didn't demand better
treatment. She wasn't actually "slow" she just didn't have his level
of education and he liked to mock her.)
Then she became a fundamentalist Christian and suddenly she had a type
of "superiority" (in her mind of course) to those who weren't
following the same path. She "knew" the correct and only truth and all
who didn't worship in the manner her church felt correct were sinners
and doomed. She tried to convert our Jewish friends (we were deeply
offended, most of our closest friends are Jewish) and we started
seeing far less of her. We were sort of glad she moved 400 miles away
as she had gotten obnoxious in a quiet, smug sort of way. Suddenly she
had something she felt made her better than her college professor
husband (who turned out to be a nice guy later on, their marriage
seems to still be going strong). Even though she preaches that women
should obey their husbands, she believes herself to be holding the
cards spiritually in their relationship.
I think many fundamentalists have used religion to replace self
confidence. I believe in God and spirituality. But I think when
someone becomes sure that their way is the only way, that others are
following the wrong path, that they are practicing dominance, not
religion. For them it's all about power. Come to think of it, some
atheists are the same way. They "know" they are smarter not to
believe, just as some fundamentalists (of many different religions)
"know" they are the smarter ones who have found the correct answers.
I think those who continually search and are open to new ideas are the
most secure in themselves. IMO, of course.
Emma (Rebecca)
Smoot
<dan...@stopthisspam.net> wrote:
>In article <tuupiuguk2s49ludr...@4ax.com>, Smoot
><Simpl...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:21:42 -0500, "Daniel B. Millette"
>> <dan...@stopthisspam.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Uh, would there be a problem if Jack Black IS a member of the Church of
>> >Satan?
>>
>> And if he actually had been a mmeber, what if he wanted to lead the
>> Pledge of Allegence in a school and say "One Nation, Under Satan.."
>> That wouldn't be promoting Satanism would it?
>
>How retarded are you? Nobody that I know of is trying to get satan's
>name into the pledge of allegiance.
>
>You're really an idiot.
Whoosh! There goes the point soaring over your pointy head.
Emma
Ambrose Meineke
"Smoot" <Simpl...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Pathology often drives outwardly expressed systems of belief, be they
religious, social, political, sexual, intellectual, or what have you, but in
reality the external manifestations of personal belief mechanisms often
have little to do with the inner beliefs, spiritually or lack therof within
an individual. People are what they are, not what they profess publically.
Ambrose
Sharyn
"keeper" I ought to know, Hail Satan, I mean, have a good day. :O)
{ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That
way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes}
Sharyn
Melisande55
>From: heavn...@aol.com (Sharyn )
>Date: 7/11/2002 11:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <20020711141631...@mb-fs.aol.com>
Melisande
Keeper of Val Kilmer
(who is Christian Scientist, not Scientologist)
Deidre Johnson
melis...@aol.comnospam (Melisande55) wrote:
>
> (who is Christian Scientist, not Scientologist)
Not much difference there, except replace L. Ron Hubbard with Mary
Baker Eddy. Still find bizarro ways to "cure" disease.
What a load of crap.
Cosmic Busboy
"Deidre Johnson" <deidresomet...@whereever.com> wrote in message
news:120720020316006719%deidresomet...@whereever.com...
Interesting you see it that way. Christian Science is pretty mainstream
compared to Scientology. And L. Ron Hubbard is a tad different than Mary,
I'd say. But you're a lumper I guess.
Busboy