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[2005-11-01 06:39:06 +0000 UTC]
"Ben Tonkin"
(Australia)
# Statistics
Favourites: 12; Deviations: 4; Watchers: 4
Watching: 13; Pageviews: 3742; Comments Made: 295; Friends: 13
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Wassily KandinskyFavorite movies: Donnie Darko, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poet Society
Favorite bands / musical artists: Pink Floyd
Favorite writers: George Orwell
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Other Interests: planying, writing and listening to music, painting, writing and going to church
# About me
Current Residence: Sydney, AustraliaFavourite genre of music: Progressive
Operating System: Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: ipod
Favourite cartoon character: Snoopy
# Comments
Comments: 48
I would just like to say, I don't agree with your opinions, but you certainly conduct yourself well on the forums.
*respect*
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In reply to your forum thread:
There is evidence that there is no such thing at all. Except from the bible which cant hold its own credibility, there is no mentioning of someone called Jesus. There is however a christ mentioned, however this only means 'anointed one' which roughly would include me, you and anyone who was unwillingly baptised as a baby.
If we look at 'coincidental' simularities between christianity and paganism you begin to see that it is more or less the same.
We worship jesus and god on 'Sunday'. The sun God in pagan times was the most powerful deity they knew, and its probably no coincidence that βSUNdayβ is the day of worship for the modern jesus.
If we look at the main festivals, Christmas and Easter youβll see more in common with pagans. Christmas falls on the 25th of December, typically the day which pagans would realise the days becoming longer, the rebirth of the sun. The sun/son therefore the same thing in this instance. Even the virgin mary is reminiscent of pagan mother earth symbology.
If we look at easter, where jesus apparently comes back to life on easter βsunβday, youβll notice its very close to the spring equinox, where pagans would celebrate the rebirth of nature, the rebirth of the sun in proper as the days become warmer.
There is even evidence to suggest that the cruxifix is a star constellation on which on the shortest day, the sun lowers on the horizon. A lot of other things to do with astrology also effect the bible, such as the fact that the 3 kings (a diagonal line in the sky of 3 stars) points to the north star every once in a while which is usually the brightest body in the sky. The jews have a 7 pointed star as their sign, and islam has its moon and star, more astrological signs. There are many more but ive gone on for long enough.
You can believe in what you want, I just think Jesus is a fictional character made to personify and replace the sun god in Europe to gain power of the people
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hmm, i now think i love you, finally, someone who can see it!
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lol, love you too? To be honest it doesnt take my research to realise, its just people are either not bothered or too stupid to question what they've been told.
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aye, but it does tend to get the ones trying to shove religion down your throat to stop. lol.
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this is true. religion should be a personal journey, other wise its just away of control in my opinion.
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Right, for a start, i had already figured out what the zietgeist movie had said before i had actually seen it. Theres no other way to explain why so much christian writings cross over with pagan beliefs. Find a way to disprove it and il take my hat off to you.
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Hey thanks for visiting and commenting, much appreciated!
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disregard what i said about him. he was misunderstood so yeah dont say anything to him about it cos it should be sorted soon.
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Yes, i've had trouble with misunderstanding him as well.
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that delirium whatever619 isnt very nice. hes artwork is great but the least can be said about his personality.
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Haha! Got you with a DA snow ball!
It's the start of..... Snow Ball Fight 2005-2006 !!!!
One rule to this game....
You can't hit someone who has already hit you!
Now... go out there and get as many people as you can, before they get you!
I got you first so you can't get me back!
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I'm having bad luck with viewing your work, unfortunately. They look really interested, but I can't comment! 
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thnx for the visit very interestin gallery man keep it up
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is a Deviant of Many Talents
is Male
is a deviant since Oct 31, 2005, 10:38 PM
has 123 pageviews
easy as abc
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If you think that i'm a pointless hypothetical person then i've got one thing to say to you << π: 0 β©: 0
Thank you
any suggestions on how to improve?
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Kandinsky rocks!
check out Jackson Pollack, and read "The Mission of Art" by Alex Grey
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I'll have to agree with you that Kandinsky rocks and yes, i do know Jackson Pollack's work quite well but it's mostly his drip stuff.
Alex Grey is the visionary artist that supplies tool with a lot of their artwork isn't he? Is "The Mission of Art" an actual book that can be bought at shops or is it published somewhere else?
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Jackson Pollacks drip technique, is what made him famous but he was working on stuff before that, just that's his popular and famous work
[link] , I found his book at the bookstore but it'd be quite difficult to find
yes he is the tool artist!
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I had a look on the alex grey site that you provided a link for. Thanks for that. I read the exerpt from his book the role of the artist and I can see where you are coming from now. The philosophy of art that he so passionately speaks about is quite evident in your work especially the part about the artists role in creatively expressing the world around themselves in a beatuful and individual way.
I liked the fact that he didn't agree with postemodernism. I can understand post modernism and understand why individuals would follow it as a kind of religion but i do believe in absolutes of truth, reality and morality and i do believe in god (i am a christian.) I dearly hope that postmodernism dies soon. It's easy to notice the detrimental effects it is having on society. Speech, text, images, any thing in the media, in a quest to mean everything to somebody has resulted in so many things meaning nothing to everybody. You need only to watch an average advertisment bracket on the TV to hear some product like wahing detergent to be paraded as the saviour of humanity. These thoughts are not my own, i don't pretend to be a revolutionary but this is just what i believe. I've also noticed the effects of what's know as the 'dumbing down' of society, intellectual discussion is looked upon as at best argumentative at worst highly rude and obnoxious.
But there were a few issues that i had with it. I don't believe in the whole visionary manifesto of popping some haloucinagenic drug and using these visions as a significant influeneces as subject matter. I don't believe that there is anything spiritual or artistic when you take drugs. You are merely altering the way you percieve reality not heightening it allowing yourself to access higher modes of thought or creativity. In my opinion art should be a reflection of society as percieved under normal, unaffected sensual experiances. Or should be a result of an artists unaffected imagination that way it is a human + humanity creating the artwork not human + humanity + substance.
However having said that, there are many artist that i really love who quite unashamedly profess their use of substances and claim them as a source of inspiration. The beatles would have to be the most prominent example of this. This leaves me in a bit of a conundrum that forces me to say that the beatles weren't very good artists in that they did not express or comment on humanity or the society around them, they were merely fascinated with the visual aesthetic of what they were producing. You need only listen to sgt. peppers to realise this: It didn't really mean anything, and the bits that did eg. the words to she's leaving home were no doubt composed whilst they were not under the influence, i'm sure.
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yeah.. I went to an art school exhibition last night, and really did think a lot of spiritual ideas are being left out in art. That ALex Grey speaks about.
About drugs; Alex Grey does say that they aren't for everyone but should be a valid option, and his experiences with them have allowed him to see more and understand more in the world amazingly. The Doors bandmembers would say to Jim Morrison, "we take drugs to expand the mind not to escape."
And as for my beliefs, I think it's something only you can decide.. But realise that humans aren't using 100% of the brain, and so have infinite potential for more..
About the only downside of taking LSD sensibly I have, is that we live our lives, and go to work and stuff, and good things take time while LSD and other drugs kind of take shortcuts.
I don't think art should entirely be a reflection of society, but rather show the world as it could be, to society. So back to Andy Warhols "does art immitate life, or life immitate art" I think art could be not a mirror for society but society could be a mirror of art, if that makes sense, and art could be more spiritual, and more people should be able to participate in it, in many different forms.
all in all I think alex greys ideas, and books and artwork arewell worth looking into
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Holidays Rule, Yeh, go to the beach. Good to see another Mac
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I wish i could go to the beach but that won't be possible these holidays, but i'm going to go in late december/early january. i know that this might be a bit of a stupid question but how did you know that i was using a mac? And yes they are much better than PC's as i'm sure you'd agree.
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Hey bro thats cool, MACS RULE, I was thinking about studying IT but I never want to touch a PC, slowly converting the population, hehe
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So are you in year 12 at school or at uni at the moment? There is probably a mac only IT school, but it's probably in silicon valley or somethinng. Good luck with the conversions.
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Oops, i just looked at my profile and realised how stupid that was.
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I wish i could go to the beach but that won't be possible these holidays, but i'm going to go in late december/early january. i know that this might be a bit of a stupid question but how did you know that i was using a mac? And yes they are much better than PC's as i'm sure you'd agree.
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I'm so excited which is a rare emotion for me. I'm actually taking a week and three days of work. That may not seem significant but i have not had a week off since january. It's funny when you work in an office in front of a computer all day how all of the weeks seem to blur and mix into one blobby, convoluted mass of past events. I hope that i'll be able to get some stuff done maybe there will even be some new and exciting additions for me to post for some happles wanderer in the malestrom of cyber space to stumble across and hopefully fall over for no apparent reason.
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i just read some the comments on ur journal... and i thought i was disturbed... ah we are so alike, u and i...
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Hey! Thanks for the visit and welcome to DA. Need any help feel free to ask.
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why hello there friend, looks like u found me ok... so heres a 
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Hi! Welcome to DA!
If you have any questions or need any help, please feel free to ask
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Hi, i have a friend on this network and i know his user name. How do i find him
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Hi, sorry for the late reply, I was typing it last night but got d/c halfway through. Anyhoo, if you'd like to try and find your friend's page, it's always best if you have their deviantart user name. You could click on the devwatch button (on your deviant homepage where you post your stuff- it's towards the top) and i think you can type people's users to add them to your friends list and you should be able to find your friend from there. If that doesn't work, go to google or yahoo, etc and type in 'deviantART' and then your friend's user name and his/her page should come up under search results. If all else fails, type in some things like their location (like country), their name, a project name of theirs and deviantART into one search thing which should probably fine their page. I don't think the search function on this website has been working for months so i wouldn't know anyother way that you could find your friend. Sorry, I hope at least one of the suggestions here made some sense and good luck with your new account and everything
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