#the holy bible 1994

[jerk-o-lantern]

Yes (Remastered) - Manic Street Preachers

#manic street preachers #Yes #The Holy Bible #1994 #Spotify

[man-kills-everything]

"There's more art in a Burger King than in the British Museum today"

Manic Street Preachers - Sculpture of Man (1994)

#manic street preachers #msp #msp quotes #manics quotes #manic street preachers quotes #the holy bible #msp the holy bible #manic street preachers the holy bible #msp 1994 #manics #the manics #manic street preachers sculpture of man #sculpture of man #james dean bradfield #nicky wire #sean moore #richey james #richey edwards

[spilladabalia]

Manic Street Preachers - Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart

#manic street preachers #ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart #james dean bradfield #richey edwards #nicky wire #sean moore #glam rock #classic rock #the holy bible #1994 #Youtube

[esmethenightdemon]

i do not remember my life before you and i hope to never see one after you

the holy bible // supernatural (2005-2020) // "the fall of the house of usher" - edgar allan poe (1839) // bridgerton (2020-) // where things come back - john corey whaley (2011) // the addams family (1991) // antigonick - anne carson (2012) // the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe (2005) // the other boelyn girl (2008) // the parent trap (1998) // "brother, sister, rival, friend: the longstanding effects of sibling relationships" - joshua a. krisch (2019) // pride and prejudice (2005) // "song for sasha banks" - the mountain goats (2018) // it (2017) // "the reynolds pamphlet" - original broadway cast of hamilton (2015) // little women (2019) // "the secret of siblings -- the relationship between brothers and sisters has a degree of closeness - and distance - like no other" - erica e. goode (1994) // before i fall (2017) // unknown // succession (2018-2023) // unknown // stranger things (2016-) // the perpetual calendar of inspiration - vera nazarian (2010)

#web #web weaving #siblings web #on siblings #on brothers #on sisters #aesthetic #parallels #supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #the fall of the house of usher #edgar allan poe #bridgerton #bridgerton siblings #where things come back #john corey whaley #the addams family #wednesday addams #pugsley addams #antigonick #anne carson #the chronicles of narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #the other boleyn girl #the parent trap #pride and prejudice #a song for sasha banks #the mountain goats #it 2017

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Whole Armor of God

Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — Ephesians 6:11 | 21st Century King James Version (KJV21) The Holy Bible; 21st Century King James Version Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. Cross References: Romans 13:12; 2 Corinthians 6:7; Ephesians 4:14; Ephesians 6:13; James 4:7

#equipment #protection #evil #spiritual warfare #Ephesians 6:11 #The Epistle of Ephesians #New Testament #KJV21 #21st Century King James Version Bible #Deuel Enterprises Inc.

[surfer-osa]

In un messaggio vocale un mio fratello aggiunto mi ha detto: "non farti operare in Agosto che poi devi stare nel letto con il caldo".

Ma io ho già caldo ora @kon-igi e non sto scherzando. Ripeto, non sto scherzando.

Bonus track: Die in the summertime (Manic Street Preachers, Holy Bible, 1994).

#quanta voglia ho di farmi aprire l'addome per la terza volta?

[titsoutfornature]

Old news but unfortunately still relevant

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israelis were united in their fight against Hamas, whom he described as an enemy of incomparable cruelty. “They are committed to completely eliminating this evil from the world,” Netanyahu said in Hebrew. He then added: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.”

Joshua Shanes, a professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, explained that the biblical animosity toward the Amalekites stems from what is described as the merciless ambush they launched against vulnerable Israelites making their way to the promised land. The attack leads God to tell Moses to wipe out Amalek. Hundreds of years later, Saul nearly fulfills the command by killing all Amalekite men, women, and children. But he spares their king, who keeps his people barely alive by having a child. Many more generations later, one of his descendants, the villain Haman, goes on to develop a plot to kill all the Jews living in exile under a Persian ruler. The lesson, when read literally, is clear: Saul’s failure to kill every Amalekite posed an existential threat to the Jewish people.

Jews traditionally hear the story of the Amalek ambush and God’s decree that they be eliminated on the Shabbat service before the holiday of Purim.

The Brooklyn-born extremist Baruch Goldstein also saw Palestine as Amalek. In 1994, he slaughtered 29 Muslims praying at a mosque in Hebron, a city in the occupied West Bank that is sacred to Jews and Muslims. Goldstein carried out the massacre on Purim, one week after he would have heard the biblical retelling of the command to wipe out a rival nation. As the journalist Peter Beinart and others have written, the timing was not a coincidence.   

Goldstein’s grave has become a pilgrimage site for the Israeli far right. His tomb says he died of “clean hands and pure heart.” Goldstein’s admirers have included Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s current minister of national security. For Purim, a holiday on which Jews sometimes wear costumes, Ben-Gvir dressed as Goldstein on multiple occasions in his youth. He kept a picture of Goldstein in his living room until 2020. He has an extensive criminal record that includes convictions for supporting a terrorist organization and inciting racism.

The article ends with a shit ass "but we cant call the current conflict a genocide" as if indiscriminately bombing ppl for several weeks and murdering tens of thousands of civilians isn't genocide...

#fuck the far right #free palestine #tit talks

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Passant Rabie

Published: April 11, 2023

When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.

The book, published in 1994, is named after an iconic image of Earth, snapped by the Voyager I probe, that depicts the planet as a small speck smothered by the emptiness of space. That photo inspired astronomer Carl Sagan to write: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” For many, the book serves as a reminder of humanity’s place in the universe and the need to preserve our home planet, which makes it similar to holy scripture for a newly appointed NASA director.

On Thursday, when Lystrup chose to place her left hand on a copy of Sagan’s book while being sworn in by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, a photographer captured the moment, and NASA Goddard’s social media shared the image.

The constitution does not require that government officials be sworn in using a particular text, just that they “shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” Most U.S. politicians and officials end up using the Bible.

But over the years, many officeholders have improvised while taking their oath. In 2018, Mariah Parker was sworn in as a member of the Athens-Clarke County commissioners with her hand placed on a copy of “The Autobiography of Malcom X.” When former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland Suzi LeVine took her oath in 2014, she put a hand on her Kindle. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, took his oath in 2007 using the Quran.

Sagan is a revered figure in the space sciences community for his pioneering contributions to space exploration. “Like many astronomers and space scientists, my passion started with watching Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ on public television as a child,” Lystrup, who is a planetary scientist like Sagan, said in an emailed statement. “Sagan worked very hard to make science accessible and meaningful to everyone, and ‘Pale Blue Dot’ emphasizes the importance of exploring our universe and understanding our home planet.” 

“Given its personal significance to me and how its message resonates with the work we do at NASA Goddard on behalf of the world, it felt apropos to include it in the ceremony,” she added.

Lystrup will be the first female center director of the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes a primary campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification & Validation Facility in West Virginia, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the White Sands Complex in New Mexico, and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas.

Goddard is home to the nation’s largest concentration of scientists, engineers and technologists dedicated to Earth and space science, according to NASA.

#Makenzie Lystrup #Carl Sagan #Pale Blue Dot #science #NASA #Goddard Space Flight Center #oath #affirmation #bible #space science #decline of religion #representation fallacy #representation matters #religion is a mental illness

[rivertigo]

the holy bible 1994 happens to me daily

[man-kills-everything]

Someone somewhere soon will take care of you

I repent, I'm sorry, everything is falling apart

#this is yesterday #manic street preachers the holy bible #the holy bible #manics #manic street preachers #msp #manic street preachers this is yesterday #1994 #90s #1990s #90's #msp this is yesterday #msp holy bible #msp the holy bible #james dean bradfield #nicky wire #sean moore #richey james #richey edwards #Spotify

[wolfhalls]

had the previous post queued from earlier and wow. i literally just listened to the holy bible (1994) from start to finish. no pausing. no skipping. one of the greatest things committed to record AFTER ALL THIS TIME!! doesn't once let up in its intensity, its intelligence, its horror. they worked on each song like an essay. it destroyed relationships. it took only one month to record. the whole thing is a 56 minute 17 second suicide note. if you say this is your favourite album you are very unwell (me) and also perhaps gay (me)

#now sing it with me: tie his hair in bunches fuck him call him rita if you want!!

[baezdylan]

dw companions on the blur-oasis kinsey scale (with exclusively blur listener at 0 / exclusively oasis listener at 6):

rose - 5, oasis listener, incidentally blur listener; martha - 0 (i dont think she has/had much of a stake in the britpop feud but she gives off 13 vibes); donna - 6 (again, not much stake in either band, but would prefer oasis songs to blur); amy - 4, oasis listener, more than incidentally a blur listener); clara - 3, equally an oasis + blur listener; bill - 1, blur listener, incidentally an oasis listener

(haven't rewatched thirteen's run recently enough to give full judgement but, on instinct alone, yaz is probably a 1 or 2)

further notes:

- martha's a pulp listener, at least in the sense of enjoying different class. and i know i said she had 13 vibes, but there's also a little bit of the great escape in there as well.

- clara's a fan of the stone roses, i know this in my heart to be true. there's probably some suede listening going on too.

- (though i am loath to categorise them as britpop, they're of the same era + adjacent scene) amy's not necessarily a manic street preachers fan BUT some of their singles show up in her cd rack (little baby nothing, roses in the hospital, you stole the sun from my heart)

*not to bog this very serious analysis down with academic lit, but read this quote from rhian e. jones about the manics + adolescence and TELL ME is doesn't feel vaguely amycoded: "In part this is due to the timeless nature of the teenage angst captured on the album (the holy bible, 1994), but it also reflects that peculiar millennial dislocation whereby many more young people currently seem unable to fully extricate themselves from adolescence." -- the quote is about thb which isnt very amy, but generation terrorists has a similar feel of stunted youth and is more along the lines my view of her angst listening

- on that note, it's possible that amy would've been too young during the 90s to have much of a stake in britpop at all + she's a teenager in the 2000s, so she's almost definitely an arctic monkeys listener (who are also not britpop but feel adjacent)

(^^ can you tell im making an amy's cds playlist?? and im taking it incredibly seriously)

IVY, MY DEAR FRIEND IVY, YOU HAVE REGENERATED!!!!! I recently saw a Holy Bible record and thought of you <3 I AGREE WITH ALL OF THIS (it reads like an academic paper) My favourite bit must be Martha the Pulp listener Martha <3 AND I'M ALSO A 4 (girl who's had 3 amy pond related urls so far) AND I'VE ALSO BEEN PLANNING AN AMY'S CDs PLAYLIST!!!!!! <3333333333 (she 100% has Nobody's Daughter on repeat)

#cassandra blackwood tag #💌restless wind inside a letter box💌 #dw the most show ever #dw companions

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Shield of Salvation

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of Thy salvation; Thy right hand hath held me up, and Thy gentleness hath made me great. 36 Thou hast enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip. — Psalm 18:35-36 | 21st Century King James Version (KJV21) The Holy Bible; 21st Century King James Version Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. Cross References: Psalm 33:20; Psalm 63:8; Psalm 71:21; Psalm 89:21; Psalm 119:117; Psalm 138:6

#Word of God #salvation #protection #Psalm 18:35-36 #Book of Psalms #Old Testament #KJV21 #21st Century King James Version Bible #Deuel Enterprises Inc.

[cryptidhyrst]

I've never once entered a fandom where my first thought was to use the block button immediately on some tumblrs, but hoo boy, IWTV/VC fandom, I have considered it.

I mean, I love the fandom and all the joy it brings. It was my little niche literary bible for middle school/high school/baby me who was trying to figure out where I fell into this "idk who I am because I'm goth, but don't dress it, I'm a POC who's been called an oreo, and I'm struggling to figure out my sexuality and gender identity" hole that I was in. And VC/1994 film was there for me.

But holy shit, some of y'all seemed hella determined to hate the show before it even started. In a way, that to me, makes it seem like you needed to quickly find super small reasons to hate the show that wasn't for obvious purposes.

Like hating the fact that the D in du Lac is capitalized, on a letter that's written in cursive. Like aside from the fact that I'm surprised anyone writes in cursive other than me, it's a super small production error for a prop. That shit happens all the time.

Or hating the fact that Louis now runs and owns brothels (but he owned plantations in the novel! I hear some cry). Yea, and they touch on the fact that Louis had to adapt to survive in a world that was against him, especially seeing as how his father, a free black man, owned slaves and ran a plantation. Which is something I didn't even know was a thing. But even then people complained, not about anything noteworthy, but for the mere fact that it wasn't a sugar plantation but a lavender one.

It's just these really small things. These small details, this outcry of how the show isn't like the novels, when it very much is. It very much is similar to the tone and style of the novels, but trimmed up much neater in that non rambling way that Anne Rice tended to write in. Or the outcry of how Anne Rice would have hated the display of her vampires getting it on. Like...the same Anne Rice who wrote extreme bodice ripper's in her free time? That Anne Rice?

#I've never seen some people inhabit a fandom in which they are so salty #That they're saltier than Lot's wife #like I have half a mind to worry about these same people's blood pressures #Because being mad about this on such a level can't be good for your health #fandom wank #interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv amc #cryptid speech #I'm still going to enjoy this fandom in my own way #But that block button is going to be dusted off and and USED #Also I just remembered but literally the people complaining that the show didn't show Louis' faith enough #like babe did we watch the same show? #Because Louis was serving enough catholic vibes and catholic guilt to respark a splintering of the catholic church all over again

[punkinpiemanic]

Even if it’s most likely not the case, since it’s the day that the holy bible was released back in 1994 and closer to Richey’s disappearance. I would like to think that wherever he is, alive or not. That he’s in a mentally better place now. I never really have believed any of the crazy conspiracy of his whereabouts. I like to think that’s he’s working in a small bookstore living his best life reading and not having to worry about the struggles of fame. I’ve also have often thought about him writing his heart and soul in little journals and continuing to do that even if no one reads them but himself.

#richey edwards #manic street preachers

[hoodssery]

Recommending Albums 1 & 2

So technically, calling this either "Recommending Albums 1" or "Recommending Albums 2" is wrong, because my recommendation of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was called “Recommending Video Essays #8” because I didn't know if I was ever gonna recommend another album, especially so soon. However, it's still the first instance of "Recommending Albums" as a title. So what I'm gonna do is cheat and just say that this is 1 & 2.

Recommendation 1 can be found here.

Recommendation:

The Holy Bible 20 – Manic Street Preachers

The Holy Bible 20 (or just The Holy Bible) is an album that I haven't ever really heard many people talk about. To me this is shocking, and to the annoying RateYourMusic dweller part of me, is just downright unacceptable. It also may not be that shocking in reality.

The Holy Bible came out in 1994, a single year filled with so many unbelievably influential and important albums like Illmatic by Nas, Dummy by Portishead, The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, Grace by Jeff Buckley, Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G., Weezer's self-titled Blue Album, Superunknown by Soundgarden, MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana, and Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate. In the years before 1994 (most notably for me), My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (1991) became the singular Shoegaze album, A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory (1991) largely dictated what Hip-Hop would sound like for the coming decades, and Nirvana would inform the world about Seattle grunge rock with Nevermind (1991) and In Utero (1993). This train of revolutionary albums chugged through to the end of the 20th century as well with Radiohead's The Bends (1995) and Ok Computer (1997), Outkast's ATLiens (1996) and Aquemini (1998), Elliot Smith's Either/Or (1997), Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998), etc. This single decade spawned so many of the most recognizable, popular, and highest rated albums of all time, so to be drowned out among the all time greats is maybe to be expected.

But, The Holy Bible 20 should absolutely be one of these recognizable classics, and absolutely deserves to be talked about as much as Rage Against the Machine's self titled debut or Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral.

The mention of these albums specifically are of particular interest for comparison as they share a lot with The Holy Bible. Rage Against the Machine is a really easy comparison to make. They're pretty similar sounding albums, although Rage Against the Machine lays way more into the metal side of Punk Rock. The Holy Bible has some really catchy riffs both in the lead guitar and bass and is just as head-bang-able as any good Punk Rock album should be. It's instruments are more often than not really clear and bright for the genre, only using heavy distortion and loud, complex sound for the choruses of songs where the energy goes way up. It's never cheery, but it definitely reflects the bands British origins. James Bradfield's voice very clearly and sharply cuts through the instrumentals when he sings and gives the most to the album's shockingly clean sound.

Both of these albums go through song-by-song, serving almost as revolutionary crys for the disgruntled group of mostly suburban high-school aged kids in the nineties who sees the flaws and cruelties of modern capitalist society and wants change. Largely aiming at the most relevant target around for this, white America and the institutions they created, the albums (in the most simple reading) go “Fuck off, I see what you're doing here and how you marginalize people. Die.” For Rage Against the Machine this most notably comes in the form of comparing the hardcore right wing accelerationists like the KKK and contemporary neo-nazi movements and modern police forces and the people who work for them, and the racial injustices spawned out of the idea of white supremacy. The album is also a call to arms to take back power for the people. “We gotta take the power back!” For The Holy Bible it's drawing the comparison between modern (for the nineties) gender politics and the systematic marginalization of anyone considered other, and a telling of how the constant re-enforcement of the “normal” affects those considered abnormal. The Holy Bible takes a more poetic approach to the overall presentation of the message compared to Rage Against the Machine, which is mostly just a really banging call to arms.

Potential Content Warning for Suicide and Self-Harm

While this an accurate summary to The Holy Bible 20 it misses the some of the finer points of the album that allowed me to make the kind of pretentious sounding comparison to Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral; an album largely about Trent Reznor's declining mental state in the face of a society who seems content with eating itself alive to keep in it's direction. The Holy Bible 20 was mostly written by Richey Edwards, who served not as the bands vocalist or a player of the instrumentals, but as the band's spokesperson and main lyricist along with the band's bassist Nicky Wire. I don't know a lot about Richey, but what I do know is that Richey was very open about having pretty severe depression and self-harm issues in interviews and from what I understand had an issue with alcohol abuse. Richey has been a missing person, since February 1, 1995, and has been legally presumed dead since 2008.

While a lot of songs can be read as, and are, really powerful critiques of how the systems of power in today's society marginalize anyone deemed unfit to be the normal, the perspective of a lot of what the album is about changes when you know that most of it was written from the perspective of someone who was really struggling with themselves mentally and would go missing 6 months after the album was released. It's not just an example of how these injustices and hardships can hurt and negatively shape and mold people into broken people, it's a first hand account. This makes a lot of the lyrics on the album even more sad and tragic than they already apparently are, and adds a new context to the entire album.

The first track “Yes” is a critique of the mind set consumerism creates for both the rich and poor, but with knowing what Richey went through, the account of the emptiness of depression starts showing through. “She is Suffering” and “4st 7lb” transforms the the messages about beauty standards into really haunting accounts of problems with self-image and self-worth. This in my opinion is what really makes this album special. It is a biting, unrelenting, extremely blunt critique of the system that disregards and hurts people for the feeling a uniform feeling of normalcy that anyone can pick-up and understand that is formed and shaped around a hidden perspective of someone that can't seem to help themselves. It's really sad, really haunting, and all of it is put over some of the most catchy riffs of the 90's.

The music is great, and really makes me feel like a kid from suburban Illinois in 1996 who really hates going to church, but what it has to say both on the surface and the more sub-textual accounts is what really makes this worth listening to.

It's one of my absolute favorite albums of all time. 10/10.

Other Recommendations:

I just talked about them a little bit, but both Rage Against the Machine (1992) and Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral (1994) are really worth listening to if you even just like music. I personally like The Downward Spiral more because of how unique it still sounds to this day, so if you can only listen to just one I would pick that one.

But don't pick just one. Listen to them both. Please listen to them both. Please. Okay thank you bye <3

#manic street preachers #the holy bible #the holy bible 20 #recommendations #album review #the downward spiral #rage against the machine #please tell me if there are any errors in my writing thanks <3