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Has art forgotten how to frighten us? In times past, artists understood fear and exploited it as among the most potent emotional levers that a painting or sculpture could pull. Medieval and Renaissance religious artists were especially tuned in to its appalling power. Terrifying visions of what eternal discomforts await in the afterlife should parishioners fail to live piously in this world (typically positioned near the exit to a church in order to leave an indelible impression), served a clear, if ghastly, purpose: to scare the congregation straight.
The most terrifying images in history?
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Art
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Fear
Posted 5 y ago
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I have pictures in my memory far worse than anything these worthy artists came up with.
Fortunately, I have no talent for drawing or painting.
Fortunately, I have no talent for drawing or painting.
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SGT Kevin Hughes - I'd write a book, but some of the best material will be classified for a long time. My favorite is not, though. It involves breaking up an AQI cell with chickens.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
1SG (Join to see) - That is the challenge you "Special Missions" folks run into. So much of your work is classified or redacted that the after action report you are allowed to share with us reads like this:
Got sent somewhere.
Got shot. Shot back.
Came home.
Mission accomplished.
Staff Officer reading the "Official Version."
"Sarge. Drop the chickens."
Got sent somewhere.
Got shot. Shot back.
Came home.
Mission accomplished.
Staff Officer reading the "Official Version."
"Sarge. Drop the chickens."
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SGT Kevin Hughes - I was just talking to my wife, also a Veteran, about some of this yesterday. I'm just a regular guy... nothing about me sticks out to a casual observer. But I kept finding myself in some really unique situations, and I generally came up with some very unorthodox solutions.
I once got a coin at NTC from the OPFOR commander, for using their (known) monitoring of our communications and correspondence over the exercise net to misdirect them and "beat" the situation. That reputation followed me to JMRC years later, when some of the same folks remembered me as the "Captain of the Kobiyashi Maru".
I once got a coin at NTC from the OPFOR commander, for using their (known) monitoring of our communications and correspondence over the exercise net to misdirect them and "beat" the situation. That reputation followed me to JMRC years later, when some of the same folks remembered me as the "Captain of the Kobiyashi Maru".
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SGT Kevin Hughes
1SG (Join to see) - That story alone is worth a medal! And Kudos to your wife for her Service! When you can think outside the box, you either win - or you spend time in the dog pound. It is the regular guys who do the dirty work, the ones who want to win medals, get glory, and need validation who end up in bar fights wondering why they lost. LOL
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For people who don't truly understand the power of this kind of Art...and the Church (any church...but back before the Restoration...Catholics mostly) picture the Devil. Get a good picture in your head. Okay...got it? If he isn't the most beautiful creature you have ever seen, and you would give anything to have just a minute with him...than this Art did its job.
Lucifer did not have horns, nor a tail, nor any ounce of Ugly...he was God's best creation - until hubris and pride led to the fall. Pretty boy indeed, and why most of us have forgotten that, or metaphorically agree that he should be ugly to match his soul...well ART did that for you.
Lucifer did not have horns, nor a tail, nor any ounce of Ugly...he was God's best creation - until hubris and pride led to the fall. Pretty boy indeed, and why most of us have forgotten that, or metaphorically agree that he should be ugly to match his soul...well ART did that for you.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT Kevin Hughes Most Christian Ideas of Satan has More to do with the Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno than the Bible.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Absolutely loved this. And when I was in School, we had to watch Kenneth Clark's Civilization...and seeing what part Architecture and Art played in stone or oil, or carvings...to match the Philosophical underpinnings of the times...marvelous. Gothic Architecture soaring to the Heavens to crush the insignificant petty humans under its massive weight.
Then ...later...the Humanist movement bringing gentle arches down to line walkways and as the monks went by to prayer they were framed by those gentle arches to become:
the Vitruvian Man in each frame. Great stuff!!!
Then ...later...the Humanist movement bringing gentle arches down to line walkways and as the monks went by to prayer they were framed by those gentle arches to become:
the Vitruvian Man in each frame. Great stuff!!!
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SGT Kevin Hughes
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Yeah, nine circles - each worse than the one before. And good old ST. Augustine's massive Tome - still didn't convince me how a Perfect Being could make an imperfect being. So out of the Seminary they kicked me. LOL
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT Kevin Hughes - You're in Good Company, Uncle John, Frank and Fred decided the Seminary wasn't there thing. John Went to Work for Nasa as a Contractor, Proverbial Rocket Scientist, Frank Set Up a Car Tire Dealership and Fred became a Sailor then a Union Electrician. Saint's We are Not.
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