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He's sometimes seen showing an upside down cross in the background :

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-8e25iavqdi/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/3603/3582/diary-of-a-madman-album-cover-sticker__96197.1538827519.jpg?c=2

. . . .but then constantly seen with a rightside up cross around his neck like this younger photo here :

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/08/6a/2a086a3b923d9ee2beee02876038fae3.jpg

Adds a bit of confusion.

He's sometimes seen showing an upside down cross in the background : https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-8e25iavqdi/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/3603/3582/diary-of-a-madman-album-cover-sticker__96197.1538827519.jpg?c=2 . . . .but then constantly seen with a rightside up cross around his neck like this younger photo here : https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/08/6a/2a086a3b923d9ee2beee02876038fae3.jpg Adds a bit of confusion.

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[–] • 5 pts

It's schtick. An act. Twisted iconography coupled with the power of the tritone put asses in seats and young fists in the air.

[–] • 3 pts

The diminished fifth. Diabolus in musica.

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Which makes it worse. Sincerely held Satanic beliefs are disgusting, to be sure, but pretending at devil worship is just as dangerous. Potentially more dangerous, since it implies a complete lack of respect for the forces (even just psychologically) that you’re playing with.

[–] • 2 pts

Iirc the guitarist for Black Sabbath was the Satanist, the rest were just in it for the sex, drugs, money and degeneracy.

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

He, like all major entertainers, follows the Crowley religion*. It's a religion that preaches that selfishness and hedonism are the highest virtues so unsurprisingly it is wildly popular among the hollywood crowd. It's where all that illuminatti symbolism comes from.

*I forget the exact name and am too lazy to look it up right now.

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Alastair Crowley was a Satanist. Are you referring to his sex magick thing?

[–] • 0 pt

Crowley was an MI6 agent with access to all the hoarded occult libraries held by British royalty.

He resurrected and modernized many rituals and brought many people in power into occultism.

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The name you forgot is Thelema. And you're right, Aleister Crowley was a Satanist, in the sense that he believed himself to be the Great Beast of Revelation, who would give birth to the Antichrist. But most people in Hollywood don't have the foggiest idea of what he believed or taught. To them he's just "that bald guy who was on the Sgt Peppers album by the Beatles." At most they are going to come out with "Do what thou wilt" without actually knowing what it means.

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Yeah, Thelema is the name. Borrows heavily from masonry and ancient egyptian (or at least 1930's fad ideals about ancient egypt).

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I think he was a showman. The way he looked, people expected him to be a satanist, so he played the part. I used to work with a Satanist, he was a harmless social misfit. i met some of his satanist friends, they were all nerds.

[–] • 2 pts

He's just a retarded normie that stumbled into music.

The whole occult thing was an accident that grabbed fans, so they carried on with it.

If you listen to their lyrics they're comical.

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He and the others in Black Sabbath are Christians. They have said so many times, I read Ozzy and Tony Iommi's autobiographies. They were looking for a way to distinguish themselves from other bands at the time, plus they took a shitload of drugs.

[–] • 1 pt

when Tony Iommi lost his fingertips, it forced him to relearn the guitar and he found that tuning down the guitar made it far easier for him to play, basically creating heavy metal. a darker themed band naturally goes with that type of sound.

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That too, but they were already doing weird shit.

FunFact: it was his mum's fault. He wanted to quit working in the metal shop that day, but she made him go in and serve a two-week notice. He was distracted, and off came the fingertips. Read his book 'Iron Man', it's great. Ozzy's book is a scream.

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i loathe ozzy mostly because of sharon.

i was at ozzfest 2005 exclusively to see Iron Maiden. she had goons throw eggs at them during their set and had the plugs pulled during like fucking phantom of the opera's solo and other moments. just actually fucked with their set. i'll never stop wishing she was dead for fucking with Maiden, and ozzy by association.

when his dead corpse came up, he actually sounded like a fucking retard. i am not exaggerating. he sounded like he was retarded, trying to sing his own lyrics he can't remember reading off of a teleprompter. it was shameful and disgusting. i wanted to leave; buddy wanted to hear The Wizard. as if that dead fucking corpse could break out a fucking harmonica and play the fucking Wizard. so no wizard came, sat through the whole shit show, and if it was just a seriously terrible day.

the only shining beacon was just how much of an absolute show Maiden put on, despite the fuckery.

[–] • 2 pts

Just a heavy metal gimmick.

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He's an old faggot who dresses like a woman and a tranny, a son of the devil.

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Depends, are you paying attention to the album covers to sell to edgy teens and get churches to buy them so they can burn them... or are you listening to the lyrics?

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Its confusing because he himself was a clueless drug addict.

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you yourself are a clueless drug addict

how much coffee have you had today anyways?

[–] • 2 pts

Yeah having morning cup of joe is the same as being in an induced stupor most of the time. I've seen ozzy live dude is a joke.

[–] • 0 pt

addiction is addiction

imagine if caffeine were made illegal overnight, imagine the black market that would spring up instantly to supply all of the addicts. Imagine locking people in cages for possessing caffeine.

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