Madeline Shaw
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183 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Madeline Shaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Really fun stuff. That's just a funny sketch. Just a room of malfunctioning robot saints is a really fun idea.
They are middle managers for the Godhead, who is supposed to literally be the most powerful creative force in the face of the planet. But what this shows you is that sometimes God... doesn't care. And that he needs to pass you off to his other guy. Oh, you want to do well in your roller skating competition? Talk to St. Rollesifer. He's the guy in St. O'Wheels.
I gotta do shit like make volcanoes that kill deer that no one can see.
It's like the guy that got caught for sucking all the toes.
Yeah, yeah. Well, no, the guy in Big Bear that was breaking into people's homes and sucking on their toes while they were sleeping. Oh. Real saint-like behavior. You see, this is... What is interesting about the function of the saint is that it comes out of the very, very OG way of practicing Christianity.
So for a while, like when it first started, I was watching, I watched a good documentary on it. And they watched a, the, uh, the Christian church would, they'd have some formal churches and temples, but that's not really the main way. Cause they were, the way the religion developed is that actually they had developed in secret.
And part of the way it developed is that the, the worship services would largely be in crypts. They would go into ground, they would go into tombs. And also most of the time, the way these functions did is that there was a loose group of believers and there was a guy who That would be the intercedent for you and God.
They believed this guy was that he was holier than all the rest of us for some reason, probably because he dick didn't work. And then what he did was like say they would pray to him while he was alive. And then what would happen is that he would die. And then that person would be then their bones would be put in the crypt where they're working.
One thing they notice is a very early Christian establishments is that when you went into a crypt, there would be benches and you'd have bones all all around them. And you'd see written words written on the walls to the bones as intercedents for them to talk directly to God. Because, again, God's Bazzini doesn't give a fuck about you. So he need you need an agent.
You have to, you're supposed to have an, this is what we believe in Catholicism. Representative. Representative. So when that guy would die, that's where all this started. Where this guy, a person, and then it would eventually become like, what if that guy was like a super popular version of that? The guy that would die and then when he was dead would then become the direct way to talk to God.
And this was also based off of the hero cults. of the Greek and Roman myths, like things like Hercules, those are based off real people. Like those stories are all based off real actual heroes of the time that then people would use as an intermediary. And largely this kind of just comes from the fact that we as humans love polytheistic religions. And this is a way to cheat that inside of it.
And it's fucking necromancy. Yeah. This whole thing is necromancy, because it's about talking, which is the reason why nobody else liked the Catholics, because we had this little function where everybody else had, like, essentially, they could talk directly to God. God wasn't busy enough for them.
It doesn't keep coming. It ended a very long time ago. Also, the persecution here is they are using it as propaganda. Yes. Within the church to say, don't you want to be a saint? The way you do that is to make sure you die extra gnarly for Jesus Christ. And it has to make that gnarly death like an advertisement. Like, we want you to do this.
Like, please, please be flipped over on a grill four or five times.
But when we were in the British Museum, I was reading a thing about Nero, like as we were sitting there. And it is interesting because largely the stories about Nero seem to have been because he was so popular and young. And then eventually they blamed a lot of stuff on him after the fact.
Because the older religions, God is a lot more nebulous. And what the Christian religion did was essentially, I feel like, obviously speaking entirely out of school, but it really seems that they like the concept of, he started, that God started as a dude. He started as a dude, and it shows you. It shows you what you can do in this life if you're just meek enough. Mm-hmm.
If you're just humble enough, you do become the ever loving Lord of all existence.
But then some people say heaven technically was a planet and a place that was considered for a long time.
You're talking like this is gym talk. We're in a cult store talk. You're slowly going to be covered in turquoise. You're not allowed to go to Sedona with this line of thinking. All right? I can't allow you to go because you're going to come back. You're going to not wear pants anymore.
Oh, I'm fucked. I'm fucked. Well, because I feel like they would do it much like when we were talking before the show. That's like a punk thing.
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