Thursday, November 18, 2010
Obama on the cover of Newsweek as Shiva the Destroyer?
I'm not sure yet if this is a hoax or not, but it appears that the Obamatons at the liberal fishwrap Newsweek have designed their 11/22/2010 cover to depict Dear Leader as the Hindu half-man, half-woman god — Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds. (h/t: Drudge Report)
Despite their slobbering "God Of All Things" headline and the banal halo, the imagery contains several big Freudian slips:Shiva is the god of the yogis, self-controlled and celibate, while at the same time a lover of his spouse (shakti). Lord Shiva is the destroyer of the world, following Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver, after which Brahma again creates the world and so on. Shiva is responsible for change both in the form of death and destruction and in the positive sense of destroying the ego, the false identification with the form. This also includes the shedding of old habits and attachments.
All that has a beginning by necessity must have an end. In destruction, truly nothing is destroyed but the illusion of individuality. Thus the power of destruction associated with Lord Shiva has great purifying power, both on a more personal level when problems make us see reality more clearly, as on a more universal level. Destruction opens the path for a new creation of the universe, a new opportunity for the beauty and drama of universal illusion to unfold.
The cover's subhead plays off the Hindu imagery as well, stating "Why the modern presidency may be too much for one person to handle." I've got a news flash for the leftist acolytes at Newsweek; the presidency is NOT too big for one person to handle when government stays within its Constitutionally-defined limits!
When they chose to depict their political deity in this fashion, I wonder just what they thought OmamaShiva is supposed to be destroying? Capitalism? The Constitution? The concept of humility?
Regardless, their fawning adulation is really sickening.
Wikipedia describes the significance of Shiva's dancing pose:
The two most common forms of the dance are the Tandava, which later came to denote the powerful and masculine dance as Kala-Mahakala associated with the destruction of the world.
When it requires the world or universe to be destroyed, Lord Śiva does it by the Tandava. No longer content to have the president be merely their Obamessiah, now he's "Obama, the Destroyer of Worlds." Wow, thanks for clarifying, Newsweek!
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