Sex and Rockets - Strange Angel CBS series and Charles Taze Russell

by truthseeker 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • truthseeker
    truthseeker

    I'm watching the CBS series Strange Angel. It is based on a true story about Jack Parsons, who along with others, pioneered rocket development in 1930's America.

    "Strange Angel, a drama series created by Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Wrestler) and based on George Pendle's book of the same name, explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction.

    The story follows the life of Jack Parsons, a mysterious and brilliant man in 1930s Los Angeles, who by day helps birth the entirely unknown discipline of American rocketry, and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley."

    https://www.cbs.com/shows/strange-angel/

    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is derived from Jack Parson's initials. While researching Jack Parsons, I found a book called Sex and Rockets. It specifically mentions Charles Taze Russell.

    Page 9 of this book says this: "Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, announced that the apocalypse would begin on October 2 — coincidentally or synchronistically, the very day Marvel Whiteside Parsons [who would later, as Jack Parsons, call himself the AntiChrist] emerged from his mother’s womb, or from even darker places, and began to investigate and meddle with this planet. (https://rawilson.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/sex-and-rockets/)"

    The book Angels & Maggots written by Nathan Neuharth says: "Jack Parsons A.K.A. John Whiteside Parsons A.K.A. Marvel Parsons was born on October 2, 1914. This was the date Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, predicted that the end of the world would happen."

    https://books.google.com/books?id=FV5QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=charles+taze+russell+jack+parsons&source=bl&ots=IsW-hUqmGo&sig=I_rA9vvZnMDCBF1TClzngmxt4c4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik5Ni7zo_cAhUiZN8KHW3uATgQ6AEITzAJ#v=onepage&q=charles%20taze%20russell%20jack%20parsons&f=false

    Any thoughts to all this?

    Truthseeker

    I recently watched an "out there" documentary about UFOs etc and the narrtor made a connection between Charles Russell's prophecy and the birth of Jack Parsons.

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Ha that’s fantastic! There is of course a whole genre of alternative history type books that love to make such weird and outlandish connections. Given the size and ubiquity of JWs it’s not at all strange that they should be included. I have sometimes thought there would be great scope for a Da Vinci Code-style mystery featuring JWs in all their wackiness. In fact I started a thread along those lines a few years ago that included the JW pioneers stopped at the Swiss border with billions of dollars in US bonds, the Methuselah Foundation (founded by a JW), Venus project, underground tunnels, and so on. All good conspiracy stuff.

  • truth_b_known
    truth_b_known

    Everyone knows Charles Taze Russell was possessed by the Martians.

  • slimboyfat
  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Aleister Crowley is an interesting character. Massimo Introvigne talks about him in a discussion on Satanism here. Apparently the name Crowley is pronounced crawly, as in creepy crawlies. Well worth watching.

    https://youtu.be/zLJ2r4TmefU

  • truthseeker
    truthseeker

    Thanks for comments.

    also, you may have noticed this topic was posted three times. I have no idea how. Apologies.

    Truthseeker

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