My Featured picture and the small one just here—are from Casa Feliz (http://casafeliz.squarespace.com/) Enter inside to discover interiors skillfully refurbished to their original splendor. The rich details of the house–the living room’s vaulted ceiling of massive hand-hewn beams; the heavily carved European antiques accenting each room; a Majolica-tiled interior courtyard and fountain; arched doorways and a circular staircase–combine for a setting at once comforting and breathtaking. Visited this lovely place in Winter Park Florida last Sunday–it was wonderful. Yesterday went to dinner and a movie with one of my meet up groups: Meet up Groups (http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/)are available through out the US–while I don’t suffer from not having things to do what with my store (https://www.etsy.com/shop/DragonLaire?ref=hdr_shop_menu) 15 Boards on Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/lindachase56829/my-world/) not to mention this Blog and a Meet Up Group I assist with by doing a meet up a month, its still fun to get a new perspective on things—oh and I am planning a trip to England which will include: http://www.bobholidays.com/tours/north-york-moors-day-trip
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ALL LAST SEASON’S EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE TODAY ON STARZ ON DEMAND TODAY—I THOUGHT YOU MUST DO IT THE BACK WAY, LIKE HORSES I can watch 7 again—-get my full view of (well almost) of Jamie. http://www.dianagabaldon.com/other-projects/outlander-tv-series/where-to-watch/
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OK today we’ll look at men and evil—-in a responsibility of same way.
When I Googled Most evil man ever I got (to no surprise) Adolph Hitler. A man who was an average artist, who never succeeded until he started ranting against persons that pretty much were a lot like his non-blonde, short and un-Germanic looking self. So he almost ended Europe with self loathing-(His father was born out of wedlock and his grandmother had been a servant for a Jewish family–a real possibility for the Master of the Master race)–According to the History Channel: ” Writing in the Flemish-language magazine Knack, Mulders reported that the relatives’ most dominant haplogroup, known as E1b1b, is rare in Western Europeans but common among North Africans, and particularly the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. It is also one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population, present in 18 to 20 percent of Ashkenazi Jews and 8.6 to 30 percent of Sephardic Jews. In other words, Hitler’s family tree may have included Jewish and African ancestors.” http://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had-jewish-and-african-ancestors Millions dead due to self loathing or perhaps loathing of his bastard father and less than sterling grandmother? Sad but no excuse…A little man who could only be important by being the evil most men fear.
Of course Joseph Stalin (whom many consider right up there with Hitler) in my book never got called to task for his part in killing many of his own country men from political enemies to unwanted citizens-as well as many others and crimes against mankind untold-which goes to show that not all those that are evil pays the price for their deeds.
And another of Hitler’s category: Radovan Karadžić accused of genocide and other war crimes across Bosnia during the 1990s. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/radovan-karadzic-verdict-international-justice
“…the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
After we go by older persons (Dracula) that don’t fit into my criteria for the more modern evil that can be judged better by the current day’s morals (also next picture is Joseph Mengele as I don’t want this all about Nazis) we come to our token Serial Killer Ted Bundy. Now Ted is best known for ending (and I do mean ending) his killing spree of women in Florida so we kind think of him as our own contribution of riding the world of a threat. As serial killer Bundy, like Jack the Ripper–who not only wasn’t ever caught but wasn’t even identified–who killed only woman. The Ripper had ever a finer distention as he only murdered prostitutes. According to Bio: “While a student at the University of Washington, Bundy fell in love with a wealthy, pretty young woman from California. She had everything that he wanted: money, class, and influence. He was devastated by their breakup. Many of his later victims resembled his college girlfriend—attractive students with long, dark hair. His killings also usually followed a gruesome pattern. He often raped his victims before beating them to death.” http://www.biography.com/people/ted-bundy-9231165#an-unexpected-killer Bundy had a degree in psychology, was reportedly charming to friends and those he worked with and dubbed the Deliberate Stranger in a biography as his victims were not among this group…I have no idea what threw this man to the dark side–but he is a our representative of the group of killers that seem to be forever appearing in the nightmares of our society–though they vary from abused victims themselves to Bundy’s case where the reason for his murderous rage is more difficult to phantom. John Wayne Gacey the evil clown who killed young men is also on the high priority on this evil listing and of course David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam to name just a few.
Murder is not about lust and it’s not about violence. It’s about possession.” Ted Bundie
Next (after another serial killer picture (Alexander Richter) we come to this man. Pol Pot “He presided over a totalitarian dictatorship, in which his government made urban dwellers move to the countryside to work in collective farms and on forced labour projects. The combined effects of executions, strenuous working conditions, malnutrition and poor medical care caused the deaths of approximately 25 percent of the Cambodian population. in all, an estimated 1 to 3 million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) died due to the policies of his four-year premiership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot . I didn’t include him under dictators with Hitler as Hitler was European while Pot was Asian/Eastern and their philosophy is different and while that doesn’ t exclude him from the evil category it does get him a listing all his own. Another candidate under this is Moa.
I’m skipping Aleister Crowley, a bi-sexual witch—which comes under specific beliefs of what is evil and what’s not according to religion etc. Also I do not feel that Erwin Rommel belongs for while war is an evil and he was fighting for an evil commander, he does not meet the definition of the evil I am trying to define.
The Svengali like Charlie Mansion is not new—check out Rasputin (who by the way isn’t pictured) and his contribution to the Russian Revolution and the death of his followers the Czar and his family. A Svengali is a person who manipulates or exerts excessive control over another. Svengali is a fictional character in George du Maurier‘s 1895 novel Trilby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svengali. What better example is Mansion who took some teens and with drugs and sex and a weird manifesto of the blacks rebelling and Mansion then putting everything in its proper order (Helter Skelter) got them to kill the rich and famous of Beverly Hills and then insisted he shouldn’t be held responsible as he wasn’t there when it happened. Evil by manipulation is one of my tops baddies but I do not hold the persons who did it guiltless—We must be responsible for our own deeds—the German people gave up their conscious to Hitler, American youths in California to an ex-con who gave them freedom from conscious too–unfortunately for them all the rest of the world didn’t see it that way—Thank heaven for the rest of us.
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