Two hundred tattoo artists & a prayer with humble love for Enigma...

ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ: Το "Αίνιγμα" (Paul Lawrence) είναι ένας πολυδιάστατος καλλιτέχνης (;) από το Σηατλ (ΗΠΑ), που έχει υποβάλει το σώμα του σε ακραία "ανάπλαση", που συμπεριλαμβάνει πλήρη κάλυψη με τατουάζ (από 200 και παραπάνω καλλιτέχνες του είδους), εμφυτευμένα κέρατα κ.λ.π. Έτσι, βεβαίως, έχει μετατραπεί σε ζωντανό θρύλο και έχει γίνει διάσημος. 
Εδώ θα σχολιάσουμε λίγο το θέμα, από τη δική μας ματιά.
Η περίπτωση του δυστυχισμένου αυτού (δήθεν επιτυχημένου) ανθρώπου είναι μία από τις αναρίθμητες περιπτώσεις, που φανερώνουν κατά πού έχει τραβήξει ο "απελευθερωμένος από τη θρησκεία" δυτικός άνθρωπος. Ευχόμαστε από την καρδιά μας να σωθεί ο αδελφός μας. Δεν ξέρω αν κάποιος μπορεί να τον πλησιάσει και να του μιλήσει για το Χριστό (τον πραγματικό Χριστό, το Χριστό των αγίων και των μαρτύρων, της αρχαίας και αυθεντικής χριστιανικής πίστης, της Ορθοδοξίας).
Σίγουρα μια προσευχή, γεμάτη ταπεινή αγάπη, γι' αυτόν και για όλους τους συνανθρώπους μας που βαδίζουν παρόμοιο δρόμο - όπως και για όλο τον κόσμο - είναι απαραίτητη...
Η ηθελημένη μετατροπή ενός ανθρώπου σε τέρας, ως προς την εμφάνισή του (γιατί περί αυτού πρόκειται), ασφαλώς υποκρύπτει μια λαχτάρα απόδρασης από έναν κόσμο που υποκρίνεται ότι είναι φυσιολογικός, ενώ στην πραγματικότητα είναι τερατώδης. Το ίδιο ισχύει και για όλους τους ανθρώπους με παρόμοιες τάσεις. Θέλουν να ξεφύγουν - αλλά δεν ξέρουν προς τα πού να πάνε!

Να τους υπενθυμίσουμε εδώ τους "διά Χριστόν σαλούς" αγίους της Ορθοδοξίας, με τους οποίους ίσως έχουν κάτι να συζητήσουν...

Διάβασε: Πέρα από τα όρια!

ΕΛΑ ΟΠΩΣ ΕΙΣΑΙ

Αυτογνωσία

Ηθικισμός; Όχι, ευχαριστώ!

Η θρησκεία της χαράς - Γελαστοί άγιοι

Φρικιά στην Εκκλησία!

Ταρσώ η "τρελή": ελεύθερη, ακατανόητη και αγία  

Ένας ορθόδοξος Ινδιάνος φύλαρχος

The Enigma (performer)

From Wikipedia

The Enigma, born Paul Lawrence, is a sideshow performer, actor, and musician who has undergone extensive body modification, including horn implants, ear reshaping, multiple body piercings, and a full-body jigsaw-puzzle tattoo. His tattooing process began on December 20, 1992, under the needle of "Katzen the Tiger Lady," heavily tattooed herself, whom he later married, ^[1] and has since divorced. To date, the Enigma has had more than two hundred tattoo artists work on him, with as many as twenty-three underway at one time.^[2]
The Enigma was raised in Seattle and began studying music when he was six years old. In 1991, he was a founding member of the Jim Rose Circus, with which he toured until 1998. The Enigma then toured with Katzen, playing music and doing sideshow performances under the moniker "Human Marvels". He performed at Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights event in fall 2007 with Serana Rose, performing various tricks with fire, electricity, power tools, and blades. He has also performed at Detroit's Theatre Bizarre.
The Enigma has appeared in a number of television programs including The X-Files (episode "Humbug") where he played the Conundrum, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. He appeared in The Gong Show 2008 with Serana Rose performing their own chainsaw stunt known as the kiss of death. The Enigma was featured in the 2005 documentary film Freaky Circus Guy^[3] alongside sideshow performers Katzen, Danielle D'Meux, and William Darke. In 2004, The Enigma appeared with Mike Patton, Jane Wiedlin, Karen Black and Katzen, in Steve Balderson's film Firecracker. A toy based on the Enigma's X-Files character the Conundrum was sold as part of Palisades Toys' X-Files PALz action figure line. He currently performs with Serana Rose in a freak show act called Show Devils. In 2007, he appeared in Billy Talent's music video, for their single Fallen Leaves. He released a dvd in 2008 with Serana Rose directed by Robert Monson titled Electric Acid Theatre which he sells at live shows and on his website.

From us:

The case of this unfortunate (supposedly successful) person is just one of the innumerable cases that reveal the direction that the "westerner who is free of religion" has taken.
We wish from the depths of our heart that this brother may be saved. I son't know if someone can approach him and talk to him about Christ (the true Christ - the Christ of Saints and Martyrs, and the ancient, authentic faith, of Orthodoxy).
A prayer that is filled with humble love, for both him and for all of our fellow-men that have followed a similar path is most certainly a necessity...
The voluntary conversion of a person into a monster - in regard to his appearance - obviously hides a desire to escape from a world pretending to be normal when it is actually monstrous. The same applies to people with similar tendencies: they desire to escape, but don't know which direction to take!
We could remind them here of the saintly "fools for Christ" in Orthodoxy, with whom they might have something to discuss...

See (if you want):

The 'Death' of Anita Phillips

Two Deaths

An Indian chief's 'secret path' to Orthodoxy
The Saint of the Prisons and Prisoners
A Deer Lost in Paradise
LIVE, BEYOND THE LIMITS!

LOVERS OF TRUTH: THE LIFE OF HIEROMONK SERAPHIM ROSE
Lover of Truth: St John, The Wonderworker of San Francisco   

Death! Death! DEATH! 

"Death th the World" 

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