{"id":22232,"date":"2011-08-19T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=22232"},"modified":"2011-08-19T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:27:06","slug":"and-sometimes-an-airport-is-just-a-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/and-sometimes-an-airport-is-just-a-cigar.html","title":{"rendered":"And sometimes an airport is just a cigar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing what sort of stuff you can find in the Internet. \u00a0Like this expose (so to speak) of all the &#8220;Phallic Imagery&#8221; at Denver International Airport. \u00a0By which the &#8220;Third Eagle of the Apocalypse&#8221; seems to mean anything that appears to stick out in any direction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOQsvOkkLq4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the video&#8217;s author promises that &#8220;Many of the paintings and sculptures at DIA contain hidden images of paganism,&#8221; we only get one shot of one part of one mural, a shot of the blue Demon Horse (which is so phallic, I guess, that it has to be interpreted as having phallic imagery<em> all over it<\/em>), and an overview of the &#8220;luggage handling area&#8221; which has been cleverly crafted to be in the shape of a giant phallus, balls included.  <\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, that the &#8220;luggage handling area&#8221; is actually the approach roads to the airport and the loop roads around it.  That doesn&#8217;t mean, of course, that it isn&#8217;t some vast pagan conspiracy, but it does show a rather poor level of research by William Tapley, the &#8220;Third Eagle of the Apocalypse,&#8221; and &#8220;Co-Prophet of the End Times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This guy has several videos, all about this, and all of them so over the top, I was almost tempted to think them a parody. But, sadly, I think not.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuITS87dOx4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, of course &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUDCdJvmP_g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And yet one more to take up another 8 minutes of your life.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3cY7PwUMgmA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>These would make for great party entertainment, after enough drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing what sort of stuff you can find in the Internet. \u00a0Like this expose (so to speak) of all the &#8220;Phallic Imagery&#8221; at Denver International Airport. \u00a0By which the &#8220;Third Eagle of the Apocalypse&#8221; seems to mean anything that appears to stick out in any direction. 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