They had 6 wings, covered with eyes on the wings. And had two eyes on their face, but used 2 wings to cover their face at all times because if a mortal ever saw their face they would die.
The bible mentions multiple faces, being covered in eyeballs, constant singing, lion heads etc.
Besides being described as beasts and monsters, they’re practically brainless drones. Heavenly angels are only one step removed from demons. The only difference is demons fell from heaven because they chose to follow Lucifer, who was an angel (angel of music and one of god’s favorites). So they are these eyeball covered animal mashed up monsters who were only created to worship for eternity (part of humanities creation was so that something would choose to love god, not just worship him because they were created to).
Angels fall into a lot of new age and conspiracy beliefs.We were taught that the supernatural realms went in the order of Heaven, Hell, then Earth. So when the angels fell from heaven with Lucifer, some fell through hell and landed on Earth. We were taught they intermarried with early humans and created giants and taught witch craft to women.
They’re abominations, they’re alien, they’re beyond us. They’re creatures that biology as we know it does not apply to. Often they do not love mankind, they love God and God alone.
Yeah, the few times that angels show up in front of people in the Old Testament in a human form, they’re glowing and their skin looks like its made of molten metal; scaring the piss out of anyone who sees them. I think Gabriel even admits to Daniel that he’s having to conceal his true power level, because Full Angel Mode would scramble a regular human’s brain.
Angels are fucking horrifying.
C.S. Lewis’s notes on this subject as they appear in the foreword to The Screwtape Letters are interesting.
It should be (but it is not) unnecessary to add that a belief in angels, whether good or evil, does not mean a belief in either as they are represented in art and literature. Devils are depicted with bats’ wings and good angels with birds’ wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats. They are given wings it all in order to suggest the swiftness of unimpeded intellectual energy. They are given human form because man is the only rational creature we know. Creatures higher in the natural order than ourselves, either incorporeal or animating bodies of a sort we cannot experience, must be represented symbolically if they are to be represented at all.
These forms are not only symbolical but were always known to be symbolical by reflective people. The Greeks did not believe that the gods were really like the beautiful human shapes their sculptures gave them. In their poetry a God who wishes to “appear” to a mortal temporarily assumes the likeness of a man. Christian theology has nearly always explained the “appearance” of an angel in the same way. It is only the ignorant, said Dionysius in the fifth century, who dreamed that spirits are really winged men.
In the plastic arts these symbols have steadily degenerated. Fra Angelico’s angels carry in their face and gesture the peace and authority of heaven. Later come the chubby infantile nudes of Rafael; finally the soft, slim, girlish, and consolatory angels of nineteenth century art, shapes so feminine that they avoid being voluptuous only by their total insipidity — the frigid houris of a tea-table paradise. They are a pernicious symbol. In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying “fear not.” The Victorian angel looks as if it was going to say, “There, there.”
I hate to be the nerd her, but this specific depiction of an Angel is from the film Hellboy II, and she is, in fact, an angel of death and not a conventional angel.
Movie or not, the people who wrote the movie did research.
Also, the main difference between demons and angels is that demons have a bit of free will.
i never knew friendzoning boys was as easy as saying thanks im gonna use my manners more
further evidence that straight boys think compliments are magic words that are supposed to make women immediately strip naked
What’s the appropriate, non-friendzoning response?
“You look pretty today.”
“Okay, fine, I’ll suck your dick.”
when will straight boys stop
The problem with the friendzone is that it’s a myth desperate people use to justify women realizing they just want in her pant.
You do not be nice to someone because you want somehting out of it. You do not act polite because you want a reward. You do not act like a basic human being because you expect sex out of it.
Those are very asshole things to do. And the girl is NOT a bitch for turning you down. They owe you nothing. More likely than not, the person complaining about the friendzone never even asked to go out on a date.
People that come up and tell artists that draw adult content that they’re wasting their talent.
This completely disregards everything they may have gained from their experiences drawing adult art. This could be anything from meeting other art friends to growing comfortable with their own sexuality and feeling free to express themselves as who they are.
Coming up and telling someone they’re talented if only they didn’t draw adult art is pretty much art shaming.
Not to mention that no drawing is a waste of talent. Also, people who draw adult often do commissions. And people will pay for adult content. So it is the opposite of a waste.
