Higher Than Pope
Continuities of time and space are disrupted in a h… Read Full Bio ↴Higher Than Pope
Continuities of time and space are disrupted in a heart beat by the weight of a Higher Than Pope composition. One second you are late 60's retro and then next avant-garde progressive rock. There appears to be a genre warp as the HTP black hole collapses genre after genre, with none appear to escape unscathed.
Fans say: "wow you are really interesting and original sounding. I am listening. you are whacked in a good way....I am listening."
"I think your song "new beast" is some kind of masterpiece. I like the raw attitude in your sound."
"I think you have the leading edge in music..very captivating...even more awesome through the phones took me to a higher plane!"
"'Wow!' I just had my ears assaulted and my mind fried simply by listening to a few tracks of this aural crack. Thank god a soft guitar jumped from the speakers just in time to let me sop up the blood dripping from my brain - very Hitchcockian! Then back into the hunt! Good to find a soul behind the sonic mayhem! And a lovely one at that."
Although primarily a guitar band, HTP have no qualms about snipping bits from multiple genres and splicing the results together. HTP are not big on songs that evolve so slowly you fall asleep between intro and verse. Instead they practice revolution and from one moment to the next you have no idea what may transpire next as you are catapulted from one sonic event to another.
Continuities of time and space are disrupted in a h… Read Full Bio ↴Higher Than Pope
Continuities of time and space are disrupted in a heart beat by the weight of a Higher Than Pope composition. One second you are late 60's retro and then next avant-garde progressive rock. There appears to be a genre warp as the HTP black hole collapses genre after genre, with none appear to escape unscathed.
Fans say: "wow you are really interesting and original sounding. I am listening. you are whacked in a good way....I am listening."
"I think your song "new beast" is some kind of masterpiece. I like the raw attitude in your sound."
"I think you have the leading edge in music..very captivating...even more awesome through the phones took me to a higher plane!"
"'Wow!' I just had my ears assaulted and my mind fried simply by listening to a few tracks of this aural crack. Thank god a soft guitar jumped from the speakers just in time to let me sop up the blood dripping from my brain - very Hitchcockian! Then back into the hunt! Good to find a soul behind the sonic mayhem! And a lovely one at that."
Although primarily a guitar band, HTP have no qualms about snipping bits from multiple genres and splicing the results together. HTP are not big on songs that evolve so slowly you fall asleep between intro and verse. Instead they practice revolution and from one moment to the next you have no idea what may transpire next as you are catapulted from one sonic event to another.
Myriads
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Vivienne Shakur
hmm .... it was all about power actually. because despite that martin luther was somehow portrait as a man of the people by translating the bible into german and condemning the selling of indulgences, he was a man of the aristocrats and AGAINST the suffering people and actually AGAINST THE REAL TEACHINGS of JESUS ( prophets of zwickau and the peoples movement of original christians).
Martin Luther was straight about building a new church power and the aristocrats wanted to seperate from dictate of rome (for example take the prince-bishops who were tired of this dictate and prepared a comon willing ground for Luthers actions).
Luther went so far to agitate the aristocrats into the mercyless massacre of farmers who protested against the inhumane oppression by the feudalists!! (-> "kill, beat, strangle who you can. if you die, you die in obedience to the words of God and his orders" MLuther, 1525, in Against the angry farmers)
in these socalled farmers wars 70.000 - 100.000 poor people were killed
some leaders were hung up upside down by lutherians and slid open with a saw from the testicles to the chest
you have to understand that the kings and the pope were fighting for the supreme power for long time resulting in the kings being crowned by the pope etc. ( check out Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV's trek to Canossa Castle) .
So get this whole thing about the meaning of what Luther did. The selling of indulgences brought money to rome to build the Peters dome! but the catholic power structure (priests, pastors etc) they were the ones who actually took that money. at some point this led to total corruption of the pastors and priests.
who they took this money from?
basically everybody that had money. Which were the ARISTOCRATS getting pressed for their money to enrich rome!!!!! (and they pressed it out of their farmers)
Thats why it was hella convenient for the aristocrats to have a Luther do the dirty work for them and then hide him in their castles so he could translate the bible from latin into german, which the aristocrats were capable of reading!! (normal people couldnt read at all)
actually before Luther others already translated the bible into german, but since the lack of feudalistic support this was not widespread.
so the motive was from the beginning to free the aristocrats from the roman powerstructure by building its OWN churchal powerstructure. NOT to establish a holy and truely divinely inspired christianity that would actually HELP THE PEOPLE who suffered extremely under churchal and feudalists oppression and exploitation!!!
Vivienne Shakur
i can go a lil deeper into this whole thing about the meaning of the sale of indulgences.
so there was this arch-bishop Albrecht of Brandenburg who wanted to have another electorate (Mainz), which was officially not allowed. so the pope decided in his favor, but told him to pay 21.000 ducates for the building of the peters dome in rome. to do so Albrecht borrowed this money from the biggest financier family, the fuggers! and planned to pay his debt by using half of the money he collected by the selling of indulgences!!
sooooo .... by Luther raising everybody up in arms about the wrongs of selling of indulgences .... he was messing with the extremely powerful Fugger family and everybody that they had bizz with!!
At the same time the german Kaiser Maximilian had died and the college of electors (3 archbishops and 4 secular grand electors) was about to anounce the new Kaiser of germany (holy roman empire bla).
the candidates were Francoise I. of france and Henry VIII. of england, but they were not really considered.
then you had romes favourite prince-elector Friedrich lll. of saxony.
and the grandson of the Kaiser Maximilian called Karl, duke of Burgund and king of spain, and inheritor of the lands of habsburg.
Now it becomes interesting. The Fuggers were creditors to the habsburgers (Kaiser Maximilian ) and still expected to receive 170.000 ducates.
so they supported Karl!
Friedrich lll. was romes favourite only because rome feared that the house of habsburg would become too powerful and decline romes power in europe. but actually Friedrich supported Luther!!! he was hiding him , because he didnt want his money to leave the country (btw precious metals were rare and to make these coins was not easy, besides losing money meant losing power)
with the election of the new Kaiser also came along something historically new: they wanted to unite europe under their reign of universal monarchy! so this was some serious shit!
now the Fuggers blatantly bribed all electors so Karl became Kaiser, and the fuggers the financiers of the kaiser (the fuggers btw had shares of mines with silver, copper in czech and slovakia)
so you see that the aristocrats did what they could to undermine rome in one way or the other in the aim for total dominion over europe but the selling of indulgences was a way to raise money for the clerical aristocrats that had to pay debt.
the small access to precious metals played also a big role leading to the never ending hunger for gold, colonialism and brutal genocides all over the world in this game for dominion over europe
Overly Sarcastic Productions
I'm genuinely curious as to your opinions here:
Who is the best Meme Pope? Who won Pope Fights?
-B
Midnight
Pope Celestine V, obviously... I mean, he just wrote them to get their asses moving and they made him pope like "what's the worst that could possibly happen?"
Yeah, should have seen that coming...
Frontier's Horizon
Honestly, Benedict IX, the man who literally marched on Rome with elephants.
Yeetus
Overly Sarcastic Productions
Pope Benedict XVI “Chosen by God”
Pope Benedict XVI: Proceeds to quit
chris
Benedict IX
Sapphirewingthefurrycritic
I wanted to see a cage match with Popes. 0/10
Bennett Fedorowicz
The really underestimated line is how the French king had the “Gaul” to order a hit on the Pope
DoubleOC
i came looking for this comment after that line left me in tears
RockerTopper 1915
NGL, didn’t even make that connection until reading this comment LMAO
ccvcharger
I'm so glad I am not the only person who made that connection.