The Devil's Grin
Posted: 11 May 2021 06:01
Howdy folks. It's been a while. Sorry for the delay, I've been busy with work, and starting to work on a novel. Anyways, let's chat.
I've noticed a trend lately among the evil, decadent, and those near the evil and decadent. It's their face. Evil seems to genuine change peoples faces. Morphs their expression, makes them twisted and disturbed.
It's somewhat silly, I picked this up listening to a Lorne Greene song when it hit me, but you can really see it on people's faces.
The evil eye, seen in almost every culture in the world, the Devil's Grin in cowboy mythos where the smile of Satan is seen on gunslingers faces, the apparent hyper aging of exorcists (Ripperger looked 60 for the past 20 years!), and not to mention the pseudoscience of physiognomy.
It's no surprise to me that physiognomy exists. Across cultures it seems that certain appearances align with evil. And specific sins even seem to change your appearance in different ways...
Lust

Lust is probably one of the most talked about facial changes. That is, beady eyes and a smug smirk. My mother told me a lot that pedophiles all seemed to have beady eyes, and I've seen the same and adulterers. Mosley here was an adulterer and a manipulator, and just look at the man. His earlier images look nothing like he did at the height of his power.
Pride

I don't think this man needs introduction.
The shit-eating grin (pardon my french), the smug aura, head pridefully held high... you can see the same in any member of aristocracy or nobility.
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The wrathful have twisted grind and burning eyes, the slothful have faces that droop lazily, the greedy much like the lustful have beady eyes. Maybe it's jjst a trait common among the manipulators.
Is any of this anything real, or just the result of a collective human stereotyping towards emotion?
I've noticed a trend lately among the evil, decadent, and those near the evil and decadent. It's their face. Evil seems to genuine change peoples faces. Morphs their expression, makes them twisted and disturbed.
It's somewhat silly, I picked this up listening to a Lorne Greene song when it hit me, but you can really see it on people's faces.
The evil eye, seen in almost every culture in the world, the Devil's Grin in cowboy mythos where the smile of Satan is seen on gunslingers faces, the apparent hyper aging of exorcists (Ripperger looked 60 for the past 20 years!), and not to mention the pseudoscience of physiognomy.
It's no surprise to me that physiognomy exists. Across cultures it seems that certain appearances align with evil. And specific sins even seem to change your appearance in different ways...
Lust

Lust is probably one of the most talked about facial changes. That is, beady eyes and a smug smirk. My mother told me a lot that pedophiles all seemed to have beady eyes, and I've seen the same and adulterers. Mosley here was an adulterer and a manipulator, and just look at the man. His earlier images look nothing like he did at the height of his power.
Pride

I don't think this man needs introduction.
The shit-eating grin (pardon my french), the smug aura, head pridefully held high... you can see the same in any member of aristocracy or nobility.
-
The wrathful have twisted grind and burning eyes, the slothful have faces that droop lazily, the greedy much like the lustful have beady eyes. Maybe it's jjst a trait common among the manipulators.
Is any of this anything real, or just the result of a collective human stereotyping towards emotion?