It's better to live cherishing a dream 

than face the possibility that it might all come to nothing

Fleetwood Mac

 

Fleetwood Mac (1968 album)

• Peter Green – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Jeremy Spencer – vocals, slide guitar, piano
• John McVie – bass guitar 
• Mick Fleetwood – drums 
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• Bob Brunning – bass guitar on "Long Grey Mare"

Mr. Wonderful 

Fleetwood Mac

• Peter Green – vocals, guitar
• Jeremy Spencer – vocals, slide guitar, piano
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums

Additional personnel

• Christine Perfect – piano
• Duster Bennett – harmonica
• Steve Gregory – alto saxophone
• Dave Howard – alto saxophone
• Johnny Almond – tenor saxophone
• Roland Vaughan – tenor saxophone

Danny Kirwin joins

Then Play On

Fleetwood Mac

• Peter Green – vocals, guitar, harmonica, six string bass, percussion, cello 
• Danny Kirwan – vocals, guitar
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
• Jeremy Spencer – piano on "Oh Well (Part 2)"

Additional personnel

• Christine Perfect – uncredited piano
• Sandra Elsdon – uncredited recorders 

Peter Green leaves 

Kiln House

Fleetwood Mac

• Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals
• Jeremy Spencer – guitar, slide guitar, vocals, piano
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Christine McVie – Wurlitzer 200A, piano, backing vocals

Jeremy Spencer leaves 

Bob Welch joins 

Future Games

Fleetwood Mac

• Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals
• Bob Welch – guitar, vocals
• Christine McVie – piano, vocals
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums

Bare Trees

Fleetwood Mac

• Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals
• Bob Welch – guitar, vocals
• Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Danny Kirwin leaves 

Dave Walker and Bob Weston join 

Penguin

Fleetwood Mac

• Bob Welch – guitars, vocals, bass guitar
• Bob Weston – lead guitar slide guitar  banjo and harmonica 
• Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals
• Dave Walker – vocals, harmonica 
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Dave Walker leaves 

Mystery to Me

Fleetwood Mac

• Bob Welch 
• – electric guitar, acoustic guitarr, vocals
• Bob Weston – electric guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Christine McVie – keyboards, lead and backing vocals
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Mystery to Me was Fleetwood Mac's last album recorded in England, the last to have two guitarists in the line-up until Behind the Mask and the last to be co-produced and/or engineered by Martin Birch. 

Bob Weston leaves 

Heroes Are Hard to Find

Fleetwood Mac

• Bob Welch – guitars, vocals, vibraphone
• Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals, ARP String Ensemble
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Bob Welch leaves  Fleetwood Mac and was replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, 

Fleetwood Mac

• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Christine McVie – keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
• Lindsey Buckingham – guitars, vocals
• Stevie Nicks – vocals

• Fleetwood Mac (1975)
• Rumours (1977)
• Tusk (1979)
• Mirage (1982)
• Tango in the Night (1987)

Lindsey Buckingham leaves 

Rick Vito and Billy Burnette were hired to replace him on the subsequent tour, and they would remain part of the band's lineup for the next album, Behind the Mask 

Behind the Mask

Fleetwood Mac

• Stevie Nicks – vocals
• Christine McVie – vocals, keyboards
• Rick Vito – vocals, lead guitars
• Billy Burnette – vocals, guitars
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion,

• Lindsey Buckingham – acoustic guitar on "Behind the Mask"

Time

Fleetwood Mac

• Bekka Bramlett – vocals
• Billy Burnette – guitars, vocals
• Dave Mason – guitars, vocals
• Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion, 

• Lindsey Buckingham – backing vocals 
• Lucy Fleetwood – backing vocals 

Say You Will

Fleetwood Mac

• Lindsey Buckingham – vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion, programming
• Stevie Nicks – vocals, additional keyboards
• John McVie – bass guitar, black keys
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

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the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: 

the patience to wait for the right moment 

and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter

 

Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, 

but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find all too hard to accept. 

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

 our encounter with the forces of life and not with the people who bring this about.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! 

 

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. 

There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult

 

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, 

mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light

 

We were never being bored 

Because we were never being boring 

 

Wit is often a mask.

 If you could tear it you would find either a genius irritated

 or cleverness juggling

 

who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

 

despair weakens our sight and closes our ears. 

We can see nothing but spectres of doom 

and can hear only the beating of our agitated hearts

 

Notice those gorgeous homes that represent happiness, glory and domination; 

they are naught but caverns of misery and distress

 

He who repeats what he does not understand

 is no better than an ass that is loaded with books

 

the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow

 

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. 

Every thing we see today, 

made by past generations, 

was, before its appearance, 

a thought in the mind of a man 

or an impulse in the heart of a woman

 

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit

 

Was the love of Judas' mother of her son less than the love of Mary for Jesus?

Superman

 

The using the heat vision to shave is the most common explanation In the comics

 he uses a bit of the ship - presumably as the heat would melt any earth metal or mirror

 Sometimes the mirror works - Dean Cain version is seen shaving this way 

The haircut explanation has never really been given - keeping in mind Clark grew up on the farm from a baby and they never would have been able to cut it 

So "it doesn't grow" is the only way round this 

Why they don't just have the beard not growing, as in it never grew from when he hit puberty - doesn't grow on Earth like his hair doesn't 

Supergirl grew hair hair long before she arrived, and it now never grows past that length, and is never cut 

Now - pubes and pits

 We see Superman has a hairy body in the latest version - leave it as that 

Can Supergirl shave her legs and armpits with heat ray or does it just not grow - if Superman's face beard grows, so would her body hair 

And does she have a big 70s style bush - or can she heat trim it to a neat triangle, landing strip, or just take it all off? 

Melissa is the only Supergirl actress to have nude pictures posted - so we can use her as a first reference 

And yes - we have looked everywhere for nude Laura pics .

 

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms

 

In the morning, when I walked in the fields, 

I saw the token of Eternity in the awakening of nature,

 and when I sat by the seashore

 I heard the waves singing the song of Eternity

 

The owl 

whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day 

cannot unveil the mystery of light. 

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, 

open your heart wide unto the body of life. 

For life and death are one,

 even as the river and the sea are one

 

What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, 

but with their backs to the sun?

They see only their shadows, 

and their shadows are their laws

 

the director actually tells us the identity of the man on the floor in the very first line of subtitled dialogue.

And that is far from the only reference

to the idea of God and Jesus and religion in the video.

there are lots of other references to Jesus and the gospel story in the video. look at various elements and moments in the video once again, but through the lens of assuming that that first line of subtitle dialogue is not a swear word, but it's telling us the identity of the man on the floor.

The story of Jesus launching his time as a religious leader in the Bible starts off with him being baptised in the River Jordan, and as soon as he emerges from the water, his ministry begins.

And what's the first scene in the whole video?

It's the main guy getting into the water in his bathtub. Baptism. There is also a large proportion of phrases in the subtitle dialogue that are taken directly from the pages of the gospels.

The second man says 'You've been drinking,' and the same allegation is made against Jesus in Luke 7:34.

A member of the listening crowd says 'He must

be mad' and the same allegation is made against Jesus in John 10:20.

The man on the floor says 'Don't touch me' and Jesus says the same thing in john 20:17.

The man on the floor says 'You don't know what you ask of me' and Jesus says the same thing in Matthew 20:22.

But now let's look at that final phrase, the one without subtitles, the one that says 'I've seen a way'.

this is meant to be one of Jesus' most famous phrases from John 14:6, where he says 'I am the way',

This is the line in the Bible where Jesus proclaims himself the messiah,

It's also worth noting that Christianity itself is called 'The Way' in the Bible.

Then there's the American police officer in London. Why an American copper in London?

that represents the dominant world power at the time.

Back in the days of Jesus it was Rome, but today,

where the story is set, it's America. And just as Rome was, the representative of the dominant world power at the time is also converted and ends up down on the floor. This mirrors Rome under the emperor Constantine, adopting Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire in 313 AD.

the man lying down in the street grabs everyone's attention seemingly reluctantly, seemingly unwillingly, but why is he laying down in a street? The street is a very, very public place, it's meant for walking, not lying down. He has a home where he could lie down, we see it in the first shot. He's doing something that is guaranteed to attract attention and is doing it in public in one of the busiest cities on the planet.

It's a choice to lay down in the street, not at home, and so he gets his first follower seemingly by chance - except it's not by chance because he made the choice to lie down in a public place. Even those who think he's mad are still fascinated by him and stick around. The man on the floor however plays them so well that even the people who think he's mad end up becoming his followers. It's brilliant because the man on the floor is playing the reluctant messiah. He says he wants to be left alone, he says he doesn't want all this attention, whilst simultaneously doing something in a very public place specifically designed to attract a lot of attention. It's a crash course in the art of manipulation.

Here's the first verse: Can't get the stink off, he's been hanging around for days. Comes like a comet, suckered you but not your friends. One day he'll get to you and teach you how to be a holy cow.

In the first line we meet a character called The Stink.

We know it's a character because it's a 'he', not an 'it'. The Stink is a person who hangs around for days, unwanted.

In the second line we learn something about this male character. He suckers people - not all, but some.

And in the third line we find out what he does to the people he suckers: he teaches them to be a holy cow.

synchronicity between the lyrics, the video, and this interpretation of both.

The chorus says 'You do it to yourself and that's what really hurts, you do it to yourself, just you, you and no one else.'

this video is a 1990s British retelling of the Jesus story. the story of the video and the song is that of false messiahs and how easy they have it when it comes to suckering people.

how people are just so desperate to believe in something that a false messiah can literally just pretty much lie there,

and the people will just do it to themselves