You may all remember my first article about my childhood friend Nanda Ormond.
https://ramaransonvsthecult.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/nanda-ormond-worships-cult-leader-chris-butler/Nanda grew up in the Chris Butler cult amidst an enormous and fanatical cult family. I have updated my article with some brilliant new photos that back up the cult wedding I described and some pictures of Nanda's nephew made to worship Chris Butler as a toddler.
I found this new interview with Nanda Ormond, and evidently the cult of Chris Butler has done a number on Nanda's brain and his basic understanding of the simplest of terms namely
LOVE.I'm going to suggest that the cult has not only deprived Nanda of his understanding of the concept of Love, but this destructive and corrosive cult upbringing has destroyed any real love and passion that should reside in Nanda's young and very talented heart.
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Let’s start at the beginning. When did you first fall in love with art? I don’t know if I’m “in love” with art. I feel like the word ” love ” gets thrown around a lot. Love is an exchange between two entities… a relationship. I don’t think people can love things or ideas, that’s just attraction or even obsession. I was attracted to art, or more specifically cartoons, from as early as I can remember. I had a head full of stories and characters and couldn’t wait til I was good enough at drawing to put them all down on paper.
http://thelens.surfstitch.com/2016/02/09/an-afternoon-with-artist-nanda-ormond/OK Nandies, you dumb shit! Stop trying to impress people with your Chris Butler psycho babble flawed cult semantics.
Next time Google a word and its definition instead of regurgitating some cult claptrap.
Worse than Nanda's faulty definition is the caveat he failed to mention, that not only can love only exist between two entities, unless the other entity is either a deluded Butler devotee, Chris Butler or Krishna (probably not an entity, more of a character and a concept so not loveable by Nanda's definition), then the love is not real love and just "lust" blah blah blah. We've all heard that bullshit a million times spewing from Chris Butler's rotten mouth.
Chris Butler has fostered a malnourished being in Nanda Ormond.
Mentally and spiritually malnourished, and raised under the domination of Jan Ormond and George Ormond, who themselves are completely dominated by Chris Butler, a man they worship and have forced 2 generations to worship. A man who completely disses them both, by the way, refusing to initiate Jan Ormond who begged him for it for decades. George Ormond also is not a disciple of Chris Butler, but AC Bhaktivedanta Swami. CB denied initiation to both Jan and George Ormond for decades last I checked, I'm sure nothing has or ever will change.
Chris Butler holds old teenage grudges like some perpetual high school girl and in no way has Chris Butler ever conducted himself like an enlightened being.
Quite the opposite.
Back to poor little Nandies and his tragic loveless existence.
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I feel like the word ” love ” gets thrown around a lot. Love is an exchange between two entities… a relationship. I don’t think people can love things or ideas, that’s just attraction or even obsession.
Nanda thinks he is being more real and spreading a deep spiritual truth that the outside world does not understand. He thinks that he is being more pure than everyone else, and this goes back to what IanKoviak attested to.
Trained to be detached, stoic and aloof in the cult. Better than everyone else with a secret understanding of the truth exclusive only to the cult, flowing like the Ganges from Chris Butler's lips and the mind of God him/her/itself Krishna the ladyboy.
Well let my appeal that this aloof understanding of Love is totally bogus and depriving you of the true richness of your experience.
A rugby player LOVES rugby. They live it, breath it, dream of it and long for it. I'm a skateboarder and I love skateboarding more than anything else I've ever had in my life. The experience of and relationship with the act itself, over a lifetime casually and seriously for the past 22 years, it's still the most fun I have when I want to get moving. It's pure freedom.
I love music, the experience of listening to my favorite music and seeing it live is an experience I love and live for. The connection to the community, the ideas, the progression.
I may or may not love the most forbidden fruit of the Chris Butler cult. Ex member super homies swear it is amazing for deprogramming the mind control if Chtis Butler. this may or may not be true, but I love it.you better start swimmin, or you'll sink like a stone, 'cause times, they are a changin'.I love drawing, it's also what I live for and always have since I was a kid. Contrary to Nanda's dilemma of never having his own style, mine has been rock solid and uniquely my own. I totally drew all my favorite cartoon characters as a kid and incorporated my favorite aspects into my stuff, but no matter what it would always be so uniquely mine. I don't read comics or watch animation at all but I just know how I want to draw and all the ways I can keep developing everything I'm doing. It's all rooted in comic strip fundamentals I've used since childhood and not based on any study of other artists at this point, do it's pretty unique I feel. Definitely my style.
Yet Nanda seems a sad specimen of an artist with statements like
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So you can see very distinct and sudden changes in my style as I was introduced to certain influences and artists. I never felt like I had an innate style that would flow out of me, pure and inspired from some unique creative wellspring, I was always just trying to draw like whoever I liked the most at the time. I used to get kinda bummed out by this, it made me feel like a bit of a fraud. Then as I got older and looked more closely at the way things work I realised that almost everyone goes through that stage, even the most prominent extroverts in art history were influenced by their predecessors.
Nanda Ormond, as far as I know was never educated. Probably home schooled and Chris Butler'd through his entire schooling life.
Nanda was probably sent to some art or animation classes, surely run past Chris Butler for approval by cult slave "father" George Ormond.
But this is nothing at all, and I think that the feigned art aficionado thing is nothing more than little Nandies sitting in front of the fire with his mum Jan Ormond (the woman most responsible for Nanda's sad state) as she further handles Nanda through adulthood, protecting him from too much outside influence (like me) and attempting to make Nanda the uneducated cult victim into a High Brow artist
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These two influences are encouraging me to introduce more colour to my work (which my mum is happy about).
Who shits all over "surf art" and his fellow "surf artists".
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and pay very little attention to what other surf-artists are making. Apart from Tony Edwards who created Captain Goodvibes, there are very few surf artists whose work I am attracted to, and even some whose work I find quite repulsive.
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That said, i’m not sure that surfing is as much of an inspiration on my art as people might think. That is to say, my style of art is not exceptionally unique, but the application to Surf Art is, it seems.
Oh, Nandies.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2016 04:18AM by Rama Das (slave name).