Pink Panther wrote:Having had close connection to many senior BKs in my time, I have never seen anything other than aspirational ‘wannabe famous by association’ relationship between any BK and any real person of importance.
Allow me to put it in a far more blunt, but not entirely insightless manner.
You're primarily talking about something between a "girl crush" -
when a women falls in love with another women in a way that is not sexually expressed - and "starf**king".
Again, starf**ker ... starf**king ... does not necessarily refer to sexual interactions. It just means someone
"seeking inordinate personal benefits from the wishes and needs of a celebrity"
However, I would agree that where there is so much sexual and emotional sublimation, as in BKism, one cannot exclude there being a repressed element to the drive. This goes as far as my other habitual criticism that a far bit of the history of BKism has been about "gold digging" ... women of a certain class seeking out "sugar daddies" (rich and powerful older men) to live off. And is the Pope not a rich and powerful old man?
Wasn't there some BK prophesy that some Pope was the Christ soul reincarnated, or something?
Yes, in my own experience, I can remember the thrill and excitement a center-in-charge had ging chasing after a famous cardinal who was visiting locally; how they spending a considerable sum on flowers to grab his attention, and then the usual BK book or framed picture that, as you both quite rightly suggest, probably went straight into the rubbish the day after.
Do the BK leaders *really* not realise this too? Do they not know how much of waste of resources it is ... as it is highly unlikely such a committed religionist would jump ships and join the BKs? Of course they must know ... they are not that stupid. But I suggest that also know the PR value of the photos they take ... for increasing their credibility and impressing their followers and financial donors.
What embarasses me to admit - not ever giving a damn about Catholicism (except to fantasise about Catholic school girls when I was a school boy ...
all that repressed sexuality again) - was how far I played along with the center-in-charges or senior school girl excitement. How we all dressed up in our best whites, and ran around after them too etc.
I think for some of the VIPs they target, there are mutual "crushes" ... and "man crushes" amongst BK Brothers too. Immature "falling in loves" that cannot be expressed in normal relationships. Really it was not that far above teenage girls falling in love for, and fixating on, pop stars or movie actors ... only expressed as sureties that the other person "must be a BK", e.g. is the "must be a BK" fixation really that different from a desire to marry and bring another person into one's family?