Random thought and posted · 3:09pm Mar 10th, 2018
First off posted new chapter of “Monsters need love too.” Secondly while trying to get some inspiration for the chapter I had just a random stupid thought.
Harry Houdini, one of the most popular entertainers of his generation and arguably one of the greatest minds of his generation, decided to start a fight with the biggest Religious Organization/social movement of his generation, the spiritualists and won. He destroyed any power they might have had. He exposed them everywhere he went. He made sure that they had no place to hide and could never advertise as anything other then entertainment ever again. He used reason, logic, and technical knowledge to completely annhilate them. He did this for one simple reason. When he was quite young his father died and his mother hired a spiritualist to help them find his father’s will when it could not be located. The spiritualist took them for everything they where worth and had moved on before anything could be done. He grew up in poverty as a result. That was strike one. Strike two came when a good friend of his asked Harry to attend a seance the man’s wife was holding. Harry’s mother had passed recently. Harry, despite being one of the richest men of his time, a self made one at that, was supremely devoted to two women in his life. His wife Beth and his Mother. The man that invited Harry was a confirmed believer in spiritualism named Arthur Conan Doyle. During the seance Ms. Doyle “contacted” Harry’s Mother. The problem was she gave answers that could not have come from his beloved Mother. As well as drew images that were uniquly christian in nature. Problem was Harry’s Mom was an Orthodox Hungarian Jew. She would definitely not use those Images to communicate. Houdini was enraged, he broke off all contact with Doyle and broke their friendship. Then he turned on the spiritualists that had hurt his mother once and then dared to attempt to use her to get to him. They would not be allowed a strike three. In the end they where shown for the conmen, theives and liars that they where. He shut them down, hard. He was merciless in his persecution until it was done. He did this all because the spiritualists dared to talk shit about his momma. Real Men love their mothers.