Irony of religion

[Siggie]

Re: Irony of religion

STOP with the song lyrics! I can see where it may be fitting in a particular situation, but that's all you're doing and it's not adding anything to the threads. Stop it please.

[karoaper]

Re: Irony of religion

STOP with the song lyrics! I can see where it may be fitting in a particular situation, but that's all you're doing and it's not adding anything to the threads. Stop it please.

[Siggie]

Re: Irony of religion

Do I amuse you Karo jan?

[One-Way]

Re: Irony of religion

Hahahaha. You amused me, Siggie.

She got you, Anahita.

[karoaper]

Re: Irony of religion

Do I amuse you Karo jan?

[Anahita]

Re: Irony of religion

Vivian walks back into the store that threw her out the day before because they didn’t believe she had money to spend:

Shop assistant: Hello, can I help you?
Vivan: Do you remember me?
Shop assistant: No I'm sorry I don't.
Vivian: I was in here yesterday, you wouldn't wait on me.
Shop assistant: Oh?
Vivian: You people work on commission, right?
Shop assistant: Yeah.
Vivian: Big mistake. Big. Huge! I have to go shopping now…


Goddess, help me be the person my dog thinks I am.

Dog is my copilot.

--What I Am, Edie Brickell
“Religion is a smile on a dog…”


--Zephyr Song, Chili Peppers
Rebel and a liberator…
Super friendly aviator


--Silent Lucidity, Queensryche
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly you hear and see

This magic new dimension

I- will be watching over you
I- am gonna help you see it through
I- will protect you in the night
I- am smiling next to you, in Silent Lucidity


Please forgive me, I was raised by wolves and I haven’t been the same since that house fell on my sister.

"What is the hardest task in the world? To think." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The holy land is everywhere.” –Black Elk

[Sip]

Re: Irony of religion

Kick her out ... she obviously doesn't know any Armenian songs.

[Anahita]

Re: Irony of religion

--Defy You, System
Don't let me penetrate you my child
Don't let me desecrate your world…
and steal the warmness of your soul away
I divide you with faith
provide you your soul
defy you to love


--Closer, NIN
You let me violate you.
You let me desecrate you.
You let me penetrate you.
You let me complicate you.
Help me.

My whole existence is flawed.
You get me closer to God.


Pretty Woman

Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.
Edward Lewis: I think you are a very bright, very special woman.
Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?


--Lullaby, Shawn Mullins
She grew up with the children of the stars
in the Hollywood hills…
Her parents threw big parties
Everyone was there.
They hung out with folks like…
Cher

And from the stage I can tell that she can't let go and she can't relax
and just before she hangs her head to
I sing to her, a lullaby.


--Taline, Oror Im Mangig

[One-Way]

Re: Irony of religion

Anahita, listen to Siggie.

[Anahita]

Re: Irony of religion

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…

Many ancient cultures have creation stories that are similar to genesis allegories. Unlike the view of ‘creation’ as literal and historical (as many in the Western world believe…), many other cultures take an allegorical/symbolic view of creation (as still going on). Heavens (mind) Earth (matter).

“The idea that God is both masculine and feminine is wonderfully represented in the East by the Yin and Yang, which is the fundamental symbolism of Taoism. The female is often symbolized in other cultures as the Sea, the Moon, or even Mary. The male, on the other hand, was portrayed as the Sun, the Wind or the Seed.”

Don't believe everything you think. I was demonstrating something through humor, koans, allegory, and poetic symbolism with music. I also did that relatively *empirically,* given the topic. I’m sorry if you don’t understand or appreciate that. I guess if you don't mind, it don't matter (at least not to you.)

“An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal. Through allegory a subject of a higher spiritual order is described in terms of that of a lower which is made out to resemble it in properties and circumstances, the principal subject being so kept out of view that we are left to construe the drift of it from the resemblance of the two subjects.” (Wiki)