Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Age: 41 Gender: Non-binary Posts: 34,239 Location: Right over your left shoulder
20 May 2024, 1:48 pm
MTG's theme song
_________________ The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X Just a reminder: under international law, an occupying power has no right of self-defense, and those who are occupied have the right and duty to liberate themselves by any means possible.
What it’s like singing a song at a JW convention. They love emphasizing obedience. The 2014 convention is the last one I attended. Mine was at an indoor stadium closer to home, but I sang this song there.
The following is at an assembly. It was a hard song to get through if you just lost a family member or were struggling with something serious. I still know all the lyrics, and I haven’t attended in 10 years.
Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Age: 41 Gender: Non-binary Posts: 34,239 Location: Right over your left shoulder
22 May 2024, 9:26 pm
_________________ The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X Just a reminder: under international law, an occupying power has no right of self-defense, and those who are occupied have the right and duty to liberate themselves by any means possible.
Here's a song about a man who's become so disgusted with humankind having become so corrupted by its sins that he prays to The Lord to bring forth his divine apocalypse now. The second verse I find highly relatable. The guy soon has second thoughts as he realizes he might be punished just the same as everyone else so he pleads to be spared for he is different than the other humans. Why should we be punished for the sins of others? Why should the lesser sinful suffer the same fate as the greater sinful?
_________________ I am sick, and in so being I am the healthy one. If my darkness or eccentricity offends you, I don't really care. I will not apologize for being me.
There is no such thing as perfect. We are beautiful as we are. With all our imperfections, we can do anything.
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 71 Gender: Male Posts: 35,189 Location: temperate zone
23 May 2024, 3:19 pm
Whether you're religious or not its interesting.
A lecture in theology hiding inside a country song explaining why some favor the doctrine of "salvation through grace" over the doctrine of "salvation through works", but explained in terms that even a high school drop out can understand.