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Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by LeaC View PostIt's the reasoning more than anything else. People increasingly have this odd way of reading hidden meanings into things while ignoring the plain context written on the surface. Meanwhile... I do hate that reindeer song.
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Say, what’s in this drink?“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
“not all there” - you know who you are
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My favorite Christmas tune is Arbitrary Night... I wonder how the Christians here would feel about radio stations across America playing it...?
Lyrics:
Arbitrary night, it will be what we make it!
Like every night, we refuse to be blind.
Long lies the world in ignorance and vagueness
But we are clear on the worth of the mind.
A glorious chorus from centuries before us
of scientists and scholars comes forward to implore us:
"Stand on your feet; you need to bow to no one
On this arbitrary night, let your mind
Shine its light.
On this arbitrary night, let your mind
Shine its light.""I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostMy favorite Christmas tune is Arbitrary Night...
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by firstfloor View PostSay, what’s in this drink?
I'll see your line from that song and raise you this:
“Tryin’ to send the [female dog] back to her maker
And if you got a daughter older then 15, I’mma rape her
Take her on the living room floor, right there in front of you
Then ask you seriously, whatchu wanna do?”
Not very ambiguous or subject to multiple interpretations, wouldn't you agree? Yet this song by DMX (who has quite a history) still receives occasional play time on a few urban stations.
The reaction from the SJW (with rare exceptions)?
Or how about this from hip hop legend Kool G Rap in his song "Hey Mister Mister" from just a few years back:
“Now I gotsa to give your [f-bomb] a– a beatin
I punched her in the ribcage and kicked her in the stomach
Take off all my [f-bomb] jewelry, [female dog] runnin
I stomped her and I kicked her and I punched her in the face
Some people crowded around but nobody got out of place
Don’t want heroics, “Hey buddy” – ayyo money don’t get in this
“Hey miss you alright?” – [f-bomb] mind your business!
I’m bashin her with the nine, inches away from pullin the trigger”
The song is about a serious beating he gave a girl he thought might be cheating on him and is accompanied by the sounds of someone getting beaten and stomped.
To go all snowflaky over a song with somewhat ambiguous lyrics while turning a blind eye to explicitly graphic lyrics glorifying raping and brutally beating women is what far too many on the left is about.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostMy favorite Christmas tune is Arbitrary Night... I wonder how the Christians here would feel about radio stations across America playing it...?
Lyrics:
Arbitrary night, it will be what we make it!
Like every night, we refuse to be blind.
Long lies the world in ignorance and vagueness
But we are clear on the worth of the mind.
A glorious chorus from centuries before us
of scientists and scholars comes forward to implore us:
"Stand on your feet; you need to bow to no one
On this arbitrary night, let your mind
Shine its light.
On this arbitrary night, let your mind
Shine its light."
It also reads like something that would end up frontpaging on r/iamverysmart.
ETA: I mean, I don't even like most CCM, in fact I positively despise most of it, but I could take a random modern Christian song and the chance that it would have a considerably more well thought out songtext than this poor excuse of a lyrical travesty would be more than pretty likely.Last edited by JonathanL; 12-08-2018, 08:26 AM.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAlcohol?
To go all snowflaky over a song with somewhat ambiguous lyrics while turning a blind eye to explicitly graphic lyrics glorifying raping and brutally beating women is what far too many on the left is about.
Starlight, that jumble of meaningless lyrics doesn't deserve to be on the same thread with Weird Al. What's the reasoning here? "Celebrate how remarkably smart and clever we are by stealing melodies from Christians to make a lazy parody. That'll show them!"
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostMy favorite Christmas tune is Arbitrary Night... I wonder how the Christians here would feel about radio stations across America playing it...?
Lyrics:
Arbitrary night, it will be what we make it!
Like every night, we refuse to be blind.
Long lies the world in ignorance and vagueness
But we are clear on the worth of the mind.
A glorious chorus from centuries before us
of scientists and scholars comes forward to implore us:
"Stand on your feet; you need to bow to no one
On this arbitrary night, let your mind
Shine its light.
On this arbitrary night, let your mind
Shine its light.""The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAlcohol?
I'll see your line from that song and raise you this:
“Tryin’ to send the [female dog] back to her maker
And if you got a daughter older then 15, I’mma rape her
Take her on the living room floor, right there in front of you
Then ask you seriously, whatchu wanna do?”
Not very ambiguous or subject to multiple interpretations, wouldn't you agree? Yet this song by DMX (who has quite a history) still receives occasional play time on a few urban stations.
The reaction from the SJW (with rare exceptions)?
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Or how about this from hip hop legend Kool G Rap in his song "Hey Mister Mister" from just a few years back:
“Now I gotsa to give your [f-bomb] a– a beatin
I punched her in the ribcage and kicked her in the stomach
Take off all my [f-bomb] jewelry, [female dog] runnin
I stomped her and I kicked her and I punched her in the face
Some people crowded around but nobody got out of place
Don’t want heroics, “Hey buddy” – ayyo money don’t get in this
“Hey miss you alright?” – [f-bomb] mind your business!
I’m bashin her with the nine, inches away from pullin the trigger”
The song is about a serious beating he gave a girl he thought might be cheating on him and is accompanied by the sounds of someone getting beaten and stomped.
To go all snowflaky over a song with somewhat ambiguous lyrics while turning a blind eye to explicitly graphic lyrics glorifying raping and brutally beating women is what far too many on the left is about.“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
“not all there” - you know who you are
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Originally posted by firstfloor View PostApples and oranges! It’s not supposed to be gangsta rap. This is probably just a modern sensibility that has not yet arrived where you live."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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If a modern general audience needs to do research to figure out a song lyric isn't actually referring to date rape, maybe that song isn't worth playing for a modern general audience? It's not even nearly a quintessential holiday song. Also, none of the rap songs some here are talking about are played ad nauseam, let alone considered classics, so of course they wouldn't receive anywhere near the same amount of attention.
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostIf a modern general audience needs to do research to figure out a song lyric isn't actually referring to date rape, maybe that song isn't worth playing for a modern general audience?
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostIf a modern general audience needs to do research to figure out a song lyric isn't actually referring to date rape
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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I've never paid attention to "Baby it's cold outside" but on reading the lyrics, it appears to be about 'good' old fashioned opportunistic seduction, with the possible (probable) use of alcohol. Date rape? Well.. that's requires a bit of reading into the lyrics.As for all those [c]rap - I don't like them either..
I am, however, kinda surprised to see folks I'd consider to be fairly conservative Christians complaining that a song about fornication and (probably) drunkenness has been taken off the playlists of a couple of radio stations. Maybe you could compensate by having the 'praise band' sing it at the next carol service?
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