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robotech_master"Watch the world argue
Argue with itself
Who's going to teach me
Peace and happiness?"
Song of the moment: INXS, "Dancing on the Jetty," from The Swing. I'd like to paste the lyrics in their entirety, but I can't actually find the real ones: the album liner doesn't have them, the official INXS site's lyrics file is missing, and none of the web lyrics sites I can find actually agree with each other—"Mondegreens" a-plenty. Some of them are pretty funny, actually...a particular line is either "Letting gods tie us down" or "Letting God's tyres down," depending on whom you read. INXS is rather hard to understand sometimes. But that's beside the point.
The verse that resonates the most goes something like
"Blood is upon the steps
Two thousand years ago
Pray like hell then they go to fight *
Another war in the Holy Land"
*(or maybe "Pray like hell they ain't going to fight" but I'm not sure)
Although it's not the "Holy Land" the song refers to, I can't help but think that most speculators place the Biblical Garden of Eden in that area, where the Tigris and the Euphrates meet...
And speaking of the Bible, I just got back from attending the early service at Glendale Christian. It wasn't bad; more like what I'm used to. The big difference between Traditional and Blended services seems to be that the Traditional just has piano and organ and Blended has a whole band setup. All things considered, I think I'm going to be going to the Blended from now on...unless at some point I'm actually up that early and want to get it out of the way early on. The sermon was pretty good, and I have to respect the minister, B.A. Austin (who also played the piano for most of the service), for not turning his sermon into a personal pulpit for preaching politics of the current Gulf War. Instead, he preached from Genesis 10 and 11, pointing out that the names of some of the descendants of Noah are associated with certain nations or regions such as Germany, Armenia, or Egypt and talking about the Tower of Babel. It was pretty interesting, and I learned some things I hadn't known before.
Going back to the war, one of my Livejournal friends,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zamiel, has made an interesting post about various protestory things. Rather than just steal his links, I figured it was worth pointing a few more people to it directly.
Make no mistake, I think that people's freedom to protest based on their beliefs is one of the greatest things about the nation in which I live. All the same, I can't help but think these protesters are, to put it mildly, misguided. As one of my friends put it the other day, "I can't help but wonder when some of the protesters will start clamoring for the punishment of pro-war Iraqi citizens." Are they even paying attention, or will they continue to wear rose-colored glasses?
And one last thought: the U.S. soldier who became infuriated and grenaded 13 of his colleagues in Kuwait apparently has a Muslim name. Even though there are no signs that this had any religious or terrorist motivations beyond this guy getting a serious mad-on and taking it out the first way that came to him, I'm worried that it might cause some kind of anti-Muslim backlash as rumors grow out of control. I hope that doesn't happen.
Argue with itself
Who's going to teach me
Peace and happiness?"
Song of the moment: INXS, "Dancing on the Jetty," from The Swing. I'd like to paste the lyrics in their entirety, but I can't actually find the real ones: the album liner doesn't have them, the official INXS site's lyrics file is missing, and none of the web lyrics sites I can find actually agree with each other—"Mondegreens" a-plenty. Some of them are pretty funny, actually...a particular line is either "Letting gods tie us down" or "Letting God's tyres down," depending on whom you read. INXS is rather hard to understand sometimes. But that's beside the point.
The verse that resonates the most goes something like
"Blood is upon the steps
Two thousand years ago
Pray like hell then they go to fight *
Another war in the Holy Land"
*(or maybe "Pray like hell they ain't going to fight" but I'm not sure)
Although it's not the "Holy Land" the song refers to, I can't help but think that most speculators place the Biblical Garden of Eden in that area, where the Tigris and the Euphrates meet...
And speaking of the Bible, I just got back from attending the early service at Glendale Christian. It wasn't bad; more like what I'm used to. The big difference between Traditional and Blended services seems to be that the Traditional just has piano and organ and Blended has a whole band setup. All things considered, I think I'm going to be going to the Blended from now on...unless at some point I'm actually up that early and want to get it out of the way early on. The sermon was pretty good, and I have to respect the minister, B.A. Austin (who also played the piano for most of the service), for not turning his sermon into a personal pulpit for preaching politics of the current Gulf War. Instead, he preached from Genesis 10 and 11, pointing out that the names of some of the descendants of Noah are associated with certain nations or regions such as Germany, Armenia, or Egypt and talking about the Tower of Babel. It was pretty interesting, and I learned some things I hadn't known before.
Going back to the war, one of my Livejournal friends,
zamiel, has made an interesting post about various protestory things. Rather than just steal his links, I figured it was worth pointing a few more people to it directly.Make no mistake, I think that people's freedom to protest based on their beliefs is one of the greatest things about the nation in which I live. All the same, I can't help but think these protesters are, to put it mildly, misguided. As one of my friends put it the other day, "I can't help but wonder when some of the protesters will start clamoring for the punishment of pro-war Iraqi citizens." Are they even paying attention, or will they continue to wear rose-colored glasses?
And one last thought: the U.S. soldier who became infuriated and grenaded 13 of his colleagues in Kuwait apparently has a Muslim name. Even though there are no signs that this had any religious or terrorist motivations beyond this guy getting a serious mad-on and taking it out the first way that came to him, I'm worried that it might cause some kind of anti-Muslim backlash as rumors grow out of control. I hope that doesn't happen.
