SHOULD be seen as a collective noun for ‘all angels’, the afterlife. God is the term Christianity coined, and they believed a male was God, however, 5000 years before Jesus lived the bronze age Greeks believed it was a goddess who created the solar system(and Earth), but that God created mankind. The term God should really be seen as a married couple from heaven, which is as much a prelife as an afterlife. Zeus and Hera….Eurynome, the creatrix, who I believe I’ve met ten years ago, and am still in love with. My supportworker who’d made props for Gladiator, Band of Brothers, and Guesthouse Paradiso(which is what she turned the supported flat I first lived in after psych hospital,grotty little place)into…..aah dookie, Kelly watch the stars, special special K if ever there was one!!
16 January 2015
This leaden paul
What do we know about God? That’s one for the philosophy students (q.v.) if you ask me.
16 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
I have no idea why but 92% of Romanians believe there is a God. Meanwhile only 16% of Czechs do so.
16 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Top song by John Lennon.
16 January 2015
dr desperate
Terry Gilliam’s animation of God in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ (as pictured above) was based on a photo of W G Grace.
16 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
NB10-57 uses “God” in several songs as an expletive. The meaning of this verse changes in a startling way by mere addition of a comma or colon:
God I could murder a Cadbury’s Flake But then I guess you wouldn’t let me into heaven Or maybe you would ‘Cos their adverts promote oral sex
16 January 2015
This leaden paul
@@ Dr. Desperate : That beard demands respect from all who clap eyes upon it.
16 January 2015
bobby svarc
“l don’t believe in god, thank you”,….”well how do you know his name then, smart arse”
17 January 2015
EXXO
@ Peter – comment 3. Better education, over several generations, more healthy scepticism.
@Mike – comment 6. I don’t understand how the meaning might vary. What am I missing?
17 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Exxo – without a comma, “God” is an intensifier (other words would also serve). With one, He’s the addressee.
17 January 2015
EXXO
OK, I haven’t missed anything then – it has both meanings with or without a comma as it’s really just a childish joke about how stupid it is to use ‘god’ as an intensifier, especially in the sentence ‘god I could murder,’ and after that the joke is just how stupid the joke becomes when you drag it out for 4 childish lines.
18 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Cap H in “Heaven” would change the meaning yet again. Not that I’m suggesting that.
IMAO double meanings need identifying, but attempts at resolving them are pointless (the one I highlighted has creased me for years).
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. A recent find in Wikipedia: Section heading Missionary position Opening sentence He arrived in India in 1952 as a Jesuit missionary. No way am I polishing that gem.
18 January 2015
bobby svarc
Only an act of god can save Leicester now, Start counting Exxo
18 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
Bobby I’d have to pay him time and a half to save Hartlepool.
18 January 2015
EXXO
@ Mike, I used to work in a pub that was about 5 yards from the door to Heaven, no less, so it was perhaps inevitable that I ended up in there a few times despite our place having no clientele who frequented the place and myself not being of the persuasion that Heaven was famed for.
Saw Bronski Beat’s first big gig in there in ’84. Which is why I can confirm that the band in Heaven do not in fact “play my favourite song” all night long”.
As one of the probably few on here who have been to Heaven I can also confirm that Christ is mighty pissed off that he didn’t make the A-Z.
18 January 2015
Bananayogi
Fictitious invisible magic sky fairy.
c.f. Jupiter, Baal, Odin, Ra, Quetzalcoatl etc…
18 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Exxo, why should He be pissed off? we haven’t really done with G: J is some way away.
Were BB any good live? From my perspective: one half-decent song on one forgettable album.
@@Bananayogi, should you diss FSM – then, like the current Pope (who I’ve heard is renowned for his sanitary behaviour in forested areas), I’ll be tempted to throw a punch.
18 January 2015
EXXO
As far as I could make out his pretentious new age ramblings, he was muttering something along the lines of “even Bill & Bill Burroughs, even Arthur and Arthur Askey, even Australia and Australia Day get separate entries, yet “Christ that sun’s hot” gets ignored, and I have to wait a bloody year and a half for Jesus, how the fucking Virgin Mary does that work?”. I think he feels that Chris, even though in a way he’s named after Christ, a substitute crucifix for Xmas and all that, has forsaken him. Like I say I was only in Heaven a few times though.
And yeah, he could certainly sing that little Scottish fella.
19 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Exxo, “Christ” is a descriptive title not a personal name: ‘Er Maj (Gawd bless her!) is a christ. On the other hand, the Duke of Westminster has already had a dedicated thread in this forum, so you do have a point.
19 January 2015
toastkid
God (and his colleague Satan) used to be invoked to explain the otherwise inexplicable (the human brain abhors an unanswered question, it’ll always have a crack at it) . Thanks to popular culture, aliens have taken over in some places as the catch-all for the unexplained. I wonder what the next thing will be?
19 January 2015
Eugene C
Is the fucking in fucking virgin Mary a verb. In which case she won’t be. Oh the blasphemy! I’m a catholic I’ll have you know.
19 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
I’d say VFM to avoid ambiguity and images of nuns on penny-farthings.
Three clubs in the Football League as-was (which, etc…) had rude words in their names: Arsenal Scunthorpe Aston Villa (I don’t even follow football, but do live in Cov.)
19 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
In Indonesia we have Semen Padang whilst Deportivo Wanka play in Peru.
19 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Play with what in Peru?
If I ever see Semen Padang on the menu: I’ll have the steak’n’chips, if that’s all right with you.
An early version of the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd included the line “Clear the decks … clear the decks of seamen”. Michael Tippett was for several minutes physically incapable of explaining why he thought it could be improved.
20 January 2015
EXXO
I dread to think what double entendres we were titillating them with in our shrill little soprano voices in all those rubbish school operettas like ‘The Golden Vanity’. There was a song about ‘gobbling up and gobbling down’, among others, that I’m sure made the music teacher a very happy man. You can get away with some total trash if you yourself could compose for orchestra by the time you were in long pants.
20 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
In one version of The Golden Vanitee*:
He had a little tool, made for the use, He bored nine holes in her hull all at once
Don’t think into that number too deeply if you’re squeamish.
*Not one of Britten’s best works.
20 January 2015
dirk hofman
‘..a whip to lash the people into obedience and conformity..'(Goldman,incorrectly)
21 January 2015
dirk hofman
Clapton is God..a graffito first sprayed in Islington tube station,when he was still playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
25 January 2015
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
Sorry for commenting on a comment made almost a year ago DH, but presumably that was before he came out in favour of eugenics? A bit hypocritical seeing how rich he got out of playing the blues…
In a complete non-sequitor, see also Southampton fans in the late 1990s with “LE GOD” on their shirts. Not quite as bad as Brazil with a number 10 (q.v.) though.
10 November 2015
Dirk Hofman
..was that the american or german eugenics bvo..sm? not a Clapton fan here but I guess the closest he got to the blues was playing with mayall and eric’s dilution of the blues was blasphemous (imho)…have been trying to find a sarcy comment to make about him shagging george harrison’s wife and remembered lennon’s comment about beatles being bigger than god and that eric played in the studio with them at times, was john being sarcy about eric?…anyhow it was graffiti that was important because it’s been with us from dhss to ufo, not a main subject like football or light entertainment but like yodelling gets a mention here and there..
16 November 2015
Theqwill10
Rock band from Melbourne in the mid to late ’80’s. Their song “My Pal” is an absolute belter.
14 February 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
American, I believe (he replied, almost a year later).
In other news, I have found God- His name is David Wagner and he’d better not get kidnapped by Brummies.
Archie Dream Walker
SHOULD be seen as a collective noun for ‘all angels’, the afterlife. God is the term Christianity coined, and they believed a male was God, however, 5000 years before Jesus lived the bronze age Greeks believed it was a goddess who created the solar system(and Earth), but that God created mankind. The term God should really be seen as a married couple from heaven, which is as much a prelife as an afterlife. Zeus and Hera….Eurynome, the creatrix, who I believe I’ve met ten years ago, and am still in love with. My supportworker who’d made props for Gladiator, Band of Brothers, and Guesthouse Paradiso(which is what she turned the supported flat I first lived in after psych hospital,grotty little place)into…..aah dookie, Kelly watch the stars, special special K if ever there was one!!
16 January 2015
This leaden paul
What do we know about God? That’s one for the philosophy students (q.v.) if you ask me.
16 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
I have no idea why but 92% of Romanians believe there is a God. Meanwhile only 16% of Czechs do so.
16 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Top song by John Lennon.
16 January 2015
dr desperate
Terry Gilliam’s animation of God in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ (as pictured above) was based on a photo of W G Grace.
16 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
NB10-57 uses “God” in several songs as an expletive. The meaning of this verse changes in a startling way by mere addition of a comma or colon:
16 January 2015
This leaden paul
@@ Dr. Desperate : That beard demands respect from all who clap eyes upon it.
16 January 2015
bobby svarc
“l don’t believe in god, thank you”,….”well how do you know his name then, smart arse”
17 January 2015
EXXO
@ Peter – comment 3. Better education, over several generations, more healthy scepticism.
@Mike – comment 6. I don’t understand how the meaning might vary. What am I missing?
17 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Exxo – without a comma, “God” is an intensifier (other words would also serve). With one, He’s the addressee.
17 January 2015
EXXO
OK, I haven’t missed anything then – it has both meanings with or without a comma as it’s really just a childish joke about how stupid it is to use ‘god’ as an intensifier, especially in the sentence ‘god I could murder,’ and after that the joke is just how stupid the joke becomes when you drag it out for 4 childish lines.
18 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Cap H in “Heaven” would change the meaning yet again. Not that I’m suggesting that.
IMAO double meanings need identifying, but attempts at resolving them are pointless (the one I highlighted has creased me for years).
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. A recent find in Wikipedia:
Section heading Missionary position
Opening sentence He arrived in India in 1952 as a Jesuit missionary.
No way am I polishing that gem.
18 January 2015
bobby svarc
Only an act of god can save Leicester now, Start counting Exxo
18 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
Bobby I’d have to pay him time and a half to save Hartlepool.
18 January 2015
EXXO
@ Mike, I used to work in a pub that was about 5 yards from the door to Heaven, no less, so it was perhaps inevitable that I ended up in there a few times despite our place having no clientele who frequented the place and myself not being of the persuasion that Heaven was famed for.
Saw Bronski Beat’s first big gig in there in ’84. Which is why I can confirm that the band in Heaven do not in fact “play my favourite song” all night long”.
As one of the probably few on here who have been to Heaven I can also confirm that Christ is mighty pissed off that he didn’t make the A-Z.
18 January 2015
Bananayogi
Fictitious invisible magic sky fairy.
c.f. Jupiter, Baal, Odin, Ra, Quetzalcoatl etc…
18 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Exxo, why should He be pissed off? we haven’t really done with G: J is some way away.
Were BB any good live? From my perspective: one half-decent song on one forgettable album.
@@Bananayogi, should you diss FSM – then, like the current Pope (who I’ve heard is renowned for his sanitary behaviour in forested areas), I’ll be tempted to throw a punch.
18 January 2015
EXXO
As far as I could make out his pretentious new age ramblings, he was muttering something along the lines of “even Bill & Bill Burroughs, even Arthur and Arthur Askey, even Australia and Australia Day get separate entries, yet “Christ that sun’s hot” gets ignored, and I have to wait a bloody year and a half for Jesus, how the fucking Virgin Mary does that work?”. I think he feels that Chris, even though in a way he’s named after Christ, a substitute crucifix for Xmas and all that, has forsaken him. Like I say I was only in Heaven a few times though.
And yeah, he could certainly sing that little Scottish fella.
19 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
@@Exxo, “Christ” is a descriptive title not a personal name: ‘Er Maj (Gawd bless her!) is a christ. On the other hand, the Duke of Westminster has already had a dedicated thread in this forum, so you do have a point.
19 January 2015
toastkid
God (and his colleague Satan) used to be invoked to explain the otherwise inexplicable (the human brain abhors an unanswered question, it’ll always have a crack at it) . Thanks to popular culture, aliens have taken over in some places as the catch-all for the unexplained. I wonder what the next thing will be?
19 January 2015
Eugene C
Is the fucking in fucking virgin Mary a verb. In which case she won’t be. Oh the blasphemy! I’m a catholic I’ll have you know.
19 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
I’d say VFM to avoid ambiguity and images of nuns on penny-farthings.
Three clubs in the Football League as-was (which, etc…) had rude words in their names:
Arsenal
Scunthorpe
Aston Villa
(I don’t even follow football, but do live in Cov.)
19 January 2015
peter mcornithologist
In Indonesia we have Semen Padang whilst Deportivo Wanka play in Peru.
19 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Play with what in Peru?
If I ever see Semen Padang on the menu: I’ll have the steak’n’chips, if that’s all right with you.
An early version of the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd included the line “Clear the decks … clear the decks of seamen”. Michael Tippett was for several minutes physically incapable of explaining why he thought it could be improved.
20 January 2015
EXXO
I dread to think what double entendres we were titillating them with in our shrill little soprano voices in all those rubbish school operettas like ‘The Golden Vanity’. There was a song about ‘gobbling up and gobbling down’, among others, that I’m sure made the music teacher a very happy man. You can get away with some total trash if you yourself could compose for orchestra by the time you were in long pants.
20 January 2015
dickhead in quicksand
In one version of The Golden Vanitee*:
Don’t think into that number too deeply if you’re squeamish.
*Not one of Britten’s best works.
20 January 2015
dirk hofman
‘..a whip to lash the people into obedience and conformity..'(Goldman,incorrectly)
21 January 2015
dirk hofman
Clapton is God..a graffito first sprayed in Islington tube station,when he was still playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
25 January 2015
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
Sorry for commenting on a comment made almost a year ago DH, but presumably that was before he came out in favour of eugenics? A bit hypocritical seeing how rich he got out of playing the blues…
In a complete non-sequitor, see also Southampton fans in the late 1990s with “LE GOD” on their shirts. Not quite as bad as Brazil with a number 10 (q.v.) though.
10 November 2015
Dirk Hofman
..was that the american or german eugenics bvo..sm? not a Clapton fan here but I guess the closest he got to the blues was playing with mayall and eric’s dilution of the blues was blasphemous (imho)…have been trying to find a sarcy comment to make about him shagging george harrison’s wife and remembered lennon’s comment about beatles being bigger than god and that eric played in the studio with them at times, was john being sarcy about eric?…anyhow it was graffiti that was important because it’s been with us from dhss to ufo, not a main subject like football or light entertainment but like yodelling gets a mention here and there..
16 November 2015
Theqwill10
Rock band from Melbourne in the mid to late ’80’s. Their song “My Pal” is an absolute belter.
14 February 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
American, I believe (he replied, almost a year later).
In other news, I have found God- His name is David Wagner and he’d better not get kidnapped by Brummies.
7 October 2016