Comments on: …For The Bible Tells Me So http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/ No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:03:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Pauli Ojala http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-4760 Pauli Ojala Sun, 11 May 2008 21:55:19 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-4760 Ever saw figures of Dinoglyfs & Dinolits documented by man in the historical era: http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Dinosaurs-in-history.htm ? pauli.ojala@gmail.com Biochemist, drop-out (M.Sci. Master of Sciing) http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-ID.htm Ever saw figures of Dinoglyfs & Dinolits documented by man in the historical era:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Dinosaurs-in-history.htm
?

pauli.ojala@gmail.com
Biochemist, drop-out (M.Sci. Master of Sciing)
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-ID.htm

]]> By: Carnival of the Godless: The Book of ‘Pod Edition | Mind on Fire. http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-4089 Carnival of the Godless: The Book of ‘Pod Edition | Mind on Fire. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:41:56 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-4089 [...] *In A week of scriptures, Heathen Dan celebrates “National Bible Week” by performing excellent and approachable critical analysis of various biblical stories through a series of seven posts. (Also, his image is a massive composite of album covers ) The Spanish Inquisitor also takes on the Bible in …For The Bible Tells Me So. [...] [...] *In A week of scriptures, Heathen Dan celebrates “National Bible Week” by performing excellent and approachable critical analysis of various biblical stories through a series of seven posts. (Also, his image is a massive composite of album covers ) The Spanish Inquisitor also takes on the Bible in …For The Bible Tells Me So. [...]

]]> By: Altoona Atheist (Disgustipated) http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-4048 Altoona Atheist (Disgustipated) Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:12:30 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-4048 Spanish Inquisitor, I am happy to report, My children are now in public school! That only took a few weeks! Spanish Inquisitor, I am happy to report, My children are now in public school! That only took a few weeks!

]]> By: Billy http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3895 Billy Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:20:44 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3895 Sarge: Thank you. I also ran across another one with almost the same melody -- its a different version of "Wild Colonial Boy". It has almost the same words, but to almost the melody of "Boys of the West." It sounds wrong. Sarge: Thank you. I also ran across another one with almost the same melody — its a different version of “Wild Colonial Boy”. It has almost the same words, but to almost the melody of “Boys of the West.” It sounds wrong.

]]> By: Sarge http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3894 Sarge Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:08:32 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3894 Billy, it's "Lincoln and Liberty", it was a campaign song. It has a part that I think would have a different tone and meaning now, "...hurrah for the suckers so lucky..." I think the present slate would use "sucker" as a different type of noun. Billy, it’s “Lincoln and Liberty”, it was a campaign song.

It has a part that I think would have a different tone and meaning now, “…hurrah for the suckers so lucky…” I think the present slate would use “sucker” as a different type of noun.

]]> By: Billy http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3869 Billy Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:23:50 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3869 My father-in-law is a knife collector. He sells and trades them at knife shows and measures his collection in pounds (not sterling, weight). He has a 'knife' which is a nail-file stuck into a piece of green wood. He labels it "Charlemagne's Knife: Handle replace 174 times, blade replaced 80 times. Price: $154,079.99 negotiable." He's never had a taker. I have no problem with people taking a song and changing it. Some are really good. Witness "Boys of the West," "Acres of Clams" and another one about Lincoln (name temporarily forgotten) all with the same melody. What irks me, though, is when someone takes a song and, with minimal or no rewriting, comes up with a boatload of symbolism and tells you that the song means something completely different because you haven't been using the proper symbolic language. Oddly, people do this (selectively) with the bible itself. The law regarding stoning people who work on the Sabbath has been reinterpreted to mean go to church. But genesis is absolutely word for word truth. Who makes up the rules about what in the bible can be interpreted symbolically and what has to be taken literally? My father-in-law is a knife collector. He sells and trades them at knife shows and measures his collection in pounds (not sterling, weight). He has a ‘knife’ which is a nail-file stuck into a piece of green wood. He labels it “Charlemagne’s Knife: Handle replace 174 times, blade replaced 80 times. Price: $154,079.99 negotiable.” He’s never had a taker.

I have no problem with people taking a song and changing it. Some are really good. Witness “Boys of the West,” “Acres of Clams” and another one about Lincoln (name temporarily forgotten) all with the same melody. What irks me, though, is when someone takes a song and, with minimal or no rewriting, comes up with a boatload of symbolism and tells you that the song means something completely different because you haven’t been using the proper symbolic language.

Oddly, people do this (selectively) with the bible itself. The law regarding stoning people who work on the Sabbath has been reinterpreted to mean go to church. But genesis is absolutely word for word truth. Who makes up the rules about what in the bible can be interpreted symbolically and what has to be taken literally?

]]> By: Sarge http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3868 Sarge Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:54:07 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3868 Billy, Texas Sam Hinton once said that a traditional song is like getting Daniel Boone's tomahawk. It was given to your anscestor who was his friend, and passed down to you, and here it is, from Daniel Boone himself. Of course, throught the years it's gotten twelve new handles and three new heads, but hey, Daniel Boone gave it to your anscestor, and...you get the picture. Billy, Texas Sam Hinton once said that a traditional song is like getting Daniel Boone’s tomahawk. It was given to your anscestor who was his friend, and passed down to you, and here it is, from Daniel Boone himself. Of course, throught the years it’s gotten twelve new handles and three new heads, but hey, Daniel Boone gave it to your anscestor, and…you get the picture.

]]> By: Billy http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3806 Billy Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:44:21 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3806 Sarge: Bowdlerization (there's something you don't see every day) is common to all ages. What I find most fascinating, though, is plagiarism (as Lee Hayes once said, "Plagiarism is basic to all cultures"). Sometimes I will be playing and singing a song, and my wife will start singing a completely different song (almost the same tune, totally different lyrics and (sometimes) subject). She claims she has no musical talent, but she can recoginize the tune better than I can. I wonder if there are any other alternate words to "Jesus Loves Me?" If not, maybe someone needs to be creative? Sarge:

Bowdlerization (there’s something you don’t see every day) is common to all ages. What I find most fascinating, though, is plagiarism (as Lee Hayes once said, “Plagiarism is basic to all cultures”). Sometimes I will be playing and singing a song, and my wife will start singing a completely different song (almost the same tune, totally different lyrics and (sometimes) subject). She claims she has no musical talent, but she can recoginize the tune better than I can.

I wonder if there are any other alternate words to “Jesus Loves Me?” If not, maybe someone needs to be creative?

]]> By: Spanish Inquisitor http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3799 Spanish Inquisitor Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:55:07 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3799 Sarge No, and I looked him up in the Bar Association Directory, and he's not in it, so I suspect that if he's around here, he probably works for the state, or in private industry. Sarge

No, and I looked him up in the Bar Association Directory, and he’s not in it, so I suspect that if he’s around here, he probably works for the state, or in private industry.

]]> By: Sarge http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3798 Sarge Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:47:33 +0000 http://spaninquis.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/for-the-bible-tells-me-so/#comment-3798 By the way, SI, would you happen to nnow a fellow lawyer in your area named Walt Vertreece? By the way, SI, would you happen to nnow a fellow lawyer in your area named Walt Vertreece?

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