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[Dec. 8th, 2005|08:59 pm] |
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sex is good. you all should have some |
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[Nov. 24th, 2005|07:51 pm] |
Everyone eating alot? I'm at home and its so FUCKEN ODD seeing my ex girlfriends cause she is bestfriends with my cousin and she is here and i'm in my old room hiding out. I got to go wish me luck.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING |
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[Nov. 13th, 2005|03:06 pm] |
ive learned people can love you as much as they love themselves but people can hate you so much. its wierd cause i certain or atleast i say i do i prob dont even really HATE THEM and its odd to find out someone really HATE YOU.
thats life |
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[Nov. 4th, 2005|12:19 pm] |
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Wow, MySpace started a record label. That won't suck AT ALL. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2005|10:27 pm] |
Soon I will find out whether it is possible to write two six-page essays with at least six cited sources in one day. Focusing upon books I haven't read or glanced at for months.
This is going to be grand. |
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[Oct. 30th, 2005|03:11 pm] |
I have been arguing with some Christians lately about what exactly makes music "Christian" music. Christian music, put simply, is any musical genre with a message that proclaims the glory of the Christian belief system. The issue I have been raising, however, is that ANY song can be interpreted to be pro-Christian, or at least Christian-neutral.
To prove them wrong, I have been busily interpreting Nine Inch Nails songs from a Christian perspective. I will list the lyrics and my interpretations below.
"Heresy"
He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
he tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiousity
he dreamed a god up and called it Christianity
Your god is dead and no one cares
If there is a hell, I will see you there
He flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
he made a virus that would kill off all the swine
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering, and pain
demands devotion; atrocities done in his name
Your god is dead and no one cares
Drowning in his own hypocrisy
And if there is a hell, I will see you there
Burning with your god in humility
Will you die for this?
At first glance, this song seems to be VERY anti-Christian, but the song is actually an attack on heresy itself, not Christianity.
The title of the song tells us that the story is going to be about a particular type of heresy. The leader of the heretics thinks he has all the answers, and he attempts to label his god as "Christian" when in fact he just dreamed him up from a heretical interpretation of the Bible. The next verses describe the leader of the heretics in more detail: he uses force to keep his followers in line, he is said to kill off the swine (those who do not believe as he does are swine to him) with a metaphorical virus (that being his heretical take on Christianity which infects the true belief system). He thus turns the kingdom of god into one of killing and pain by demanding atrocities of his followers for their false doctrines.
Obviously, the chorus doesn't say GOD is dead...it only says YOUR god is dead, meaning that the heretic's idea of God--his false conception of the deity--is an intellectual dead end. The heretical god contradicts the Bible, and thus drowns in its own hypocrisy. And of course the narrator angrily asserts that he will see the heretic from his perch in heaven burning with his god in humility. Finally, he asks at the end "will you die for this?" in effect asking ALL heretics if they are willing to die for a belief they know contradicts what Christianity is SUPPOSED to stand for.
"Closer"
You let me violate you. You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you. You let me complicate you
Help me; I broke apart my insides. Help me; I've got no soul to sell
Help me; the only thing that works for me ... Help me get away from myself
(CHORUS)
I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God
You can have my isolation. You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith. You can have my everything
Help me; tear down my reason. Help me; it's your sex I can smell
Help me; you make me perfect. Help me become somebody else
(CHORUS)
Through every forest, above the trees
within my stomach, scraped off my knees
I drink the honey inside your hive
you are the reason I stay alive
"Closer", while at first appearing to negatively portray the concept of God, is actually a Christian song. The song is about an atheist who meets a Christian girl, starts a relationship with her based upon shallow sexual attraction, and then grows to love her and accept her beliefs as a result. The sex act, originally thought to be immoral, actually helps him attain a relationship with God.
The first stanza begins with the atheist's attitude about himself. He feels broken, soul-less, and lives for nothing but sex. He also subtly hints that he wants to change himself when he says "help me get away from myself"--although at this point he only means that he wants to use the sex act as an opiate for his depression. How do we know his partner is Christian? Because he feels that having sex with her will "violate" or "desecrate" her.
Of course, after he has sex with her, he grows attached to her. While he originally just wanted to fuck her, he finds that her Christian, pure attitude helps him see that his existence is flawed, and in turn she helps him get closer to God. This becomes evident in the next stanza. He is willing to give away everything that makes him an atheist: he gives away his isolation, his hatred, his absence of faith, EVERYTHING that makes up the characteristics of his atheism. He implores her to help him "tear down his reason" and replace it with faith. He tells her that she makes him perfect. And finally, he ends with a plea for her to help him "become somebody else." While in the first stanza he says he wants to "get away from himself" through the sex act, in this stanza he actually wants to BECOME someone else, someone good, someone who BELIEVES through the sex act. He doesn't want to merely FORGET himself, but his zest for life is regained through his new desire for faith.
Finally, the ending reveals that the atheist truly does reform himself with the help of the girl he had originally only wanted to fuck. He feels the existence of God now "within his stomach" after he has "scraped off his knees," no doubt from praying (upon his knees) more fervently than ever. His renewed faith is like honey that he can drink forever. And he proclaims that God, the God who resides "through every forest, above the trees" in heaven, is the only reason he stays alive.
Obviously, these songs are NOT truly intended to be Christian by the author, and the Christians were swift to bring this point up. I then informed them that an author's intent does not change the meaning of words. I gave them an example of a Rabbi saying "I don't believe in God." If he had INTENDED to say that he DID believe in God, it wouldn't change the meaning of his utterance. His utterance, in plain english, would still be interpreted as "the rabbi doesn't believe in God," regardless of what he had intended to say. Thus, it is clear that the listener or reader supplies meaning to any text, and not the author. Of course, the reader or listner can't just supply ANY meaning to a text, as he has to work within a framework of langauge, but so long as his interpretation is validated by the text, his interpretation stands.
So, technically, these two apparently anti-Christian Nine Inch Nails songs are actually Christian music. |
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[Oct. 28th, 2005|11:42 pm] |
Skepticism tears down ordered systems of thought, but a pile of rubble can also be construed as systemized. So then the true skeptic must build up this rubble into something else to destroy the system. And then he must destroy this rebuilding when he sees that it, too, is systemized. Ultimately he is engaged in a desperate pursuit of destruction, only to realize that every destruction is only another form of construction.
It, too, is totalizing in nature, as all worldviews are. True skepticism is cyclic and ever-changing; it is a skepticism of idealism, then becomes a skepticism of skepticism, and a skepticism of a skepticism of skepticism, until the skeptic ultimately realizes that he hasn't eaten in three days, and proceeds to gnaw on a piece of ham he has found at his feet.
In fact, skepticism has much in common with digestion. We skeptics try to break down structuralized truth, to digest them, but ultimately the waste we produce from these digested truths becomes just another structure, just another synthesis of ideas, only these ideas are more feces-like, and molded to the shape of our quivering sphincters. And what do we do with this waste of truth? We flush it down the toilet. We skeptically rid ourselves of this construction that was supposed to be a destruction.
How can we ever escape the structure?
It is a silly theory, really, but you can never truly answer the nagging, idiotic child who constantly asks "Why?", in much the same manner you can never truly answer the raging disbelief of the childishly unaccepting skeptic. |
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[Oct. 28th, 2005|11:33 pm] |
age-17 going on fucken 30
drug of choice-mary jane
dance of choice-???
show of choice-family guy
school-high school i wish was no school
what do you look like- it dont matter |
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[Oct. 28th, 2005|11:32 pm] |
today started out bad and ending with me being yelled at by my sis and my fucken brother.
i wish i could give them a camera to see how THEY LOOK YELLING AT ME. |
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