All Things Religion Thread

fucken ey @seeds.
What I have sensed, in spaces where people crawl back into what was once hallowed/sacred, after suffering animalistic horrors, confused, is an understanding of the little critters we are.

Never more so, than in Warsaw. People believing in a thing for comfort is fabbo! (like that magnificent David Mamet scripted Sean Penn monologue from We're No Angels), but faaaaarrrrk me. when shit turns Hobbsian, and the truth of us becomes plain, people wander into these cloud-capped towers and ask the empty sky and broken roof and say 'what? why?'. Heartbreaking.

Complete idiots, we are, this species.

- creation stories ;)

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maaaayte, that's where so many of us got our early 'philosophy', the buddhisms before 'in gandhara' kicked in, haha!! (I memorised that opening in grade 2, impressed my mates).

@seeds, you might appreciate this:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/mar/29/medieval-gr...
(there's lotsa church tours in the UK you can do now, where they take you up to the rafters and belfries, and you can see the magnificent tradies' signatures, cartoons: priest with a phalluce protruding from his head, devil with titties, etc. proud men these artists, skilled as hell, they needed the contracts and paychecks, but funny fuckers, too. Unionised too, in their little handshake clubs.

good stuff @JF ; )

I wonder who Lady Catherine was and if she indeed fared well.

fared welll..? she fookin looved it..

this one is for @Island Bay. Clare Maclean is a NZ compositional talent. This piece plays with cathedral echo in real-time, delves into modern messiness melange, comes back into simple plainsong (at 4:00), back into awkward conservative modernism, but a cracker of a song, really. Cool piece to sing, hard to pitch, I actually suspect this is a recording I sang on, gets pitchy in a way I recall. I had a chance to sing this with NYCA (National Youth Choir of Australia) in the 90s, throughout NZ. Also got to sing the NZ national anthem at a rugby game.

Brings me back to me churchin youth, Base. If i had some frankincense and myrrh, i’d be totally set.

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Not religious, sorry @popti, but much of the best is not, now that the secular world has wrested a lot of the money and power from the church and monarchies in western society.

composer John Rutter received a CBE in the same round that Andy Abel received his honour.
(I got to sing this piece in Cambridge conducted by Rutter, and perform alongside a twenty-something Aled Jones, once a boy-soprano wunderkind of 'Sailing' and 'the Snowman' fame had ball-dropped into a fairly good baritone. You can see him on Escape to the Country these days.)

(words from As You Like It by Shakespeare in 1599). this song from John Rutters 20 min 1975 song-cycle When Icicles Hang,

"In his song, Amiens comments on how human insolence and lack of appreciation are more bitter than anything the winter could deliver. This poem reflects the harm and misery those closest to us can inflict. At the beginning of the poem/song, Amiens speaks of the bitter cold winter wind."