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by Ikiru
February 17th, 2010, 6:34 am
Forum: Social Club
Topic: What's your favourite hymn?
Replies: 59
Views: 15035

Re: What's your favourite hymn?

I can't help but like the melody of Amazing Grace.

Technically not a "hymn," but I absolutely love Parry's setting of Blake's "Jerusalem."

Kedrov's Russian setting of the Lord's Prayer is sublime.
by Ikiru
February 16th, 2010, 9:38 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?
Replies: 13
Views: 3783

Re: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?

The one you hear all over the place. Hoppipolla. One of my favourites by them. The video is wonderful too... Shostakovich's tenth symphony & eight quartet = AWESOME. The tenth is my favorite. The version I have by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra (on vinyl) is the best, IMO. That was the firs...
by Ikiru
February 16th, 2010, 11:15 am
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?
Replies: 13
Views: 3783

Re: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?

Ken H wrote: Shostakovich
Shostakovich's tenth symphony & eight quartet = AWESOME.
by Ikiru
February 15th, 2010, 11:46 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?
Replies: 13
Views: 3783

Re: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?

getreal wrote:We have been tryiong to identify a particular piece of music and have just discovered it's by Sigur Ros.
Which song?
by Ikiru
February 15th, 2010, 4:08 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?
Replies: 13
Views: 3783

Re: What are your top 10 favorite artists right now?

The artists (broadly speaking) most essential to me-- in no particular order (that would be asking too much!): J.S. Bach Claude Debussy Brian Eno Sigur Ros Henry David Thoreau Albert Camus Rainer Maria Rilke Basho Marc Rothko Akira Kurosawa ~ ~ ~ More specifically, in terms of painting, sculpture & ...
by Ikiru
February 13th, 2010, 10:27 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: "Outrage as vicar urges women to submit to husbands"
Replies: 7
Views: 1551

Re: "Outrage as vicar urges women to submit to husbands"

Despite the anger and offence caused, Oden stood by his comments. "I did not set out to unnecessarily offend people, but I stand by what God has said in his word, the Bible," he said. Even though I disagree with his views, he is actually quite correct that this is in the Bible. He is simply trying ...
by Ikiru
February 10th, 2010, 7:31 pm
Forum: Comedy Club
Topic: Once you've 'had' a deity .....
Replies: 926
Views: 178548

Re: Once you've 'had' a deity .....

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/37938914_2b2af2a5a5.jpg Not sure how often people outside the States here about these people, but that person is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church (Kansas). This small, peverse group has gotten quite a bizarre reputation here in the US: http://en.wikipedia.or...
by Ikiru
February 7th, 2010, 9:50 pm
Forum: Comedy Club
Topic: Fun videos
Replies: 883
Views: 260310

Re: Fun videos

by Ikiru
February 7th, 2010, 9:41 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: Religion As An Obstacle To Intergration
Replies: 14
Views: 2444

Re: Religion As An Obstacle To Intergration

Actually you're not that far off, the Matrix has a lot of references to the Bible. Not only do we have the whole storyline about the messiah coming to save everyone, but also the character Trinity, the prophecies about The One, Morpheus (Egyptian god of dreams, presumably representing the Exodus), ...
by Ikiru
February 7th, 2010, 6:30 am
Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
Topic: Humanist term wanted
Replies: 20
Views: 4721

Re: Humanist term wanted

"If all goes well..." I think is what I usually say.
by Ikiru
February 4th, 2010, 4:32 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: A brimful of 'asha'
Replies: 49
Views: 5164

Re: A brimful of 'asha'

Being the world's biggest bully is expensive, dontchaknow?

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by Ikiru
February 4th, 2010, 4:25 pm
Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
Topic: The Golden Rule
Replies: 4
Views: 1422

Re: The Golden Rule

What about the Golden Rule for people into "golden showers"? EWWWWWW...
by Ikiru
February 4th, 2010, 4:20 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: A brimful of 'asha'
Replies: 49
Views: 5164

Re: A brimful of 'asha'

A list of U.S. military interventions since 1890:

http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossma ... tions.html
by Ikiru
February 4th, 2010, 1:11 am
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Stop ANTICHRIST from Coming to Your Neighborhood
Replies: 17
Views: 4412

Re: Stop ANTICHRIST from Coming to Your Neighborhood

Here's a trailer and here's the imdb page and here are a bunch of reviews. I don't like horror films so I'll give it a miss. As it's just a film and apparently nothing to do with religion, I'm moving it to Culture. Maybe we can have a nice discussion about censorship and why religionists want to te...
by Ikiru
February 3rd, 2010, 8:09 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: A brimful of 'asha'
Replies: 49
Views: 5164

Re: A brimful of 'asha'

It was only a couple months after Bush was in office that he was already expressing plenty animosity against the UN anyway, and wanted to pull out any US money going to the UN, like a good little Republican (the evil One World Government, all that nonsense). France aside, Bush would've gone with the...
by Ikiru
February 3rd, 2010, 5:14 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Haiti earthquake is a sign of 2012 destruction?
Replies: 32
Views: 4085

Re: Haiti earthquake is a sign of 2012 destruction?

An earthquake is an earthquake is an earthquake.

It is not a moral judgement.

It is not a sign of the end of the universe.

It is not an "act of God."

An earthquake is an earthquake.
by Ikiru
February 3rd, 2010, 5:06 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Stop ANTICHRIST from Coming to Your Neighborhood
Replies: 17
Views: 4412

Re: Stop ANTICHRIST from Coming to Your Neighborhood

philbo wrote:I only clicked on this thread 'cause I was expecting it to be about the Pope coming over. Sigh.
:pointlaugh:
by Ikiru
February 3rd, 2010, 6:38 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Haiti earthquake is a sign of 2012 destruction?
Replies: 32
Views: 4085

Re: Haiti earthquake is a sign of 2012 destruction?

This seems all so familiar...

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by Ikiru
February 3rd, 2010, 6:29 am
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Stop ANTICHRIST from Coming to Your Neighborhood
Replies: 17
Views: 4412

Re: Stop ANTICHRIST from Coming to Your Neighborhood

Hello, By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher of MOVIEGUIDE writes: "Coming to your local theater October 23 is a movie that I can only call the most horrific movie ever seen. It's called ANTICHRIST, and it's filled with a wicked worldview, vile pornographic scenes, onscreen mutilation of private parts, and s...
by Ikiru
February 3rd, 2010, 6:29 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Haiti earthquake is a sign of 2012 destruction?
Replies: 32
Views: 4085

Re: Haiti earthquake is a sign of 2012 destruction?

sammypetter wrote:If this true then what can we do?
If its true, then apparently we can do nothing but tear off another calendar page...