I read the word "Hymen" instead of hymn

Thanks d00d.

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
discarded

In reply to this comment by KnivesOut:
Damnit, someone discard this video so I can sift it again.

"Why can't a woman......be more like a man?"
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historic'ly fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Well, why can't a woman be like that?
-"Hymn to Him", my Fair Lady

very very amazingly ballsy and brave. but cameras are not allowed in mormon church. i wonder how they pulled that one off. id call fake but everything else is quite convincingly mormon. the walls. the podium. the page numbers on the wall behind him for which hymns theyre going to sing. the dress and the silence of the adults. and the child sounds everywhere.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'music, live music, acoustic, guitar, pierre bensusan, french' to 'pierre bensusan, hymn 11, acoustic, guitar, french' - edited by kronosposeidon

>> ^lavoll:
i think me and jrbedford must have totally opposite tastes in music
to me this is just soulless wanky stuff.
but upvote for the electrovoice re20 microphoe which is sexy


Hah, yeah, it seems to be that we do have different taste, but so it goes! And this guy definitely has technology going for him, no doubt about that.

"I am a C. I am a C-H. I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N. And I have C-H-R-I-S-T in my H-E-A-R-T and I will L-I-V-E E-T-E-R-N-A-L-L-Y!"

I remember joyfully singing (more like chanting) this at Orthodoxy camp in NH around a bonfire along with many other hymns among my Christian peers, thinking how humble and pious and special we all were.

In retrospect I realize this type of pretentious group-think is anything but humility. I still feel disgusted that I spent weeks out of each year at this place being trained to be an ignorant and unquestioning/credulous little godbot.

True, true. There are times when I think it's actually a chapter in the bible. "Please open your bibles to hypocrisy chapter 4, verse 8. And the lord said Love everyone like your own father, but hate that guy, that guy, aaaand that guy over there by the well."

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Too late; I already got ya started. Hypocrisy abounds in the Catholic church too, brother. I don't think any religion or sect has a monopoly on that.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
I can see that. I actually have a few Catholic friends many of whom still practice and attend regular services so I can see where you're coming from at least a little bit. I was raised Lutheran so basically I just mumbled my way through monotonous hymns and recited the lords prayer a few thousand times. sigh... At least the communions were slightly unsupervised so I could sneak a small shot of wine every now and then. Guilt, that never really got to me but the hypocrisy in that church, OY! don't get me started!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I hear ya, I really do. I was born and raised Catholic. Though I walked away from it years ago, many of the symptoms remain. Guilt, being first and foremost.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
Same. There have been very few decisions that I have made in my past where I can say "wow, that really was a great choice that I made there" ... walking away from the church and never looking back is one of those decisions.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I'm not Jewish, nor do I believe in God, yet I still feel this dude's pain.

Too late; I already got ya started. Hypocrisy abounds in the Catholic church too, brother. I don't think any religion or sect has a monopoly on that.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
I can see that. I actually have a few Catholic friends many of whom still practice and attend regular services so I can see where you're coming from at least a little bit. I was raised Lutheran so basically I just mumbled my way through monotonous hymns and recited the lords prayer a few thousand times. sigh... At least the communions were slightly unsupervised so I could sneak a small shot of wine every now and then. Guilt, that never really got to me but the hypocrisy in that church, OY! don't get me started!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I hear ya, I really do. I was born and raised Catholic. Though I walked away from it years ago, many of the symptoms remain. Guilt, being first and foremost.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
Same. There have been very few decisions that I have made in my past where I can say "wow, that really was a great choice that I made there" ... walking away from the church and never looking back is one of those decisions.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I'm not Jewish, nor do I believe in God, yet I still feel this dude's pain.

I can see that. I actually have a few Catholic friends many of whom still practice and attend regular services so I can see where you're coming from at least a little bit. I was raised Lutheran so basically I just mumbled my way through monotonous hymns and recited the lords prayer a few thousand times. sigh... At least the communions were slightly unsupervised so I could sneak a small shot of wine every now and then. Guilt, that never really got to me but the hypocrisy in that church, OY! don't get me started!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I hear ya, I really do. I was born and raised Catholic. Though I walked away from it years ago, many of the symptoms remain. Guilt, being first and foremost.

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
Same. There have been very few decisions that I have made in my past where I can say "wow, that really was a great choice that I made there" ... walking away from the church and never looking back is one of those decisions.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I'm not Jewish, nor do I believe in God, yet I still feel this dude's pain.

>> ^chilaxe:
Irishman, it's an injustice to the complexity of the situation to continually describe one side of this conflict as 100% correct.
It's easy to say from a distance that it'd be fine to live under the domination of a larger military power, but the countries that actually have to do that feel quite differently, which is why Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine have all rallied behind Georgia.
Military conflicts are always stupid.


Hear hear. Always stupid.

But I am in Lithuania, I can tell you the "support for georgia" is almost entirely an opportunity to express anti-russian anger and vengeance, rather than a call for peace. After a "peace" demonstration they sang old traditional lithuanian war hymns about "get on your horse and go to battle". wtf.

The connection between "russkies go home" and "yankees go home" is entirely lost on the majority people here. They are blinded by the opportunity to go on and on about russian aggression, while their own troops are in Iraq "installing democracy" with the USA.

The delivery of a tiny amount of aid to georgia by the us administration was CHEERED here. No irony detected. And support seems to be for the flag and state of georgia, not so much her people. Forget the fact that the government of georgia is fucked up, let's support it because it's not russia!!

And in my city, the town hall has a plaque on it quoting GWB from his speech in Lithuania: "Anyone who would choose Lithuania as an enemy, has made an enemy of the United States".

The clever thing about the "new empires" is they just stopped using the word "empire" and now everyone's fucking happy.

hey asynchronice,
thanks for your input on this, its always interesting to hear more background on something especially on a subject such as this. I also noticed that the roundtable dicussion at the end was fairly biased as well but I figured I would let the video stand for it self and see if anyone had any input on it. I didnt mean for this to be flamebait in any way either, I find religion of all kinds very interesting... even if I want no part of it As for other videos I'm not sure, I actually just stumbled upon this while searching for a different video completely unrelated to religion. I checked the youtube account that this came from and the person seems to be fairly biased against mormons but it might be worth browsing through his movies.
As for the golden bathtub...well I think I'm gonna leave that one alone
>> ^asynchronice:
Being raised Mormon and having since realized how retarded ALL of them are and now comfortably atheist, I think I can speak fairly about this:
It's called Kolob, and the only reason I know is because it's in one of the super-freaky hymns that was in the back of the hymn book:
"If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye"
I would imagine 90% of Mormons have no idea what this is. It's mentioned only briefly in the Mormon scripture, and (like many Biblical passages), was only intended to be understood metaphorically. However I would fault the author (Mr. Smith) with coining a sci-fi sounding name which obscures the point. But beyond that, the video has some very interesting slightly subliminal techniques. The emphasis on multiple gods, the 'Mormon' Jesus; there is a very concerted effort to demarcate where the creators Christianity begins and Mormonism begins. The 'facts' presented here are all very obscure passages, painstakingly juxtapositioned together to create a very loose narrative that is just crazy enough to fit together, but not really make a lot of sense.
And this is clearly not a 'real' documentary as the interview session at the end is laughably biased.
This piece could be done to any Judeo-Christian faith (maybe Eastern as well, but that's out of my area), as it focuses on only the mystical and obscure facts and spends all of it's time elaborating on them. It would be like a documentary on Catholicism and spending all your time on Revelations. You couldn't deny it was true (or at least according to the Vatican), but you miss the point. Entertaining, maybe; educational, not so much.
This reminds me of an old friend of mine who went to a private Christian school, and one day in mandatory 'bible' class (lolz) they showed a video on Mormonism. Based on our conversation, I'm guessing this is what he saw. He laughed it off and said they had little videos on all the 'other' religions, that focus specifically on how to demean them, which most of them picked up on and ignored.
That said, I'd like to see those other videos too

Being raised Mormon and having since realized how retarded ALL of them are and now comfortably atheist, I think I can speak fairly about this:

It's called Kolob, and the only reason I know is because it's in one of the super-freaky hymns that was in the back of the hymn book:

"If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye"

I would imagine 90% of Mormons have no idea what this is. It's mentioned only briefly in the Mormon scripture, and (like many Biblical passages), was only intended to be understood metaphorically. However I would fault the author (Mr. Smith) with coining a sci-fi sounding name which obscures the point. But beyond that, the video has some very interesting slightly subliminal techniques. The emphasis on multiple gods, the 'Mormon' Jesus; there is a very concerted effort to demarcate where the creators Christianity begins and Mormonism begins. The 'facts' presented here are all very obscure passages, painstakingly juxtapositioned together to create a very loose narrative that is just crazy enough to fit together, but not really make a lot of sense.


And this is clearly not a 'real' documentary as the interview session at the end is laughably biased.

This piece could be done to any Judeo-Christian faith (maybe Eastern as well, but that's out of my area), as it focuses on only the mystical and obscure facts and spends all of it's time elaborating on them. It would be like a documentary on Catholicism and spending all your time on Revelations. You couldn't deny it was true (or at least according to the Vatican), but you miss the point. Entertaining, maybe; educational, not so much.

This reminds me of an old friend of mine who went to a private Christian school, and one day in mandatory 'bible' class (lolz) they showed a video on Mormonism. Based on our conversation, I'm guessing this is what he saw. He laughed it off and said they had little videos on all the 'other' religions, that focus specifically on how to demean them, which most of them picked up on and ignored.

That said, I'd like to see those other videos too

He's got some great one-liners. I kept imagining a rimshot after each one of them.

Interestingly, when I lost my faith in Christianity I went through a similar thought process to the one he had here--it seemed completely hypocritical to continue going to church and singing hymns and bowing my head in prayer when I didn't believe in it anymore. The only reason I was still doing it was 1) out of habit and 2) to appease those around me (particularly family) who could not accept that I no longer believed. Eventually I grew a pair and stopped going entirely.

Changed the embed to the same hymn. However, part of what I wanted to share with the original was the video of the person playing the organ to go along with it, but until he resubmits his video to youtube, this one will suffice as a replacement.