This made me lol.
In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
Just say you're gay. It's faster.

Girls who read thank you kindly!
In reply to this comment by paul4dirt:
*quality

Awesome poem, awesome sentiment, so true, so very true.


Although the video maker needs to see this

Could you point out the straw man or hateful comments? I'm scratching my head at this one..

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

Why is it that every religious poster has to speak in strawmen? This one is pretending there is something hateful about saying "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU." I guess the Nigerian prince would call it hateful if I didn't give him my bank account. Playing the victim card in the first few lines of your special snowflake poem is a good way to get me to go take a shit while your video is playing.
If it weren't for religious hate, you'd never hear from an atheist.
I hope this guy at least came up with something more intelligent than "I hate Coca-Cola, but I LOVE Coke."

Why is it that every religious poster has to speak in strawmen? This one is pretending there is something hateful about saying "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU." I guess the Nigerian prince would call it hateful if I didn't give him my bank account. Playing the victim card in the first few lines of your special snowflake poem is a good way to get me to go take a shit while your video is playing.

If it weren't for religious hate, you'd never hear from an atheist.

I hope this guy at least came up with something more intelligent than "I hate Coca-Cola, but I LOVE Coke."

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A decent song to be added to the Audiosift! I hope you agree.

Make sure you read the poem to get an odd idea of how this song may be going... I've heard several interpretations of the poem (which means "dance Russian or Russian dance") from a poem about cold-war standings and precepts or that the man in the poem has killed his family before he does his little dance. But, many poems can be left up to you the reader, to determine it's final meaning and outcome. This poet was known for his slightly more morbid and ghastly leaning pieces, so death may be somewhat likely--but, it was also popular to include the leanings and political problems that were constantly on display around these writers in these times as well, providing us with yet another source of material...

Hey R, the clip is from this program Fry put on in November. The poem is in a couple of his collected poetry books.

I saw him give a public interview last night. Bloody great guy.
In reply to this comment by RhesusMonk:
Please tell me where this is from. Please.

I totally saw Binoche in this. Pattinson not so much.

Also, here's a link to the Zbigniew Herbert poem about rats becoming the unit of currency:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/report-from-the-besieged-city/

@BoneRemake

I was watering my rose garden and you walked by my place
I almost ran up to you in a lustful, unsensitive haste
I almost cried cause I acted so insensitive
But I wanted you to know about the feather-soft warmth I could give

I respect your feelings
I respect your gender
I respect your existence
I'll always be tender
Cause I respect your feelings
As a woman and a human

I'll be the pansy-growing gardener of our bouquet of love
A flower-wielding soldier with the grace of a dove
I'll love you all, heart, mind and soul, I'd never think of anything cheap
I'll read you some of my poems before you go to sleep

I respect your feelings
I respect your gender
I respect your existence
I'll always be tender
Cause I respect your feelings
As a woman and a human

In the real world, I can make a copy of a car from the tires up, and then drive it. I can copy a poem from my favorite collection and send it to my wife on our anniversary. I can write down a phrase from my favorite author's work, and put it in my wallet for inspiration. I still have my old mix tapes from the eighties and the Christmas specials I used to tape on TV. Nobody seems to want them.

A computer is simply a tool. If I try to paint my own copy of my favorite painting, I can do it. If I try really hard and practice for a long time, I might even get something that's practically identical. And I can use many tools to do it. I can take a photo of the other painting and put it out on a grid, and I can use lines or even a laser level to make sure my copy is exact. But at what point am I not allowed to use a certain tool to make the copy for my enjoyment. Where exactly is the line? Why can't I use a device like a printer to make my copy? At what point does my copy become illegal? I demand to know where that exact line is.

Digital information seems to be best represented by George Carlin's crumb paradox: if I split a crumb in half, I don't have two half-crumbs. I have two crumbs. In the same way, why does digital information, when I copy it, become two originals? At what point does all this craziness stop?

Your video, What Do You Go For In A Girl (beat poem), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Many thanks!
In reply to this comment by eric3579:
Reading is overrated. I like a nice ass!
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wow. this is less like a song and more like a really vulgar spoken word poem.. with a kick drum in the background

>> ^Peroxide:

Cell phones are immoral, from the slave labor mining of precious metals to the sweat shop assembly, to the toxic waste shipped back to china.
Your sentiments are cliche and your herd mentality a detriment to the global herd.

Cell phones are not immoral. Slave labor mining, sweat shop assembly and toxic waste pollution are definitely immoral, but don't confuse the ends with the means. Our desire for cell phones may not justify the immoral actions used to produce them, but that doesn't mean the cell phones themselves or our desire to use them, is wrong.

As for the poem, technology is amoral. It is a tool, which can be used to enslave or enhance your life. Would he have said the same thing about the printing press?

I have acquired knowledge, discovered art and laughed at the world (and yes those things have equal value) on this site alone, and that means the internet makes my life better. I have had visceral, collaborative, experiences in online games I could never have in real life (at least, until the zombie apocalypse hits).

But it's a part of my life, not the whole. Guitar hero doesn't compare to actually playing guitar. SSX has none of "oh crap, I've overcooked this and now I'm really gonna hurt" adrenaline rush of actually snowboarding. As much as I love taking down a room of thugs in Arkham Aslyum, it's a pale shadow of the intricacy of martial arts.

So yeah, take what you want from the web, but go have a beer with some friends every now and then

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Religion, Poem, Belief, Forced Belief, Jesus' to 'Jefferson Bethke, Religion, Poem, Belief, Forced Belief, Jesus' - edited by alien_concept