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RE: Delerium + Merlot = Quill's Delerious Delights
Quill, if you ever do become president, you should call out a massive airstrike on the person who told Yoko Ono she has talent. I mean, Yahoo Serious has more talent than that chick. I can't believe she's even famous. How many times do you hear blue-collar workers from the south bad mouth Yoko Ono? No, they have to pick on Jane Fonda. At least Jane Fonda has talent. She didn't rise to stardom on her ability to make weird noises in public. John Lennon was a genius, but when it came to women, he was a freaking idiot. No wonder the Beatles broke up.
@blockurator,
Your 5-line missive perfectly captures the essence of postmodern society. With Fonda, even if you disagreed with her feminist or anti-war politics ... it was politics. With that caterwauling fool, Yoko Ono, it's palpable ideology ... an ideology that requires the evisceration of every standard of belief and behavior ... simply because it's a standard.
Here's a tidbit most people don't know:
For decades, Beatles fans debated who 'Jude' in 'Hey Jude' was. They went through every woman Paul McCartney ever encountered. Finally, McCartney spilled the beans.
'Jude' was originally "Jules' ... short for Julian Lennon, John Lennon's son.
When Lennon shacked up with Yoko, it devastated John's wife and his son. Despite Lennon's shenanigans, McCartney became like an uncle to Julian. Julian was having a difficult time in relationships believing, as many children of cheating parents do, that others can never be trusted.
On one particularly difficult occasion, McCartney jumped in his car and drove from London to Liverpool. With one hand on the wheel, he used the other to scribble out the lyrics to "Hey Jude.' It was a song written to try to convince Julian to be more trusting.
During his lifetime, John Lennon actually thought he was "Jude" ... and that 'the her' in the song was Ono. That McCartney was, despite all the evidence to the contrary, encouraging him to pursue her. Ideologues can believe anything as such is the nature of ideology. Logic never gets in the way.
Hey Jude is my favorite Beatles song but the meaning dramatically changes when you know the backstory. For me, it makes it a far better tune.
Quill
I've never heard that before Quill; it makes me love that song even more ... and like Paul McCartney a little more as well.
@lynncoyle1,
Hey Lynn,
It's actually pretty tragic when you think about it. What a way to humiliate your own child. And the irony of John Lennon thinking he was 'Jude.'
That's why I always watch this version as opposed to the original with the Beatles.
Everybody talks about how great John Lennon was. He WAS a great musician ... but he was a leach of a human being. I've always been a much bigger fan of McCartney.
BTW ... even though the guys in the above video are now a bit older ... I think it give them gravitas.
Youth is wasted on the young. :-)
Quill
I don't get what ideology Yoko Ono represents.
Oh, and if they were going to have a Britfest, why didn't they include Boy George?
@blockurator,
She's a big postmodernist.
Boy George ... now you're just baiting me. :-)
Quill
Is that an ideology?
Why would I do that?
@blockurator,
Post-moderism is what identity politics and Intersectionality are based upon. It's a re-hash of Marxism except the Oppressor Class is not based upon "Wealth," but "Power" ... and so, you know who that means: Straight White Males ... me and you.
I wrote an article about it and its historical evolution.
https://steemit.com/writing/@quillfire/arguing-without-being-a-holes-civil-discourse-an-exemplar
Quill
And the only way to win against such psychosis is to not get in the ring with it. If you get knocked out, they win. If they get knocked out, you lose. Freedom wins when people exercise it ignominiously.
@blockurator,
As you have undoubtedly noticed, one of my maxims is that the Silent Majority needs to stop being so Silent.
I was reading an article last night from Canada. A transgender has filed a complaint with government agencies, in addition to lawsuits, against several dozen beauticians (some Muslim) who refused to give him (oops, her) a "Brazilian" bikini wax.
That means waxing all the hair off his male genitalia.
Discrimination. Transphobia. Hate crime.
Irrespective of what happens, many of these women will be bankrupted by the legal fees that they are about to incur.
They were just living their lives, minding their own business, and then some guy comes along, claiming to be a woman, (penis, testicles and all) and if they don't agree that he is a woman ... then they lose their life savings.
This has gone way beyond "Live and Let Live." You are now forced to accept ideological beliefs, and engage in ideological behaviors, for which there is zero empirical evidence ... or be crushed.
It's all over the news ... but most people say nothing. They don't want to get involved. And then, when it happens to them, they're flabbergasted ... "Why won't anyone help me?"
Quill
Don't you think there is enough cacophony? Like, we need more shouting! Please, lend your voices to the useless chorus of angry, howling, glass-shattering clamorous intonations of self-flattering flatulence spilling over the lips of the coffee cup of the multimedia pea soup masquerading as our shared life together. Yada yada yada, fart fart fart.
Here's a news flash: If it wasn't some transgender, it would be an angry white guy. Take note:
Here's the actual court brief.
Here's another one: The only mention of "trans" in this article is the trans fat in the unhealthy Oreo cookie this man consumed (as if the other ingredients in an Oreo cookie were any less healthy).
Oh, yeah, here's a good one. This stultifying idiot was dead and therefore unable to sue, so his family did it for him. Instead of saying, "Oh dear, our beloved Larry appears to be a little shit. He tried to break one of our creator's most important commandments and ended up electrocuting himself in the process. I guess we better call the pastor and the undertaker." Nope, let's call the lawyer instead. Somebody tried to protect what is rightfully theirs and succeeded.
I could go on and on. The truth is, you and I are no better than these "others" you want to rail against. We're all sinful. Consider this:
Romans 3:10 (it's in the Bible): There is none righteous, no, not one.
Romans 3:23: All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.
Romans 5:8: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 10:9-10: – If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
So, go on, howl. Howl until your heart stops beating. It won't change the very nature of the problem. The ultimate injustice in the world is the one we all perpetrated against the only innocent person who has walked the planet--Jesus Christ, the very embodiment of God--himself. We nailed him to the cross, and we continue to do so daily. But go ahead and howl at the universe, scowl at what you don't understand, spit and cuss and beat your knuckles against the wall of the Devil's fiery moat. It is the state of your own soul you should concern yourself with the most.