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#26 2014-08-06 12:26:30
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
This may be the only cutural intersection Formby and me share.
#27 2014-08-06 13:15:27
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
I love choral music, and I love churches/religious buildings and ecclesiastic architecture in general.
Which is strange given that I'm atheist. Maybe a hangover from my Catholic youth...
My college had a wonderful choir which given the topic at hand is a nice coincidence.
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#28 2014-08-06 13:20:23
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
I don't think religious belief or lack thereof necessarily needs to get in the way of one's appreciation of a particular form of art. If you like it, you like it. I really like a lot of old Southern Gospel music because of the great singing and playing. And even though the message is blatantly religious, you can either overlook it or try to interpret the lyrics as some metaphor or allegorical message that's applicable to your own life.
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#29 2014-08-06 13:26:01
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#30 2014-08-06 13:29:00
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
I feel the same way, and I'm not religious whatsoever. Religion has been the inspiration for some of the most beautiful art, architecture, and music the world has known.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#31 2014-08-06 13:35:35
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#32 2014-08-06 13:38:40
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#33 2014-08-06 13:40:37
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"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#34 2014-08-06 13:45:53
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#35 2014-08-06 14:53:41
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I think the spirituality that music, art etc can build up in you is probably closer to hitting the nail on the head than a book of rules or teachings. Im not religious but like Formby I enjoy these things.
I feel as though the spirit is basically our energy as matter being influenced by the greater power of the universe around us.
Time for another tramadol
#36 2014-08-06 14:57:56
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#38 2014-08-09 17:01:06
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Re: Off to the Proms, what do I wear?
Probably a fair point in many instances, but the art the artists were commissioned to create was still religiously themed. So still, without the religion, the art wouldn't have been created.
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