waysider

Farewell my lady of the dancing water...

Hey! Where did we go, days when the rains came?

Gloria...Them

Why, yes. That would be correct.

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key.

Eleanor...The Turtles

NEXT!

Am I the only one who remembers this?

Now I'm so lonesome I could cry. No, really. That's the title. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.

It's a Hank Williams tune but it's been covered hundreds of times. Take your pick:  Elvis, Everly Brothers, Skeeter Davis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash....

I think my favorite is BJ Thomas.

Anything we have known

Anything we've forgotten.

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep

When leaves begin to die?

Like me he's lost the will to live

Our Unwritten Seoul

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?

He sounds too blue to fly.

3 minutes ago, Raf said:

Yes, but honestly, did he seem like he had the slightest idea what he was talking about?

Hoo boy! That's a real knee slapper.

1 hour ago, WordWolf said:

*looks up from his book*

Did you Turn the Page?

Bob Seger

Even VPW argued that the soul is simply your breath life.

I can't use the first line because it contains the title.

I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines, wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.

I Am, I said

Night Moves

18 minutes ago, oldiesman said:

I was thinking more along the lines of accurately defining the Old and New Covenants using objective/subjective standards which appears to be the topic of this thread.

I feel like that's a fool's errand. There's too much ambiguity for a decisive answer.

13 minutes ago, Nathan_Jr said:

Three agents. Each following the god of Abraham. Each having their own scriptures upon which they justify violent suffering.

Did I fix it?

 

And thus you are right back at the heart of the issue. Should religious texts be accepted as the authoritative source? Three Abrahamic faiths. Which one?

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong....Hey! That would make a good song lyric. 

It all boils down to being a geopolitical issue.

HERE

2 hours ago, oldiesman said:

NOTE:  IMO, I consider this method more substantial and ultimately valid than simply asking God for forgiveness without a witness.

Why would God need a witness?

The modern concept of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise originated in Dante's Divine Comedy, in the 14th century.

So, there's that.