Random prompt #3

[CRNDLSM]

Upon opening this thread you have 1 hour to write a 4-8 line poem about a 'church'.

Rules: none

Skill Level: subjective

Time Limit: negotiable 


Go!

[TranquillityBase]

The Church of the Subgenius*
offers instant answers to everything.
Your secret wishes will be granted
most all your wish for Slack.
If you believe, or don’t believe,
or just don’t care, our scripture
is a simple and direct exclamation
of faith:  f**k’em if they can’t take a joke.


*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

[dukealien]

The Mother Stands


No greater place was served so ill
by wretched chance or Islamist glee-
though sooty-faced, rose-windowed still–
than steadfast Notre-Dame de Paris.

[CRNDLSM]

Easily Manipulated

I was shook.
Just a week ago you clicked
on every level, every conversation
was fresh and spot on.
You even went to Bible study.
I couldn't even ask what happened.
Just a week ago.  You clicked.
I was shook.
How could you be a prostitute...
Tears in your eyes, fear in your voice.
Anyone who WANTS to help you
is in danger.  He knows where you live,
where you work, you could DISAPPEAR.
I guess he used you like the others,
If church boy doesn't care about you
why should you
The money won't last
There's nothing I can do for you.
I'm sorry.  I think you should go.

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The Church of the Subgenius*
offers instant answers to everything.
Your secret wishes will be granted
most all your wish for Slack.
If you believe, or don’t believe,
or just don’t care, our scripture
is a simple and direct exclamation
of faith:  f**k’em if they can’t take a joke.


*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

Thank you for this

[TranquillityBase]

Thank you for this

You're most welcome.  I didn't really read the Wikipedia page, because I've been a fan of these guys for decades, but I truly believe their true target is not Real Religion, but the fake ones, like Scientology.  That's my take on it anyway.

TqB

[rowens]

What makes you think
Scentology, I mean ,  sCientology is a fake religion

?
Did psychology ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_(mythology) , the golden butterwhole convince yeu;

m,

Did Science, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ance , the "Say: Ance; and Let's go."?

At what place, area, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology) / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology), I, mhm, I m[aea]n,BasickBen's The Nostalgia Nile: MTV's Buzzkill Invades Fame or Shame - YouTube ; can't find the originial/ original show

.....


What makes you thinking, what location in your brain makes debunking religions, poetic?

Religion tropes much poetry.

© A Poem I wrote;


What experience: going through; What area or location, or fastening on, comical or lowselfesteem or vendetta or other
wisemakes Scientology a fake religion?

CHURCH
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[rowens]

#Robert Anton Wilson


Robert Anton Wilson was a generic Genius +
he was a genius at making things Generic +

What does Church mean?

Why those letters of word?

Jesus said look: Food is everywhere. He, gladly, died before food was
something you had to buy.
LOOK, Lo! , to the lilies of


WHAT

field


Field

Feld

No, child, Feild. Field

Field.

What field?

Now look, I aint got time for shit. And neither do you, son.
Church don't mean anything. Church

Church


Churcg

Chhurch.



Now
take it or leave it,.


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Time Limit: negotiable
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If you're so smart

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There is nosuch thing as subgenuis.

If you're going to be funny, use your genius.

[CRNDLSM]

I feel like Christianity was built on the testimony of 100 people and the top closest 4 accounts were voted on to focus the new faith.  Easier for me to believe than one huge book written by one person.even if that pen was divine inspired.  I believe my own writing to be divine inspired, but I don't market it that way.

[rowens]

You don't really believe that.

Why are you thinking about Christianity? Is it a local bias?

You should make a thread where people list all the cultural aspects of, well, culture, that's based on Christianity.
You talk to witches, and their worldview is Christian. Atheists.
Preachers preach the same book. Satirists make jokes about the same book. The book won't go away. But it will.

It will go away. It'll fade. It'll live in the satire of atheists and closet-Christians, and that will be all the same. And go on living that way, until this this and  

Now, never use biblical tropes, ever again. Every little tentacle or aftershock of christian trope, cut, forget, to never be in a now again.


Jesus died on not a but THE cross. Brilliant. To criticize Christianity is to be a Christian. Turn the cross upsidedown, you have a sword, we can work with that. Turn it head over feet again, well, there's the cross again. Jehovah's Witnesses call it the torture stake. Torture stake doesn't ring as true. Presto, a new CULT.

The Jehovah's Witnesses have a cute scene going on. If you dig in, they have the dirt.
But what about the Devil? Satan.

All Jehovah's creations have free will, and can choose to be saved, and report, directly upon allowance to Paradise Earth.
And Satan? Satan can repent, and be saved?
Of course not. That would FUBAR the narrative.
No sympathy for the devil.

I tell this story, not to prove by logic, based on my previous a few minutes, has it been that long?, statements, that I'm a Christian. But that it doesn't matter.

If I say something, it doesn't.  I could say anything. Could anyone?

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You can be Christ, but you can't be a Christian.

A Christian is a fireman who sits at home while Firemen do Firemen stuff.

End of sermon.


:

[Tiger the Lion]

the bells at St. Jabob's 
stopped their ringin' 
must be four, five years gone

sometimes folks get drunk
and determine to get 'em 
started up again--

pry the plywood from the windows
and forget their are still shards 
of stained glass
hanging on by the sills

it's a messy business
and wakes half the town

[CRNDLSM]

You don't really believe that. of course I believe it, I have to tell myself it's not true, because it's unbelievable

Why are you thinking about Christianity? Is it a local bias?

Must be local bias the number of different christian churches I pass every day just going down the street to work.  I can't agree with any of them, and all the books I've tried to read about every other religion I've been introduced to have left me believing the people who started them but not the churches about them.  I hate church.  

You should make a thread where people list all the cultural aspects of, well, culture, that's based on Christianity.
You talk to witches, and their worldview is Christian. Atheists.
Preachers preach the same book. Satirists make jokes about the same book. The book won't go away. But it will.



It will go away. It'll fade. It'll live in the satire of atheists and closet-Christians, and that will be all the same. And go on living that way, until this this and  

Now, never use biblical tropes, ever again. Every little tentacle or aftershock of christian trope, cut, forget, to never be in a now again.

but it gets such a rise out of you, and really in writing nothing is 'off limits' it might get a warning or a ban on a public forum but...

Jesus died on not a but THE cross. Brilliant. To criticize Christianity is to be a Christian. Turn the cross upsidedown, you have a sword, we can work with that. Turn it head over feet again, well, there's the cross again. Jehovah's Witnesses call it the torture stake. Torture stake doesn't ring as true. Presto, a new CULT.

The Jehovah's Witnesses have a cute scene going on. If you dig in, they have the dirt.
But what about the Devil? Satan.

All Jehovah's creations have free will, and can choose to be saved, and report, directly upon allowance to Paradise Earth.
And Satan? Satan can repent, and be saved?
Of course not. That would FUBAR the narrative.
No sympathy for the devil.

I tell this story, not to prove by logic, based on my previous a few minutes, has it been that long?, statements, that I'm a Christian. But that it doesn't matter.

If I say something, it doesn't.  I could say anything. Could anyone?

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You can be Christ, but you can't be a Christian.

i think a real christian is first a jew, but then again I believe most would say I'm not a real christian or a Jew, they'll know I'm not atheist, I'm just an abomination of faith.

A Christian is a fireman who sits at home while Firemen do Firemen stuff.

End of sermon.


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[TranquillityBase]

What makes you think

Scentology, I mean ,  sCientology is a fake religion

Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 

[rowens]

I have a religious nature. Everything is a religion, a movie, a poem, a woman, a song, a joke.

People have so much so-called Christian in them. Shame and morality. Ideas about the universe. It gets in the way. My Jesus came down off the cross and walked away. I'm someone who can have his cake, and eat it too. I want religion to exist, so I can destroy it. I don't make fun of things because I dislike them, I do it because it gives me joy, and occasionally it does some good.

Scientology is useful. Since I'm on the Useless Path, I gather useful things, and re-engineer them to fit my needs.
Also, I have so-called spiritual experiences. I have them in whatever religious context I happen to be in. I have them when burning bibles and when praying before a cross.
This isn't Decadence, it's something else. Though Decadence is useful, on the Useless Path of Vital Living.

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I call my particular way of spreading the Good News: Buffoonery.