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iron_monkey
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A very interesting talk on atheism and its repercussions in the American political arena. After seeing it, I immediately thought of the Obama speech on religion that was posted here yesterday(?). I have the sneaking suspicion that Obama is playing the christianity role as a de-rigeur requirement of the political establishment. I may be wrong, but what made me think this is his openness to addressing the agenda of not only religious folk but also the agenda of non-believers. Whatever the case may be, the following talk reminded me of that speech so I thought I'd share it with you....
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I can't watch that at work, but I agree that making all churchy (to varying degrees, obviously) is pretty much a prerequisite for national office these days. Any candidate running as an atheist might as well wear an Anton LaVey mask...
Who will replace the music industry in ten years
We're working on him right now.....
I got 7 million Bentleys, two thousand Range Rovers
8 Jaguars designed up, 600 million ladies lined up
Shoes with built-in air conditioner
All 48 Mack trucks parked in position
Credit cards by the pages
You can't stop the helicopter and baller stages
I take care of adults
Send 20 thousand grants to kids all ages
10 grand pianoes, my TV show's The Sopranos
800 acres of free land
With a custom made zoo don't touch the animals
Bathroom toilet, and bathtub with diamond handles
8,000 flights a year
Send the women to El Salvador first class tickets to come over here
22 Porsches in front of 7 gas stations I own
Give every girl a New York a cellular phone
Interstate highway controller 22 thousand cars on the freeway
Co-signer by myself, under me one owner
800 thousand in charity, to the Red Cross and blood donors
Diamonds on my shoe soles
Bears and sheepskins, hunters make my coats from Polars
Support women, give 'em section 8 loyalty
With 50 thousand baby strollers
Send private jets out every 5 seconds to pick up high rollers
Milk containers with my name on 'em
Washing machines with my embrodiery and fame on 'em
Who could stop me?
With 8 bodies, I can perform in Dallas and L.A. and New York
and Miami, Texas and Denver, 3 more cities at the same time
Simultaneously sync'd up with the same rhyme
Lyrics come in braille
Did a show in Montreal, in an arena 62 thousand packed
Everybody was blind, 6 thousand pythons around my neck
3 tigers and 4 lions, just bought the tampon maxipad company
There's no slouch or slum in me
Hotel investory - been in the game since Watergate
Six million suits, paid in full
Throwin iced up Rolexes at A.J. Lester
We New Jack City, CMB! You see....
im taking a guess here..
kool keith???
dont crazy people have a thing for numbers?
Yes
I have two tickets to the NAACP Awards
The Image Awards
Secret Servicemen, you can sit down
My seats are in the front row, I hate to be so arrogant
But I am..
I have two tickets, Keith, and Esham
And also, backstage passes
For the afterparty, thank you
Black starship control, walk like I'm Darth Vader
My green limousine, purple Maury alligators
Glow in the dark Pele jacket
Shoes shine in your face accurate
Never seen a leather jacket with lights in the back of it
Custom made by the kids who sew and makes clothes for Prince and Sisqo
I'm 2004 beyond the average club music and disco
I take cities by storm
Drop deep like hills in San Francisco
Cookout with hoodrats and fried chicken and Crisco
After dinner, girls come over in lingerie
Bake sugar cookies and ginger snaps from Nabisco
Even nighttime, we bust a night rhyme
Ridin fluently into the mountains with briefcases countin
millions and billions and zillions
And quintrillions, in mansions talkin to chameleons
Dark Vadar
Voltron? 8 bodies? I was thinking Wu-Tang.
it was more the lack of cadence and rhythm in the "rhymes"
Thats gotta be an overdub.
the onlookers arent even reactin.
killer
plaese to explain.
It is comprised of an absolute and ultimately faith-based belief regarding a god-figure and cosmology that cannot fully be explained by human terms or understanding. There's a reason why Richard Dawkins runs into so many religious double entendres in his description of his professed belief.
Agnostics get all the crossfire from Theists and Athiests simply for embracing their human limitations and admitting their present inability to have an answer for every question. I can see how such a position would be considered frustratingly untenable for absolutists on both sides.