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May 15, 2015
This song appears to be about the word Ginger, but the beginning is arranged in a way that most folks will come up with a different word - N, I, a couple of Gs, E, R. So I think, the song is actually about this word and the special treatment it gets, because most black people feel offended by it. He makes clear that there are many words to offend someone, each of them even aimed at the same targeted physical attribute (be it red hair or black skin), yet this one word gets the special treatment.
I think, he wants to say, that this word is only as offensive as the people offended by it allow it to be. If they chose not to be offended by it anymore, then it wouldn't matter who said it. It would lose it's meaning. But instead people do the opposite and declare it extremely offensive, grinding the sword of their enemy in the process.
May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015
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To a particular version of a particular god
Of the thousands of gods an deities made up by mankind in the course of history, you have to pick the right one.
If you take two people who believe in the same god, they each have their own personal opinion what this god is like. So there are as many different versions of any god as there are people who believe in that god. And you have to pick the right one!
If you take two people who believe in the same god, they each have their own personal opinion what this god is like. So there are as many different versions of any god as there are people who believe in that god. And you have to pick the right one!
May 14, 2015
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scum!
Now I understand a prayer can work:
A particular prayer in a particular church
In a particular style with a particular stuff
And for particular problems that aren't particularly tough,
And for particular people, preferably white
And for particular senses, preferably sight
A particular prayer in a particular spot
To a particular version of a particular
Now I understand a prayer can work:
A particular prayer in a particular church
In a particular style with a particular stuff
And for particular problems that aren't particularly tough,
And for particular people, preferably white
And for particular senses, preferably sight
A particular prayer in a particular spot
To a particular version of a particular
Here Tim sarcastically goes on about the concept of praying. As Sam apparently did it right, while all those still suffering and dying did it wrong, there must be a lot to consider.
Everything about Sam himself, about the church, about the prayer itself, about his choice of god and so on must fit, in order for it to work. Otherwise everybody could just do it.
Everything about Sam himself, about the church, about the prayer itself, about his choice of god and so on must fit, in order for it to work. Otherwise everybody could just do it.
May 14, 2015
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The story of Sam's has but a single explanation:
A surgical God who digs on magic operations
No, it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation
Born of a coincidental temporal correlation
Exacerbated by a general lack of education
Vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation
No it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars
It couldn't be an artifact of confirmation bias
A product of groupthink,
A mass delusion,
An Emperor's New Clothes-style fear of exclusion
A surgical God who digs on magic operations
No, it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation
Born of a coincidental temporal correlation
Exacerbated by a general lack of education
Vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation
No it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars
It couldn't be an artifact of confirmation bias
A product of groupthink,
A mass delusion,
An Emperor's New Clothes-style fear of exclusion
Tim lists many reasonable and rational explanations, and sarcastically discards them all in favor of Sam's wishful conclusion, that God did it.
Indirectly Tim points out, that if you just go for the "God did it" conclusion, you won't find the actual explanation. You will stop right there, mislead to think that you already found the answer, when you actually weren't even trying.
Indirectly Tim points out, that if you just go for the "God did it" conclusion, you won't find the actual explanation. You will stop right there, mislead to think that you already found the answer, when you actually weren't even trying.
May 14, 2015
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But not the AIDS-ridden African nations
Nor the victims of the plague, nor the flood-addled Asians,
But healthy, privately-insured Australians
With common and curable lens degeneration
Nor the victims of the plague, nor the flood-addled Asians,
But healthy, privately-insured Australians
With common and curable lens degeneration
Here he points out the disgusting arrogance behind Sam's claims. By believing that God fixed his mum's cataracts, while de facto not helping actually poor, suffering people, Sam indirectly claims, that she is worth saving, while the others are not. Even more so, God allegedly bothered to intervene here just to rid Sam's mum of a problem, that doctors could have fixed as well. That's how special she is. Other folks in Africa and Asia are not so special. God just let's them suffer and die.
May 14, 2015
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Fuck me Sam, what are the odds
That of history's endless parade of gods
That the God you just happened to be taught to believe in
Is the actual God and he digs on healing
That of history's endless parade of gods
That the God you just happened to be taught to believe in
Is the actual God and he digs on healing
Tim ridicules what basically every believer thinks to be true: what ever god they were taught to worship happened to be the one true god, while everyone who ever lived and believed in any other god was fundamentally wrong. What are the odds?
(Many believers even see how ridiculous this thought is - as long as the one thinking it is a member of a different religion.).
(Many believers even see how ridiculous this thought is - as long as the one thinking it is a member of a different religion.).