29. "I look at the bible and paradise lost" In response to In response to 23
as equally fictitious ... except milton's work is written with more depth and beauty. However, both texts are full of powerful stories that anyone can learn from (so long as you ignore the bigotry exuded in the Bible).
Even if I were to accept Jesus as the solitary messenger of God, I think its fairly obvious that the text of the Bible has suffered some extreme distortion through translation and the disciples transposing of Jesus' words onto paper.
Jokes about the lightning bolt.
"If life is prison, then music is the yardtime"--Gift of Gab
"I've been a big genesis fan ... take the lyrics to "Land of Confusion," in which a singer addresses the problem of abusive political authority. This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince or Michael Jackson-or any other black artist of recent years, for that matter-has come up with ... yet as danceable as the album is, it also has a stripped-down urgency that not even the overrated Bruce Springsteen can equal"--American Psycho
"I'm tryin' to read your poetry but I'm helpless like a rich man's child"--Bob Dylan
"The only thing you owe the past is wasted time"--Beck