People Get Ready 18 Jan 2009 People get ready There’s a bus a’comin’ Don’t need no deity Just get on board Won’t hurt believers If you can’t hear God’s mummery You’ll still need a ticket From the Transport Board People get ready For the bus to show you All people are passengers From coast to coast Citizenship’s the key For the doors of freedom There’s room for all Among the secular host There’s plenty of room For those you call sinners They’re still part of humanity To each his own Have pity on those Whose minds are narrow Cause there’s no real place Where theocracy’s at home So people get ready There’s a bus a’comin’ Don’t need no deity Just get on board Won’t hurt believers If you can’t hear God’s mummery You’ll still need a ticket From the Transport Board Humor Religion Sermon
Freedom The Abstract and the Concrete, or, the Road to Fascism 9 Apr 20179 Apr 2017 I was thinking about the way in which the anti-abortionists justify their views. I have always said that “Pro-Life” is a misnomer. Instead of being pro-life, they are pro-potential life. In order to protect potential lives, they ignore the needs and rights of those who have actual life – the women who cannot… Read More
Religion What is atheism? 1 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 Every so often we start a discussion somewhere about who is and who isn’t an atheist. PZ Mackers has the poster shown below up on his blog: I want to look at the term and associated meanings of “atheist” and cognate terms, because the way I taxonomise the world, only… Read More
Evolution The World According to Genesis: Other peoples 8 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 This is the last section I will discuss in detail. It is, of course, the story of Cain and Abel. Cain is a farmer, and Abel is a herdsman. Both of these are agrarian pursuits, in the new agricultural period. But YHWH (just the single name now) seems to value… Read More
That song evokes the 60’s, so maybe the bus could be painted in psychedelic colors and dubbed “The Magical Rational Tour”. Just a thought.
That song evokes the 60’s, so maybe the bus could be painted in psychedelic colors and dubbed “The Magical Rational Tour”. Just a thought.
Pfff, Citizens only, huh? Others are not welcome in your exclusive circle, huh. Citizenship should not be the key to freedom…. it can’t be, since it can be revoked at any time. Also, you have no power to get it, you can only be given it. Doesn’t sound like freedom to me. You saying there should be a class of people that shouldn’t get any freedom because the govnmn’t said so?
I see tom cruise’s new film is a bit of a biopic. Wonder why he got a hitler lookalike to play hubbard.
Jeff Beck did it? I first heard it in the early 70s. I can’t remember who, but it stuck even before Rod Stewart did it. [Later note: It’s a Curtis Mayfield song done by the Impressions in 1965.] George – allow me some artistic license. I meant just that one is included in virtue of being part of the society. Couldn’t find a more inclusive term. Everybody’s a critic. “Citizen” once meant “member of the city”…
Jeff Beck did it? I first heard it in the early 70s. I can’t remember who, but it stuck even before Rod Stewart did it. [Later note: It’s a Curtis Mayfield song done by the Impressions in 1965.] George – allow me some artistic license. I meant just that one is included in virtue of being part of the society. Couldn’t find a more inclusive term. Everybody’s a critic. “Citizen” once meant “member of the city”…
So vegetarian drivers refuse to staff buses advertising Steve’s Scrumptious Sausages? Jehovah’s Witnesses nix assignments when the message promotes the Red Cross? Scientologists will not drive when SSRI ads mar the bussy goodness?
I have a live bootleg of the Jeff Beck-Jan Hammer Band (with Simon Phillips on drums, Doug Wimbish on bass and Jimmy Hall? on vocals) recorded live in 1986 which also has People Get Ready as one of the encores featuring both Steve Luthaker and Carlos Santana on guitars. It Rocks! If you get a chance, go and see the current Jeff Beck Band they are awesome. The bass player is a disgustingly young Australian lady who plays like a goddess.
I have a live bootleg of the Jeff Beck-Jan Hammer Band (with Simon Phillips on drums, Doug Wimbish on bass and Jimmy Hall? on vocals) recorded live in 1986 which also has People Get Ready as one of the encores featuring both Steve Luthaker and Carlos Santana on guitars. It Rocks! If you get a chance, go and see the current Jeff Beck Band they are awesome. The bass player is a disgustingly young Australian lady who plays like a goddess.