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Weird thing is, while I have not talked too mmuch with Shady, I imagine August's favorite masses do indeed have glamour and wonder and such that might surprise Coradel.

We're working out the visit in PBEM...and yeah...there's some stuff there that agrees with you.

BRB

Might be one of those Walking in Memphis moments

Hmmm....I've never really paid much attention to the lyrics. But the sense of something wondrous happening where you least expect it?

They've got catfish on the table
They've got gospel in the air
And Reverend Green, be glad to see you
When you haven't got a prayer
Boy, you got a prayer in Memphis
Now Muriel, plays piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see her
And they asked me if I would
To do a little number
And I sang with all my might
She said, "Tell me are you a Christian child?"
And I said, "Ma'am, I am tonight"

Ha! Okay, I get it. It's not quite like that for Coradel, but she does understand a lot more about August than she did...and has new questions, too.

good 🙂 And yeah, llove those lyrics. I always read it as he's not a believer like Muriel, but in that moment of song, there was indeed something wondrous and even divine, and the great connection between everything was felt, whatever folks want to call it.

But I am a sentimentalist who projects

I guess you have to have a different experience of Christianity than I have to see it that way. I'm trying like crazy to keep my biases out of Coradel's head. shrug

Sorry, that probably came off a little more negative than I meant. I like that that's how you see the lyrics.

I don't mean Christianity. I mean I've been moved by Islamic archeticture

Well, sure! Absolutely. There's something moving in most religions.

Nod that's what I think the song's lines there about, the... universal sense of wonder.

I wish I could hear it that way. To me, the question is a code for: "do you meet the standards of minimum acceptability? do you have a right to participate in this?"

I guess I've become a member of the First Church of Narnia if you go by the Last battle 🙂

chuckle Been there for a long time, yes. nod

Oh. Mmm

Right, so...you see how my default filters sort of ruin the lyrics for me?

I suppose that's one way to look. I think she was just stunned someone could sing like that so beautifully about something without really getting it. And his ressponse is... well, it shows the universality of it all. But I can see how if you've been burned by the Judgemental you'd have a right to be on guard

Well...anyway.... shrug

NP. Sorry, hope I'm not being preachy, and I certainly see your point.

Nope, you're solid, I just had a knee-jerk thing there.

Totally fair. Ask me about Scientology sometime, and watch me go off 😉

Sounds like a party! 🙂

I don't pay for Tom Cruise movies. I don't like what he does with the money

etc

🙂 That said... I think Coradel is not showing your own view by not converting. I'm pretty sure it's just not her fit G But it will help her understand

Got it. I can't recall the last Tom Cruise movie I saw. Probably Tropic Thunder.

Understand August that is

Exactly.

Okay...I've got to go do some shopping. Will be back in a while. Hugs

Hugs thanks again for the RV scene

You too! 🙂

Later you

timing!

I know

🙂 RV stuff for you

awwww

She does like Jaymes.

dammit, I should grab RV before we lose it

Sure

I wish I could figure out the slack auto archive thing

Nope. You must do it the hard way 🙂

booo

I am off to call my mother and thank her for not smothering me in my crib. Not sure how long it will be.

have fun!

Back. 🙂

hi!