I'm sure many have seen this before. I never had. I found it quite touching.



If it has been posted here before, I'm sorry. The memory is the second... or third thing to go, I guess.

Not to be rude but in my opinion, humble or not, the idea of christianity always bothered me. Pagans are not much better as often times they are rebelling against their christian upbringing. The idea that they sit to a table and get along, great. Mostly it's because people cling to or run to Dieties that quite frankly couldn't give a shit about them. To me it's almost as bad as an Anglo trying to be buddhist or maybe even Mexicans being catholic. All I see are confused people. Not that I am atheist or anything. Atheists are soulless.

The song wasn't impressive either. Maybe had their been more cleavage, maybe not.

So...Deities exist...but they don't give a shit about people.

Interesting.

Buddhism originated in India, so maybe an "Anglo" being Buddhist is less farfetched than you think.

I'm betting Siddhartha Gautama was not Anglo.
And I'm not sure there were many Brits in India in the 6th century BCE.

No rudeness taken. As a "souless" atheist, I would put all those espousing any supernatural deity in the same catagory. But I enjoyed the story of a family members reuniting and accepting their differences and building on their similarities.

Religion all too often tears apart families and friendships... hell, nations for that matter. I thought it was a wonderful story.

Siddartha Gautama was caucasian. As are most Northern Indians, and it's been that way for more than 4,000 years.

Now you can feel free to post some lengthy and twisted semantic argument as opposed to focusing on the actual issue. Commence bullsh*t in 5...4...3...2...

I guess my mind just sees the base cause of this song as irrational family dynamics. Sorry to hear about your loss. Hopefully we'll at least agree upon the idea of more cleavage making the song better?

Tell me...what's the actual issue? The song? It's not really that good, imo. Dar Williams? I've seen her live...she's just okay, imo. I prefer Patty Griffin. Families need to get their act together and be civil to one another, lose the grudges, quit scorekeeping, and cover each other with a little bit of grace? Yeah...absolutely.



If he's not just a myth, he was most likely a mix of races. As written, he had "golden skin" so that could mean Mongol heritage; "blue black curly hair" so that could mean Assyrian descent. No one knows for sure and genetic and linguistic scientists disagree. At any rate, he would have descended from Noah of Ur and Japeth, Noah's son, who was the father of the Scythians. The "Anglos" (Anglo-Saxons) would have descended from Japeth, not the other way around.

lmao

His ashes are in an urn in Patna, India.

Not too far from where Jesus is buried, as it happens.