>>23559336

I was watching a video of 'number one songs' from the 1960s. And then I found one I kind of remembered. It was from 1969. It was one of those songs that, purporting to be a love ballad, actually was a confession of an obsession. Those songs were common back then. Some of them bordered on the 'creepy stocker' lyrics, and if you ananlyze the lyrics they aren't healthy mantras to repeat. They aren't prayer like.

So it's 50 years later and I'm listening to this song about unhealthy obsessive love and scrolling down through the comments. Someone put in a comment about having been engaged to a person with the same name as the name that is repeated in the song. This person goes on about how even after all this time when she hears this song she cries.

My thoughts about it: after 55 years why would someone still be hung up like this?

Nostalaga is interesting in order to assess the material that formed us back in the day. I was young back then and realize now that this kind of sappy music was not really healthy for people. And yet it was spammed on the radio as if it were 'number one'.

It's either a metric as to how people were in their hearts and minds or a metric as to the level of psyop that was being pushed upon people.

It's OK to get sad but it shouldn't be your lifestyle.

>>23559403

huh, I always thought it was about a duck pond in common because I'd see it sometimes on a Monday. you know that whole 'umbrella in the rain thing'

actually I never thought that but just made it up.

'Rapture' is a term I don't subscribe to.

people turned an allegorical story about the progress of individual souls to Heaven into a scary story with a science fiction theme.

>>23559418

and you have to envoke a name for what reason?

if it's an unholy spirit why summon it with a name?

are you it's friend?

>>23559424

so will you and you'll see that marketting the Book of REvelations as the theme of a series of fiction novels to scare people, and using words that are just pulled out of the air and not ever used in the Bible wasn't just a great thing to do.

People who want to follow Jesus aren't scared of the Book of Revelations.

>>23559432

whatever.

but what it is not, and I'm being very clear so don't try to ignore my statement by arguing about spelling, what it is not is 'Rapture'.

that's a word tagged onto it by a crowd of people who do not really understand like they pretend to understand.

to claim to understand an incomprehensible book that takes years of meditiation to comprehend, and then to push it as a narrative . . . seems rather manipulative.

And it tells us that Mary is the Queen of Heaven! But the people who call it 'The Rapture' ignore that part.

>>23559443

as if you know that you are one of the 'chosen'.

as if.

don't you see your narrative as being a bit condemning towards those around you who don't meet your moral priorities?

no, anon, not everyone else, but you. and me. It describes what happens to us as we come to shed our sinful nature.

we are all sinners, you and I. The path on which we follow Jesus has various priorities associated with it. We choose the good and reject the bad. Our old selves are thus cast down.

you desparately want to see others as sinners?

do you enjoy the idea that you are 'saved' and they are 'damned'?

if so then you are harboring a demon of judgemental self-rightousness which is not good for you.

Throw it down into the pit, anon, and rise up from it.