And a highly intelligent introduction as a bonus:
Here are the strikingly profound lyrics:
Evolution teaches man came from a monkey,
I don’t believe no such a thing anymore than a week of Sundays.Chorus:
For the bible’s true oh yes, I believe it,
I’ve seen enough, and I can prove it.
What you say, what you say,
It’s bound to be that way.God made the world and everything in it.
He made man perfect and the monkey wasn’t in him.
What you say, what you say,
Bound to be that way.I’m no evolutionist that wants the world to see,
Can’t no man that’s anywhere born, make a monkey out of me.God made the world and then he made man,
Woman for his helpmate, beat that if you can.
(via)
“Woman for his helpmate, beat that if you can.”
Well, I sure can! As a gay man, I don’t need nor do I want a woman as my “helpmate”.
Do these people ever stop to think how stupid they look to the rest of us?
eewwwww… that gave me the shivers
Banjo… how appropriate…
Looks like a little too much inbreeding over yonder. As one of my BFF’s would say, “Sweet Fancy Jesus!” That song alone should be enough to get the Bible banned as destructive, or at least put on the list of controlled substances along with other mind-altering drugs.
Oh, Lordy! I seen the light!
This guy should so do George Bush impressions.
If the best god can do is really terrible banjo music and crappy lyrics, no wonder the devil is winning.
For an antidote, I recommend John R. Butler’s “Hand of the Almighty.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwtqwnI6ko
Having grown up listening to gospel blue-grass, I can tell you that this is EVERY gospel song condensed down into a single song.
Ooops, oh yeah. The above lyrics are NSFW. Just saying’.
If only I was more closely related to apes and less closely related to that eejit.
gene pool<dew drop in parking lot. Yeeeeee Haaaaa! Dumb as a rock and proud of it.
“God made the world and then he made man,
Woman for his helpmate, beat that if you can.”
Interesting that some of the misogyny that critics so vociferously attack has been strained into this song as a positive point.
No, no, I’m sure ‘woman’ as a whole is perfectly happy being relegated to the status of ‘helpmate’.
Wow. Just wow.
VorJack you are now my God for posting that link, holy hell man that was hilarious!!
I think he needs a good dose of Deliverance – movie style!
Well, I’m convinced.
I think we need to reconsider the whole idea of secession.
I’m calling Poe on this. So much of the performance just doesn’t ring true.
I CAN’T STOP SINGING THIS SONG.
No Poe as far as I can tell. Here’s the guy’s site:
http://www.leroytroy.us/
Then again, maybe it’s supposed to be funny. If so, it worked! But Poe’s Law is in effect here — it could be a spoof, or it could be real, and it would be impossible to tell the difference.
PLEASE stop singing this song. It’s getting in my head now.
Dan, your helpmate is pleading with you……you’re making it difficult for her to help you…
…oh man. This song is just too much.
I am ABSOLUTELY going to sample this song.
making fun of christians is like trying to like trying to sucker punch a blind guy…..kind of beneath you guys.
anyway, they do it better themselves…
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=97759aa27a0c99bff671
enjoy the sanctity of the google ads.
He’s right that no-one can make a monkey out of him. At least, not more than he did himself…
If making fun of blind people would give them a chance to see, I’d be willing to try.
Aor – but only if it would give them the chance to “see” the same way you do, though, right?
If by seeing the same way I do you mean being able to see at all, then sure.
Are you still feeling sore from our previous discussions Grape?
Aor,
lol.
I think we have very different ideas of how our last discussions went.
Besides, I thought we made up…no hard feelings on my end.
Your words contradict your actions. If you had no hard feelings, you wouldn’t be trying to play games with my words here.
You want to imply that I would force people to believe only one thing. To me that means that you still have hard feelings, so why hide it? Who takes that kind of attitude without a reason?
I am fine with you disliking me, Grape. No problem. Buy why lie about it?
Aor,
be rational.
How could I like or dislike you?
I have never met you.
I do dislike the way you twist people’s words and cherry-pick individual phrases to dwell on, but that is just my personal tastes.
Calling me a liar, or name-calling in general, is just sad…and a sure sign of an inferiority complex.
:-)
Ah, you can’t dislike a person you have never met, but you can dislike the words and actions of a person you have never met. Have you any idea of how nuts that sounds? Have you met Charles Manson? Do you like or dislike him? See, you can’t even be honest about your own emotions. You even try to sneak in a little petty insult of your own, while still pretending not to hate.
Why are you afraid to speak truthfully? No invisible father figure in the sky (or wait, it was aliens with you right? Or were you just pretending with the aliens?) is going to spank you for having emotions.
Aor,
Charles Manson might be perfectly charming and quite likable in person (how do you think he got all those followers willing to kill for him?), in between being barking-dog crazy, that is.
So yes, I might like Charles Manson if I met him (probably not), but I dont like what he did.
Hitler is another person who was famously likable…but I think you and I both do not like what he stood for.
You should think through the things you write.
ps. I don’t think we were put here by aliens….or god (or is it God?). I do think that the panspermia hypotheses is the best (ie. most logical) we have right now, and I am certainly not alone in that belief.
You say that you cannot like or dislike a person you never met. That means no matter what actions, you cannot dislike Hitler. You cannot dislike Charles Manson. That is the meaning of your words. Not that you do not, but that you can not.
You see, this is why I call you a liar. You contradict yourself in odd ways, ways that a person who spoke his mind honestly simply would not. Why would anyone lie about something as innately human as likes and dislikes? What possible gain?
Aor,
I see now, thanks for opening my eyes.
It is all as clear as night now.
I came here expecting to learn how to lose my religion, but instead you taught me how to love again.
I think we all learned a valuable lesson today.
hug?
;-)
ps. Is english your first language?
I’d like the name calling to stop, please.
Actually grape I taught you that you often get caught making statements that sound silly, and rather than admit it or clarify your words you will go further and further to maintain the deception rather than admit a simple mistake.
If you can’t like or dislike a person you have never met, then nobody can or ever could. So your statement is implies that nobody in the history of the world has ever liked or disliked a person they never met. That is quite the ludicrous claim to make.
You don’t have the guts to admit an error as simple as this one. Conceding a point is beyond you.
Aor,
I will end it with this.
I don’t believe you can like or dislike anyone you have not met, only their actions, ideas, or words.
To like “someone” implies a familiarity with that person.
To like “something about someone” has no such requirement.
If you believe differently, then we disagree.
Sorry.
Then you disagree with the meanings of commonly used words, again.
Human beings judge others by their words, by their actions, and choose to like or dislike others all the time. All of life shows this to be true. We wouldn’t have television showing Angelina Jolie damn near every day if people did not have the ability to like those they have not met. There would be no popular or unpopular people of any kind in the entire world. The entire concept of popular appeal would not exist. There would be no politicians, there would be no religious leaders.
You can disagree with this, but your disagreement implies that you do not feel emotions the way the rest of the world does. This is not something to be proud of. To be honest though I don’t think you are the sociopath that your words imply. I think you just got caught again speaking words that were not true and rather than admit it, rather than adjust your words in any way, you chose to defend a position you do not agree with. This is why I call you a liar and deceiver, Grapeape.
Ask yourself… if you walked down to your local park, found a crowd of people, and said “I don’t dislike Hitler. Nobody can dislike Hitler. You didn’t know the man, you didn’t meet him, so you cannot dislike him.” How do you think the crowd would react?
Aor,
I don’t think that the word “like” means what you think it means when applied to a person.
George W. Bush for example is despised nearly universally, however, even some of his most harshest critics that have met him, say he is quite likable and even charming in person.
Angelina Jolie is another good example. I would like to do naughty things to her, sure, but how do I know that in person she is not insufferable?
So I might not like her as a person, but might like some of the things she does, and would defiantly like to do things to her.
“if you walked down to your local park, found a crowd of people, and said “I don’t dislike Hitler. Nobody can dislike Hitler. You didn’t know the man, you didn’t meet him, so you cannot dislike him.”
this is just common sense.
if you think I am a liar and can’t admit I am wrong, why don’t you ask the same question of someone on this board that you respect and see what their reply is.
You seem to be freely admitting that if you spoke publicly the way you claim to actually believe that people would not understand what you mean, yet you still think you are right and I am wrong. You admit it is common sense not to act as if you cannot like or dislike a person you haven’t met because people around you do like and dislike people.. If you behaved that way publicly people would not understand you. You would not be able to have any feelings, positive or negative, about a person you had not met.
Ask anyone you like, Grape. The topic is open and free, anyone who wishes to respond can.
I will provide you a definition just in case you are actually open to reason.
1. To find pleasant or attractive; enjoy.
2. To want to have: would like some coffee.
3. To feel about; regard: How do you like her nerve!
4. Archaic To be pleasing to.
(The definition goes on, with other variations of ‘like’ as in ‘similar’ etc)
So, by using the actual definition of the word, ‘like’ in this context means to have (positive) feelings about something. Are you actually going to continue to argue that you cannot have positive or negative feelings for a person you haven’t met?
This is where you confuse me. You could simply correct your words, clarify your position, but instead you go on taking an indefensible position. I just don’t understand why anyone would do such a thing. Your position is essentially sociopathy. Nobody can have any emotional reaction to another person without actually meeting them. That is a ludicrous position.
Aor,
OK I will give this one last shot, because that is about all I can muster on this thread.
You seem to be confusing liking a person with liking their values, writings, etc.
you said exactly:
“I am fine with you disliking me…”
The “me” in that sentence means you, as in you the person.
If you would have instead written “I am fine with you disliking what I write…”
well that would be true.
I cannot dislike you as a person because I do not know you.
I can easily dislike what you write, because I read it.
I do not understand what that is hard for you to comprehend.
Unless you deny that someone can like a person but dislike the things they say or write.
If that is the case, then I just don’t know what to say.
Hope that finally clears it up.
I’m confusing nothing Grape. Like does not mean what you want it to mean. I provided a definition, from a real dictionary. If you can find a definition where it supports your position then feel free to present it. Your own definition is clearly overly narrow and an honest person should admit that once they see it.
I have no idea why you are still trying to defend your overly narrow definition once a more accurate one is presented. Each human being choses to like and dislike people they don’t know all the time. They chose to like people based on reading their words in books, seeing them interviewed on television, any other way. They choose to like characters that don’t even exist, and its pretty damn hard to meet a person that doesn’t exist. They even like horses and dogs and inanimate objects. I’m sorry but you don’t have a leg to stand on.
The way I see it this is just another example of your inability to concede points. Rather than accept that you took an indefensible position you choose to repeatedly defend it. Now sure, this is all an irrelevancy.. but I always hope to see an indication that a person can change when simple errors are pointed out.
I don’t like Tom Cruise.
The awesomest thing about this video is that he rhymes “believe” and “prove” — and with his hayseed accent, it actually rhymes.
Wow there are some very Ignorant, and offensive comments on here! This is a version of a song from the 1920s the song was composed by Uncle Dave Macon a major figure in old-time music. the man performing the song is Leroy Troy who is a fantastic Banjo player and entertainer who has dedicated his life to keeping Uncle Dave Macons style of old-time music alive. The song is ment to be sarcastic and funny and keep in mind that it was written as social commentary! I know the man in the video he is a very nice and very smart guy and is not inbread as some culturless louser said on this post. I get soo tired of people making fun of the way people talk from diffrent parts of the country and thinking that a persons accent as any bearing on their intellegence! You people need to find out more about the world around you and be more open minded to the way other people feel, talk, look or believe! I’m sure many of the same people who posted vile stuff are some of the same people who preach tolerance!