Tuesday, November 10, 2009 #

Can *you* think of anything worse than washing sieves?

 

Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes, by the incomparable Half Man Half Biscuit.

Bonus lyrics and chords. The "E" is the high 'E' barred on the seventh fret, and the G is barred at 3 I'm using a capo at 2 in the video to make the B7 braindead easy to play for a big-fingered bass player like myself. 

[correction 12/11/09 - I messed up writing out the chords. thanks to steven in the comments thread]

E
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
                                             B7
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
               E
With the possible exception
      A         Am
Of being Garth Crooks
E                       B7                    E
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves

Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
When you’re holding tea and toast
And there’s no-one else about
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear
When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear somebody say:
“Careful now, that swan can break your arm”

E
Oh before the gods that made the gods were born
                                            B7
Yes before the gods that made the gods were born
      E
Yes before the gods that made the gods
  A                 Am
Woke up and made the gods
E                   B7
That’s when you got into
E                   A
That’s when you got into
E                                         B7
Yeah that’s when you first got into the Manics
E B7


posted @ Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:31 AM | Feedback (5)

The textual contradiction paradox



To my knowledge, only in Christianity does this happen. You point out direct contradictions in an account, and are immediately regaled with:

But that's evidence that it's true!

There is no other field, that I know of, where this could happen. In the context of a scientific theory, two conflicting sets of data are an indication that your hypothesis may not be correct. In jurisprudence, two conflicting testimonies mean that one or more of the parties are either lying or mistaken. In everyday experience, if one friend tells you they saw Britney Spears in the street and the other says "No that wasn't Britney, is was Christina!", you know at least one of them is wrong. If they say they saw Britney/Christina shopping at Coles when you know for a fact Britney is fiercely loyal to Woolworths, then it's likely they're both wrong. Or you are.

Why, then, do christians seem to think that direct contradictions in biblical accounts, such as the number of women present at the discovery of the empty tomb, whether the stone was rolled away, the final words on the cross, the culpability in handing over the messiah to the Romans, whatever. Why is it that christians feel they can throw away sense and claim that it's actually direct evidence for the truth of the accounts?

Discuss.
posted @ Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:22 PM | Feedback (0)
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