| are the angles wrestling with the saxons? just another fine "delivery system" for injecting the lord into the souls of americas youth. maybe we should launch a brand of cigarettes to market the lord and tobacco. "why settle for dry wafers on sunday when you can puff the lord anytime!!" im sure we can find an appropriate passage in the bible to sanctify our efforts. can anybody think of a good name? i was thinking Gomorrah but that might be too old testament.
I bet you dont like Winger either. ....or the Danielson Family Singers.
perhaps it betrays my cultural biases more than my religious but i like the danielson family while undoubtedly i would hate winger or whatever christian heavy metal rock band i was forced to consider. but maybe i just find that its funny how religions, especially christians in america, appropriate countercultural or merely immoral(wheres that understanding of semiotics when i need it?)motifs and recontextualize them to their own purposes despite the fact that the context of the message and that of the messenger arent necessarily unconflicting. plus, that conjured to mind how cigarette companies consider cigarettes "delivery systems" for nicotine. just as religions could consider music in its many forms a "delivery system" for their message.
The semiotics principle is "the metaphorization of metonymy": if two things are next to each other, they will appear to be related in ways that go beyond contiguity. This perceptual quirk (or truth, or whatever it may be) is used to sell everything, not just religion. The thing is, you only get the product, never the inducement, which is therefore know as "the imaginary". Most often, the imaginary is sex, which makes religion a hard sell under the best of circumstances (it always goes faster under the worst of circumstances). I can tell you, however, having actually been initiated into the Mysteries of Consumerism, even when you get the sex, all that happens is that you feel sorry for the poor imaginary, which is still found to be lacking in existence.
what do you mean even when you get the sex....? is marlboro offering free blowjobs with every carton? i thought their prices were getting a bit steep but i might have to take up smoking again if its true. although i dont think burnt offerings should consider this marketing strategy. we want to merge piousness with smoking. (however, im not saying some subtle subliminables are not worthwhile.)remember, bill clinton and his cigar smoking ilk are not our target audience.
Burnt Offerings: Light one for the Lord.
Hi,(big smile) I'm Jim Louis and I quit smoking years ago and I quit going to church sometime before that, but ever since I tried the new Burnt Offering Brand cigarette I feel like the prodigal son returning home. Now I'm huffin' the Holy Spirit, and puffin' with Jesus.
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just another fine "delivery system" for injecting the lord into the souls of americas youth. maybe we should launch a brand of cigarettes to market the lord and tobacco. "why settle for dry wafers on sunday when you can puff the lord anytime!!" im sure we can find an appropriate passage in the bible to sanctify our efforts. can anybody think of a good name? i was thinking Gomorrah but that might be too old testament.
- dave 1-22-2001 4:17 pm
I bet you dont like Winger either. ....or the Danielson Family Singers.
- bill 1-22-2001 7:51 pm [add a comment]
perhaps it betrays my cultural biases more than my religious but i like the danielson family while undoubtedly i would hate winger or whatever christian heavy metal rock band i was forced to consider. but maybe i just find that its funny how religions, especially christians in america, appropriate countercultural or merely immoral(wheres that understanding of semiotics when i need it?)motifs and recontextualize them to their own purposes despite the fact that the context of the message and that of the messenger arent necessarily unconflicting. plus, that conjured to mind how cigarette companies consider cigarettes "delivery systems" for nicotine. just as religions could consider music in its many forms a "delivery system" for their message.
- dave 1-22-2001 8:41 pm [add a comment]
The semiotics principle is "the metaphorization of metonymy": if two things are next to each other, they will appear to be related in ways that go beyond contiguity. This perceptual quirk (or truth, or whatever it may be) is used to sell everything, not just religion. The thing is, you only get the product, never the inducement, which is therefore know as "the imaginary". Most often, the imaginary is sex, which makes religion a hard sell under the best of circumstances (it always goes faster under the worst of circumstances). I can tell you, however, having actually been initiated into the Mysteries of Consumerism, even when you get the sex, all that happens is that you feel sorry for the poor imaginary, which is still found to be lacking in existence.
- alex 1-22-2001 11:37 pm [add a comment]
what do you mean even when you get the sex....? is marlboro offering free blowjobs with every carton? i thought their prices were getting a bit steep but i might have to take up smoking again if its true. although i dont think burnt offerings should consider this marketing strategy. we want to merge piousness with smoking. (however, im not saying some subtle subliminables are not worthwhile.)remember, bill clinton and his cigar smoking ilk are not our target audience.
- dave 1-23-2001 12:03 am [add a comment]
Burnt Offerings: Light one for the Lord.
- alex 1-22-2001 9:44 pm [add a comment]
light one for the lord sounds a little heavy handed. how about something like "lighten up"? im seeing smoke rimmed haloes atop of saints preaching the gospels with fire and brimstone in one hand and a cig in the other, as the smokerings rise onto ethereal climes.
- dave 1-22-2001 10:17 pm [add a comment]
Hi,(big smile) I'm Jim Louis and I quit smoking years ago and I quit going to church sometime before that, but ever since I tried the new Burnt Offering Brand cigarette I feel like the prodigal son returning home. Now I'm huffin' the Holy Spirit, and puffin' with Jesus.
- jimlouis 1-22-2001 10:52 pm [add a comment]
...and you get to be with Him sooner!
- alex 1-22-2001 11:24 pm [add a comment]
smoke em if you god em
- dave 1-22-2001 11:44 pm [add a comment]
Blessed Be
- jimlouis 1-23-2001 2:39 am [add a comment]