OT: Why, o why do they always end up here in the Bay Area?

[Redwolf]

Oh well, they don't all end up in Berkeley. Some end up in Santa Cruz. My old church was full of this kind of thing.

Redwolf

[OutOfBreath]

Typical singer-songwriter fluff. She's got kind of a decent voice but she needs to learn to play that guitar a lot better and develop a better sense of timing. Also needs to find someone who's better at producing because even her studio cuts were really poorly mic'd and mixed.

This is a good illustration of the principal I recently read in an article from a guy in the music biz who postulates that computers and MP3s are destroying music, not because people are copying and swapping CDs, but because any dang fool with a computer can "produce" an mp3 and even a CD. eMusic was (probably still is) a perfect example of that -- other than some good old blues/gospel/country most of eMusic's offerings were poorly produced garage bands and singer-songwriters that should never have been heard outside of their immediate neighborhoods

[lilymaid]

Edited to also add: You'll find quite a lot of Mother worship in the Jewish tradition, if you look deeply enough.

Why does God have to have a sex or gender? I don't think God reproduces that way.

[Tak_the_whistler]

The mystery of Great Mother and her son

http://xx.acs.appstate.edu/~davisct/tem ... igions.htm

:roll:

Babylonian myth: Istar, the amorous
Polynesian myth: Hina, goddess of childbirth
Arabian myth: Athtar, Arabic version of Venus
Egyptian myth: Min, god of reproduction
Slavic myth: Baba Yoga, a female god who devours victims.
Nordic myth: “Frey’ja, Venus-like goddess of love.
Another Nordic myth: Ner’thus, “Mother Earth”, giver of fertility, peace and plenty.
Greek myth: Demeter, the Earth Mother

many of them have sons. In most cases they are identified with their mothers, who are represented as "rather a male principle in a female form".

quoted from
Bray. Frank Chapin, “The World of Myths – a dictionary of mythology”, (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1935)

True myth: Mary gave birth to The King of Corn Kings.

The following books are also very fun, too.

Neumann. Erich, “The Great Mother”, (New York, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1963)

and

Charles. Picard, “Die Grosse Mutter von Kreta bis Eleusis: Eranos – Jahrbuch 1938” (Zurich, 1939).

[Zubivka]

I don't mind the octave vent in a nose, if the keywork looks nice

Now, seriously, folks, and as Azalin would put it:
"Couldn't she play balalaika for the music it's meant for, i.e. the Red Army Choirs and Dances?"

[Caj]

spend a few minutes at this website, then, if you feel so inclined, answer question above.

This is nothing new. "They" have been "ending up here" since the 1600s.

America was practically colonized by people whose religions were, erm, non-standard enough that they were forced to leave their home countries. That's why our country is so religious, why the very first sentence of the bill of rights is a separation clause (largely voted in by Baptists and Presbyterians, fearing an Anglican-style "Church of America,") and why every year parents all over the country still complain about high school biology textbooks and physics textbooks and geology textbooks.

Caj

[aderyn_du]

Why does God have to have a sex or gender? I don't think God reproduces that way.

Actually, lilymaid, I think the Divine is All, as very well spoken in Hermetic Principles. But as humans, it is natural for us to try to put a face (gender) on something to better understand it. For me, I work within a Goddess-oriented tradition and am better able to connect with my spirituality through the Divine Feminine.


Best,
Andrea

[brownja]

Okay, okay, sorry, everyone. Maybe I'm just too cynical anymore.

Well Nano...I sympathize since I live in the hazy area between cynical curmudgeon and new-age weirdo...I feel like a hybrid, but I understand both places.

Me too...
Sometimes my wife and I think we're kinda "out there", then we go into the city and realize, we can't even see "out there" from where we're at.

Or to put it another way, looking at "normalcy" as some kind of bell curve. The middle is really fat, but the sides go out for a looong way.

cheers,
jb

[Ridseard]

A few new age weirdos migrated to Berkeley during the hippie era, and the migration escalated because of the 'like attracts like' principle of human interaction.

I myself have always dabbled a wee bit in magick and occult arts, but within the context of older, established traditions with more claim to authenticity than these chic neopagan fads.

[Nanohedron]

Well, I'm downloading one of the MP3s to have a listen, but dialup is sssoooooo sssllllooooowwwww.

The Isman cometh...

[Nanohedron]

Feh.

[The Weekenders]

Well, Nano, I didn't intend to get judgmental about the music after all. I was perusing Craig's List and she was looking for a violinist. I checked out the page, thought the photos, Temple and Bio pages were hysterical and started the thread.

What's weird about Berkeley and Santa Cruz isn't the old hippies/New Agers, its the young new ones!

[Nanohedron]

Well, there I go putting my foot in my mouth again. Must be the full moon.

I'll just bow out. *bows*

[JessieK]

Feh.

One of my favorite words!

[burnsbyrne]

We here in the sensible and level-headed Great Lakes/Midwest region always think of fruitcakes as coming FROM California, not the other way around. (or from New York, but California is the first choice)
Mike