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Rush and Religion May 26, 2008 Guest Contributor
Rush and Religion
The coolest music video you'll see all day is below. The song is "Malignant Narcissism" by the band Rush. The video was created by Bobby Standridge. You may want the full screen for this one:
Rush lyricist Neil Peart also mentions Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion in the liner notes to their album Snakes and Arrows:
I was also thinking, like Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion, about how children are usually imprinted with a particular faith, along with their other early blessings and scars. People who actively choose their faith are vanishingly few; most simply receive it, with their mother's milk, language, and customs. Thinking also of people being shaped by early abuse of one kind or another, I felt a connection with friends who had adopted rescue dogs as puppies, and given them unlimited love, care, and security. If those puppies had been 'damaged' by their earlier treatment — made nervous, timid, or worse — they would always remain that way, no matter how smooth the rest of their life might be. It seemed the same for children.
There are also some atheist-friendly lyrics in their songs in case you want to check them out.
(Thanks to Paul for the links!)
[tags]atheist, atheism[/tags]
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That was really cool. Although the tree kind of creeped me out since the branches looked like worms. =]
Pseudonym
Brilliant video, but inaccurate in several respects. The main fault is that the religions of the world don't form a tree structure.
The actual pattern is a multi-rooted directed acyclic graph. Some religions are quite new without an obvious ancestor, and others are the result of different traditions merging (e.g. Hinduism). To push the metaphor a bit, this means that applying an axe to one location won't help remove the structure.
Yet another reason to blast Rush at my next D&D game. Far out.
The Unbrainwashed
@ Andrew C:
D&D? Really? Please elaborate.
What is the sound of shit being played well?
brian t
What is the purpose of a meaningless insult with no spelling mistakes? You think it's shit. I think you're an ignoramus. Are you? Learn the difference.
I thought the name of the lumberjack made me look of Public Enemy lyrics in a different light. 8)
Brascal
The album is indeed fun to hear and has evocative lyrics.
A nice contrast to Iron Maiden's latest, which seems to have some three gospel songs stealthily added.
MonolithTMA
Cool video, I'd love to see a higher rez version. Some of the words were hard to read.
Cool, nice to see pro-atheist bands around. Streetlight Manifesto is another… check them out! I've loved them for years, and when their new album came out this year with lyrics that almost perfectly explained what I was thinking about religion, I loved them even more. "Down to Mephisto's Cafe" is the most obviously atheist song, but many others have more subtle references to nonreligion.
Thanks! For a moment there, I thought you'd posted about Rush Limbaugh and religion…that's a nauseating read!
For a bit more Rush-related atheism, read Roadshow by Neil Peart, the drummer/lyricist.
It's about his motorcycle tours of North America and Europe during Rush's 2004 tour, with quite a bit of irreligion along the way…
MonolithTMA, there's a higher-res version on Neil Peart's website.
Rush is amazing. 🙂
Awesome! Thanks Paul!
Greta Christina
Interesting. And very pretty. But I agree with Pseudonym — it's somewhat inaccurate. For one thing, it overlooks the degree to which different religious traditions sometimes intertwine and fuse.
Still, it makes some points worth making — namely, how many different religions there are, and how subject to change they are. Looked at from an outside perspective, it makes it that much harder to think that one of them somehow got it right.
Another Rand-om quote from the Peart:
There are those who think that life Has nothing left to chance
With a host of holy horrors To direct our aimless dance
A planet of playthings We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren't aligned Or the gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receive
You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will
My wife and I are going to see Rush this Saturday! Yay!
Scott, I am envious! I saw them last summer…three hours of incredible musicianship!!
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I don't have faith in faith
I don't believe in belief.
You can call me faithless.
But I still cling to hope
And I believe in love
And that's faith enough for me.
Snakes and Arrows
I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last…
Roll the Bones
Greta:
Looked at from an outside perspective, it makes it that much harder to think that one of them somehow got it right.
Precisely, although to be fair, most religions in the world don't claim a monopoly on truth in the sense that 20th Century US Christian Evangelicalism, Wahhabist Islam or Scientology does.
I gave my opinion of what I heard. What you mean I have no idea.
Some good music, but also a revelation of tortured souls. Lyrically, the have their own answers to faith, then the next moment cry out for the lack of it. A continuance of their ongoing search for meaning. Athiestically inclined, yet weak in their argument, insecure in their positions. Sometimes the easiest way out is not having to answer to a higher power. And, they don't. But they don't seem at ease with it. They find an open door, but the room within is dark. Rush is not inclined to step in.


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Readings from 'The Light on the Coast' draw crowd to Tomales Regional History Center
Posted by DavidMitchell under History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper
Approximately 15 inches of badly needed rain fell in drought-stricken West Marin during the past week, with much of it falling last weekend.
Although the rain flooded numerous roadways, including sections of Highway 1, roughly 50 people showed up at Tomales Regional History Center Sunday to hear Jacoba Charles and me read a few selections from our book, The Light on the Coast: 65 Years of News Big and Small as Reported in The Point Reyes Light.
In December, the History Center published the book, which draws upon news coverage in The Light to tell the post-World War II "history of West Marin's lively little towns and their Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper."
Jacoba and I looked through more than 3,300 back issues in choosing representative selections of writing, photography, and political cartoons to include in the book. We then wrote background narratives for many of the news stories.
The crowd filled the History Center's conference room, where awards and other mementos from the newspaper's past were on display. After our readings, Jacoba and I signed copies of the book while directors of the History Center served refreshments. (Photos by Lynn Axelrod)
Jacoba started the readings with Wilma Van Peer's 1998 account of working for the paper's founders, Dave and Wilma Rogers, half a century earlier. Mrs. Van Peer described Dave as a "little man" with a "nose for news" who liked to "tease" people.
The Light, which was called The Baywood Press for its first 18 years, has had 10 sets of owners in the past 65 years. I published the paper for 27 of those years and wrote the chapters covering news from the first eight ownerships.
Jacoba reported for The Light during its previous ownership and is on the paper's board of directors under today's owner, Marin Media Institute. She compiled the chapters dealing with news coverage under the last two sets of publishers.
I unexpectedly found myself getting choked up while reading aloud an item from a June 22, 1950, column of social news:
"Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kooy and sons Peter, 13 years, and Walter, 11 years, have arrived at Blake's Landing ranch from Amsterdam, Holland. They have come to join their friends Herbert Angress and Bill Straus, and Anton is going into business with Bill and Herbert. The Kooys will live at the Clark home, which the Harold Johnstones now occupy, near Marshall.
"During the last war, Mr. and Mrs. Kooy took Herbert Angress in to stay with them, thus saving his life from the Nazis. The two boys will be attending the Tomales schools — Peter being of high school age."
While reading this short item to the crowd, I was once again struck by the horrendous danger in which Herb Angress had found himself and by the Kooy family's heroism in putting themselves at risk to shelter him. Then — five years after World War II ended — they followed him to West Marin.
What choked me up was the sudden realization that when this potentially tragic drama came to a happy ending in Marshall, it made West Marin seem like part of a wartime miracle.
Jacoba reads the late historian Jack Mason's account of former publisher Don DeWolfe changing the paper's name from Baywood Press to Point Reyes Light in 1966. Full of wry humor, the story is set in the Station House Café, which Mason operated for awhile after he retired from an editor's post at The Oakland Tribune.
Víctor Reyes, who writes a Spanish-language column for The Light, filled in for Dewey Livingston during the readings.
The book's designer, Dewey Livingston, lives in Inverness where he is the historian at the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. He had been scheduled to take part in the readings but had to bow out at the last minute. Second Valley Creek behind his house was flooding and undercutting his bedroom, forcing Dewey to stay home and deal with the rising water.
The Light on the Coast reprints the paper's entire series on the five waves of ethnic immigration to West Marin during the past 160 years. To research the series, the newspaper sent reporters abroad four times in nine years — to Croatia, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, Switzerland's Italian-speaking Canton of Ticino, Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores, and the Jalostotitlán region of Mexico.
Víctor, who was one of the reporters on the immigration stories from Mexico, described Jalostotitlán and two neighboring towns. Most of West Marin's Mexican-immigrant families hail from that area.
He stressed how traditional and conservative people are in Jalos (the city's nickname) although it is only a 90-minute drive from Guadalajara. The priest virtually runs the city, Víctor said.
West Marin's non-Latino residents that are familiar with large Mexican municipalities, such as Mexico City, may think they understand the culture of Mexican-immigrant residents here, Víctor said, but Jalos is a world apart, and the difference can sometimes lead to confusion.
Two more readings and book signings are scheduled in West Marin. From 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 1, there will be a reading, a public open house, and a reunion of former Light staff in the newspaper's new office behind the Inverness Post Office.
Point Reyes Books will sponsor a third reading and book signing at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 9, in Point Reyes Station's Presbyterian Church.
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Courtney Toriumi says:
SO excited! I just received my book in the mail (very quickly I might add) and cannot wait to start reading it! Going to get one for my mother, who grew up in Woodacre (since the 1940's) and still resides in this beautiful nook of Northern California!
…Please-If you are ever in Forest Knolls, drop by the Papermill Creek Saloon. My boyfriend tends bar there and I have left a drink of your choice on the board there. Sunday afternoons are always best! Hope to make it to the next book signing! 🙂
DavidMitchell says:
Thank you, Courtney, for the kind words. The book is selling well, and a second printing is due out in a week.
There will be additional readings: The Point Reyes Light will host a reading and public open house from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 1, in the paper's new office behind the Inverness Post office; Point Reyes Books will sponsor a reading at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 9, in the Point Reyes Station Presbyterian Church; Book Passage in Corte Madera will host a reading at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27.
I hope to see you at one of these and at the Papermill Creek Saloon as well. Best wishes and pray for rain, Dave
Hope Mark and I can make one of the upcoming readings! We've enjoyed the book so much. Thanks for mentioning Switzerland.
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All levels of the fraternity are expected to facilitate, participate and coordinate activities that will uplift their communities. An international committee will coordinate the multifaceted programs of the various chapters. Some of the activities under the umbrella of social action include, but are not limited to: voter registration, education and "getting out the vote"; Assault on Illiteracy; Habitat for Humanity; volunteering time to charities and less fortunate individuals; mentoring; and participation in fundraisers for charities such as American Diabetes Association, United Way, Sickle Cell Anemia, etc.


The Anglican Diocese of Peru supports a number of social outreach projects, one of which is "Arpillera" – applique work.
Chris and Nick Roberts give talks about the work of the Diocese and in particular about Arpillera and endeavour to sell items and/or take orders.
This is our normal talk outline – though it can be tailored to your needs. You may download it in leaflet form here.
The project we support, run by the Diocese of Peru - part of the Anglican Communion - is based in the shanty towns of Lima, the capital. We make no charge but so far, all organisations to whom we've spoken have given a donation which we've passed on to the project. Our main emphasis is to try to sell items of Arpillera on behalf of the project, returning all proceeds including a small element of profit, plus donations, to the project. Sometimes we will take only a few orders, but by "spreading the word", we get referred to other groups for further talks. The ladies who work Arpillera are from the shanty towns on the outskirts of Lima and are mostly attached to the Mission Church of Jesus the Nazarene in the Pamplona Alta District of San Juan de Miraflores where Rev'd. Pat Blanchard, a SAMS Mission Partner, was Deacon (she is now responsible for the Shalom Project for the handicapped in the same district, but remains closely involved), and this is where the project is based.
An ideal title for the talk might be "Threads of Hope".
Ideally, Nick will set up a slide show (tourist type slides of Peru) with background Peruvian Music as your attendees arrive.
When your meeting agenda provides the speaker "slot", Nick gives a talk on the project, concluding with a film of the ladies at work which we made on our visits in 2008 and 2013. Concurrently, Chris displays some examples of the Arpillera craft work – whatever we have in stock to sell, plus our samples of other items available to order.
The project is "helping people to help themselves" - whilst "our" Church runs it, all sales income goes back directly to the ladies themselves and is helping them to improve their lives and those of their families. Depending on the exchange rate, we are also able to send back some "profit" on sales, together with all speaker fees / donations for the project. Typically, this will be used to pay for healthcare or other issues for any of the ladies / their families in difficulty or to establish new groups as determined by Jean, their (volunteer) project manager and their priest.
Speak for about 30-40 minutes - An introduction to Peru and our link with our Church there, a very brief summary of the Anglican Church in Peru and some of its projects, then some background and detail specifically on the Arpillera project.
Chris will set up a display of items we have in stock and samples of those available to order.
We have all our own equipment (laptop, projector, small speakers, screen), but a 13A power supply is required. Unless yours is a large group we should not need additional sound amplification / speakers.
We have a small brochure / price list and a flyer, both downloadable.
We do now carry some stock, but also take orders which we are able to fulfil in 3-6 months, depending on the delivery cycle (the Project has to prepare sufficient items and to warrant the carriage costs for a parcel from Lima). We gear up to Christmas with a large pre-order on Peru, so it is very likely that any orders from groups received by August will be fulfilled in time for Christmas.


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Q: Sidebar links for different pages Hey all i am wondering what i need to add in order to have a different sidebar for a set page?
I created a category for the page (called PatientEdu):

And made sure the page was linked to the category:

But it still seems to be using the other category sidebar (Which i also do not know where its at)?

So any help would be great!
UPDATE
My current sidebar.php code is this:
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('default-sidebar')) : ?>

Default Sidebar

    <?php dynamic_sidebar('default-sidebar'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

and the function code:

update 2
Looks like its using the single.php page to populate the sidebar?
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php echo get_cat_name(CAT_DOCTORS); ?>

             <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
              <li <?php if ($post_id == get_the_ID()) {echo 'class="active"';} ?>>
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<?php endif; ?>

A: First, WordPress automatically creates a sidebar for your template if one is not defined (by creating a sidebar.php in your theme).
Secondly, you can register multiple sidebars by using register_sidebars in your functions.php file.
The template function, get_sidebar, accepts a parameter, $name, which determines which sidebar file to get. For example, if you have a file in your theme folder called sidebar-doctors.php, you can call <?php get_sidebar('doctors'); ?> in your theme and get the doctors sidebar.
You can use these techniques together to build a different sidebar for different template pages.
Or! You can go one step further and add the following code and make a sidebar-<cat_slug>.php for each category. If there isn't a php file with that name, WordPress will default to its own sidebar.php
<?php
if (is_category( ))
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    get_sidebar($yourcat->slug);
}
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I hope this helps, and that I didn't completely miss the mark on your question.

A: Register a new sidebar by pasting this into your theme's functions.php file:
register_sidebars( 'id' => 'patientedu' );

Create a file called sidebar-patientedu.php and paste the following into it:
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('patientedu')) : ?>

PatientEdu Sidebar

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<?php endif; ?>

Then paste this whereever you want your sidebar to show up:
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