Dear Caitrin,

In regards to your question to gargoyle asking him what his large-fonted posting meant, it refers to his purported dislike of BS threads and/or those threads that do not specifically relate to musical topics. However, I will point out to you that he has a strange propensity to post to these supposedly 'hated' threads.

His reference to Isaiah is, I believe, specific to Chapters 56 to 66 of the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament, known as Third Isaidh or Trito-Isaiah, believed to have been written by a series of authors between 525 and 475 B.C. Some of the material may have been authored even later, between 375 and 250 B.C.

I believe that gargoyle is drawing on the final chapter of the Book of Isaiah (66: 1-24) which contains a prophetic denunciation of the Temple, as well as three prophetic sayings that announce its imminent end.

Isaiah (66:15-16):

'For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the stormwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.'

Lovely thought, isn't it? As Lewis Carroll said so well, 'Beware the Jaberwock, my son.'

-- Áine