BS: Is folk music a religion?

Subject: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 02:29 PM

Posted this somewhere else but thought it might be worth a few thoughts in its' own thread.
Now that Jedi Knight has been recognised as a valid religion, then perhaps we should start our own church, name suggestions welcome.
Then we could become an opressed minority overnight, and people who made rude remarks about folkies could be tried for blasphemy, and if found guilty they could be sentenced to listen to Elmer P Bleaty records for 5 years. We could claim that our religion required us to sing in pubs with a load of our mates, and as it would be a religious ceremony we don't need a PEL. we could elect Bishops, and Archbishops, we could have Folkies and Tarts theme parties We would be entitled to have a Folking Archbishop sitting in the House of Lords, he'd fit in well with some of the folking idiots that are there already.
How about, The Folking Church ?

Giok:~)

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 02:46 PM

And there would have to be an associated school... Folk U.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 02:55 PM

Anything's a religion to people that take it seriously enough. Anything. Why not folk music? My religion is dames, guns, good food and drink, and paying work.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:07 PM

Sounds a good idea until you think about schisms.We already know the folk fundementalists,nay, bigots even, but then there'd be a breakaway by the happy clappies;an Irish sect would evolve; arguements would ensue as to what songs could be sung at services and if they could be accompanied by instruments or not;a sect would form that only played the tunes; a new sect would demand dancing services;then there'd be wimmin only meetings; a male only breakaway sect would open the first folk church brewery;edicts would be passed demanding that tankards and beards be worn at all times or excommunication would follow.
I can see it all clearly.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:12 PM

...and I suppose Buffy SAINT-Marie gets automatic canonization?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:16 PM

No, she gets the pioneering dike award, presented by Ellen Degenerate.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:16 PM

or reverberzation ?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:23 PM

Cool! And we could take days off school and work just to sing!! Religious holidays!

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:47 PM

a 'dike' keeps rivers and oceans from flooding property. Buffy is more talented than I thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:50 PM

Where would the 'Little Dutch Boy' stick his finger?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 03:53 PM

Whoe would Ellen Degenerate share her strap-on with?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 04:00 PM

dIke

dYke

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 04:04 PM

Bill H

I appreciate your expertise on the subject.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 04:10 PM

Buffy Sainte-Marie gets automatic canonization regardless, as far as I'm concerned. And she's no dyke!

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 04:14 PM

Does that make Dick van Dyke an oxymoron?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Peace
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 04:54 PM

We can't get two people to agree on what folkmusic is. Now it's gonna become a religion? Oooooookay.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: pdq
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:12 PM

In our new Church of Folk Music, Joe Offer will be important.

He will be in charge of preaching to the choir.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:23 PM

I would join, if i weren't already a member of the Church of Don't-give-a-damnism. (No, really, i am..)

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:40 PM

Bill H?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: pdq
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:51 PM

In our new Church of Folk Music, Bobert will be important.

He will be in charge of holding...

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:54 PM

Well that's great, we have schism to start with...that'll save time.

LOL!!! BPL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:19 PM

"I see it, but I don't believe it!"

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Peace
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:24 PM

I ain't gonna be an altar boy. That's final.

Is there gonna be an altar?

(Say, do y'all need travelin' outhouses for the church? I can get you a great deal.)

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 04:45 AM

Is Martin Gibson the new anti christ ?

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 05:12 AM

Martin Gibson is a little devil. The anti-Christ lives across the hall from me. He gets all stoned at odd hours and plays this bloody rap music at 10,329 decibels with lots of bass. We had words a few nights ago--morning, actually. Basically, it was a brief conversation that involved the use of a few polite words. Things have been quiet since. He's a quiet guy when he isn't making noise.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 06:23 AM

The travelling outhouse IS the church. It is where one can sit and ponder the big questions of the day such as E# or Fb. Lower pitched farts, of course, can be troublesome.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:39 AM

I'll say. Like leaving a room filled with unconscious people is definitely UNcool.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:55 AM

Well that's me out of it ........ I'm not joining ANY religion

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:58 AM

Not so much a religion, more a way of life.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 08:17 AM

I don't think some people are taking my thread seriously, like what it was intended to be ;~)
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 10:07 AM

How can anybody?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 10:10 AM

Aye Martin; there's the rub.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 11:11 AM

Stop rubbing it then.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 11:14 AM

Rub it if it feels good.

stop when you don't need to any more.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 12:18 PM

How do you know when you've reached that point?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 12:33 PM

Some people need to be told everything, don't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 01:06 PM

I like your new spectacles

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 24 Dec 04 - 04:09 AM

Can you type a little louder please?

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bassic
Date: 24 Dec 04 - 04:23 AM

On the first day Goik created Folk
On the second he created Morris
On the third day he did research at Sharp House
On the fourth day he created Old Time
On the fifth day he created Bluegrass
On the sixth day he thought it was about time for a revival
On the seventh day he had a day off and went to a session in the "Ferrit and Laptop"

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 04 - 06:30 AM

Morris!! Nah mate you can't pin that one on me.
Giok
[or am I Goik? I get so confused]

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: 42
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:57 AM

In Canada there would be some serious tax benefits to being a religion...church property would not be taxed for one thing.

j

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:01 AM

I think the question (though well meaning) is rather understating the situation a trifle.

Paraphrasing Vince Lombardy - Folk isn't everything - it is the ONLY thing.

#8^)

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: GUEST,Crystal
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 12:46 PM

If folk music becomes a religion what is Cecil Sharpe? The savior or the anti-christ? See also Bob Dylan.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 01:08 PM

This gives rise to a weird vision of Maud Karpeles as the BVM.
WOWEEE!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Songster Bob
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 02:59 PM

"I see it, but I don't believe it!"

-- Wrong! It's religion, so the phrase is, "I believe it, but I don't see it!"

And the "Do you need to be told everything?" remark brought to mind a joke with the punchline, "Put it in, pull it out! Damn it, lady, make up your mind!"


Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Amos
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:02 PM

Of course folk music is not a religion. It is merely a form of time-travel.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:57 PM

Will there be human sacrifice?

There were in some of the old religions, and if we're gonna be traditional...

Of course, we might make allowances for vegetarians, and only sacrifice wheat germ...

Just some stray thoughts that have apparently not occured to others, or they were too politic to post.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, who's been known to pour a horn of honey wine at the foot of some old tree.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bert
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:51 PM

Nah, Mudcat is the religion and folk music is it's object of worship.

Martin Gibson is a girl and her name is really Kay Harmony, which could account for the obsession with dykes.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Bert
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:57 PM

And we get to have a Gargoyle on our church.

Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion?
From: Once Famous
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 02:24 PM

Hey Bert, I'm no girl, but I'm hearing you're butt fucking Ernie.