Fred Benson on religion: enragingly and bafflingly superficial
A Very Queer Family Indeed - Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, Simon Goldhill, 2016

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Fred Benson on religion: enragingly and bafflingly superficial
A Very Queer Family Indeed - Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, Simon Goldhill, 2016
Gram’s vocals transform the song. The mix of pain and exuberance in his voice suggest a deeper meaning to the lyric than perhaps even Haggard realized. Haggard’s version is a straightforward prison lament:
My life will be a burden every day
If I could die my pain might go away
Over Hillman’s old school walking bass line, Earl Ball’s deranged whorehouse piano, and Jay Dee Maness’ spacey theremin-like steel lines, Gram finds increasing release in the bleak lyrics. He briefly turns into a prep-school boy with his English “rawther” pronunciation, but roars back in full voice to change the song’s meaning in the final verse. When Gram sings “My life will be a burden every day”, it’s clear that at age twenty-two he has cut to the heart of country music’s inescapable pain. It’s the pain of self-loathing, the prison of being inside of one’s head when one’s own head offers no kind of refuge. Gram turns “Life in Prison” into Samuel Beckett: The life that burdens him is his own, the prison his identity. The only release is death: “If I could die, my pain might go away.” - David N. Meyer, Twenty Thousand Roads. The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
The difference between drake bell and Armand's situation is drake's accuser was a child at the time of the incident and she has never exploited their text messages to gain followers and she has never faked text messages. Armand's accuser has changed her story many times, denied a rape had ever occurred just two weeks before she said it did and has faked dms and has also accused other celebs of crimes. she's also racist and antisemitic. and she could never authenticate her dms so reporters passed on her BS because they weren't about to ruin their careers on a liar. so she got an ambulance chaser of a lawyer to take her case. a lawyer that specializes in settlements and not actual trials where someone is found at fault. to prove how delusional she is, she implied she once kissed Angelina Jolie! super credible story and person right?
Hello, Anon:
I agree. There is an enormous difference between these two cases, in that one accuser is credible, and the other is clearly not, as you’ve so perfectly pointed out.
If Armie’s accuser’s EverChangingStory™️ doesn’t scream “credibility”, I’m sure that her chronic nonsense posts about a sex throne or her legal representation by a famous attorney whose preferred method of practice is the classic shakedown will do.
Thanks for your observations. 😊❣️🔥
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