Mal

Conversation with God on a bus

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Once upon a time someone posted a link or quote to a strange little article about this average white middle class man that had a conversation with god on a bus. God was also an average white middle class man.

 

Might have been a made up story , might incorrect be assumed to be a made up story. That was part of the fun

 

Other reference was a to an ability that could kill life on earth if used incorrectly, and why God didn't appears as a woman to this man :lol:

 

Anyone remember it?

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Hmnn reminds me of a song from a few years ago:

 

Joan Osbourne

 

If God Was One of Us Lyrics

 

 

If God had a name, what would it be

And would you call it to his face

If you were faced with him in all his glory

What would you ask if you had just one question

 

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 

What if God was one of us

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

 

If God had a face what would it look like

And would you want to see

If seeing meant that you would have to believe

In things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets

 

And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 

What if God was one of us

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

He's trying to make his way home

Back up to heaven all alone

Nobody calling on the phone

Except for the pope maybe in rome

 

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 

What if god was one of us

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Trying to make his way home

Just trying to make his way home

Like a holy rolling stone

Back up to heaven all alone

Just trying to make his way home

Nobody calling on the phone

Except for the pope maybe in rome

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Hey Harry and Mal!

 

Yeah, I remember that one too! Had quite the impact at the time. :D:blink: Thanks for the copy!

 

In kind regards,

 

Adam.

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_/\_

 

Thank you :)

 

"What if God was one of Us" is a song I love too M, as is this one

 

Tom Waits, Road to Peace

 

Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,

He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.

And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times

To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace

 

There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew

On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two

And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away

With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace

 

Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a

In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)

And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"

And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace

 

Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon

Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant

And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open

And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons

 

It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras

But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car

There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV

Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace

 

Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday

Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers

So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians

They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace

 

"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews

Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance

If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out

And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace

 

Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"

Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election

But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures

So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace

 

In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)

He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy

He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future

He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace

 

The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace

But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?

And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help

Maybe God himself he needs all of our help

Maybe God himself is lost and needs help

He's out upon the road to peace

 

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help

Maybe God himself he needs all of our help

And he's lost upon the road to peace

And he's lost upon the road to peace

Out upon the road to peace.

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..replying to audience about God on a stage.

 

I had the privilege of listening to Antony's beautiful voice (& the Johnsons / Hegarty) for some hours last week.

Outdoor concert. The very first on the roof of our new operahouse. It didn't rain. (it has rained so much this summer I'm sure the waterline is rising and finally this beautiful new modern heap of architecture sited at the shore is going to be just like Venice in Italy) whatever

the man comes out on stage and sings like no one else backed by the philharmonics and some friends, just acoustics..

no videos no story but Antonys own

and he speaks about buddhism, how he overcame the fear of being reincarnated as a stone, as a mountain, ..what the trees on Island look like.., and that he is certain that Jesus will reincarnate, have his second coming as a girl, - in Afghanistan.

 

:)

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