The future - and cybersex, no less - was foretold over 35 years ago by The Rolling Stones, long before the Internet was a fevered Al Gore dream:
Though my wife still respects me
I really misuse her
And I'm having an affair
With a random computer
"2000 Man," on Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
Whoever said artists see around the corner to the future was dead-on!
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1 - sheri
Spooky. Makes me wonder what the rest of the songs say.
2 - Al Barger
I first bought a vinyl album of this while out with a church youth group at age 15, circa 1978. Getting near a real record store in the big city (Indianpolis) was very rare and exciting. I think it was a Karma store next to the pizza place we were eating after a Bible Bowl competition.
I was so happy showing off my cool new purchase. I was just getting the whole rock thing, fresh and new. It didn't occur to me till years later how a big honkin' copy of the Rolling Stones singing Their Satanic Majesties Request might look to a bunch of nice fundamentalist Christians- of which I was theoretically still one.
They were polite, at least. No one said anything out of the way.
Perhaps they feared the wrath of Mick and the Dark Lord.
3 - sheri
There was no "fundamental" to it, when I was growing up. You were either a baptist or a lapsed baptist.
4 - Al Barger
The couple of main churches I attended were simply called "Christian" churches, notably the Arlington Christian Church in Arlington, Indiana. For fraternization purposes, we generally possed up with the Church of God.
Generally, I'd say my church took an essentially gospel oriented fundamentalist view, but wasn't overly big on picking silly points of doctrine. We would never, for example, have had some anti-dancing ordinance. Nor did we indulge in much charismatic type stuff, speaking in tongues or such. We would have been generally very down on flash.
We would probably have been regarded as straight down the middle Bible believers. Actual Bible reading and studying was a big thing.
Note that the Bible Bowl circuit we were working was spending a whole season of competition, thousands and thousands of rounds of Bible questions all from the book of Exodus. As a sophomore in high school, I could have told you FAR more than you ever wanted to know about the exact physical specifications of the original portable synagogue.
Or the lyrics to "Sympathy for the Devil"
5 - Al Barger
Hmm. Just looking at the lyrics for "Citadel" from Satanic Majesties Request
Men are armed shout who goes there
We have journeyed far from here
Armed with bibles make us swear
Candy and Taffy, hope we both are well
Please come see me in the citadel
6 - sheri
Hmmm. I don't get it.
7 - Al Barger
See, I was out with the Bible group when I first bought the album, and I'm noticing now how the song was apparently describing some kind of Bible carrying missionaries being thrown in the dungeon.
8 - sheri
oh deah, it keeps getting worse :0(