{"id":3156,"date":"2015-01-26T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2015-01-26T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:15:23","slug":"monday-morning-musical-meme-next-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/01\/26\/monday-morning-musical-meme-next-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Musical Meme &#8211; Next Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Next Testament\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GrQfGGgdobw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><code> \"Find God!\" exclaimed the man, who lost everything he owned, looking stoned<br \/>\nI groaned back, \"Find a job...here's an application.\"<br \/>\nRetaliation: \"Here's a pamphlet.\"<br \/>\nI said, \"Fuck this damn shit.\"<br \/>\nMy man flipped and threw his hand into his pocket.<br \/>\nPulled out a bible with a design that looked tribal<br \/>\nThe Next Testament was its title<br \/>\n\"Look it over.\"<br \/>\n\"A book? No sir...what the hell does this have to offer?\"<br \/>\nA small mirror on the bottom labeled \"author\"...<br \/>\nthat's too impersonal<br \/>\nIrreversible<br \/>\nactions leave our mind scarred<br \/>\nlooking for the answers. \"Find God!\"<br \/>\nhe said again.<br \/>\nBut I'm a veteran<br \/>\nknowing that you are no better than<br \/>\nor worse than.<br \/>\nHe compared my last enemy to my first friend.<br \/>\nThis bum gave me his shirt's pen<br \/>\n\"What the heck?<br \/>\nYou're completely tapped, thinking that I'm gonna' write you out a check.\"<br \/>\nHe said, \"What?\" I said, \"WHAT!\" Snatched the book in hopes of finding<br \/>\na myth. Lifted up the front cover...broke the binding.<br \/>\n\"I bring peace, love happiness and unity!\"<br \/>\nUsually I blow it off, but I said, \"That ain't what you do to me. What you do to me<br \/>\nis bring pain, hate, ignorance, and false alternatives to my community.\"<br \/>\nHe sat back and thought it over.<br \/>\nWith a look that's sort of sober<br \/>\nHe stared me in the eye and said...I don't lie...<br \/>\n(Him or me? Me or him?)<br \/>\nNow we begin<br \/>\nto quarrel<br \/>\nover what's historical<br \/>\nbut that's immoral<br \/>\nquestioning the oracle's origin.<br \/>\nWe're born through sin.<br \/>\n\"You need to save yourself,\" he said.<br \/>\n\"But Jesus died for our sins.\"<br \/>\nThen he said, \"He ain't dead.\"<br \/>\n\"He faked his death?\"<br \/>\nI watched my man take a breath as if he had no more patience left.<br \/>\nThen he embraced his chest.<br \/>\nLooked as if the holy spirit was about to manifest itself.<br \/>\nMental health is what he lacked. I should have known this.<br \/>\nWithout God, when we die every Earthling is homeless.<br \/>\nI couldn't look. Tried to give him back his book.<br \/>\nAs I shook. But it was stuck to my hand<br \/>\nWhat the fuck? God damn!<br \/>\nEmbellished in sin sin and with a devilish grin<br \/>\nThis denizen could tell that I was selfish within<br \/>\nHe started speaking in tongues that I'm unfamiliar with.<br \/>\nI held the pen like a knife, \"I kill your myth!\"<br \/>\nCivilians drift into a state of violent anger.<br \/>\nI can tell when I'm in danger<br \/>\nso I stopped...take a breather.<br \/>\n\"Listen, I'm a non-believer<br \/>\nno faith, and I don't want none either<br \/>\nit's time for me to leave ya'<br \/>\ntake your book, I ain't no crook.\"<br \/>\nHe said, \"It's yours...like the world...read it good...there's directions.\"<br \/>\nI flipped through the pages, but they were blank...no deceptions.<br \/>\nHe mentioned, \"Look deeper. You'll see it says more<br \/>\nthan you could share. I asked, \"Where?\"<br \/>\n\"That's what the pen's for.\" <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Find God!&#8221; exclaimed the man, who lost everything he owned, looking stoned I groaned back, &#8220;Find a job&#8230;here&#8217;s an application.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freethought-in-popular-culture","category-musical-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}