Posted on 01/15/2016 7:52:36 PM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
All I know about Bowie was that I liked his music and it has brought me enjoyment for three decades and I associate some of his songs with favorite memories and times in my life. For that I say “Thank you Mr. Bowie, and God bless for the joy you brought into this dreary world.”
The post is meant as a warning.
There is no “holier than thou” in the writing that I could see.
The Bible does say that for the unrepentant, hearing the Gospel and biblical truth would appear as arrogance to them.
Agree with you about “younger days.” Mine were just awful.
I thank God that He saved me and I cling to His Salvation. Without that, I have nothing.
I agree with you wrt distaste for the Nanny nanny boo boos. The ObaMao administration and the DemoncRATs are full of them.
Have a great Saturday, FRiend.
I wish I hadn’t seen it. They three guys on the crosses simulating sexual hip gyrations was vomitious.
He can be godless and reject Christ in favor of the dark side and still write a song.
He actively chose to put sexual and occult if imagery in his BlackStar video near the end of his life. So that shows what he believed in.
David Bowie sealed his own fate and no amount of praying can change where he is now.
Hebrews 9:27 King James Version (KJV)
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Discussing what Bowie professed to believe doesn’t have anything at all to do with you or your “feels.”
Bowie wasn’t even a great singer. He was just theatrical before most.
He rejected God in favor of the occult and wasn’t shy about it. “Shrug.” Discuss it, don’t get your panties wadded up over it.
If you are judging that “many of these posts are wrong,” then that makes you as judgmental as those posters.
The OP is free to post any time. Jim even has a special place for bloggers. I have a special place for them too, and so does the poet Dante, I believe.
So the OP is free to post. And posters are free to reply as they see fit.
Okay, I think this is on topic. Since I've brought up Dante above, in what respective circles of Inferno might you find the following:
1. Bloggers
2. David Bowie
3. Cats
Bloggers are easy. Cats and David Bowie might change places on various days. :-)
great lyrics.
i liked the guy. i liked some of his music.
they did a study of the grown ups who grew up on glam rock.
turns out they’re doing much better than most other groups.
family men, good jobs.
none wear stockings and leather pants or make up :)
1. Bloggers: 9th circle.
2. Cats: 8th circle.
3. David Bowie: I hold out hope for better things.
There is a hell. Not all make it to the top. Probably fewer than we may think.
There is indeed.
I don’t know if we are living in the Last Days or not.
But we could be.
God Bless.
Of course.
What is not cool is people running around, self-anointed, trying to determine who gets to post here and who doesn’t.
I’m not going to back off that position.
I'd say Bowie produced a scathing critique of them.
But I'm sure you've got an angel telling you to judge.
Two years or two thousand years from now folks will STILL be listening to Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Mozart, etc.
"Bowie" will continue to refer to the frontiersman James "Jim" Bowie and a Bowie knife.
In the USA, probably. "Jim" Bowie doesn't mean much outside the States.
Thank you! Hadn’t really looked into the particulars of Bowie’s remains, however, I was being facetious from the get-go.
Ha! Very funny! We shall see...
**To those convinced David Bowie is destined to Hell, I’d ask, “What is the meaning of the necklace around his neck?”**
That to some it’s fashionable.
I’ve noticed celebs wearing a cross since I was just a preteen. I remember (was about 15 I suppose) watching the Tom Jones show on tv with my siblings and parents, and seeing Tom, with his shirt unbuttoned halfway down, and a cross hanging around his neck, gyrating and crooning. Being a skull full of mush (as Rush puts it), I thought to myself, “See, you can be a sex symbol, and still be a Christian.”
That was a subtle beginning to what would eventually lead me to try and ‘serve two masters’. By the time I was 20, I was in dual lifestyle mode. Church on Sunday. But living the night life on other days of the week. But, knowing deep down that it was wrong, I refused to wear a cross, even though I saw others wearing one while going to the nightclubs and discos (amazingly, though I give credit to my parents and fear of God, I never did find out what it was like to get drunk).
I gladly waved goodbye to that way of life shortly after turning 28.
David Bowie was just one of many that died that same day. His music probably had little or no impact on my life.
Life is a vapor.
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