tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post1504518250838173146..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: Boredom. The Newest Crisis?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-9205947438296672522009-11-02T05:39:49.430-08:002009-11-02T05:39:49.430-08:00Yes, most of religious institutional (church or te...Yes, most of religious institutional (church or temple) liturgy is boring... We can, however, use liturgy to inspire us - and this is often a private matter... It is difficult being truly individual. Thanks for sharing your individualistic opinions that are also shared by many of us.Steven Maimeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890116990120099679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-66469766059142123862009-10-23T11:54:34.531-07:002009-10-23T11:54:34.531-07:00To Brain:
Indeed. Hence religion is the opiate of...To Brain:<br /><br />Indeed. Hence religion is the opiate of the masses. <br /><br />To all:<br /><br />As regards the post in general, I just thought I'd share a (hopefully not boring) poem about boredom from John Berryman's bizzare book The Dream Songs. Oh, the "Henry" in line 11 is the main character in Berryman's book.<br /><br />Dream Song 14<br /><br />Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. <br />After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, <br />we ourselves flash and yearn, <br />and moreover my mother told me as a boy <br />(repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored <br />means you have no <br />Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no <br /><br />inner resources, because I am heavy bored. <br />Peoples bore me, <br />literature bores me, especially great literature, <br />Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes <br />as bad as Achilles, <br /><br />who loves people and valiant art, which bores me. <br />And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag <br />and somehow a dog <br />has taken itself & its tail considerably away <br />into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving <br />behind: me, wag.AaronHerschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08886387346974535323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-71077133922245473622009-10-22T08:59:41.662-07:002009-10-22T08:59:41.662-07:00(large, very vocal snort)
Yeah, right. In my exp...(large, very vocal snort)<br /><br />Yeah, right. In my experience, and I am a music director at a mainline Christian church, most people attend so they can be bored. Being bored means not challenged, not actually required to engage the mind with the body. Christian pop is all about channeling boredom while most hymns, even the really well written ones, are performed to induce a coma. Without boredom (and the sleep that attends it) the congregation might actually listen, think (O crap) and demand far more than the average church leader wants to produce.briankbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02150747836886116984noreply@blogger.com