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conuly
I like traditional songs. And, I like a lot of hymns. I really do. They're often quite lovely.
Of course, I don't, y'know, believe them - and somehow, I find it more uncomfortable to be singing words I don't believe than to be singing songs about murder and whatnot.
Is it ethically dubious for me to alter the words of hymns (those which aren't beautiful outside of the music, because I generally can't do as well as they do in making up words if I like them already) to be something... less wrong for me to sing? I don't mind singing general songs-about-God, so long as they're vague and don't really, uh, talk about God in anything other than an abstract sense. Or anything Biblical - stories are okay, commandments not so much. I don't know why some things pass my internal filters and others don't.
I'd just go ahead and change them, but some people (my mom) got on my case for singing Amazing Grace to the tune of Clementine, so....
(Her exact words were "You're gonna burn. Can you go sit over there? I don't want to get struck by lightning." She was being facetious. I think.)
In other news, I need to find me some sheet music for the piano. Some nice, affordable sheet music. I need to start practicing again - I forget how to read music if I don't do it often.
In other OTHER news, I need to find more people queueing up to make me icons. I have a lot of quotes, mostly LeGuin, but some not, that I want iconified, and I'm still to lazy to figure out how to do it myself.
Of course, I don't, y'know, believe them - and somehow, I find it more uncomfortable to be singing words I don't believe than to be singing songs about murder and whatnot.
Is it ethically dubious for me to alter the words of hymns (those which aren't beautiful outside of the music, because I generally can't do as well as they do in making up words if I like them already) to be something... less wrong for me to sing? I don't mind singing general songs-about-God, so long as they're vague and don't really, uh, talk about God in anything other than an abstract sense. Or anything Biblical - stories are okay, commandments not so much. I don't know why some things pass my internal filters and others don't.
I'd just go ahead and change them, but some people (my mom) got on my case for singing Amazing Grace to the tune of Clementine, so....
(Her exact words were "You're gonna burn. Can you go sit over there? I don't want to get struck by lightning." She was being facetious. I think.)
In other news, I need to find me some sheet music for the piano. Some nice, affordable sheet music. I need to start practicing again - I forget how to read music if I don't do it often.
In other OTHER news, I need to find more people queueing up to make me icons. I have a lot of quotes, mostly LeGuin, but some not, that I want iconified, and I'm still to lazy to figure out how to do it myself.
