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It occurs to me that there are two kinds of DUers. (Original Post) malthaussen Jun 2015 OP
Those who divide DUers into two factions... Wounded Bear Jun 2015 #1
Old joke.:) malthaussen Jun 2015 #2
I thought there were 10 types arcane1 Jun 2015 #3
Don't leave out the binary solo! mackerel Jun 2015 #5
I understand ecstasy. kentauros Jun 2015 #4
Either coming or going seveneyes Jun 2015 #6
Those who do not know the forbidden words. cwydro Jun 2015 #7
The forbidden words are so bad you don't even have to say them to get in trouble. hay rick Jun 2015 #11
I only think in astericks these days. cwydro Jun 2015 #12
Ecclesiastes always seemed way to pretentious and nervous for me. BlueJazz Jun 2015 #8
My motto- MerryBlooms Jun 2015 #9
I WILL KICK ECCLESIASTES-UNDERSTANDING MALTHAUSSEN ASS Skittles Jun 2015 #10
Finally! I've been waiting years for Skittles to kick my ass! malthaussen Jun 2015 #18
I WILL KICK WAITING MALTHAUSSEN ASS TOO Skittles Jun 2015 #27
It's Greek to me. betsuni Jun 2015 #13
Preach it! Solly Mack Jun 2015 #14
Vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Prisoner_Number_Six Jun 2015 #15
Now that you mention it, I think most of Ecclesiastes is *about* DU petronius Jun 2015 #16
Yep. But I prefer the King James version. malthaussen Jun 2015 #17
+++ antiquie Jun 2015 #20
7:15 seems to prophesy the current election cycle. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2015 #23
I can play Turn Turn Turn DFW Jun 2015 #19
The good guitarist kind. n/t malthaussen Jun 2015 #21
Aha! Now I get it DFW Jun 2015 #22
I miss the uproot part jakeXT Jun 2015 #25
When I first heard the Byrds I was fascinated by the 12 string guitar DFW Jun 2015 #26
There are three kinds of DUers. kwassa Jun 2015 #24
 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
7. Those who do not know the forbidden words.
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 06:56 PM
Jun 2015

And those who make the lists of the forbidden words.

It's rough over in GD lately

hay rick

(7,522 posts)
11. The forbidden words are so bad you don't even have to say them to get in trouble.
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 09:36 PM
Jun 2015

It's the unholy of unholies!

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
8. Ecclesiastes always seemed way to pretentious and nervous for me.
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 07:00 PM
Jun 2015

Strike that...I'm thinking of Don Knotts....

petronius

(26,581 posts)
16. Now that you mention it, I think most of Ecclesiastes is *about* DU
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 12:36 AM
Jun 2015

1:2

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

1: 9-10

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.

2:11

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.

5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

7:10

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions.

7:15

In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness.


Q.E.F'n.D.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
19. I can play Turn Turn Turn
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 10:15 AM
Jun 2015

Note for note on a Rickenbacker 12 string just like McGuinn did.

Which kind does that make me?

*Full disclosure--I can't sing it like McGuinn and Crosby did.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
22. Aha! Now I get it
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 10:53 AM
Jun 2015

DU is comprised of good guitarists and bad guitarists.

So subtle and yet so cleverly simple--hidden there in plain sight, so no one saw it!

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
25. I miss the uproot part
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 03:24 PM
Jun 2015
The lyrics were taken from a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes (3:1-8) in The Bible. They were rearranged and paired with Seeger's music to make the song. In a 1988 interview with Paul Zollo, Seeger explained: "I don't read the Bible that often. I leaf through it occasionally and I'm amazed by the foolishness at times and the wisdom at other times. I call it the greatest book of folklore ever given. Not that there isn't a lot of wisdom in it. You can trace the history of people poetically."

Seeger added: "I got a letter from my publisher, and he says, 'Pete, I can't sell these protest songs you write.' And I was angry. I sat down with a tape recorder and said, 'I can't write the kind of songs you want. You gotta go to somebody else. This is the only kind of song I know how to write.' I pulled out this slip of paper in my pocket and improvised a melody to it in fifteen minutes. And I sent it to him. And I got a letter from him the next week that said, 'Wonderful! Just what I'm looking for.' Within two months he'd sold it to the Limelighters and then to the Byrds. I liked the Byrds' record very much, incidentally. All those clanging, steel guitars - they sound like bells." (this appears in Zollo's book Songwriters On Songwriting)

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=246



Quotes tagged as "ecclesiastes" (showing 1-12 of 12)
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/ecclesiastes



"Turn! Turn! Turn!"

To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep

To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together

To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late!

DFW

(54,057 posts)
26. When I first heard the Byrds I was fascinated by the 12 string guitar
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 03:56 PM
Jun 2015

When I heard Leo Kottke, I was drawn into the instrument as if melded into it. That was in 1971. I now keep one in the three cities I frequent most (Düsseldorf, Dallas, Washington) and take one with me when I go to Cape Cod every year. If I go weeks without being near one, I go through withdrawal symptoms. It is not a pretty sight.

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