Yeah, it's our new religion. Mine and Bumpers that is, and whomever else cares to join. The religion of "selective obliviosity", is really on some level a folk processed version of Arlo and Ma's "wake up dead" thing. If you can see that, but ignore it, or if you can't see it, but you know it's there, you are already on the road to being selectivly oblivious. Welcome aboard.
Feel like preaching any Bumper?

i'm in....

It's the life that lies sleeping
While you think you're awake
Forever is real
And the rest is just fake.

can i get an amen???

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by todd:
can i get an amen???<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

A-men, eh!

amen,amen,,,,,
gidday,eh!!

oh yea! one ay men, for Todd! & Larry too, for the longest thread title, I've ever seen here....
gonna post this, in "lyrics that just nail..." too, a haunting, profound refrain, and, from one so young, too, it belongs, on this new thread.....
"One of these days I'm gonna find that river and maybe I'll go down.."

Sarah Lee Guthrie
I predict people will be quoting her lyrics for many decades

Todd, remind me to get Nathen so we can appoint you as a Sarah 'N Diputy, too

Sisters and brothers, oh can't you see
a religion borne, of selective obliviosity
the hummingbird blinks, the great whale breaches
while Larry & Bumper, and even Todd preaches
no need for ego, no need to preen
no need to fret & compulsively count bean
read the white spaces, or admire the clouds
banter with blunderites, sing long and sing louds
it's all there to enjoy, or not, you see,
it's your choice, with selective obliviosity
can I get an ayyy men...?

talk to me brother!

Amen!

<FONT size="6"><FONT COLOR="green">AAAAAAA-MEN!!!</FONTc></FONT s>

<FONT size="2">Peace, Love, Music & Obliviosity
~Wyldflower
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Amen! And Hail Homer! ( that ones for Dave)

I didn't say anything about not counting beans though. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

you like how I snuck that one in there, Larry?? heeheheheeh
bean counting's ok, it's that compulsive stuff that's hard to take

Hey Bump, I think we should make Todd a Deacon or a Pope or something in our new found religion. Ok with you?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wyldflower:

<FONT size="2">Peace, Love, Music & Obliviosity
~Wyldflower
<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/tiedye.gif" width=17 height=17></FONT s><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

And with insight like this, I think we should declare Wyldflower a prophet........wadda ya think Bump?

Pope Todd, & Prophet Wyldflower, it is, Larry.
"ah, yes, the Toddian era, when blackbirds flew, singing, in the dead of night...barn burned down, now, I can see the moon"

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Larry:

Hey Bump, I think we should make Todd a Deacon or a Pope or something in our new found religion. Ok with you?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

larry, i have been an ordained minister since 1970,,,thru the universal life church in modesto, ca..it was part of my plan for not going to vietnam...didn't work...nor did, i'm gay,,,and when i told them i took drugs,,they responded,,,most do??

so they sent me to germany??? wtf???

anyway, to this day when my mother gets miffed at me she says, "Ok Deacon!"

I didn't know that, Todd,, I was in Oberursel, 20 km NW of Frankfurt, where were you? I was there quite before you, I'm sure, '66-'68