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0|0|0|||1||sotd%2C 2018.02.23|Gryphon||20:21:11|02/23/2018|%5Bfont size%3D%222%22%5D%26l%3BOK%2C so%2C I%27m an atheist%2C and this is pretty much a straight-up gospel song%2C and you know what%2C I don%27t even care.  It%27s amazing.%26r%3B%5B%2Ffont%5D%0D%0A%0D%0AWell the moon is broken and the sky is cracked%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AThe only things that you can see is all that you lack%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AAll your cryin%27 don%27t do no good%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AWell come down off the cross%2C we can use the wood%0D%0AYou gotta come on up to the house%0D%0A%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AThe world is not my home%0D%0AI%27m just a-passin%27 through%0D%0AYou got to come on up to the house%0D%0A%0D%0AThere%27s no light in the tunnel%2C no irons in the fire%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AAnd you%27re singin%27 lead soprano in a junkman%27s choir%0D%0AYou got to come on up to the house%0D%0ADoesn%27t life seem nasty%2C brutish%2C and short%3F%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AThe seas are stormy and you can%27t find no port%0D%0AYou got to come on up to the house%2C yeah%0D%0A%0D%0AYou gotta come on up to the house%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AThe world is not my home%0D%0AI%27m just a-passin%27 through%0D%0AYou got to come on up to the house%2C yeah%0D%0A%0D%0AYou gotta come on up to the house%0D%0ACome on up to the house%0D%0AThe world is not my home%0D%0AI%27m just a-passin%27 through%0D%0AYou got to come on up to the house%0D%0A%0D%0AThere%27s nothin%27 in the world that you can do%0D%0AYou gotta come on up to the house%0D%0AAnd you been whipped by the forces that are inside you%0D%0AGotta come on up to the house%0D%0AWell you%27re high on top of your mountain of woe%0D%0AGotta come on up to the house%0D%0AWell you know you should surrender but you can%27t let it go%0D%0AYou gotta come up on to the house%2C yeah%0D%0A%0D%0AGotta come on up to the house%0D%0AGotta come on up to the house%0D%0AThe world is not my home%0D%0AI%27m just a-passin%27 through%0D%0AYou gotta come on up to the house%0D%0AGotta come on up to the house%0D%0AYou gotta come on up to the house%0D%0AOh yeah%0D%0A%0D%0A - Tom Waits%0D%0A%5Blink%3Ayoutu.be%2FVkTZFOh7HxM%7C%22Come On Up to the House%22%5D%0D%0A%5Bi%5DMule Variations%5B%2Fi%5D %281999%29%0D%0A%0D%0A%5Bfont size%3D%222%22%5D%26l%3BI%27m not entirely sure%26mdash%3Bthe message is maddeningly ambiguous%26mdash%3Bbut I %5Bi%5Dthink%5B%2Fi%5D Mr. Waits would like us to come on up to the house.%26r%3B%5B%2Ffont%5D%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D
1|1|0|||||RE%3A sotd%2C 2018.02.23|StClair||00:12:00|02/25/2018|... meh.  sorry%2C perhaps the whole performance is awesome%2C but just from the lyrics%2C I can%27t get with the message%2Fassertion that none of this really matters%2C or is worth trying to make better%2C because it%27s just a temporary stop on the way to eternity.%0D%0A%0D%0AHeck%2C even if that%27s literally so%2C how is it really any different from the assertion%2Fexcuse that there%27s no point in cleaning something up when it%27s just going to get dirty again%3F  Didn%27t I read somewhere%2C maybe in some book%2C that that kind of downright laziness is considered a %5Bi%5Dsin%5B%2Fi%5D in some parts%3F
2|2|1|||1||RE%3A sotd%2C 2018.02.23|Gryphon||00:49:28|02/25/2018|%3E... meh.  sorry%2C perhaps the whole performance is awesome%2C but just %0D%0A%3Efrom the lyrics%2C I can%27t get with the message%2Fassertion that none of %0D%0A%3Ethis really matters%2C or is worth trying to make better%2C because it%27s %0D%0A%3Ejust a temporary stop on the way to eternity.%0D%0A%0D%0AHm.  That%27s not the feel I got from it%3B rather%2C it appeared to me the message was %22this all seems like it%27s pretty much hopeless and pointless %5Bi%5Dunless%5B%2Fi%5D you come on up to the house.%22%0D%0A%0D%0A%28shrug%29%0D%0A%0D%0AI%27m hardly an expert%2C but I%27ve always vaguely thought the 20th-century gospel message was pretty self-improvement-y.  The whole %22complete dismissal of this life in favor of the next%22 thing reads more medieval%2Fearly-modern to me.%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D
3|3|2|||||RE%3A sotd%2C 2018.02.23|StClair||01:36:32|02/25/2018|[updated:LAST EDITED ON Feb-25-18 AT 01:37 AM (EST)]%22the house%22 being the church%2C where you can get on the right side of God and find decent people to endure%2Fwait out the next few decades with%2C like friendly strangers in a bus station%3B until you can %5Bi%5Dfinally%5B%2Fi%5D shake the dirt of this worthless world off your feet and get on to your %5Bi%5Dreal%5B%2Fi%5D reward%2C your %5Bi%5Dreal%5B%2Fi%5D existence...%0D%0A%0D%0Aagain%2C meh.  but that%27s my reading.  %2Ashrug%2A
4|4|3|||1||RE%3A sotd%2C 2018.02.23|Gryphon||01:40:08|02/25/2018|%3E%22the house%22 being the church%2C where you can get on the right side of %0D%0A%3EGod and find decent people to endure%2Fwait out the next few decades %0D%0A%3Ewith%2C like friendly strangers in a bus station%3B until you can %0D%0A%3E%5Bi%5Dfinally%5B%2Fi%5D shake the dirt of this worthless world off your feet %0D%0A%3Eand get on to your %5Bi%5Dreal%5B%2Fi%5D reward%2C your %5Bi%5Dreal%5B%2Fi%5D existence... %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3Eagain%2C meh.  but that%27s my reading.  %2Ashrug%2A %0D%0A%0D%0AWell%2C yes%2C it%27s just that I think that reading is a bit more St. Augustine than 20th-century Southern gospel %28which is more along the lines of %22find Jesus and get your shit together%22%29.%0D%0A%0D%0AI mean%2C it%27s all much of a muchness to %5Bi%5Dme%2C%5B%2Fi%5D I prefer to interpret the chorus as a curling metaphor.%0D%0A%0D%0A--G.%0D%0A-%3E%3C-%0D%0ABenjamin D. Hutchins%2C Co-Founder%2C Editor-in-Chief%2C %26 Forum Mod%0D%0AEyrie Productions%2C Unlimited  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eyrie-productions.com%2F%0D%0Azgryphon at that email service Google has%0D%0A%5Bi%5DCeterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.%5B%2Fi%5D
5|1|0|||||RE%3A sotd%2C 2018.02.23|Star Ranger4||13:01:29|02/25/2018|Heh.  I am NOT about to poke the %27what does all this mean%27 in the one sense...%0D%0A%0D%0AI just can wait to see who comes up to the Lake house to visit either HTT or Corwin and Co.%0D%0A%0D%0A%3Ap