From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #339 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, July 21 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 339 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Joni heaven ["mep@chorus.net" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:26:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: RE: Joni heaven Catherine wrote (and others followed): "It has to do with the "Is God dead?" question that was being discussed around the time. I remember a Time magazine cover, for some weird reason, that turns out to have been printed in 1966. The album came out in 1973. Joni wonders whether God is dead. He is, at the very least, on death row, so his time may be up. But Joni is also a fan of Nietzsche, who said that God was dead. (Can one be a *fan* of Nietzsche? Well, y'know...)" I understand the "God is dead" and Nietzsche references. B But my reaction upon hearing the line "and the Lord on death row" is always, "Well, what did he do?" B There seems to be the suggestion of a crime, and a heinous one at that. Would Nietzsche, and maybe Joni, say that God is not only nearly dead but indeed sentenced to death because he committed many crimes. . .or at least, that many crimes were committed in the name our conception of God? B Or perhaps "God's" only crime was not keeping up with modernity? Mary P., Still waiting for that symposium presentation, or maybe book, on "Religion and the Spirituality of Joni Mitchell"! B ;-) B ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #339 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------