the thing is that like im happy with multiple interpretations of this song its an anco song its not always gonna be very straightforward but genius as a site's first come first serve policy on which annotations get to stay makes me annoyed
also "i will not give up on you" is being sung by panda bear here and not avey tare so like who is that line aimed at if not avey tare. it feels like hes saying he wont give up on his friend whos tearing himself up for what happened in his relationship
songwriters (that are good) tend not to write from the perspective of someone else in this kind of manner unless that person is an allegory for themselves. like it feels like this song is more about him seeing himself as predatory if anything, blaming himself for what occurred and making himself out as a monster
people seem to think that this is about some other guy and the roommate here is him and like... he harbors no resentment here so why would he see his wife as being tricked when he understands why she cheated on him
laughing hieroglyphic, the first track on down there, is so directly about avey tare blaming himself for his wife cheating on him because he was too distant with his career right. like these lyrics are very self-blaming here
he could supposedly have given himself and thereby man any form and yet he chose this one. this just confirms my long childhood held position that the christian god is very boring
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im glad nowadays that since then ive talked to more people of different practices and cultures of other religions and modes of spirituality and started to understand them that its something i could feasibly see myself pursuing for myself again
because frankly i would not even be near comfortable trying if i still thought that every religion has its god(s) in opposition to you, that you must fear them, that you are in debt to them, etc
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i had teachers and priests who really did believe dungeons and dragons was a satanist game and that it was sinful to play it! this is 2013 and this guy is the vice principal of the school. other religions are always taught as aside to catholicism along with other christian sects, its primed to lump every religion as a (worse) alt of catholicism
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i was raised catholic and the thing about it is that you are basically burdened with guilt the entire time you practice it, you are born with original sin, all sacrament that involves gathering is strict, you have to confess sins more regularly than you visit the doctor, it burned me out and i became that kind of cynical atheist in my teenage years because of it
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you have a lot of le epic reddit atheists out there who derisively mock concepts of spirituality, and the reason is almost universally that they were raised christian, and then left the church, and thats their impression of all religion, the subject is just like, inherently associated with christianity for them, and since christianity, esp catholicism and more evangelical sects of it, are so punishing mentally, its like a point of trauma
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