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Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela
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« on: June 19, 2022, 11:36:59 AM »




For those unaware, Chinese Satellite tells the story of someone who, seemingly unlike their loved ones, is not meaningfully religious or spiritual, but wishes they were able to have faith, both because they yearn for there to be an afterlife so they don't have to face up to their loved ones being gone forever when they die, and more ambiguously, maybe also because on some level they feel an aimlessness as a result of their lack of faith.

I've found this song interesting ever since I heard it, partly because it's just a good song but mostly because it's always notable when a song gets this unambiguously close to home. I'm not as bothered by whether there's an afterlife or not, but as time passes and I gain a better understanding of myself I have definitely moved on from reactive nu atheism and exhausting narrow-minded rationalism and come to recognise that as one of many symptoms of a broader disconnect from the world that's plagued me all my life and kept me from actually experiencing a lot of things.

What do you think? Does this song represent your values too? Do you welcome it as a sign that some younger people are slowly recognising the void in their lives and turning towards faith? Is it yet another small sign of the slow turn away from patriarchy rationalism that's eating away at Western society? Was this whole thread just a wistful post-ironic waste of your time?
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2022, 02:55:10 AM »

The song on the album that really represents my values is "Kyoto", though, so much so that I wrote a 600-character essay on it in Japanese for a project called Magellan no shisen that didn't pan out.
If you don't mind, I'd like to hear more about this!
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« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2022, 05:57:00 AM »

I knew her from a collaboration with Lord Huron, a band I quite like.
The Night We Met is one of those songs I revisit every so often because it's just so cosy, even if I don't actually relate to it and hopefully never will.
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2022, 06:34:02 PM »



For those unaware, Chinese Satellite tells the story of someone who, seemingly unlike their loved ones, is not meaningfully religious or spiritual, but wishes they were able to have faith, both because they yearn for there to be an afterlife so they don't have to face up to their loved ones being gone forever when they die, and more ambiguously, maybe also because on some level they feel an aimlessness as a result of their lack of faith.

I've found this song interesting ever since I heard it, partly because it's just a good song but mostly because it's always notable when a song gets this unambiguously close to home. I'm not as bothered by whether there's an afterlife or not, but as time passes and I gain a better understanding of myself I have definitely moved on from reactive nu atheism and exhausting narrow-minded rationalism and come to recognise that as one of many symptoms of a broader disconnect from the world that's plagued me all my life and kept me from actually experiencing a lot of things.

What do you think? Does this song represent your values too? Do you welcome it as a sign that some younger people are slowly recognising the void in their lives and turning towards faith? Is it yet another small sign of the slow turn away from patriarchy rationalism that's eating away at Western society? Was this whole thread just a wistful post-ironic waste of your time?
I love it

I'm glad.
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