I never got this...

[colinxtappe]

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain"

WTF? What does that mean? It sounds fine in a song, but what the fuck, what does it mean?

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[plague_dog]

Sounds like some kinda faggotty shoegazer song title! Yup.

[odindeathcrush]

i thought it went 'releationships are a concept by which we measure our pain'

tressel graffiti:

guns don't kill friends, girlfriends kill friends

[colinxtappe]

It's a John Lennon song, off the "Plastic Ono Band" LP (1970), the only non-Yoko Beatles related product I own. It may be faggoty (though the two hard rockers on the LP rival even Alice Cooper's finest moments), but I don't think it counts as "shoegaze." Here're the lyrics:

God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I'll say it again
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain

I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in yoga
I don't believe in kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
And so dear friends
You just have to carry on
The dream is over

[odindeathcrush]

okay how 'bout this..

humans have this innate need to rationalize everything. nothing can just happen, and certainly when stuff does 'just happen' it can't for criminy sake be all our own fault. there has to be some otherworldly reason.
god is what most people call that reason.
god is the concept by which we measure all our good and bad, happiness and pain, love and loss. blah blah blah.
(cuz god knows us puny humans can't have fucked things up so badly all on our own, we *had* to have like some outside influence! [or conversely we just couldn't of gotten as far as we did with out the help of aliens or that big fella in the sky]) *giggles*

so was this like a joke question? am i on like some candid interweb show?