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It can in rare circumstances and this is one of themOriginally posted by il Padrino Ute View Post"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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I want a piece of art to put in my living room. I've got it narrowed down to a Monet, a painting of a moose, and a velvet Elvis.
I just can't decide. They're all art, after all.If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.
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Hey, it's in the Bible.Originally posted by DU Ute View Post“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
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Well, its certainly much better than I could ever do. How many of us could sit down and paint this?Originally posted by CardiacCoug View Post
Is this a joke?Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
Dig your own grave, and save!
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As tooblue notes, it was an impressive technical achievement. So is laying an egg. I don't need to be able to lay an egg to recognize when I've eaten a bad one.Originally posted by falafel View PostComment
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Is this a joke?Originally posted by il Padrino Ute View Post"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
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Apparently, IPU is now a member of the utilitarianist elite.Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostComment
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Not really. I don't really like the painting, but is all the vitriol really deserved just because folks here don't like what the artist is expressing?Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
Of course, I'm not a sophisticated art patron, unless wanting a painting of Foghorn Leghorn hanging on the wall in my den meets that criteria."Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
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Elite? No. I'm more of the ulitarianist bleacher bum.Originally posted by Viking View Post"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear LeaderComment
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Last edited by Mormon Red Death; 03-03-2015, 10:28 AM."Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum
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The well-deserved vitriol this guy is receiving is only partially because his views are right-fringe. I imagine that if he had painted a completely neutral scene of a bunch of people you've never heard of doing nothing of interest but mostly just lining up for the camera and then providing ham-fisted explanations of who among them is good or evil and why, it would be equally worthless as a piece of art. None of us would know about it, of course.
The fact that his art is shit isn't based on his wrong-headed beliefs; it merely makes it more funny.
And yeah, Tooblue has a point that the guy seems to be really good at painting historical figures doing nothing of interest. I just don't think that's the mark of a good artist. I bet he'd make a decent living doing portraiture.Comment
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I bet he makes a decent living painting what he does.Originally posted by woot View Post"Nobody listens to Turtle."-TurtlesigpicComment
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I'll admit I'm having a little bit of fun with it, but it is a horrible painting. Could I paint it? No, but that doesn't make it decent.Originally posted by il Padrino Ute View Post
My vitrol is at the black/white nature of the people in the painting. It stinks of correlated hogwash. Plus, he put all the non-whites in the back, which speaks volumes."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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