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Nature of the Threat - An anthropology class in one song
BizzyR.I.P.:
--- Quote from: nibs on November 26, 2005, 12:11:32 PM ---it's mostly real shit he's kicking. some of it is slightly questionable (the origins of man and race), but if a person summed up judiasm or christianity in a song, 80% of that shit would be fiction too, seeing as it's a fictional religion. ras' song is more meaningful and accurate than what you'd hear in the historical accounts that most religions espouse. people that don't like the truism's ras speaks try to pick out a line here or there and then try to dismiss the whole work based on a couple questionable lines.
i agree that his flow is horrible on this track, the beat is horrible as well. ras stepped it up 200% on "interview with a vampire" and "music of the business" in terms of dropping knowledge in a song.
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I also like Interview With a Vampire alot more then Nature of the Threat. Nature of the Threat is still dope.
J Bananas:
yeah interview with a vampire i one of my favs, but theres something off about the way the vocals were recorded at certain spots which i cant get over
Shallow:
--- Quote from: nibs on November 26, 2005, 12:11:32 PM ---it's mostly real shit he's kicking. some of it is slightly questionable (the origins of man and race), but if a person summed up judiasm or christianity in a song, 80% of that shit would be fiction too, seeing as it's a fictional religion. ras' song is more meaningful and accurate than what you'd hear in the historical accounts that most religions espouse. people that don't like the truism's ras speaks try to pick out a line here or there and then try to dismiss the whole work based on a couple questionable lines.
i agree that his flow is horrible on this track, the beat is horrible as well. ras stepped it up 200% on "interview with a vampire" and "music of the business" in terms of dropping knowledge in a song.
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The difference is that blatant evidence proves a lot of what Ras says as wrong. With the Bible there really aren't many sources that say otherwise because there aren't any other sources. Someone writing about Christianity as you say would be writing fiction but what is writing fact? There is nothing that documents Jesus's life other than the Bible (and the Quran I guess, plusa few otheer sources about his lost years). What you write about it is based on what you believe it was. You can believe the Bible or the Quran, or you can believe neither, but you cannot say it is fiction unless you have solid evidence or proof. Nature of the Threat has many theories and descriptions that are disputed by hundreds or primary sources that state otherwise.
nibs:
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 26, 2005, 03:36:42 PM ---Someone writing about Christianity as you say would be writing fiction but what is writing fact? There is nothing that documents Jesus's life other than the Bible
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the reason it's not documented is because it's mostly fiction. it largely represents an accumulation of stories, tales and myths that were passed down. it's like if i started arguing that the "chronicles of narnia" was a true story, but the problem is that it's only recorded by the one source (c.s. lewis)...
Shallow:
--- Quote from: nibs on November 26, 2005, 03:50:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 26, 2005, 03:36:42 PM ---Someone writing about Christianity as you say would be writing fiction but what is writing fact? There is nothing that documents Jesus's life other than the Bible
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the reason it's not documented is because it's mostly fiction. it largely represents an accumulation of stories, tales and myths that were passed down. it's like if i started arguing that the "chronicles of narnia" was a true story, but the problem is that it's only recorded by the one source (c.s. lewis)...
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Again, the difference is that you could probably find interviews of Lewis talking about it as fiction and it was implied as fiction. Early christians weren't voluntarily feeding themselves to lions based on what was implied ficition. They believed it was true. I'm not saying one way or the other. I'm just saying you can't for certain say one way or another.
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