jblueep Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I was reading the Jehovah's Witness Visit thread, and when I read a comment by Violet, I thought of the Eagle's song Hotel California and how it could easily be about xianity (not the Eagles intention I imagine but definitely correlative to me, especially the last two verses) Violet's quote: Then I started going to a non-denominational church and realized after a few months that this was a different room in the same fucking house. Hotel California Lyrics: On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself, "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell" Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year (Any time of year) You can find it here Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget So I called up the Captain, "Please bring me my wine" He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine" And still those voices are calling from far away, Wake you up in the middle of the night Just to hear them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face They livin' it up at the Hotel California What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise) Bring your alibis Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device" And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before "Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! " We all successfully escaped (some to a greater degree) but it is rare to leave Hotel Xianity 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblueep Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 Over the course of 30 years, 2Honest and I (separately and then 20 years together) went through some of the many rooms of xianity...from bible thumper to charismatic to accountability/shepherding to family/holiness to grace/kingdom with breaks (from particular rooms, not the hotel) in between. In the end, we spent a decade in the penthouse (grace), but we finally realized that the best the hotel xianity had to offer was still a prison and we had to check out. We briefly tried a version of xian universalism in order to stay in the hotel, but that was short lived. It seems very rational to me now that our next steps were agnosticism to deism to atheism. These room changes came in very short order thankfully. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdaddy Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I had heard (from a xian site) that that song was about a literal old reconverted hotel in California that was used as a church of Satan. or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrailBlazer Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Oh, well now this song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the evening! I've come to believe that churches are all branched off the same family nut tree. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owen652 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 I had heard (from a xian site) that that song was about a literal old reconverted hotel in California that was used as a church of Satan. or something. we were told the exact same thing in our fundy school when i was a kid (during the satanic scare days) and from then on the song freaked me out. one of the best songs ever written, yet christianity ruined it for me. Arseholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith666 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I had heard (from a xian site) that that song was about a literal old reconverted hotel in California that was used as a church of Satan. or something. I read it's about debauchery and greed in the '70s music industry. Though applying it to Xianity is an interesting thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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