Imagine by John Lennon.....

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(10-11-2017, 10:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The lyrics fit the USMC. The musical meter does not fit the norm for song of one note per syllable (opera and choral works of religion are exempt from that standard, of course).

Assuming that this "norm" actually has any baring in musical theory, a topic of which I'm no expert--and doubtful that you are either--is in place. The exceptions for choral works (being for a religion is not a requirement) would apply to the Marine's Hymn. It is a hymn and its most famous incarnations is in fact choral.

Quote:There's the odd case that the anthem of the old and discredited DDR Auferstanden aus Ruinen fit the meter of the national anthem of the German Federal Republic, and there was some  short discussion of grafting the anthem of the German Democratic Republic into the Deutschlandlied, using the music of the Deutschlandlied.

No one gives a shit. Literally no one, not even you.

Quote:But back to Imagine. Hardly an entity has been more frequently used as a pretext for economic exploitation than Almighty God, particularly in the demand by economic elites that the rest of Humanity suffer economic deprivation on behalf those elites so that God will reward those who suffer for a rapacious, cruel class of exploiters and punish anyone who falls short of or rebels against the demands of those elites will spend an eternity in Hell. I can't speak for God Almighty, but I have an interpretation of the commandment

Thou shalt not steal  (Exodus 20:17) seems to have a corollary in a deprecation of economic exploitation in the sense of making someone dependent and helpless to change his lot so that the exploiter can profiteer from the victim's helplessness. An exploiter is a thief, even if more subtle in his stealing than the sneaky or forceful grabber of others property. Normal commerce is not theft, but peonage and outright enslavement are theft.

Whether God exists or does not, people have presumable responsibilities to others.

Back to your old standby canned statement that all those who favor free market economics are rapacious thieves, yet are generally reluctant to vote themselves other people's money from the public purse. Good to know that your understanding of the entirety of Shapiro's statements about that travesty of communist propaganda (seriously I thought it was horribly ultra-left even as an ML) is essentally the same as your understanding of economics. Nonexistent.