BANNED CULTURAL APPRECIATION TIME!
A POEM READING BY TONTO!
In Arroyo Grande, a prophet appears,
Bobby Thiel, with dubious cheers.
A phony sage, in religious guise,
With potions and herbs, he peddles his lies.
A hundred followers, all Caucasian and meek,
In his mystical garden, where delusions peak.
He claims divine visions, a charlatan's play,
In the land of sunshine, where shadows betray.
Oh, Bobby Thiel, the preacher so sly,
Selling Christian voodoo, oh my, oh my!
His potions and herbs, a dubious blend,
To cure your ills, or so they pretend.
In the heart of California, he weaves his spell,
A prophet with a story, too absurd to tell.
His white-clad flock, like sheep in the pen,
Following blindly, again and again.
"Buy my elixirs," he declares with zeal,
Promising miracles, a snake oil ordeal.
With a wink and a grin, he counts his gold,
As the gullible masses, in ignorance, hold.
Bobby Thiel, the master of disguise,
In Arroyo Grande, where skepticism dies.
A satire of faith, a parody profound,
In the circus of belief, he wears the crown.
So here's to Bobby, the prophet bizarre,
With his potions and voodoo, a spectacle so far.
A hundred followers, lost in the haze,
In the land of sunshine, where reason decays.
18 comments:
There once was a huckster named Bob
Who thought prophecy was his job
Though mentally ill
He prophesied till
The whole world saw he was a knob
Cursed and sappy is the Bob
Who does always walk astray
With ungodly witch doctors
Trained in Satan's way
All Bob does fails badly
He is wicked; we all know
Bob is chaff before the wind
Driven to and fro
Wearing his tin hat he sits
Front of curtains not hung right
Prophesying of himself
All the day and night
All Bob does fails badly
He is wicked; we all know
Bob is chaff before the wind
Driven to and fro
He shall be a weed that sprouts
Growing at the river's side
Caught in lies, he always pouts
Wishing he could hide
All Bob does fails badly
He is wicked; we all know
Bob is chaff before the wind
Driven to and fro
Spending your life bashing an insignificant person like Bob is the road to insignificance yourself.
“ Spending your life bashing an insignificant person like Bob is the road to insignificance yourself.”
Aw, is somebody having a bad day? Can mommy make you a hot chocolate and make your boo boo all better?
In the spirit of all this indistinctive poetry, I’d like to describe my experience catching bad guys with my friend Tonto.
Decades ago we were riding through a canyon way out west. All of a sudden hundreds of wild and angry Indians surrounded us and looked like they were going to attack us.
Tonto! I yelled out, “what are we going to do?
Tonto immediately responded: “What do you mean WE, paleface”?
“You gonna die, white man”!
“Bye, Kemo Sabe.”
And that’s the last time I ever saw him, until finding this site.
Lone Ranger
11:49. "Aw, is somebody having a bad day? Can mommy make you a hot chocolate and make your boo boo all better?"
Just ignore him. He is our resident grump.
Well, HWA had his AMBASSADOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL FOUNDATION a
and so , thus , BANNED now has its "cultural outreach to the world" in the form of poet laureates, in the spirit of AICF and a continuation of the example set by HWA, with these poetry readings.
The Bob Thiel some of you knew in LCG died many years ago. The Bob Thiel that we know now is a shapeshifting reptilian Bigfoot alien imposter servant of a moderately advanced deepfake AI that maintains the web presence and sends out the cybernetically-enhanced alien imposter to act out its white savior comedy in Africa.
Working to help prevent a toxic person who seeks significance from actually gaining that significance is not insignificant! Not even!!!
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And "Tonto" is supposed to be male......
"Now I am become Death, the Destoyer of Worlds." - Bhagavad Gita quoted by Robert Oppenheimer
Poetry has a gravitas that prose lacks and the genre can range from the limerick to the epic. Jesus is the Word and the implication is the Rational Word or the Word of Reason. Und Rilke hat gesagt, "Ich fürchte mich so vor der Menschen Wort." We are people made of words.
I like this line:
"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."
There is a great sadness beneath the comedic layers of Tonto's poem. Should we laugh or keen?
Ranger
Anonymous said...
And "Tonto" is supposed to be male......
MY COMMENT:
Dude--- Tell it to:
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Frost
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Rudyard Kipling
and thousands of other STRAIGHT MALE poets you uneducated semiliterate naive featherhead!
A wordsmith can be very valuable. As excellent a musician as Jerry Garcia was, we would not have all of those great songs without Robert Hunter's lyrics.
10.54, Bob's a type of all the ACOGs leaders. The impact they have on their deceived members is great rather than insignificant. Dave for instance has robbed his church widows of their homes with his "common" doctrine.
Who would compare 'Tonto' poems to such literary greats ? Has the ego landed ? And you mock Herbert Armstrongs egomania ha!
Do you behold your articles in such high esteem ? Are you the Eugene O'Neil of COG writers ?
For all the superlatives (hype) in their self-descriptions, there is some really bad juju which comes along with Armstrongism. Any objective thinker can easily recognize and understand how this badness overwhelms and thwarts any goodness which they feel they are bringing into people's lives.
In the end, it's not just a few bullet points which they describe as "having the truth" that tell the tale. It's the net, net, net effect it has on members that actually counts. If Armstrongism
In spite of all their superlatives and hype, there's a lot of bad juju that comes along with Armstrongism. Any objective thinker will easily see that these negatives overshadow any good which this religion brings into peoples lives. They may have a few "truth" bullet points, but we must look at the net, net, net effects in determing whether the good overwhelms the bad.
If Armstrongism were a medication, the side effects are so devastating that it would need to be taken off the market. No lawsuits, no dumping on third world countries. Even the baby in their bathwater has terminal birth defects!
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