“In the Ear of the Gods” ~ Johnathan D. Clayton
This is a video I made as my final project for one of my video production classes. I requested some help with it a few months ago and it just dawned on me that I never uploaded it. It was shot on my Canon DSLR by myself and most audio was recorded by myself with the help of friends. All credits are at the end. I hope you enjoy it.
I’m doing a project here at The University of Tennessee for a video class and I’m doing it on religion and prayer. I’m looking for additional audio for the video, so I have a request, especially for those of you with iPhones (I say iPhones because I know the audio quality capable on them). I’m wanting prayers/incantations from as many different religions as possible, especially non-Christians and especially if you speak a language other than American English. I have access to tons of different Christian denominations and American English speakers, so I’m trying to increase the diversity of language.
On a 2nd note, if you are in or around the Knoxville, TN area and are willing to be filmed for the project, it would be more than greatly appreciated. Again, non-Christians will take precedence because I have an abundance of them already.
My email address is ***jclayto4@utk.edu**** If you are comfortable bring filmed, feel free to just shoot it to me in an email or if you’re open to being filmed or if you record any audio, shoot me a message with the attachment. I’d appreciate it if you’d include:
Your Name (for credit)
Your Religious Affiliation (if any)
Any other information you’d like to include such as age or location.
Thank you so much in advance!!!
~Johnathan
‘anyone living a life of sin need not apply’ omg
Yet another reason I don’t eat there, despite it being some of my favorite fast food ever. Oh, well.
Background: I came out to my parents 4 years ago. My younger brother came out two weeks ago. We have a great uncle who is also gay. My great grandpa is 90 years old, and a lifelong Christian. My parents went to visit him this Christmas, and here was their conversation…
Grandpa: So, I switched…
That is too cute.
This is the truth of the matter.
Happy Holidays to all!!!
Happy Merry Freakin’ EVERYTHING! :)
I can see myself posting this on facebook before Christmas is here…it’s that great.
Christmas is not under attack. Christians’ religious liberty is just fine.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
Been saying this for yeeeaaars!!!
relevant
hey Rick Perry
hey every single person who says their freedom of religion is at stake because a store ad said “happy holidays”
What a fantasy. Jon Stewart is in la-la land.
El
The supreme deity of the ancient Canaanites, El was big man on the Levant-campus back in the day. El was the father of Ba’al, who would eventually become more popular than his dad throughout the Middle-East, and husband of Asherah (a semitic mother goddess).
In many depictions, El wore the same bull horns as did Ba’al, though we often see him portrayed in the fancy hats of an ancient Mesopotamian king. The power of fancy hats was one worth flaunting, after all. Though his main priority was sitting in a throne, enjoying being the boss, he was accredited with being a patron deity of fertility, thunder, mountains, deserts, oceans, and war. A real Renaissance-god.
Now, even though Ba’al was the god of storm and sky (a position usually held by a chief deity) his papa was #1, at least in the inception of the Pantheon. El’s full title was El Shaddai, which loosely translates (we’re pretty sure, anyway) to God of the Mountain. The Mesopotamian Holy Mountain was a big deal, and a fitting place for a king of the Gods to dwell, one might think. El was too popular for his own good, though. Or, for our good, at least; he’s brought up in so many places in so many different forms, it’s difficult to pin down what exactly he was to whom.
The most popular reference to El would be in the Hebrew Torah, where El Shaddai is the God of Abraham, and is synonymous with Yahweh. Does this mean that Abraham was originally a practitioner of the Canaanite faith? Quite possible! But either way, it seems the Hebrews adopted the title of the supreme deity in Canaan and used it as a feather in Yahweh’s cap. Ol’ El has also drawn comparisons to the Babylonian Ea (Enki) and Poseidon, if you can believe it.
Whoever you are, El, you’re almost definitely a badass.
Stuff like this is why I love studying religion. Whether you like it or not, there is a lot of overlap. And I’ll cut myself off their before I ramble for an hour.
I’ve been collecting rosaries since I was a little girl, and had been dying to get a rosary as a tattoo around my ankle just as long. This tattoo is a combination of my two favorite rosaries, one from each set of my grandparents. To show my faith, my love, and my commitment to the idea, I finally achieved the tattoo. Thanks to Jason Pedersen @ 4fourty4 Tattoo in Tucson, AZ. <3
This is gorgeous! And the detail, especially for such a small pice, is amazing!
Again, the right of a minority to practice or celebrate their religion does not infringe on the right of the majority to practice or celebrate theirs.
ugh
no
no
And even if you couldn’t say “Christmas”, we still get Christmas off - no other religion’s holidays warrant that.
I did Secret Santa in elementary school as well as explicitly Christmas programs - hell, we were at my sister’s one year when tornadoes struck.
And I didn’t go to school in the olden days.
ugh
I never see December cartoons from the perspective of minority students - those who have to hear about how they’re killing Christmas by forcing dipshits to acknowledge their existence.
The majority can’t really claim persecution. I intentionally say “Happy Holidays” because A) I have friends who practice various religions, so I want to include them all, B) it also includes New Year’s. I also feel like from a professional point of view, I can’t assume that everyone is Christian or religious at all, so “Happy Holidays” covers my bases. I do think it’s stupid when people get offended when someone wishes them a “Merry Christmas” because I feel like you should take the intention of the wish to heart. Now, if there’s some caveat like, “as long as you’re Southern Baptist” or something else equally ridiculous, obviously, offense can be taken. But people get so wrapped up in the words, they lose sight of the intent.
jtoz:
“Tom Turkey”? More like “Taliban Turkey”!
Anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller is calling for a boycott of Butterball, accusing the company of selling “stealth halal” turkeys prepared in accordance with Muslim dietary laws.
This Thursday, remind grandma that you take your Muslim Brotherhood breast meat with a dollop of Gamal gravy and jihad giblets.
You know what to do, American Muslims. Stock up.
From now on I am only buying Butterball turkeys.
Stealth halal? Butterball here I come.
Stealth halal? That’s like stealth vegan. Doesn’t hurt anybody, and those who have special dietary requirements get to enjoy the food too.
Ohhh but it does hurt people. Because, you know, it’s Muslim food and if we eat it, then we’ll like all be Muslim and Oh. My. God. /sarcasm.
That’s right! Once we go halal, America will fall! Boycott Butterball!!!
In all seriousness, how is this any different than eating something kosher? Most people aren’t Jewish and that doesn’t bother them. People are just ridiculous.
مسلمات وشموع في كنيسة كلدانية ببغداد Iraqi Muslim women light candles at the Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. The Chaldean church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic church. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) عام على حادث كنيسة سيدة النجاة بالكرادة، بغداد
On my travels across the internet, I came across this post on World Net Daily from 2005 written by an Evangelical Christian, entitled, “why I’m against pre-game prayers”.
The long and the short of the post is this; while serving in the military, he was living at Wheeler Air…
I’m gonna have to remember this story next time this comes up at a family dinner.
we were taught about how David and Jonathan were ~best bros~
when this was
obviously
not the case
#that time there was a gay couple in the bible and nobody talked about it ever
I remember bringing this up as a CHILD and all the adults at church told me to stop asking questions. They said I was “confusing the other children.” That actually happened a lot.
Day 6: Did you face any problems regarding religion?
Remember what I said about touching on future topics? Yeah. But, I guess I can go into a bit more detail.
I grew up in Memphis, TN and attended a Southern Baptist church of ~30,000 members. Yeah, I was a mega-churcher. We went a really small General Baptist church when I was really little, but the church kinda started dying off, so Mom decided the big church was the place to go. I remember her acting really weird the first time we went, but she knew there would be a lot of activities for both of us, so we gave it a shot.
I remember liking it a lot as a kid, but there were some bad things going on in retrospect. I remember my (now) ex-step-sister saying that the other kids didn’t like her because of the school she went to. I thought it was just her being awkward, but as I got older, I noticed it myself. By 7th grade, people I had been friends with since I was 5 wouldn’t talk to me. Add that to the fact that I was realizing that I was gay and crushing on other boys and the Sunday school teachers constantly talking about how sex in general was wrong, let alone gay things, and I was a powder keg waiting to go off.
From 12-16, I was institutionalized and attempted suicide 3 times. It was a really dark time. I tried “recommitting to Jesus” more times than I can count. I thought, “maybe I’m not saved,” and went through that again. But it wasn’t working. No matter how much I prayed, I still was attracted to other men. I tried so hard not to be, but that’s just not something you can change.
Around junior year of high school, I read an article about a girl who was Pagan and it sparked my interest. I had always been fascinated by the mythology of ancient cultures and magickal practices, so I began to read everything I could get my hands on. I was hooked. I began reading about all kids of different religions that fell under the Pagan umbrella, finding many weren’t for me in the long run. But I am truly happy now, in a religion that accepts people for who they are and doesn’t ask you to change something at the core of your being. Not that there aren’t close-minded people in the community, but they are few and far between.
