Re: Guns n' stuff

Robert Morris (winboog@gis.net)
Thu, 13 May 1999 22:25:42 -0400 

The sound that you all hear while reading this post is my head banging
against the wall in frustration over whatever half-wit taught that class on
Dylan at Duke.


>about Dylan being a 'Godly man':
>I did some research this summer on Dylan for a 60's class I took at Duke
and came to
>find out that while he did consider himself Buddhist during his earlier
days,

  i'd like to see documentation on this. Is it based on his famous quotation
about reading the I-Ching? He also said that he didn't believe in anything
right after he said that. He was just as likely to deny that he was a
Buddhist as he was to admit he had been Bar Mitzvahed. I don't think Bob was
ever a Buiddhist, or did he consider himself so.



 he later
>came to a greater understanding with Christianity (1979) and all that it
entails.

  I think its called being born again. He attended bible school for a
period after his divorce.


  He
>even released a few albums with strong Christian overtones within: _Slow
Train
>Coming_, _Saved_ (oddly enough his weakest selling album) and _Shot of
Love_.

   While that may be, they are some of the best goddamn gospel songs I have
ever heard. Every Grain of Sand, Precious Angel two of my favorites.



>One quite interesting article I read was based entirely on his
reaffirmation entitled
>"Bob Dylan:  Born-Again Christian or Social Critic?"  It basically compared
and
>contrasted what they referred to as "The Old Dylan" and "The New Dylan."

  The more you actually LISTEN to Dylan, you realize that there is no such
thing as old and new Dylan.


>I'm not meaning to jump over you or anything about what you said - it's
just that many
>people don't believe he is a Christian.

    I don't think he would claim himself to be a Christian these days. That
was the point of the initial comment that I made ( that has been
misconstrued badly twice already). Bob's belief lie more in the old songs,
folk songs, like Hank Williams singing I Saw the Light than any organized
religion or dogma.


    Sarah based on what you wrote here, you should ask for your money back
for that class.

                   Robert Morris
                   winboog@gis.net