The ICP are amazed by magnets

[lightcastle]

You know, back when I encountered the Juggalo Faith web page, I thought it was a joke or that some Christian fans of the Insane Clown Posse were just getting a little out of hand.

Turns out I was wrong, as the ICP have just released a song and video about their love of god and hatred of scientists in which they discuss the amazing awesomeness of magnets.

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[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

"The Earth, the stars, and even Mars".

Awww, how thoughtful of them to include mars. They'll be hearing from Neptune's lawyers shortly. Also, "Magic everywhere in this bitch"? Truly, these are the finest wordsmiths to don face-paint since Kiss...

Seriously though, maybe I wasn't listening closely enough, but I actually didn't catch anything about God or dissing science. Actually, the way I read the song, it's not too far from the closest analog to spirituality that I have in my life nowadays: never out-growing a sense of wonder at "holy fuck, things exist".

Again, perhaps I missed something but, while I actually dig what I got of the message, the song and, oh dear whatever the video... probably not going to go back and check. ;)

[metawidget]

On the not-liking science and scientists:

fucking magnets, how do they work? I don’t want to talk to a scientist, ya’ll MF lying and getting me pissed, solar eclipse and vicious weather, 15,000 Juggalos together

There's your classic science-as-secular-conspiracy meme deployed in front of an awful synth loop.

That, and classifying everything as a miracle kind of breaks science (and cheapens miracles, too). I think stuff can be beautiful, mystical, and yet still make some sort of non-miraculous sense.