If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
Interpretation
This quote suggests that if something causes extreme distress or suffering, it is inherently flawed or wrong.
Frank Ocean's quote reflects a critical viewpoint on belief systems or ideologies that lead to pain and suffering. It emphasizes that any doctrine or faith that brings a person to a state of despair is not worthy of following, encouraging individuals to evaluate the impact of their beliefs on their well-being and happiness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about toxic ideologies at a philosophy club.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.
Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
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