Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by Blackbox:
Man...this is better then TV! - I mean the comments to this photo. Hey, I got the same comment below to my 'Religious' photo - and so did about 50 other people - I stopped going thru his 'comments made' at about page 5. I feel slightly jaded that it was not an original comment made directly to me and to me alone! My gosh, I hope we never have a 'Weather' challenge!

Originally posted by Man_Called_Horse: sorry, but as a photographer your job is to convince me. photographically, this is a nice picture. However, I am not convinced that this is religious.

(edited for spellin')

Message edited by author 2007-06-07 14:07:22.

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by Zeus:

Originally posted by Zeuss: Originally posted by whiterook: I don't know of Porcelainism Keep looking Whiterook, you'll find it.

This is close, but not quite Porcelainism: Goatonapolists:

//www.goatonapole.com/

Besides the singular truth of the Goat's relation to the Pole, the only thing you need to know is that the relation between Goat and Pole is the only thing you need to know.

Think about it.

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by Zeus:

Originally posted by alanfreed: Sooooo it's ok for you to make an expression, but some of us aren't allowed to criticize that expression. *cough* *cough* *hypocritical* *cough*

No, it's OK for all of us to make an expression. That doesn't mean I (or you) are forcing the other to change. But if you're offended maybe you should have just stuck with "Just lovely". You aren't one of those guys who thinks a good Christian is one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor, now are you?

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by Zeus:

Originally posted by whiterook: I don't know of Porcelainism

Keep looking Whiterook, you'll find it.

Lover of Life
by Zeus

Comment by kje83:
AWWW..It's so pretty.

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by alanfreed:

Originally posted by Zeuss: I'm heading out to Burning Man this year. That's supposed to be close to the ultimate in freedom of expression. alanfreed, samanwar, smardaz, you guys need to go there.

Sooooo it's ok for you to make an expression, but some of us aren't allowed to criticize that expression. *cough* *cough* *hypocritical* *cough*

Originally posted by BHuseman: My profile picture? So what? Are you offended by a picture of a bird?

No, I'm offended by your attitude, and the attitude that is conveyed by your profile picture. A profile picture is used to "represent" a user, and if that's how you represent yourself, well... 'nuff said.

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by whiterook:
Religion can be described as a "way of life". So he practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally daily everyday practices to The Oh Porcelain God! There are so many religions like hinduism, budahism, Molsen, and etc. I don't know of Porcelainism

Originally posted by CoinCounter: Originally posted by inshaala: Sorry but i think you missed what religion ACTUALLY means - religion is not just about believing in a particular god - look up the dictionary definition and you will see something which might open your eyes - religion is not christianity, christianity is a religion... ...Personally i think people were, in this challenge, too caught up in their own religious righteousness to realise that when looking at the THEME and some pictures (including my own) they forgot that we are here for artistic interpretation on a theme - not a subjective application of religious values and preconceptions on a photo. That is exactly what I was trying to get across, unfortunately, without success. I must agree with this, I found some of the entries to be quite 'aggressively selling' a particular belief, so much so that I found some very slightly overbearing(and I would like to think of myself as open-minded and liberal), although none were offensive in any way.

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by CoinCounter:

Originally posted by inshaala: Sorry but i think you missed what religion ACTUALLY means - religion is not just about believing in a particular god - look up the dictionary definition and you will see something which might open your eyes - religion is not christianity, christianity is a religion... ...Personally i think people were, in this challenge, too caught up in their own religious righteousness to realise that when looking at the THEME and some pictures (including my own) they forgot that we are here for artistic interpretation on a theme - not a subjective application of religious values and preconceptions on a photo.

That is exactly what I was trying to get across, unfortunately, without success.

I found some of the entries to be quite 'aggressively selling' a particular belief, so much so that I found some very slightly overbearing(and I would like to think of myself as open-minded and liberal), although none were offensive in any way.

Message edited by author 2007-06-06 20:20:38.

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by Zeus:

Originally posted by BHuseman: My profile picture? So what? Are you offended by a picture of a bird? If that is the case then you might want to get rid of the internet and tv and move to a commune........

I'm heading out to Burning Man this year. That's supposed to be close to the ultimate in freedom of expression. alanfreed, samanwar, smardaz, you guys need to go there. You'll learn that if you don't like something you see, look the other way. Your way is OK for you, and some other way is OK for others.

I had a thought that a torture chamber, or a witch burning would have been a better photo in this catagory, because it would have been a more truthful depiction of religion. You can't deny that this and the Spanish Inquisition wasn't done in the name of Christianity. Yes, I can go on...

Oh Porcelain God, I Pray to Thee!
by Zeus

Comment by inshaala:
Sorry but i think you missed what religion ACTUALLY means - religion is not just about believing in a particular god - look up the dictionary definition and you will see something which might open your eyes - religion is not christianity, christianity is a religion. Take your own personal religion - christianity or whatever completely out of the equation and try to be objective about this photo. Religious practices worldwide have a rather strange coincidence about them - most religions state that when praying you should in some way prostrate yourself infront of your god as a sign of deference and reverence or whatnot... am i wrong?

Now when artistic interpretation of a theme comes into play (that is why we are competing in these challenges - and please correct me if i am wrong) and when the english language provides a colloquial expression using religious terminology - surely the "religious" pose of praying and the expression meet in a well conceived interpretation of the theme.

Personally i think people were, in this challenge, too caught up in their own religious righteousness to realise that when looking at the THEME and some pictures (including my own) they forgot that we are here for artistic interpretation on a theme - not a subjective application of religious values and preconceptions on a photo.

I didnt vote on this image but i surely would not have given it any less than a 4 - which is what the majority of voters seemed to think it was worth.

Originally posted by whiterook: I agree with you but at the same time. This image doesn't fit in the challenge. God is good getting stoned drunked drunk is evil. I know God forgive your sins but I don't believe you can find God in the toilet! Originally posted by CoinCounter: I liked the idea, the photo wasn't particularly well captured, but I thought it was a mildly amusing, unconventional idea. And certainly didn't deserve all those 1's. Quite frankly, I think some people need to lighten up. The world is full of different people with different ideologies and in this sort of artistic arena, unless you come here with an open mind and an acceptance of that, you will always find yourself offended, especially when it comes to topics such as religion.