You're in luck, the Pope said it's your actions, not your belief that decide if you go up or down.
An Atheist can still go to heaven while a Bible thumping rapist will still burn.

The man that wrote Amazing Grace had to suffer before he wrote this song.
He was a slave trader ... when the Coast Guard caught up with him one time he ordered all of his slaves thrown overboard with their chains still on before the Coast Guard could catch up with him. This was back in the old ship sailing days.

His heart wrote this ... perhaps we have to suffer in order to understand.

Lyrics
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now I'm found.
Was blind but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Then when we first begun.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I'm found.
Was blind, but now I see

You left out four of the six verses. :O:

That seems to be wrong to me as I have died in a dream and went to the void....but that was it and I'm still here.:88)

Just for u BBY!:D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2arm5ydeJc

That's awesome . :up:

This one is even better ... considered to be the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDdv...&nohtml5=False

starts with a thunder storm turn up your speakers

I simply can't listen to that song anymore. I've heard it a million times from every bagpipe player both great and terrible warming up.

Thanks so much for posting the link that you did. It's fantastic. For my money, nothing beats the extraordinary ladies of Celtic Woman and their version of this song which was done somewhere around 2007 at Powerscourt House and Gardens, south of Dublin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCp5LG_zNE

I have to disagree. Huge choirs lessen the impact of a song for me. It doesn't sound like they have any conviction - only volume.

It's okay, but then I'm biased. A friend and I played it for another friend's wedding back in 1977. Two guitars and two voices. I have a cassette recording, but I've never taken the time to put it on a CD. Not perfect. Not even beautiful. But more heartfelt than any professional recording I've ever heard.

I agree to a point. Ever since the first bagpipe recording in the early '70s everyone considers that to be the standard. That version was good, but it's so overused now as to be truly annoying.

You can disagree but musical tastes are subjective, without reason. If we all liked the same thing, the world would soon run out of chocolate ice cream.

Here's a seven (7) year old girl singing Amazing Grace ... you will not be disappointed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDDlxmsciqY

That's why I didn't contradict, only disagreed.

I'm glad my favorite is vanilla. :sunny:

It's all good Steve. Music is such that most will find something they like in everything. That's why I called it subjective to one's particular tastes.

I prefer the orange sherbet myself. :)

All music is just a mathematical cadence that sets the soul free from Blue Suede shoes to Amazing Grace
something to do with the % of water in our bodies and our brain chemicals and of course the heart, body and soul.

Did you know that your guts have a lot to do with what you like?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-ho...b_5673477.html

This web site won't let me copy and paste, but it is worth looking into ... your know that old saying, "I have a gut feeling" about something?

I like the ice cream with nuts in

Reminds me of this

Several years ago, I was in an ice cream store where they had a very wide variety of flavors. It was a very hot day and there was a long line. There was a group of about a half dozen trendy people ahead of me. When they got to the counter, they spent an ungodly amount of time asking for samples and debating the choices, something along the line of "Oh, this flavor reminds me of last summer in Maui", "I think this one would go well with a pressed duck dinner", and so on. They finally made up their minds, got their ice cream, and moved off to the side. I got up to the counter and asked for vanilla ice cream. One of the trendies heard my request and commented: "Vanilla? Isn't that rather unimaginative?" I replied "Maybe so, but I didn't keep a long line of people waiting while I dallied about and dithered."...


I don't know what happens after we die, but if there is a place of eternal punishment and agony, I do hope there is an especially hot place reserved for people like those trendies...



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What the hell's all this got to do with ice cream anyway? Unless of course an ice cream cone is a metaphor for life: The first half is soft and smooooth and tasty; the second half is dry, tasteless and brittle, and keeps on getting smaller and smaaller and... smaaaller... until... all gone!