# Something Terrible I Must Share **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756 "2005-04-11T06:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/41 "2005-04-12T16:21:39Z")
Oh my. Am I the only one who thought of the ending of the original Planet of the Apes movie upon seeing the beginning of the video? Upon seeing the moving bodies of light at the beginning, my reaction wasn’t “Lo! Witness the holy blessings of the Touch of God!”; it was “this singer is going to have one heck of a sunburn under that solar flare”, followed by “This singer is being invaded by alien brain twisters”. 🙂 After seeing the angel shapes, the imagery made more sense. Is this kind of imagery common in the US? Is it perceived as being exclusively ‘Christian’ ? As a non-US type, I don’t have the resonances with the nationalistic imagery that some might. But I can easily imagine the Evil Twin of the video created in some unfriendly-to-the-US place… ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/42 "2005-04-12T18:53:12Z")
Quite possibly the best evidence to date why someone needs to develop one of those “flashy things” from MIB. I need to have those last 5 minutes erased…permanently. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/43 "2005-04-12T18:55:55Z")
I just realized that the name of the site was “America We Stand As One” and not “America Wet Sand Stone”, which is what I thought it said. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/44 "2005-04-12T19:15:22Z")
Wow, that’s really horrifying. Who is he supposed to be, anyway? A dead firefighter/soldier type? The spirit of '76? What? My favorite part was the flag ocean. Bleah. To **sunspace** : I dunno, I wouldn’t really call it Christian exactly. Glurge for a specific subset of the population, in a spectrum from only nominally Christian/general spirituality through some evangelicals. If that makes any sense. I mean, a lot of Christians would be completely turned off, while some people who aren’t necessarily Christian might really like it. Like that TV show a few years ago, _Touched by an angel_, which was hugely popular but not specifically Christian, or _Highway to Heaven_ in the 80’s, which was the same–and there was a big ‘angel’ fad a few years back–lots of people like angels in a sort of generic way without necessarily linking it to a specific belief system. Some people like angels (nice, protective, love you unconditionally) and not Christianity (which has rules and may want you to repent and change). Does that make any sense? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/45 "2005-04-12T19:26:47Z")
That makes sense, **dangermom**. I’ve seen _Touched by an Angel_, and it struck me as being quite Christian though. I was introduced to it when I went to visit my father (he watches it on satellite). ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/46 "2005-04-12T19:47:55Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > Wow, that’s really horrifying. Who is he supposed to be, anyway? A dead firefighter/soldier type? The spirit of '76? What? I think he’s supposed to be channeling, or is possessed by, dead firefighter/soldier types. Notice the three glowing spheres that enter his body at the beginning and leave at the end of the video. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/47 "2005-04-12T20:49:42Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > That makes sense, **dangermom**. I’ve seen _Touched by an Angel_, and it struck me as being quite Christian though. I was introduced to it when I went to visit my father (he watches it on satellite). Well, I’ve never watched it myself, but my understanding is that it was more sort of generic and that they never used Christian terminology (bringing in Jesus or specific churches)–the same way _Highway to Heaven_ used to talk about “the Boss”–so that while Christians might like it, it wouldn’t be specific enough to exclude other audiences. But as you can see I’m hardly an authority. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/48 "2005-04-12T21:22:30Z")
Why does he address America as “my love”? That’s bizarre. Also, did anyone else notice the **Born in East L.A.** homage toward the end? ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrhonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pyrrhonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrhonist)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/49 "2005-04-12T21:31:35Z")
_In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful_ When the sun ceases to shine; when the stars fall down and the mountains are blown away; when camels big with young are left untended and the wild beasts are brought together; when the records of men’s deed are laid open and the heaven is stripped bare: This will forever remain an abomination to all men: the utterance of an accused devil. This has been a Koranic parody. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/50 "2005-04-12T21:38:34Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > I think he’s supposed to be channeling, or is possessed by, dead firefighter/soldier types. Notice the three glowing spheres that enter his body at the beginning and leave at the end of the video. No, I’m sorry, but I would put my immortal soul on the line (like I’m not already going to Hell anyway :rolleyes: ) that he’s supposed to be Jesus. Note the lyrics about having walked the Earth but could not stay “now I’m with you in a different way”. And “I still live, I did not die”? I’m telling you, he’s supposed to be Jesus…Jesus the American. I can’t beleive I’m here analysizing these lyrics…it’s enough to make my baby Jesus butt plug cry. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/51 "2005-04-12T21:47:33Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I just realized that the name of the site was “America We Stand As One” and not “America Wet Sand Stone”, which is what I thought it said. Well, the page is just americawestandasone and I kept parsing it as, “America west, and as one.” I thought, “Wll, that doesn’t make any sense.” Then I actually loaded up the page and KNEW it didn’t make any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/52 "2005-04-12T22:15:40Z")
Is there a transcript of these timelss lyrics do ya think? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/53 "2005-04-13T00:06:52Z")
Transcript? You could probably hook up some random glurge generator to a rhyming module and get more than enough to fit… ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/54 "2005-04-13T04:14:31Z")
Thanks **inkleberry**! This will be a great disciplinary tool for my employees! Kisses! ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Samaritan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bad\_Samaritan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Samaritan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/55 "2005-04-13T06:18:23Z")
Brought to you by the RNC no doubt. Now doesn’t that make you feel proud & patriotic as a motherfuck to be an American? Pesonally I feel the video is incomplete without a video clip in the clouds of our congressmen standing on Capital Hill soon after 9/11 singing God Bless America. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/56 "2005-04-13T18:18:40Z")
And they should be waving. make sure the Black Caucus and the women are prominently in the foreground, too… ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/57 "2005-04-14T23:52:29Z")
The Fuck Yeah site is down. Anyone else know where I can find it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/58 "2005-04-15T00:25:37Z")
> [@flight](#): > > The Fuck Yeah site is down. Anyone else know where I can find it? [ifilm.com](http://ifilm.com) has the video. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/59 "2005-04-15T00:38:09Z")
> [@AnatomicallyCorrect](#): > > Pesonally I feel the video is incomplete without a video clip in the clouds of our congressmen standing on Capital Hill soon after 9/11 singing God Bless America. Because you thought that was the ultimate glurgey moment, or because you wouldn’t want something you actually liked being associated with this crap? I remember actually thinking that was an incredibly touching and powerful moment. Although, of course, my mindset on 9/11 itself was, like that of most people, quite a bit different than it has been under any other circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756/60 "2005-04-15T03:34:53Z")
> [@AnatomicallyCorrect](#): > > Now doesn’t that make you feel proud & patriotic as a motherfuck to be an American?. Actually, no. I’m Canadian. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-terrible-i-must-share/298756.md?page=2)