Bible dipping is when you ask a question, then close your eyes and open it up to any random page, you put your finger somewhere on the page, open your eyes and whatever phrase you land on is supposed to have something to do with your question. I've played this game as a child. It's very tempting to cheat ... like you rationalize and try to make it out to be the answer you want. You're supposed to play with other people present so they can keep you in check, until you relent and realize that no matter what answer you've all come up with, it means ... you're gonna burn.
Thank goodness it was the 70's and my aunt was mildly influenced by the popular American wave of feminism and shared a few crumbs of sanity with me. Mom always made ugly faces at the television when the devil women were on the news and spat invectives at them. I haven't asked ... but I'm sure she's quite content that feminism is now like one of Sigfried & Roy's white tigers in a cage on Zoloft, awaiting an unlikely, yet possible psychotic break.
So yeah, I play a similar game to bible dipping. Only now, I use Black Sabbath lyrics. I'm being facetious but I'm telling you, for any of life's events I can find a Sabbath song that will answer and console. The magic of Sabbath dipping is ... it comes to me, I don't have to pick up a book or anything! Like when I read about the 4,000 soldiers last week I involuntarily thought, "War Pigs." 70's British heavy metal, imagine that.
... You don't see what's happening to women in the sexist military at the mercy of male soldier's and superiors though. CNN is more like the E channel these days ... Anderson Cooper's desperation to be famous is getting a little painful to watch. I heard he goes home at night and draws all over his face in red lipstick and sings, "I Wanna Be In Pictures." True story. A lot of what is happening to these young women is far worse than death, still I suppose I can summon up enough empathy for the soldiers to desire them to be spared death, even if a good majority of them need a bat to their knees.
And while 80% of the population probably finds Sabbath hideous, the eerie sound quality is positively the other half of the storytelling. Those pagans knew what they were saying I tell you.
