================================================ Subject: Re: Introduction From: "Lee Reed" To: Date: Sun 20 Jan 2002 00:45:03 -0500 ================================================ hi, joe, i'm lee, i've been on the list a while now (guess i could be considered old school, maybe!*winks at tim)and i just wanted to say that i find your attitude and interpretation of creed very refreshing...you, obviously are a christian,, yet you are firm enough in your own beliefs to accept that the band is not truly a 'christian' band,but in a 'spiritual' place, and no bones about it either...thanks...i hope you'll enjoy your time here with us... Lee >From: Joe Earles >Reply-To: Joe Earles >To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM >Subject: Introduction >Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:39:05 -0500 > >Greetings, fellow Creed Fans! > >My name is Joe and I've just subscribed to this list tonight. By way of >intorduction, allow me to tell you all a bit about who I am. I live in >Massachusetts (yes, I'm going to the Boston show - my first Creed concert >and the first of any kind I've bothered to make an effort to get to in over >10 years), I post to the message boards under the alias of Gryffindor. My >other obsessions are Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Harry Potter. I got >into Creed two summers back while chaperoning a trip with my church's youth >group. I got into a debate over whether Creed is a Christian band... The >FAQ >at creed.com Gives Scott's own answer to that question and that's just fine >by me. > >That conversation did make me start paying closer attention to the lyrics >and I've never heard any rock band that delivered the kind of honesty and >transparency in thier lyrics that Scott Stapp does with Creed. I won't >forge any new arguments about Creed's spiritual orientations but I will say >this: there is a dimention to their music that simply does not exist >elsewhere in mainstream rock today and that's what has drawn me to them. I >think Scott has a lot to say, and I'm glad to listen. His life experiences >and mine have several significant parallels. > >To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, >visit: >http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp