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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Why do we have to have fiction writers, why can't all books be non fiction? Why do we need artists? Why not just take the Shaker's approach, everything is functional and anything more that that is sin, vanity, whatever? Poetry? Does anyone really need that? WL wrote songs and didn't need to use poetry, so why should anyone else? Of course I am being sarcastic, I think that God's ways are higher than ours.
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I do have not problem with poetry and symbolism. I have a problem with thinking we can define the meaning of every symbol in the Bible and be certain what each one means. Trying to take every little image in the Song of Songs an wring meaning out of it seems extreme.
You've read some interpretations of songs and poems, the original artists often marvel at what listeners and readers come up with. As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.