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The Flaming Lips secular Humanisms house band?

Posted by Margaret on Monday, Oct 12, 2009

In today’s Guardian, Kitty Empire writes,

If secular humanism had a house band it would be Oklahoma’s Flaming Lips. Having begun life in the mid-80s as lysergic slackers, the Lips have evolved into a kaleidoscopic outfit in which the forces of good and evil thrash it out nightly. Warm fuzziness and faith in human decency triumph most of the time. Their best-known epiphany, “Do You Realize?”, watches the planet hurtling through space before skewering fans with the knowledge that everyone they know, someday, will die.

Do you realise?

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