I've been listening to/reading from Leonard Cohen's work for the past 40 years and I am mystified that every world religion has not acknowledged his contributions as being utterly prophetic (not necessarily saintly). Whether "Anthem", "If it be your Will", "The Guests" or, most recently, "Show me the place" - is there not truth, beauty and passion in each phrase?
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How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every religion?
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
LeonjlFox asks:
>How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every religion?
this is absurd. no way is leonard cohen prophet material. messiah, maybe - but not a mere prophet.
>How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every religion?
this is absurd. no way is leonard cohen prophet material. messiah, maybe - but not a mere prophet.
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
You'd be hard pressed to find a religious Jew who would like him, they are just way too against most secular Jews. Or Jews that do things like curse OH MY GOD COVER MY EARS! 
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
You mean many of his fellow countrymen don't like him? Perhaps Jesus was right then when in Matthew 13:57 he said: "No man is a prophet in his own hometown!"pipskicks wrote:You'd be hard pressed to find a religious Jew who would like him, they are just way too against most secular Jews. Or Jews that do things like curse OH MY GOD COVER MY EARS!
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy..........Geoffrey wrote:
this is absurd. no way is leonard cohen prophet material. messiah, maybe - but not a mere prophet.
(Thanks go to Monty Python)
I guess it all started for me sometime around Christmas 1967 and now, goodness me, it's.........2018 and over fifty years later.
No one ever listens to me. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record.
Neil from The Young Ones
No one ever listens to me. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record.
Neil from The Young Ones
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
Eh he's supposedly my G-Ma's cousin, and my parents don't want anything to do with him or me, so yeah, the non-religious Jews I'm sure love him like they love all the other non-religious Jews, but anyone who leaves the religion....they're definitely far from prophets! They would probably dissuade other Jews from listening to him it's that bad. Oh well, you're probably right about not being a prophet in your hometown, religion is a business, no prophet wants to lose his congregation (or more his congegation's money)Geoffrey wrote:You mean many of his fellow countrymen don't like him? Perhaps Jesus was right then when in Matthew 13:57 he said: "No man is a prophet in his own hometown!"pipskicks wrote:You'd be hard pressed to find a religious Jew who would like him, they are just way too against most secular Jews. Or Jews that do things like curse OH MY GOD COVER MY EARS!
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
supposedly? unless i am mistaken, your great grandparents must have had at least two children; one being your grandmother, the other either leonard's mother or father - as that would make he and your grandmother first cousins. to verify this you need only to conduct a standard document search.pipskicks wrote:he's supposedly my G-Ma's cousin, and my parents don't want anything to do with him or me
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Yeah my memory isn't great, my grandma passed away many years ago and I don't think anyone else knew the lineage, so I can't remember exactly how she was related to him, but I believe it was cousins, I just am not 100% sure. She mentioned it to me only once, and being a young kid, not knowing who he was (no YouTube at that time!) I sort of just forgot about it....Geoffrey wrote:supposedly? unless i am mistaken, your great grandparents must have had at least two children; one being your grandmother, the other either leonard's mother or father - as that would make he and your grandmother first cousins. to verify this you need only to conduct a standard document search.pipskicks wrote:he's supposedly my G-Ma's cousin, and my parents don't want anything to do with him or me
I'm not proud of that, but that's life.
Re: How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every relig
He's not the Messiah.
I am.
I am.
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IMHO - I think Leonard Cohen, himself, would be the first to tell you that he's not a prophet, nor the Messiah! 
That being said, I do believe his God-given talent with words is unparalleled. (Dylan is close---but I bet he'd argue with me on that ) I still think Cohen is a "secular psalmist", for lack of a better phrase. (I'm sure he could come up with a better one)
Most Jewish people, that I've talked to, really like him....and some of them are very traditional...do the Ultra-Orthodox not like him?
--Rain
That being said, I do believe his God-given talent with words is unparalleled. (Dylan is close---but I bet he'd argue with me on that
) I still think Cohen is a "secular psalmist", for lack of a better phrase. (I'm sure he could come up with a better one) Most Jewish people, that I've talked to, really like him....and some of them are very traditional...do the Ultra-Orthodox not like him?
--Rain