a band i really liked a lot growing up and as an adult was he moody blues.
their mixing of orchestration from an instrument called the " mellotron " and mixing the orchestration with electric guitars was fantastic.
they wrote very meaningful lyrics analyzing the situations in life as well as the world scene at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YFZJK3arg
question..
I'm looking for someone to change my life,
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
And if you could see what it's done to me,
To lose the love I knew,
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew,
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our soul.
brilliant
in considering the april personal wt study material, it appears to me as though the org has become quite concerned with our activities.
so much so as to use a subject of useless things to actually get to the heart of the matter.
we all know how it works.
i'm not useless....
i can be used as a bad example
i just watched a documentary about the peoples temple cult and was suprised to find there is some intresting similarites between there attitude beliefs and the watchtower society.. they began as an ordinary group intrested in morals and god and jim jones gradually manipulated them to the point of murder and suicide.. he would reprimand people in front of the whole congregation playing on peoples fears and guilt to the point where sometimes he would encourage others to hit a " wrongdoer".as he got more control over the people they feared to leave and anyone that spoke about leaving was turned in by there own family, hmm that sounds familar.
jim jones feared some that got out and tried to shield the congregation from bad press which is why around 900 were " encouraged " to leave america and go to guyana to what they called jonestown.he told his members that they couldnt leave and that the world would harm them if they ever left.. at one time he passed around a cup to drink and then told the congregation they had drank poison then after they panicked he told them it wasnt true he was just " testing to see how loyal they would be to him".. when they moved to jonestown they set up there own paradise.they grew there own food and made themselves completly independant from the outside world.they built there own homes and would have no outside information except a loudspeaker which jim jones spoke over and used recorded speechs on even throughout the night.he was telling them that the whole world was coming to turn on them and kill them and take away what they had.. when they said they wanted to leave he would say they were committing " blasphemy" by leaving and they would change there mind.. sadly at the end they encouraged mass suicide and took with them a visiting congressman.. paradise quickly turned into chaos and a nightmare and it got me thinking about the wachtowers utopian dream of paradise on earth.if they watchtower cant get things right now how the hell are they going to be capable of governing the whole planet in " the new system.. this isnt the same documentary but heres a link to one documentary about the peoples temple.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3625536419231928674&q=peoples+temple&total=2133&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4.
i watched this too..very interesting stuff
hadn't realised a senator had visited and was killed trying to leave on the day of the kool aid drinking.
i recorded it and will use some clips in a vid to a song what i wrote (co-wrote)
so, i figured i'd throw another biggie in the music world out there for you to chew on !
the rolling stones - the polar opposite of the beatles but just as good in their " bad boy " image way !
so i look forward to hearing your picks !
fool to cry
bridges to babylon
folks !
thought i'd start another music thread up to see what your favorite picks are !
one of my all time favorite groups .
something
abbey road....(much more concept than peppers)
another thread inspired this one, and i'm making myself a lil' compilation.... i'll start.
"just like heaven" the cure.
"please, please let me get what i want" the smiths....
leningrad....billy joel
here is an interesting challenge for the folks.
this thread revolves around one subject, and that is thomas paine's brilliant critique of the bible written in about 1795. he did most of this from memory, while in prison in france.. http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/age_of_reason/.
the challenge is this: critique his essays.
I spit on that idiot.
charming!
please send money!.
i have bills to pay and gas is expensive and it's hard to make ends meet.. simon is in arrears, to the tune of like 10,000 posts.. if i knew this jwd thing wasn't gonna work, i wouldn't have quit my real job.. your financial aid is most appreciated.. your fellow servant,.
bro.
TIJMKO, you posted on this thread so you are banned forever.
hey you stop 'getting' me
this has rarely happened before - it's disconcerting
another musician i have really liked over the years !
has a crazy , catatonic electric guitar sound over the years that sounds like the guitar is moaning or screaming at times .
pretty creepy at times ; but very cool !
not a big fan here..i like some songs here and there...(and love the title needle and the damage done tho not familiar with the song)
except for one album..
sleeps with angels...is brilliant
change your mind is just a great song (and none of your 3 minute pop thank you very much)
and 2 songs - train of love and western hero - are the exact same except they have different lyrics...novel idea
please send money!.
i have bills to pay and gas is expensive and it's hard to make ends meet.. simon is in arrears, to the tune of like 10,000 posts.. if i knew this jwd thing wasn't gonna work, i wouldn't have quit my real job.. your financial aid is most appreciated.. your fellow servant,.
bro.
this thread is in poor taste.
i demand that it be locked immediately
and that everyone who posted on it be banned forever (see what i did there - ironic !! non)
hoomou/rhumr laughing at stuff will not be tolerated
