I really can't even reduce to ten, I'll try to do ten of the ones I've listened to recently? I'm really forgetful so that helps me.
The Bends- Radiohead
O.K. Computer-Radiohead
Kid A-Radiohead
The Holy Bible-Manic Street Preachers
Version 2.0-Garbage
Nevermind-Nirvana
Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots-The Flaming Lips
The Man in Black-Johnny Cash
Turn on the Bright Lights-Interpol
Dummy-Portishead
Rock Steady-No Doubt haha. but, yeah actually
Talkie Walkie-Air
Confessions on a Dance Floor-Madonna
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Music Fans!! Once again I Ask, What's Your Top 10 Favorite Albums?
by flipper inhello gang!
didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?
this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
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Music Buffs-Here We Go Again! Please list your Top 10 Singers of all Time !
by flipper inthis might be a bit more challenging than my guitarists thread and music group thread, but hey we're just havin' some fun here.
it can be rock, pop, blues, country (gag) sorry it's a personal thing for me no offense, reggae, or oldies.
i'll leave it up to you, the board to decide.
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I'll just go w/ voices I love the most :)
Thom Yorke
James Dean Bradfield
Kurt Cobain
Beth Gibbons
Shirley Manson
Freddy Mercury
Mariah Carey (good singer, ridiculous person)
Dolorus O'Riordan
Jon Thor Berguson
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Thought this might relate to leaving the dubs
by mavie inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfgqt3hkxs .
what will grow quickly, that you can't make straight .
it's the price you gotta pay .
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Hi Mavie!
Good song :) I rather think that another song off the album is very appropriate too. And I think it's my fave too.
The Clock
Time is running out for us
But you just move the hands upon the clock
You throw coins in the wishing well
For us
You just move your hands upon the wall
It comes to you begging you to stop
Wake up
But you just move your hands upon the clock
Throw coins in the wishing well
For us
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"Jehovah ALWAYS has worked through ONE organization!"
by Dagney inhow many times have we heard this?.
i would like to know if any of you have any good arguements refuting this.
my brain is fried from two weeks of "fencing" with jw's.
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If they are referring to the Jews, I would hardly call a RACE of people an Organization. If they take the Bible literally than Jehovah worked in many different ways, um, one big difference is that it is recorded that Jehovah actually had direct contact with a person or persons. Meaning he was in the physical realm, interacting almost, or sent a messenger physically to instruct/meet with someone.
I really don't get where that comes from, except maybe they think because they said it it was true. Kind of like when I say say something, it's true. And did I tell you that I was a Neuroscientist working part-time as a Valentino model? It'd probably be more accurate to say that in the Bible, Jehovah worked through a variety of people, but most of them probably had beards.
Besides, Why would he have Jesus come and then have no such organization for 19 centuries after the fact? How was he working at that time? They said that there was always "JW's" through the century, but how would God be working through them if they didn't have an "organization?"
I'll think of more later.
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USA is Addicted to War
by frankiespeakin inthe us government has hundreds of miltary bases in other countries, military spending is where 50% of your tax dollars go, there are huge profits to be made by big business in this.
one thing that is needed is that human consciousness of the problem, (minus the propaganda indoctrination) needs to be raised to a higher level, i see signs of this happening, but as yet it is not enough yet to make the sweeping changes that are needed so that we don't wind up inihilating the whole human race, our consciousness has not keep up with our technology of weapon making, profits and self interest put us in the dangerous path leading to nonexistance:.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2766280303360219617&q=addicted+to+war&total=113&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0.
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frankie, the only saturation I feel is from the same stuff your saying. Not to say its wrong, but it's pretty much everywhere. You're not alone anyhow.
I forgot, which President was it that said that greatest threat of the future is the newly minted war profiteering. The really bigtime players who make billions as contractors in a warzone, manufacturers who make weapons etc. It does get a bit murky when whole corporations have an interest in warmongering to make a buck. (egads!)
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R.F'S MUM JUST HAD EMERGENCY SURGERY
by free2think ini just spoke to r.f.
he told me his mum was rushed to hospital early yesterday morning in a great deal of pain.
she subsequently had emergency surgery and is now in intensive care.
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Experiences at the meetings
by slimboyfat insince i still go to meetings i am going to post some thoughts about what i see and hear to refresh apostate memories of what glorious experiences you are missing out on these days.
yesterday we had the book study, the boredom of the study itself was only alleviated by two incidents, one sad and the other strange.... there is a sister who is bi-polar and comes infrequently who was there.
she was called to give an answer and started crying into the microphone.
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I've never really properly understood you and all your mysteriousness slimboyfat. Why do you go to meetings again? Do you have the "faith" of the Witnesses? What's up and what gives, could you fill me in?
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A MUST READ::: a book that I've not seen mentioned
by smellsgood inson of the revolution .
it's about liang hengs experiences growing up during the cultural revolution, led by chairman mao ze dong, after upending chaing kaisheks totalitarian regime.
amazing the parallels at times to religious cults.
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A MUST READ::: a book that I've not seen mentioned
by smellsgood inson of the revolution .
it's about liang hengs experiences growing up during the cultural revolution, led by chairman mao ze dong, after upending chaing kaisheks totalitarian regime.
amazing the parallels at times to religious cults.
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Son of the Revolution
It's about Liang Hengs experiences growing up during the Cultural Revolution, led by Chairman Mao Ze Dong, after upending Chaing Kaisheks totalitarian regime.
Amazing the parallels at times to religious cults. Everyone here knows how much the WT has in common with the Fictitious Oceania in Orwells 1984. This is the REAL 1984, in a political/governmental setting. I knew of China, but not like this. We've had this book around for ages since my Mom studied History of China in College. I just picked it up last week and cannot recommend it highly enough to every person. All those things such as newspeak, thoughtcrime, family members trained to tattle on one another, everything happened under Mao in China.
I learned there's really not much to complain about, and appreciated even more deeply how much freedom we enjoy, and perhaps even take for granted, not having experienced what it's like to not have Liberty.
Wasn't communism supposed to equal out everyone? It certainly has moved further and futher away and as of today there is a massive gap between the wealthy of China and the peasants and workers of China. Almost like instead of Marxist/Leninist/Maoist "Utopia" they have something more akin to the caste system of India.
I was so touched in so many places. As a result of the "Revolution" and under all Mao's policies, Liang grew up separated from his Mother who was labelled a "Rightist." Here's just a snippet from the book that sets up a recurring theme in Liangs life, being bullied, harassed, marginalized, criticized his entire upbringing as a consequence of his families "black thoughts," which weren't really even there.
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"Meanwhile, whenever I went home to Waipo's, I hoped Mother would be there, for I loved her very much despite our limited time together. But when I was about four, I began to sense there was something wrong. She would come home looking worried and she never played with me, just talked on and on with Uncle Yan in a hushed Liuyang County dialect which I couldn't understand. Finally, one Saturday afternoon it was Nai Nai who came to get me, and I was told Mother had gone away and I shouldn't go to Waipo's house anymore.
Only years later was I old enough to understand what had happened and more than twenty years passed before anyone, including Mother herself, go t the full picture. In early 1957 the "Hundred Flowers Movement" had been launched. Its official purpose was to give the Party a chance to correct its shortcomings by listening to the masses' criticisms. Father was away in the countryside reporting on something, but in the Changsha Public Security Bureau, meetings were held and everyone was urged to express his or her opinions freely.
Mother didn't know what to do. She really loved the Party and didn't have any criticisms to make; the Party had given her a job and saved her from the most abject poverty. Still, her leaders said that everyone should participate actively in the movement, especially those who hoped someday to join the Party. Mother was already in favor; she had been given the important job of validating arrest warrants for the whole city. So, regarding it her duty to come up with something, she finally thought of three poings she could make. She said that her Section Head sometimes used crude language and like to criticize people, that he should give his housekeeper a bed to sleep on instead of making her sleep oin the floor, and that sometimes when it came time to give raises, the leaders didn't listen to the masses' opinions.
But then, with utterly confusing rapidity, the "Hundred Flowers Movement" changed into the "Anti-Rightist Movement." Perhaps the Party was caught off guard by the amount of opposition and felt compelled to crack down. Or maybe, as I've heard said, the "Hundred Flowers Movement" had been a trap designed from the beginning to uncover Rightist elements. Anyway, every unit was given a quota of Rightists, and Mother's name was among those at the Public Security Bureau.
It was diastrous. When she was allowed to see her file in 1978, she found out that she had been given a Rightist's "cap" solely because of those three criticisms she had made. Perhaps her Section Head was angry at her; perhaps her unit was having trouble filling its quota. At the time she had no idea what the verdict was based on, she only knew that a terrible wrong had been done. But ther was no court of appeal. Mother was sent away to the suburb of Yuan Jia Ling for labor reform. She lost her cadre's rank and her salary was cut from fifty-five to fifteen yuan a month. ( A yuan is one hundred Chinese cents) My naive and trusting mother went to work as a peasant.
Just as his wife was being declared an enemy of the Party, Father was actively participating in the Anti-Rightist Movement in his own unit. Father believed in the Party with his whole heart, believed that the Party could never make a mistake or hand down a wrong verdict. It was a torturuous dilemma; Father's traditional Confucian sense of family obligation told him to support Mother while his political allegiance told him to condemn her. In the end, his commitment to the Party won out, and he denounced her. He believed that was the only course that could save the family from ruin.
I still remember the first time Mother came home for a visit. It was a rainy Suncay in late autumn, and Father and Nai Nai were both out. There were footsteps on the stairs and in the corridor, but it was almost a minute before the knock came, timidly. Liang Fang opened the door.
Mother was almost unrecognizable. She was in patched blue peasant clothing, muddy up to the knees. The skin on her kind round face looked thick, leathery, and not too clean, and someone had chopped her hair off short and uneven. There was something both broader and thinner about her. "Mama!" cried Liang Fang.
Liang Wei-ping and I ran up to her too, and she was hugging us all at once, weeping, forgetting to put tdown her oilpaper umbrella. Then as my sisters rushed to pour tea and bring a basin of hot water for her to wash her face, she sat on the bed and held me tightly for a long time. After she had rested, she busied herself with all the housework Nai Nai couldn't do alone, sweeping dusting and sharpening our pencils for us, scrubbing our clothes, and cleaning the windows. She wouldn't speak of where she'd been, just asked us about our schoolwork, our health, Father's health. We were so happy. We thought Mother had come home."
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Human Nature
by nvrgnbk inare we essentially moral beings, corrupted by society?.
or are we in fact amoral, socialized by cultural pressures and religious beliefs?.
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amoral -a means without, or against. I probably used the the terms a bit interchangeably. oops.