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| LOL Dulcimerist! Nice!
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I think there is always pop music and there is always a calculated alternative to it. By that, I mean, there is also a "market" for rebellion to pop music. It might be punk. It might be metal. It might be retro-folk songs. It might be techno...and on and on and on...until everything becomes SO convoluted, it all ends up being pop music again! The various styles of music are all teeth on the same gear.
I just find it almost "daring" that people representing the supposed religious masses are now representing them with the very same kinds of marketing psychology that used to be banned upon sight.
I grew up in a time when there was still a shred of originality in music. The musicians were not always "pretty". There were no dancers spinning around on stage. Music was actually performed by the musicians and not lip-synched. I have also seen that shred of decency erode into bigger and bigger spectacles that eventually became slaves to the industry...until we are where we are at, now.
But these religious "stars", although maybe not the greatest geniuses of our time, are still smart enough to study what sells and then sell it!
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| which is sad. because they're taking something beautiful like music and throwing it into a puddle on the road to let cars drive over it, and of course trucks, then they're trampling on it themselves, spitting and vomiting on it only to end up taking petrol and lighting the poor trampled thing...
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| Krispy Kirk (5/3/2008)
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If there is no god, then there is no "satan".
If?
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| you want me to read the whole thing?
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| I watched an interestingly-related public access television program yesterday. It was a program called "Atheist Viewpoint". On this episode, they were talking with a Christian college president and a former student who was no longer a believer... The former student told stories about being taught to accept Christ and then "back-sliding" and then accepting him again...and the process went on that way for a few cycles until the student concluded that he was basically wasting the reality of his life on the fantasy of an afterlife.
He argued with the college president that what the Christian college was teaching as reality was, in fact, only their own reality -one founded upon the belief in supernatural forces. They argued on and on about evolution...all the typical stuff...
The one thing that stuck out was a comment the ex-Christian made when asked, by the college prez (in a sort of "just pretend" way) what he thought about the prospect of Heaven being real. What did he (the former student) think it would be like to (after his death, obviously) live in Heaven with God...for all eternity -as promised by the Christian dogma. His response was something along the lines of, "No! I wouldn't want to live forever in Heaven knowing that there are billions of people burning in Hell. How would I, a loving human, be able to be happy under those conditions?"
I thought it was a very meaningful perspective to take in the discussion.
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| that is an interesting viewpoint. i started reading that link above and i was thinking in the same sort of lines. it was talking about armageddon and how true believers go to heaven and the rest are left behind to be tortured by the arab/russian army. how must that suck! imagine you go to heaven but your wife/girlfriend/fiance/best friend etc. is left behind to be tortured. or vica versa and you're the one being tortured and your loved one is in heaven. at least then i suppose you know they'll be safe and in a good place but thats gotta be a big burden to bear going into heaven knowing that your friends and family are getting beaten to death or something.
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| Damn it, you got me again. My sides hurt and my eyes are teared up from laughing
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