what we need is good communist/anarchist/socialist hardcore/grindcore/speedcore punk

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I hate pop-punk. Hate it with a fuckin' passion. And I hate Nu-Metal. And I hate Metallica. And I hate faux-goth. And I hate this post-modern, pretend it all doesn't exist by making a parody of it. Make it just another fashion statement, and then sell it out as it floats on past it's natural life-span.

I would absolutely love to hear a band like Good Charlotte, or M.E.S.T., or who's the grand-daddy of 'em all? Blink-182, NoFX, and Green Day???

I remember reading about Green Day in Maximum Rock and Roll, and then hearing my friend Scott's cousin Greg play their older albums before Dookie. And then Dookie got huge, and it was cool... For a little while.

But really, I think there are some great bands out there still. I don't focus on rock, but sometimes, I just feel in the mood for it.

Currently, I'm digging: Reagan Youth(I consider them a sort of cross between Minor Threat and Anti-Flag, if you can imagine that. And maybe a little Sabbath. Christ this song is just good. Songwriting like this doesn't happen. "One Holy Bible, by reagan youth." It's just classic.

I like the other songs with their singing, but this song kills as a straight up rock song.

I am still fascinated by North Korea for some reason.
Are you aware of the current sort of pessimism of Hakim Bey. But I think he senses it as cycles. The revolution has dispersed.

I just don't know what tactics the left needs to use. There needs to be fucking discipline, and of course, the problem is that because of the nature of the left, it's hard to be disciplined.

The best way that I can see is to get people to understand the inter-relatedness of common ideas. We need Town Hall meetings.

No fuck it.

I just need to be dictator... "When I am king, you will be first against the wall."

Radiohead, to me, are one of the greatest rock bands of all time. I'm sure there are some Radiohead haters out there, but really, are any of you rhead haters?

OK, another great track you need: Alec Empire - Let the Sunshine...

Hirota Mieko!!!! Get her stuff. OK, I suppose I should tell you what they all are. Alec Empire, is hardcore, umm, maybe thrash-drum&bass... Imagine Let the Sunshine dj'd(clearly a record, with all the attendant crackles) A nice simple drum-n-bass, maybe almost jungle, quasi-tech-step. I have to say, I really like tech-step. Not all ov it.

One word that means much to me, is Ova. It has such a deep psychological connection to our deepest sense of self. The mother womb, oval, circle, zero.

Oh great, here dave goes on another one of his really high rants. 3 times a week is a bit much, don't you think?

I at least hope that these are somewhat entertaining. I wouldn't want to bore you, now would I?

I am a bit ditzy, and if you knew me in person, you could see that. Maybe absent-minded and mildly attention deficited.

Ohhhhhhhh, another great tune(or few) are by Simon and Garfunkel!
Blessed,
Somewhere They Can't Find Me
Anji
Richard Cory
A Most Peculiar Man(probably one of my top S&S faves)
April Comes She Will
Leaves That Are Green(Another one of my all time faves) Think about the lyrics:

"I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long. Time hurries on and the leaves that are green, turn to brown. And they wither with the wind, and they crumble in your hand."

Black Flag! TV Party. White Minority. Six Pack. Wasted. Depression. Jealous Again. Nervous Breakdown. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie... ALLLLLLLL FUCKING GREATTTTTTTTT SONGSSSSSSSS....

I think I prefer Keith Morris to Hank, as a singer, though. I love Hank, but something about Keith really is just raw, wild and spontaneous. Hank is pure focus and will. Keith is spastic, explosive and raw. A little like Lydon, but a bit more real. I think that's why I like Reagan Youth and Minor Threat. Just fucking good hardcore punk.

I hate this plastic shit. But maybe it speaks to kids that are disaffected by suburbia. Original punk movement seemed quite urban.

Is there conservative punk? I suppose WhitePowerRock is the extreme version on the right. Neo-Nazis scare the FUCK outta me.

I'm reall pissed about this war thing, and it just really pisses me off that there's nothing that we're fucking doing about it.

I plan on calling in sick the next day if Bush gets elected. I would love to just call in for a week. But that's fiscally impossible, and I'd prolly get fired.

But Christ. WTF???

And G'n'R:

It's So Easy. NightTrain. My Michelle. You're Crazy(both versions, the rockin' one, and the acoustic one), Anything Goes(oh christ is that song HOT!), and Rocket Queen(and that one!!!) If I were a stripper(and thank GOD I'm not...) I would definitely use Anything Goes as a theme song, and I'd use those gay leather hats that Axl wore at times... You know, the DaddyBear Leather types. Like the Blue Oyster Club bar. God those were great movies, weren't they?

I would like to see a massive archive project of old recordings. I just hate that classics that are so old are not released into the public domain. I'm sorry, but Blue Suede Shoes, all publishing, recording and performance rights were opened to the public. Elvis is FUCKING DEAD. And that means he can't collect money as a reward for his creativity. Now, instead of locking that money up into a big barrel of cash for some people, people who are NOT creating, but hoarding. Open it up, to generate cultural value.

Capitalism is a corrupt disease because it structures the magickal flow of money(Mana) into massive pyramids that support the very rich at the expense of the masses.

Look at the fucking Illuminati! Do you think it has to do with magic? Religion? NO!

It's fucking money.

I don't know if there are alien overlords or not, but christ, it sure would explain a hell of a lot, wouldn't it?
Personally, in my logical side, I don't believe UFO's have come to earth. I think that there may be a lot of other planets in the universe with a lot of life, but I doubt they've all evolved the same way. Unless, there is a cosmic intelligence manipulating what could conceivably be called the morphogenetic field of the cosmos, evolving itself on fine structure in the web of space. Spinning a reality through organizations of space-time fragments(strings) of cosmic, reverberating frequency.

One secret is the holographic and fractal structure of reality. I firmly believe that we inhabit some sort of fractal dimension. We apply constants to the cosmos that are based upon traditional maths(algebra, trigonometry, geometry, calculus) how much science utilizes fractal mathematics as a process towards discovering natural laws. It seems to me, that if there are laws of the cosmos that can be defined purely through mathematical models and language, this language needs to have some sort of holographic/fractal model that embodies that sacred maxim: "As above, so below"

One of the biggest questions to me, is: How does consciousness arise. My own theory, though not quite figured out at this point, is that it lies at a junction of quantum reality and the macro-world. There is a level between the two, and if we can make that connection, we can see how consciousness emanates from fields of interaction and distortion and pulses of energy through a very very, densely ramified structure(as Terence McKenna (PBUH)) I was not aware of what, exactly, ramified was. So I looked it up. Ramified structures are branching structure, like trees, twigs, leaves, dendrites, certain sea-cucumbers, bushes...

Why is it in the Koran, at times that it says "We have given them", and "And if you are in doubt as to that which We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it and call on your witnesses besides Allah if you are truthful."

What is this WE? Allah is Tawhid(One). There must be some sort of Arabic translation problems with dealing in pluralities? Or this is just a bad translation?

Beh. This is long. Really, I will reply to you guys tomorrow. There are many comments I want to return to.

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Guns N Roses used to rock. Slash was an excellent guitarist too, I think he has his own band now. But you forgot one of their best songs appropriate to the post: Civil War.

You can't trust freedom when it's not in your hands,
When everybody's fighting for the promised land...

As to the Illuminati being about money, well I guess that depends WHICH Illuminati ;). There are certain people who go under the banner of that radiant Eye in the triangle who still pass things on...

The paradox of the Many and the One is a wonderful thing, E Pluribus Unum. Its amusing how the Quran uses We... you and I could metaphorically use we in describing ourselves too, being made up of a unity of many different cells. Perhaps this is like the Tawhid of Allah? :)

Salaam aliykaam
-M

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I have mixed thoughts on that song. I love the fact that he was singing about it(especially after "One in a Million" (which I also happen to love, even though it's so wrong.)

I guess I'm referring to the Illuminati, not in the Trilogy sense, but in the wacky conspiratorial sense(but of course, the Trilogy was about showing that everything can be seen as part of the Illuminati) Personally, I almost see the pyramid in a few ways. I do worry that those who are in control of the system utilize it in a reptilian overlord sort of way.(I love that phrase, reptilian overlords)

But the other couple ways I like to see the pyramid, are:

1) via McKenna's TimeWave theory, and perhaps de Chardin's Omega Point. That there...

wait, I just realized I'm listening to "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parson's Project right now. Delicious synchronicity.

Now... There is a process which begins as a separation, a diffuse process, which merge together in time. Ever condensing networks of information. The evolution of consciousness on a cosmic scale, the evolution of the oversoul. McKenna's theory in particular, with the view that there is a speed up that compresses everything, until the oversoul arises, and the inside, becomes outside(the first shall be last, as it were)... In that sense, the illumaniti is an image of the power of the masses to evolve.

There is such a strange issue, that I can't fully resolve(but yet, I also don't think it necessarily needs to be resolved) between the public collectivity and the private sphere. It's the essential thing that binds all things together, and the interface between this area(in the same way between quantum physics and the macro-world) or as you say, the unity of many cells(there's the fractal, branching, holographic structure)

The reason I'm so shocked by the plural with We is the insistance on oneness. I have absolutely no problem with it, because I'm a pantheist and I do perceive unity in diversity, and the active power of Allah/God in the movement of this diversity. In this sense, I am monotheist.

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It's funny, because my old landlord was Muslim. On our day of moving in, he had a guy help us, and he pulled out his compass at the proper time, and prayed towards mecca in a separate room. We discussed Islam, which I didn't know much about, but knew more than Joe Blow on the street. He talked about the 5 pillars, and insisted that Islam does not believe in converting people. At the time, I chuckled, because I thought that's what he was trying to do, but then I saw, he was just explaining, and not asking me to convert. Which is a lot different than what a lot of Christians sort of do.

He mentioned Tawhid(of course, not using that term, just the pillar: We believe Allah is One). I mentioned how I am pantheist, without explaining my belief that all is a manifestion of that one... I don't remember exactly how I mentioned. At the time I was more about the ideal that there is no conscious power in this unity. I think this sort of tends to go against the grain with thinking of Allah's will. But if we view ourselves as sort of perception modules or neuronal computers that feedback information into a higher order which then percieves as a result of our karma(in the sense of physical action of all things in the universe) In the same sense that the firing of the neurons, and the synapses between them, cause the interactions which causes consciousness in our level. In this sense, perhaps, in the same way neurons are most likely not conscious of their role in our body, and our consciousness, neither are we conscious of the higher powers consciousness... At least, us lesser beings(by us, I mean me... i don't consider myself a mage in any sense, and have only briefly had spiritual experience by xenoglossy/glossolalia-speaking in tongues at my pentecostal church growing up)

I do think that this is the best definition of Tawhid.

The holographic explanation, to me, is a great way to explain prophets and avatars...interference density patterns in the plenum. Also, the other idea, that the eye being a symbol of self aware conscious, and that the eye arises both as an aggregate in the here and now of the all, but the evolution to pure consciousness in the future, is also represented. The shockwave of the McKenna's Eschaton is the creation of the world, and it's the great rays of light cast from the conscious eye on the past to see it's own evolution.

something like that...

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But if we view ourselves as sort of perception modules or neuronal computers that feedback information into a higher order which then percieves as a result of our karma(in the sense of physical action of all things in the universe) In the same sense that the firing of the neurons, and the synapses between them, cause the interactions which causes consciousness in our level. In this sense, perhaps, in the same way neurons are most likely not conscious of their role in our body, and our consciousness, neither are we conscious of the higher powers consciousness...

Yes, I like thinking of the unity in a similar way, the bodily metaphor is very relevant I think. Frater Achad once titled his thesis on the New Qabalah "Anatomy of the Body of God". And the early Greek philosophers had their "Great Chains of Being" of course. Its an interesting way of resolving free-will VS predestination... just as our consciousness and memories are present in the prayer of each cell, so we can be thought of as cells in a large body, able to act independently but usually working under the influence of the larger body without being aware of it. When the will is out of alignment with the rest of the universe... well, we get planetary cancers don't we ;). Have you read any of Hazrat Inayat Khan's writings on the mind-world? Some Sufis have a term for the realm of the mind, "palace of mirrors", which describes how consciousness on one level can reflect onto the consciousness of other entities, the practical equivalent of psychological projection. By virtue of this fact of life, certain masters in the tradition have been able to cause their students to do things, when they thought they were doing their own will, usually to teach them lessons. I've heard it said that Peter denying Jesus was a manifestation of this ability in the latter.

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