bundydude wrote:
I'll close with this, how can one faith/religion/belief be the one and only true way. Whats right for one, may not be right for another, and why should it be. Regardless of what one believes in, it all comes down to this; there are many, many different belief systems and no matter what face you put on it, the path always leads to the same place, and if that place is good for you/them/me...thats awesome! Nuff said....
Very Well Said
To Hayden; I understand you more than you know. When you and I first worked together, I was very pleased by your attention to detail and was impressed by your ferver. The night before my concert, things fell apart when I was screwed by a partner (I go to court on Sept 10 coincidentally, only took a year)but when you and I clashed, alot of my anger and hostility stemmed from that. I didn't publicise that, but I did spend the entire day of the concert running around fixing problems that kept springing up from having to make last minute changes. (he had not put up his 16,000 as he said he did and checks started to bounce, so friday when the stages were supposed to arrive with the sound and lighting system, I instead got a phone call saying they were not coming) I relied on my stage manager to keep the show on stage A going and the sound guy for "stage" B was keeping it going there. I was constantly being called to different little problems throughout the day, so I couldn't keep track, hell, I didn't even hear the show, I had to rely on witnesses to tell me how my own artists did.
When I was called to the stage to find you, I was told that you were there a minute ago, and took off, I went looking, but was sidetracked with 2 or 3 other "emergencies". By the time I got back to the stage it had been a while. I was told you guys had done a 40 minute sound check, Jason was screaming about it being his time to go on, and you were only on your 3rd song, but I was told you had been on the stage already an hour. I told him to pull you so the next act could go on, I had to make the decision based on what information was available to me. I also then had to request that confederate railroad and johnny cash, both under not only contracts, but specific riders, if they would please push their times back, but they said no. I then had to cut an act, jason wickline, and that turned ugly. Turned out later that I could've let them play too, cause there was an incident later with a security guard and a drunk guy. That took finesse and 1000 dollars cash to make disappear.
Needless to say, by the time I logged in to BM and saw your post, I was at the last of my patience, and you became the vent. As far as the show went, the public (those that showed, since my partner pulling his money also cancelled the media blitz we planned for the last minute, and he also handed out 500 free passes instead of selling the tickets he had possession of)but the public thought everything was fine, low budget, but fine. I even felt, that regardless of the fact that we had to improvise on stage, I did manage to get the sound system, but not all the instruments I would have had with the other company, thats where we had issues about the drums.
when I saw your post, i freaked, I know I acted immature, but I was piiiiiiiisssseed at the time, not at you, at my former partner. You, as I said, just sparked the explosion. I'm sure if the stuff with my partner had never happened, and we had the turner sound and stage we were supposed to, none of it would have happened the way it did. With turner went alot of important stuff, so all in all, I had been pretty happy that I managed to pull it all off...and you shattered that with that post, that is why I reacted as I did.
I think if you had known all that before, you may have been more understanding. I always appreciated that you and every band that volunteered came out and did your thing for Operation Homefront.
and, Craig...I agree, you are correct on them being DEISTs, but a majority of them were not even that. Thomas Jefferson was an Athiest and was forced into certain wording in the declaration...the original draft said nothing about endowed by our creator...and he fought long and hard to ensure that separation of church and state was secure in the constitution. But no matter, we are what we are, a melting pot of so many cultures its impossible to keep track, the country's population is majority christian, and you are correct, alot of charity this country has shown has been because of that influence...but you really are splitting hairs about the wording. "A country cant be christian" you well know that they mean a nationalized religion when people say the country is christian. You yourself said this country has been charitable because of christianity, by your definition a country cant be charitable only its people can...thats really splitting hairs, and that is the sort of thing alot of these people that are insulting you are getting hung up on...focus more on the meaning behind the wordiness, I know that where you are in your christian life, you are able to feel emotion behind words as if you are feeling it directly from the author, I call that a residual energy signature, because the stronger the emotion when we create something, the more of our physical energy is left in that creation, whether it be a table or a letter or post in a forum, the emotion physically remains in its energy form...a difficult concept for some to understand, but I believe you know what I mean. People feel you are just being condescending when you trivialize the little stuff like that.
Peace brothers
). And everyone else's is THEIR own relationship to God. It is personal. It is intimate. It is exclusive.
