General Chat (Non-Music-Related)

On the secular side there is a lovely book on how to survive what must surely be coming - called "When Civility Fails." Yes...as it always seems to.

Mike,

As I was conversing with the Lord I asked of him: "What can I do to be prepared for what is coming?" I had to inquire as a few very disturbing matters were on my mind at the time.

He answered me in a word. "Nothing"

Slacker

I hear you.

In my case, I've been having this almost overwhelming urge to prepare to help my neighbors. When I told a friend that I was planning to move, but hated to in a way - leaving my neighbors defenseless - he replied, "don't sweat it - there are plenty of defenseless morons in Roswell too!."

I'm old. Seems pointless to sweat my existence. But I really like kids and I have this 'skill set..."

Talbot

... for you Talbot.


"Does age poison us, or do we poison age?"

Astrid Alauda


"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."

Jean Rostand


"To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

Henri Amiel

Thanks Vamp. All good points.

I've not gone to sleep yet. I'm currently working 60 hours a week and learning a bunch of new programming environments.

I confess is does take some skull work to figure out who I am these days - because physically, I'm not who I was. Hell - I even eat healthy food!

cheers
Talbot

When push comes to shove we have two choices. We can either flee or stand our ground and fight.

But for myself, I shall stand and let the Lord decide my fate. As it is written: We are as sheep being led to the slaughter. And that is how I shall go if the Lord has appointed it for me. I shall let the Lord alone decide my fate for men can do nothing to me unless God has approved it.

On the brighter side, I'm no spring chicken. They won't get much for the price that they shall pay later.

..."and the Band played on".

Which will fall silent first ??? The Music or the Lying ?

Be clear and understand that now as of this moment the so-called "Independent" musician is doomed and disappearing in the USA. It is becoming more and more difficult to "play" at the "gigs" each Weak End ...
To regurgitate those old worn out songs by the Eagles, Credence Clearwater and other "golden oldies" ... to masturbate "Jazz" that is destined to arrive "nowhere" or loud fast but simplistic and repetitive guitar "leads" that retard away into the "forgetable" as they are played.

All to the Great Unwashed who are bloated with toxins and degeneration ... vanishing memories which are rivaled only by vanishing capabilities. Consuming "Bud Light" or some other vile pretender for decent ale which is laced with chemicals and destruction.

Pause and listen to the fading applause and hear your fading futures. Venues are vanishing ... compensations are vanishing ... vibrant original music is vanishing ... within this terminal and idiotically morbid fascination for pieces of worthless script.

The "Heralds" are falling silent and the Dimestore Musicians with them. Fear silences the cowards and lack of "monetary compensation" quashes the non artists who have for so long masqueraded as musicians. Many will "be forced" to hang up their tuners and "retire" from their juke box existences ...

The din of souless commercial crap will fall silent and then and only then will those "True Artists" emerge and the authentic Music of the Soul and Spirit become heard. The record companies are in their death throes now like prostitutes who have grown far too old and unattractive in real life.

When it becomes real the wimps and the cowards flee and hide. The Circle will always triumph over the Triangle .... Spirit over the Materialistic. For the Future to occur now many must perish in horrific ways. This has already been happening around the world now ... engineered by cretans who "think" they rule the world .

If you profess to be a Musician then I strongly suggest that you closely examine what this really means ... what it has always meant really. This Age of Man the Animal is about to go Medieval on your ass.

..."and the Band played on".

Which will fall silent first ??? The Music or the Lying ?

Be clear and understand that now as of this moment the so-called "Independent" musician is doomed and disappearing in the USA. It is becoming more and more difficult to "play" at the "gigs" each Weak End ...
To regurgitate those old worn out songs by the Eagles, Credence Clearwater and other "golden oldies" ... to masturbate "Jazz" that is destined to arrive "nowhere" or loud fast but simplistic and repetitive guitar "leads" that retard away into the "forgetable" as they are played.

All to the Great Unwashed who are bloated with toxins and degeneration ... vanishing memories which are rivaled only by vanishing capabilities. Consuming "Bud Light" or some other vile pretender for decent ale which is laced with chemicals and destruction.

Pause and listen to the fading applause and hear your fading futures. Venues are vanishing ... compensations are vanishing ... vibrant original music is vanishing ... within this terminal and idiotically morbid fascination for pieces of worthless script.

The "Heralds" are falling silent and the Dimestore Musicians with them. Fear silences the cowards and lack of "monetary compensation" quashes the non artists who have for so long masqueraded as musicians. Many will "be forced" to hang up their tuners and "retire" from their juke box existences ...

The din of souless commercial crap will fall silent and then and only then will those "True Artists" emerge and the authentic Music of the Soul and Spirit become heard. The record companies are in their death throes now like prostitutes who have grown far too old and unattractive in real life.

When it becomes real the wimps and the cowards flee and hide. The Circle will always triumph over the Triangle .... Spirit over the Materialistic. For the Future to occur now many must perish in horrific ways. This has already been happening around the world now ... engineered by cretans who "think" they rule the world .

If you profess to be a Musician then I strongly suggest that you closely examine what this really means ... what it has always meant really. This Age of Man the Animal is about to go Medieval on your ass.

At least for music, a reset to Medieval might not be such a bad thing.

Maybe "True Artists" would have a chance to recognize and rethink the "false art" or the false harmony that underlies their creative musical endeavors. They usually just deny it due to the overwhelming implications on all that they know .. and maybe should have known.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZpvGSPx6w

Those baroque dandys wearing powdered wigs and lace cuffs, who expansively popularized the oppressive colonial trade system, large scale slavery, evolving into exploitative industrialization ... also championed the 12 Equal tempered musical scale.

The natural or 'just' intonations were left to the pagans and wogs.

Most people in "Western" countries today, even most of the musicians, are ignorant or indifferent, of this fact. After a few hundred years of equal tempered "harmonies" most think the natural scales sound 'out of tune'.

The current musical systems of India, Persia, Anatolia, though they differ from each other, all share in common, along with the music of the ancient Greeks, a basis in natural intonations. In harmony with natural phenomenon.

..."and the Band played on".

Which will fall silent first ??? The Music or the Lying ?

Be clear and understand that now as of this moment the so-called "Independent" musician is doomed and disappearing in the USA. It is becoming more and more difficult to "play" at the "gigs" each Weak End ...
To regurgitate those old worn out songs by the Eagles, Credence Clearwater and other "golden oldies" ... to masturbate "Jazz" that is destined to arrive "nowhere" or loud fast but simplistic and repetitive guitar "leads" that retard away into the "forgetable" as they are played.

All to the Great Unwashed who are bloated with toxins and degeneration ... vanishing memories which are rivaled only by vanishing capabilities. Consuming "Bud Light" or some other vile pretender for decent ale which is laced with chemicals and destruction.

Pause and listen to the fading applause and hear your fading futures. Venues are vanishing ... compensations are vanishing ... vibrant original music is vanishing ... within this terminal and idiotically morbid fascination for pieces of worthless script.

The "Heralds" are falling silent and the Dimestore Musicians with them. Fear silences the cowards and lack of "monetary compensation" quashes the non artists who have for so long masqueraded as musicians. Many will "be forced" to hang up their tuners and "retire" from their juke box existences ...

The din of souless commercial crap will fall silent and then and only then will those "True Artists" emerge and the authentic Music of the Soul and Spirit become heard. The record companies are in their death throes now like prostitutes who have grown far too old and unattractive in real life.

When it becomes real the wimps and the cowards flee and hide. The Circle will always triumph over the Triangle .... Spirit over the Materialistic. For the Future to occur now many must perish in horrific ways. This has already been happening around the world now ... engineered by cretans who "think" they rule the world .

If you profess to be a Musician then I strongly suggest that you closely examine what this really means ... what it has always meant really. This Age of Man the Animal is about to go Medieval on your ass.

I do not know where this is going, but I am really digging this post!

..."and the Band played on".

Which will fall silent first ??? The Music or the Lying ?

Be clear and understand that now as of this moment the so-called "Independent" musician is doomed and disappearing in the USA. It is becoming more and more difficult to "play" at the "gigs" each Weak End ...
To regurgitate those old worn out songs by the Eagles, Credence Clearwater and other "golden oldies" ... to masturbate "Jazz" that is destined to arrive "nowhere" or loud fast but simplistic and repetitive guitar "leads" that retard away into the "forgetable" as they are played.

All to the Great Unwashed who are bloated with toxins and degeneration ... vanishing memories which are rivaled only by vanishing capabilities. Consuming "Bud Light" or some other vile pretender for decent ale which is laced with chemicals and destruction.

Pause and listen to the fading applause and hear your fading futures. Venues are vanishing ... compensations are vanishing ... vibrant original music is vanishing ... within this terminal and idiotically morbid fascination for pieces of worthless script.

The "Heralds" are falling silent and the Dimestore Musicians with them. Fear silences the cowards and lack of "monetary compensation" quashes the non artists who have for so long masqueraded as musicians. Many will "be forced" to hang up their tuners and "retire" from their juke box existences ...

The din of souless commercial crap will fall silent and then and only then will those "True Artists" emerge and the authentic Music of the Soul and Spirit become heard. The record companies are in their death throes now like prostitutes who have grown far too old and unattractive in real life.

When it becomes real the wimps and the cowards flee and hide. The Circle will always triumph over the Triangle .... Spirit over the Materialistic. For the Future to occur now many must perish in horrific ways. This has already been happening around the world now ... engineered by cretans who "think" they rule the world .

If you profess to be a Musician then I strongly suggest that you closely examine what this really means ... what it has always meant really. This Age of Man the Animal is about to go Medieval on your ass.

At least for music, a reset to Medieval might not be such a bad thing.

Maybe "True Artists" would have a chance to recognize and rethink the "false art" or the false harmony that underlies their creative musical endeavors. They usually just deny it due to the overwhelming implications on all that they know .. and maybe should have known.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZpvGSPx6w

Those baroque dandys wearing powdered wigs and lace cuffs, who expansively popularized the oppressive colonial trade system, large scale slavery, evolving into exploitative industrialization ... also championed the 12 Equal tempered musical scale.

The natural or 'just' intonations were left to the pagans and wogs.

Most people in "Western" countries today, even most of the musicians, are ignorant or indifferent, of this fact. After a few hundred years of equal tempered "harmonies" most think the natural scales sound 'out of tune'.

The current musical systems of India, Persia, Anatolia, though they differ from each other, all share in common, along with the music of the ancient Greeks, a basis in natural intonations. In harmony with natural phenomenon.

dissonance is an acquired taste, like eating beets..

..."and the Band played on".

Which will fall silent first ??? The Music or the Lying ?

Be clear and understand that now as of this moment the so-called "Independent" musician is doomed and disappearing in the USA. It is becoming more and more difficult to "play" at the "gigs" each Weak End ...
To regurgitate those old worn out songs by the Eagles, Credence Clearwater and other "golden oldies" ... to masturbate "Jazz" that is destined to arrive "nowhere" or loud fast but simplistic and repetitive guitar "leads" that retard away into the "forgetable" as they are played.

All to the Great Unwashed who are bloated with toxins and degeneration ... vanishing memories which are rivaled only by vanishing capabilities. Consuming "Bud Light" or some other vile pretender for decent ale which is laced with chemicals and destruction.

Pause and listen to the fading applause and hear your fading futures. Venues are vanishing ... compensations are vanishing ... vibrant original music is vanishing ... within this terminal and idiotically morbid fascination for pieces of worthless script.

The "Heralds" are falling silent and the Dimestore Musicians with them. Fear silences the cowards and lack of "monetary compensation" quashes the non artists who have for so long masqueraded as musicians. Many will "be forced" to hang up their tuners and "retire" from their juke box existences ...

The din of souless commercial crap will fall silent and then and only then will those "True Artists" emerge and the authentic Music of the Soul and Spirit become heard. The record companies are in their death throes now like prostitutes who have grown far too old and unattractive in real life.

When it becomes real the wimps and the cowards flee and hide. The Circle will always triumph over the Triangle .... Spirit over the Materialistic. For the Future to occur now many must perish in horrific ways. This has already been happening around the world now ... engineered by cretans who "think" they rule the world .

If you profess to be a Musician then I strongly suggest that you closely examine what this really means ... what it has always meant really. This Age of Man the Animal is about to go Medieval on your ass.

At least for music, a reset to Medieval might not be such a bad thing.

Maybe "True Artists" would have a chance to recognize and rethink the "false art" or the false harmony that underlies their creative musical endeavors. They usually just deny it due to the overwhelming implications on all that they know .. and maybe should have known.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZpvGSPx6w

Those baroque dandys wearing powdered wigs and lace cuffs, who expansively popularized the oppressive colonial trade system, large scale slavery, evolving into exploitative industrialization ... also championed the 12 Equal tempered musical scale.

The natural or 'just' intonations were left to the pagans and wogs.

Most people in "Western" countries today, even most of the musicians, are ignorant or indifferent, of this fact. After a few hundred years of equal tempered "harmonies" most think the natural scales sound 'out of tune'.

The current musical systems of India, Persia, Anatolia, though they differ from each other, all share in common, along with the music of the ancient Greeks, a basis in natural intonations. In harmony with natural phenomenon.

dissonance is an acquired taste, like eating beets..

many moons ago, I possibly was accused of "crapping on one's thread" and then fleeing off into the darkness, to watch from the great abyss as others mocked my "contribution" .. now I have analyzed that remark from a fellow poster, and have jumped to a conclusion; rather than excreting excrement and dirtying up and/or fouling the gist of the topic at hand, I now think my droppings have had a positive effect, as would manure enriching the soil where newfangled thoughts and ideas can now flourish in the fertility I helped amend..

many moons ago, I possibly was accused of "crapping on one's thread" and then fleeing off into the darkness, to watch from the great abyss as others mocked my "contribution" .. now I have analyzed that remark from a fellow poster, and have jumped to a conclusion; rather than excreting excrement and dirtying up and/or fouling the gist of the topic at hand, I now think my droppings have had a positive effect, as would manure enriching the soil where newfangled thoughts and ideas can now flourish in the fertility I helped amend..

I have no clue what this thread is about. I have read zero replies. I just came here to say.

THIS THREAD IS 1.3 YEARS OLD AND HAS 126 PAGES!!!

I have no clue what this thread is about. I have read zero replies. I just came here to say.

THIS THREAD IS 1.3 YEARS OLD AND HAS 126 PAGES!!!

Yeah...

The United States of America, is 237 years old...

Millions and billions of pages...

What we need is a few people to read some of those pages.

In this case it is very few pages (126) Just an outline of some of the real things that have gone on in the last 1.3 years.

CCCOOOOLLLL

...is it near ? Is it an impossibility ? Is it inevitable ?

Vinnie ... excellent comments and post and your point is very well taken ... Harmony . The world is in a state of Disharmony and Destruction which now grows hourly.

Dane ... Thanks for your Posts and the resulting Vinnie graphic Posts. You are welcome to "crap" upon my thread whenever you wish. You are indeed a Positive rather than Negative Entity.

Neander ... Thank you for your comment/Post.

Glen ... Thank You. It will be interesting to see how much longer it will all last ... will it not ?

The populations of the world are in the throes of "Dollar Death". Thanks to General Electric and other corporate and political filth... the Pacific ocean is dying ... the world's largest. What is being done ? Well the Black Messiah immediately turned off the existing Radiation monitoring stations after the "event" over two years ago and they have never been reopened ? Nor have any new and improved ones opened either. Hillary very quickly assured the puppet government of Japan that in support of this idiocy the U.S. A. would not check any exports it imported from Japan (foodstuffs) for any radiation contamination. Brilliant and compassionate "leadership" that Satan would be proud of for certain. Perhaps she needs a "Nobel Peace Prize" ?

Now it is rumoured amongst the inner circle of imbeciles that she might "run" for the coveted position of "President" ... What hideous monstrosity can this be ?

IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION IGNORANCE IS A CHOICE