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Posted: 06 November 2011 09:58 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Any chance that inspirational/pop culture songs could be made out of this movement? That way, the youth would really be listening.

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Posted: 06 November 2011 10:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Maybe someone could make a reality TV show out of the movement.  That might elicit a lot of enthusiasm among the young people.

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Posted: 06 November 2011 10:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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I’m working on one. Not that anybody ever listened before. This time, I’ll try simple and musically appealling.

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Posted: 06 November 2011 11:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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A reality TV show would be just as neat and efficient in getting the message(s) across; great idea! Nhoj Morley, that takes time and effort, though I do hope you’re successful in doing so. Do you have any lyrics available at the moment?

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Posted: 06 November 2011 11:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Self-concept - 06 November 2011 11:19 AM

  Do you have any lyrics available at the moment?

Not until they are in total and protected.

I have other items (protected) around here somewhere, I think… some lyric thread somewhere.

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Posted: 06 November 2011 11:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Why not just use Lennon’s “Imagine”?

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Posted: 06 November 2011 12:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Smart call; I almost forgot how sickening this world is - largely in part because of people stealing others’ magnificent works. What’s all this about Lennon? lol

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Posted: 06 November 2011 12:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Smart call; I almost forgot how sickening this world is - largely in part because of people stealing others’ magnificent works. What’s all this about Lennon? lol

I’m confused.  You mean stealing Lennon’s works?  What’s all what about Lennon?  Oh crap.  You know who he is, right?  I haven’t become that irrelevant, have I?

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Posted: 07 November 2011 01:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Never mind, Saralynn. I still remember JL and that wonderful song. I can still sing it off by heart along with Hey Jude and my other favorites.

(No, don’t worry, I’m not going to inflict that on you -  no link to an audio file in this post. Even I can’t bear to hear myself sing.)

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Posted: 07 November 2011 05:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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Rob: Never mind, Saralynn. I still remember JL and that wonderful song. I can still sing it off by heart along with Hey Jude and my other favorites.

As you might guess, my favorite Beatle song is Let it Be, although, to my knowledge,  Mother Mary has never comforted me by whispering words of wisdom.

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Posted: 07 November 2011 06:01 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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saralynn - 07 November 2011 05:51 AM

...to my knowledge,  Mother Mary has never comforted me by whispering words of wisdom.

(Andrew):  Brother Mario would tell you that you aren’t listening.

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Posted: 07 November 2011 06:18 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Yeah. And Brother Mario would also be telling Mother Mary that she didn’t know what she was talking about.

“Ah, now listen up, Mary, old girl. You know nothing. Your stupid. Just puffed up with intellectual pride.
Me, I’ve got a nine bedroom house with an olympic size swimming pool in the back yard and a masters degree in gobbledigook. Futhermore, I’ve just had a word with god and I’m here to tell you that ...”


Alas! Poor Mario. We knew him well.

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Posted: 02 December 2011 12:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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When I was a kid almost everyone i knew was listening to “atheist music”  Bad religion was just a given if you only owned one album.  and its strange or not but I think it’s more taboo now than it was then. I had a girlfriend (she’s still my good friend) with a tattoo of a cross with a slash over it and she said she had it for ten years before one person who saw it reprimanded her without ever meeting her. No one told her off or gave her dirty looks before 2004…roughly. Since then it’s almost a monthly occurrence. I told her it’s because she is getting older. Seeing a kid with taboo markings and opinions is normal but when you reach 30 you are supposed to fall in line and set a good example by saying anytime you ever disagreed with the majority you were just rebelling because you were young and foolish. If you don’t, others feel obligated to let you know how silly you look over there all thinking for yourself.

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Posted: 02 December 2011 02:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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hobbesbrundige - 02 December 2011 12:13 AM

When I was a kid almost everyone i knew was listening to “atheist music” ...

Can you name a few artistes, I think “Rush” have always been openly atheist, I can’t think of many others. Not that I feel the need, I can happily listen to anything, it’s about the music more than my own views.

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Posted: 02 December 2011 06:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (Rob) - 07 November 2011 06:18 AM

Yeah. And Brother Mario would also be telling Mother Mary that she didn’t know what she was talking about.

“Ah, now listen up, Mary, old girl. You know nothing. Your stupid. Just puffed up with intellectual pride.
Me, I’ve got a nine bedroom house with an olympic size swimming pool in the back yard and a masters degree in gobbledigook. Futhermore, I’ve just had a word with god and I’m here to tell you that ...”

LOL

That is an awesome impersonation of Mario!

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Posted: 02 December 2011 10:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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MARTIN UK - 02 December 2011 02:05 AM
hobbesbrundige - 02 December 2011 12:13 AM

When I was a kid almost everyone i knew was listening to “atheist music” ...

Can you name a few artistes, I think “Rush” have always been openly atheist, I can’t think of many others. Not that I feel the need, I can happily listen to anything, it’s about the music more than my own views.


Propagandhi and bad religion are pretty anti-religion. Tool has a lot of anti christian songs but I’m not sure if it’s atheist or secular exactly since i don’t really listen to them. There are tons of non religious bands but few that really talk about their secularism. It’s still a taboo subject. Isn’t trent rezner an atheist? I like rush too. I wish fleetwood mac was. I have had conversations with friends about whether the Beatles or Zappa were. The Beatles seem like they just couldn’t pick one religion to sing about.  And Zappa may have just been schizophrenic.

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