August 14, 2005

I JUST JOINED A NEW FORUM

I want to bond with my Atheist brethren so I joined http://ravingatheist.com/forum/
I just want to see if it is as enjoyable as the Yahoo Israel Palestinian boards. So far I'm finding it is a slow moving forum.

Answer to the trivia quiz is zero. One thing I found odd is that Imagine never made the Billboard 100 for either 1971 or 1972.

Two of the songs which really started getting me to think about atheism were Imagine and We're Here For a Good Time (not a long time). They both came out around the time I was taking a crash course in Hebrew for my Bar Mitzvah.

But I attribute my final push into a godless world was high school English and Physics.
Existentialism and the infinite universe turned me into a true non-believer.

August 7, 2005

THE BIBLE (New Testament this time)

It was written a few hundred years after Christ died by people with an agenda to convert as many into the Christian flock.

Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, etc all had/have agendas too.

The four books contradict themselves in many places (though I'm not an NT scholar), because much of it if not all of it is subjective, not objective.

It has been 60 years since the Holocaust and people with agendas write it didn't happen. And there are millions of papers and thousands of actual pictures and movies that prove it did happen. There are only one or two historical documents written during Jesus' lifetime that even mentions him, or someone like him.

I wonder what word of mouth over 200 years would produce for the bible writers. My wife changes what I said after 10 minutes sometimes.

Also, it wasn't written in English, when translated it got another dose of subjectivity by those with an agenda.

Everyone who wrote the NT and OT believed in a flat earth and that the universe revolved around the earth. Dinosaurs weren't discovered until the early 1800's.

How can anyone take the bible literally. It boggles my mind.

July 28, 2005

MUSIC TRIVIA TIME

The Billboard 100 historically had been the best selling singles on a per week and a per year basis.
The Beatles broke up in 1970, well really 1969.
In 1970, they had two songs in the top 100; The Long and Winding Road and Hey Jude.
John Lennon made it as a solo artist with Instant Karma. And a McCartney/Lennon song also hit the charts too; Come and Get It performed by Badfinger. It was popular because of the movie The Magic Christian, which was a very creative comedy about greed. Ringo Starr was in that movie along with some dude named Peter Sellers.
OK, I still haven't given my question yet.
In 1971, the Beatles were no more. George Harrison had a hit on the Billboard 100; My Sweet Lord, which incidently later got him into court because the melody was very similar to He's So Fine, a song that came out in 1963 . The court decided it was in fact a plagiarism. George and Ringo got together in It Don't Come Easy and McCartney made the list with Another Day and one of my favorites at the time (I was 10); Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey. The Uncle Albert part wasn't that great, and still isn't.

Here is the question. How many songs performed by ex-Beatles made the Billboard 100 in the year 1972?

July 24, 2005

WHAT ARE FUTURE HISTORIANS GONNA SAY

About Arab terrorism and suicide bombers to be exact?

Seriously, their culture is so screwed up. They get young people for the most part to blow up in front of innocent people.
I'll guarantee that the masterminds average age is much higher than those who are committing the bombings. It is a matter of brainwashing. And it starts with the culture, one that promotes death and hatred.
I'm sick of hearing about these bombings. Something has to be done. Arabs and Muslims should be speaking up. If they don't, it is a sign that they condone this crap.
Are they scared to speak up or do they condone it? I have to assume they condone it. Human beings have to be touched about innocent lives being taken out like this.

In two thousand years, we could be remembered as being a slight step above the caveman. And it is the Arab culture that makes everyone primitive.

July 18, 2005

BURNING CD'S

I have stepped into the seedy underworld of stealing music on the internet.
How do I rationalize it? Well, first off, a friend of mine showed me how to do it. If he does it and many other people do it, why shouldn't I do it.
Secondly, I got into buying CD's relatively late. Around late 1999, when I bought a JVC Stereo with the capacity to hold 3 CD's at once.
I started buying CD's at second hand stores, trying to replenish my record and tape collection. I proudly don't have any 8 tracks, and I almost by-passed CD's but caved just before DVD's became the "in" way.
I tried to find Ringo Starr's Blast from Your Past, or any of McCartney and Wings 1970-80 stuff. All I wound up with was a Band on the Run CD and a Wings Greatest CD.
Thanks to my friend, actually it is my brother's friend Jeff, he laughed at me for buying around 100 CD's and proceeded to download two programs that are needed to burn CD's. Heck, my computer came with a burner, so why not use it.
That was 13 days ago. Now I have burned over 100 CD's. My wife says I'm obsessed. But then again, she seems to dislike anything I enjoy doing.
I still can't find Blast from Your Past at the Torrent sites(the content sites) I have visited but I was able to download Ringo and Goodnight Vienna which has most of the good songs that I was looking for, including the No No Song.
I've kind of run out of music I like and I even downloaded Prince's Greatest Hits, so I think my "obsession" is just about over.