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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yes they were. Overly-blunt sentence edited to the following more nuturing one: Why don't you go back through the thread and see if you can figure out how they could be? Sorry Admin. Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I never wanted a perfect parent. I just wanted one who was interested in me. I needed help growing up and I hardly ever got any. Neither one of my parents was even close to being emotionally healthy (sounds like yours weren't either, to be sure) so they either ignored me or controlled me. I think it's amzing and wonderful that you broke the cycle.
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yes. Furthermore, you are accepting the benefits of mass production/capitalism/greed/exploitation while simultaneously telling all of us to "get out of the system, it's not too late". You are constantly, every second of every day, benefiting from mass production/capitalism/greed/exploitation while advocating for it's complete revesal. Why shouldn't I note that? Yes, it is a "simple" question, but isn't it a perfectly natural one to ask you? Why don't you follow your own philosophy?
quote: I have never been angry. I've just been blunt.
quote: Are you saying that, for all of it's flaws, capitalism results in less struggling to survive? You can't have it both ways.
quote: I think nothing of the sort. What I do think is that if you denounce capitalism as a throughly terrible thing and advise all of us to "get out of the system", then you should be the first to do so.
quote: But capitalism is altogethyer evil and wrong, isn't it? You shouldn't support it if you think that, yet you do support it. And I'd live for you to talk to the people at the Martin factory and lecture them about the triviality and meaninglessness of their jobs.
quote: LOL! Of course you wouldn't. But what would you call a guy who advocates that it's very important that everybody else except for him reject the economic system they are in? Everybody else should do as he says, not as he does. If everybody did as you said, you'd have to make your own guitar.
quote: Er, OK. What does this have to do with the contradiction in what you advocate and how you live?
quote: Yeah. Another plane. Sure. LOL! Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given. "Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!" - Ned Flanders "Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: So, you're hoping to become a professional musician? Sellout.
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I don't need to "think long and hard" about it. It's not called "the recording industry" by mistake. It's an industry. A business. You will have to sell yourself if you want to be successful. Marketing is all, pretty much. In fact, other than TV and movie acting, I really cannot think of a business that is more cuthroat, merciless, unforgiving, and shallow than the pop music business. Here's some more great lyrics. Wonder if you know the band?
Have A Cigar
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.You're gonna go far, fly high, You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try;they're gonna love you. Well I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink? And did we tell you the name of the game, boy we call it Riding the Gravy Train. We're just knocked out. We heard about the sell out. You gotta get an album out, You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count. Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart? It's a helluva start, it could be made into a monster if we all pull together as a team. And did we tell you the name of the game, boy we call it Riding the Gravy Train.
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Do you plan to actually address my post or are you going to run away again?
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yes, that's generally true, but I don't find you or your brother strange at all. Both of you are really very typical.
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Phat, where do you detect this "unbound optimism" in the boys' posts? Sneering derision is not optimism. "Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!" - Ned Flanders "Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
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