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octopus-4
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RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 10:53 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Thank god for the Crusades! Without the genocide in Moorish Spain and the massacres in Acre and Jerusalem, I wouldn't be drinking this great cup of coffee now! |
Without a God we wouldn't have had crusades
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com
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NotAProghead
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Joined: October 22 2005
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 10:54 |
toroddfuglesteg wrote:
I have interviewed many artists who operated behind the iron curtain and not a single one of them has claimed communism, the iron curtain and the censorship was a blessing for them.
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I hope you will interview many more. Ask them how did they fell themselves in the end of the 80's - beginning of the 90's. I guess they tell you it was a hard time for them.
toroddfuglesteg wrote:
On the contrary, many of them are rightfully angry and bitter about the many lost years of their careers. Being imprisoned and censored is a waste of time and life.
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I think in most cases it's just an illusion: if we were free, we could gain international success. Now they are free, but success is more than moderate. There are exceptions like Rammstein, but in general this is an English-singing world.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:00 |
octopus-4 wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
Thank god for the Crusades! Without the genocide in Moorish Spain and the massacres in Acre and Jerusalem, I wouldn't be drinking this great cup of coffee now! |
Without a God we wouldn't have had crusades |
At this point in the morning I am more thankful for coffee than god. Besides, the Crusades did nothing for god, really, but did introduce coffee to Europe. And for that I am thankful for the thousands that were slaughtered just so I could enjoy my Starbucks. Who says religion isn't useful?
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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NotAProghead
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 11:04 |
Fans of real coffee will probably tell you that what you have in Starbucks is not a coffee at all, just some liquid.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 12:12 |
NotAProghead wrote:
Fans of real coffee will probably tell you that what you have in Starbucks is not a coffee at all, just some liquid. |
Actually, I am not a coffee snob. I like Starbucks' coffee, because it is chockful of caffeine, that most wondrous of elements. That, and there is a ubiquitous franchise store a couple blocks from my house. It's as if they put it there just for me!
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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CPicard
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 17:59 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Thank god for the Crusades! Without the genocide in Moorish Spain and the massacres in Acre and Jerusalem, I wouldn't be drinking this great cup of coffee now! |
If I recall my history lessons, coffee was introduced into Europe many centuries AFTER the Crusades and the Fall of Grenade (1492), around 1600... Moreover, it came from the Arabic Peninsula through Venitian merchants. But I can see what you mean: THANKS GOD FOR THE CRUSADES, IT GAVE US TOMATOES!
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 13 2011 at 18:13 |
CPicard wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
Thank god for the Crusades! Without the genocide in Moorish Spain and the massacres in Acre and Jerusalem, I wouldn't be drinking this great cup of coffee now! |
If I recall my history lessons, coffee was introduced into Europe many centuries AFTER the Crusades and the Fall of Grenade (1492), around 1600... Moreover, it came from the Arabic Peninsula through Venitian merchants.
But I can see what you mean: THANKS GOD FOR THE CRUSADES, IT GAVE US TOMATOES!
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Thank you for catching the irony.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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