Take one Gideons Bible….

Provide a shearing force….

Lay back and enjoy the destruction….

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And that kinda sums it all up really.

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Lyrics:

Intro:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants” – Thomas Jefferson

Verse 1:
They say
We must fall in line
They say
Censorship for all
They say
To protect the kids
They say
It is for the best
He says
He knows what is right
He says
Obey the government

Chorus:
The internet must be
A land of liberty
We’ll fight to be free
We must crush our enemy

Verse 2:
We say
We won’t fall in line
We say
Fuck your censorship
We say
Do not tread on me
We say
Fight with every breath
We say
We’ll not stop this fight
We say
We’re anonymous

“Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 10 people you like and include me. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s a lot harder than you think.”

Pick Your Artist:
Dream Theater

Are you male or female:
As I Am

Describe yourself:
The Test That Stumped Them All

Describe where you currently live:
The Glass Prison

How do you feel about yourself:
Just Let Me Breathe

Your best friend is:
You Not Me

Your favorite colour is:
The Dark Eternal Night

Your favorite form of transportation:
The Mirror

What’s the weather like:
Misunderstood

Favorite time of day:
6:00

If your life was a tv show, what would it be called:
A Nightmare to Remember

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
The Root Of All Evil

What is the best advice you have to give:
Disappear

If you could change your name, what would it be:
The Silent Man

Your favorite food is:
Puppies on Acid

Thought for the Day:
About to Crash

How I would like to die:
Another Day

My soul’s present condition:
Forsaken

My motto:
Wither

“Limerence refers to an involuntary cognitive and emotional state of intense romantic desire for another person” – Wikipedia

All recorded on my new Dean V Coustic.

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the God who is easily defeated by a sheet of rubber, and explained away by the physics of static electricity.

Image shocked from here

This is a set of songs exploring how someone might go from being a confused young person to the kind of person willing to kill themselves to further a cause.

The music is my usual experimetal, except with alot more themes and melodic ideas that are meant to evoke middle eastern and modern christian music. The title of the suite itself is lifted from Rick Warren’s book, as that book is designed to make a similar change in someone. Yes, it has a different end in mind, but only slightly different as you’ll see in this post.

Purpose Driven I – Build Up The Pillars:

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All journeys must start at the beginning, and the start of the journey of a terrorist is a place where the person is not a terrorist. Usually they are confused about there place in the world, as is the typical teenage angst. All it takes is someone to come along and show them some love and compassion. Take them from their confused state and show them that there is a way to live that makes sense of their confusion. This is the typical recruiting tactic of most religions and causes, no matter what their ultimate aims.

This is obviously basing its language around that of Islam, but many religions start with emphasising the positive, loving, “In faith and peace” aspects before moving on to the need to be separate and different from the “infidels”.

Purpose Driven II – Change That We Can Believe In:

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The middle section is the taking of the new recruit, after they have accepted and internalised the main ideas of the cause, and showing them how those core ideas should lead to them taking action. Typically this is through the charisma and oration of an influential leader, or at least one who is wanting to become an influential leader.

The lyrics are a little different, as all the lines of the verse except the last are sourced from the speeches of Barack Obama. This is due to the fact that he uses alot of the same types of propagandistic psychology to get people on his side as many cult leaders, dictators and the like. The last line is quoted from Osama bin Laden to show this similarity of inspirational language.

Purpose Driven III – Through My Works:

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This is where the rubber hits the road and the cause is revealed, and by now the recruit is so caught up in the movement that they’re willing to do whatever is called for. They see it as their duty, something that they have to do, their cause and destiny.

At this point all the love, the preaching, the basic brainwashing has turned a confused youngster into a weapon to be used by the leader to fulfill their aims. Some leaders like Osama want to use them as a literal weapon and destroy his enemies and oppressors, some like Obama want to use them as a political weapon to gain power through democracy, some like Rick Warren want to use them as a spiritual weapon to evangelise the world.

At the end of the day they are all variations on a theme, and all are dangerous because of the lack of critical thinking shown by the initiate. The unfortunate thing is that everyone involved, expect possibly the leaders, is just deluded and thinks they are doing the right thing and that their cause is just and true.

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Beer school, where you and your friends learn to like more than one kind of beer. There’s lots of beers to like, some are made right down the street and others have to travel halfway around the world from foreign lands you only hear about on teh interwebs just to get to you. But the best thing about beer school is….

THE HOMEWORK

Or at least that is how the intro usually goes from memory. Its an excellent, rambling show where John and Motor drink beer, talk about beer and whatever else that may or may not be related…. like tech, or Zappa. Its not always regular, but it is always funny.

Reposted from a facebook note.

1. What’s the worst trouble you have ever been in?
Threat of a defamation lawsuit if I didn’t take down that website.

2. What’s the funniest thing you have ever seen?
I’d tell you, but I think it violates the interdimensional prime directive. I’m not sure though, Wormhole Ethics and Practice was never my strongest subject.

3. Do you have any skeletons in your closet?
Yeah. But only because I’ve run out of room to bury the bodies in my backyard after the toughening of the laws because of the war on terror made it too hard to get enough strong acid to dispose of them more discreetly.

4. What’s your porn name? (Take the name of the first pet you had and pair it with the name of the first street you lived on.)
Tiger Douglas. But I was only in a few solo scenes.

5. What was the worst job you ever had?
Telemarketing, where I only lasted 3 days…. Or preaching the gospel, but that is more of a retroactive worst.

6. Have you ever been bitchslapped?
No, although I have been hit with other appendages.

7. Who do you wish would just drop dead?
My legal team has advised me that to answer this question may incriminate me.

8. Do you fell guilty taking a sickie?
No. I can’t take sickies. Even when I’m sick I have to keep working because I’m awesome.

9. Ever found yourself in a situation that could be described as “surreal?”
There was that one time when I was walking down the secretariat when I came across a rasper who proceeded to pretypify my appassionato algology. It was quite the postbursal ageusia. Wibble.

10. What’s your favourite thing to say when someone pisses you off?
Fuck you you fucking fuck.

11. Ever accidentally done something against your own morals, but decided not to say anything because you were so proud that you’d gotten away with it?
No. It is impossible by definition for me to do something against my own morals. You might as well ask me to microwave a burrito so hot that I can’t eat it.

12. Who did you fear more growing up – mum or dad?
Both.

13. What’s the closest you have come to your own death?
The time I tried to commit suicide by alcohol poisoning. My body woke itself up and proceeded to pump its own stomach at the last minute to avoid death. It also managed to do this on my favourite flannel shirt, making it much less wearable.

14. Ever done something illegal just to see whether you could get away with it?
No. Everything I do illegally is for purely personal gain. Except for that time I installed a puppet government. That was just because I needed something to do over the summer break and I only had dialup.

15. Have you ever thrown up on a stranger?
Does their shoes count?

16. Ever said something that you have immediately wished you could take back?
No. Even the worst words are worth it for the lulz. At least in hindsight.

17. Ever done something that you wished you could immediately take back?
Yes. That thing with the time machine, but that kind of took itself back as the temporal paradox resolved itself. Although the platypus was the never the same.

18. What’s your favourite type of cheese?
The kind you get in postmodern self-aware indie zombie flicks. Or vintage cheddar.

19. Who’s your favourite dead person?
Hitler.

20. If you won lotto, what would be the first thing you would do?
Pay off that intergalactic mercenary federation for their help with that rogue AI I created before being asked to leave the Computer Science program.