SERIOUS PROGRESSIVE LISTENERS’ THREAD

I WEEP FOR SAD TOMMOROWS

AS I REPLAY "PEACE SELLS..BUT WHOS BUYING?" BY MEGADETH AND PUT ANOTHER COAT OF BLACK PAINT ON MY BEDROOM WALL I AM WATCHING TWO ANTS FIGHTING OVER A SPECK OF FOOD........ET TU MOTHER NATURE?.........SIGH!.........I THINK I HAVE ANOTHER GOTH PARTY TO GO TO

RED EMOTION ALERT !!!!!!!!

Attack from Down Under !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes hurt me, hurt me....pleeeease !!!!!!!!!

AS A SERIUS PROG LISTENER I HAVE BEEN CONTEMPLATING THE SONG RAEDY EDDY BY ELP.THIS SONG IS ABOUT EDDYS CONCLUSION THAT LIFE IS ESSENTIALLY POINTLESS AND WITH THAT RAELIZATION HIS SOUL IS MADE FREE.THE TERM" READY TO ROCK AND ROLL" IS OBVIOUSLY A EUPHEMISM FOR THE TURBULENCE INHERENT IN THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE ASSOCIATED FOIBLES OF HUMAN NATURE AND WITH THIS RAELIZATON EDDY IS RAEDY TO TAKE THE EXISTENTIALIST ROLE(MUCH LIKE CLINT EASTWOOD IN "DIRTY HARRY")THAT AN UNCARING "FATE"(PARADOXICALY) HAS PROFERED HIM.ELP HAS OBVIOUSLY USED HUMOR TO HIGHLIGHT EDDYS SMALL POSITION IN THE HIERACHY OF THE CONCIUS WORLD OND YET ALSO TO HIGHLIGHT HIS SMALL TRIUMPH.EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER ARE TO BE COMMENDED FOR THIS THOUGHTFUL AND POWERFUL SONG ON THE ENIGMA OF EXISTANCE

I AWAIT THE COMMENTS OF OTHER SERIUS PROG LISTENERS

I feel your posterior has had punishment enough, Mr. Garten. A few cracks on the knuckles will control the cracks issuing forth from your grim maw. Perchance the willyslapping has created a simmering beastie within. Tut, tut. Enough, already.

Back to business, ah yes, the stark bleak reality. One must ask; 

I have always thought existentialists, like ELP's Eddie, are extremely depressing. It should be obvious that there is a meaning to human existence, and that meaning is human existence in itself. What puzzles me is Sartre, who claimed that humans were beings 'for themselves', ie. consciousness existing for their own purpose and end (as told in Being and Nothingness, his monumental work), yet in his other works, (especially 'No Exit') he portrays human existence as meaningless and absurd. Why would he write such a depressing story after stumbling upon the meaning of life in his other works? Perhaps he thought that humans were being 'for others', or consciousness solely for the benefit of others. It is no wonder he became depressed with such a destructive and altruistic mentality, a symptom I have seen in many marxists and christians, which deprives them of any sense of ego. It is for that reason that I am not an existentialist: I find they have failed to provide a meaning to human existence. Nonetheless, their philosophy is quite entertaining.