listeners of progressive rock are evil !

Plus ca change............plus c'est la meme chose!

Muslims,Christians,Commies,Liberals:

They all want to tell you what to do!

That is control and they can shove it!

We like Prog Rock because we can think for ourselves, and we are not frightened or bothered by other's opinions of our music.

Just slam "Witch Hunt" (Moving Pictures) on the turntable and play it LOUD!

Marcelo wrote:     Now is pretty much better!!!! Who said that hackers are bad guys?

Still, he's gotta improve his damned way of drawing  

Seems the lunatic website has been hacked by a dirty satanic prog rocker who smells like pot, never baths and has no different interest. 

http://www.geocities.com/evilprogressive/

Iván

James Lee wrote: I agree- let's dump this thread before I say something I'll regret later I've been noticing that I'll write a review criticizing bands about being pretentious and then go and fire off pedantic and verbose forum posts about politics and theology...I hope the irony isn't lost on anyone!

, Good call!

Maani,

I echo your comments on the civilised nature of the debate in this thread.

What I would say though is that while I appreciate that this thread began as discussion about whether "listeners of progressive rock are evil", it soon digressed into a theological and political discussion, far removed from music. I have no problem with such discussion, but would prefer that it be confined to the "Not related to music" section. The "Main discussions" section should be about the core subject of the forum, i.e progressive rock.

I mean no disrespect to those who have carried out the discussion here, and I have no wish to attempt to stifle debate, but everything in its place...?

People who (with good reason) believe political debate has no place in this forum are cordially invited to ignore this post. (Let's face it, you should have done so about 3 pages ago.)

James; I can tell you are a truely free thinker, like all of my many American friends who have had the benefit of perspective, ( expats', the onlooker sees most of the game after all) and are horrified at the tide of antiAmerican sentiment that is engulfing the rest of the world.

There are definite parallels to be drawn between McCathy and Bush. Just as with McCathy, Bush has used the propaganda machine to spread a dangerous myth, which goes something like this: "If you're anti-me, then you're unAmerican." Quote: "If you're not with us you're against us!". I'll decide who I'm with or against thank you very much, and I won't base my decision on some misguided sense of flag waving patriotic zeal.

Although I am one of those who has claimed  that communism is unworkable due to the inherent greed of man, I would like to point out that I did include the proviso "when exposed to the allure of capitalism". Capitalist powers have made good and sure that such exposure is universal, whilst deliberatly scuppering communist states. The USSR did have one very important function, which was this: It created a balance of power in the world. Uncle Sam had to watch his Ps and Qs during the cold war. That counterbalance has been taken away and America has (at least in the eyes of the rest of the World) become just a little too big for its boots as a consequence.

Oh yeah, one Moore thing (get it ?),...... IMHO!

Love to all on both sides of the Atlantic,

M.D.R.

JrKASperov wrote: emdiar wrote: JrKASperov;" I did not 'learn' my exceptional standings on morals during my life, I always had 'em".   So morals are genetically inherited eh? If this were true it would save us parents a whole bunch of hard work! Why, explain to me then how I remember watching all kinds of kids in kindergarten getting bullied and me having a bad feeling about all that?

Maybe because, at that age, you had already learned how it felt to be bullied yourself, so you felt sorry for them?

I always though that Jesus was the first true communist, trying to teach about love, peace, equality, justice, etc... Sadly, modern human history only shows two real examples of true communist life system (if I'm not wrong): The Israelian "kibbutz" and some communities in Spain before the Franco's tirany. Marxism attemps in the former Soviet Union failed because there was a political party that understood communism as another way to get all the power, forgetting idealism and freedom, the basic human right.

BTW, in our capitalist societies -where ambition and greed are accepted as competition ways and politicians fill their mouthes with the word "freedom"- communism (just a political position, after all) is still demonized. I. e., each time I travel to USA I must complete a visa form that includes some questions like "are you a weapons dealer, are you a drugs dealer, did you participate in an US citizen kidnapping, etc" and... "do you belong to a communist party?" (!!!).

I'm not religious, but I'm sure that there's no any religion principle talking about some kind of thoughs discrimination. So, which is the message from our "Western and Christian world"?