Huge Moral Problem

catefrances wrote:

whoa there, i never said eddie was jesus.

and you know if eddie is saying what he's saying just for reaction then he's saying it for the wrong reasons. and i doubt he gives a shit whether anyone agrees with him or not. the belief he has in his causes is his own. and that is as it should be.

hey double snap, i too am an atheist and live in a country that way more secular than the US.

No I think it was me that said that Eddie looks like Jesus !
You know, I think we are on the same wavelength. Athiests, of course, look to themselves and other people for morality, not to religion.
To go back to the original moral dilemma on this thread, I was using Ed as an example of people working out right and wrong for themselves.
I just think the images on teh montage I was referring to are interesting, without really reading too much into it, other than scruffy blokes in beards seem to wield a lot of influence.
I think it is a bit narrow and dismissive to say that rock stars are good for nothing other than vicarious entertainment though. I would say that Ed cares passionately that people pay attention to his youth/charity/global warming interests, not for the "attention", but more to get people caring about that stuff.
Rock on dude !!

this thread has disgraced the M&G board, shame on you all, shame on you all, you shall all burn in the firey pits of The Porch or even worse....the RM board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

catefrances wrote:

charles manson.

Fidel CAstro

Osama bin LAden

KArl Marx

seems a scruffy haircut and a beard are essential items for messianic types, along with the delusions of grandeur etc

Sorry gear dudes, but blame Boom the CAt, he started it.
BTW, my new Mesa Boogie Dual rectifier should arrive this morning ha, ha ha !! THat gear oriented enough for you ??

lucylespian wrote:

KArl Marx

seems a scruffy haircut and a beard are essential items for messianic types, along with the delusions of grandeur etc

you think karl marx had delusions of grandeur?


gearhead disclaimer: my guitar only has 5 strings. and i like it that way.

i believe that jesus was a socialist.

and i think we really need to wait until capitalism collapses in a giant flaming heap before we see socialism given any chance. i don't see the two coexisting.


at least 2 of my strings are out of tune.

harrisonmerwin wrote:

Karl Marx was smart, and unfortunately his entire idea of Communism was practiced incorrectly, and was an insult to his genious. He would have been disgusted by Russia/Ussr, and how they took his "knowledge" and created such a bad thing. One good thing is that he did die before his dream crumbled in the wrong hands. I would actually like to see a communist state as karl marx had wished

ps: Im buying Mackie SRM 450's for monitors/small stage front of house

i just don't think that Man is selfless enough for a withering away of the State to occur.


ps. i think i'd like to learn to play mandolin.

Fuck me dude, in a communist state there wouldn't be monitors, let alone a choice as to which ones you might buy.
Cate, don't you think that 50yr of cummunism in Russia, China ands Cuba was a fair trial ?
As to the wrong hands, I surely agree that the USSR was run by psychopaths, kind of like giving teh worst criminals control of govt.
Humans are greedy littel sucker by nature, adn socialism just makes everyone poor.

The manual for my Boogie is 41 pages, ALL my strings atre in tune !!

lucylespian wrote:

Fuck me dude, in a communist state there wouldn't be monitors, let alone a choice as to which ones you might buy.
Cate, don't you think that 50yr of cummunism in Russia, China ands Cuba was a fair trial ?

no i do not.
i don't think forced revolution is the way to attain a socialist state.
and in all honesty, cuba never had a chance. not with the 'evil empire' to the north breathing down their neck.


ps. my other guitar is a rickenbacker.(in my dreams)

lucylespian wrote:

OK, bored now, but who forced who, I thought the proletariat rebelled of their own free will, basically I think socialism is fucked up and the grey out that was Eastern Europe under the commies was fucked up too.
BUt honestly, I don't really give a rats, and it's time this thread was dead !!

then you thought wrong.

christ, move this thread. or close it or something.