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ThatOneOddDude has the right idea. For all you theorists, [url]www.systemofadownonline.com[/url] should meet your needs. Otherwise, just enjoy the music and try not to think so hard. :tasty:

Les Paul. Epiphone or Gibson. Doesn't matter, I customize.

[b]MMS-01[/b] Height: 16.6 Meters Weight: 8.6 Tons Armor Materials: Neo-Titanium Alloy Armaments: 16x missile; 1x double gatling gun Optional Armaments: 1x beam cannon You misspelled 'model', so I get an extra point.

I tried to play nicely. Now I have to say it. Fork your God because there [b]is[/b] no God, never was a God and will never [b]be[/b] a God. And there's nothing insecure about me. Insecure people are the ones who contrive fables to live by.

Also important to note that this 'magic' spoken of just the act of altering perception. It's emotionally alchemy. The term magic is only metaphorical. When the psyche is attuned with the body and it's environment, one becomes the physical embodyment of serenity. You'd have to grasp Quantum Physics to stand a chance at comprehension from an objective view. In most extreme cases, Wicca is the acknowledgement of and coexistence with Quantum. And that realm of reality is proven by science. Wicca and other such aboriginal belief structures such as those of the Native Americans are where the underlying realities and myth actually meet. Metaphors gave birth to the one sided ignorance. Nothing more.

[quote]November 2nd, coinciding with the presidential election, APC will be releasing a collection of songs about WAR, PEACE, LOVE AND GREED, entitled "eMOTIVe." This week we will release one of these new songs entitled, "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums," with an animated video poking fun at our fearless leader. Hopefully, you'll find it as entertaining as we do. REMEMBER... EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTS. Don't let yourself be tricked into thinking it does not. It is important for us all to engage this political system and to be conscious of who is being chosen to speak for us. If you choose not to be involved with decisions that affect your life on a daily basis, in our opinion, you forfeit your right to complain about it later. THINK FOR YOURSELF. QUESTION AUTHORITY. Hopefully you will choose to vote on November 2nd. Peace, Maynard. [/quote] [center][img]http://liz.ezri.mine.nu/images/eMOTIVe_cover.jpg[/img][/center] As for your NIN question. [quote]For the past six months, Danny Lohner ? a producer, multi-instrumentalist and member of Nine Inch Nails ? has been quietly bringing together artists like David Bowie, ex-Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, Filter mastermind Richard Patrick, A Perfect Circle members Josh Freese and Maynard James Keenan, and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. "We were basically trying to put together the most crazy combination of people who had anything to do with really cool, darker rock," Borland said. The guitarist appears on the soundtrack as part of Damning Well, a supergroup of sorts that also includes Lohner, Freese and Patrick ? whom Borland had earlier hooked up with to record a song intended for either the soundtrack of "The Matrix Reloaded" or "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life." That song never surfaced, but the Damning Well's "Awakening" is one of 19 tracks on the soundtrack to "Underworld," a vampires-meet-werewolves flick starring Kate Beckinsale (see "Kate Beckinsale's Next Film Mixes Vampires, 'Matrix,' Leather Pants"). Consider the pedigree of Damning Well ? a past that includes work with everyone from Bizkit, NIN and the Vandals to Evanescence, Avril Lavigne and Mondo Generator ? and you've got one of the most intriguing combinations since Travis Barker and Tim Armstrong teamed up for the Transplants. The same holds true for the bulk of the "Underworld" soundtrack, due September 2. "Bring Me the Disco King (Loner Mix)" pits Bowie with Frusciante, Tool/APC's Keenan, singer Lisa Germano and actress Milla Jovovich. "Pucifer" is a Keenan/Lohner joint, while the "remix" of APC's "Weak and Powerless" is more a revision that retains Keenan's vocals but adds new music by Borland, Lohner and Freese. New tracks by Skinny Puppy, Helmet's Page Hamilton and Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano also appear. "It's just a bunch of unusual things that you don't get to hear very often," Borland said. "It's like Lollapalooza '92," a reference to the lineup that paired the Chili Peppers and Ministry with Ice Cube and Pearl Jam. Borland said the soundtrack's production was more fun and relaxed than most albums because much of it was recorded in the artists' home studios, without the intrusion of handlers and record-label execs. Works-in-progress CDs and Zip disks were taken from house to house and augmented at each stop. When someone couldn't track their parts locally, as was the case with Bowie, they e-mailed their files to Lohner. It all made for an experience that was closer to a group science project than a compilation album. "We all kept parking behind each other," Borland laughed. "All these cars crammed into this little driveway. It was just a trip going through that every night. Everyone was helping each other out, too. Like, 'John needs you to run an errand real quick' or 'You're blocking Milla's car in, you gotta move.' It was great having no bullsh-- around. Just a bunch of people getting to know each other and hanging out. And listening to what one person was doing and going, 'Oh, I can add to that' or 'Why don't you do this?' " The home-studio, DIY approach also explains how the project was kept under wraps for so long. It's rare that a member of a multiplatinum band can moonlight with another project without anyone reporting on it, but it actually happened when Amy Lee took the mic. The Evanescence singer was set to appear on two songs, though her contributions had to be scrapped because of record-label red tape. "The whole thing was kept very private," Borland explained, "and not even intentionally. When we've spoken casually about it, they're like, 'Oh, I haven't heard anything about that. Weird that there's been no gossip about it.' Until now."[/quote]

[quote]ff7 did have a lot of gameplay elements that made it shine as one of the must have games of the last decade. the backgrounds were also undisputedly some of the best, the ps1 had seen in its lifetime. As for your biff with square, i personally think square is developing some really good titles that can stand the test of time. for example final fantasy tactics advance is so addictive, i would keep playing it just to reach the [SPOILER] 300 mission [/SPOILER]. also star ocean three came out recently and it looks absopositively gorgeous![/quote] Well, almost. Star Ocean (was and) still is property of it's respective subsidiary development studio under Enix. Though the Square Enix merger settled with Square's CEO as Head of Square Enix, because Square's stocks were more valuable, Square's franchises are still developed independently, as are Enix's. The titles released since the merger are simply label mates. Star Ocean:Til the End of Time is not Square. As for Final Fantasy Tactics, yes, I was heavily addicted. I stayed up for 3 straight weeks playing it. Too linear for me though, and the story lacked substance. It was like reading a fictional, chaptered history book. Dialogue. Battle. Next page. Battle. Dialogue. Next page. Redundancy never scores well, but to each their own. I think it's still too young to conclude to it's timelessness. Also, it's current audience is the handheld gamer. A massive percentage of people who own GBA's are under 16. I don't give much credit to the opinions of people who play handhelds. :)

Important? TV show? :nope:

Heh, since I made up this name by abbreviating my famly members' names and tacking my own initials onto the end, I'm not obligated to fulfill any sort of standard. I'm known best for my seamless concoction of professionalism, enlightenment, satire, and all around unorthodoxy. You can say I've made a name for myself. Three years of diligent indifference to social normality has earned me this. [img]http://liz.ezri.mine.nu/images/weirdestmember.gif[/img] They banned me in January, by the way, and that's a chocobo. :tasty:

I've read extensive interviews and coverage on the film but was never overly excited. I love that the original dialog is in ancient Japanese dialect. That's probably one of the most creative aspects of anime that I've seen thus far. I'm a fan of the original and won't be going out of my way to see Innocence, which is only a pseudo sequel to Ghost in the Shell which wasn't even correlated in Japan. I'll order it from a comic shop that I frequent, a year or two from now once the hype has died. If I had to choose, I'd be more interested in the [[url=http://www.playstation.jp/scej/title/kokaku-s/]Stand Alone Complex PS2 title].[/url]

Those aren't Wiccans. Those are poser goths. There's enough dignity in this statement anyway, so there's no need for you to grace it with a response, or a lack of response when in fact, you're reading this. That's enough to satisfy me. And I agree that Religion is just an excuse. If you need to believe in faerie tales in order to feel that your life is worth living, you certainly have [i]my[/i] sympathy. Wicca isn't a religion. Much like Buddhism, it's a philosophy. People are free to come to their own meanings whereas in Biblical Religion, they're making it their life's work to live accordingly to a book; doctrines: Rules or principles of [b]law[/b], especially when established by precedent. [quote]Thats a total load of ********. If you are, and I'm not asking you to, going to believe TRULY in Christianity, then you believe that your faith is the ONLY faith. Combining universal floating point liberalism with Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or Hindu is a total perversion of what these faiths teach. If you are going to believe something, believe it. Don't be one of these hedonistic bastards that changes everything to fit them personally. Does absolute truth mean nothing? To most people, unfortunately, it doesn't.[/quote] America was built upon the basis of Religious freedom. Puritans broke away from the corrupt Church of England to create their own sanctuary of free will. To believe that [i]your[/i] faith is [b]the[/b] faith is to perpetuate the ignorance which has plagued generations upon generations of your so called 'faithful'. If you truly believe in God, you would understand that all judgement comes from one mouth, His, and that your only responsibility on earth is to maintain your own good standing, not to condemn those with whom you disagree for you own blinded reasons. That in mind, hypocrisy entangles you.

As a Role Play Gamer, I typically don't play games for fun. I'm more interested in unlocking the story and maximizing stats. If there were ever to be a console RPG that would enable gamers to engage in arena battles, I'd be very interested. Of course the game would have to be robust enough so that there can actually be countless techniques and approaches. I look forward to the day. As a side hobby, I'm a competitive gamer. It isn't unusual to see me arcade sharking Capcom, SNK, and Namco titles or playing Nintendo party games with buddies. I find it fun, but it isn't the game that I'm enjoying, it's the act of playing with friends. It adds a new depth to friendship. For example, I was a Final Fantasy XI beta tester, but I was bored. I've recently been invited to join some friends in it, I'm excited to do so. As they've described it, the spend more time playing around and exploring as a group than they do battling. They'd rather play Hide & Seek than go level their characters. I find that so adorable.

I started playing guitar my freshman year of high school, say 6 years ago. Somewhere along the lines, I switched to bass, then lost the interest altogether because I was so busy with school and work. I just bought an Epiphone Les Paul Studio guitar and am looking forward to reclaiming my skill. I'd recommend learning to play Final Fantasy ballads, if you're interested. They've got just the right amount of technicality and simplicity and are very rewarding to learn if you're a fan of the franchise. Other than that, I'd say to stock up on effect pedals. If you're under too much pressure from playing 'clean' guitar, perhaps you need some distortion to boost your creativity. Rock on.

Here's an interesting discussion I had over at P.O.D.'s message board on 11/6/03. It was the last time I tried seriously to explain what Wicca is, as I know it. I've quoted the arguments against me but left my text in plain format. I left in the arguments and removed my final comment so that both sides were exposed. __________________ I'm reading a book of shadows by a High Priestess of the Wiccan religious order and I love it. You really shouldnt be disturbed. What you think you know of witchcraft is conjured to put rear ends in seats at the movie theaters and to add shock effect to the hopelessly attention whorish. The true meaning behind the witch is 'wise one', derived from the word 'wicce'. It is an Olde Religion that the Church tried to destroy with brutal force. It revolves around the worship of female deity's. The forces behind the craft are the power of perception and spirituality. There is nothing to fear or be disturbed by. The original, true, Wiccan are peace loving. Its the media and dilusion thats got you stirred. It is not satanism or demonology. It is spiritual power. It is summoning inner strength instead of praying for external assistance. The word 'enthusiasm' literally translates to 'a god within' as in 'tapping inherent strength from the soul'. Its nothing terribly different. Just a different set of terms. ...The Wizard of Ozz and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, who tells young Dorothy the power to find her happiness, and her way home, has been with her all along. This last image comes closest to capturing the real and unknown truth about Witchcraft. Witchcraft is not a subculture of satanic rites enacted by wacky spinsters or mad deomonologists. It is an ancient, elegant spirituality that revives the magic of being alive-the kind of magic we have always longed for, but sadly assumed only came true in story books. Wicca, as Witchcraft is most often referred to by contemporary practitioners, is the renaissance of a pre-Hebraic, pre-Christian, and pre-Islamic Goddess spirituality. The shamanic practices of the Olde Religion enable women and men to attune their psyches and their daily lives to the cycles of nature and the mystical wisdom found in earth's profound rythms. A spirituality of divine empowerment, the holy magic practices by Witches, shamans, priestesses, and mystics celebrated an enlightened connection to earth. Driven underground nearly five hundered years ago, when accusations of Satanism first arose. From these accusations came the "Witch Craze," the Church's crusade to suppress the Olde Religion of the goddess and establish religious hegemony in Europe. Hundreds of thousands were killed in an unholy campaign, most of whome were women, who suffered great losses in economic and social power. But this was not the only wound to Western Culture. The ancient knowledge of the village wise woman, and man, was nearly lost, as the sacred rites that maintained the connection between people, the earth, and the divine went asunder. Those with courage, curiosity, compassion, and a taste for adventure may confront her, and when they do, behind the mask of the wicked witch, they find the beatific face of the Great Goddess. A realm of magic that was as ancient as the history of humanity, and as modern as the theories of quantum physics. And their ways enabled me to see the world as vibrantly, divinely alive, rich with wisdom and beauty. We are entering a new era, an age of the Divine Feminine, when the illuminated power of women and men will bring new life to a dying world. It is a time of critical change that depends upon our spiritual awakening, a collective epiphany, a summoning of the sacred into our lives. Through the re-empowerment of the fiminine principle, our world can become a holy vessel of connectedness, grace, and joy for all. [quote]HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAcoughcough!!!!!! sorry, but that seems SO ridiculous[/quote] Well whats ridiculous to me is your ignorance and inability to accept different truths. Theres only one love. Take care. [quote]I agree with one comment of yours: we are entering a new era. Only I find that it is one in which Christianity is being disregarded more and more while other religions are being sought after more and more. I also believe that people will call for and strive for a collective epiphany, only that so called epiphany will be that all religions are quite similar, at which time they will all be molded into one religion. At this point there will be peace, a new era, for a while. The only thing is, there will be no place for God. See, from my thinking, all other religions other than Christianity, are just a ploy by Satan. Some make you feel good (see the quote above), connected to the earth. Others give you abilities to do things that humans shouldn't be able to do (including phsycic abilities, and I'm not referring to the tv ones ). But ultimately, Satan is able to do all of these things. And why shouldn't he, it distracts you from accepting Jesus's love. Yes, you can call me some nut, but oh well. To tie this back in to POD, that is why I think that they are such an important band. They are reaching people that churches can't. It is very important that they choose all things representing them carefully, because they are witnessing to people. And with regard to everything, including symbols, being created by God, you are right, they are. And yes, it is people (or Satan working through people) who pervert things that God created. But the same can be said of words. Do you make a habit of cursing at your mother, cursing at little old ladies? No, because that does not represent what you want people to see (hopefully ) I could keep going on, but I won't. If you have any thoughts that don't really tie in to POD, just send a private message. Just let me leave off with this: I'm not throwing out their cd or boycotting the band. They still make great music which helps people. Just saying they need to be careful with how they represent themselves.[/quote] [quote]Yeah but it dosen't acknowledge Christ as the way the truth and the light, it lifts up pagan rituals and is totally against Christ and what he did on the cross for us. "See to it that on one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depeneds on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ." Colossians 2:8 (NIV) Wiccan ritiuals summon a spiritual power that is not of Christ. It is a religion the satan uses as a foothold to draw people away from Jesus and his gift of eternal salvation. And on the subject of the cover art. I don't think it has anything to do with wiccan or witches. As an artist, i get crap from fellow Christians because i draw a skull with blood and a caption that says Saved by Grace. So it dosent matter what you draw, the man thing is does it Glorify God because that is all the matters. And POD does that through their music, Listen to Alive and Change the World. PEACE[/quote]

[quote]Wow, very interesting. My short answer is that the greatest philosophers are the ones who don't bother wasting time philosophizing. I know philosophy is the study of knowledge, questioning everything mankind knows - including logic, but in the end, it's always appeared to me as useless fun.[/quote] Then Albert Camus may be of some minute interest. His philosophy capitolized on that all is meaningless and that indifference is the only sanctuary. Here's an essay that appears in 'The Myth of Sisyphus', his work which proclaims that human existence is a pointless struggle. He compares our lives to Sisyphus, whom the (Greek) gods had condemned to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Its a lengthy excerpt, but its worth it's weight. [quote]Ephemeral Creation At this point I perceive, therefore, that hope cannot be eluded forever and that it can beset even those who wanted to be free of it. This is the interest I find in the works discussed up to this point. I could, at least in the realm of creation, list some truly absurd works. (Melville's Moby Dick, for instance). But everything must have a beginning. The object of this quest is a certain fidelity. The Church has been so harsh with heretics only because she deemed that there is no worse enemy than a child who has gone astray. But the record of the Gnostic effronteries and the persistence of Manichean currents have contributed more to the construction of orthodox dogma than all the prayers. With due allowance, the same is true of the absurd. One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it. At the very conclusion of the absurd reasoning, in one of the attitudes dictated by its logic, it is not a matter of indifference to find hope coming back in under one of the most touching guises. That shows the difficulty of the absurd ascetics. Above all, it shows the necessity of unfailing alertness and thus confirms the general plan of this essay. But if it is still too early to list absurd works, at least a conclusion can be reached as to the creative attitude, one of those which can complete absurd existence. Art can never be so well served as by a negative thought. Its dark and humiliated precedings are as necessary to the understanding of a great work as black is to white. To work and create "for nothing," to sculpture in clay, to know one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries---this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, it the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors. This leads to a special conception of the work of art. Too often the work of a creator is looked upon as a series of isolated testimonies. Thus, artist and man of letters are confused. A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. Likewise, a man's sole creation is strengthened in its successive and multiple aspects: his works. One after another they complement one another, correct or overtake one another, contradict one another, too. If something brings creation to an end, it is not the victorious and illusory cry of the blinded artist: "I have said everything," but the death of the creator which closes his experiences and the book of his genius. That effort, that superhuman consciousness are not necessarily apparent to the reader. There is no mystery in human creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret. To be true, a succession of works can be but a series of approximations of the same thought. But it is possible to conceive of another type of creator proceeding by juxtaposition. Their words may seem to be devoid of inter-relations, to a certain degree, they are contradictory. But viewed all together, they resume their natural groupings. From death, for instance, they derive their definitive significance. They receive their most obvious light from the very life of their author. At the moment of death, the succession is but a collection of failures. But if those failures all have the same resonance, the creator has managed to repeat the image of his own condition, to make the air echo with the sterile secret he possesses. The effort to dominate is considerable here. But human intelligence is up to much more. It will merely indicate clearly the voluntary aspect of creation. Elsewhere I have brought out the fact that human had no other purpose than to maintain awareness. But that could not do without discipline. Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective. It is also the staggering evidence of man's sole dignity: the dogged revolt against his condition, perseverance in an effort considered sterile. It calls for a daily effort, self-mastery, a precise estimate of the limits of truth, measure, and strength. It constitutes an ascesis. All that "for nothing," in order to repeat and mark time. But perhaps the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality. Let there be no mistake about aesthetics. It is not patient inquiry, the unceasing, sterile illustration of a thesis that I am calling for here. Quite the contrary, if I have made myself clearly understood. The thesis-novel, the work that proves, the most hateful of all, is the one that most often is inspired by a smug thought. You demonstrate the truth you feel sure of possessing. But those are ideas one launches, and ideas are the contrary of thought. Those creators are philosophers, ashamed of themselves. Those I am speaking of or whom I imagine are, on the contrary, lucid thinkers. At a certain point where thought turns back on itself, they raise up the images of their works like the obvious symbols of a limited, mortal, and rebellious thought. They perhaps prove something. But those proofs are the ones that the novelists provide for themselves rather than for the world in general. The essential is that the novelists should triumph in the concrete and that this constitute their nobility. This wholly carnal triumph has been prepared for them by a thought in which abstract powers have been humiliated. When they are completely so, at the same time the flesh makes the creation shine forth in all its absurd luster. After all, ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. Detached from it, the work will once more give a barely muffled voice to a soul forever freed from hope. Or it will give voice to nothing if the creator, tired of his activity, intends to turn away. That is equivalent. Thus, I ask of absurd creation what I required from thought---revolt, freedom, and diversity. Later on it will manifest its utter futility. In that daily effort in which intelligence mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing. Let me repeat. None of all this has any real meaning. On the way to that liberty, there is still a progress to be made. The final effort for these related minds, creator or conqueror, is to manage to free themselves also from their undertakings: succeed the granting that the very work, whether it be conquest, love, or creation, may well not be; consummate thus the utter futility of any individual life. Indeed, that gives them more freedom in the realization of their work, just as becoming aware of the absurdity of life authorized them to plunge into it with every excess. All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics---in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion. -Albert Camus[/quote]