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Tue 01/28/14 09:50 PM
Wow, really?

Iron Maiden
1) They're actually a metal band, selloutica is selloutica (just a rock band really)
2) Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, and Thrash Metal genre bands credit them as an influence. (A band truly revered by other bands.)
3) Bruce is a way better lead singer than james ever could be (Operatics vs. grunty moans?)
4) Musicianship on Maiden has consistently been better (Nicko can play a double bass functionally for longer than 10seconds.)
5) Lyrical content in Iron Maiden is way more thoughtful in form and flow (They use bigger words too!)
6) Iron Maiden doesn't destroy other bands to replace their line ups (Selloutica killed suicidal tendencies and their side project infectious grooves)
7) Flight 666 wasn't a virtual episode of the real world like "some kind of pap smear" was.
8) Iron Maiden didn't sue napster for "their money". (Selloutica should of admitted their album sales money was low because their because their fans were probably leaving due to "poor everything" form selloutica's output.)
9) You can listen to a whole Iron Maiden album and not say "Wow, they sold out so badly..." as a natural response.
10) You don't look like you lack taste in music when you wear an Iron Maiden shirt. (I actually had Phish heads in a Phish lot upping Maiden to my face for walking in with a Maiden shirt.)
11) Iron Maiden hasn't helped to dumb down the metal genre and enabled shitty new rock bands to be labeled as "metal" for sales. (Note: Cock rock was bad enough to skew the music but selloutica pretty much helped with the "repackage for sales" as their most noticeable contribution to metal.)
12) It's harder to grow past listening to Iron Maiden after 8th grade then it is to listen to selloutica past 8th grade
13) Iron Maiden has tours specifically to play their old songs while selloutica does shitty song medleys for their old material.
14) Maiden isn't too crazy big on making themselves look bigger than they are, they earned their rep. Selloutica is crazy about making themselves look big and have also earned their rep... (As a sold out rock band.)
15) Maiden doesn't care about the mainstream award shows, selloutica does.
16) I can play Iron Maiden and legitimately call it music. I can play selloutica and legitimately call it "for sale".
17) Iron Maiden has had a couple bad albums, selloutica has had a couple bad decades of material.
Bonus:
Iron Maiden has Eddie as a mascot. Selloutica has James & Lars as mascots. Iron Maiden has totally won at having a real mascot.

Why selloutica is overrated/why the metal community should be asking them to change their name and call them a rock band...
1) Actual thrash metal bands out around the time were waaaaay better and actually played faster (Examples: Venom, Kreator, Sodom, Testament, Tankard, Hirax, Death Angel, Voi Vod, NME to name a few.)
2) 2 They've been a rock band since the black album but more or less it was solidified on (B)Load. Since then it's been a noticeable **** ride of quality and content.
3) They worry about sounding trendy and current with their writing
4) Most actual metal bands can easily outplay, outwrite and outpreform sellouticia
5) Real metal bands have drummers that can play their full drum kits, guitarists who actually write music that's intricate and they can usually put more lyrics in before a chorus without using "aaaayyyy yooooohhhh" for filler space.
5b) They did their "orchestral album" and made the mistake of having the orchestra play all their "hard parts" for them.
6) Actual metal has easily moved on without them (Those bands I listed that were waaaay better are also still waaaaay better)
7) Metal bands usually try to up their preformance from their last album... Selloutica sort of just talks up their new albums but keeps dumbing it down for their music. (I think they learned that from watching Korn.)
8) Real metal bands don't exactly have "stylists" , "image consultants" and aren't usually scheduled to play on the Mtv Music awards. (They also don't win awards from Mtv.)
9) They can have an album with Jay-Z, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Pitbull, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Kylie Minogue, Pink, Rhianna, M.C. Hammer, Icona Pop, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Bieber, the Backstreet Boys, and/or the guy from match box 20 (Rob Thomas... I think his name is?) on it and it wouldn't seem out of place for how they've been going. (Real metal bands can't do that without being called "sell outs" and they'd be losing their fans.)
10) They've been trying too hard to look profound lately... Making Lou Reed have a shitty album before he died, playing their whole "put album title that they turned their back on here" in it's entirety tonight (Floyd and the Who did that notably so this rips off their show events to try to sell "much lesser material that they clearly wrote themselves" as "amazing"), and trying to ride on being the "American Big 4" (Or as I like to put them, the "US Trash Metal Big 4". All of whom have either sold out or gone to absolute **** compared to the Teutonic Big 4: Sodom, Tankard, Kreator and Destruction)... So they're deal with looking profound is just repackaging things other people did. It's not like they had (much needed!) line up changes (calling it quits would be the best one) or like the music got better (or went back to actual metal) in some way.

Bonus:
Have you noticed how Nickleback (the band made entirely of failed Bryan Adams clones)looks like they're the "younger kid brother band" to selloutica now?
&
When are Kirk and Lars going to get married?
(It's legal to do that in the states now.)

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Tue 01/28/14 05:33 PM
Okay.... India and the Middle East (particularly the part India sits on top of) is sort of like South America and Brazil. India is in the same place as a lot of middle eastern and far eastern countries but has it's own culture. Like South America was mostly colonized by Spain (hence the spanish) and Brazil was colonized by Portugal (hence the wacky version of Portuguese), the middle east was mostly colonized by France (they speak a couple different regional dialects of Arabic), England had India (Has a bunch of dialects all of which derive from Sanskrit or earlier forms of Hindi). Culturally they're different, legally their different and when it comes to mentality (we're talking social, general societal collective of both north and south India, as well as even education levels creating them) it's different too.

You'd have a decent time if you were in the more metropolitan areas. Think of it like here in the states with racism. Generally you're going to get the "chiller and less racially ignorant" in major cities and urban areas. If you end up going into the backwater and more homogenous areas culturally, you're going to get more crap for being an outsider. So if you stick to touristy places, you should be in good shape. Thanks to England's colonialism/the British Empire, a decent sized portion of the country (particularly in the major cities) will speak English too.
You also have India being a lot more humane when it comes to "who's got what gender?" in comparison to the rest of the region as well. True, there are remnants of the cast system but that isn't the same thing and is mostly just upheld by the needlessly traditional stickler houses. So if your fam was Brahman caste forever ago, you'll hold onto it for ego and may be ***** about it socially. India is not Afghanistan, Pakistan (Well not anymore really) or Iran.
A lot of what's been going on in India specifically has been about people fighting things like monsanto, other corporations and their government allowing them to "buy into them more" than it's been about "anything to do with gender in society". It's also been about fighting the corporate powers in India since they've been having similar versions of "Neo-Feudalism" (What capitalism turns into) popping up more and more there too. You're also not hearing about that as much due to monsanto (as well as the rest of corporate america) being major "buy in contributors" to both Dems & GOP. You seeing "another culture fighting it in ways that're culturally acceptable there" can potentially be "bad for business" so that's why the gender stuff was being pushed for a bit. Thankfully, India did manage to get a ban on GMO crops. (Note: If you saw anything in BBC World News in regard to gender based BS, the UK and the US have been "privatized banking", "Int'l corporation buddies" and "war buddies" for a while so they'll dish compatible news out to the public.)

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Tue 01/28/14 04:14 PM
Don't forget, other than the deflecting, it's also going to be a bunch of statements that don't actually add up to the people that the government and the 1% will be the only ones applauding.

Keep in mind, it's not so much as the speeches (cuz they never add up to the actuality of things). It's who'll fall for it (You'll be seeing a lot of 2D thinkers / "either/or" thinkers believing what is said makes sense), watching who's gong to replace rhetoric with logic and why the majority of the voting population'll keep putting the Dems & GOP back into office. (since they both keep up reaganomics, lobbyists, the FED, warare/meddling for resources, pro corporate legislation, "too big for jail/too big to fail" policy, and right losses. That doesn't happen like this without bipartisanship and that bipartisanship isn't enabled without the majority of the US voting population keeping them in power .)

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Tue 01/28/14 04:01 PM
One less washed up cock rock band is always a good thing! I bet the tribute on "That sell out, mostly washed up rock bands show" on Vh1 will be "spectacular".

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Sat 01/18/14 03:29 PM
Our problem is the 2-Faced Party system (Dems & GOP) keeping up reaganomics (Or in how it's grown since reagan "Advanced Reaganomic Wild West Capitalism" with a "W. Agenda for Privatized Gains") and the fact that the majority of voters have been enabling it to stay this way with their voting. Moves like this by the government have been pretty consistent for the last 33+yrs and have been increasingly blatant in intention within the last 14yrs. They also don't happen without bipartisanship and manage to stay in place because of bipartisanship. When your consistency in "What passes and gets signed into law" is pro corporate legislation, pro warfare/meddling for resources and pro rights losses you call the nature of the beast pretty easily. If you want to say "Well what about the near misses in passing pro the people legislation?" then keep in mind of two things:
1) Voting, like the legislation that passes, is largely orchestrated by lobbyists so that was orchestrated for hype and partisanship appearance PR more than anything else.
2)It wasn't going to pass anyhow. You'll notice that with our "slightly more democrat heavy but still pretty much 50/50 US Senate" none of the stuff that failed came back out on the table again. NDAA however got voted back in 3 times in sweeping bipartisanship, we're probably passing the TTP and the NSA isn't really undergoing any real changes(your wires and information are there to tap if you're not part of the government, corporate america or wall street).

To cover that $1Trill they'll just cut things the people need (because the US runs like a business and the people are seen as "needless expenditures" in the face of profit) and print more money off the privatized central for profit bank we have called the FED. This would be regardless of party/in Bipartisanship because nobody, Dem or GOP, bothered to even bat an eyelash on camera at doing Qe3 or Qe4 let alone really bring up openly the actual impacts. Last spring, you already had Obama making some of the "Romney cuts" with GOP senators in advisory while Liz Warren (With voter friendly rhetoric that was backed up by no action from the Dems) and Rand Paul (with an 8hr filibuster that put no real info or face on what our drone strikes were doing to people in other countries. You'll also notice the actual "not taking action against drones" approach the whole government has taken in regard to drone use.) ran personal and party PR appearance Smoke Screens to cover for it being reported solidly.

Stopping this is actually about voting in a humane party looking to change the system/end how this system works in favor of a people first methodology of handling. We don't have a system that adapts to the people's needs, just those who can afford lobbyists.
Realistic, needed changes won't come by setting us back in time to a "Pre - during Carter Admin" area in legislation (New loopholes will be made because nobody got rid of the lobbyists so it'll just be wound back up to do it all over again with different channels in place. We'd also keep the FED in that process.). It also won't come from just ending the "foreign warfare/meddling for privatized gains" part of the system in order to just keep reaganomic deregulations in place at the sake of securing that "businesses are not prevented form making money" and all while "letting everyone keep their money tax free". (because it also means corporate america keeps their money tax free, they'd be in charge of operating, repairing and building things cuz they will have the money to due to do it, lobbyists will also get to stay and nothing ends up getting reallocated to the people without the behest of corporate power pushing it.)

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Fri 01/17/14 03:23 PM
I think the word you want to use is honorable.
"Classy", with the way it's used toward people and what it implies, usually is a means to say one of two things:
1) "Fall into the generally expected mentality of your social level"
2) "Fall into a 'better' social mentality level" usually with the implication of "fall into my mindset/be like me and how I think" in it's undertones.
Whether it is applied directly towards people or to a situation "Classy" always comes with an implication of "wealth in appearances" for it's undertone no matter how it's used.

I will say yes, they do exist. The thing is that you usually do have to take some time to know them (basically to look for patterns in their mentality) to figure it out. We do have a society that's more about catering to it's desires more than it's about growth of a being and understanding of other beings as a priority. It also doesn't help that our only qualifying factors in society for being "A full grown adult" is that you're 18, have sex (and in some cases can reproduce) and you can make money and show it somehow. Sifting through that and seeing how individual people either gravitate towards or away from the 3 "You're a full grown adult" factors can take time. Be patient, be real, ask questions, and pay attention to who you're talking to. You get the fullest view of a person by what you see from them actively and passively.

The main thing here is that you're aware of what you don't want for yourself and from others. Since this is a matter of maintaining self respect and decency in form, don't compromise how you feel here. I say this because the person you end up with should not only love the character you have built (cuz it's part of you after all) but should also respect it enough not to try to defy that to please their own urges.

Otherwise, (BiG HuG) and keep you chill. When anyone (and I mean anyone! That's general human behavior, not anything that's exclusive to one gender!) gets too emotional there's always the potential to react and not think. A lot of the worst decisions are made from reacting as the motivation behind the decision.

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Thu 01/16/14 09:18 PM
Okay when it comes to magick, it's only going to be as good as your will + intent + focus. Also, your energy base/what you connect to for what you're working with (I mean more by way of external than astrologically speaking) will matter too. It's real, it just can't be recorded scientifically because science is only able to record physical things in a physical world due to it's perimeters. "Not believing in" it will still affect you sort of like how you'd have creationists not believing in evolution but it'll still end up affecting them.

Personally, I've had stuff work, not work, backfire and also kick off unexpected stuff as well. There is a level to this that have a trial and error feel to it simply because you don't always (and honestly can't always) know the fullness of the consequences to the stuff you send out. That's simply because you can only be aware of so much based on your individual positioning. It's all sorta like newton's 3rd law with how the karma for it will work. There's equal and opposite action and reaction but in the case of karma, it's also a matter of "seen karma" and "unseen karma". That's because there's a general chain (the unseen) and an individual chain (your personal "general chain") that gets affected. Part of being functional in this craft (or any other craft really) will be your ability to properly work through the chain as to not disrupt nature and that which has naturally already been set into motion.

There's also a huge matter of lacking explanations in a lot of the newer angled stuff coming out. (Actually you can probably put it back to crowley's bastardizations made things skewed and it sorta just carried forward in presentation for a lot of the newer angled stuff.) Things like karma and actual explanations of good/right and evil/left in action (which is entirely central and important) aren't very in depth and that puts some practitioners in a gray space (occasionally even in an unexpected black space) with what they'll work with magick for.
People also don't seem to understand that you're not supposed to use any form of grimoire as a literal consistent "how to" but more or less you are supposed to maneuver your own version as you grow. The mechanics taught through the examples in the book are guidelines. Keep in mind, when you go by the book you're also running on someone else's Will + Intent + Focus which means that you're sending their being energy instead of gaining the time and respect for your own. Since this is all an individual connection then you're greatest asset to growing in form is how you connect back. You also run the risk of intermixing your being with the author's fate when you start to work by their means. The general perimeters apply: Deities (although offerings can begin to vary due to your connection to them), directions, elements, what rocks do, basic aspects of circle casting, spirits and their natures all do somewhat ride legit as a "to follow" but the connective means you create is supposed to be build and formulated by you based on the general mechanics which will be in the undertones of the grimoire itself.

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Thu 01/16/14 08:26 PM
Okay, here's the deal...

We're all in a Mid Zone no matter what your actual soul is made of or where your etheric being's point of origin is. That means both "left hand" and "right hand" can get an equal level of being able to run here. You can see that on a consistent basis whether you want to look at the news or if you're in public. The mid zone is also a place where free will grows you downward or upward will affect you, and you get to experience (in some way) both good and evil. Ultimately for higher vibrational being it's a place for discernment.
True, the way people generally function isn't actually functional. People are a mess largely due to dehumanization, lack of understanding over a quickness to judge and they intentionally stop growing because they think that all stops abound 18-21. There's more emphasis on falling into something and money than emphasis on people being individuals. The last thing any being needs to function is to fall into that. Whether it be upholding it in their actions, acknowledging it as a means to judge the self and/or allowing the social perimeters here (which are needless and virtually a prolonged state of high school), falling into it will diminish your being.

Now when it cuts down to "earthbound angels" I'll be honest with you... That's usually something that only happens with the underlings (the side of the Angelic realms that has gender and are usually "young") and it's extremely rare. Generally Angels are positioned all over the place but maintain their form in presence and being. If you actually happen to be one there's a couple things you gotta keep in mind.
1)If you kill yourself you've failed. You can't slap the Holy Spirit/the life forming aspect of God that is in the Multiverse in the face. That applies to the human spirits and upward in the etheric hierarchies. We're all down here at the least for personal growth and understanding and axing yourself like that lowers your being to a gray form at the least. (You want to not be earth bound, suicide is the worst way to handle it.)
2)Request help from Archangel Metatron. That one has a deal of watching over and educating the young souls.
3)Maintain humility. You're subject to physical life, gravity, illness and stuff like that so you're basically in the physical and karmic confines of living here. That means that you're an individual and also you're partially connected to the whole (the mass of other individuals that comprise "those things that're called humans"). True, your subject to individual karma unless you act within the mentality of the group. Thinking that you're "above them" when in actuality due to present state of being and conditions around you won't help. It actually just makes you as bad as some of the worst of the beings here.
4)Remember that the heart tempers the mind and the mind tempers the heart. It's how you maintain balance. When it comes to matter of the mind, the mind decides but the heart tempers and mediates to finalize the decision. When it's a matter of the heart, the heart decides but the mind tempers the heart to finalize the decision. If it's all over the place then take it as it all comes but individualize the area that it's targeted at.

If you happen to be empathic and you're misdiagnosing yourself as an Angelic being being...(Empath = basically your heart chakra is the most active chakra which gives you heightened sense of emotional feeling and also gives you heightened senses of emotion.) Remember that you're going to be feeling everything more than other people. The thing to balance that out is pretty specific. Remember that it's not always your feelings that you can be feeling. Be aware of yourself and be aware that there are prevailing energy tides to things (People, planets, houses, objects, rocks, certain tracks of land, etc...). They don't have to overtake you. The more you understand how you work and feel is the more you'll be able to discern between the self and the external.

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