From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017031109533796541-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > If " progress " means to continue, as in to not stop  .... or something   
   > then how can it be avoided.  Or maybe you take " progress " to mean chang   
   > in a bad direction. Then I don't know what to say.   
      
   Long ago, thousands of years ago, one of the very oldest of all vehicles,   
   ships, had that very same problem, so an absolutely ingenious device, which   
   enabled deliberate movement in ANY direction, was invented, called the   
   RUDDER!!!   
   That way, the ship could *progress* Deliberately in the Right direction,   
   while Deliberately avoiding the Wrong direction - I can really dig such a   
   'radical' concept ;)   
      
   > We live in a temporal reality. Time happens, whether we like it or not.   
   > Can't stop time, can't stop progress .. as in moving forward.   
      
   Forward implies positive and positive implies Right, NOT Wrong!!!   
      
   > You can pick the path you walk tho. So pick a nice one :-)   
      
   And if you can't find a nice one, you can Make one!!!   
   It's the same with songs ;)   
      
   > Peak oil, global warming, we're all gonna stare by 1970 ..... hey, I've   
   > heard a lot of the doomday stuff over my life.   
      
   So-called 'peak oil' is a Robber Baron Rip Off Strategy of Manipulation.   
   But global temperature change, Both Up AND Down, is very real, and it's   
   caused by sunspots some 93 Million miles away, and it's been going on for   
   Thousands of years before the National Weather Service was ever so much even   
   thought about existing, much less began keeping records, but they don't say   
   that because they don't want anyone to know the Truth!   
      
   > If someone had told me when I was a child that the story of Chicken little   
   > and the sy is falling was real, that it was a propaganda technique, I'd   
   > have been even likely to have believed any of that stuff. As it was, I   
   > didn't anyway. Ha.   
      
   Sure sounds like Exposing propaganda though, along with of course, the  boy   
   who cried "Wolf"!   
      
   >  I come from a very narrow band of late baby boomers who as a group early   
   > on learned to distrust the government.   
      
   I'm a boomer too, and my narrow band, the  Real hippies, started questioning   
   things amid a world that taught blind, Stupid obedience, which of course is   
   Much Worse now!   
   In fact, to be "hip" means to be in the know, and that's what we're about.   
      
   > Once it sunk in " they " were lying to manipulate me, I developed a habit   
   > of askin two questions regarding anything they said. Who's tellling me   
   > this, and what are their motives.   
      
   I start with the question of motive, which includes the purpose, then, who   
   would be seeking such a thing, and finally, why, which is usually the   
   easiest question to answer because the other factors make it so clear.   
   Once that's determined, the next question is how, which is basically an   
   analysis of the mechanics, or machinations of what they're doing.   
   It's a lot like diagnosing any other DISEASE, with the  Objective of CURING   
   IT!!!,   
      
   > Sure, that made me into a cynical old guy, but so what ?   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   The SCUM *pretending* to be your *servants* who BETRAYED you, and the rest   
   of the country because after all, they are TRAITORS, and therefore the   
   Enemy, are the  ones who made you, and a LOT of others so very Justifiably   
   and Appropriately cynical, to say the least!!!   
   But of course they call that 'progress' too, and even euphemistically   
   referred to it as a 'paradigm shift'...so naturally, I had to write a couple   
   of songs about it, and they're both very upbeat rock & rollers - hope the   
   messages will cheer you up a bit  ;)   
      
   From the Through The Eons album:   
      
   11. Paradigm Return   
      
   verse1a   
   have you ever reckoned to ponder   
   how everything had once used to be   
   instead of going along and just wander   
   marching into the sea   
      
   ignoring warning signs of disaster   
   pretending there's no cause for alarm   
   accelerating ever the faster   
   head on into harm   
      
   prechorus1a   
   cause that's what you're expected to do   
   by those predisposed to control dominate and own you   
      
   verse1b   
   as they rule by corecion and terror   
   counting on mass hysteria   
   hoping no one spots the error   
   in their megalomania   
      
   proceeding as a fierce roaring lion   
   lusting after absolute power   
   sparing no effort at tryin'   
   their victims to devour   
      
   prechorus1b   
   and they call it a paradigm shift   
   while they shamelessly use every trick to rob us of our gift   
      
   chorus1   
   but if you don't really want to there's no need to have to take it   
   a lesson for everyone to learn   
   reality is just the effort that's put forth to make it   
   into a paradigm return   
      
   verse2   
   trading all that's good for what's evil   
   virtue being razed to the ground   
   wiped out like a crop by the weevil   
   so very few to be found   
      
   and this vileness is being called progress   
   while it's actually a deadly disease   
   a spiritual festering abscess   
   to end in decease   
      
   prechorus2   
   cause the destruction's been so very long planned   
   and so stupidly agreed to by fools who don't understand   
      
   chorus2   
   but you can still make a difference really doing something about it   
   to regain the Freedom for which we yearn   
   get off the path that leads to Hell in time instead reroute it   
   toward a paradigm return   
      
   bridge   
   and a much happier existence   
   if we'll do our part and offer up a genuine resistance   
   cause the time's running out and away   
   ever closer to the very last day   
   and we know what to do that it's gotta be true   
   else we'll end up the predator's prey   
      
   verse3   
   though the pattern's been here and for too long   
   the die's not been cast as of yet   
   still time to write us a new song   
   and remove the regret   
      
   restoring our BirthRight of Freedom   
   despite the enemy's lies that we'll fail   
   no matter how dreadful and fearsome   
   we'll be sure to prevail   
      
   prechorus3   
   because their time is short and they know it   
   but so do we and it's high time we all stand up together and show it let   
   everyone know it   
      
   chorus3   
   that there never was a reason why we ever had to take it   
   and restoration's what we'll strive for to earn   
   and nevermore to foolishly neglect or to forsake it   
   in our paradigm return   
      
   back to the way originally intended that it should be   
   instead of forever to burn   
   to realize the happiness and joy of how it could be   
   starting with a paradigm return paradigm return   
      
   And from the new album as yet unfinished and untitled:   
      
   1. I'm Not The One   
      
   verse1   
   promises and offers claim to get you where you'd like to be going   
   in their shiny one owner used car   
   just don't think about going very far   
   or notice every time they're talking how it always seems to be snowing   
   unless you're blind and believe what they say   
   otherwise make some tracks ski away   
      
   chorus1   
   cause they're after fools to deceive as they wish   
   who'll stupidly invite their own peril   
   a wayward collection of unwary fish   
   about to be shot in their barrel   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)