Can Music Corrupt Your Morals?

black.afrika.zulu.x · Dec 19, 2018

KungPaoFist said: ↑

Caucasian
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Zulu, fool!

DoubleTake said: ↑

Is ...is that an order?
Actually you have my vote. Yes, you should leave.
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That's ONE. 9 MORE TO GO.

ICWC · Dec 19, 2018

electriclash said: ↑

Good lord YES

as a force you've driven away MULTIPLE high end users this year. Congratulations fuckhead.

goddamn sociopath narcissist. Constant aggravated assault of the senses, followed by endless "reasoning" bullshit like, 'show me the problem', 'what exactly did I do'. Who has time to be your teacher, you're not listening anyway!!! NO consideration or empathy for others EVER. You've been on my ignore list for some time but EVERYTIME I see some kaka thread and ensuing argument/resignation I KNOW ITS YOU. Fuck right off dude.
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DoubleTake said: ↑

Is ...is that an order?
Actually you have my vote. Yes, you should leave.
It goes against my principles, but those have been compromised often enough with good result, that i know principles can pave the road to hell just as well as good intentions.
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My friends, please don't make here a clannish community. SLS absolutely does not like such snooty neighbors. Angelic smiles must dominate the dreadful tempers.

wasgedn · Dec 19, 2018

Oh he is no mad genius, but he plays one on AudioSex..
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pseudo intellectual.....
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i rarely get sarcasm or irony instant cause no native but in this thread i could determine a comment as sarcasm instant...was a joke....
but dr.zulu did ask ''''Hahahaha...what have you done?''''
after that i thought everybody kno enough now and its for good now , but no.. lol

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wasgedn · Dec 19, 2018

LET'S TAKE A VOTE:
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SHOULD I LEAVE? IF I GET 10 YESSES I'M GONE.
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stop try to be the victim....just stop posting shit....post some audio or pc/mac related stuff
or not.... just stop playing.....

wasgedn · Dec 19, 2018

but better leave you not able for conversation as we can see here...

make a thread that you leave too and that the world is so bad

wasgedn · Dec 19, 2018

and you are no ZULU lol....you ancestor maybe...but we dunno that since......
in the end i kno more bout zulu society than you lol

they were good friends with inkata's lfmao...am i wrong ?

G String · Dec 19, 2018

Can Music Corrupt Your Morals?

What morals?

wasgedn · Dec 19, 2018

the exact def of moral never was determinate for proper discussion in this thread...

im out....go ignoring again...he dont reply anyway so...

KungPaoFist · Dec 20, 2018

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Even deeper, your topic reminds me of what happened to Judas Priest in 1985...

WHEN TWO JUDAS PRIEST FANS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, AND PARENTS BLAMED THE LYRICS

On Dec. 23, 1985, in a series of tragic events that ultimately ended in a pair of deaths and an expensive, sensationalist trial, a pair of Nevada men ended a night of drinking, drugs and listening to music by heading to a local playground and shooting themselves.

Searching for answers in their grief, the families of the boys -- 18-year-old Raymond Belknap, who died at the scene, and 20-year-old James Vance, who maimed himself in the incident and survived for another three years -- filed a lawsuit alleging that Belknap and Vance were driven to their desperate acts by subliminal messages hidden in Judas Priest's Stained Class album. Roughly five years after the incident, the members of the band found themselves in court defending their music in a case that, along with the legal woes suffered by the members of 2 Live Crew the same year, gave voice to the concerns of many parents worried about rock and rap artists' lyrics.

The legal protection of lyrics as free speech had already been tested (perhaps most notably during a roughly concurrent trial accusing Ozzy Osbourne of driving a fan to suicide with his song "Suicide Solution"), but the Priest case proceeded thanks to a legal twist: Without commenting on whether or not the songs in question actually included subliminal messages, the presiding judge ruled that so-called "subliminals" don't constitute actual speech -- and are therefore not protected by the First Amendment.

"I don't know what subliminals are, but I do know there's nothing like that in this music," band manager Bill Curbishley complained before the trial. "If we were going to do that, I'd be saying, 'Buy seven copies,' not telling a couple of screwed-up kids to kill themselves."

That rather compelling argument notwithstanding, the case proceeded to trial, with the plaintiffs' attorney penning an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times that called the alleged messages (which were said to include the phrases "let's be dead" and "do it") an "invasion of privacy" and quoted Jimi Hendrix as saying, "You can hypnotize people with music and when they get at their weakest point, you can preach into their subconscious minds what you want to say."

That Hendrix quote has elsewhere been attributed to Charles Manson's brother Eddy, and the lawyer's apparent misquote seems to reflect an overall loose approach to substantiating its claims. In an article for the Skeptical Inquirer, Dr. Timothy E. Moore -- who served as a witness for the defense -- rather drolly recalled one of the prosecution's experts by suggesting, "It is possible that he undermined his own credibility with the court by opining that subliminal messages could be found on Ritz crackers, the Sistine Chapel, Sears catalogues, and the NBC evening news. He also asserted that 'science is pretty much what you can get away with at any point in time.'"

In fact, the band's management coordinator Jayne Andrews later incredulously noted that the plaintiffs had at first planned to hinge their case on lyrics from the album -- lyrics that didn't exist. "It was originally about the track ‘Heroes End,'" Andrews recalled. "They tried to say the band were saying you could only be a hero if you killed yourself, till I had to give them the correct lyrics which is ‘why do heroes have to die?’… Then they changed their plea to subliminal messages on the album!"

Guitarist Glenn Tipton later conceded, "It’s a fact that if you play speech backwards, some of it will seem to make sense. So, I asked permission to go into a studio and find some perfectly innocent phonetic flukes. The lawyers didn’t want to do it, but I insisted. We bought a copy of the Stained Class album in a local record shop, went into the studio, recorded it to tape, turned it over and played it backwards. Right away we found ‘Hey ma, my chair’s broken’ and ‘Give me a peppermint’ and ‘Help me keep a job.'"

More damning was testimony from Vance himself, who told attorneys that he and Belknap were listening to Judas Priest when "all of a sudden we got a suicide message, and we got tired of life." In a letter to Belknap's mother, he later wrote, "I believe that alcohol and heavy-metal music such as Judas Priest led us to be mesmerized." The Belknaps' attorney argued that "Judas Priest and CBS pander this stuff to alienated teenagers. The members of the chess club, the math and science majors don't listen to this stuff. It's the dropouts, the drug and alcohol abusers. So, our argument is you have a duty to be more cautious when you're dealing with a population susceptible to this stuff."

The label's lawyers didn't try to deny that Vance and Belknap led what they deemed "sad and miserable lives" -- but they pointed the finger at the boys' overall environment, upbringing, and life choices, going over how difficult it had been for both men to hold steady jobs or stay out of trouble with the law. The defense also attacked what White referred to as "junk science" in his article, with attorney Suellen Fulstone arguing, "The courtroom is no place for reveries about the unknown capacity of the human mind."

Despite the apparently flimsy nature of the case, the trial went on for more than a month. "We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks," singer Rob Halford would subsequently lament. "It was like Disney World. We had no idea what a subliminal message was – it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing ‘Better by You, Better Than Me’ in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, ‘What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans.'"

While the case was ultimately dismissed, Judge Whitehead was apparently not quite as charitable in his view as Halford would have liked to believe. Whitehead's final ruling, in fact, determined that there were "subliminals" on the album, noting that the messages the plaintiffs argued had been buried in the mix were "only discernible after their location had been identified and after the sounds were isolated and amplified. The sounds would not be consciously discernible to the ordinary listener under normal listening conditions."

What truly mattered in the judge's view, however, was the question of whether subliminal messages could be used to make a person kill themselves. Noting that both of the deceased had been heightened suicide risks, Whitehead then argued, "The scientific research presented does not establish that subliminal stimuli, even if perceived, may precipitate conduct of this magnitude. ... [T]he strongest evidence presented at the trial showed no behavioral effects other than anxiety, distress or tension."

Ultimately, while Judas Priest and CBS Records avoided legal responsibility for the deaths, nobody really got what they wanted from the case -- not the plaintiffs, who were unable to blame outside influences on a family tragedy, and not the defendants, who left the trial under a cloud of suspicion regarding "subliminals." "It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people," Halford later admitted later. "We accept that some people don’t like heavy metal, but we can’t let them convince us that it’s negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times."
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We're all off topic at the moment, OP made a relevant thread and without it info like this quote wouldn't have surfaced. This is the most informative and enlightening response which startled me regarding the legal system's perception of the music industry. The judge blamed "subliminal messages" on songs for an isolated tragedy which was clearly drugs and alcohol among other circumstances resulting in this instance. Bull like this sets a standard for future cases, thankfully it didn't as lyrics have since come out much worse without recourse but this is the kind of misunderstood damage that can happen when an un-enlightened 3rd party arbitrator brings their delusions to the courtroom. The funny thing was the 2Live Crew case mentioned at the time also because as far as hardcore rap is concerned they weren't actually that bad. They only thing thy influenced was some booties to shake on the dance floor to over the top tongue in cheek lyrics.

ICWC · Dec 20, 2018

KungPaoFist said: ↑

We're all off topic at the moment, OP made a relevant thread and without it info like this quote wouldn't have surfaced. This is the most informative and enlightening response which startled me regarding the legal system's perception of the music industry. The judge blamed "subliminal messages" on songs for an isolated tragedy which was clearly drugs and alcohol among other circumstances resulting in this instance. Bull like this sets a standard for future cases, thankfully it didn't as lyrics have since come out much worse without recourse but this is the kind of misunderstood damage that can happen when an un-enlightened 3rd party arbitrator brings their delusions to the courtroom. The funny thing was the 2Live Crew case mentioned at the time also because as far as hardcore rap is concerned they weren't actually that bad. They only thing thy influenced was some booties to shake on the dance floor to over the top tongue in cheek lyrics.
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Pretty normal. Imagine the world in 2030. Nudism and its subsequences everywhere. No one can control it and doesn't relate much to the music. It's a global movement (positive or negative, I don't make any snap or moral judgment on this).

DoubleTake · Dec 20, 2018

black.afrika.zulu.x said: ↑

Zulu, fool!

That's ONE. 9 MORE TO GO.
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Hmmm...
When one is the sole occupant of a boat or a position, one is either a hero or a fool. Or both.

DoubleTake · Dec 20, 2018

ICWC said: ↑

Pretty normal. Imagine the world in 2030. Nudism and its subsequences everywhere. No one can control it and doesn't relate much to the music. It's a global movement (positive or negative, I don't make any snap or moral judgment on this).
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I'll make a snap judgment on it. It is positive AND negative. That is a cheap way out but it's true and worth keeping in mind!
(For myself at a basic level the positive is the nekkid wimmen! The negative is all the other weiners! )

DoubleTake · Dec 20, 2018

So, lots of controversy here and I made my opinion clear, but no one forces me to participate in this thread.
It is his thread and as I alluded to earlier, censorship is against my principles.
So long as free speech (criticism, things that offend myself and others, debate,et al) is more important to me I can not make a trade.
I can vote, but can't argue much for anyone to leave.
This forum is not mine, but whoever owns it has moderators and therein lies all the justice, in my opinion.
Theirs to do as they wish, regardless of my opinion. Regardless of whether it is a place of free speech or not.
Theirs, not mine. I walk in their property. I can not help some farts, but i try to not shit on their lawn...

black.afrika.zulu.x · Dec 20, 2018

2 "yes" votes so far...

NanoBeat · Dec 20, 2018

Man all about the policies now?
Wow place has changed a little....

@superliquidsunshine u a cool dude man...hope u well
@wasgedn hope u cool

@black.afrika.zulu.x...as 4 this vote thing...

Who really gives a shit...u at least I guess....How are you doing?...spose my vote b no or undecided for what it worth...

Peace & Best wishes 2 all

NanoBeat · Dec 20, 2018

wasgedn said: ↑

and you are no ZULU lol....you ancestor maybe...but we dunno that since......
in the end i kno more bout zulu society than you lol
they were good friends with inkata's lfmao...am i wrong ?
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Wat a ZULULOL ....
Ancestor or Progeny Bro? or ...r?...It do well 2 b ancestral form already or maybe so is in some fashion
Hope all well with u dude

black.afrika.zulu.x · Dec 20, 2018

2 "yes" votes so far...and a slew of invective and expletives...

Maizelman · Dec 20, 2018

This somehow reminds me a lot of my friends Chihuahua that kept shitting on the carpet again and again. And no matter how much newspaper we layed out, he'd still find a spot to poop on. He simply didn't know the difference between a carpet and the toilet! Took about a year of rewarding every single poop in the garden until he finally learned it.

black.afrika.zulu.x · Dec 20, 2018

Maizelman said: ↑

This somehow reminds me a lot of my friends Chihuahua that kept shitting on the carpet again and again. And no matter how much newspaper we layed out, he'd still find a spot to poop on. He simply didn't know the difference between a carpet and the toilet! Took about a year of rewarding every single poop in the garden until he finally learned it.
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VOTE.

DoubleTake · Dec 20, 2018

Maizelman said: ↑

This somehow reminds me a lot of my friends Chihuahua that kept shitting on the carpet again and again. And no matter how much newspaper we layed out, he'd still find a spot to poop on. He simply didn't know the difference between a carpet and the toilet! Took about a year of rewarding every single poop in the garden until he finally learned it.
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So ... we just need a "Garden" subforum..

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