9 out of 10 times when Roger Waters talks about another artist or band he shits all over them. What's his problem? Is he incapable of appreciating musical talent that's not his?
I love his music but he's such an ass hole.
Wow. The artwork in my copy of The Tao Te Ching totally ripped off The Lamia.
Bought this at an antique store several years back for $600. It has such a great tone to it. Stays in tune phenomenally.
While on a long car ride I played this album for my 58 year old mother. When I asked her what she thought about it at the end she said it sounded like "hectic fairy tale music"
You're god damn right it's hectic fairy tale music. What a beautiful way to put it. ♥️
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LIKE THE RIVER JOINS THE OCEAN AS A GERM IN A SEED GROWS, WE'VE FINALLY BE FREED TO GET BACK HOOOOOME!!! 😩
Edit: 14,500 MINUTES not hours. My bad math.
Does anyone know what year this may be?
Kind of a dark story behind this bass. It was given to me for free by a former vocal coach of mine. It belonged to his father who toured all over the country in the 70s.
His father killed his wife, family dog, and then himself. My vocal coach wanted nothing to do with it after that. Me and my band mates used to call it The Murder Bass. A nickname in poor taste now that I look back, but fitting none the less.
I feel like there's a serious lack of skin options.
Why don't we have more options to buy? Why can't we choose the color of special skins when we buy? As a primarily support player there's a serious lack of options. If we're buying a skin at least give us some options on the color scheme. I've seen some cool skins but it's always some wacky color like blue or orange. I just want a blacked out skin with a mask that's better than one of the stock options.
Not that big of a deal to me but I'm just thinking they could make a lot more micro transactions.
I want to share my story of ego inflation that happened early in my journey.
Psychedelics were my first introduction to drug induced spirituality. It opened a door in me that I didn't know was even there. For a while I relied on them to give me that spiritual feeling. That's why I called it drug induced spirituality. Psychedelics are only a doorway, not a cosmic deploma.
Eventually though I was able to harness that feeling without the psychedelics when I was introduced to the teaching of Ekchart Tolle and various other spiritual books. My eyes were opened beyond anything I'd ever imagine. I started seeing myself and everyone else in a completely different light.
However although this spiritual awakening was real, ego creapt through the back door without me realizing it. It's ironic because catching glimpes past ego caused more ego.
My ego suddenly put on spiritual robes. I started identifying very heavily with myself as a spiritual individual. But these were mind identifications which are the root of ego.
I became incredibly self righteous. Wanted to share my "spiritual awakening" with everyone, it was all I wanted to talk about. I almost became the Evangelical equivalent of spirituality. I wanted to share these books with everyone. I thought I had figured everything out. The universe, myself, everyone else.
Eventually I had a book come into my life that shattered that identity I had taken on. "How To Get Out of This World Alive" by Alain Forget.
This book destroyed me, it was the ultimate upper cut. I remember finishing it and feeling almost traumatized. No psychedelic had given me the type of ego dissolution this book gave me. I felt like a complete fraud. It peeled back layers of ego that I didn't even know were there. For the first time I had everything about me layed out right in front of me. Suddenly I had no idea who I was. This spiritual ego I had identified with so strongly was pulled out from underneath me. For several days I felt hollow, mourning my former identity. I almost felt like a family member or friend of mine had died. No longer having the sense of having everything figured out. Quite the opposite. A great sense of uncertainty.
Ultimately this dissolution was short lived and ego came back with vengeance, but I did learn a lot from this of what traps you can fall into.
Spiritual Traps:
•If you find yourself wanting to appear as spiritual, be seen as a spiritual person. That's ego.
•If you find yourself heavily identifying with seeing yourself as a "spiritually awakened" individual, that's ego.
•If you find yourself keeping tabs on yourself spiritually such as "I reacted poorly to that person today, am I going backward in my journey" that's ego
•If you find yourself seeing yourself as more spiritual than other people, thinking things like "if only they understood what I understand" that's ego
•If you find yourself talking more about spirituality than actually living through spirituality that's ego
•If you find yourself thinking you've figured everything out, that's ego. You'll never have everything figured out, that's part of this game of hide and seek we are playing.
Spiritual awakenings or ego death aren't a cosmic deploma. It's something you constantly rediscover through how you live your life. You will fall back asleep, you will be taken back over by ego. It's a matter of recognizing ego than being free from it.
And ultimately searching for enlightenment is ego. The act of searching itself creates duality. It emplies that awakening is something to be achieved rather than something we already have. It's a painfully ironic. That's why books like Ashtavakra Gita discourage meditation for enlightenment, calling it a waste of time. You're creating duality of the searcher and the searched. When in reality you already have the enlightenment. Its a matter of recognizing it and rediscovering it everyday. It's all a part of this cosmic game we're playing. The "search" is the ultimate hurtle in the journey.
Thanks for reading my story and personal take on the journey of spirituality.
Idk why I've been playing with crossplay on all this time. I'm on ps5, I turned it off yesterday and suddenly I don't completely suck ass. Getting far more kills and less deaths. No longer getting rekt by PC players. I've never had so much fun with this game until now.
I collect vintage Chuck E. Cheese merchandise. I have one of the Chuck E masks as well as many shirts and raffle ticket prizes. I even have the basketball hoop game from a decommissioned store.
However I've never been able to get ahold of any animatronics. That's my dream merch. I'm willing to spend a lot of money if I can get ahold of one of these. It's what I need to really add to my Chuck E Cheese's themed basement.
Any help would be appreciated.
When I was young my father was a security guard at the local Chuck E. Cheese's. Employees got a family discount so on short shifts he used to bring me to work and let me game and eat pizza till his shift was over, I always had such a blast. It wasn't until after my mother died that my father started to drink heavily. He would stay out late and often come home wearing the large animatronic mouse mask. I still remember the thump of his boots walking down the hallway to my room on those dreadful nights. He would stand outside slowling tapping on my bedroom door .. "thump.. thump.. thump" eventually coming in. He would stand in the corner as I slept feeding himself large chunks of parmesan cheese repeating "carpe caseus... carpe caseus" over and over again in-between bites. This was a repeated cycle for a majority of my childhood until his death in 1998. I never did return to Chuck E. Cheese's.
Got this about a week ago, super happy with it but I've been dealing with some irritation on and off. Woke up today and had all this yellow splotching. Are there any creams out there anyone would recommend?
Gave this it's first full listen through today. Instrumentally I think it sounds great. Vocally though Jon Davidsons voice sounds so incredibly over produced. Borderline autotune sound to it.
I saw Steve Howe's Yes live on their last tour, Davidson did a great job live. He's a solid singer but dear God what is this vocal production??
The thing I truly don't understand about skate culture is the norm of not wearing helmets. Is it about wanting to look cool?? Is it about style?? You know what's not cool? Permanent brain damage.
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A majority of videos on this sub lack any sort of helmets. It's all fun and games until you end up a vegetable, or dead.
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The professionals wear helmets. Why can't the street skaters and skate park bros do it?
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I'm ready for the down votes 🤙🏼
First time listening through this in a few years. Some of his best solo stuff he ever did. How did Roger go from this to Radio KAOS is just a year? It's a shame we never got an official release of this from him.
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Not trying to hate on Radio KAOS but it's a serious downgrade from this.
9 months sober, wanted to share my story in case it may help someone else who is struggling to quit. <3
I smoked everyday for 8 years straight. It was all fun and games at first but quickly became a slippery slope. It went from occasional evenings, to every evening, to the first thing I did when I got home, to all the time. I was well aware of my addiction but was too scared to quit. A big part of me wanted to stop but I couldn't imagine my life without it. I found a lot of ways to lie to myself justifying it. Spent thousands of dollars over the years.
Cut to last September. After being on a bit of a spiritual journey I was reading the Ashtavakra Gita one evening and had a moment of heavy ego dissolution. I saw for the first time what a grasp this plant truly had on my life. How much time and money I've wasted on it. How much I've used it as a crutch. How it makes doing nothing fun. It was a gut punch realization. I knew it was time to stop.
Withdrawal:
The first few days were easier than I thought. The hardest part was breaking the routine. Not having it during all the things I used to do it with. Everything was really boring without it. It was also really difficult to eat.
Week mark:
I started experiencing the withdrawal. Random terrible panic attacks. Old anxieties that I thought I had moved past resurfacing. Random big low moments, doubting my entire decision to quit. I started losing weight, still no appetite.
3-4 week mark:
The panic attacks had subsided. My appetite started coming back with a vengeance. My sleep was better than ever. The hardest part was the perpetual boredom. Nothing was bringing me joy. I wasnt depressed necessarily but having a hard time being happy. I was genuinely worried I had fried my dopamine receptors from 8 years of daily use.
3 month mark:
Things were fun again! My brain started figuring out how to create its own dopamine. I finally started feeling normal again. Amazing sleep, waking up feeling so refreshed rather than my constant weed hangovers I had been giving myself for years.
9 months in now and I have to say life is so much better without weed. Stopping was the best thing I could have done.
Thanks for reading my story. Hope this may help someone starting/going through this sober journey.