| Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| GotSummer, I agree with your interpretation. There is blood on all of our hands for our failures to the betterment of society and all of the world. When you don't speak out against oppression and a lack of justice we are just as guilty or if not moreso than those who commit the crimes since we should know better. | |
| Switchfoot – Stars Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Stars looking at a planet, watching entropy and pain And maybe start to wonder How the chaos in our lives could pass as sane" Entropy is chaos and lack of order. The universe is forever increasing in chaos. Stars and ultimately life itself are the opposite of entropy... Order. So when he sees the stars he is seeing creation. Assuming since Switchfoot has a very Christian and Biblical view he remembers that God is watching him and we were created in his image. So when he sees God he can see himself (Or what he wants to be). |
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| My Chemical Romance – Helena Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| drama queen art is there for a person to see what they want to see from it... People can believe whatever they want and can take it to mean whatever they want. It may have been a tribute to their grandmother but that has nothing to do with the meaning of a song to a listener. | |
| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Yes John Paull II has been against discussion in the church but at least he's not hypocritical about every stance he's taken like most politicians/ Bookcase, if Bush was going to start the war of non-necessity maybe he should have actually handled it correctly and not expected our troops to do all the work on their own. I'm glad Bush can take a stand, but he has to have people under him that actually tell him the truth instead of being yes men. I'm hoping you don't claim that the whole disbanding the Iraqi army and diplomacy leading up to and during the insurgency was exactly stellar in the administrative aspect of the war. Of course Reagan didn't support the gassing of the Kurds specifically, but the administration looked the other way, because they didn't want to hurt the Iraq-U.S. relations. We were staunch allies of Saddam up until the invasion of Kuwait. If we actually cared about human lives and liberty it wouldn't have mattered back then in the 80s. We would have prevented the genocide as it was happening but instead we decided that Iraq was somehow better since they were giving us cheaper oil than the theocracy in Iran that was elected by the people. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Helena Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Death is common to us and we can view it in a lot of different ways. Some fear death and therefore fear life. Others see death as a way to celebrate life and a person moving on to a better place. No matter what we think of it it's inevitable for all of us and I'd just wish we could all live together with a little more love for one another instead of this incessant hatred we live with on a daily basis. I don't know what we need... Maybe more people appreciating the arts and something to get them with those people that they care about to learn what's really important to us in life. Before many of us figure it out they are gone until we meet again at St. Peter's gates. | |
| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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DJ Jacques I'm glad someone around hear remembers history... We only stopped being allies with Saddam because he threatened to spread fire over Israel. Until that point Reagan collaberated with Iraq to defeat Iran in their dirty little war. We gave them intelligence, loads of money, and the capability for weapon systems. The Germands supplied them with a lot of the chemical reagents for the chemical weapons they used on the Kurds. The Kurds were just in the middle of it all and Saddam used the genocide to clear out the threat. Of course he was a dictator and has no comparison with Bush. Problem that Bush's integrity was greatly damaged when he changed his story. Now he's trying to find a plan for his failing social security venture, but he's not the same old confident Bush. His popularity is waning because his demeanor is no longer stout as it once was. It's dangerous to let one man control our foreign policy entirely if there is no dissention within his ranks. If Colin Powell had had more sway we'd have been out of Iraq and hailed as heroes around the world. As the war drags on longer and longer we lose support within the U.S. and our troops are serving more tours of duty and of course it is the poor that get the brunt of this. The wives and families of soldiers find it difficult to cope without support. How is this justice? We can't throw around our armed forces like this. We break the pact when they are mistreated. In war the poor suffer, and throughout this war it is the poor of Iraq that have suffered the most. We can afford bombs to drop on them. They are the people that have their flesh melted away from the bone. Our own soldiers have no choice but to follow orders so let's look at the top of the chain and the commander in chief. It's an abuse of power and for you to call the media "liberal" is a fallacy. While many of the opinion pieces may lean left especially in newspaper editorials, the fact is that much of the press was afraid to ask the real questions in the months before the war. Instead of that they all jumped on the bandwagon in support of Bush. Of course Bush rewards the same man he blames for the intelligence failures, George Tenet, with the medal of freedom. How's that for justice... Not only does Bush not take responsibility, but he rewards the man he used as a scapegoat for the failures of intelligence. And Bookcase I'm assuming you are calling John Paul II a left wing crazy liberal because he is against the war in Iraq? At least he knew who the real victims were in all of this... |
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| Green Day – Jesus of Suburbia Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Not specifically church... Jesus was anti-establishment. Jesus knew in his time that those in power were corrupted. As they say... Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The message of a new social hierarchy was set in the right time in the Roman Empire at that time. Ideas were spread easily and the people were attracted to it. Anyway... by airsoftsam on 12-30-2004 @ 04:37:16 AM "The american soldiers get payed, they volunteered, they wanted to be in the army. An army going to war, who woulda thought? Under Saddam over 290,000 iraqi people were killed, along with the genocied of the kurds. Thats 200 people a week for 23 years. Collateral is hardly a large price for the genocide that was happening. And bush now has a spending plan that will cut the countrys defecit in half in only 5 years. The debate thing is just your opinion, not a fact that you can use in making a point." Spending plan? I don't see any spending plan. Notice how the war budget is noticeable absent from his proposal. It's a political joke that budgets have become. Collateral hardly a large price for the genocide? Maybe if Reagan and Bush 41 hadn't looked the other way while Saddam was gassing the Kurds in the first place the Kurds would not have been slaughtered. Maybe if the CIA was not providing intelligence to the Iraqi forces in the Iran-Iraq war less children would have been sent out across the battlefield into machine-gun fire and mines. The joke is we put Saddam in power... But it's not funny because it's not all a bad dream it's reality. Airsoftsam since you seem to be so ready and willing to support the war in Iraq I hope you have already enlisted to go fight. But of course don't expect to get all your benefits from the army. And definitely don't go into the national guard. You will be serving extra tours of duty with second hand equipment. So I tell you again I don't want to hear anything about your political talking points. War is a last resort and the president and congress have a trust with our armed forces. When our armed forces can't trust the president to use his authority in a competent manner then we have lost one of our greatest assets. As we have diverted our attention to Iraq we allow another genocide to go on in Sudan, Iran (The one that apparently does have WMDs) to go on with their plans without any forceful argument against it, North Korea threatens to defend itself with nuclear arms, Syria is occupying Lebanon, the Saudi Arabian monarchy has a stranglehold on its country but the rebels are becoming more and more anti-establishment and anti-American because the royal family screws over their population, our ally in Pakistan Musharraf himself got into power by a bloody military coup, and we have thoroughly pissed off our once so called allies. I don't know where you get your facts, but your talking points need to be checked at the door. Let's use some logic please for once... Instead of listening to the news of a media that is too afraid of backlash to actually dig up news. We are supposed to have an independent media and a transparent government, but we have journalists being paid to spew propaganda and gay republican escorts getting a pass into the whitehouse to ask softball questions. What the hell is happening here? I can definitely relate to Green Day... It's all like a bad dream, and all of the crazies think they got Bush elected again. It's not going to be an easy year and a half until the 2006 elections when the democrats retake the senate and house or at least get a start on it. |
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| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| And jshiscool troops don't want to go fight they do it because it is their duty. Our military is their to protect us, and the people that attacked us was Al Qaeda if anyone seemed to forget since Bush since 2002 hasn't mentioned Bin Laden. Bush was hell bent on invading Iraq since he entered office in 2000. He would do anything he could to mislead the American public to join the war bandwagon. And look where colin powell is now? Right... The only intelligent voice in the administration is now out of a job. War is a last resort, and Iraq was hardly a threat. When Bush is making jokes by looking under his chair for weapons of mass destruction as our troops are dying it's hardly funny. His words on supporting our military is lip service like every politician who is a neoconservative. Actions speak louder than words Mr. President. You support the troops by supplying them with what they need to get the job done. Regardless of how much he has mishandled the occupation of Iraq our troops have almost got the country under control. The praise goes to them and our generation of fighting men and women. Bush should have been held accountable for his lies and incompetence but as a nation we have praised him by reelecting him. You want politicians to be accountable we need to start looking for transparency of government and not clapping at every word and getting down on our knees every time he walks into a room. He's not the king... He's a citizen who is the leader of our great nation. Let's not let one man ruin our country. | |
| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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lol... 90% of the military? You realize that the military is shrinking... So if they support lies then they deserve what they voted for. I don't want our men and women of the military to die in vain, but it's not their decision to make. They follow orders. I want to get this chapter in Iraq over with. And you all realize that the recruiters in the army and marines are having huge shortfalls? Nobody is going to join an army where they are going to be forced to serve extra tours of duty. The defense department doesn't even support the troops with the supplies and honoring their contracts... So who will? |
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| Greenwheel – The End Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| If we continue on as a society being apathetic to the world around us and those around us we'll continue down a road to darkness. Only by understanding and speaking up about what we believe and what we want to change in the world. Let's face it... We've been brought up in a time of senseless crime and international instability. Make your voice heard or you will give up your right to represent yourself. | |
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