Sardonicist

1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
How does anyone even still care about apocalyptic reporting?

Impossible to ever know. The senses create things sensed with the body, none of the information interpreted as reality exists, none of the laws that apply to all living things exist, without living things to define the conditions of existence. Species have a representation of a world that facilitates some process that seems to perpetuate the species, perception of actual reality is not required for the perpetuation of species. One dying generation creating the next dying generation. Anything identifiable is not what the subject is. 

Sitting or lying on the couch with continuous lethargic boredom. 

I hate religion as much as I hate capitalism and globalisation- which is to say a lot.
 
 Ironically l love religious buildings as works of art and human ingenuity (especially Christian churches).
 
With regards to religion,  most overtly religious types I have met are over entitled, self righteous, often cruel, selfish and the biggest hypocrites I have met.  This includes not just Christians but Mormons, Hindus and Muslims as well.
And organised religion is a plague upon humanity.

The problem is that atheism and secularism are no less corrupt, superstitious, manipulative and ridiculous than religion. 
The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age
 

I listen to an awful lot of 2nd wave style black metal, by far more of it than any other single metal sub-genre, and quite possibly as much or more of it than all the other metal sub-genres I listen to combined. It's not necessarily my most favorite sub-genre, but it just seems like there's more of it being made that I come across that strikes me as being really good than any single other thing so I go with it. But just because the 2nd wave sound dominates the black metal scene now as it has for the last 30 years that doesn't mean that it's the only kind of black metal there is floating around out there, or that it's the only form of black metal that matters.
I've had more than a few people try to tell me over the years that only bands playing in the 2nd wave style truly count as black metal and I have to strongly disagree with that. There is still the first wave to be accounted for, and not just the 80's bands but plenty of newer bands that have chosen to go more in that direction. There aren't nearly as many of them out there as there are 2nd wavers, but when I find the good ones they can often really hit the spot for me in a way that most 2nd wavers can't. And then there is the Blasphemy school of black metal, bestial or war metal or whatever you want to call it as well. Then you have the whole orthodox/dissonant wing of the black metal mansion, the DSO wing if you will which I'm really not into. There are the Liturgy/Krallice type bands which have staked their own (disputed) claims on the outskirts of the black metal territories as well, but I'd rather not get into that whole debate now. There's progressive black, depressive black, atmo-black and folk/pagan black and then don't forget you also have black/death, much of which can often lean more towards death metal, but a fair ammount of it can be considered to fall more under the black metal umbrella as well. So I really can't get aligned with the mistaken belief that to be considered black metal everything has to sound exactly the fucking same like Darkthrone or Mayhem or Immortal. That's only one facet, albeit the largest and highest profile one, but just one facet of the amazing jewel we call black metal.
So for the purposes of our friendly little debate, what I'm getting at is that it really doesn't matter that Venom doesn't sound exactly like all of our favorite 2nd wave bands, for three main reasons. (three, unless I can think of some more) First is that so many of the original 2nd wave bands in question don't sound all that much alike to begin with. The second is as I've just said black metal, like basically any sub-genre, doesn't all have to sound exactly the same. There can be some variation. If a band deviates too far from the commonly accepted template a new sub-genre might need to be coined, but that kind of pedantry is for each listener to decide for themselves I suppose. I know it tends to confuse people when bands in a given sub-genre don't all sound exactly alike, but that's not my problem it's theirs. In this case of black metal specifically what I'm saying is that there are many more elements and qualities and prerequisites that combine to define a band as black metal that are more important than just tremolos. Black metal needs to sound in some way evil, harsh and rough. Sonically or lyrically or visually or all three. There is some ugliness and nastiness required (either pseudo-serious or completely tongue in cheek) and this is more intrinsic to black metal than the tremolos. If we can't agree on that point at least, then I'm probably wasting my breath. 
The other main reason is that when genres evolve and morph into other new sub-genres, as sub-genres will sometimes do, there will always be bands that get caught in-between as it were. New sub-genres aren't created overnight, it's a transition. Bands we think of as highly influential originators that have pushed the envelope too far to be considered by some to still be solidly part of the old familiar sub-genre, but at a time when the newly created sub-genre hasn't got enough participants to be clearly defined yet. Venom is one of those bands. I know things are somewhat different nowadays than they were back in the early 80's when things were moving at such a rapid pace that at times it almost seemed like there were new metal sub-genres being created every month. The early/mid 80's was an exciting time to be a young metalhead. The majority of the metal sub-genres we know and love and take for granted today were all created back during the 1980's.
All the 1st wave 80's black metal bands sound different to us than their 90's 2nd wave counterparts, which is why the term 2nd wave was coined in the first place. The first wavers still retained some similarities to their peers and to the older bands that had influenced them, but they all pushed the envelope far enough to set themselves apart from everything that had come before, so much so that many of us believed we needed a new name for what they were doing. But obviously we had no way to know what black metal would ultimately become back in the early 80's. But still bands like Venom, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Sarcofago, Bulldozer, early Sodom and yes even Mercyful Fate are considered the 1st wave of black metal for a reason. They were the in-betweeners, bands that still had one foot in what had come before while they were clearly doing something very different and pushing the boundaries.
So my point isn't that Venom = Darkthrone/Mayhem. I can obviously hear the difference. You wanna call them part of the nwobhm or blackened speed metal or something I have no problem with that, because they were all of those things. My point is that neither the 1st or 2nd waves of black metal were created in a vacuum. All these bands were formed by metalheads that were influenced by other bands that had come before them as well as being influenced by the other bands evolving all around them in their own generation of bands. You can't get from point A to point E without going through points B, C and D. You can't get from Chuck Berry or the Beatles or Zeppelin straight to Darkthrone or even straight to Metallica without going through some other stops on the way first. Stops like Sabbath, Priest, Maiden, Motorhead, Discharge, Venom, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Bathory, and Mercyful Fate. And as far as the evolution specifically of black metal goes (which is where my musical history interest lies) Venom was the band that made that major policy shift needed to come up with the rough evil sound that had never been so much as dreamed of before then. Hellhammer/CF and Bathory were instrumental to the creation of black metal too, but they were bandwagon hoppers following Venom's lead.
It's really not just because they had a song called Black Metal. That song/album title might have influenced the eventual name of the sub-genre we now know as black metal, but black metal as a concept would still exist even if we would have ended up calling it something else. Now I would say you could probably get from the Beatles to black metal without going through every single other band I named above. You could probably skip one or two or three of them and still make your way there, except for Venom. Without Venom there simply is no black metal. If Venom had never formed would someone else have come along and taken heavy metal in that rough evil direction? Probably, a wee bit later maybe but almost certainly. But that would just be speculation, and there's no sense debating what could have been, in our current dimensional reality it happened to be Venom that filled that role. 
And it's the same deal with death metal, there were in-between bands that served to bridge the gap from thrash to death. The earliest death metal bands from 1989 generally sound a lot thrashier than what we typically think of as the quintessential death metal sound of today. One could say that there would be no death metal without bands like Slayer & Possessed, even though Slayer & Possessed themselves were thrash metal bands. But thrash metal bands whose sub-genre status gets debated frequently because they were the in-betweeners needed to get from point A to point D(eath). 
 

Faith in humanity is not required or relevant to anything. 

My parents were broke for a while and a friend of theirs who trapped possums gave us the possums so we had possum stews every night for some months. I do hope I never have to eat possum again. We ate allot of rabbits too, nothing wrong with rabbit meat. 

Does anyone know if they plan on making an entire series of movies of the Frank Herbert novels? I've never (and probably will never) read the Brian Herbert ones because I hear nothing but awful things about them, but I own the 6 Frank novels and have read the first three thusfar and really enjoyed them.

I'd like to see movies made out of William Gibson's "sprawl trilogy" (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive).

If the percentage of people who get devastating or fatal side effects from vaccinations are so small, why can't the victims or their families be compensated? I refuse all vaccines on principle, I disagree with the suppression of accountability. I am perfectly fine with catching covid 19 and dying from it, my intention is to not be tested and not to seek any medical assistance. 
In nature big things eat small things. There are different ways of eating things, especially when it comes to humans, any form of exploitation is a form of humans eating humans. The biggest financial entities own and control not just big pharma but everything, all social media, mainstream media, most of the alternative media, all the biggest companies, all forms of opposition, it's the biggest thing there is so it is definitely eating people. 
Governments are puppets and the international corporation is pulling the strings, the information is manipulated and controlled, I don't trust any of it. 

If the percentage of people who get devastating or fatal side effects from vaccinations are so small, why can't the victims or their families be compensated? I refuse all vaccines on principle, I disagree with the suppression of accountability. I am perfectly fine with catching covid 19 and dying from it, my intention is to not be tested and not to seek any medical assistance. 
In nature big things eat small things. There are different ways of eating things, especially when it comes to humans, any form of exploitation is a form of humans eating humans. The biggest financial entities own and control not just big pharma but everything, all social media, mainstream media, most of the alternative media, all the biggest companies, all forms of opposition, it's the biggest thing there is so it is definitely eating people. 
Governments are puppets and the international corporation is pulling the strings, the information is manipulated and controlled, I don't trust any of it. 

The Stone - Kosturnice Black Metal from Serbia. This is Black Metal at its finest and purest, dark, poetic,  metal, musically superior. 
 

Sometime in my mid teens, I was raised on the nutty side of Christianity and was frequently exposed to group hypnosis/mind control. I was on and off trying to be a true believer and at some point volunteered to be baptized, the whole church was singing in tongues and prophesizing what a great evangelist I was going to be. They tried to get me to be washed by the holy spirit but it never worked, they figured I was demon possessed because I loved Heavy Metal and tried casting the demons out of me, they never got cast out. 
 

Megadeth, at first I liked them because there was Marty Friedman at that time! but the longer I listen, actually they have a very dynamic music riff.. despite frequent personnel changes, their music still has a strong and unique character!

MEGADETH. Chris Broderick/Poland, Kiko Loureiro, MARTY FRIEDMAN => the musicianship the songs = no contest.

2nd hand cassette edition of Kreator - Renewal. Lucky it plays perfectly. This is better than the vinyl re-master on which the guitars volume is reduced, which makes me angry. 

I was never a huge fan of Romper Stomper, it was okay but to me it was over hyped and over done.
But Mr. Inbetween is great. The initial movie (The Magician) is now only available on Youtube, but it's well worth checking out to see where Ray started and what can be made for $3000. It's raw and probably not for those that think everything has to be viewed in Hi Def but it's a fun movie to start off the career of such a great character.

Australian TV shows I recommend; Mr Inbetween and Romper Stomper. 

Burzum!

Yeah it's a murder mystery with a haunted bridge, soft horror. 
Currently watching My Life Is Murder, light mindless entertainment. 

Such a great album from a great band that people mainly ignore save Crimson.
 
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows

Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh

Top of the Lake
Top of the Lake: China Girl
Couple of interesting shows, that I remember being a little sick and twisted. 
One Lane Bridge, murder mystery with psychic policeman, pretty normal murder mystery but the main character keeps seeing ghosts.  

JUNGLE ROT
.....more ROT......