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Re: Varg Vikernes arrested in France; allegedly planned large terrorist incident It seems like there is a kind of correlation between how far black metal musicians have their heads up their asses and the quality of music that they make. Not that there aren't cool black metal guys out there (not many though), but you can't really look into too many legendary bands without finding some outlandish douchebaggery. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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It seems like there is a kind of correlation between how far black metal musicians have their heads up their asses and the quality of music that they make. Not that there aren't cool black metal guys out there (not many though), but you can't really look into too many legendary bands without finding some outlandish douchebaggery. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Abbath. All I need to say is that he is one of the few non-psychotic BM artists.
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Re: Varg Vikernes arrested in France; allegedly planned large terrorist incident

Abbath. All I need to say is that he is one of the few non-psychotic BM artists.
Quorthon seemed cool in the interviews I've seen as well, but these guys seem like the minority. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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well I don't know about most black metal fans having bad attitudes but certainly many of the practitioners of black metal seem to. It's a tremendous shame that such fantastic music is overshadowed by the terrible people and deeds who make it.
BM will forever be stained will blood and violence because of people like Varg, he set in motion a chain of events that can no longer be undone. BM will forever be known as a violent and hate fueled Metal genre, because of people like Varg who make the choices to take things to far and go over the top. This is what BM was born to be and that's honestly why I like it so much.
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He was arrested for no good reason. Hopefully he'll be released soon, so he can get back to the one thing he does that is worthwhile - music. Yeah he's a dickhead, but a talented one. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss is easily in my top 3 black metal albums. Oh and I would add Ihsahn to the list of bm musicians who are not morons.
That's why I can't understand why he killed Euronymous, he has so much potential and he waists it on anti-semitic views and murder. What the hell man?!?!?!
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I don't know. I think I'm starting to care less and less about this world. A world where the weak are celebrated. I don't know. Maybe I'm just drunk or maybe some of us just want to watch the world burn. As long as the weak people burn.

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Yeah I totally agree with you. People that are weak are celebrated while the strong are treated like criminals. I think the weak should be allowed to die by natural selection. Just take the human involvement out of it and they will die. Stop trying to save every idiot.

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Yea wouldn't that be nice. It's just too bad nothing like that will ever happen in our lifetime. I honestly wish I possessed the capability to do something about this world even if there was no guarantee I would succeed. At least then I could try but instead I'm being pulled down and stopped by all the dumb ass idiots who live on this planet.

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Eugenics can work in select circumstances but not when trying to build the ideal world given the restrictions on the gene pool would be extremely detrimental. For one thing it would require I forfeit my life as whilst I am intelligent I am genetically inferior due to a hereditary vision impairment. You would also need to destroy Steven Hawking for the same genetics based reason

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