HylianTimelord
Why does this video have a comment section riddled with Religious flame wars? It's just astronomy, no blasphemy or bible bashing..,

deathtokoalas
it's probably because he's implying that the earth is more than 5000 years old.

the correct scientific answer is not atheism but agnosticism. we may conclude that the likelihood of a god existing is low, but the moment we make any declarations we're leaving science behind. we don't know, we can never know and there's no use in pretending otherwise.

what science can do is demonstrate that certain claims in certain texts are incorrect and in the process demonstrate that the texts are fallible. but this isn't testing the question of whether a god exists, it's merely testing the validity of scientific statements that appear in religious texts. in all fairness, the bible isn't really much worse than the works of aristotle - they're just wrong in different ways.

if you're arguing about claims, you're carrying on a meaningful discourse that can have a resolution. if you're arguing about the existence or non-existence of god, you're engaging in meaningless rhetoric that has no possible resolution.

you know, you could have shaved in front of her so she'd understand and save her the trouble of thinking her father has been replaced by an imposter. and, if you think she'll quickly get over it or forget about, you're wrong. i still have memories of the day my dad shaved, and i've never really been fully convinced he wasn't replaced.

one of those songs i keep coming back to. they got to me when i was young, brainwashed me nice and good...

deathtokoalas
yeah.

tom fec doesn't know anything at all about music. sorry.

what he needs to do is take some music classes. with a little knowledge about how to write songs, he might be able to do something more interesting with all his toys.

this isn't punk rock. in order to do something interesting in this genre, you need to have some understanding of how tones interact with each other. this is not informed by that knowledge and comes off as very subpar as a result of it.

More Rancid Lake Den
good talk

deathtokoalas
meh. there are lots of "things" happening in this guy's music, but they don't work together or unfold, they just spin out to nowhere in these disconnected, independent circles. there's no concept of musical development. the counterpoint has no voice leading. there's no signature shifts. it encapsulates the aesthetic of idm, without the "intelligent" part. that is to say that it's purely a commodity.

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deathtokoalas
if you're interpreting idm as a specific sound that existed in a specific geographic area in a specific time period, then you've misunderstood what i said - but there's a specific logic to this that denies this is idm. it's not at all what i meant by using the term "idm", though. i meant it in the more abstract sense of using the techno form to create aurally interesting soundscapes, which applies across a number of electronic subgenres. several recent broad forms (jazz, rock especially) have required these kinds of labels (like progressive, or fusion) to specify between serious extrapolations of the sound and more pedestrian attempts.

the general intent to make that kind of music is clear in the bulk of his works, even his poppiest material. but, he really doesn't seem to have the slightest idea how.

Koogus
You're far too sober and analytical to enjoy this music properly.

deathtokoalas
that may be true, but i don't think it speaks well for the music.