Metalheads are always considered amongst many outcasts of society, and that came since those music fanatics share also a criteria which is always to speak out against injustice, oppression and other retarded and filthy social bullshit.
Still, most modern societies have accepted the fact that you cannot silence millions by oppression, imprisonment, or intimidation, and have respected the right of freedom of speech and the right to pursue a different ideology than the common one. Other ‘ancient’ societies have embraced the idea of ‘generality’ which is known to be a trick in statistics, as one can take a small sample from the big sample space and proclaim that it speaks for the whole population. An example of that is rather simple: A person was caught smoking weed therefore he was arrested and later found to, let’s say, be a metalhead. Instantly, all metalheads are considered as potential weed smokers and arrested/interrogated.
This oppression technique is simply not logical, unless they would like to disagree with Aristotle and his principles of logic, which I doubt they have the intellect to attempt to do.
And so I’d like to address this certain matter which occurred some days ago in Lebanon, and which involves an official statement from the General Secretariat of Catholic Schools concerning the final day of the Beirut Rock Festival 2009, which involved these bands: Tristmoon, Weeping Willow, To/Die/For and Anathema.
This is a screenshot of the actual statement:
- General Secretariat of Catholic Schools Statement
I would personally like to comment on this statement in a logical and non-offensive way:
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First I’d like to tackle some naming errors, mainly the title of the event مهرجان بيروت لرقص الروك which translates to The Beirut Rock Dancing Festival which is rather funny since dancing was attributed to the 50’s era rock of Elvis and the more country oriented rock. Another error is “To/Dye/For” which is actually “To/Die/For“.
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Another issue to be discussed are the ridiculous accusations of satanic rituals, “spreading the death culture” and the masterpiece “no cameras allowed because of their fear that someone witnesses what will happen“. The first argument I’d like to make is that hundreds of men and women had cameras (professional/cell cameras), as well as the OFFICIAL & PROFESSIONAL shooting of the event, probably to be broadcasted on LEBANESE LIVE TELEVISION. Therefore the argument of ‘no witnesses present’ isn’t valid anymore and I won’t even bother to talk about the satanic rituals idea, since that is utterly absurd, unimaginable and simply totally outdated.
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The argument that drugs are going to be distributed during the event shouldn’t be even mentioned here because the risk of that happening is the same during a local basketball game, or any large gathering of people, and we don’t see any statement from the Secretariat telling parents to prevent their kids from going to a basketball game. Parents should trust their kids to make the right decisions, since the oppression will only make them go for the worst.
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Any real rock fan would also know that both these international bands are far from the standards of ‘extreme’, so any speculation that they might be involved in any ‘dangerous activity‘ is simply hilarious.
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Finally, I would like to say that the Secretariat has an opinion of her own, which we should respect simply because we believe in Freedom of Speech, but opinions which involve accusations should always be backed up by facts, ones which satisfy the whole population, or else everyone would accuse every organization in this country of corruption simply because of few bad apples in the bunch, and bad apples do not taste good!
Something to Consider (playing by their rules):
(bad seeds/good seeds) Jesus Christ: “Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first (zizanion) and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat (sitos) into my barn.’”
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4:33 pm
Retarded country!!
besides aoun or geagea ma byofroz rasson!!