Some time ago, one of my friends in church told me that Green Day killed animals before concerts to give sacrifices to Satan.
It's highly unlikely that this is actually true(maybe an anti-fan who thought Green Day was too emo made up a rumour). Nonetheless, it freaked me out, as I enjoyed listening to Green Day(although not watching them).
This is not the only instance of me realising that some music had ties with Satan. When I tried to make a band, my friend suggested that we should play Hotel California by the Eagles. It sounded like a good song, so I practised it with my bass. But after a week, he told me that we were going to abandon the song because apparently it had some satanic messages with backmasking. It's there in youtube..
I am a fan of top 10s... and I enjoy rock, so I looked up for the top 10 rock songs in history. I found Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. I listened to it, but I couldn't quite get why it was so "great". It sounded so mysterious and gloomy... I found out later that this song was also backmasked with Satanic messages. Also, looking up on Wikipedia, I saw that the band members were very "spiritual" people, each having a symbol for themselves.
To be continued...
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This borders on conspiracy theory nonsense, the kind perpetuated by those who haven't even listened to the music they're denouncing. Notice how you weren't aware of the supposed Satanic messages until someone else told you?
Not only that, but you're focusing on quite mild music - maybe if you said that there were satanic messages in some Industrial or Death Metal, I'd believe you.
Go listen to, say, Angelspit - 100%, Flesh Field - Cyberchrist, or Combichrist - God Bless and gain some perspective. Or don't, maybe you should avoid all music just in case it contains Satanic messages - better safe than sorry.
The good thing about backmasking and subliminal messages is, that they are not mentioned in the bible, so there is no absolutely true word from god on these issues.
So there is some room left for any believers to think for themselves.
bakjewelas, if you can afford to spend half an hour, I would suggest you watch this. If you have only a quarter of an hour to spare, watch this and jump to about 4:30 (of course I encourage you to watch the third part as well).
I must warn you, this guy is a little condescending towards religion, especially at the beginning. Please don't let that distract you from critically assessing what you see and hear.
And if you're into a more scientific approach into the subject matter, why not download this PDF file including some 2002 research on the topic.
And if by then you have started to become skeptical towards the concept of backmasking / subliminal messages, please do some research on your own. Feel free to ask questions. There are always people out there who are willing to help.
Oh, and please don't read this post backwards, as it contains a lot of unintelligible gibberish that was designed to confuse the mind of any reader ;-))
Thanks Devysciple, the video was very enlightening.. follows up to what proto said.
But even if all those satanist accusations are nonsense, I don't think I can listen to them without feeling uncomfortable :(
Guess I'll stick to jazz...
I'm glad you liked what I had dug up. But I'm also a little confused, as to why you would completely refrain from listening to rock music.
I guess it's the desire to "do the right thing", even when evidence for something being wrong is scarce or even non-existent. Don't get me wrong, that's something I used to do regularly within a certain period in my life. But as I grew older, I realized that life is as much about playing it safe, as it is about "risking" something. Which is not that I am saying I still intentionally choose the safe road here and there.
Think of a girl you have a crush on. You can just play it safe, avoiding any risk of getting dumped, or you could actually risk emotional stability (I'm exaggerating a little here) and give a relationship a try. Sometimes it does not work out, and you feel miserable, but sometimes it works, and the rewards more than compensate you for all the times you get the mitten.
Besides, everytime you hear someone say "Don't do this or that, because it's bad for you", don't just accept it as the truth. Instead, ask yourself why said person told you to do so. Often, you will find out, that the advice was really intended to protect you from something harmful for you and/or others (e.g. doing drugs, DUI). But in other cases, you'll have to dig up some information (always keeping in mind to look for least biased bits and pieces). And sometimes, as I believe it was the case of listening to rock music, someone really just wanted to protect you, but hadn't all the necessary information for themselves (parents?!), or they simply were trying to wind you up (friends?!)
If you proceed like this, you will often encounter contradictory information, and it needs some training to find out who is actually saying what is closest to your (personal) truth.
I say personal, because truth often doesn't happen to be absolute, but something people have to figure out for themselves. You may accept some truths as universal (e.g. pursuit of hapiness)--I for example consider Kant's Categorical Imperative an absolute truth. Just be aware of the fact that a lot of people might challenge you on your truths. The ones that stay the longest transform into absolute (personal) truths, things that establish a core aspect of your personality. Other truths are challenged to the point that you have either to modify or even to discard them in order to comply with new evidence or counter-arguments against your primary truth.
That process is often uncomfortable, but it is, I believe, necessary on your way to a responsible, open-minded person.
And for the jazz... why not?! I'd recommend Miles Davis. It's a good starting point to embark on your musical journey :-)
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