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July 23, 2017, 05:50:19 AM Last Edit: July 23, 2017, 06:07:32 AM by JOE
...not the most pleasant subject, but they foretell of troubling times ahead:



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlzRFHVs9Zo



O Caritas by Cat Stevens

JOE

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July 23, 2017, 06:06:53 AM
The Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH1Bd4MNLJM

Anonymous

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August 02, 2017, 07:15:16 PM
Quote from: "JOE"...not the most pleasant subject, but they foretell of troubling times ahead:



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlzRFHVs9Zo



O Caritas by Cat Stevens
Okay

Bricktop

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August 14, 2017, 07:34:57 PM
Cat Stevens is a muslim who supported the fatwa to execute Salman Rushdie. He admitted that if he had information that would enable muslim murderers locate Rushdie, he would pass it on. He stated that he wished Rushdie was burned alive at a demonstration.



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnWtPytvhI

JOE

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August 23, 2017, 10:11:31 PM
Quote from: "Bricktop"Cat Stevens is a muslim who supported the fatwa to execute Salman Rushdie. He admitted that if he had information that would enable muslim murderers locate Rushdie, he would pass it on. He stated that he wished Rushdie was burned alive at a demonstration.



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnWtPytvhI

Yes. much of what you say is true.



I remember that. I've also found it extremely paradoxical that someone who wrote these peace-loving lyrics such as Stevens and appeared to be gravitating towards Buddhism, then made a sudden U-turn towards Islam.



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Buddha_and_the_Chocolate_Box_%28Front_Cover%29.jpg/220px-Buddha_and_the_Chocolate_Box_%28Front_Cover%29.jpg">



I've often wondered if it had something to do with him wanting to hang on to as much of his wealth as was possible. Perhaps he'd seen friends of his get knifed and burned down in flames by divorce? So perhaps Islam was a way to avoid that. What better way than to adopt a lifestyle and marry an obedient wife who is forbidden to divorce you? Or if they leave a man, they leave his fortune intact, plus he gets custody of the kids. Anyways, just speculation, but I kinda think that had something to do with it.



Also, there's always a bittersweet undercurrent in his lyrics. Such as Wild World and Sad Lisa. The Wind. Which always point to some bad experience he had in the past.



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd2jXsmSaKc



And in spite of his abrupt change of faith, I still think O Caritas is a great, though darkly prophetic tune, which sadly is coming true today.

Anonymous

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August 23, 2017, 11:58:55 PM
Quote from: "Bricktop"Cat Stevens is a muslim who supported the fatwa to execute Salman Rushdie. He admitted that if he had information that would enable muslim murderers locate Rushdie, he would pass it on. He stated that he wished Rushdie was burned alive at a demonstration.



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnWtPytvhI
 :ohmy:

JOE

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August 25, 2017, 02:41:08 AM
Not sure if this song exactly fits this category. But the last part of the lyrics leave us with a message of hope for the future.



">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FKyouUIsQ



With God on Our Side

Bob Dylan


QuoteOh my name it ain't nothin'

My age it means less

The country I come from

Is called the Midwest

I was taught and brought up there

The laws to abide

And that land that I live in

Has God on its side



Oh, the history books tell it

They tell it so well

The cavalries charged

The Indians fell

The cavalries charged

The Indians died

Oh, the country was young

With God on its side



The Spanish-American

War had its day

And the Civil War, too

Was soon laid away

And the names of the heroes

I was made to memorize

With guns in their hands

And God on their side



The First World War, boys

It came and it went

The reason for fighting

I never did get

But I learned to accept it

Accept it with pride

For you don't count the dead

When God's on your side



The Second World War

Came to an end

We forgave the Germans

And then we were friends

Though they murdered six million

In the ovens they fried

The Germans now, too

Have God on their side



I've learned to hate the Russians

All through my whole life

If another war comes

It's them we must fight

To hate them and fear them

To run and to hide

And accept it all bravely

With God on my side



But now we got weapons

Of chemical dust

If fire them, we're forced to

Then fire, them we must

One push of the button

And a shot the world wide

And you never ask questions

When God's on your side



Through many a dark hour

I've been thinkin' about this

That Jesus Christ was

Betrayed by a kiss

But I can't think for you

You'll have to decide

Whether Judas Iscariot

Had God on his side.



So now as I'm leavin'

I'm weary as Hell

The confusion I'm feelin'

Ain't no tongue can tell

The words fill my head

And fall to the floor

That if God's on our side

He'll stop the next war
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