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BR Weekly 13/05/2007
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To start this one off, today is Brett's 45th anniversary. For all the years enrichened by yours and Greg's music, we wish you a very special birthday!
On MXPX's new album 'Secret Weapon' (July 17th), Brian Baker has contributed a guitar to the album opener/title track. Check out the song on their MySpace.
A book review of Greg's Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? can be found at PunkNews.
Naturalism: The view that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and laws.
Theism: Belief in the existence of a god or gods.
[--American Heritage Dictionary]
With these two definitions that appear before any of the dialogue, the reader has a fairly good idea of the debate that is about to be showcased in Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?: A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity. The book features an email correspondence between Preston Jones, a history professor from a Christian college, and Greg Graffin, frontman of Bad Religion and holder of a Ph.D. in zoology, who wrote his dissertation on evolution, atheism, and naturalism.
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Read the full review here.
G1 has a picture gallery with some great photos from the S?o Paulo show. Click here to view them.
Lastly, a New Maps of Hell wallpaper has been released on Epitaph. Download it here.
That's it for today. Hope you enjoyed it!
On MXPX's new album 'Secret Weapon' (July 17th), Brian Baker has contributed a guitar to the album opener/title track. Check out the song on their MySpace.
A book review of Greg's Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? can be found at PunkNews.
Naturalism: The view that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and laws.
Theism: Belief in the existence of a god or gods.
[--American Heritage Dictionary]
With these two definitions that appear before any of the dialogue, the reader has a fairly good idea of the debate that is about to be showcased in Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?: A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity. The book features an email correspondence between Preston Jones, a history professor from a Christian college, and Greg Graffin, frontman of Bad Religion and holder of a Ph.D. in zoology, who wrote his dissertation on evolution, atheism, and naturalism.
[...]
Read the full review here.
G1 has a picture gallery with some great photos from the S?o Paulo show. Click here to view them.
Lastly, a New Maps of Hell wallpaper has been released on Epitaph. Download it here.
That's it for today. Hope you enjoyed it!
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05/16/2007 at 16:33
What? Moderation on a message board of a punk rock band? How un-punk is that?! I mean, punk is about anarchy and no future and all, right?
Seriously though, did any of the Krauts around here post on the official board of the german Dragnet/Sony BR page during the Brett-less era? I did for a couple of weeks and it was less than pleasurable for the most part... |
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05/16/2007 at 14:41
the BRMB was a lesson learned methinks for most fans... I personally don't mind what we've got going on here & the myspace page :D.
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05/16/2007 at 07:38
happy birthday brett!!!
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05/16/2007 at 00:47
the old brmb and the especially the chat are a great example how few individuals can ruin it for everyone. but i also blame brett on it, cause he was giving to those idiots way too much attention, and at the same time not taking proper measures (no real working moderation). but well, it was fun and a good place to meet cool people, before the trolls took over.
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05/15/2007 at 19:40
The "Statistical Normal Law" is everywhere!
Even in BR'S fans personality! Exemple: I'M with stupid ------> IT's bad... So bad...! |
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05/15/2007 at 16:07
The lack of respect in the BRMB made me sick to my stomach. It is hard to believe that I shared a common interest with some of those people.
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05/15/2007 at 11:58
tell me what time i posted this comment
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05/15/2007 at 07:14
I'm Jau_Peacecraft and I approve of this message.
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05/15/2007 at 06:43
I love Bad Religion! I hated the BRMB with fury. Only satisfaction came to me through BR's decision to shut it down. It's love I tell ya. Love!
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05/15/2007 at 05:35
honest goodbye on myspace right now
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05/15/2007 at 01:57
how fortuitous
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05/15/2007 at 01:29
Wow, I just had a very odd moment. I've been away from my office for a couple weeks, and the trades have piled up. Imagine my surprise when I opened last Thursay's Daily Variety to find a list of upcoming CD releases, complete with a photo of Greg Graffin! There's a caption reading "Greg Graffin of Bad Religion".
Huh! |
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05/15/2007 at 01:08
I hear you, it was really too bad. But really there wasn't any other choice. I lurked for a lot of the last days, because I didn't want to be associated with some of the crap going down. starting to sound familiar actually...
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05/15/2007 at 01:03
the brett issue was a far second to the intense flaming that any n00b received when they visited the page. that was the foremost reason we shut it down. as the band represented by the page, if someone who had just learned about the band went there and was promptly humiliated, it was only a reflection of our decision to allow it to continue. it was an easy choice to simply turn it off and prioritize our attention elsewhere.
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05/15/2007 at 00:54
I don't have a problem with discussions outside the topic of a board but that place got pretty out of hand. And there was no respect or appreciation of the band members when they posted. Mostly it became a forum to antagonize, provoke and denigrate Brett (unfairly, considering he not only participated but moderated the damn thing.)
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05/14/2007 at 22:52
From what I've heard, the BRMB wasn't really much of a BR message board.
Jay, can you please tell us some of the lyrics of New Chapter or something? I just want to find out a little bit more about it. Thanks. :) |
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05/14/2007 at 22:51
And good riddance to the brmb, although it provided good fodder for a project about behaviour and anonymity on the internet. It's really too bad though, I hope there was some unabusable mechanism for interaction and feedback.
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05/14/2007 at 22:34
the potential of the brmb coming back = > 0
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05/14/2007 at 22:04
Wow, Brett is exactly one year younger than my brother. I guess the good people are born on the even yeared May 13th's.
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05/14/2007 at 21:55
I like the path from epitaph.com to the myspace page. The myspace community board, however, is nowhere near as interactive as the BRMB had been. This site is good for interaction but still not close to the BRMB.
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05/14/2007 at 21:52
I sincerely ope there will be another badreligion.com though...with the new album drop. Like, really really hope.
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05/14/2007 at 21:19
it's now a splash page to the myspace site. once the mb was gone, the badreligion.com site was no longer as interactive as we wanted, so we just decided to send the traffic to the myspace community board...
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05/14/2007 at 19:37
To jabberwocky, if you're reading this: What happened to your official website?
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05/14/2007 at 05:21
Comments by Atomic Garden from Canada on 2007-05-14 @ 03:34
BR's Party in Montreal 10th of July (Tuesday) For the new album ONLY BR songs and free beers! Rare songs waiting for you! for info: iznogood99@hotmail.com Happy Mothers's day! MILFs are welcome!!! |
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05/14/2007 at 03:34
BR's Party in Montreal
10th of July (Tuesday) For the new album ONLY BR's songs and free beers! Rares songs waiting for you! for info: iznogood99@hotmail.com Happy Mothers's day! MILFs are welcome!!! |
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05/14/2007 at 02:28
Mothers' Day sucks. The only reason men were ever served at tables was because they had to pound iron all day and were hungry. The biggest factor into why men were served at dinner tables historically, IMO, is that the kitchens were small 8x10 sheds. Today, it is not necessary. Just go buffet style off the stove.
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05/14/2007 at 01:53
That MxPx song sounds like a Bad Religion song, apart from the fact Brian plays on it. It reminds me of No Control. Oh yeah, Happy Birthday Mr. Brett.
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05/13/2007 at 16:35
Funny. Hetson's wearing a Minor Threat t-shirt and it looks like Brian's wearing the same glasses he wore in Minor Threat.
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05/13/2007 at 16:22
I, too, would like to add a genuine 'fel?z cumplea?os' for Mr. Brett. Thank you for all the amazing songs you've written for us over the decades.
Also, I thought Mr. Jones & Greg's book was pretty good. I find it a bit funny how Preston Jones more or less admitted that he sympathized with atheists' disposition more than Christians'. He seems to be a very smart, academically driven person - but when it came to god-belief, he is very much a victim of the 'compartmentalization effect,' where his theist beliefs are walled off from the rest of his mind, where critical thought is allowed to work unencumbered. That's par for the course with 'academic Christians' and I think it's safe to say that Greg pretty well obliterated his arguments. The fact that Preston Jones edited this book, and not Greg, makes the whole thing seem 'fair and balanced' when in reality, theism was blown out of the water - as it always is, when weighed against rational arguments. Over all, though, it's a great read. |
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05/13/2007 at 12:38
Happy birthday Brett, all the best!
Can't wait for the new album! And I hope to see you touring Germany with BR again sooner or later, it's been 15 long years since I've seen you the last time (Bad Religion + NOFX, Music Circus Ruhr, Oberhausen in 1992)! Bring on the triple axe attack! |
