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I absolutely love how "Keep Your Rifle By Your Side" transcended it's original purpose

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We'll have our home again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctpfRxvC0JQ

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Aug 17, 2023Liked by Tree of Woe

Five Times August was magnificent with his protest music throughout the damn panic. Deserves a couple spots on here though I canโ€™t pin down the genre.

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"Music is the closest most of us will ever come to encountering magic."

It depends on what you call, 'Magic', I guess. Though 'Magik' is VERY real and not at all a Neutral Force (The White/Black Magik dichotomy is pure fiction.) The kind of magic you are referring to is I think, better termed, 'Art'. Not in the conventional sense, but in the sense that J.R.R. Tolkien spoke of both Fictionally, in his 'Lord of the Rings' Books, and in Real Life, when referring to it as an act of 'Sub-Creation', being that we are made in the Image of God and so can't help but reflect His nature. (However distorted.)

Science now knows that when you get down below the Atomic, down below the Sub-Atomic and below even that, the Essence, the 'Guts' of this Reality if you will, is Vibration. All the seemingly vast difference in Matter and Energy that we perceive, are just a mind-bogglingly minute variation of Vibration States.

Almost... as if... it were a Voice, a Voice speaking words. But this should not really be any surprise to any serious Christian, as we are told, 'Everything is Upheld by the Word of God.' He literally SPOKE everything into being.

Now, lemme go COMPLETELY off the Rails-

Back in December of 2016, I nearly died from a Septic Foot. I spent days in a completely delusional state & remember next to nothing of that. But in the days that followed, as my health improved, my mind still kept a fairly tenuous lock on my Body. For that time, I perceived many strange things, but was completely lucid and could hold a coherent conversation. Indeed, the transition back to 'normalcy' only meant the fading of those perceptions, not a return to a more rational state. (Which some would say is the problem, but whatever...)

One of those strange perceptions, was a visible, crystalline-like, 'webwork' that seemed to permeate in and through everything, yet prevented nothing from moving through it. Over the years, having a great deal of spare time to sit and stare off into nothing, I eventually came to realize that was an illusion. The People and things I saw moving THROUGH this dense structure, weren't actually doing that. People and things moved BECAUSE of this webwork. Here's my best analogy-

If you have two people standing opposite each other, with a long string between them, one person can shake the string, once and you can visually see that wave of kinetic energy, traverse from one side of the string to the other. So think of the matter and energy we perceive as that 'wave'. The Wave cannot exist apart from the string. It is given form, definition, motion, by the string, combined with the Will that generated it.

So, for a few days, due to circumstances I definitely don't want to repeat, I was able to 'See' (Literally See, or just Perceive, I don't know.) the Latticework of the Word of God. We and everything in existence, are minute changes in Vibration, moving up-down-left-right-in-out, pick a vector, along the 'Strings' of God's Creative Work.

So what in the Wide, Wide World 'o Sports does this have anything to do with MUSIC? Well... What IS Music? At its core, it is simply... degrees of Audible Vibration. What we perceive as 'Music', audibly, I could SEE, visually & it is, at least for now, the only way the vast majority any of us can perceive any portion of the Majesty & Glory of the Work of God we call, 'Existence'. Sometimes quite accurately, with the best, most moving music (Which does have Objective and Subjective aspects), sometimes but faintly, and sadly, with a growing amount, the 'UnGlory', the Waste-like, Truth-stultifying morass of Satan's 'Version' of music. Which, due to our Fallen Nature, can have deadly, tempting appeal to us.

Hope that made sense, because I ain't rewritin' it.

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I live in Europa. The only time I listen to mainstream music is sometimes in the car on the way to the supermarket (7 or 8 minute drive).

Three or four days ago I turned on Virgin radio and there was a song called 'Watch another Angel Die'.

Straight after it was BOC's 'Don't Fear the Reaper.' (I turned this up as loud as the stereo went. Unbelievably cool track after all these years.)

This is not an English-speaking country so the line-up was probably lost on the locals but I was utterly floored, they were basically saying, 'Watch us kill the innocent, but don't fear death.'

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"Ya Gotta Be Less White" was hilarious. I'm working on my tan.

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Aug 16, 2023Liked by Tree of Woe

Good art cuts right to the heart of it. Thanks

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Aug 16, 2023Liked by Tree of Woe

This is part of a long standing but denigrated music and movement in America but apparenlty it's mainstream in Russia, today. YOu can see why ZOG wants to destroy Novorussiya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXreSAXf1V8

Also check out Magarita Lisovina and Natalya Kachura, "Donbas Behind Us"

You'll have to copy and paste Russianlyrics and Google translate if you don't undersand Russian, but it's worth it.

Seems Russia has had it's bout with Atheist, Secualr gov't not to mention that "Indivisualism" works only if everyone is a certain type of "Individual", a prescription for a Collective if there ever was one and far more menacing than a Nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua0XfvbOFs0

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Paddy Tarleton - No Russian Ever Called Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9Gyj-JYSk

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Speaking of anthems, let's sing the last verse of Star-spangled Banner more often.

๐ŸŽถ Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just. And this be our motto, in God is our trust... ๐ŸŽถ

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I've often found my musical refuge in metal, and there is some of this current in that genre as well. Most of what I listen is definitely Christian, and not perfectly aligning in some spots with what you presented, but there are shared core messages.

A few examples include:

https://youtu.be/ODvVtR4FnYk?si=VIN8fixqPEtPdCjg and https://youtu.be/ODvVtR4FnYk?si=62dH2F967WQYAP1Z are some recent stuff by Demon Hunter. Their newest album includes messages about revolution (and its cyclical nature), devotion (and its freeing nature in contrast to modern freedom), and the death of freedom.

https://youtu.be/IZjzEz7b3DA?si=LHDlXAQ-Q7juyKZJ some music by Sabaton. Their stuff is very heavily steeped in history, national pride, and heroism. Not meant to be right wing, but it definitely is popular in right wing circles.

And while not recent, I have also found joy in war songs:

https://youtu.be/vvzmBhCpWvA?si=ThjUHMymYXhdNN0K

https://youtu.be/lLV5GVWnVqs?si=d4JbWXzyoMOOY6mt

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I'd like to submit 2+2=5 by hi-rez for your consideration. Thank you even though none of these songs are by sublime they were a much appreciated morale boost, as I was starting to focus too much on what the clowns are up to. It feels better to be for a

Righteous cause than to just be against an evil one . A glimmer of hope for the future?

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The YT channel Alderon Tyran, lots of good stuff there, including:

"I'm a Modern Rebel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIqPc0x_544

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I'm partial to "Welcome to the Revolution" by Hi-Rez and Jimmy Levy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHxk1Mg5n7I

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Not specific to our side of things

Humanwine - Rivolta Silenziosa

https://youtu.be/Gj3GwuM1U00

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