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100 Most important albums 1: Kiss Alive II



This is kind of a boring first album, in that it's almost 35 years old and I purchased it when it was fairly new.  (Yeah, I'm 'old.')

However, this album is important to me because it started my personal music discovery.  I was 9 when I bought this.  I saved up some money and asked my parents to get it for me from their record club.  It was the first full album I chose on my own, which wasn't a K-Tel record or something aimed at kids.

I sold this album at a garage sale, about ten years later, because punk rock unkyrich had decided that KISS were sellouts and he wanted nothing to do with them anymore.  I sold it for what I had spent on it - though after 10 years, that wasn't much.

But for an album I played almost to death for a few years, it held up for a long, long time.
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Writer's Block: R.I.P

R.I.P
What do you want done with your body after you die?
Reply 764


I honestly don't care. I'm done with it, and can think of no metaphysical end point that would make me care. (People have made some up, but those aren't belief systems.)

1. If the Christians who are like me are right, I'll be in heaven and within the divine grace of God.

2. If the conservative Christians are right, I'll be in hell, suffering eternal torment. I won't have time to think about my body.

3. If the atheists are right, my consciousness will cease, and I'll be unable to care about anything.

4. If the pagans, buddhists, and others are correct, I'll be reincarnated, and be more concerned with my new body.

That being said, I would like my body donated to science - learn something from my death. Barring that, I've told my wife that I don't care if she leaves me in a plastic bag on the side of the freeway. The Death Business is just a scam, anyway.

Rich
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Writer's Block: International Skeptics Day

International Skeptics Day
What are you skeptical about? (religion, ghosts, Toddlers and Tiaras, etc.)
Reply 314


I'm skeptical about almost everything:
ghosts, psychics, magic, faith healers, predestined apocalypses, UFOs, demons, angels, fairies, conversion therapy, spiteful deities, scientology, cryptids, compassionate conservatism, Sarah Palin's high school diploma, objectivism, Michelle Bachman's sanity . . .

The list goes on.

Sadly, I would like most of these to exist. There's just no evidence that any of it does.