Anyone who has read Mansons autobiography would know he's into some very odd stuff sexually and morally. He is smart, quick witted, (at least he was before the drugs), and not a good person, but he makes it clear he is fully aware of this and should be no ones role model. Definitely worth the read.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Hard-Road-Out-Hell/dp/0060987464
Look at Geoff Emerick’s Here, There, and Everywhere, My Life Recording The Music of The Beatles. Emerick was the engineer on many Beatles albums.
https://www.amazon.com/Pimp-Story-Life-Iceberg-Slim/dp/1451617135/ref=nodl_
Currently reading this. Basically his mom ruined him for life starting at a young age, destroyed any semblance of a family to chase after dangerous dudes. Man grows up with deep hatred to punish women and manipulates them for his stable of hoes, furthering the cycle of ruined families.
<em>The Real Frank Zappa Book</em> - Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso Half autobiography, half perspective on leading a band that influenced me a lot on leading a band of my own
If you're interested in the band's history then I would recommend reading Anthony's autobiography, <em>Scar Tissue.</em> The band had some rough early years and Anthony paints a wild ride all the way from his childhood (1960s) to a few years before Stadium Arcadium was released (2005/2006). It's my favorite musician autobiography.
If people are interested in how severe a lot of these laws are, The Year Of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs is really interesting, very approachable, and fairly humorous.
https://www.amazon.com/Scar-Tissue-Anthony-Kiedis/dp/1401307450/ref=nodl_
Not cocaine, heroine. I’m sure he’s probably dabbled in all kinds of drugs, but his biography mentions how he struggled with heroine addiction, finally got sober then went to the dentist to get a tooth pulled and told the doctor not to use any narcotic painkillers but ended up using Valium for the procedure causing him to relapse.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life ... - Amazon UK
a load of james jamerrson tunes notated with explinations, shows how jj knowledge of jaz informed how he made often simple chord sequences interesting with his voicing. get functional ear trainer on your phone so you can learn by ear. Be aware that it is timing where most tabs are wrong. My way to learn a line is listen, sing, wok out the key of song, learn notes, get timing then go back to listening to find out what I got wrong
Practicing scales and fingerings is a good way to train your ear. You'll start to hear chordal movement and resolutions that make sense. You should look into getting a jazz methods book, they typically have good exercises and warmups. Also, writing the music down, transcribing, is a really good way to train your ear. One of my favorite books is [http://www.amazon.com/Standing-Shadows-Motown-Legendary-Jamerson/dp/0881888826/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1433258160&sr=8-9&keywords=standing+in+the+shadows]. Listening to some bass lines on early Aretha Franklin albums, motown, and Wilson Pickett will get you in the groove in no time!
Have you read The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs? https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484
He does just that including trying to follow the obscure rules.
“Standing In The Shadows of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson” is a great start and arguably an essential book for any bass player. James Jamerson is one of the most influential and important bass players of all time and the book has transcriptions of many classic Motown Records songs he played on.
If you want to read a book that makes perfect sense of this whole scene read Ice Berg Slim's Autobiography.
Dave Chapelle calls him the coldest mother fucker in history.
https://www.amazon.com/Pimp-Story-Life-Iceberg-Slim/dp/1451617135
I haven't read it yet but a friend recommended this book to me.
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484
It sounds like that book should answer your question exactly.
He said it in his debate with John Lofton on CNN's Crossfire. You can find it through Google quite easily. He advocated for classical conservatism in that whole debate and in general.
Also check out the contents page of his autobiography on Amazon, and you can see that chapter 17 is called Practical Conservatism. He talks about his conservatism there.
You may be interested in a more in-depth look at this hypocrisy:
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484
Perhaps you should reread the last paragraph of your own orignal post. Entomology is fascinating, but at the end of the day, it's not that complicated. The word Allah predates Islam, so that's a big clue in itself. It's the same God.
You can use whatever translation you want for the teachings of the Christ, the message stays the same and all goes back to the influence of Saul/Paul and then St. Jerome. Worse, it all goes back to the editorial influences of Constantine and King James.
Of course the religions are different. That's why we've had the unending holy wars. It's still the same God, same holy book (and those ten commandments , just ask Charlie Hebdo) of the Hebrew Bible, with the Christian Bible and the Quran tacked on for interesting flavor and everyone fighting over who is right.
We're three siblings fighting over who loves Daddy most, best and what he REALLY meant. Only humans are capable of something so mind numbingly stupid.
I love Reza Aslan as a speaker and writer on the subjects, he's incredibly interesting. You should give him a look. For lighter reading that's insightful and thought provoking, but will still make you laugh, I recommend this.
Buy it online.
https://www.amazon.com.br/Here-There-Everywhere-Recording-Beatles/dp/1592402690
He is terribly biased, so you also need to read: https://www.amazon.com.au/Abbey-Road-Ziggy-Stardust-record/dp/0739078585
The book that changed my entire perspective on this issue was The Year of Living Biblically, in which the author defines every rule or law in the Bible and attempts to live by them.
He makes many interesting observations on the futility of living your life by everything the Bible says. He also points out how hypocritical it is for religions to call out the breaking of certain rules/laws as sins when they are only mentioned just a few times, while others are mentioned dozens or hundreds of times and nobody cares when they are broken.
It is by jewish law. Maybe it is not your jewish law and not mine, but it is their jewish law. This "you don't need tahara since there is no temple for 2000 years" is some reform stuff. Which is ok by me, but not by all. (Sorry most sources I know are not in english.)
Also there are many laws besides taking mikva for women and their husbands for nidda. e.g. not eating after the wife, not passing objects directly etc.
Maybe they want the house you live in for economic gain and they are driving you and your family away to get the property at a discounted price. You may have seen or heard something they did not want you to see or hear, so they are trying to drive you away, so you don't bring any unwanted attention on them. Have you or someone in your family done something to someone in your community who has a lot of money or power that can afford to hire or talk a group of thugs into gang stalking you. It can be a romantic interest a thug has in someone you are involved with that they want to separate you from, so they can get access to them. Do they have a reputation for pimping out prostitutes? Check around and see.
If a pimp wants to turn someone out as a prostitute, they will start to gang stalk them in a way that limits opportunities for them to take care of themselves. They then come in like, "heroes," and offer a way out of poverty or near poverty, by paying them to have sex with people. There was a famous book by a pimp named Iceberg Slim (https://www.amazon.com/Pimp-Story-Life-Iceberg-Slim/dp/1451617135) where he talks about how he, "recruited," prostitutes he pimped out, how he managed them once he got them started and what he did with them when he was done with them. Whether they want you to have sex with someone for money, or they want you to earn your way out of what ever debt they have created for you, never let yourself be pimped by people like that. Anyway, those are just some ideas.
I'll just add a book that sold 7 million copies, an instructional manual on how to rape women and force them into sexual slavery.
Many woke rap stars openly idolize him like a god.
https://www.amazon.com/Pimp-Story-Life-Iceberg-Slim/dp/1451617135
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Plug an interesting book that I read called The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs where he tries to live literally by the bible. It's pretty entertaining.
I encourage anyone who is remotely a fan of RHCP to read Scar Tissue. Kiedis' early life was insane and the book will not romanticize them in any way.
Pimp by Iceberg Slim is what youre looking for.
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Anthony Kiedis talks about the making of that album in his book and you can tell how much Rubin really enhanced their songwriting and performances. Great read for any Chili Peppers fan.
I left Islam at age 14 in boarding school (hence, away from family). I think it helped that only one parent is Muslim.
To me, it's not about how many times one says salaat or the shahada, it's about what one has inside. To that end, I don't mind having to go through the motions when I'm around relatives who don't know I'm an ex-Muslim.
Since leaving the religion, I've found that everyone picks and chooses from whatever their religion is. I think the realization came from reading A Year of Living Biblically. The author's conclusion was that the Bible (and by extension the Quran) has passages that contradict each other. Add to this, the hadith and you get a religion that can be used to justify anything at all -- you just need to issue a fatwa and following it is a determination for the individual.
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis is such a great book recounting the early years and struggles he and the Red Hot Chili Peppers had. He goes over his early life and a lot of drug addiction that effected the band and himself.
Scar Tissue Book - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401307450/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_r0hnAb0XAY0Q3
Also it’s a great song. One of my favorites by RHCP as well. It’s fun to learn to play on bass and guitar.
Song - https://youtu.be/mzJj5-lubeM
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Band. The one where each member of the band writes several chapters and an editor - the same guy that co-wrote/edited Manson's autobiography - turned it into something that's not only readable, but thoroughly enjoyable.
Geoffrey Emerick, who would go on to win the Grammy award for engineering for Abbey Road wrote an enjoyable book called,
Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
Good read if you're a Beatles fan.
If you're interested, his book The Long Road Out of Hell is one of the best books I've ever read. I've probably read it about 5 times now, and I never re-read books. The Long Road Out of Hell