uh oh, here we go

DESERT ISLAND REKKIDS:

if some of them seem terminally dorky to you,
up yours! it's MY desert island list...
and some of these have strong sentimental attachment from childhood and all so shaddup! :P
let's see YOU open yourself up to ridicule with YOUR list, bucko.
nyah!

i really tried to trim it to 20, but i just couldn't, so there's 21.
alphabetical order, (it was hard enough trimming this down, i'm not rating them, so there)


Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
the Art of Noise - Who's Afraid Of (the Art of Noise)?
the Beatles - Abbey Road
David Bowie - Low
Kate Bush - the Dreaming
the Cure - Faith
Doubting Thomas - the Infidel
Download - the Eyes of Stanley Pain
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Muslimgauze - Jaal Ab Dullah
Omala - Germ
PBK - Shadows of Prophecy / In His Throes
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Skinny Puppy - Bites
Slayer - God Hates Us All
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Tear Garden - Tired Eyes, Slowly Burning
XTC - Skylarking
Frank Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere


good thing i brought a steamer trunk full of batteries to this desert isle!

some quotes from the book "Buddhism without Beliefs"

by Stephen Batchelor.

The force of the term "agnosticism" has been lost. It has come to mean: not to hold an opinion about the questions of life and death; to say "I don't know" when you really mean "I don't want to know." ...

For T.H. Huxley, who coined the term in 1869, agnosticism was as demanding as any moral, philosophical, or religious creed. Rather than a creed, though, he saw it as a method realized through "the rigorous application of a single principal." He expressed this principle positively as: "Follow your reason as far as it will take you," and negatively as: "Do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstratable." ...

First and foremost the Buddha taught a method ("dharma practice") rather than another "-ism." The dharma is not something to believe in but something to do. The Buddha did not reveal an esoteric set of facts about reality, which we can choose to believe in or not. He challenged people to understand the nature of anguish, let go of its origins, realize its cessation, and bring into being a way of life. ...

Just as contemporary agnosticism has tended to lose its confidence and lapse into scepticism, so Buddhism has tended to lose its critical edge and lapse into religiosity. What each has lost, however, the other may be able to help restore. ...

An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the dharma as a set of "answers" to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc. An agnostic Buddhist is not a "believer" with claims to revealed information about supernatural or paranormal phenomena, and in this sense is not "religious." ...

An agnostic Buddhist eschews atheism as much as theism, and is as reluctant to regard the universe as devoid of meaning as endowed with meaning. For to deny either God or meaning is simply the antithesis of affirming them. Yet such an agnostic stance is not based on disinterest. It is founded on a passionate recognition that I do not know. It confronts the enormity of having been born instead of reaching for the consolation of a belief.