From: cmgeorg@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRIS MICH GEORGOULIAS)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal,alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy,alt.thrash
Subject: Re: Idiot Religions Bigots
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:47:31 GMT
Reply-To: cmgeorg@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRIS MICH GEORGOULIAS)
Organization: Project EOS - North Carolina State University

>basic religious scapegoatish crap deleted<

Don't you think that maybe it's the PEOPLE that this kid hung around with that
made him turn his life so upside down.  I've been listening to REAL metal for
8 years now and I haven't done drugs and I don't drink and I'm even in
engineer-
ing school so I guess that separates me from the metal stereotype that's
so in-
grained into your head.  I totally believe that you act like the people
you
associate with, and just because those people choose to listen to metal
that
hardly gives you the right to say that metal is the cause of people's
*demise*.

I've met a LOT of people that fit the *typical* *metal* stereotype and they
weren't really into the music at all.  They listen to it because they think
it makes them look like rebels.  They go to shows completely drunk, obviously
not to enjoy the music but rather to baste in their pathetic little lives as
construction workers or whatever.  Don't you get it? It's NOT music that
*enslaves* people to do what is socially unaccepted, its their choice of
getting
involved with people who don't give a shit. No matter what they listen
to.

You can compare this to the gangs in LA or wherever.  It's because they're born
into a neighborhood and they grow up around this crowd that they become
involved 
in gangs.  And because it's difficult for them to leave this subculture
it
becomes thier demise I'm sad to say.  These kids wouldn't have the
desire or
need to participate in this kind of activity if they didn't grow up
alongside
these people.  This lifestyle isn't influenced by music or television,
it's
solely based on the fact that these kids are right in the middle of the
only
"way of life" that they know.  They simply follow people who are
mislead.

Some people want an image so bad that they will do anything to get it. If you
saw me on the street you'd think that I was a prep, but you'd be WRONG.  Just
because I don't choose to have long hair and wear black shirts doesn't make
me any less of a fan than those details make anyone else MORE of a fan.

You listen to music with your mind not your appearance.  And just because said
people have that appearance doesn't mean that the music is in there. When the
music is in there and you're not hanging around a bunch of losers then you look
like an outcast to the mainstream.  Those people who choose to participate in
the activities of a group do so out of their OWN will.  Not because they read
the lyrics to a song inspired by a news story or something. 

And how do you explain bands like Deliverance, The Crucified, and Vengeance
Rising.  These are *christian* groups who can crank out songs just as well as
your supposed demon infestations that we call bands.

You might as well say that Levi's is responsible for the *evil* activities of
some of these *metalheads* because ALL of them have these jeans on.  And for
that matter, the satanic combination of polyester and cotton that are tortur-
ously twisted into the final product of a t-shirt, and notoriously dyed black.
Ooooo... I'm just getting chills thinking about it.

Do us and yourself a favor, and find another scapegoat will you?



"What's ugly, smelly, boring and is standing in front of me called Neil?"

                                 -Mike -The Young Ones
Chris Georgoulias
cmgeorg@eos.ncsu.edu