Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: What do you vote on Burning records? Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 08:14:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 34 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , bwood@su1b.uucp (Barbara Wood) writes: > If you just discovered that some old records that you don't listen to > anyway had symbols of satanism on them and/or had evil messages that > were "back-masked" on them (that can influence your sub-concious) such > as "hail satan, smoke-pot, turn the dead man on , etc " would you get > rid of it? Just a question. Um, to the best of my knowledge, tests which have been done on voices played backwards show that people can pick up whether the speaker is male or female, and may be able to distinguish between languages (e.g. between English and Swedish) based on stress patterns, but that's _it_. I'm reminded of a song that won prizes in New Zealand; some people got _very_ upset about it because they thought it said "Share my marijuana, Marie". In fact the song said "Sheryl Moana Marie", which was the name of the author's sister. If people do that with voices played forwards where the singer is trying to make the words understood, isn't it likely that "hail satan" is just as much a figment of the imagination as "share my marijuana"? Shouldn't we be worrying about the words that are openly played forwards? Aren't they bad enough? Why not worry about the attitude to pre- and extra-marital sex that is openly propagandised in popular romances? If you have some old records that you don't listen to, where's the harm in chopping them up regardless of sdrawkcab masking? Heat them up and make plant pots or something. Destroying someone else's records is a dubious thing to do, but disposing of your own in a non-polluting way, why not? As for anti-Christian symbols; what have you done with your dollar notes? -- The problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3 may always be replied to with a lob across the net. --Alasdair Macintyre.