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Title: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 22, 2010, 12:42:48 PM
please tell us about your favorite piece of culture.it could be a novel,a tv show,a movie,a painting'an album or every other piece of popular and not popular culture you like.i will start with me.my favorites are:The Great Red Dragon Paintings of willian blake,the day after tomorrow of roland emmerich.the resident evil franchise of capcom,anddragonslayer of dream evil.oh and all the creations of bach and verdi.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 22, 2010, 12:57:02 PM
come on guys.i know you like art.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Rubystars on June 22, 2010, 01:21:51 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTTFUtMSvQ
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 22, 2010, 01:22:58 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTTFUtMSvQ
one of my favorite too.i always loved classical european music.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: IsraeliGovtAreKapos on June 22, 2010, 01:37:43 PM
I hate European culture
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 22, 2010, 02:05:02 PM
I hate European culture
do you have a culture that you like? if yes share it with us.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 22, 2010, 02:09:35 PM
Jewish Culture, of Course...

Though in my old days I enjoyed the Rock'N'Roll culture a little..

Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: IsraeliGovtAreKapos on June 22, 2010, 02:13:01 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTTFUtMSvQ
one of my favorite too.i always loved classical european music.

Only Jewish culture.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 22, 2010, 02:17:35 PM
ron and muman.please be a little more specific.do you have a particular jewish band or writer you like?
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 22, 2010, 02:31:16 PM
ron and muman.please be a little more specific.do you have a particular jewish band or writer you like?

Well, now that you ask...

I have been listening to an Israeli Band Amaseffer... Unfortunately they don't have much material except for this Heavy Metal CD about Exodus named "Slaves for Life"...

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqThMeZwHrw/SdNeJDjlWiI/AAAAAAAAAfw/OZB1GdnrwdI/s320/AmasefferSlavesforLifecd.jpg)

I also like traditional Jewish music which is played on several of the Internet radio stations I listen to.

Of course I like Matisyahu and Shlomo Carlebach...

(http://jewishmusicreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/carlebach3.jpg)
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 22, 2010, 02:37:25 PM
Just a sample of the lyrics from Amaseffer "Slaves for Life" album:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Amaseffer

Song : Birth of Deliverance

[Hebrew text]
- "Every born son you shall cast into the Nile" [Exodus 1:22]-

Many sleepless nights
Far too many troubled days
The prophets are grim at thought
(The oracles have spoken)

Dark and gloomy eyes
Turned hellish red in mind
(Every born son you shall cast into the Nile)

And I know for sure
That they won't endure
Something's got to give
They will crumble down

Show them no remorse
Make them feel the pain
Spill the blood of every son
For this is not in vain

Be silent my child
Be silent my child
Your tender cry
Visions in your eyes

And I won't let go
No I won't let go
Embracing you
My Child
Stay with me

[Hebrew text]
- "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
Whom the lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders,
Which the Lord sent to him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh,
And to all his servants, and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand,
And in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel"
[Deuteronomy 34:10-12]-

Distant sound of evil
Getting closer with each step
Must hide before they reach
(Quick) Hide before they breach

I know that they look for you
You're safe with me
God holds your hand

Silent screams
For if they hear us it will be
The end of his life

I'll sacrifice myself
For you, my child
I'll sacrifice my soul

My gracious God
Please send me an angel
With crystal white wings
Which under it we safely abide

No evil can harm us
Holy savior
Protector of kingdom of heaven
I'm calling your name...

Hear me!

I've seen the light shining from above

[Hebrew text]
- "The Lord make his face shine upon thee" [Numbers 6:25]-

I've seen the light shining from above

[Hebrew text]
- "And she took for him an ark of bulrushes and put the child therein,
And she laid it in the flags by the river's brink." [Exodus 2:3]-

Hush my baby don't you cry
My love for you is eternal
Like the everlasting fire
You light up the darkest corner of my soul

God please, God please hold his hand
Protect him from our sins
Show your grace
Bless the child

Watch him from a far
As he floats along the Nile
Aimlessly drifting
Washed away with all my tears
My sorrow
My pain

A tear drop falling
Ripples my reflection
And I can't let go
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 22, 2010, 02:41:59 PM
sound like a nice peace of heavy metal.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 22, 2010, 02:56:53 PM
sound like a nice peace of heavy metal.

Thanks... I think so... And the other day a stranger at the gas station said she liked the sound of it too...

Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: angryChineseKahanist on June 22, 2010, 03:13:44 PM

I like ancient artifacts. I like pre-historic things like dinosaurs. When I lived in NYC I used to go to the two museums on 81st of central park east and west.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Chai on June 22, 2010, 07:47:53 PM
Islamics art its the only thing they do right ie persion carpets its pretty and Introcate and proves I. Not. Biased
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ari Ben-Canaan on June 23, 2010, 03:38:28 AM
As far as non-Jewish stuff...

"The Gallic Wars" and "The Civil War", two books written by Julius Caesar.

"The Art of War", a book written by Sun-Tzu.

"Rule of the Bone", a book written by Russell Banks.

"Neuromancer", a book written by William Gibson. [I like many of his works]

I like Science-Fiction in many different forms.  Horror movies too, to a lessor extent.

Sometimes I like Classical music, I grew up playing the piano and my brother played the cello, my Mom played the flute...

I enjoy Sitar music a lot.  I had a nice collection on my portable hard drive but I have not hooked it up in many months.

I suppose there are more things I could add, but none seem to come to mind.  I like a lot of Jewish culture things as well but it would take me a lot more time to compile a list like that.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 05:18:54 AM
As far as non-Jewish stuff...

"The Gallic Wars" and "The Civil War", two books written by Julius Caesar.

"The Art of War", a book written by Sun-Tzu.

"Rule of the Bone", a book written by Russell Banks.

"Neuromancer", a book written by William Gibson. [I like many of his works]

I like Science-Fiction in many different forms.  Horror movies too, to a lessor extent.

Sometimes I like Classical music, I grew up playing the piano and my brother played the cello, my Mom played the flute...

I enjoy Sitar music a lot.  I had a nice collection on my portable hard drive but I have not hooked it up in many months.

I suppose there are more things I could add, but none seem to come to mind.  I like a lot of Jewish culture things as well but it would take me a lot more time to compile a list like that.
wow,that is a lot.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 23, 2010, 09:11:57 AM
I forgot to mention my 'favorite movie' of all time...

I am a big Blade Runner fan...

(http://www.uca.es/web/actividades/Agenda/imagenes/201002agendafebrero/23-blade_runner.jpg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_runner

Quote
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based loosely on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film depicts a dystopian  Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the all-powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as other mega manufacturers around the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired" by police special operatives known as "blade runners". The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard, who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them all down, while searching for his own identity.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: mord on June 23, 2010, 09:15:30 AM
shaniya twain
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 09:45:34 AM
shaniya twain
who is this female?
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: mord on June 23, 2010, 09:56:56 AM
shaniya twain
who is this female?
shania twain look her up on youtube she's not so modest but a good singer
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Chai on June 23, 2010, 10:53:09 AM
I like scifi too muman . I loveStar trek
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Rubystars on June 23, 2010, 10:58:17 AM
With all due respect I think to pretend that modern Jewish culture was not influenced by its long stay in Europe and other exile areas of the world would be wrong. There were wonderful Jewish composers of European-style classical music as well. Do you think King David ate bagels or gefilte fish? What about Muman's favorites, Jewish rap and heavy metal? I understand why some Jews despise the West and the horrors that were perpetrated on the Jewish people by Western people, but I think it's wrong to say that your own culture is purely Jewish with no other influences. The exile was far too long for that.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Chai on June 23, 2010, 11:21:40 AM
I agree with Ruby

To  ignore this fact will only hurt us

 
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 12:06:24 PM
With all due respect I think to pretend that modern Jewish culture was not influenced by its long stay in Europe and other exile areas of the world would be wrong. There were wonderful Jewish composers of European-style classical music as well. Do you think King David ate bagels or gefilte fish? What about Muman's favorites, Jewish rap and heavy metal? I understand why some Jews despise the West and the horrors that were perpetrated on the Jewish people by Western people, but I think it's wrong to say that your own culture is purely Jewish with no other influences. The exile was far too long for that.
nobody denies that.jewish culture is as muchas western as the american one ifnot more.but we still have a differences and things that are uniqe.the same is true to every western culture from australia to argentina.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: ✡ Hindu Zionist ॐ on June 23, 2010, 12:22:22 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 23, 2010, 12:27:18 PM
With all due respect I think to pretend that modern Jewish culture was not influenced by its long stay in Europe and other exile areas of the world would be wrong. There were wonderful Jewish composers of European-style classical music as well. Do you think King David ate bagels or gefilte fish? What about Muman's favorites, Jewish rap and heavy metal? I understand why some Jews despise the West and the horrors that were perpetrated on the Jewish people by Western people, but I think it's wrong to say that your own culture is purely Jewish with no other influences. The exile was far too long for that.

I never claimed that what I like is purely Jewish culture. What Jews have done throughout the Galut is to take the 'culture' of the host nation and attempt to elevate it in a way that glorifies Hashem. The music I mentioned Amaseffer and ProdEzra both use the gentile forms of music and elevate it with Jewish themes and nigguns {Traditional Jewish melodies}.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggun

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Nigun (pl. nigunim, Hebrew: ניגון‎) or niggun (pl. niggunim) is a Hebrew term meaning “humming tune.” Usually, the term refers to religious songs and tunes that are sung by groups. It is a form of voice instrumental music, often without any lyrics or words, although sounds like “bim-bim-bam” or “Ai-ai-ai!” are often used. Sometimes, Bible verses or quotes from other classical Jewish texts are sung repetitively in the form of a nigun. Nigunim are largely improvisations, though they could be based on thematic passage and are stylized in form. Nigunim are also sung as a Jewish prayer in the form of a lament. Other nigunim may be joyous or victorious. Nigunim are especially central to Jewish worship in Hasidic Judaism, which evolved its own structured, soulful forms to reflect mystical dveikut and joy. Hasidic nigunim capture the Hasidic popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism, centred around the mystical charisma of the Rebbe and their teachings.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 12:32:42 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: HiWarp on June 23, 2010, 12:36:24 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?

I took it for granted that you are just a terrible speller with a lazy typing style but, for goodness sake, bros li??? If you can't even spell Bruce Lee correctly, I think you must be faking for effect.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 12:37:48 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?

I took it for granted that you are just a terrible speller with a lazy typing style but, for goodness sake, bros li??? If you can't even spell Bruce Lee correctly, I think you must be faking for effect.
do you have something USEFUL to say? and yes in in hebrew his name is bros li and not bruce lee.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: IsraeliGovtAreKapos on June 23, 2010, 12:50:16 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?

I took it for granted that you are just a terrible speller with a lazy typing style but, for goodness sake, bros li??? If you can't even spell Bruce Lee correctly, I think you must be faking for effect.
do you have something USEFUL to say? and yes in in hebrew his name is bros li and not bruce lee.

What he said is very useful and correct. Start typing normally or else your value is lower than your value for now (as a clown).

And in Hebrew it's Bruce Lee just like in English.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 12:53:04 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?

I took it for granted that you are just a terrible speller with a lazy typing style but, for goodness sake, bros li??? If you can't even spell Bruce Lee correctly, I think you must be faking for effect.
do you have something USEFUL to say? and yes in in hebrew his name is bros li and not bruce lee.

What he said is very useful and correct. Start typing normally or else your value is lower than your value for now (as a clown).

And in Hebrew it's Bruce Lee just like in English.
i realy don't care what a the jewish version of nazism think on me.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: ✡ Hindu Zionist ॐ on June 23, 2010, 12:53:39 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?
he was gifted, but was too crazy about his stuff. too much of anything goes against you.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: IsraeliGovtAreKapos on June 23, 2010, 12:54:02 PM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?

I took it for granted that you are just a terrible speller with a lazy typing style but, for goodness sake, bros li??? If you can't even spell Bruce Lee correctly, I think you must be faking for effect.
do you have something USEFUL to say? and yes in in hebrew his name is bros li and not bruce lee.

What he said is very useful and correct. Start typing normally or else your value is lower than your value for now (as a clown).

And in Hebrew it's Bruce Lee just like in English.
i realy don't care what a the jewish version of nazism think on me.

OMG you're so good in revealing your real face it's just amazing  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

How can someone be that stupid?
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Rubystars on June 23, 2010, 12:54:12 PM
What he said is very useful and correct. Start typing normally or else your value is lower than your value for now (as a clown).

People who promote Nazi ideas like creating an ubermensch as ben m did, don't have much value anyway.

That latest typo (intentional or not), reminded me of this comedy clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NTyMl1HJU
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: IsraeliGovtAreKapos on June 23, 2010, 12:55:10 PM
What he said is very useful and correct. Start typing normally or else your value is lower than your value for now (as a clown).

People who promote Nazi ideas like creating an ubermensch as ben m did, don't have much value anyway.

That latest typo (intentional or not), reminded me of this comedy clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NTyMl1HJU


Now his friends go against him ROFL :::D
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 12:57:20 PM
What he said is very useful and correct. Start typing normally or else your value is lower than your value for now (as a clown).

People who promote Nazi ideas like creating an ubermensch as ben m did, don't have much value anyway.

That latest typo (intentional or not), reminded me of this comedy clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_NTyMl1HJU


Now his friends go against him ROFL :::D
she was my friend only in your eyes.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Rubystars on June 23, 2010, 01:00:26 PM
I try to be nice to most people here but some stuff just goes over the line.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 01:05:23 PM
I try to be nice to most people here but some stuff just goes over the line.
and this is why you unlocked this thread.
btw.okay i am sorry about that.i just realy can't understand why you guys are accepting kaballa and can't accept sciencewhich promote the same thing.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Rubystars on June 23, 2010, 01:07:08 PM
I try to be nice to most people here but some stuff just goes over the line.
and this is why you unlocked this thread.
btw.okay i am sorry about that.i just realy can't understand why you guys are accepting kaballa and can't accept sciencewhich promote the same thing.

I don't personally believe in kaballah but I don't think I would be allowed to really study it anyway to know what it's all about, because

1. I'm not Jewish
2. I'm too young
and 3. I'm a woman.

If you grow out of some of your immature ideas and learn to temper them with morals then I think you'll be liked a lot more on this board.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: IsraeliGovtAreKapos on June 23, 2010, 01:10:43 PM
I try to be nice to most people here but some stuff just goes over the line.
and this is why you unlocked this thread.
btw.okay i am sorry about that.i just realy can't understand why you guys are accepting kaballa and can't accept sciencewhich promote the same thing.

How the HELL does the Toraht Ha'Kabalah teach the same as Nazi psuedo-science? ???
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Mishmaat on June 23, 2010, 03:28:08 PM
Who the hell keeps on locking this thread?

Let's bury the hatchet and cut the nonsense for awhile. This started out as a harmless thread.

Personally, I like the culture and traditions of Sephardi Jews, particularly the Yemenite Jews.

I'm also fascinated by the culture of Native Americans. I own a few articles of Sioux Indian clothing. Shawls, sweaters, etc.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 03:32:14 PM
Who the hell keeps on locking this thread?

Let's bury the hatchet and cut the nonsense for awhile. This started out as a harmless thread.

Personally, I like the culture and traditions of Sephardi Jews, particularly the Yemenite Jews.

I'm also fascinated by the culture of Native Americans. I own a few articles of Sioux Indian clothing. Shawls, sweaters, etc.
okay i locked twice the thread after it shifted from a harmless thread to a filth throwing thread.anyway please all of oyu,i know yu like different cultures so much but please be more specific.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: muman613 on June 23, 2010, 03:53:47 PM
(http://www.healthproo2.com/images/test-results/60_hr_mold_yeast_bacteria.jpg)
My favorite culture in a culture dish
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Rubystars on June 23, 2010, 03:57:49 PM
okay i locked twice the thread after it shifted from a harmless thread to a filth throwing thread.anyway please all of oyu,i know yu like different cultures so much but please be more specific.

Thanks I was asking in the mod section who locked it and now I know. I thought I might have done it by mistake the first time so I unlocked it then it was locked again so I thought a mod did it.  ;D

Muman, that petri dish certainly is well-cultured.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ben m on June 23, 2010, 05:14:36 PM
I try to be nice to most people here but some stuff just goes over the line.
and this is why you unlocked this thread.
btw.okay i am sorry about that.i just realy can't understand why you guys are accepting kaballa and can't accept sciencewhich promote the same thing.

How the HELL does the Toraht Ha'Kabalah teach the same as Nazi psuedo-science? ???
yask yourself.you are a pseudo jew.
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: Ari Ben-Canaan on June 23, 2010, 09:02:27 PM
I forgot to mention my 'favorite movie' of all time...

I am a big Blade Runner fan...

(http://www.uca.es/web/actividades/Agenda/imagenes/201002agendafebrero/23-blade_runner.jpg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_runner

Quote
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based loosely on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film depicts a dystopian  Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the all-powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as other mega manufacturers around the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired" by police special operatives known as "blade runners". The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard, who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them all down, while searching for his own identity.

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Great choice Muman.  One of the greatest films ever created.  A benchmark! :dance: :dance: :dance:
Title: Re: what is your favorite piece of culture
Post by: HiWarp on June 24, 2010, 05:23:41 AM
i have a liking for ancient chinese culture. Always liked watching kung fu, chinese martial arts based action TV programs since childhood.

also like reading about kabbalah.
great.do you like bros li?

I took it for granted that you are just a terrible speller with a lazy typing style but, for goodness sake, bros li??? If you can't even spell Bruce Lee correctly, I think you must be faking for effect.
do you have something USEFUL to say? and yes in in hebrew his name is bros li and not bruce lee.

Perhaps this will be more USEFUL for you.

People who are lazy in one aspect of their life are usually lazy in other aspects as well. Some of your posts, which sound like you type before thinking things through, show that your laziness in not using capital letters and spell check carries over to other things. That is a shame.

Let me be proactive here and say that I make allowances for your age and immaturity in guessing that you will be offended by what I've written and react like a typical 16 year old by attacking me. I am not writing this to belittle you but to offer friendly advise that may help you later in your life. How you choose to take it and whether or not you use it is your business.

Phfft, now that that nonsense is over......

I enjoy SciFi and second Blade Runner as one of the best ever. I'm also a huge Star Trek fan.