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THE TESTAMENT OF JEAN MESLIER
Dear friends, I wish to declare to you in writing
Something that in life I never told you
About a hateful tyrannical and evil lie
Rooted in the silence of reasonable minds
The religions in the world
They are inventions and purely human institutions
Those who invented them used a god
For laws and commandments to be enforced
False, false mysteries, false, false solemnities and false divine worship
With the pretext of heaven, they give you a life of misery
With the excuse of another non-existent life
The imaginary penalties of an invented hell
I wish that all the great
And noble of the earth
Be hanged and strangled
With the guts of the priests
So much stupidity my dear friends
Don't be led by these hypocrites
Through these words I offer you a means
So that, if you want to, you can free yourself
All religions and political laws
Are detestable mysteries of inequity
Priests and authorities seize you
They will indoctrinate and hold you captive!
Religions do not and cannot contribute
Strong reasons or evidence of credibility
Nor the prophecies of the supposed saints
Nor their alleged acts in the name of divinity
Religion forces you to believe in absurd things
It endorses principles that disrupt nature
Allows tyranny, authorizes vexations against justice
A yoke of dominance against humanity
False, false mysteries, false, false solemnities and false divine worship
With the pretext of heaven, they give you a life of misery
With the excuse of another non-existent life
The imaginary penalties of an invented hell
I wish that all the great
And noble of the earth
Be hanged and strangled
With the guts of the priests
So much stupidity my dear friends
Don't be led by these hypocrites
Through these words I offer you a means
So that, if you want to, you can free yourself
All religions and political laws
Are detestable mysteries of inequity
I already take almost no part in what is done in the world
The dead, whom I am about to join, no longer worry about anything
So, I will finish this with nothing
I am hardly more than nothing and soon will be nothing…
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De Rerum Natura
07:05
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DE RERUM NATURA
O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts!
In what darkness of life,
in what great dangers ye spend
this little span of years!
To the nature of the body
Few things are necessary
Treasures are of no use
Nor the nobility nor the glory
Stay away from pain
Dominate restlessness and fear
Enjoy a sensation of well-being
This taught of Epicurus, my friend
The dark night won’t make the way disappear for you
Without you having contemplated the last secrets
De rerum natura, casus, ἀταραξία
Accidents from matter and space
Yourself already, any day
Overcome by the hideous words
Emanated by the starseers
You will try to separate yourself from us
There is no preexistence of a soul
Or eternity out of the body
The mortal and the eternal do not converge
Plato and Pythagoras disproved
Abandon the fears of death
Free yourself from worries
Rest in contemplation
Dispel fear with knowledge
The walls of the world open
With the radiance of the senses
However, it is not the only thing
As hidden movements occur
Beneath the sensations
Particles that dance like the stars
Without a cause or need
No gods, no ends, casus
What exists is not limited
It’s not going towards any direction
There is no beyond from this nature
Lack of limits and measures
Continuous motion production
Such is the nature of the space
Thus, the extent of the abyss
To and from everywhere
The dark night won’t make the way disappear for you
Without you having contemplated the last secrets
De rerum natura, casus, ἀταραξία
Accidents from matter and space
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Topology of Violence
09:11
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TOPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE
Violence never disappears
It is present, it has adapted
It manifests in different forms
According to the social constellation
It retires to capillary levels
Subcommunicative, pre-reflective and neural
Trying to go unnoticed by hiding
Coinciding and blending with freedom
Topological transformation
Violence is mutating
From the visible to the invisible
From the frontal to the viral
From brute force to mediated force
From the real to the virtual
From the physical to the psychic
From the negative to the positive
Domination techniques exercising symbolic terror
Suspicious coexistence between freedom and control
Over-communication, over-information, hyper-attention
Over-production, efficiency, transparency
Objectification, globalization, publicity objects
Voluntarily given over to the panopticon
More communication doesn't mean more proximity
Routine dynamics innervated by distance
Silent linguistic violence of positivity
Pretensions of autonomy internalizing it
Dangerous invisibility that leaves you defenseless
Illusion of self-realization through exhaustion
Topological transformation
Violence is mutating
From the visible to the invisible
From the frontal to the viral
From brute force to mediated force
From the real to the virtual
From the physical to the psychic
From the negative to the positive
Individual repressing himself from inside
Victims and executioners at the same time
Living in the achievement society
Existence reduced to vital functions
Their lives are like those of the undead
They are too alive to die and too dead to live
Intrusion, invasion, infection
Mass in full exposure, veiled coercion
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INSURRECTIONARY REFLECTIONS
Apparent autonomy, ornate enslavement
Trivialization of thought, lethargy infringed
Coprophagy admitted, celebrated and revered
Malevolent trivialization of the important
Machinery parts don’t ever find out
Of its perishable functionality
Swim against the current, I know it's not simple
I am there with you so that we can be more and more
Let's head bang the edge of the boundaries
No more servility, insurrectionary reflections
Plastic life, synthetic happiness
Virtual wellness that hides insecurities
Fake smiles, anxious exteriority
Absurd archetypes, lost interiority
Fear takes over your thoughts
The invisible hand guides you, pretending to know about you
You walk through the streets, predetermined
Giving up your life for the gains of others
You're drawn again and again pretending cunning
Serving the plans designed, designed for you
Chasing the crumbs they offer you
Imitating the stupidity of fabricated idols
A blanket of individualism that grows
Excision of the possibility of community
Creation of imaginary enemies
Treacherously installed traps
Economy of bodies and their energies
Distractions within reach of hand
Swim against the current, I know it's not simple
I am there with you so that we can be more and more
Let's head bang the edge of the boundaries
No more servility, insurrectionary reflections
Idiotization as a flag of prestige
Watching the pyrotechnics until blindness
Clouded by excessive stimulations
And at the end of the day nothing satisfies you
A system of oppression adjusting
Devouring your wishes and desires
Wake up, no one else will do it for you
Be doubtful, suspect, criticize, look behind the curtain
Look behind the curtain
Reflections
Insurrection
Insurrection
Insurrection
Insurrection!
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Words
05:58
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WORDS
Imprecise expressions
Mental allegories
Intention to signify
Thought impulses
Words
Shades
Words
Echoes
Trying to interpret the elusive impressions
Describing experiences, affirming and denying
Seeking security, we forge sharp swords
With the intellect we weave complex concepts
Imprecise expressions
Mental allegories
Intention to signify
Thought impulses
Giving a content to nothing
Playing to capture sensations
Sounds stroking the surface
Imposed discursive correspondence
Limited by conditions and uses
Our babblings enunciate
The sublime night sky
Or the putrid smell of a cadaver
Covering the need for perfect logic
Aspirations of an ideal and pristine language
Models, figures, rules, signs and symbols
Tangled structures that build narratives
Trying to interpret the elusive impressions
Describing experiences, affirming and denying
Seeking security, we forge sharp swords
With the intellect we weave complex concepts
Giving a content to nothing
Playing to capture sensations
Sounds stroking the surface
Imposed discursive correspondence
Limited by conditions and uses
Our babblings enunciate
The sublime night sky
Or the putrid smell of a cadaver
Words
Shades
Words
Echoes
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Story of the Eye
07:22
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STORY OF THE EYE
Capricious and naughty boys
There are no prohibitions
Wrong upbringing with pain
Obeying the instincts
Kids playing discovering themselves
Thoughtless and transgressors
Furiously keeping their childhood
Unleashing storms of pleasure
There’s no virtue
Sex, orgy, passion
There’s no virtue
Sex, orgy, passion
Teens in the limit of childhood
Sex in state of evolution
Exciting game of disobedience
Destroying masks of innocence
Moving in time of pleasure
Embodying unconscious desire
Refined aesthetic experiences
Unprecedented show and happiness
Blood, obscenity
Violated morality
Pleasure, wickedness
Cruelty, sacrilege
The words are not needed
Sleepwalkers inflamed of passion
The sperm becomes into blood
Moves with synchronicity
Mute understanding
An oniric prison
Multiplying the excess
Unleashing the violence
The visual sex, the sexual eye
Carnal obsession, peculiar eye
Erotic vice, there are no qualms
Full voyeurism, visual obsession
Story of the eye, story of the eye
Story of the eye, story of the eye
Story of the eye, story of the eye
Story of the eye, story of the eye
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Carvakas Santiago, Chile
Carvakas is a death metal band formed in 2010 in Santiago, Chile.
In musical terms straight inclined
towards death metal including progressive dyes in some passages of the compositions without neglecting the weight and brutality so characteristic of the genre. At the same time, the lyrics appealing to the development of critical thinking through exploring these philosophical topics.
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