LUNA - rare 45 sleeve 'HOLLYWOOD' '78 (featuring RICK BERLIN of ORCHSETRA LUNA )
this band called LUNA is not the same as the one that began in the 90s, this was RICK BERLIN's band long after the original ORCHESTRA LUNA had disbanded, he went on to form BERLIN AIRLIFT in the early 80s, for reviews of O.L. see the links from the bottom of page 21.........Note; they are also not in relation to the 90s band LUNA who were an offshoot of the great GALAXIE 500, thats another band, another story :)
DORIAN - glam rock lp from '77,
search out a section for DORIAN on page 4 of the 70s invasion, and u can read about a song he did called 'DESTINATION NOWHERE', this one is pure 70s glam trash, with a LOU REED influence, at least the guitars sound like it, someone once wrote that of this lp a number called 'MEN's ROOM' is a sleazy affair, the low point of the lp, whatever the case 'destination nowhere' is a real destination.........
A God of Love? A God of Goodness?
From the Bilbe, Jesus is the Son of God. So we know that Jesus is from the God and goddness. If God is a God of goodness, a God of love why does he let people suffer so much? Thanks guys. -- Haonan Madhudvisa dasa (08-18-03)
Many people, it seems, think there could be not be a God because this world is so messed up. I saw hundreds of postings on the internet after the bomb in the states that killed some children in a kindergarten. They were saying, "If there is God, how could He have done this?" This reaction is a result of the relatively new Christian idea of an "all-loving God". They say an "all-loving God" wouldn't have Hell, He knows we are not perfect so He won't punish us for our sins... But this is nonsense. It is not what Christians believed thirty or forty years ago either.
God is a loving God, but love means He cares about us so if we stray from the path of spiritual life a loving God will arrange to correct us, to get us back on the right path.
All the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of what this world is for. We don't belong here. We have come here to try to be happy independently from God. We want to be the controller, we want to be god. To fulfull our independent desires God has created this world, but it's created in such a way that we can enjoy here but all our enjoyment will end in frustration. This material world is actually created as a place of frustration. If it was all "peaches and cream" we would never contemplate leaving this place...
Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita (8.16):
abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate
"From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains my abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again." So this is a place of misery! [And every time I say this people jump up and down... but what can I do? It is a miserable place!]
There is a little "pleasure" here and there is certainly beauty here but it is not permanent. That is the source of the misery and frustration. We, the spirit souls, are eternal living beings but currently we are covered by these material bodies. When we accept our material bodies as ourselves and work on the bodily platform we are working for temporary things. Even if we achieve these temporary things [and some temporary happiness] in time we will loose them again and become distressed.
So happiness and distress is coming and going like the waves of the ocean, but a self realized soul is not attached to happiness nor is he disturbed by distress. He knows both are temporary manifestations caused by his past activities [karma] in this life and previous lives and that he can't do anything about it. His allotted happiness will come and so will his allotted distress.
Nobody works hard for distress, but distress still comes, so even if we don't work for it our allotted happiness will also automatically come to us. We can't change it by working very hard. It's caused by our activities in the past, we can't change our activities in the past...
Some people, due to their good karma, do enjoy "happy" lives here while others, due to their bad karma, suffer like anything. THIS IS NOT GOD's PARTIALITY. It is the result of OUR actions in the past. God doesn't kill children in a bomb. Those children did something in their previous lives so as a reaction they had to be killed in the bomb blast. It's a result of their own activities...
A devotee takes distress as Krishna's mercy and as an impetus to take spiritual life more seriously.
LEMMING - 70s dutch glam rock
we have a section in our gateway 1 close to the top for this 70s Dutch glam band who sang some great numbers in the style of ALICE COOPER, see also bottom of page 5....