“There is no group more mythical than Faust” (Julian Cope) “When the Germans do something, they don’t fuck around” (Jean-Hervé Péron): A book about the band Faust, the legendary krautrock group. Fully illustrated, it contains reviews all of the group’s records from the period 1970-75 as well as recounting the rise of krautrock and its relation to the social upheavals of the ’60s.
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In philosophy since the time of Plato there has been a tradition of thinking that all that can really be known about God (‘the One’) is negative. All we know of ultimate things is that we are ignorant, and all we can say with certainty about them is that we don’t know.
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Dialectical Materialist: Sam Harris is a racist. I’d have God over him, and I don’t believe in God. Religious Obscurantist: Not caring isn’t evil. The universe doesn’t care about you, and it isn’t evil either. In short, God resembles the universe more than he resembles a swimming pool attendant. It’s not rocket science.
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