“Psychologists have long agreed that one of the greatest enemies of human happiness is ‘hedonic adaptation’ – the predictable and frustrating way in which any new source of pleasure we obtain, whether it’s as minor as a new piece of electronic gadgetry or as major as a marriage, swiftly gets relegated to the backdrop of our lives. We grow accustomed to it, and so it ceases to deliver so much joy. It follow, then, that regularly reminding yourself that you might lose any of the things that you currently enjoy – indeed, that you will definitely lose them all, in the end, when death catches up with you – would reverse the adaptation effect.”
— Oliver Burkeman

Fingerbanger 1: Ikebe Shakedown – The Beast (don lowed)

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Terror experts said extremist U.S. literature and Islamist readings may reach vastly different audiences but the themes are largely the same. Both suggest wide-ranging plots by the U.S. and Israeli governments; that time is running out before an intended apocalypse, and heroes must act before it is too late. – Wall Street Journal

Fingerbanger 2: Dday One – Anechoic Chamber (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Dhamma Baby – Laughing Buddha Bass (don lowed)

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“And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” -James Madison

Fingerbanger 4: Shmack – Peepers (don lowed)

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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” – John Steinbeck

…pretty much erryone I know is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Even the ones that are millionaires.

Fingerbanger 5: Red Astaire – In The Sunshine (don lowed)

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