Jim Alfredson

'Murica.

"... an impressive debut." PROG magazine "The whole album is perfectly composed and performed. The recording, mixing and mastering is incredible." DPRP ""‘The Game of Ouroboros’ is that rare thing, an album with great music and meaningful lyrics..." GetReadyToRock.me.uk "Definitely one for the classic Prog lovers but it deserves wide exposure because it is a remarkable album." Music-News.com "The Game Of Ouroboros is a sonically stunning progressive rock album with excellent...

"...money follows different laws from the rest of nature, flows swiftly not where it is most needed but where it will increase fastest, and is without loyalty or nationality." ~ Joseph Heller

"'We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." ~ Richard Dawkins

"An endearing feature of Greek wars then was that people advocating them often died in them." ~ Joseph Heller writing about the destruction of Melos.

"An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Arguments that explain everything explain nothing." ~ Christopher Hitchens

"But that was precisely it. My questions did not strike me as novel or profound, but basic and elementary. The evasiveness that characterized so many of the responses, from this rabbi and others, suggested that the answers were a tangled spaghetti of sophistry meant to obfuscate rather than illuminate. And always, there were instructions to look further, elsewhere. I hadn’t read the right books. I hadn’t spoken to the right people. I was asked to place my trust in authorities who...

"Chance favors only the prepared mind.". Pasteur

"Fear is the parent of cruelty." Betrand Russell

"Hi Jim, It's a lovely song and really nicely played and sung. I enjoyed listening to it and I wish you the very best with it. Warmest wishes, ~Steve Hackett"

"How can we be born as sinners? Aren’t babies innocent at birth like most believe? Let’s not depend upon human wisdom or modern psychology for the answer." Heaven's no... let's not depend on collected human wisdom or consult modern scientific knowledge. Let's see what a 2000 year old arbitrary collection of tribal myths has to say about it! Hmmmm... it says here that we are all sinners because of something two people did thousands of years ago in a garden with a talking snake....

"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ev...

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavor to comprehend a portion, be it never...

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"If it's on the internet, it must be true." ~Mark Twain

"Increasingly, it looks like life in the future will be nasty, brutish and long."

"It's fuckin' nonsense." Funny... I thought the same thing of his music.