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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 23, 2021 9:39:53 GMT -6
My personal opinion is that music-related online spaces should have a strict "no politics rule"--and yes, I'm aware that I've discussed politics on this forum. Of course, someone will come along who tries to shoehorn politics into everything (sometimes in attempt to gain clout). I think the topic itself could be fine (assuming people don't prioritize politics over their own faith or other people), but I would say the problem is tact and approach about the topic, rather than the topic itself. It's one thing to see a brother or sister share an article, and the community/individual response is, "I don't believe the contents of this article myself." and that's that... Not a problem, everyone can have their own take. ...versus someone who says, "The only people who could even believe this article is real, have Gell-Mann Amnesia." (which was alluded to yesterday on the Discord before I left it) IMO, going about it that way, its now no longer about the article, but that insult. At least to me! Why launch into disrespect like that? D: A street corner preacher practically tackling people on the sidewalk to try and wake them up about hell, even being technically right, is taking an approach that makes anyone in proximity, not even care if he's right. (because they're mad about being tackled instead, and don't even think about the message because the aggression to deliver it, is so much louder) If people would just stop trying to talk about things they don't understand, things would be so much better. JUST ADMIT YOU DON'T KNOW. It's so much better than dealing with obnoxious, proud randos who read a clickbait "news" article and look at a FUNNY HAHA FACEBOOK MEEM and are suddenly philosophers, theologians, and political analysts. Apart from being involved or seeing it firsthand, everyone else essentially has to trust what an article claims. It does seem odd to me how these suddenly political analysts would do something akin to seeing someone post an ABC or CBS article and have no question about its authenticity - because its ABC or CBS. Meanwhile, an article from Hotair, or Breitbart, is immediately attacked/dismissed as misinformation (or made the butt of some snide remarks).... because its from Hotair or Breitbart. (I wouldn't know what else to call that other than confirmation bias)
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Nov 23, 2021 12:19:39 GMT -6
Steve Bannon basically admitted to knowing in advance about the riot at the white house. As far as I'm concerned, Breitbart deserve the reputation they have.
Assuming the same about other conservative sites is silly, though. They should be taken on a case-by-case basis, not rounded up into a buzzword.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 23, 2021 13:04:08 GMT -6
They should be taken on a case-by-case basis, not rounded up into a buzzword. Exactly. Even CNN has actual credible stories sometimes, but I would consider it a lapse of judgement to consider CNN to be 'infallible' or 'inerrant'. (same with any other news site too)
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 27, 2021 9:29:21 GMT -6
I've tackled some more spam on this forum. I wouldn't call it a flood, but its certainly present.
What do you folks think - disable guest accounts from posting? That would make them spamming a little harder to do... (they'd have to create an account, and then get banned and posts removed LOL)
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Post by avjr on Nov 27, 2021 9:48:43 GMT -6
I've tackled some more spam on this forum. I wouldn't call it a flood, but its certainly present. What do you folks think - disable guest accounts from posting? That would make them spamming a little harder to do... (they'd have to create an account, and then get banned and posts removed LOL) Yes.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Nov 27, 2021 12:23:16 GMT -6
Yes. Not ideal but it's very necessary imo
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 28, 2021 9:20:26 GMT -6
Done. People must register/login to post, once again. :B
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 29, 2021 9:29:55 GMT -6
Today is the deadline for my wife to submit her religious exemption to being forced vaccinated to keep her job. (as an ICU charge nurse)
We went over the questions, and they're loaded. Seems to me, they have no intention of honoring them based on the premise of the form that has to be submitted. (it stated in the fine print, if the "religious responses" weren't previously "behavior observed at work", then the exemption wouldn't be honored - as if they expected my wife to 'religiously denounce' the rona vax at work, before being mandated to take it)
Where she's at is "screw it, I'll just take the jab at the 11th hour", and I support whatever she decides, even though she's pissed at this ultimatum from the government.
Her parents and grandparents got the jab, and they were fine. Hopefully, she will be fine too. Lord help me if she's not; I fear I will turn into what mainstream society considers an "extremist" and do something crazy, if she dies because her heart exploded from the jab.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Nov 29, 2021 19:56:51 GMT -6
My whole family is vaccinated and we're all fine. I got sick for a couple days afterward but then was totally fine and have been since.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 2, 2021 10:01:04 GMT -6
My whole family is vaccinated and we're all fine. For 2021, almost all extremely sick (due to severe covid symptoms) persons that entered the ICU my wife works, were vaccinated. They certainly weren't fine. They weren't all really old people either. (20 and 30 year olds too) One of the many reasons my wife (or myself) have chosen not to get the jab. We don't think its poison, or that there's anything wrong with it. I think the vaccine can be helpful to 'at risk' people, and there's a whole lot of reasons people are right to take it. ...but its far from being some miracle serum that needs blanketed across the entire world population or else everyone in the world will just die.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Dec 2, 2021 12:35:30 GMT -6
If they have covid symptoms, they would be sick from covid, wouldn't they? Not from the vaccine?
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Post by julienbakerfan on Dec 4, 2021 9:41:40 GMT -6
If they have covid symptoms, they would be sick from covid, wouldn't they? Not from the vaccine? I think the idea would be that the vaccine would not be as effective against covid as it has been advertised to be. I've noticed that a lot of people who are skeptical of the vaccine aren't opposed to vaccines in general--they're just hesitant about this vaccine in particular. Which is understandable--you have to perform a cost-benefit analysis on it, and it's completely plausible (not certain) to me that a vaccine that was developed quickly may not work well or might have side effects that outweigh the benefits for some people (not necessarily everyone) . On the other hand, some people have used this as an opportunity to rail against vaccine mandates in general, which I don't think is right. Vaccine mandates are a textbook case of justified government coercion, and have also been around for years. I think there might be problems with mandating this vaccine in particular (for example, if it does nothing to decrease transmission), but I don't see a problem with the very idea of a vaccine mandate. I am not a medical professional and this is not medical advice.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 5, 2021 11:32:16 GMT -6
If they have covid symptoms, they would be sick from covid, wouldn't they? Not from the vaccine? I'm sure the people my wife has helped in the ICU were probably sick from Covid, not the vaccine.... but, even the CDC's VAERs data shows that there have been 146,720 cases of "serious injury" reported from the Covid vaccine, and 19,532 cases of "death" reported from the Covid vaccine. (stats to November 26th 2021) I've noticed that a lot of people who are skeptical of the vaccine aren't opposed to vaccines in general--they're just hesitant about this vaccine in particular. I just called my doctor a few weeks ago to make sure I was current on my tetanus shot. (a vaccine) My dad got the flu shot this year. (also a vaccine) Neither one of us (and more of my family) are even considering taking the covid jab, but that won't stop beaurocrats, state media, popular culture entertainment, even fellow Christians, to equate someone 'refusing the covid vaccine' to being 'a complete and total antivaxxer'. There's a comprehensive list of suspicions as to why I won't take it. (I don't have time to elaborate, nor do I think I would be able to without including some form of rant, and I'd just rather not go there today)
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Jan 14, 2022 17:15:23 GMT -6
Year 7 of listening and I can confirm that listening to Malacht's "De Mysteriis Dom Christi" still makes me immensely uneasy.
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Post by julienbakerfan on Jan 17, 2022 11:26:07 GMT -6
Year 7 of listening and I can confirm that listening to Malacht's "De Mysteriis Dom Christi" still makes me immensely uneasy. I once described this album as "the music that makes the members of Slayer hide under their beds scared."
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 17, 2022 14:45:25 GMT -6
I hadn't heard this, I don't think. I found a video on YouTube and..... all I hear are drums, synth, vocals and bass?
I'm all for very raw recordings and experimental music, but I guess I thought there would be guitars somewhere.
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Post by avjr on Jan 17, 2022 22:20:04 GMT -6
I hadn't heard this, I don't think. I found a video on YouTube and..... all I hear are drums, synth, vocals and bass? I'm all for very raw recordings and experimental music, but I guess I thought there would be guitars somewhere. Maybe the synths are “the guitars” in the video.
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Post by julienbakerfan on Jan 19, 2022 7:39:05 GMT -6
I hadn't heard this, I don't think. I found a video on YouTube and..... all I hear are drums, synth, vocals and bass? I'm all for very raw recordings and experimental music, but I guess I thought there would be guitars somewhere. There are multiple versions of DMDC, which differ between formats (e.g. the tape is a different album than the vinyl). I've listened to at least 1.5 out of the 3 (?) and there are guitars, although they are not on every track and usually buried in the mix.
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Post by julienbakerfan on Jan 19, 2022 7:50:53 GMT -6
Confirmed: tape version has some guitars (example: between around 18:20 and 18:40 on the first track, although they're barely audible)
Vinyl version has guitars (around 14:58 on side 1)
Cd version has guitars (33:26 on the first track of the KAM Master).
So yeah, there are definitely guitar parts on the albums, but they're so drenched in reverb and buried in the mix that you can barely hear them or tell that they are guitars.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jan 22, 2022 11:46:01 GMT -6
I'm... mostly sure this is a joke. Hard to be absolutely sure this day and age. This is from the Amazon Web Services terms that they updated this month. (Lumberyard is a 3D engine, but that has nothing to do with me mentioning this clause)
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Feb 22, 2022 11:35:46 GMT -6
Happy 2/22/22 Tuesday. I hope you all have a great 2:22pm.
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Post by avjr on Mar 7, 2022 21:07:12 GMT -6
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Mar 27, 2022 13:19:46 GMT -6
> sees a thread in a Christian community talking about Bible inerrancy > asks if a bible found in a hotel room that's missing a page, is inerrant >> 'The Bible is inerrant' is angrily repeated and reaffirmed, without any further elaboration >> 'no, that's just a copy' >> 'depends on what page' >> 'a Bible we read isn't actually God's word, its just a representation of God's word' >> 'The Bible is inerrant, but a bible being inerrant, depends.' (great answer) > feels happy to see a good explanation, finally > feels concerned over how some Christians respond when a question is asked
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Apr 3, 2022 11:44:31 GMT -6
My job for more than a decade has been customer service by phone. (answering 7+ different 1-800 numbers, ranging from order placement, roadside assistance, service calls for equipment repair, licensing and technical support, etc.)
Yesterday, I had probably one of the most disturbing calls I've ever had. It was on one of the 'conservation' lines I answer (think hunting and fishing licenses, but its not for the state I live in)
An elderly male (born 1945) called in stating he needed a fishing license. He already bought one that was still currently active, so really, he just needed it printed out again. He was at Walmart, and they can do this, but they were giving him a hard time. (they didn't know how to do reprints)
Most callers reaching out to me, if they voice their need for this, its because they don't want to have to pay a fine for fishing without a license on them. This person, voiced their need for this, because they didn't want to 'have to shoot a conservation officer'.
...and he kept saying it... like 5 times on the call, later elaborating he didn't want to have to stab him, or shoot him. He went on to gush that he was an extremely violent person, just got out of prison for murdering someone, and he's 'one of those people' who can't accept any authority.
He was quite rude with the Walmart employees, and stated he's not leaving, until he gets his permit. I was able to help him and them, and this.... psychopath.... got the permit he needed.
The client absolutely wants to know about calls like this, and I stayed after work reporting it. ...but its been renting space in my head on if this was some sort of cry for help, or weird bragging on a state recorded line, or if he would have actually tried to murder an employee at Walmart, if I wasn't able to help.
Yeesh...
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Apr 4, 2022 20:16:17 GMT -6
Well, if he was at a Walmart on a line recorded by the government, and he was asking for (and just got) a new fishing permit, and he confessed he just got out of jail for murder... It should be VERY easy to track him down, at any rate!
I can sympathize with your concern though. It's not something you want to find yourself wrapped up in.
Maybe we should pray for this guy? Sounds like he needs it.
Btw - It sounds like he has oppositional defiant disorder. For the record it's still completely possible for someone with this disorder to be saved. I know about at least one person with ODD who later converted to Christianity.
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Post by avjr on Apr 5, 2022 18:37:37 GMT -6
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Post by avjr on May 28, 2022 21:28:25 GMT -6
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Post by avjr on Aug 29, 2022 18:31:36 GMT -6
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Post by avjr on Oct 29, 2022 15:29:54 GMT -6
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Post by Borndead on Nov 13, 2022 13:54:11 GMT -6
Cheers folks, hope yall have been and are well <3
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