Hentenza said:

Godwin law. lol

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Yes some bad bad person brought up Hitler. Right?

Yogi's Gang

ozso said:

So it's "Trump is worse than Hitler".

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Is it?

I mean, who said that?

Yeshua HaDerekh said:

LOL, you left out Clinton! Wonder why...

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If you can show that Clinton was accused of sexual assault by young girls or was caught creeping into girl's dressing rooms, feel free to show us. That stuff seems to be unique to Trump among presidents.

Lord i pray for the victims in this situation.. Grab a hold of them and stay by their side as you heal them. I pray for their recovery. Amen

As far as the most dangerous cities in the United States, Washington D.C. doesn't even make the top 20:

But Trump's statement is coming from a sundowning old buy who thinks windmills cause cancer, and claims people have to produce ID to buy groceries.

idma said:

What I mean is that the loudness, softness, interesting hits/snaps/riffs/melodies, are never heard by the bass. Its done by everybody else, and the bass provides, well, the bass. As in it certainly adds a lot of weight to a part, but it doesn't bring in the interest.

You can argue that bass certainly provides the loudness to a song, but its something everybody builds on and therefore only goes so far in dynamics.

As for leading while playing bass, do you basically give all responsibility for dynamics to your team? How complex does your playing get rhythmically?

The reason I ask is in the P&W song recordings, while the swells, melodies, and over all dynamics can be pretty far reaching, the bass really doesn't contribute much the moment there are more instruments playing.

I can only hear its impact when there is a particularly soft part of the song and barely anything is playing, and the bass stops. Then the song ramps up a little but only the bass is added in. At that point I can feel its weight and how the song feels like its gonna get more exciting. But then the moment everything else comes in, the bass is regulated to just...well...the bass.

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I think you're noticing something common in a lot of modern church music. The bass can sometimes sound lower in the mix when the band is in full swing. But that doesn't mean it's less important—its role just shifts.

The bass is crucial in providing a solid foundation and rhythmic pulse for the band, (hopefully) enhancing the overall worship experience. The bassist's primary job is to establish the groove, lock in with the drummer, outline the chord changes, and create a supportive and cohesive sound.

In big, layered sections, the bass anchors the harmony, groove, and energy. You may not hear it distinctly, but you feel it. Even when it's not in the spotlight, the bass is essential. Remove it, and the song loses warmth, drive, and depth.

The magic often comes from being felt, not featured. The congregation may not always notice you, but they'll notice when you're gone.

As for signalling tempo or volume change, consider some of these:
You can use physical cues and body language. Step forward slightly, make eye contact, or nod your head when a change is coming. Move to face the drummer so everyone knows a change is coming. Nod your head to indicate the new tempo. Lean in toward your instrument or exaggerate your movements to indicate intensity changes.

Disclosure: I have not led a worship group since the mid-1970s, but I have been playing electric bass guitar or double bass to support congregational and choir singing in the Catholic church for about 45 years.

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Lady: Are you the police?
Elwood Blues: No, ma'am, we're musicians ... We're on a mission from God.

Gregory Thompson said:

We receive the same Holy Spirit that gives gifts in the bible. So yeah, the same gifts are given today.

The context is:
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. (1 Corinthians 14:13)

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And you are saying that you also have spoken in. tongues and are a. prophet. ??

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2PhiloVoid said:

I could be wrong, but I'm getting the sense that you think I have quite a bit of erroneous thinking in my approach to the Christian Faith or in my mode of interpreting.

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That’s not the case; I find most of what you write to be extremely interesting and I’d say you’re one of the more learned members.

I just don’t understand why my recommendation you use AI in a careful manner to test the limits of knowledge would translate to interpreting the posts of other members in the worst possible light.

My goal was to provide a specific technical recommendation - that being, that insofar as AI has problems with reliably conveying information unless used extremely carefully, that the use case you were outlying struck me as one that would warrant additional caution. This is particularly the case with less advanced AIs that many people use, for example, Anthropic or Google DeepMind.

rjs330 said:

If you ask me, I'm seeing tariffs as an end run around the VAT tax. Its interesting to me that so many oppose tariffs becauae its a tax on the people. Yet they live in areas that tax the people and support raising taxes on the people. In our country we have very few Democrats who have never met a tax they didnt like. Except the tariff of course.

Personally, I have the gut feeling I dont like the tariffs as they stand. Im okay with them being used to get fair trade because other countries use them as well. I mean we didnt hear any Canadians crying about tariffs American goods which caused them to pay higher prices. Same goes for European countries. Either they are a tax on the people or they are not.

And if they are then no anyone opposing tariffs in America should also oppose any tariffs in their own cou try for the same reason.

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The effect on US consumers is very direct. An imported product used to cost $100. Now (from 20% countries), the cost is somewhere between say $110. We might find a similar US product for $105 and buy it. We then would ONLY be paying 5% more. I suppose all the tariff could be absorbed by the producer and importing company. That would mean that the company was extracting exorbitant profits. Unless this were a product for which there was no substitute, this rarely happens. Someone would have undercut the producer long ago.
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There is no reasonable scenario where the price goes down on an important good with a 20% tariff.

And yet they are our brothers and sisters. "Wherever you do to the least of my people..."

But what are we to do besides ship them out of our sight?

In our little community people complain about the soup kitchen because it seems to attract more homeless.

2PhiloVoid said:

And you're tell me this, why?

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What I’m suggesting is that the position of the text in the structure of the Bible is less important than where the text occurs in the liturgy, in the worship of the church, where the text is expounded upon to the laity.

Specifically, if we look at all historic churches, there is a lectionary, an organized system whereby Scripture is read in such a way as to stress the Gospel message and show the Old Testament prophecies that link to it.

We know from Luke 24, from the words of Christ our True God, that the Old Testament is talking about Him - we cannot separate the Old Testament from Christ or read its stories without bearing in mind that it is primarily Christological prophecy, with a secondary narrative which relates to recurrent human sin, which shows us why we need Christ. Every book in the Old Testament should be read as prophetic rather than as a purely literal historical text, which is not to deny the literal truth of the Old Testament but to say that what that truth is relates to what our incarnate God said it was before His ascension as documented by St. Luke the Evangelist, a point further reinforced in the Gospel according to St. John the Beloved Apostle, who intentionally structures John 1 as a commentary on Genesis 1, which in turn allows us to recognize Genesis 1 as, among other things, a prophecy of what would happen to our Lord during the week of His passion - how He would recreate man on the Cross in His image, before resting in the tomb on the Seventh Day and rising again in glory on the First, as the Light of the World.

Apple Sky said:

It's so obvious that this is how they get their images of the earth being a ball.

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Obviously not. Show me any photo taken with a fisheye camera that makes any shape into a perfect circle.
Back to my request for evidence and references. Can you provide any?

Fantine said:

Not yet...
If you live in an area prone to hurricanes or wildfires, what will you do without FEMA?

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Pretty much the same thing my brethren in east TN and western NC are doing, "Root hog or die". Prolly too many MAGA folks there.

Fantine said:

One rural hospital about 90 miles away from us has already closed.

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Like "Well, Trump got elected, turn off the lights."?

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What will you do when yours closes?

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Fortunately Middle Tennesee is chocablock with hospitals.

Fantine said:

What will you do when the next pandemic comes (10% chance in the next five years) and our medical research and hospitals are 5 years behind the times with medical technology?

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Probably the same thing I did with Covid 19, put on the mask and about my business. No specific treatment, or prophylaxis, until Trump's "Warp Speed" project ground out a workable vaccine. (Which, comically enough, big name Dems assured us it would never work, and that they've never take a vaccine that was produced by a Trump initiative, The original Vaccine Resistors, aka Nincompoops.

Fantine said:

What will you do when tariffs raise your prices--or if things become unavailable?

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Same thing I did when Biden's inflation raised prices (and they still haven't returned to pre-Biden levels). When toilet paper became unavailable during the pandemic, I bought a couple of bidet toilet seats and thought no more about it.

Fantine said:

Yeah, all those bad things, but what bothers me most is the erosion of our freedoms and rights--particularly for minorities, LGBTQ, trans, women of childbearing age? I

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s this the "Black Folks Can"t Vote Because They Don't Have IDs" baloney again? Kinda like we Asians can't get jobs because we can't speak English. <Laugh>

What rights do LGBTCQDXDEKC4NWD not have that I do as a boring old heterosexual? I'm at a loss on that one.

rans? Are we talking about "the right to join the military"? There is no such "right", there's a long list of things that that will keep you out of uniform. The "right" for biological men to compete in sports against biological Women? Thta's simply a matter of eliminating bio-women from "women's" sport.

The right to mutilate children because they (or, more often, their "parents" ) think they ought to have been born with different physiology than they actually did? I'd make that a hanging offense, but that's just me. I take the sanctity of children to be children, and not to be sacrificed by their "parents", or anyone else to the diabolical god of the zeitgeist.

Women of childbearing age? Abortion? That was never properly a "right", unless you'd like to amend the Constitution to make it one; there's a codified process for doing that, be my guest.

Blue spoke and mirrors, matey

Fantine said:

Oh, and all the people with darker complexions--the state troopers and local police have been "deputized" to serve as ICE agents, getting ICE training,

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IE, 'brown people" are ICE agents too. Imagine that! Did you expect them to be excluded due to their color?

Fantine said:

so if you are walking while brown-skinned, driving while brown-skinned, watching your child's ball game while brown-skinned, your local police can question you, apprehend you, even deport you?

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Questioned? Sure. Anybody can be questioned. As for doing stuff "brown skinned', that includes me, at least in the summertime. Never had it happen; maybe it's my slanty eyes that exclude me from persecution, i need to start wearing sunglasses and see if I get arrested. I'm unlikely to be arrested for being brown in Williamson County TN due to the number of dark South Asians, kinda brown East Asians like me (they'd have to catch me in the summer, though), sure enough Latinos who've been here since dirt, are pillars of the church, who'd laught you scorn if you threatened them with deportation (you can't deport a citizen), and would then sue you, and the county, and the whoever else happened to be standing too close, and probably win. Are there illegals who are at risk of being nabbed? Yep, some of them friends of mine. Th'ey're keeping a low profile, and thus they're not to worried about being bothered, because it isn't just the average Jose who's likely to be picked up, it's the bad guys, and those who hang with them. Eve n in the Racist South, the local coppers aren't interested in arrested some poor geezer who's just trying to keep a roof over his head. They want the Bad Guys, and unfortunately there 's no dearth of them. And the good news, they're not the one's filling the pews in La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe every Sunday. The Bad Guys are out being Bad Guys. And if you're a Bad Guy, and here illegally, then Adios, muchacho, y no vuelvas!

Fantine said:

Six months and our dying democracy resembles a totalitarian police state more every day.

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Ridiculous politcal posturing of the "Trump is literally Hitler" species. You'll ignore an actual, orchestrated grossly illegal conspiracy at the highest levels of government, to oust the legally and legitimately elected president from 2016 to 2020
but screech about Hit let if Trump wants to raise tariffs. That's simple insanity.

2PhiloVoid said:

Do you always read what other write in the worst possible light, making inferences as to what they mean without due process of inquiry?

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No? What makes you say that?

stevevw said:

It is but I wonder also that God did not give some hints lol. Like the term void.

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It describes the Earth at creation, not yet formed into what it would become.

stevevw said:

In some ways I see the Genesis and other figurative stories like parables. Its the message behind it that counts.

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Precisely so. Parables are not falsehoods; they are truths put in story form.

The Barbarian said:

Not surprising...

“I’ve known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

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And that quote was 2 years AFTER Trump now seems to be saying he shunned Epstein over Epstein stealing Trump's staff - staff that were all notably "on the younger side!"

ozso said:

So it's "Trump is worse than Hitler".

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I think it’s that he fails even for a dictator.

Thank goodness for the rest of us.

NotreDame said:

Do you have a verse allowing for lying under some circumstances?

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Were the handmaidens right for lying to save the babies(? Or was David right to lie to the priest about the consecration of his men? How about Rahab and the Israelite spies?

Bearing false witness isn't just lying, it's making a formal accusation on false pretenses and attempting to get someone punished on the basis of the lie.

Bradskii said:

"Lawrence Taylor, he's an incredible guy and just been my friend a long time. Knew him forever."

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Not surprising...

“I’ve known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”