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I was listening to Dots and Loops yesterday. It's such a glorious album. I love that it's connected to the High Llamas via Sean O'Hagan's arrangement work.

You can beat this Blaise. Never forget that it's anxiety fuelling this. You're a victim of your own anxiety running wild.

Stereolab for the win This album has soundtracked my life for the past few years.

It's just occurred to me that you might also try approaching members you feel are worth talking to. If you notice that there are people on your wavelength, send them a message. From experience, this is not always productive, but I have had a few great conversations with members when I've done this.

That's not the same as trying to multiply out your congregation to maximise tithing potential

How delightful :-) Thanks!

It's not all bad. There are some great posters here. I'm admittedly allowing my bad experiences to take the foreground. I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing ideas when there is plenty of common ground.

There are a number of thinkers and creators who produced some incredible work well into their 50s and beyond. RV Williams was in his 80s when he wrote his 8th symphony Verdi wrote Othello and Falstaff in his 70s and 80s

Absolutely. Artists are participants in the Divine in a major way. Artists have their sights set on the transcendentals. A great musician is concerned with the production of truth, beauty and goodness. Great music makes the mind receptive to the fact that the cosmos is charged with the Divine.

This thread needs more love. To that end:

Kanye is an interesting case. No idea what to think of the guy. I'm a cynic by nature, so I automatically assume that the move to Christianity was done out of self-interest. That said, I can't really think how it really benefits him materially. As a personality.... well, I wouldn't teach my...

Cyrus Chestnut has some serious chops.

Not nightingale song, but music :-D

The problem is that you need to have people who are open to alternative perspectives. One has to be open to the possibility that doctrines are subject to change. They can and should be tested and questioned. One then has to be willing to appraise the ideas presented purely on their own merits...

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Cynically, I think that the emphasis on marriage has more than a little to do with the fact that it multiplies the number of congregants in churches.

I was dreading old age until I realised that in indigenous cultures, the elderly are revered. They see further and deeper than the young. Elders are held up and celebrated. Modern society fails to do this. The body ages, but ,for the soul, every season is spring.

I hear you. I take long breaks due to fatigue. I have several threads that I've just abandoned because I don't have the mental or emotional energy to wade through the vitriol, black and white thinking and doubling down. Sorry, you're not going to find it unless you join a discord server. I...

30 was my cold water to face moment. Its the age when you start to consolidate, or think about doing so. Things swim into focus, priorities align. The world becomes sharper. My 20s were a little bit vague.. I had a somewhat hazy view of 30+. At 31, things like old age, retirement and truly...

Yeah cable tv was supplanted ages ago by Netflix and Streaming sites. The format has been replaced. Advetisers have made the transition to social media and brand ambassadors. People aren't willing to have their programming curated for them, they want control. Same thing goes for radio. I...