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Lickyouallover25cents's avatar

There are too many content creators. Nobody has time to read every article that lands in their in box. We need real leaders. Hold up a sign on the side of a busy street. You will reach more people, my friend.

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Servetus's avatar

Some men said that the stack was not "content creation", but "WRITING!" These men were wrong, this is social media and it is garbage, unfortunately. It rewires your brain and fucks you up royally for playing, and I can't be a part of that in good conscience

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Chronicles of Retardia's avatar

Isn’t that God’s will and all. I only just discovered you today and went to church and the sermon is a BIG one on sin and Genesis 3 and then I see you’re retiring. Go figure! 😉

I’m wary of GC: he’s gone from free subscription to paywall, under the rubric of his words and effort are too great to give away for free. I’m not trusting on anyone who believes in evolution, scapegoats the Jews and denies Jesus. Just sayin’

Anyway, good to have met you, if briefly 🙏

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Servetus's avatar

Literally trust nobody online friend. This is social media: everyone is farming your attention for money, and I can't be a part of it in good conscience. Be very wary in real life too, those are the ones that hurt. I might still ghost in for some essays but I despise social media so I don't want to be a part of the scene

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Chronicles of Retardia's avatar

I initially thought I wanted to be part of the SS scene, but now I want no part of it 😉

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Servetus's avatar

That is the best effect I could ever have on anyone! I thank God I didn't get some serious traction here, because then I'd be going through the whole windmill of monetization, catering a message, yada yada... this is mental plutonium. It is in no wise a good thing to be on here, and I am genuinely a lot happier since I cut it loose. Breath the free air: this is a prison.

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Chronicles of Retardia's avatar

100% I came on here for some fresh air in early 2023 but it has, yes, turned into a mental prison 😞

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Chronicles of Retardia's avatar

Isn’t that God’s will and all. I only just discovered you today and went to church and the sermon is a BIG one on sin and Genesis 3 and then I see you’re retiring. Go figure! 😉

I’m wary of GC: he’s gone from free subscription to paywall, under the rubric of his words and effort are too great to give away for free. I’m not trusting on anyone who believes in evolution, scapegoats the Jews and denies Jesus. Just sayin’

Anyway, good to have met you, if briefly 🙏

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I often find that tame impala song relevant. It is in deed sad to see you go, but alas, i have seen and felt in real life that of which you speak. People hold their hands over there ears and very literally yell out over my voice that they dont want to hear it. Not many seek the truth and even less want to hear it when they stumble upon it. It feels lonely. If i am honest with myself, it is those people coincidentally that i pray for the least. Maybe i should pray for them more. We are all just a cog in a wheel, a small piece in the mechanism of God's big clock, each if us only aware of our own turning, never aware of the movements we provoke down the line. It is just as God intended it, lest we grow pompous and self important. For what its worth i would love to hear your writing on martin luther. R.c. sproul had a chapter about him in his book The Holiness of God that expounded on the man in a way i had never heard, talked about his gassiness (yes, farts) and his steadfastness throughout his spells of what on the surface one could call situational cowardice, though now more understandable as an anxiety of some sort. He never gave up though, prayed to God for the strength and carried on, tried again. He was some kinda punk rock. Hold fast friend, for we are never meant to know, in this life at least, how many wheels you have turned. Shalom

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Servetus's avatar

That Tame Impala song is too relevant. Makes me wonder why we get slop and Adelle clones in "christian" music. So much good ground to cover but we get copycat slop that isn't even relevant, but plays it safe for profit. Western Christianity has truly died

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Pray for them, but don't waste your time. They want what they want and they choose what they choose. It is the overwhelming bulk of these people that has done the rest of us in... by all means pray, but know who you're praying for: the evil, the wicked, the destroyers, the confusers; agents of satan. Every single one of us has a part, and an agency, we aren't destined to anything: every man must choose, and almost all choose poorly, especially "christians" nowadays. Sproul has some good things to say and he was definitely a fan of Luther, Luther was a very interesting character. It is my strong opinion (see my name) that Calvin was trash and horrible, but Luther got most everything right, but it's a complicated picture with him as it is with everyone under the sun. David didn't get it all right, either. Shalom. I wish the stack wasn't social media garbage, but it is

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I honestly dont know much about calvin, though it seems he ellicits very strong emotions from people. I never understood naming christian movements after human people, it feels wrong. The problem i see is that people often think idealistically and love realistically, and i believe that should be reversed. I will pray for those lost for damning one to hell is the worst things we could wish upon someone. I know even Jesus walked away and i cant be foolish about it but i also dont want to lose hope. I was utterly lost and even when i was finally turned in the right direction, i often dragged my feet. It doesnt get lost on me that my compassion for others stems from a selfish place, which in a roundabout way and a thought too big is why people dislike the calvinistic idea of predestination. It is because our inclination before Christ is to discount oneself from the " Chosen" ones, just like it is my inclination to be selfish, even while hoping. I dont know if i did a good job connecting the two or if im all over the place, in my mind it makes sense, i swear. Human nature leans toward the bad abd the ugly since the fall and really understanding the word inherent, as is inherited from our fathers, as in the sin passed down, and then realizing that psycology is merely the study of the inherited effect (trauma) kinda helped me have a bit more compassion for people. I heard an atheist ask someone once what they thought about his salvation, what should i do, and she replied that it would be presumptous to assume that he isnt already on his way, and i always took it in a way as to say that it would show a lack of faith in the power and majesty that the Lord has to draw his sheep in. You mention David and he was an adulterer and a murderer, yet he was a man after God's own heart. Anyone can be forgiven, absolutely anyone. Zena lavey mentiined that as her father died, he said "We got it all wrong!" Wouldnt that just be bonkers if he ended up in heaven just because of those last minutes of his life? I think about it often. In terms of the music, i think its ears to hear and eyes to see, for the Lord speaks to us in every way, and in his wonderful sense of humor, uses the mundane and gentile to speak to us. I hear "everlasting light" by the black keys, and i feel him talking to me directly, just how June Carters mother thought "one toke over the line" was a worship song. Not all christian music speaks to me, sometimes its like that south park episode and the jesus baby song. I honestly had to listen to christafaris versions of modern worship song to actually understand them and feel them. One person i do like, if you like folky stuff, is josiah queen. Two songs in particular " barabbas" and "fishes and loaves" let me know what you think if you check them out

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Servetus's avatar

I do prefer songs with an understanding Christian subtext rather than overt Christian pandering to market. I'll always hold up Creed as the ace example of what thoughtful music with Christian themes can be. Josiah Queen was interesting, but I'm not a fan of that stripped-down acoustic musical style. Plus I knew a Josiah who was a preacher's son, and a real wacko ;)

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Haha i get the name association thing. Funny thing is those two songs were the stripped down ones, but i just enjoyed the different perspective of this "christian" music. The rest has a lot of banjo, which i guess is also an acquired taste. He is still pretty small so im guessing he may change as he grows and gets more "big time"

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Definitely ceck out Stick figure though, his last album, world on fire, really made me believe that he believes. Plus, like tame impala, woodruff does everything himself then hires a band

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Calvin was a dirtbag, that's why. My name is in memorium of a man murdered by Calvin for the grave sin of disagreeing. His theology was also trash: the better reformed (derivative of Calvinist) don't read nor teach Calvin's crap directly, it has been edited extensively to not be garbage anymore, but I still take some issue with reformed theology anyways (and I'm reading R.C. Sproul's bible at the moment). The scholarship isn't bad, but the practice is mostly bad is my experience with reformed, but if anyone is truly Calvinist and just follows John Calvin's words, those are idiots not worth any time or attention.

Pre-destination is not a human doctrine, and therefore not one which we should believe: we cannot make sense of it. From God's perspective, all things are pre-ordained: he holds the Book of Life, in which are found the names of all those saved. Yet even Jesus does not know those names; He will only know when he opens the book of life right before His return. Trying to skip to the end, as Calvinism does, breeds apathy: you are chosen, or you're not, it's all pre-destined so don't bother. It's a weak and pacifist doctrine that nobody should believe in, because while it's technically true from God's perspective, we're not like God. No one is like God, so to attempt to hold to vain conceits of how God sees us is false doctrine, and pre-destination is therefore false doctrine: you are not God, and you will never be God, and you cannot imagine God's perspective, so this thinking is not applicable to you or anyone else, elsewise nobody would preach the Gospel or evangelize, which has happened and is a Calvinist sin. Do not hold to conceits such as predestination.

That's a good example of the psychologist, but any man who refuses to preach the Gospel is infinitely more presumptuous: all you can really do is spread the seed, you cannot control the soil. You can and perhaps should cultivate good soil (people ready to receive the Gospel), but that is not your responsibility: it is merely your responsibility to preach The Word and share the Gospel, nothing else is specifically your job, so though I sympathize with that example, it's wrong. State it simply and purely and let them decide, that is our task. I do agree with sensitivity to people though, but you can't procrastinate the good news. I've done it and always regretted it. Say it up front and work from there: if they are dishonest, meet them with an honesty that makes them ashamed. If they have false belief, meet them with a strong belief that makes them ashamed. This is the way, playing their worldly games of perception is wrong.

Sins can be inherited, yes. There is still no good model of how it happens, other than behavioral models of abuse by parents to children (which is a very good predictor). Regardless, we will all resemble our parents to some degree or another, and this is why the proliferation of sin is so harshly penalized in Scripture: the more it spreads, the more dee-seated it becomes, the less likely any descendants will turn away from it. We are in that dark extremity right now, sadly. Our sins and evil multiply as it comes from father-to-son, mother-to-daughter, mother-to-son.... it is a sick cycle that must end, and if we fail to end it, God will end it by any means necessary.

A big preface is needed on David, as he was really in communion with and serving God, to the extent where he was the definitive king of Israel, and God established his generations forever. He made it his priority to write and play songs himself, in private, to God, and wrote many of the psalms, and he still fucked up and paid a big price, but he was unlike any christian you'll ever meet. He was a warrior, a king, deferential towards a usurper, Saul, yet like a lion to all his foes, and nobody ever gained by fighting him. He was extraordinarily mean and sinful, yet also meek, by 'christian standards', not an exemplar to the postmodern church for sure. You'll never meet a man like David, yet he was after God's heart, not because of the things he did, but because of what he knew and believed about God. Such a man is 1 in a billion today.

I appreciate that note about music: we don't need to be confined to Christian music, and when we have all this (mainstream publisher slop) 'christian music', it really speaks to no-one and is a cynical means of making money (90%+ of the time). I mostly listen to non-christian music myself, because I find it's more authentic but I still am selective. In a church, it should be hymns, not a modern band stage-show!

Selfish or not, your heart for others is a great and admirable thing. I don't have that heart, in fact I'm a real bastard and I'm unapologetic about it, and it's because I've witnessed and understood how people truly are. Don't let me change your mind: you are not me and I'm not you, we all have our role to play in the body. I am a deep-diver and I have come to disdain the 'normie', as it were. It's not even that I disdain those less capable or knowledgeable than me: I disdain that vast bulk of idiocy that refuses to learn, that's what I consider the 'normie brigade'. Not my inferiors by birth, but my inferiors by choice. All can learn and reap the blessings of God, but most turn away and refuse to be turned back, that is not my problem, nor yours: it is theirs, and they should be violently slammed if they claim to believe.

I liked reading your comment but had a lot more to respond than I expected, don't take it as a critique, just a ramble. You touched on a lot of hot-button issues for me. Bless you my friend, and thanks for putting this much thought into your comments online. Sadly this is all coming to an end, and if it were to continue for me I can't pay so much attention to individual comments as my channel grows... TL;DR. I hate that approach and I hate that that's the choice, so I decline it all. No cheap mulah for me ;-)

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To be honest i think we agree on a lot of things, i just have a way of over simplifying things but you have the capacity to expand on my simplified thoughts. Theres this man out here that lives in a mine, but comes and sits outside my gym, he asked me if i had some time to talk about other stuff than the mundane. He told me that we are all subatomic particles vibrating in clusters. Like the shadow of a star, and like a star in a flashbang, we were created and burned up in an instant. And just like we can sit here and see a star thats long been dead, so this life is but a mere shadow replaying all of our situations and choices already made. He told me that God created the flash and watched it burn and that is why he is the the one who was, is, and will be. That makes sense to me why God would know all of our actions while still giving us free will. I often think about the tree of knowledge, there were things we werent supposed to know right? All that to say that i agree with your expansion on predestination whole heartedly. And my comments on david were made in a hopeful way, as anyone can be forgiven, even after commited sin while being a believer.

That we are different is a miracle of God and that we can exchange thoughts on this whole cosmos is an even bigger one. I feel my stream of consciousness has expanded so far that i feel alien in real life situations, although my friends of the world all think im brainwashed and stupider for it. I find myself in a real struggle to be bold as i still fight withmyself over making people as uncomfortable as i was made before i came to Christ. Now i dont know if this is rationization but sometimes i think that its because i was meant to speak to people with whom i can relate, as i feel you are to yours. I dont know if thats just my own head making me feel better though. In any case, thanks for your conversation and knowledge/study of the matter. Peace be with you friend

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All gay but thanks for expounding on calvin, i honestly knew none of that and had been too lazy to look into

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Autonomy4Life's avatar

Which way to the exit, I’m done too

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Servetus's avatar

nobody cares bout niggers, Yeezy said that once

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