Jacobus de Marchia in Baluze-Mansi, Misc. II, 609. This really saintly mission-preacher tells us elsewhere certain reasons which helped to reconcile him to the burning of heretics (pp. 600, 610). (1) In the earlier days of the Catholic Church, the more martyrs were burnt the more the Church increased; yet now when we burn a few heretics the rest can be got to recant. (2) It was an orthodox commonplace that the flesh of real martyrs emits an odour of sanctity: yet these heretics "when they are burned, stink like rotten flesh. For instance, at Fabriano, when Pope Nicholas V was there, certain of the heretics were burnt, and for three days the whole city stank therewith, as I know myself, for I smelt the stench those three days even unto the monastery [wherein I lodged]."
It's cool how the entirety of history is pretty fucked up.
Well. I shouldn't say that. I mostly know European. So one sixth of history.
I don't think contemporary Christian worship music is my jam, just from my slim and random pickings off of the radio and going to a few church sessions. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this, because there might be some things I could link you depending on what you mean.
All of the CCM that I've listened to has been plainly about His Love and Jesus and all of that, and it just doesn't really mesh with me. It's, like, sentimental when it's supposed to be inspirational or moving. Of course hearing it right after after jokes about LGBT people, as happened in one case, certainly doesn't endear me to the music even if that's not the most reasonable thing.
I was intentionally vague because I know I've listened to very little of it. Going off of the wiki page and personal experience pretty much. I just don't appreciate sentimentality, or plainness for lack of a better phrasing, personally, for this stuff. Leaving more than a little ambiguity would be nice.
Nah, most CCM is indeed godawful trash.
There is some Christian music I know, however, that is fairly ambiguous and sonically interesting.
@MetaFour could recommend you some if you ask him, too.
Ah, I see. I'll take your word for it, but would you mind filling me in on how and why?
Throw them at me you two, if you want.
Commerical Christian music has largely been dreck (or rather, it's been a different kind of dreck than mainstream music) because the audience for it has been innately distrustful of rock music for decades. So musicians played stuff that sounded at least five years old if they wanted the audience, while musicians who actually made modern stuff (Larry Norman, Daniel Amos, Steve Taylor, etc) got shunned and had to go independent.
It also doesn't help that most Contemporary Christian Music is recorded in Nashville, so it gets recorded much the same way that modern country music does. Specifically, the vocals are VERY LOUD in the mix and the instruments are quieter, so even the stuff that tries to sound like rock or pop just sounds subtly off instead.
In the 80s and 90s, there were waves of new musicians who wanted to make real music for the church crowd, especially for teens in the church who never bought into the idea that Jesus and rock were antithetical. Unfortunately, by the mid-2000s, market forces squashed this developing music scene. The Christian radio stations (which were all listener-supported rather than commercial-supported) focused aggressively on the tastes of their biggest donors. And market research told them that their biggest class of donor was "Beckies". Becky, of course, was a white soccer mom living in the suburbs, and her favorite music was theologically light, feel-good, not-too-loud pablum. So the market got saturated with sappy music that, at its hardest, just copied U2 and Coldplay. Some labels tried to fight that trend, but they bled money because their bands didn't get any radio support. Musicians who didn't fit that mold recognized that the CCM scene was hostile to them, so they went independent or even joined mainstream labels.
As for worship music that's actually worth listening to, I particularly like:
I'm not quite sure if they're what you're looking for, though. These albums are all based on old hymns and liturgies (though the Welcome Wagon mixes in some surprises, like covers of The Smiths and Lou Reed) so they're very explicitly about God and Salvation. But the language of those older hymns does strike me as less sentimental and more awe-inspiring than most modern worship lyrics.
Now, if you want some recommendations that are Christian but not explicitly worship, I could give you those, too. But I need to go now.
^^ I was gonna say, "But Meta, you haven't mentioned Danielson or Soul-Junk once! How can this be?!" But yeah, I see what you were trying to get across.
I have often disagreed with MthasGames' gaming opinions from the Roundtable podcast, and I'm not familiar with him either, which makes me want to check him out more. Except his videos don't quite look like my thing. Think on this later.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
A type of investment firm. Typically, they put money into companies, or buy them outright, with the goal of selling them or otherwise cashing out of the investment once the company's value has risen to their satisfaction.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I find it amusing that every airport has the TSA officer scribble incomprehensibly on your boarding pass in a slightly different way.
It's especially useless because nobody ever checks those markings after that. And why would they? At big airports, a good number of travelers are going to have come in on one plane just to transfer to another, in which case they wouldn't have any markings on the boarding pass because they never went through the checkpoint at the intermediate airport. So the presence or absence of the incomprehensible scribbles really doesn't mean anything.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
That post was wordier than I was aiming for
I just meant it as a "lol, bureaucracy is dumb" quip
gdi I woke up at 4 in the morning, so I decided to scrub my face before going to sleep, but I got a tiny bit of moisturizing gel in my eye and that stung enough that I am more awake now
and also I had a dream about a really cool video game and I was super helped to tell y'all but then I realized that it was just a dream
That Undertale sign language picture I posted the other day has got me wondering about game protagonists who are canonically mute. All I can think of is Red from Transistor and Caim from Drakengard though. (Both of whom are because their voices were taken.)
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Tibet is a republic. No emphasis on feudalism. Hrm.
I guess in the 1400s they were, what, probably an obscure Danish holding. Pah.
There is Kashmir. There's a lot of people mad right there.
Hot damn are there a lot of Chinese countries.
Well. I shouldn't say that. I mostly know European. So one sixth of history.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I just meant it as a "lol, bureaucracy is dumb" quip
(sorry. not sorry.)
and also I had a dream about a really cool video game and I was super helped to tell y'all but then I realized that it was just a dream
Whoops.
so down w/ this
And now I feel sad