Deacon

Pre 1964 Beatles I will give you. After, say, Revolver? I don’t see how you could compare Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds to Tomorrow Never Knows to Martha My Dear to Back in the USSR to Sun King, etc etc etc

Often you can tell it’s the same band, but these are meaningfully different sonic experiences.

You’re getting downvoted but I believe you’re principally correct. Except it’s Sethian.

Pacifica is great and have a lot of English language music too.

I speak English and Duolingo German. And read some old Greek.

• Porter - Hombre Máquina
• Ana Tijoux - Shock
• Silbermond - intro (Die Mutigen)

These groups have tons of great songs, but these are the first that come to mind for me.

This is the way.

I am reflexively really resistant to calling Christianity a cult because it doesn’t really meet all of the criteria we usually use to define a cult - particularly a singular charismatic leader.

But then…even that criteria arose in a culture dominated - hell totally saturated in Christianity, so I’m questioning those reflexive reactions lately.

I think Evangelical Christianity, which is now functionally interchangeable with Christian Nationalism, is, if not a doomsday cult, then certainly has all of the bad things you tend to think about when you think about doomsday cults but with orders of magnitude more actual political, social, and material power.

So in some ways, calling it a cult is really underselling how dangerous it is.

No no no. God is good and all powerful, but the forces of evil are ruling because everyone else is so sinful. So god is big sad/mad but it is also part of his plan so 👍

In my experience growing up evangelical, it’s as much a plea as it is an assertion.

I broke up with my parents about 9 months ago.

I need to mourn the good, morally centered parents, who taught me all of the principles that are now being sacrificed by my parents, or by the creatures they have turned into. The parents that raised me are essentially gone.

Haven’t had any contact with them since. Makes it a bit awkward with my siblings, since they generally feel the same but haven’t taken as drastic a step yet.

Quite the snub for Bibi

You can say it however you want. Just let it cleanse you.

Bidet

The present is pretty fucking wack also.

They just keep getting weirder and weirder.

I was a smoker for about 20 years and quit in 2021 with Chantix.

For all but the last maybe 5 years of that, I just had cigarette butts on my mental whitelist. I was an otherwise very litter-conscious person who just didn’t consider butts litter because…? I never reasoned it out, and was like I suddenly realized I was fucking littering and then I became hyper sensitive about it.