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Social awareness is fucking bullshit designed by armchair activists who want to feel good by doing nothing. It started with the manipulative posts asking for likes in the name of Jesus, exploiting the homeless they seek to help to fuel their ego boners, and now it's devolved into virtual shit slinging at different corners of the internet with a zero tolerance policy on disagreement. For example, half the people championing for mental health awareness don't even know how to spot depression lurking in their friend group. No one needs to be "aware" of breast cancer because we already know it exists; what we need to do is kick its ass. Facebook statuses about environmental awareness on Earth Day doesn't clean up the plastic bottles you walk past on your way to and from work every day. Social awareness is a cheap and lazy way to decorate yourself with feelgood medals while doing fuck all to change anything.
 
Representation has strong armed its way into every corner of society, and it's supposed to be such a good thing to see yourself reflected in entertainment, but I don't think it's a good thing. Considering what trash ends up in the media today, not being in the media is a good thing. "Everyone's story has to be told" but history is full of the stories of the forgotten, and most of them are not worth telling. Odds are, your story isn't worth telling either. Certain members of our society have an exaggerated sense of self-worth wrapped in a cloak of self-doubt and depression, and they've pushed the barometer of conceit so far out to the left it's redefined what it means to be a self-absorbed narcissistic prick. With the advent of social media and the acceptance that everything will be recorded for future use, people are downright obsessed with claiming their little speck in history, at whatever cost possible. Representation is cherry-picked points of view to weaponize social agendas through various mediums, because the fastest way to earn your paragraph in a history book is to engage in thought revolution, and everyone thinks they're a blessed prophet sent from God with words that make angels cum when they sermon.
 
Social media was a mistake. It has convinced me reading minds is the worst super power one could wish for, especially if you can't turn it off. There are things I'm seeing on a daily basis that would horrify me if I were standing in line scanning someone's thoughts and came across them. The dumb shit people think is acceptable, the horrifying things people daydream about doing to others, the lies people internalize while they lie to your face, all of that would come crashing down if I could read your thoughts, and her thoughts, and his thoughts, and they would all smash together in my mind until I'm not sure what is real anymore. The description sounds like the wonderful back story for a villain in a novel somewhere if you needed a legit reason to explain acquired insanity. The worst part about social media is that it's an addiction that has wormed it's way into culture right next to high fructose corn syrup and caffeine.

Everyone has a self-serving agenda.
 
 

This type of conversation is usually avoided on these forums for good reason, but I am honestly impressed to see so many of you with very different stems of thought and beliefs engaging in such a respectable way with each other. It's really cool. Part of the reason I like MH so much.

Like a few of the others here , I'm a proud born again believer. I have been my whole life. Unlike a lot of Christians however, I went through the public school system and basically never had a Christian friend at all. Everything I learned about Jesus and the bible, I learned from my family, who were very different from the dogmatic Christians you see in the media. We never even went to church, though we read the bible and prayed at home. Life became church. I didn't like Christians at all—Much like a lot of you here. They were foreign to me and I couldn't relate. I still have issues with this, and avoid expanding my circle too much. I'd rather spend my time with those who don't know Jesus. Its taught me to relate to the world as a human being, not a Christian in his own bubble.

I've been told before from atheist friends I have, that I think the way I do because I've been 'indoctrinated' since I was young. And I understand why they think that way. Many times, we look at the world around us and can't even begin to comprehend why a loving God would leave us in a mess like this. Science just makes sense. Everything's spinning out of control. But if you correlate the chaos of our time to the abandonment of God in the cultures that once believed, to me at least, it's evident that we are not meant to be left to our own devices—That we need some stability in our lives. And that's what the bible offers us.

This is why, after growing up Christian, forgetting about it altogether and pursuing my own desires, I came back to the word after so many years. Since coming full circle, I've come to wholeheartedly appreciate my upbringing. To know that the creator of everything is up there and cares about me is pretty terrifying, but it's also humbling, and gives me the desire to treat others with the same love, care and grace He's given me all these years.

There's a lot written in the bible that challenges the norms of our cultures today, but it also offers an excellent guide book to life—Every answer to every question you could ever have is in that book (even if it's an answer you don't like, haha). It is literally so deep that you could spend your entire life in it and never reach the bottom. That is why I believe it is inspired by a literal God and not written by man, it just couldn't be any other way from my perspective. 

@nekkichi As I grew up, being raised in a secular environment, I obviously adopted a lot of secular interests that weren't exactly 'biblical'. ie. Visual Kei. I'm aware a lot of the concepts that are thrown around in VK are far from Christian, but I rationalize my love for the genre away by my inability to read the lyrics and my nostalgia, haha. I also try to avoid the bands that are outright anti-God / Satanic in nature. I heard somewhere that the music you listen to when your 16-18 basically stays with you your whole life, so VK's just my genre I guess. Maybe I'll give it up someday, but for now, it's sticking around. The way I see it is, musical talent is God-given—So it's easy for me to appreciate all the great music in the genre.

@Euronymous There are correlations between this ceremony and the raising of the antichrist and opening the gate of Apollyon, all explained in the book of revelations. It really is totally creepy and speaks to the times we are living in. One thing's for sure: Whether God is real or not, the 'elite' of this world sure believe he is, and they're doing whatever they can to piss Him off. If you ever want links to more 'conspiracy' channels, I can send you like, 100 good ones lol.
 

This type of conversation is usually avoided on these forums for good reason, but I am honestly impressed to see so many of you with very different stems of thought and beliefs engaging in such a respectable way with each other. It's really cool. Part of the reason I like MH so much.

Like a few of the others here , I'm a proud born again believer. I have been my whole life. Unlike a lot of Christians however, I went through the public school system and basically never had a Christian friend at all. Everything I learned about Jesus and the bible, I learned from my family, who were very different from the dogmatic Christians you see in the media. We never even went to church, though we read the bible and prayed at home. Life became church. I didn't like Christians at all—Much like a lot of you here. They were foreign to me and I couldn't relate. I still have issues with this, and avoid expanding my circle too much. I'd rather spend my time with those who don't know Jesus. Its taught me to relate to the world as a human being, not a Christian in his own bubble.

I've been told before from atheist friends I have, that I think the way I do because I've been 'indoctrinated' since I was young. And I understand why they think that way. Many times, we look at the world around us and can't even begin to comprehend why a loving God would leave us in a mess like this. Science just makes sense. Everything's spinning out of control. But if you correlate the chaos of our time to the abandonment of God in the cultures that once believed, to me at least, it's evident that we are not meant to be left to our own devices—That we need some stability in our lives. And that's what the bible offers us.

This is why, after growing up Christian, forgetting about it altogether and pursuing my own desires, I came back to the word after so many years. Since coming full circle, I've come to wholeheartedly appreciate my upbringing. To know that the creator of everything is up there and cares about me is pretty terrifying, but it's also humbling, and gives me the desire to treat others with the same love, care and grace He's given me all these years.

There's a lot written in the bible that challenges the norms of our cultures today, but it also offers an excellent guide book to life—Every answer to every question you could ever have is in that book (even if it's an answer you don't like, haha). It is literally so deep that you could spend your entire life in it and never reach the bottom. That is why I believe it is inspired by a literal God and not written by man, it just couldn't be any other way from my perspective. 

@nekkichi As I grew up, being raised in a secular environment, I obviously adopted a lot of secular interests that weren't exactly 'biblical'. ie. Visual Kei. I'm aware a lot of the concepts that are thrown around in VK are far from Christian, but I rationalize my love for the genre away by my inability to read the lyrics and my nostalgia, haha. I also try to avoid the bands that are outright anti-God / Satanic in nature. I heard somewhere that the music you listen to when your 16-18 basically stays with you your whole life, so VK's just my genre I guess. Maybe I'll give it up someday, but for now, it's sticking around. The way I see it is, musical talent is God-given—So it's easy for me to appreciate all the great music in the genre.

@Euronymous There are correlations between this ceremony and the raising of the antichrist and opening the gate of Apollyon, all explained in the book of revelations. It really is totally creepy and speaks to the times we are living in. One thing's for sure: Whether God is real or not, the 'elite' of this world sure believe he is, and they're doing whatever they can to piss Him off. If you ever want links to more 'conspiracy' channels, I can send you like, 100 good ones lol.
 

This type of conversation is usually avoided on these forums for good reason, but I am honestly impressed to see so many of you with very different stems of thought and beliefs engaging in such a respectable way with each other. It's really cool. Part of the reason I like MH so much.

Like a few of the others here , I'm a proud born again believer. I have been my whole life. Unlike a lot of Christians however, I went through the public school system and basically never had a Christian friend at all. Everything I learned about Jesus and the bible, I learned from my family, who were very different from the dogmatic Christians you see in the media. We never even went to church, though we read the bible and prayed at home. Life became church. I didn't like Christians at all—Much like a lot of you here. They were foreign to me and I couldn't relate. I still have issues with this, and avoid expanding my circle too much. I'd rather spend my time with those who don't know Jesus. Its taught me to relate to the world as a human being, not a Christian in his own bubble.

I've been told before from atheist friends I have, that I think the way I do because I've been 'indoctrinated' since I was young. And I understand why they think that way. Many times, we look at the world around us and can't even begin to comprehend why a loving God would leave us in a mess like this. Science just makes sense. Everything's spinning out of control. But if you correlate the chaos of our time to the abandonment of God in the cultures that once believed, to me at least, it's evident that we are not meant to be left to our own devices—That we need some stability in our lives. And that's what the bible offers us.

This is why, after growing up Christian, forgetting about it altogether and pursuing my own desires, I came back to the word after so many years. Since coming full circle, I've come to wholeheartedly appreciate my upbringing. To know that the creator of everything is up there and cares about me is pretty terrifying, but it's also humbling, and gives me the desire to treat others with the same love, care and grace He's given me all these years.

There's a lot written in the bible that challenges the norms of our cultures today, but it also offers an excellent guide book to life—Every answer to every question you could ever have is in that book (even if it's an answer you don't like, haha). It is literally so deep that you could spend your entire life in it and never reach the bottom. That is why I believe it is inspired by a literal God and not written by man, it just couldn't be any other way from my perspective. 

@nekkichi As I grew up, being raised in a secular environment, I obviously adopted a lot of secular interests that weren't exactly 'biblical'. ie. Visual Kei. I'm aware a lot of the concepts that are thrown around in VK are far from Christian, but I rationalize my love for the genre away by my inability to read the lyrics and my nostalgia, haha. I also try to avoid the bands that are outright anti-God / Satanic in nature. I heard somewhere that the music you listen to when your 16-18 basically stays with you your whole life, so VK's just my genre I guess. Maybe I'll give it up someday, but for now, it's sticking around. The way I see it is, musical talent is God-given—So it's easy for me to appreciate all the great music in the genre.

@Euronymous There are correlations between this ceremony and the raising of the antichrist and opening the gate of Apollyon, all explained in the book of revelations. It really is totally creepy and speaks to the times we are living in. One thing's for sure: Whether God is real or not, the 'elite' of this world sure believe he is, and they're doing whatever they can to piss Him off. If you ever want links to more 'conspiracy' channels, I can send you like, 100 good ones lol.
 

This type of conversation is usually avoided on these forums for good reason, but I am honestly impressed to see so many of you with very different stems of thought and beliefs engaging in such a respectable way with each other. It's really cool. Part of the reason I like MH so much.

Like a few of the others here , I'm a proud born again believer. I have been my whole life. Unlike a lot of Christians however, I went through the public school system and basically never had a Christian friend at all. Everything I learned about Jesus and the bible, I learned from my family, who were very different from the dogmatic Christians you see in the media. We never even went to church, though we read the bible and prayed at home. Life became church. I didn't like Christians at all—Much like a lot of you here. They were foreign to me and I couldn't relate. I still have issues with this, and avoid expanding my circle too much. I'd rather spend my time with those who don't know Jesus. Its taught me to relate to the world as a human being, not a Christian in his own bubble.

I've been told before from atheist friends I have, that I think the way I do because I've been 'indoctrinated' since I was young. And I understand why they think that way. Many times, we look at the world around us and can't even begin to comprehend why a loving God would leave us in a mess like this. Science just makes sense. Everything's spinning out of control. But if you correlate the chaos of our time to the abandonment of God in the cultures that once believed, to me at least, it's evident that we are not meant to be left to our own devices—That we need some stability in our lives. And that's what the bible offers us.

This is why, after growing up Christian, forgetting about it altogether and pursuing my own desires, I came back to the word after so many years. Since coming full circle, I've come to wholeheartedly appreciate my upbringing. To know that the creator of everything is up there and cares about me is pretty terrifying, but it's also humbling, and gives me the desire to treat others with the same love, care and grace He's given me all these years.

There's a lot written in the bible that challenges the norms of our cultures today, but it also offers an excellent guide book to life—Every answer to every question you could ever have is in that book (even if it's an answer you don't like, haha). It is literally so deep that you could spend your entire life in it and never reach the bottom. That is why I believe it is inspired by a literal God and not written by man, it just couldn't be any other way from my perspective. 

@nekkichi As I grew up, being raised in a secular environment, I obviously adopted a lot of secular interests that weren't exactly 'biblical'. ie. Visual Kei. I'm aware a lot of the concepts that are thrown around in VK are far from Christian, but I rationalize my love for the genre away by my inability to read the lyrics and my nostalgia, haha. I also try to avoid the bands that are outright anti-God / Satanic in nature. I heard somewhere that the music you listen to when your 16-18 basically stays with you your whole life, so VK's just my genre I guess. Maybe I'll give it up someday, but for now, it's sticking around. The way I see it is, musical talent is God-given—So it's easy for me to appreciate all the great music in the genre.

@Euronymous There are correlations between this ceremony and the raising of the antichrist and opening the gate of Apollyon, all explained in the book of revelations. It really is totally creepy and speaks to the times we are living in. One thing's for sure: Whether God is real or not, the 'elite' of this world sure believe he is, and they're doing whatever they can to piss Him off. If you ever want links to more 'conspiracy' channels, I can send you like, 100 good ones lol.
 

This type of conversation is usually avoided on these forums for good reason, but I am honestly impressed to see so many of you with very different stems of thought and beliefs engaging in such a respectable way with each other. It's really cool. Part of the reason I like MH so much.

Like a few of the others here , I'm a proud born again believer. I have been my whole life. Unlike a lot of Christians however, I went through the public school system and basically never had a Christian friend at all. Everything I learned about Jesus and the bible, I learned from my family, who were very different from the dogmatic Christians you see in the media. We never even went to church, though we read the bible and prayed at home. Life became church. I didn't like Christians at all—Much like a lot of you here. They were foreign to me and I couldn't relate. I still have issues with this, and avoid expanding my circle too much. I'd rather spend my time with those who don't know Jesus. Its taught me to relate to the world as a human being, not a Christian in his own bubble.

I've been told before from atheist friends I have, that I think the way I do because I've been 'indoctrinated' since I was young. And I understand why they think that way. Many times, we look at the world around us and can't even begin to comprehend why a loving God would leave us in a mess like this. Science just makes sense. Everything's spinning out of control. But if you correlate the chaos of our time to the abandonment of God in the cultures that once believed, to me at least, it's evident that we are not meant to be left to our own devices—That we need some stability in our lives. And that's what the bible offers us.

This is why, after growing up Christian, forgetting about it altogether and pursuing my own desires, I came back to the word after so many years. Since coming full circle, I've come to wholeheartedly appreciate my upbringing. To know that the creator of everything is up there and cares about me is pretty terrifying, but it's also humbling, and gives me the desire to treat others with the same love, care and grace He's given me all these years.

There's a lot written in the bible that challenges the norms of our cultures today, but it also offers an excellent guide book to life—Every answer to every question you could ever have is in that book (even if it's an answer you don't like, haha). It is literally so deep that you could spend your entire life in it and never reach the bottom. That is why I believe it is inspired by a literal God and not written by man, it just couldn't be any other way from my perspective. 

@nekkichi As I grew up, being raised in a secular environment, I obviously adopted a lot of secular interests that weren't exactly 'biblical'. ie. Visual Kei. I'm aware a lot of the concepts that are thrown around in VK are far from Christian, but I rationalize my love for the genre away by my inability to read the lyrics and my nostalgia, haha. I also try to avoid the bands that are outright anti-God / Satanic in nature. I heard somewhere that the music you listen to when your 16-18 basically stays with you your whole life, so VK's just my genre I guess. Maybe I'll give it up someday, but for now, it's sticking around. The way I see it is, musical talent is God-given—So it's easy for me to appreciate all the great music in the genre.

@Euronymous There are correlations between this ceremony and the raising of the antichrist and opening the gate of Apollyon, all explained in the book of revelations. It really is totally creepy and speaks to the times we are living in. One thing's for sure: Whether God is real or not, the 'elite' of this world sure believe he is, and they're doing whatever they can to piss Him off. If you ever want links to more 'conspiracy' channels, I can send you like, 100 good ones lol.
 

Imagine this.
 
A man loses his keys.
 
He tells himself, "I left them here. I know I left them here. They were right here on the table".
 
And so he spends a good amount of time searching for his keys in the small vicinity of that table.
 
All the while thinking, "well maybe it fell here or maybe it's behind here". and so he repeats this cycle over, and over, and over - for a good 15/20 mins or so.
 
Well, finally the man gets frustrated with this process, and he gets sick of looking in the same 3 or 4 places...in that small vicinity, and still not finding his keys.
 
So he abandons his knowledge.
 
All the  " i know i left them here", "i know they were here, etc" - > he abandons all of that.
 
And at this point, he embraces something wonderful. He then starts to say:
 
"The keys can be anywhere."
 
Because they're not where I "knew" they were. Therefore, the keys can be anywhere.
 
So at this point, the man starts to back-track, tracing his steps, and basically starts to look in all possible places. Wherever keys can be.
 
And so now, the whole house opens up to him. The keys could even be outside at this point, or in his car, or perhaps he dropped them on the ground somewhere?
 
All of these different possibilities open up to him all of a sudden.
 
And so once the man reaches this point, and realizes he doesn't know where his keys are at, and that they could be anywhere - he quickly finds them.
 
------
 
This little story basically sums up my experience in seeking "God", so to speak.  Like the man looking for his keys, I was SO invested in my own self-deceptions...in my own error...that I closed myself off from all of the possibilities...even things that were literally right in front of my face/glaringly obvious in retrospect. It wasn't until I rejected what I THOUGHT i knew, that I was then able to perceive things as they actually are - and not what I thought they were.
 
To be clear, I reached this point a little over 2 years ago. I was at a place in life where what I knew (or thought i knew) was no longer sufficient. And I had a choice: kill myself or grow. I chose life...or perhaps life chose me? Doesn't matter. The point is that I was humbled to the extent that I had no choice but to let go of what I knew (because what I knew had lead me to a dead end), and open myself to new possibilities.
 
Subsequently, I was led to the bible. I say "led" because, in my sincere quest for wisdom and truth, it's almost as if The Most High himself was dropping breadcrumbs in my path - in the form of several different resources - the most important of which being people.
 
And so, in following this newfound trajectory, I decided to learn about and study the bible.
 
Mind you, I come from a non-religious household. I've never attended a church service and prior to this point in my life, I'd never even read the bible. But I always had a deep-seated feeling that there was something "more" than simply this material world. And so throughout my life, I entertained several different ideas from atheism, polytheism, buddhism, to different schools of spiritual thought. Before studying the bible, I think I'd settled on simply believing in the universe (whatever that means) and describing myself as "spiritual, but not religious" . But I digress.
 
The point is, I stayed away from the bible and religion in general because I saw the fruits of its practitioners  - both in my own life and throughout history, and wanted nothing to do with it.
 
So as I began to seriously study the bible without any religious background or context, the first thing I realized was that I was harboring a ton of opinions and thoughts on the bible that simply were not true. Most of the impressions and thoughts that I had about the bible and 'God' in general were immediately falsified upon sincere inspection. Like many people, a lot of my thoughts about the bible and 'God' were derived from shitty experiences with religious people, observing the evil, hateful things people have done in the name of religion, seeing how religion and the bible are portrayed in media, etc.
 
Basically, you could say that I believed in all of the rumors and gossip about "God" and the bible without ever exploring it or seeking him on my own.
 
Unfortunately, this is how most people are.
 
We're so invested in our own thoughts, beliefs, and feelings...so invested in our own deception that we cannot see things for what they truly are.
 
We're so small and infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, yet we're all so sure of the things we know and the things we think.
 
But that's the funny thing about thought. Thought is a more collective process than most realize, as many of the thoughts we have are not necessarily a result of our own thinking. In fact, thinking in and of itself is more difficult than people realize - simply because it requires effort, and we as humans are practically hardwired to take the route of least resistance. So it's more often the case that the thoughts we have are given to us from elsewhere, or they just 'appear' in our heads and we believe them because it feels good to. For some, perhaps their thoughts on the bible, god, and religion derived from what they learned as a kid going to church with their parents, or maybe the thoughts came from a documentary or an article that made sense to them. Maybe even their own imagination. Whatever the case, rarely do people scrutinize, critique, and actually try to validate (or invalidate) these thoughts and actually seek understanding on them.
 
So for me, since studying the bible, and actually putting the word into practice, my life has changed drastically and continues to change. My entire outlook has changed in fact.
 
All of the thoughts I had prior have been completely decimated. For instance, I thought the bible was a religious text, but religion has nothing to do with the bible. A lot of people avoid the word because of how religion has taken the ancient texts, grossly misinterpreted them and used them for hateful and nefarious purposes. It's no different than ppl avoiding listening to certain bands because their fans are such raging assholes. Those ppl have no idea if they'd actually enjoy the band or not, but they let the actions of others sway/taint their opinion instead of just listening to the band for themselves.
 
It's the same with the bible. People don't know any better, so they let their opinion of the bible and "God" be tainted by religion and religious zealots instead of sincerely studying it for themselves. A ton of religious doctrines will fly right out the window by simply reading the texts for what they are, without even having to do any indepth study.
 
You gotta think. The bible is one book. One collective of texts. So where does all of these different religions come from? You have the big three "Abrahamic" religions...and within Christianity alone you have a crapload of different sects, denominations, and doctrines....This don't add up. You're telling me ALL of these different religions are correct? This alone is enough to confuse ppl and keep them away from the word, and The Most High IS NOT the author of confusion. Would it not just make sense to read the text and study for yourself? Instead of relying on endless (mis)interpretations?
 
Furthermore. All religions have a start date. Meaning it was created by man at some point. If I truly believe in an all-mighty creator, why would I follow something a man came up with instead of what the creator provided himself? You see, religion is born when man tries to define his path towards 'God'. But what sense does that make? Shouldn't the creator himself define for us the path to reach him? When a man creates an app, does he not provide instructions on how to use that app? He doesn't just create an app and say "figure out how to use it". Why would The Most High be any different?
 
I could go on for days, and I'm a complete baby in the word. I've only been studying for 2 years so far and it's impossible for me to relay just how endlessly deep and profound the word is. I've not even scratched the surface. I literally get my mind blown by the word on a regular basis, and so many things that I wondered about and always questioned prior to coming into the word now make perfect sense. For instance, the Transatlantic slave trade, the true identity of the so-called African American, the real reason so-called African Americans (and other descendants of the slave trade) are oppressed and downtrodden all over the world...all of this is explained in the Bible. And so much more.
 
But I implore everyone....please DO NOT take my word for anything. Do your own research. And if you prepare yourself to truly seek The Most High, prepare for your entire world to shift.
 
So in closing, I'll say this. I do not follow any religions, but I do keep the word of our creator. I could list a million reasons why, but it's not my job to convince anyone of anything. I'm more than open to talking to or discussing the word/bible with anyone and even answering questions, but my knowledge is small and I mostly certainly do not know everything. But knowing that you don't know is the first step.
 
"Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”

I guess I'll give my brief testimony here.
 
I grew up in a Christian household however I had a little fallout in my teen years because I was rebellious and arrogant. Long story short, I had misconceptions about Christianity on many areas and then I became a born again believer after investigating the claims of Jesus. I was a blind believer because I was intellectually lazy to read the bible in its entirety and ask important questions.
 
Let's face it, just because you grew up believing a certain world view doesn't mean it's true. We have to a little digging to see if the claims are true. And the bible encourages everyone to test it, "but test them all; hold on to what is good" - 1 Thessalonians 5:21. The existence of Jesus Christ is a historical fact based on eye witness testimonies which is the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). And the fact that Jesus died by crucifixion and the empty tomb has been acknowledged by  non-Christian historians and scholars. Even a very critical agnostic scholar, Bart Erhman, said it's an indisputable fact. Then you have the disciples and apostles who went to their horrible bloody deaths professing this faith. Now, there are people who have died believing in whatever faith they have, but here's the difference between other religions and Christianity. The disciples and apostles didn't just died for what they believe, they died claiming to have seen the risen Jesus. So that tells me these guys' convictions were so strong that no matter what the persecution levels they faced, they'd be willing to be tortured and die for it.
 
So what is Christianity? The bible teaches that Jesus is God in human form who came into our world to die for our sins. Because of our fallen nature, God wanted to restore our broken relationship with him and fulfilled that through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now read this carefully because this is one of the most important part on what Christianity is; Christianity is the ONLY world view where your salvation is UNMERITED. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9. But then begs the question, why? Why would God do this? The answer is quite simple: LOVE. Love is the central theme of this faith. "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16. Christianity at its core is a relationship with God, it was never a religion in the first place. Religious people find God useful, but growing Christians find God beautiful.
 
I'm a Christian because it's true and I've realized my sinfulness and shortcomings that I need God. If I could live up to the bible, then I wouldn't need God, but the fact is I'm too flawed that's why need him. After I became a Christian, I felt free and was able to have my eyes opened to know what's right and wrong. It is just like what CS Lewis said, "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
After reading the gospels, there's only 3 conclusions you can come up with about Jesus Christ. Either he's a liar, lunatic, or Lord. If anyone has God's stamp of approval, it would be the guy who rose from the dead. That alone gives me the eternal hope.
 
Now let's get real here. Christianity never promises an easy or successful life. In fact, pain and suffering gets worse in life as a Christian. Jesus is the paradigm of our suffering when read up what he went through on the day of crucifixion. Read the book of Acts in the New Testament to know the kind of life the disciples and apostles went through. Anyone who teaches the gospels as something that promises you an easy or successful life on earth are teaching you the "prosperity gospel" which is false! Nowhere in the bible says that. In fact, Jesus backs it up by this; "Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." - Luke 9:23 and "For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." - Acts 9:16. In other words, there's a cost in being a Christian. I can certainly testify my life has gotten worse after proclaiming this faith; received death threats, friendships lost, job loss, accused of false acts, and so on. What Christianity promises is eternal life in heaven enjoying the presence of God.
 
If there's anyone considering Christianity, you need to ask yourself these questions: Does truth matter to you? If Christianity were true, would you become a Christian?
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6. "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - John 8:32.
 
Once you've made a decision to investigate, I recommend reading the gospel of John as a starting point so you know who Jesus Christ really is, then read some apologetic books to get a grasp on the evidence such as "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel who was a former athiest and Chicago Tribunes journalist, "Cold Case Christianity" by J Warner Wallace who was a former atheist homicide detective, and "Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus" by Nabeel Qureshi who was a former Muslim.

Kind of sad when I think of the memorability of almost every PIERROT song. I can't remember too many Angelo songs that have actually stuck with me : /

Kind of sad when I think of the memorability of almost every PIERROT song. I can't remember too many Angelo songs that have actually stuck with me : /

Kind of sad when I think of the memorability of almost every PIERROT song. I can't remember too many Angelo songs that have actually stuck with me : /

Kind of sad when I think of the memorability of almost every PIERROT song. I can't remember too many Angelo songs that have actually stuck with me : /

2019 - Year of VK store apocalypse 😧

As a pura fan, I've begun to expect the same songs out of them for the last 10 years. Airen and Recall are stand out tracks.

2019 - Year of VK store apocalypse 😧

2019 - Year of VK store apocalypse 😧

illuminati confirmed

I should have elaborated a bit before I dropped my earlier comment.

I'm over the reactionary culture I'm living in right now. All it takes for inane drama like this to boil over is twelve angry people on Twitter with enough followers and too much time on their hands. We've reached the point where you can be offended by proxy; no one has to directly insult you, a straw man that attacks your ideals will do just fine. All I see when I go on Facebook are people one upping each other trying to appear the most accepting and woke about PoC, or posting history lessons about what the original Little Mermaid story was and why skin color doesn't matter, or people posting jokes and memes about it making light of the situation, but I bet you that absolutely none of these people are friends with a racist on Facebook. They filtered them out years ago, and that's my beef. Facebook these days is too many posers who always have to say something and the choir is tired of the sermon, and the sword cuts both ways with this one. It's true that no one will care in a month about this, because in a month it will be a brand new topic to get enraged over, and people will go right back to the front lines, ready to be angry again.
 
 
Tell her to hide the posts and save both of yourselves some grief. They won't stop, she won't defriend them, you don't really care, hide the posts and save everyone the time. Out of sight is out of mind. That's why I hang out here and not FB.
 
 

I see multiple parts to this:
I think it's a perfectly normal response to get upset about the unabashed racism that spews itself after every casting decision w/ a PoC. I usu. back off and let the trolls do their work, but the response was lightning quick. Kinda speaks to those welled up "feelings" coming to the forefront after a certain presidency o3o. ... or maybe a chunk of those comment trolls are bots/paid *wears tinfoil hat* Everything seems more profound on the internet than it actually is, and no one cares after a month anyway. Also people exist outside the U.S. I notice a lot of people who denounced the "whitewashing" for the GitS adaptation but supported this. I never had a problem with GitS, and as long as you're not using the actor/actress as a direct fill-in (like someone pretending to be of "x" race), I think all is good.  Some of the same people who just had a handful of Disney movies as their "childhood" also called the shit I watched as a kid growing up weird b/c it was foreign. It's not my obligation to watch "your" favorite movies. Naturally, it's fine to like whatever the fuck you want. This casting decision was (whether we want to see it that way or not)  for marketingbux, and will probably continue as long as people take the bait. Maybe the racism we should be paying attention to is using PoC as outrage marketingbux. If studios really wanted change in perception, maybe create or adapt franchises that celebrates cultural uniqueness (like they've done on the animated front.) Though it's been proven to be a safe bet financially to adapt existing franchises than create new ones : / .  One question, though. I haven't used FB since 2014/15, has it really gotten that bad, generally speaking? I know it depends on your friend groups, but I didn't know there was such vitriol (especially when there's no anonymity involved.)

the fucked up shit is that the cover art for their releases has consistently been better than their actual music for a good while now

Somehow this is still less embarrassing than not bringing out that album.

We're actually living in the fictional reality of the X Files series and it was actually Agent Scully investigating whether the new X JAPAN album really existed or just a hoax (plot twist: it's a government cover-up to draw attention away from UFO sightings). Mulder still wants to believe.