That’s wonderful, I’m glad that happened for you. I felt similarly when I began making art 2.5 years ago after not doing it since my early teen years.
It’s added a lot of value to my life.
Sundays are reflection days.
I ran into some Mormon missionaries, yesterday. I wanted to ask if they knew who @maklelan was, but instead, I asked where they are from.
I appreciate Dan, though. Every Mormon I've met has been super nice. I don't care about Mormonism.
We all go through stages of life, if we are blessed to live so long. How we celebrate and respond to those stages is our religion. It is really not complicated unless you desire complexity.
It is all about relationships and friendships. Get married. Have kids, if you can. The higher calling is a blend of people and talents. Don't wait too long.
I love playing music. I felt pretty lost until I picked it up again. I wasn't as grateful for it as much as I am now.
It was always there and I took it for granted. I learned this better through music than through relationships, but the humanness is transferable.
This robotic mouth physically recreates human speech using an air pump for lungs and moving silicone parts instead of digital audio or text-to-speech software
Pat Martino taught a class I attended and he said everything is either augmented or diminished and laid out a bunch of crazy charts.
I still don't understand.
He was truly a guitar genius and a medical miracle. He suffered major brain injury. He regained his memory and guitar skills that no one thought possible.
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Sure... pick this one perceived atrocity to hang your fragile identity to while ignoring everything else in the world and expect everyone to side with you for no reason other than you hate a certain people.
James the Just and John the Baptist were nazerites. They did not eat flesh or drink wine during passover. They drank water and ate bread as substitutes.
Perhaps as the more literate greeks took over the religion they invented the eucharist ritual and language to deride them. 1/2
Pauline Christianity is way different than the Jerusalem Christians. The Jerusalem sects were so illiterate, they wouldn't even be able to keep up with Paul, Marcion, and the Gospel writers.
We only really know who "won" and shaped the religion. 2/2