What is something that is popular now that annoys you?
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I wish we could take back the rainbow. Have a rainbow filter that says "God's Promises Stand" or something. My little niece told my mom she wanted a rainbow cake (she'll be four). My mom thought that was not a good idea, but my niece doesn't know that one of God's beauties has been coopted to stand for something ungodly. It's just very sad.
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Do you have any statistics that show people being saved as a result of listening to Christian rap? I would think it is too quick of a musical style to impart any gospel truths. I'm highly skeptical of the Church adopting worldly ways in order to try and reach the youth. I don't think it is very successful.
Yeah, and that's one of the few good things about Facebook. By "nonsense" I mean pointless, attention-seeking posts that nobody really cares about. I have seen people on Facebook who take selfies while doing ordinary, everyday activities every single day and post about every little not-so-special thing they do. THAT is not intellectual or beneficial in any way.
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Sure, the tunes were reclaimed. But I find it hard to believe anyone can actually hear words in rap music to get any truth out of it. When you sing a hymn, you can hear the words. Plus, there is a reverance in hymns and songs that is absent from rap. The trappings of rap are rather wordly, too. The style doesn't lend itself to contemplation.
***try this testimony site... www.holyhiphop.com/page/19/testimonies
i don't really see Christians who write and perform hip-hop ((or other genres)) as "the church adopting worldly ways" so much as it is individual believers seeking to put their God-given talents to God's use. the testimonies of individual artists i have heard/read are more likely to be that these people were already into hip-hop, became believers, and started lyrically changing what they were already doing so that it brought glory to God instead of to whatever junk they were previously rapping about, or that they just continued rapping about themselves and their inner struggles and what they see going on in the world, but having been redeemed, started speaking the gospel in these songs, because the gospel had now become their lives.
for the most part they were already writing rap, or heavy metal, or electronica, or reggae, or whatever, and when they met Jesus, they wanted to use what they knew to praise Him instead of singing about the world anymore. not a conscious decision to try to be worldly and/or "seeker-friendly" but a re-purposing of their pre-existing talents and inclinations.
i'm not sure i've ever heard/read an artist's testimony that went like, we were just regular church-goers, and started writing hi-hop songs and playing them at sunday morning meetings because the kids in our neighborhood weren't attending and we hoped that phat beats pumping out of the chapel would attract them.
i've heard of congregations doing things like this, going from pipe-organ or piano to contemporary spiritual songs and instrumentation, hoping that an already-existing younger membership would be more engaged in worship, but not you know, the choir director sitting down and deciding to become a rapper.
for the most part they were already writing rap, or heavy metal, or electronica, or reggae, or whatever, and when they met Jesus, they wanted to use what they knew to praise Him instead of singing about the world anymore. not a conscious decision to try to be worldly and/or "seeker-friendly" but a re-purposing of their pre-existing talents and inclinations.
i'm not sure i've ever heard/read an artist's testimony that went like, we were just regular church-goers, and started writing hi-hop songs and playing them at sunday morning meetings because the kids in our neighborhood weren't attending and we hoped that phat beats pumping out of the chapel would attract them.
i've heard of congregations doing things like this, going from pipe-organ or piano to contemporary spiritual songs and instrumentation, hoping that an already-existing younger membership would be more engaged in worship, but not you know, the choir director sitting down and deciding to become a rapper.
I don't even like the "clean" rap. 
i used to say, if rap was instrumental, i like it, but none of it that has vocals.
a few years ago i was kind of "forced" to listen to a lot of Christian hip-hop, and started paying attention to what they were actually saying ((trying not to focus on the whole compositions and style lol)) and became convinced of its worth by what was being said and talked about. there's a lot of fluff and plastic-pop out there in the genre, sure, and irrelevant glam. but i got introduced to more serious and theologically sound stuff too, and discovered that there are many people out there rapping very profound truth, and that there is a lot of heartfelt, genuine praise and testimony in this genre.
i got turned on to it by the content, not the style, and i was sorry that i had dismissed it all before. purely as a vehicle for teaching, preaching and testimony, it lends itself very well to this because of how it presents long batches of spoken-word and can contain a whole lot more lyrics than most other genres. i see that now, and see how many ((not all)) of the artists really are genuine in what they are doing, and how it has value and use.
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Something popular that rags on me --
"You shouldn't celebrate New Years/Little Christmas/MLK Day/President's Day/Valentine's Day/Cinco De Maya/The Ides of March/St. Patrick's Day/St. Joseph's Day/Ash Wednesday/Good Friday/Palm Sunday/Easter/Earth Day/Arbor Day/May Day/Mother's Day/Father's Day/Grandparent's Day/Memorial Day/VE Day/Bastille Day/Last Day of School/Independence Day/End of WWII Day/Left-hander Day/Labor Day/Teddy Bear Day/Columbus Day/Chocolate Day/Halloween/Veteran's Day/Thanksgiving Day (at least in the way YOU do it)/Christmas because...
a. It was a pagan holiday. (Not that anyone remembers how they celebrated it or why, but it was.)
b. It's too commercialized.
c. It is "of this world."
d. The politics behind it is all wrong.
and really...
e. It's all about how superior I am than you are, so follow my guidelines.
Soooo,
Belated Happy Tartan Day. (April 6)
Happy Walk to Work Day. Did anyone do that today? (April 7)
Happy Palm Sunday. (April 9)
Happy Sibling Day (April 10)
Happy Be Kind to Lawyers and Barbershop Quartet Day (April 11)
Enjoy a good grilled cheese sandwich on Grilled Cheese Day (April 12)
Happy Easter
And Happy St. George's Day (April 23)
"You shouldn't celebrate New Years/Little Christmas/MLK Day/President's Day/Valentine's Day/Cinco De Maya/The Ides of March/St. Patrick's Day/St. Joseph's Day/Ash Wednesday/Good Friday/Palm Sunday/Easter/Earth Day/Arbor Day/May Day/Mother's Day/Father's Day/Grandparent's Day/Memorial Day/VE Day/Bastille Day/Last Day of School/Independence Day/End of WWII Day/Left-hander Day/Labor Day/Teddy Bear Day/Columbus Day/Chocolate Day/Halloween/Veteran's Day/Thanksgiving Day (at least in the way YOU do it)/Christmas because...
a. It was a pagan holiday. (Not that anyone remembers how they celebrated it or why, but it was.)
b. It's too commercialized.
c. It is "of this world."
d. The politics behind it is all wrong.
and really...
e. It's all about how superior I am than you are, so follow my guidelines.
Soooo,
Belated Happy Tartan Day. (April 6)
Happy Walk to Work Day. Did anyone do that today? (April 7)
Happy Palm Sunday. (April 9)
Happy Sibling Day (April 10)
Happy Be Kind to Lawyers and Barbershop Quartet Day (April 11)
Enjoy a good grilled cheese sandwich on Grilled Cheese Day (April 12)
Happy Easter
And Happy St. George's Day (April 23)
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I'm annoyed with not being able to find plain...anything. Every week or so (or so it seems), food manufacturers are debuting some new flavored variety of their products...grr. How many cotton-picking varieties of potato chips do we really need? What's next Lay's? Orange juice and toothpaste flavored potato chips?
Oh...and pumpkin spice. I am so fed up with that flavor being thrust into everything. Not only do I not appreciate it being in a multitude of products, but I am annoyed at how gaga some people get over it "coming back" every year. It's a lab-manufactured, petroleum by-product based, totally artificial flavor...get over the fascination with it.
Oh...and pumpkin spice. I am so fed up with that flavor being thrust into everything. Not only do I not appreciate it being in a multitude of products, but I am annoyed at how gaga some people get over it "coming back" every year. It's a lab-manufactured, petroleum by-product based, totally artificial flavor...get over the fascination with it.
A recent trend that annoys and disappoints me is all the college basketball players who are transferring as underclassmen. Here a list as of the end of January 2017 of 65 players who are transferring. LINK And there have been quite a few announce since then. Just a few years ago you'd only see a handful of players transfer. Recently though it seems like there's someone transferring from nearly every NCAA team. What gives?
What annoys and concerns me is the trend to shout down those who are perceived as having views which are different than "my" own.
This is increasingly common behaviour among feminists, climate-change warriors, alphabet-soupers, Clinton supporters, and Islam-is-a-peaceful-religionists. They can't defeat logic and facts, so they jeer, disrupt, protest, shout, and generally make themselves as irritating as possible, and the popular media eats it up. They demand that their feelings are more important than truth, and that everyone make allowances for them, while they make allowances for no-one. They scream "tolerance" while being the most intolerant of all.
What is more scary is that Western nations are making laws which support and protect this behaviour. It would not surprise me to wake up in a world with thought police. We're not that far from it. Free speech? Yes, certainly, but only if you agree with their agenda. Otherwise, you are told to shut the ( ) up!
This is increasingly common behaviour among feminists, climate-change warriors, alphabet-soupers, Clinton supporters, and Islam-is-a-peaceful-religionists. They can't defeat logic and facts, so they jeer, disrupt, protest, shout, and generally make themselves as irritating as possible, and the popular media eats it up. They demand that their feelings are more important than truth, and that everyone make allowances for them, while they make allowances for no-one. They scream "tolerance" while being the most intolerant of all.
What is more scary is that Western nations are making laws which support and protect this behaviour. It would not surprise me to wake up in a world with thought police. We're not that far from it. Free speech? Yes, certainly, but only if you agree with their agenda. Otherwise, you are told to shut the ( ) up!