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Was This God, Or Not? (1 Viewer)

Last week my wife and I went to one of those dueling piano things.  

You could make requests by filling out a slip.  If you included a tip it moved your song up the line.

Somebody requested "Don't Stop Believing".  Then somebody requested "Rollin in the Deep".  And finally somebody paid $20 to hear "Drops of Jupiter".

Pretty sure that was the work of Satan.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
Last week my wife and I went to one of those dueling piano things.  

You could make requests by filling out a slip.  If you included a tip it moved your song up the line.

Somebody requested "Don't Stop Believing".  Then somebody requested "Rollin in the Deep".  And finally somebody paid $20 to hear "Drops of Jupiter".

Pretty sure that was the work of Satan.
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I don’t mean to be flippant about this, but if Satan has time to be controlling a dueling piano bar playlist, could you occasionally ask if He would turn His attention to killing a few of the idiots who drive slow in the passing lane? You know, once he gets the playlist all set up.

 
TheIronSheik said:
I don’t mean to be flippant about this, but if Satan has time to be controlling a dueling piano bar playlist, could you occasionally ask if He would turn His attention to killing a few of the idiots who drive slow in the passing lane? You know, once he gets the playlist all set up.
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This doesn't even make sense.  Why would Satan kill people doing his will on Earth?

 
Henry Ford said:
This doesn't even make sense.  Why would Satan kill people doing his will on Earth?
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Satan gets a bad rap.  The guy is just doing his job punishing evildoers.  People who drive slow in the passing lane are more evil than Hitler and all of those Hitler babies that other countries are trying to product combined.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Satan gets a bad rap.  The guy is just doing his job punishing evildoers.  People who drive slow in the passing lane are more evil than Hitler and all of those Hitler babies that other countries are trying to product combined.
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I will grant you that Lucifer the Lightbringer probably doesn't want people to forget to use their turn signals.  

 
dgreen said:
Well, I think it depends on what one's view is about the existence of God. If someone assumes God doesn't exist, then there's certainly nothing interesting about the former. If someone assumes God does exist, then I think God's level of interaction with us is pretty interesting.
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You dont say

 
ChiefD said:
So, I was raised Catholic. Went to Catholic school with the nuns in habits - whole bit. I then went to public high school, and between that and college plenty of questions came up that I still haven't been able to answer or figure out about the existence (or non-existence of God). I've always leaned to the non-existence side.

So for the next week my wife and 3 kids are out of town for spring break. They left yesterday morning.

I'm out on my run last night, and three things happened, one after another:

1. Saw a penny on the ground. My younger son is a money hound. He always finds change on the ground, so when that happens he always stops and picks it up. So consequently, I always stop and pick it up when I see it. So I stop, grab the penny, smile a bit thinking about him, and keep moving.

2. I have my headphones in listening to Spotify, and I have it on shuffle playing a running playlist I have that is about 70 songs long. Literally seconds after the penny thing, my daughter's favorite song starts playing. I smile again, thinking: "well, I guess she wants to say hi too." and keep running. At this point thoughts are creeping into my head like: "if something happens now that reminds me of my 3rd child...."

3. The VERY NEXT SONG that plays is a song my oldest son told me to put on my playlist, so one of his favorites. I literally throw my head back and laugh out loud. So apparently all three kids wanted to say hi last night.

But then I got to thinking - my whole life I've searched for some proof of the existence of God. By nature I am a cynic on things such as this, but my mind is open enough to at least consider the possibilities. I also know this could be just one hell of a coincidence. But, could this be the sign I've been looking for?

At any rate it's a pretty neat story. Serious and shtick replies welcome.  :)
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What our priest called "God moments"

Sure it could be coincidence. Maybe not.

I read some stuff recently about near death experiences that reinforced my belief there is a God  

I've been driving along and been floored by some natural beauty at times. Once in awhile you get a tingly feeling from something. I don't think they are accidents but that's just my belief

 
TheIronSheik said:
Satan gets a bad rap.  The guy is just doing his job punishing evildoers.  People who drive slow in the passing lane are more evil than Hitler and all of those Hitler babies that other countries are trying to product combined.
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I think you need to bone up on your theologies GB. Satan doesn't punish evildoers, God does. Satan promotes that ####, revels in it and promotes those who get creative with it. Collectively the world got together in 1914 and said lets see what we can do, then Hitler wanted to be #1 all by himself, Stalin said hold my beer, Mao laughed at them both and now we have Al-Qaeda resurrecting the competition with ISIS taking on the role of young upstart taking a shot at the title. All the while the US quietly, efficiently [dori]just keeps killing...just keeps killing...just keeps killing, killing, killing[/dori]. I feel like God is :doh: and Satan is :headbang: right now.

 
Henry Ford said:
Yeah, my actual point is that a deity that shuffles your playlist but won't save dying children with AIDS is not a being worth worshiping as a God.
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Maybe work is too busy 

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
Last week my wife and I went to one of those dueling piano things.  

You could make requests by filling out a slip.  If you included a tip it moved your song up the line.

Somebody requested "Don't Stop Believing".  Then somebody requested "Rollin in the Deep".  And finally somebody paid $20 to hear "Drops of Jupiter".

Pretty sure that was the work of Satan.
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:hot:

 
Henry Ford said:
I don’t mean to be flippant about this, but if He has time to be controlling your shuffle on your playlist, could you occasionally ask if He would turn His attention to saving a few of the toddlers dying of AIDS and malaria? You know, once he gets the playlist all shuffled.  
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I’m more inclined to believe there’s a god and he doesn’t care about playlists or babies dying of AIDS, malaria or anything else.

 
Don’t know. I also don’t know the odds of stumbling across a stray penny on the ground but it’s not extremely rare, of course. What I do know is that the chances of hearing one of the two songs you mentioned followed by the other one (because the order is immaterial) is roughly 1 in 2500, assuming a random shuffle. That’s more common than winning the pick four, or whatever your state calls it. I believe in God, myself, and I’m not saying He didn’t have a hand in this, but it’s not all that rare, probabilistically speaking.

 
AAABatteries said:
I’m more inclined to believe there’s a god and he doesn’t care about playlists or babies dying of AIDS, malaria or anything else.
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Sure, that’s conceivable.  Again, I don’t think that’s really something to worship, but that’s a possibility. 

 
Dedfin said:
Greatest rap album of all time? Or greatestest? Man, I read that one was hated when it first came out, but it can hang better than any other BBoys albums imo.
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I love it. It was indeed hated. I remember being fourteen or so and just not getting it. Everybody wanted Licensed to Ill, Part II. They weren't ready for the 180 degrees the Beasties pulled on them. 

Then, once Check Your Head came out, people started to give it a listen again and began to love it. I think everybody realized three years (at least) after the fact. I set up an intellectual property thread over in the PSF with Paul's Boutique in the title...it got a few pages deep. An album like Paul's will never be made again just because of the amount of sampling the Dust Brothers did on it -- one would never be able to afford nor obtain the clearances today.  Brief samples of music used to be considered de minimus usage, or in some cases, fair use, with respect to copyright law. In 1991, that changed with a case involving Biz Markie, Gilbert Sullivan, and the District Court of NY.

From the Wiki article about Biz Markie: 

According to Pitchfork, "Overnight it became forbiddingly difficult and expensive to incorporate even a handful of samples into a new beat ... Producers scaled back their creations, often augmenting one choice groove with a bevy of instrumental embellishments."

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But in 1989 you could "sample handfuls into a new beat," and Paul's Boutique did.  

 
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rockaction said:
I love it. It was indeed hated. I remember being fourteen or so and just not getting it. Everybody wanted Licensed to Ill, Part II. They weren't ready for the 180 degrees the Beasties pulled on them. 
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you're out of your mind, licensed to ill was a kiddie album, a novelty at best.  I mean we listened to it in college while we were getting drunk, but it wasn't serious music.

Pauls Boutique was them going to a higher level and anyone that likes music, understands music, realized that.   the production value alone on that album was something we hadn't seen before.

then they blew everyones ####### mind with Check Your Head

 
tommyboy said:
you're out of your mind, licensed to ill was a kiddie album, a novelty at best.  I mean we listened to it in college while we were getting drunk, but it wasn't serious music.

Pauls Boutique was them going to a higher level and anyone that likes music, understands music, realized that.   the production value alone on that album was something we hadn't seen before.

then they blew everyones ####### mind with Check Your Head
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Yeah, Licensed to Ill was a kiddie album. Like I said, I was fourteen when Paul's Boutique came out. Most people -- and most reviewers -- were confused by Paul's. 

It was awesome.  

 
ChiefD said:
But then I got to thinking - my whole life I've searched for some proof of the existence of God. By nature I am a cynic on things such as this, but my mind is open enough to at least consider the possibilities. I also know this could be just one hell of a coincidence. But, could this be the sign I've been looking for?
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Signs point to yes.

 
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ChiefD said:
So, I was raised Catholic. Went to Catholic school with the nuns in habits - whole bit. I then went to public high school, and between that and college plenty of questions came up that I still haven't been able to answer or figure out about the existence (or non-existence of God). I've always leaned to the non-existence side.

So for the next week my wife and 3 kids are out of town for spring break. They left yesterday morning.

I'm out on my run last night, and three things happened, one after another:

1. Saw a penny on the ground. My younger son is a money hound. He always finds change on the ground, so when that happens he always stops and picks it up. So consequently, I always stop and pick it up when I see it. So I stop, grab the penny, smile a bit thinking about him, and keep moving.

2. I have my headphones in listening to Spotify, and I have it on shuffle playing a running playlist I have that is about 70 songs long. Literally seconds after the penny thing, my daughter's favorite song starts playing. I smile again, thinking: "well, I guess she wants to say hi too." and keep running. At this point thoughts are creeping into my head like: "if something happens now that reminds me of my 3rd child...."

3. The VERY NEXT SONG that plays is a song my oldest son told me to put on my playlist, so one of his favorites. I literally throw my head back and laugh out loud. So apparently all three kids wanted to say hi last night.

But then I got to thinking - my whole life I've searched for some proof of the existence of God. By nature I am a cynic on things such as this, but my mind is open enough to at least consider the possibilities. I also know this could be just one hell of a coincidence. But, could this be the sign I've been looking for?

At any rate it's a pretty neat story. Serious and shtick replies welcome.  :)
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Coincidence is when God works a miracle and decides to remain anonymous. :)

Put me down as a "yes".

 
A local Pentecostal church swept through my apartment complex today.  All I'm gonna say is, they were nice people.

 
ChiefD said:
Was This God, Or Not?
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Sounds like you're really, really dependent on your family. Look at what just happened. They all left, now you're seeing them everywhere you look and are so afraid you're starting to believe in god. This can be a really, really good thing for you, though. I would get as much work in on myself as I could while they're gone. Use your love for them as motivation to become a better person. This sounds like a very limited, unique time in your life that you have "you" all to yourself without any distractions. What if something happens one day and you actually lose one, two, three, four of them? You need to practice the scenario, dude. Practice being good at being alone while they're gone. No matter how much it hurts, act like it doesn't. Use it to make yourself stronger. I'd go full beast mode on meditation, exercise and nutrition - maybe even fast for a day or two - to get the most out of this experience as possible. What I wouldn't do is sit at home and watch Disney movies wondering when my owners are coming home to feed me.

 
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

 
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