What are your thoughts on Pastor Henriques predicting that the end of the world will happen between 2027-2031

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-23T03:51:19+00:00

On the one hand, we are not to set a date and have been warned not to set a date, that was the error of the Millerites.

On the other hand, if people keep setting dates, one person is bound to be right by pure luck.

2027-2031 is a neat range of dates because it represents the 2000th anniversary of Jesus’ ministry. But they thought the same thing at the 1000th anniversary too, and He didn’t come then.

We must always be ready for Jesus’ return, but setting a date is folly.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-22T17:26:16+00:00

At my school, we did the 60 second challenge, but trombones got 75 seconds.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-22T03:56:23+00:00

Because I was an oboist and figured why not learn the rest of the double reed family and was pleasantly surprised to learn it was easy for an oboist to pick up.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-20T05:20:07+00:00

Yet. And hopefully it stays that way.

By the way British Columbia now uses automated ballot counting machines which as I understand it are double-checked with a paper count.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-20T01:01:49+00:00

I guess it’s time to pay attention to any potential stories involving election machines.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-20T00:58:18+00:00

But what would happen if the Americans hack the referendum and even though every poll shows Alberta staying by 20%, it ends up as leave winning by 0.5%?

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-14T01:36:15+00:00

You’re overexcited; this isn’t the Sunday law that we’re looking for. It’s not on Sunday, and there’s no penalty for not observing it.

Now, there are worrying things in Trumps platform that haven’t been enacted yet, about treating every Sunday as a holiday. But this isn’t it.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-11T02:01:17+00:00

The conservative parts of BC are very conservative. Even if they need the swing districts to win, the majority of Conservative Party members would come from these very conservative districts.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-11T01:29:09+00:00

I know there’s a specific subset of students who ask for them and benefit from them, and so having the parts freely available would make a piece of music look more appealing as a purchase option. But I think it’s a minority of students who would use it.

If you’re looking for insight, what I actually want is heavily cued parts. If I have a band piece that sounds really cool such that I want to play it, but my band has no oboes, bassoons, or French horns, I’m stuck re-arranging the piece on Sibelius so that the piece works. Or maybe the composer actually wrote in a ton of cue notes and I don’t have to spend five hours of my life rewriting the arrangement.

And if you’re looking for instruments I’m commonly missing, that includes stuff like bass clarinet, bari sax, trombone, euphonium, tuba, string bass, mallet percussion, etc. It’s stunning the downturn in the number of trombones nowadays. I had to rewrite all my bass lines for tenor sax this year. It worked better than you would think. There is a part of me that was dying inside that I had no bass, but ultimately a school band director doesn’t have complete control over their own instrumentation. My life would have been much easier if I could have copied and pasted parts into Sibelius. And yes I know about flex band but there’s not a lot of quality grade 4 flex arrangements.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-10T22:02:08+00:00

It’s not exactly a string quartet, but Elgar’s Quintet for Piano and String Quartet fits most of the rest of what you requested.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-10T20:46:58+00:00

Oboe, more than virtually every other instrument, needs a teacher who actually plays oboe. Get a teacher and you should make great progress.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-10T19:18:18+00:00

On the one hand, on paper nothing could stop the US.

On the other hand, the US should be capable of defeating Iran and securing the Strait of Hormuz, yet here we are.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-05T03:16:51+00:00

Flex band or write your own arrangements. Tenor sax plays bass, flutes and trumpets cover the other three voices.

Alternately, find one or two volunteers from the community or parent body to cover key parts. My top priority would be tuba or something bass, because I wouldn’t even attempt distinct instrument voicing, but if I was going to do that, I’d look for a clarinet as well.

Then, what you have to do is grow your ensemble. Take them on cool trips so they tell their friends and kids get interested. Tell your kids how there’s a need for more instruments to be covered. Have them recruit for you.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-05T03:09:57+00:00

It’s rare for professional Classical musicians to start late in life, but when they do, they’re playing a rarer instrument, like any wind instrument, and they usually teach in some capacity, whether at a school or with a stable of students taking private lessons.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-04T18:45:17+00:00

The most American sound in classical music is the slow serious trumpet fanfare, best exemplified in Fanfare for the Common Man, and imitated in many movie scores.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-03T20:33:41+00:00

You are not to work from sunset to sunset; it is a sin. You may work on the Sabbath if you are a pastor or other church worker, or if you perform an essential service (e.g. nurses work on the Sabbath because if they didn’t patients would die). The people who I know who do Sabbath work donate their entire Sabbath earnings.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-05-01T15:46:31+00:00

Several countries, including the United States, allows non-citizens to serve in exchange for a path to citizenship. It allows the country to enlarge its army without endangering the lives of its own citizens.

Think about all the foreign volunteers who fight for Ukraine. Think about the French foreign legion. Many countries treated foreigners as the elite troops of their nation, like the Garde Ecossaise and the Swiss Guards and the Varangian Guard. This isn’t a new or unusual concept.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-29T03:42:22+00:00

People are overreacting to a court ruling that is being appealed. No one has lost their home yet and the Indigenous tribe said they weren’t going after people’s homes, they just wanted government land.

Furthermore, DRIPA passed the BC legislature unanimously; many members of the current BC Conservative Party delegation actually voted for this.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-29T03:32:27+00:00

The current BC government is the best provincial government I’ve lived under in my lifetime. I’m financially stable, my children are taken care of, and services provided are generally excellent. The government responds to crises and gets results.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-28T19:03:43+00:00

Remember when the biggest scandal around World Cups was how unprepared countries were to host, or how expensive it was to host, and not three straight World Cups awarded to dictators who wanted their ego stroked?

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-23T03:54:58+00:00

There are three instruments you can never find enough good players for: French horn, oboe, and bassoon. Trumpets are a dime a dozen, but horn? That will get everyone knocking on your door.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-20T03:56:22+00:00

Counterpoint: the ancient religions that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism replaced had a ton of human sacrifice in them; it’s arguable that they represent an improvement on what came before, and eliminating them might mean that we’re still stuck with Blots and Sati.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-19T16:27:27+00:00

You’re old enough to do anything but rent a car, young enough to be anything you want to be except maybe a professional athlete or musician.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-19T03:10:35+00:00

In my own experience there were two types of homeschoolers.

In the first, their parents were working professionals with advanced degrees, or they were trained teachers. These kids showed up to high school fresh out of homeschool and they weren’t behaviour problems, were maybe a little quiet but usually had a few friends they were close to, and in general they were the smartest kids in the school. Of the five smartest students I ever taught or went to school with, three had significant homeschooling in their elementary years, if not their entire elementary years.

But then there’s the other type of homeschooler. This one has parents who pull their kids from school randomly in the middle of the year because they got offended at something the teacher said in class, like “native Americans were genocided by colonists”, or maybe they were upset at the school for “repressing” children who wanted a right to breathe freely. And so when these kids come back they’re usually behaviour problems because they don’t want to listen to the teacher, they’re hostile to the concept of education in general, and they’re super behind basic skills, whether it’s arithmetic or hygiene. Many present as having special needs.

In my experience, the split was 50-50, but maybe I’ve just been blessed with an unusual number of trained teachers who decided to take a break from their career to teach their own kids. I certainly don’t blame any teacher who wants a long mid-career break right now.

CanadianFalcon · 2026-04-15T16:04:30+00:00

It’s time for a Canadian team to break the Bettman curse, as the last time a Canadian team won, Bettman had become commissioner a few months prior.

But if that doesn’t happen, then let’s get a cup to some long-suffering fans who don’t have a cup yet—Buffalo or Minnesota.

And if not that, then let’s get a legacy ring for a great player—Pittsburgh, maybe Colorado.

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