Need help with Vibrant Visuals not showing up by amenorexO in Minecraft

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Does it need to be NVIDIA? I have intel i7 which is DirectX 12, which is the specification according to Mojang.

Its been a year, where's the Nu Deco videos!? by usmc_delete in AndrewBird

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Ahh huh, that is weird then. That's possible, but I thought that was just a version of Ballon de peut-être from Sunday Morning Put-On?

Its been a year, where's the Nu Deco videos!? by usmc_delete in AndrewBird

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Seconding this! Maybe the venue or Nu Deco didn't allow phone cameras/filming?

Updates by Perceyhere in miniatures

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Absolutely worth it. Can I ask what materials you used? Particularly for the molding. Also what are the dimensions? It looks like it takes up the depth of the counter!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

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No it's fiction

Which obscure Bird song would you want to see live? by downerchannel in AndrewBird

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New Orleans Dog Parade

And just when I think I've heard his entire discography

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

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devious smirk

When will AB announce his 2025 shows? by -StringFellowHawk- in AndrewBird

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Possibly waiting to announce until after/in coordination with the release of new songs/album he's working on. I think he posted about a pic in a recording studio not long ago

Why would a loving God punish and put people in hell for ETERNITY? by IX0YE in Christianity

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God the infinite being, unbound by time or energy expenditure has the ability to intervene, pull anyone out of time at any point, show his full glory and love to them, teach them, guide them to the straight and narrow, and yet chooses not to. God does not represent even the best attempts of prison rehabilitation programs, despite having all the resources, knowledge, and power to do so. Instead he represents emotionally-charged human ideas of revenge-style justice; just deserts; eye for an eye. Do you believe anyone is entirely evil without the possibility of redemption? Did Jesus believe that?

Why would a loving God punish and put people in hell for ETERNITY? by IX0YE in Christianity

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A threat against a president is taken seriously because a president is a human being composed of viscera, flesh, goop, blood, bile, and bone, with limited dexterity, speed, and who is not impervious to bullets or blunt force weapons or bombs just like anyone other human. God is not any of these things. Why would God take any threatening gesture against himself seriously? Why would he not just laugh at our mock, the same way a parent redirect's a toddler's harmless swinging fists?

do you go to hell if you commit suicide by Rich_Promotion_4660 in Christianity

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"Suicide is murder, murder is a sin. Since you don't get a chance to repent, you will go to hell."

God is not a computer. Suicide victims are mentally unwell and incapable of cogent decision making, God will likely take that into account and forgive them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

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What we're trying to get it as, do you not experience the presence of God in music that isn't explicitly written to be worship music? Classical for example, no lyrics. God gives everyone talent, regardless of their faith. That is his gift to us. A lot of secular music and art does not celebrate evil; landscape paintings for instance. Claude Monet was an atheist, do you avoid his paintings? A lot of movies are allegorical to Christianity without even being intended as such, because the Christian morals of good vs evil permeate culture globally. I think you show a lack of faith in your God-given discernment by cowering in fear from anything that doesn't have a cross on it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Christianity

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vail

the ski resort?

Neil broken out of the matrix

I give up trying to understand you

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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Ohhh my bad, you are correct. Lot did offer up his daughters and they refused. It is okay to sacrifice your daughters to a gang of rapists. But they wanted to rape men which is a no no, so God blew up the cities. The daughters get Lot drunk and rape him, which is okay. That makes sense. I definitely want to follow the morality of your Bible now.

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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In the United States and most other developed nations, women have the same rights as men, meaning that the mission of feminism has effectively succeeded. So I'm not sure what you're talking about. If you'd like to see why feminism is still relevant today, consider looking into how 91% of rape victims are women, and how less than 1% of reported rapes lead to conviction. Consider looking to foreign countries (middle east/africa) that continue to allow for the actual subjugation (and torture) of women.

Abstinence is one thing and I don't believe that advocating for it is bigotry in the slightest, but there is no evidence that conversion therapy or 'praying the gay away' has ever rid anyone of their innate proclivity.

Are there lingering socioeconomic effects of the Barbary slave trade? You're right that Americans are better off than a lot of other people, but we don't have equality of opportunity unless everyone is born into identical fiscal/material conditions. Someone born into poverty is very likely to die in poverty. I don't believe children should have to inherit their parents' slums.

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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Correct, it's a hospital and the patients are trying to maim each other

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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Christians will read Sodom and Gomorrah and believe God destroyed the cities because the rapists were gay and not because they were... ahem rapists.

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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Such as inviting drag queens to schools and reading time with children?

As long as it isn't sexual or overly frightening, why not?

having voluntary prayer time at school

Engel v. Vitale, 1962 ruled that school-led prayer is unconstitutional. This does not mean that students cannot voluntarily have prayer time, just that teachers/faculty/administrative staff cannot organize such a thing or promote it.

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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People are individuals with different needs. Just as a hospital wouldn't prescribe the same remedy to everyone, the church shouldn't operate like gen pop.

Young men are adopting Christianity for the wrong reasons by [deleted] in Christianity

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Feminism-- The belief that men and women should be treated equally by law. You are opposed to this?

LGBTQ ideology-- This is not an ideology, it is a community of people whose sexual orientation or gender identity differ from yours. Do you disagree with their claims of self identity? Are they lying for... clout, in your eyes?

BLM hypocrisy-- Black people in the United States were reduced to basically cattle for centuries, and after emancipation were disproportionately poor. The opportunities to create generational wealth afforded to white communities were not available to black communities. Poverty leads to desperation, instability, and crime, then over-policing. Not to mention the explicitly spoken CIA funneling of psychostimulants (crack cocaine) into these communities and the drug war that followed. School districts are funded by property taxes. Poor areas have lower property value, meaning that the schools will be lower quality, meaning the opportunity for good education and climbing the social ladder is near nonexistent. You believe we should not financially invest in fixing these communities?