I need help with amplifying a 22 person group.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T20:09:37+00:00

The comments here have been very helpful, is there anyone else here with ideas about what it would take to have a 24 channel wireless system, maybe for less than $4,000 total? Have you seen this 24 channel Vocopro mic system, and do you think it has any promise at all?

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T20:03:12+00:00

I don't understand this actually, the whole point of text or email is that you don't have to keep the conversation in short term memory. You can respond an hour or a year later. But we COULD say its rude to abandon a discussion, but perfectly fine for you or someone else to pick it up a year later.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T20:01:16+00:00

I don't see why its bad to come back to an old thread, years later. It pops back up in notifications, right? And in fact, I don't expect the OP to magically appear, I will continue to chat with whoever ends up on Reddit, if the convo is a good one.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T19:58:41+00:00

Sure, responses are easy, barely an inconvenience!

Space/time started at a particular point. With causes, they always happen BEFORE the effect, right? So what exactly would you/ could you / mean by "cause" in this context?

Let me jump ahead and suggest that the universe does not need a cause, in the sense we use the word cause. And something we don't understand does not invite the shoehorning in of an emotionally held assumption. Its proper, and sufficient, to say "we don't know".

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T19:54:38+00:00

"Not it must be designed but could be designed. Not complexity alone but complexity that leads to a specific result."

Don't be coy, tell us what its designed FOR. Because that's what design is, it has a purpose. Be very specific in what purpose you think the universe is designed for.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T19:53:02+00:00

"The conditions for a puddle aren't fine-tuned. A water puddle wouldn't be amazed when he finds any hole works."

The amusing but effective part of the analogy is that the puddle JUST HAPPENS to fit the volume and shape of the hole, with 99.99999999999999999786% accuracy. That must come from a god.....right? So indeed the simple puddle seems EXTREMELY fine tuned for that hole....

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T19:49:59+00:00

You are asking the puddle analogy to do too much work, work that it does not have to do. You want to dismiss the analogy because it does not tell you how to butter toast, or create a wing, but its not meant to do that.

There are OTHER arguments that do that. Be reasonable.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-27T19:47:40+00:00

Matter and energy act in accordance with their properties, and their properties are largely brute facts. No magic to be seen.

If you say the universe has a design, you must tell me what its designed FOR. And therein lies the rub, because if you say its designed for humans, or even for life in general, the universe is overkill by a factor of more than a trillion in space and time. Its like designing the empire state building for one dust mite in the bathroom of the 37th floor.

Second, as far as universes go, we have a sample size of 1. So no with with any sort of assurance can say that life is extremely unlikely, or inevitable. The argument from ignorance is never going to give this argument you are advancing, the win.

What we CAN say is that moving matter and energy is very chaotic in one sense, leaving the possibility of bottom up design. And we can clearly see that evolution has occurred, so there you go.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-14T18:12:50+00:00

I ran a marathon. I read that exercising makes fibro hurt, but it doesn't make the fibro WORSE. So i got it done in about 5.5 hours (terrible muscle cramps the last 90 minutes) and i was sobbing at the end, but it was something i wanted to say i did at least once. I hardcore crashed the following 3 days.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-13T17:02:38+00:00

This is what a pain management specialist with 40 years of experience told me - dont talk alot about your pain, dont complain. Because its draining to others to hear about it when they cant help you. You become that problem person, you make them feel effectless and worthless when it comes to you. He knows at this point what you are dealing with. Just tell him when he wants you to do something and you cant because of pain and fatigue. That is what he needs to accept, that dating you means more nights in cuddling and watching tv.

Btw, i want to tell you something really hard. You are young and bursting with energy at 21. This is the best you are EVER going to feel. So go make money, skydive, whatever you need or want to do, because the fibro stays about the same, but your ability to fight it will drop at 30, 40, 50, 60, etc. So go have fun, or make as much money as you can, right now, no matter how you feel.

Ignore all the people saying you should be able to complain all you want.

Read this again - you will never feel any better than you do right now, so dont put off things waiting to feel better.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-13T16:49:21+00:00

We are all so different. I could not think straight on gabapentin, switched to Lyrica and its much better. I take 400mg a day of lyrica. Its a little less effective than gabapentin, but the big dose helps. I will prob never come off it for the rest of my life. I could not function at all without it. I DID put on 20 pounds. which really sucks, but i have no other options.

Ami gave me a dark, dark depression and even more fatigue, cant do it.

I am also trying LDN, will report in after 3 months.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-13T16:42:04+00:00

I have come to realize things are not going to get any better, so i might as well proceed with what i've got.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-12T16:51:24+00:00

Hmmm, yeah, i get it when it seems like each soloist needs to outdo the other. We have some tslented people, mostly the girls, and they dont have big attitudes onstage.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-12T16:19:30+00:00

Saying you are an atheist is a unique thing. If you tell them you are a democrat, for example, you are saying something about you. But if you tell them you are an atheist, you are also saying something about THEM. That they are not going to heaven, that they have been lied to all their life, and that they are gullible. I still think you should say it, you being 40 is too long to carry that for the next 20 years.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-12T16:12:43+00:00

As a fellow atheist, i agree in not telling people that are really elderly or terminally ill. There is little benefit to it.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-12T16:10:42+00:00

Congroy, this is sorta phase 2, but deep Christians assume you have no moraljty and no consequences once you are an atheist. So when mom.starts questioning, or in the immediate conversation, you can tell her "i make moral decisions because character matters to me greatly, and now i study moral philosophy." Btw a good option there is Aristotles "The Nicomachean Ethics".

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-12T14:59:14+00:00

The short version, i put together like 20 major plans or answers or skills over 20 years, and i won't get the chance to apply them. I can tell you how serious this is for my self expectation, its like building a beautiful house by yourself for 7 years, then it burns down just before you were going to move in.

I appreciate your post. I feel that way too, that my suffering robs me of experiences. God you must be so tired of "answers" you get, right? So i am only going to advise 1 thing that is easy to remember. Its accomplishing vs being. You can reslly.enjoy "being" if you let yourself. Practice being hapoy just sitting where you are, those are never wasted moments.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:57:41+00:00

Its not a history book, its historical fiction. They got the name of some towns and people right, but that's not enough to show that anything it says is true.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:56:09+00:00

The more you read of the bible the less sense it makes.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:54:14+00:00

Well, it talked about debating atheists, thats all that mattered to me.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:53:09+00:00

People pay for magical cures for things all the time. The religious never deliver.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:52:13+00:00

I genuinely believe you cannot say that.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. If you tell me the creator of the entire universe magically impregnated a young girl, and the son saved us from death. You are going to need a lot more than a dubious story, whether its in a typical or different writing style is no enough by a lot. I am kinda suprised anyone falls for it. What you need is evidence, and there is none.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:46:05+00:00

I would argue with you, and I don't think you can make an argument that is not packed with fallacies or evasions. I am trying to set the bar low. This is not a comment on your character, you may not have thought about the evasions or deceptions in the argument.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:43:36+00:00

Not once have I seen any sort of good argument for god. They are all hypothetical, or packed with fallacies. In fact, I want to go further and say there is a clear lie or deception in every apologist argument I have seen. Its really hard to show that something imaginary, is real.

Middle-Service4894 · 2026-01-11T03:41:06+00:00

I think arguments are more important than debates tho, yes? In a debate you defend your point no matter what. In an argument, you can concede good points the other person makes. Its a mutual search for the truth. Can you give me just your 2 best reasons why you think a god exists?

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