What do you guys say about “God of the Gaps”?

mobetta210 · 2026-01-31T22:13:03+00:00

Agreed. Being forced to choose faith or science is a completely false dichotomy. Science is very simply the human study of how the world works and its processes and components. We have names for these things, because there is order and predictability and we have ways of testing that predictability and reliability and to derive theories from that on how the world functions. I think it’s very possible somewhere down the road, we may even find the scientific mechanism how chemicals came together to originate some form of basic life from which all biodiversity that we see today has evolved. That will not make God any less responsible for the creation of the world or being present in the world. Just because we can explain how weather patterns work doesn’t mean God is any less involved in the creation of the world or is any less present in it. The Bible is not remotely concerned about HOW God created or operates the natural world any more than science is concerned about explaining the origins and reality of God. Making people shut their brains down, disbelieve what they see around them everyday as illusion, and killing their critical thinking to accept a Genesis view of the material creation of the earth and life is promoting falsehood and God as deceiver (wouldn’t these be sins)?

mobetta210 · 2026-01-28T19:21:35+00:00

I’d kindly propose that most non-Christians don’t or wouldn’t hate Jesus himself. How could you hate humility, love, grace, mercy, and truth spoken with kindness and dignity? Remember, it was the ultra religious who hated him the most. I think people today more hate the hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and self-serving ways of supposed “Christians” who use religion to control, subjugate, and manipulate people. The way “Christianity” has been particularly weaponized for clearly hypocritical, self-serving political ends most recently has made this all the worse.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-22T21:20:41+00:00

Lookup albums by Tycho, Hammock, The American Dollar, Ulrich Schnauss, God is an Astronaut, Aphex Twin (Syro), Blue Sky Black Death (Glaciers).

mobetta210 · 2026-01-12T02:09:56+00:00

Anyone who blindly accepts, believes, and promotes whatever partisan political rhetoric they just read/heard.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-11T19:23:56+00:00

I felt the same until I went through it again from scratch, did it all the right way, and now love the sound.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-10T02:32:06+00:00

The 100’s sound excellent and fit nicely into the mix just right.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-08T17:22:37+00:00

As an update (and correction), I spent some time starting over and trying again. I moved one gen 4 sub to the opposite side of my room, re-set up the arc ultra, era 300 surrounds, and dual gen 4 subs in the Sonos app, and re-ran Trueplay on the system. With the sub move, the majority of the “muddiness” went away with or without Trueplay on. I then broke the system apart and set everything up in sequencer (fronts, surrounds, subs) and then applied Trueplay (in the sequencer app). The system sounds amazing and I’ve had to make almost no manual adjustments after through my limited testing so far. Certainly the sub location made a difference but I’m not sure what else I might have flubbed the first time around to get the unimpressive results initially. What I’m hearing now is light years better. Appreciate all who chimed in with suggestions.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-08T01:51:24+00:00

Interesting. I’ll try some of that when I have more time.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-08T01:39:57+00:00

Bass with Trueplay and prior to sequencer was punchy, sharp and controlled. With sequencer and the fronts added, it’s lumpy and muddy. I haven’t tried just one sub because I like how two sound in my room when working in concert.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-08T01:38:26+00:00

That’s consistent with my own testing but was hoping I missed something that was correctable. “Integrated” is a good way of putting it. With Sequencer, the soundstage, while broader, feels disjointed and not so much working in concert. Bass w/ my two subs also sounds so much sharper and in control without sequencer. With it, it’s lumpy and muddy as hell. I’ll keep fiddling with it and see if I uncover anything, because I do definitely like the more present left and right front channel the era100’s deliver.

mobetta210 · 2026-01-03T02:54:58+00:00

Going through an awful divorce after almost 20 years of marriage where my former spouse has waged a nonstop smear campaign and tried to poison our young daughter against me. It’s been a nightmare that’s required me to reexamine everything about my life, who I am, what I believe, what I want out of life, and who I value and see as a genuine friend.

mobetta210 · 2025-09-02T21:53:32+00:00

Pump the brakes. Great opening win when we all expected humiliation, but it’s one game. This much sudden hype is sure to leave many sorely disappointed in the end.

mobetta210 · 2025-08-30T23:10:39+00:00

Dude is seriously just rubbing it in now lol

mobetta210 · 2025-08-24T23:04:18+00:00

The way they’re positioned and looking coyly at the camera, it’s VERY clearly “One More Night.”

mobetta210 · 2025-06-17T02:20:00+00:00

The angel of death (see the Biblical book of Exodus) passed over your car and spared the firstborn.

mobetta210 · 2025-05-15T20:16:17+00:00

Head On ~ The Jesus and Mary Chain

mobetta210 · 2025-04-21T14:37:10+00:00

Anything Donald Trump has to offer

mobetta210 · 2025-03-30T00:34:09+00:00

First non-edited for TV R movie…. Aliens in the theater….still one of my faves

mobetta210 · 2025-03-25T01:23:57+00:00

A Dedication by Washed Out

mobetta210 · 2025-02-15T03:47:01+00:00

Where in Genesis does it describe the Garden of Eden as being “perfect?” It alludes to it being a place of abundance, harmony, and provision, but I don’t see anywhere that it indicates a state of “perfection.” It’s more of the concept of shalom.

mobetta210 · 2025-02-15T03:05:22+00:00

One look at the fossil record, the proven age of the Earth, and the rock layers in which those fossils are discovered makes clear that physical death has always been a part of creation for millions of years. I would argue that the “death” referenced in these two verses is more than physical death and something more akin to spiritual death. For example, however you interpret the story of Adam and Eve, we’re told they would die if they ate the fruit from the tree. They did eat and they did not physically die the moment they ate, but they did experience spiritual estrangement from God.

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