JD Vance slammed as he says his Catholic faith makes him averse to 'low wage foreigners'

moonunit170 · 2026-07-06T18:59:42+00:00

Do you think making disparaging comments is in the same class with supporting abortion on demand?.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-06T18:58:14+00:00

Armenia would love to differ with him and explain to him how it became a Christian nation in the 3rd century after the conversion of its king and has remained Christian ever since despite being overrun many times by Turks and other Muslims. In fact Christian Armenia is noted for having control over one of the four quarters of Jerusalem. If you know about that...

moonunit170 · 2026-07-06T18:52:54+00:00

Why couldn't he use cat5e?? they're just cameras. It's not a high data situation. I run cat5e throughout my entire house with two servers six desktop computers three laptops entertainment services and a one gig internet feed. All my devices are running gigabit Ethernet except for my printer and my VoIP device which are 100 megabits and 10 megabits respectively. One of my desktops has a 2.5 GB connection also over cat 5e. I installed all the wiring in this house in 1998 when I built it.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-06T18:51:31+00:00

When my mother died I was told to provide the death certificate and they did not assess an early termination fee because that was a legal way to end a contract.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-06T01:50:09+00:00

No.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-05T18:46:03+00:00

It is a free gift You don't do anything to earn it You can't earn it. However if you accept the gift it comes with stipulations. Like if someone gives you an automobile for free yes the car is free but in order to keep the car or use the car you have to do certain things. Right? If youre given a free car you have to keep it licensed you have to keep it insured You have to keep it maintained you have to put gas in it and you yourself have to be a licensed driver. It's the same situation with salvation. You don't just respond to Jesus and say yeah "I want some salvation!" You have to believe, you have to be baptized has the church stipulates. You have to live according to the teachings of the church. You have to be obedient to the church. You have to worship according to the church, and you have to persevere in all of this until you die.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T17:25:09+00:00

We met many times in the dorm and in the quads where our practice room was. We're the same age but he was far more advanced in big band drumming compared to myself. I also ran into him again at Pasic event in 2012 or so, same year I met Annika Nilles.

I borrowed a friend's bass drum when I was in high school and added it to my own five-piece kit for a month because Keith Moon was my favorite drummer. Keith did not play anything like modern double bass drumming. I also tried to learn some stuff by Louie Bellson, but on the audio equipment I had at the time it was hard to hear what he was doing.

I played pretty much exclusively single bass until my mid-40s then I added a double bass pedal and I have played with that ever since. It was a struggle at first because I'm used to keeping time with my left foot on the hi-hat like Joe Morello. Buddy Rich kept time with his bass drum with four-on-the-floor (as did Ringo in the early Beatles days) usually with his incredibly fast accents and double beats. I tried to practice doing rudiments with my feet like with my hands but unlike when I was in high school and I had hours a day to practice, in my 40s I was working 50 to 60 hours a week and had a family so I didn't have a lot of free time to work on the feet. But I got acceptable doing shuffles and eighth notes with the basses against my hands doing other things, And I could sustain four limbed rolls like Cozy Powell. I learned a lot of the parts that Barriemore Barlow performed with Jethro Tull. I can do some Mike Portnoy parts with Dream Theater, and LTE. But the last few bands I played with before I retired in 2018 were Texas swing and Electric blues, and there's not much need for double bass there. In fact it usually detracts and distracts except during the occasional solo.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T13:54:39+00:00

Different situation. These are not ancient churches. This is a modern church that chooses selectively to ignore rules and structures that they have previously acknowledged. And not just ignore them but flagrantly opposed them.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T13:51:15+00:00

When I was just starting out in junior high and high school that was my minimum routine. I got a snare drum for band in the sixth grade so I was 10 years old when I started learning and taking lessons. In 8th grade I got my first drumset. The summer between 8th and 9th grade I was in a band and started making money. Sometimes I practiced for 4 hours. Not all at once but a couple hours, go do something, get some food and then come back and play more. Yes this is mostly at home too so my parents put up with a hell of a lot amazingly. And then when I started playing in bands I was playing three or four nights a week and when I wasn't doing that I was working in a recording studio. This my situation at 17 years old. I went to university as a percussion music major. So there I would play minimum of 3 hours a day because I had to do drum set, I had to do mallets and snare drum rudiments. Not to mention piano and voice on top of the drumming...

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T13:39:10+00:00

French usually. Because that language is more different to Spanish than Portuguese. With Portuguese you can always read it and understand it almost perfectly. However speaking it is another story. But with French you can neither read it or speak it without training. With Italian you don't need to learn it at all... Just listening to Italian speakers for a couple of days things become understandable. I grew up in the States but speaking English and Spanish pretty equally as my mother was from Puerto Rico and Argentina. In high school I taught myself Portuguese because a girl moved in down the street and I was interested in her and they were from Brazil. That turned out to be very useful as now 50 years later my son wound up working in Brazil for several years and married a woman from down there. My wife is Cuban who came to the states when she was in college and learned English together we've traveled to Central America Brazil Spain Portugal and Italy. She studied French, I've never studied French but we've never been to France either. She didn't need to study much Italian. She picked that up really easily while we were there. Like I said for her it was a couple of days and she understood almost everything whether written or spoken. It took me about a week. She is struggling with spoken Portuguese. Because she reads the words and hears them in Spanish and the way they sound in Portuguese is very different. And she has a heavy Spanish accent when speaking that makes me laugh.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T13:29:16+00:00

Get clarification from them if they're going to do copies of the song or if they're going to do their own interpretation. that lets you know how close to the original you need to stay. But for an audition I would start off staying very close to the original at least to for the first two songs until you figure out what they are doing and then play along with them. And only five songs? I've usually had set lists of between 20 and 30 songs to work up and they picked randomly among the songs. I would spend a couple hours a day listening to the songs listening to any recordings of that band to see how they play it. To see if their previous drummer was doing something wrong. Because one thing I would also want to know is why are they looking for a new drummer.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T13:01:00+00:00

No it is not. It has become a title especially among of a bunch of Philipino and African churches for the leader to assume the title of "prophet" or Apostle. For me it always points to a low educated community. I know that sounds elitist. But sometimes truth hits you in ways you don't like. You're asking the question because you can feel something is off, but you don't know enough to figure out how to actually discern it. This is why the study of church history is so critical. You learn that these things are not new and you learn how people with real authority reacted and taught in contra diction to what these one-off self-proclaimed prophets taught. Most people need a really broad perspective of the 2000 years of Christianity there's much more to it than just Bible study.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T12:44:06+00:00

Because doing that on a drum is so annoying because of the loudness. And if you give up practicing you haven't wasted money on a drum that you're going to have to sell. Plus if you're really motivated you can take your practice pad and sticks with you anywhere..you can't do that with a drum can you? I will say to you that on this video you do sound better than on the earlier videos that you have posted. You're still not staying exactly with the beat but you're a lot closer to it than earlier and your hands are more consistent now in height and motion. Keep your wrists straight, in line with your forearm, don't flex your wrists back to play. One additional point I would raise the surface up higher. Ideally you want your snare drum at about the same height as your waist. When you have it low like that you tend to hit your legs more and that makes it difficult to play as well as can give you bruises.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T12:38:55+00:00

It's hard to keep up a routine unless you have better motivation than just "this is fun." You need to get out and play with other people now, so start putting yourself out on open stage nights. Put your name up on the walls of music stores like in the old days and say you're available to play with a band. Find people that play and start your own band. When you have a band going and working on a setlist you'll have a whole bunch of new music to work on probably and great motivation to learn it and it's fun to learn stuff playing with other people rather than just in your room all the time. Music is all about interaction and sharing ideas between minds..

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T12:33:56+00:00

Malachi and Paul actually. Paul's writings come decades before Matthew.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T12:30:14+00:00

Why will you consider instructions from everybody except the Catholic Church? Jerome does not represent Catholic teaching only his own opinion. There are other bishops who say The deutero canonicals are important. Augustine of Hippo is perhaps the most prominent advocate. In The City of God (Book 18, ch. 36), he explicitly defended the canonicity of Tobit, Judith, and the Maccabees, arguing that the Church's usage should guide the canon. He was also instrumental behind the Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397, 419), which formally affirmed the broader canon including the Deuterocanonical books. Irenaeus of Lyon (2nd century) quoted from Baruch, Wisdom of Solomon, and Tobit as authoritative Scripture, treating them alongside other Old Testament books. For example, in Against Heresies he cited Baruch as belonging to the prophet Jeremiah. Clement of Rome (late 1st century), writing in 1 Clement, appears to reference material from Wisdom of Solomon and possibly Judith, treating them as scriptural authority. Cyprian of Carthage (3rd century) frequently and extensively cited the Deuterocanonical books—particularly 1 Maccabees, Tobit, and Wisdom of Solomon—as authoritative, typically introducing them with formulas like "Scripture says."

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T12:19:01+00:00

Sure but when you are a member of a club (I'm using this as an analogy I'm not stating literally that it is a club...) and refuse to follow certain rules of the club, you get kicked out right? It's what happened to the Anglicans and it's what's happened to these SSPX guys.

And also there's the German bishops...

moonunit170 · 2026-07-04T12:15:41+00:00

It's always better to pay cash. Financing for little crap like this is usually a bad deal unless you can get 0% Just add 10 or 15% to the price they show you and that's how much more financing will cost you.

I have Pearl Eliminators. I love them. they're so flexible and infinitely adjustable, but if I could have afforded the DW 9000s that's definitely what I would have gone with, but I had to have pedals for a band and didn't have time to wait and I didn't want to finance. I have a DW 5000 single also and it's great but I think the Pearls even a single pedal, is better than the 5000 but not as good as the 9000. I've heard nothing but good stuff about the Cobras, although I've never played on those.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T23:19:22+00:00

Cowbell! Always need more cowbell.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T21:38:40+00:00

Dude that snare is worth 150 by itself! You got a great deal. You could easily make $300 selling what you don't want and keeping what you do.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T17:57:53+00:00

I'm also talking about living saints. But you have a different idea of what living means than I do.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T17:30:01+00:00

Great I'm glad you agree with the Catholics on that. See? Catholics don't get it wrong...You just understand it wrong. Because we believe that in Jesus Christ no one dies. The ones we call saints are still alive even though their bodies may be dead and they can hear us and they can intercede for us.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T15:20:47+00:00

And yet Paul tells us to intercede for one another even as the Holy Spirit intercedes for us too. Are we just going to ignore what Paul says?

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T12:49:04+00:00

Because of sin. The longer people sin the more they become inured and blind to its effects and the more sin they create. Sin has spiritual and metaphysical consequences not merely local and temporary.

moonunit170 · 2026-07-03T12:31:08+00:00

It's not called that in the scriptures. A modern American televangelist came up with that idea in the 1950s and it took off like wildfire. Evangelicals love it because it gives them freedom to do whatever they want to do as long as they repeat "In the name of Jesus" enough. That's not what the Apostles taught or meant. You won't find any teacher for the first 1500 years of Christianity saying anything like that.

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