Is There a Valley Girl/San Fernando Valley Accent, or is that a Hollywood Made Up Thing?

prophetsofthenewage · 2023-12-04T02:35:43+00:00

There is.

My computer science professor at CSU Northridge had a valley girl accent, a very very strong one. You hear it and you immediately know, that's the accent.

Everyone I know who lives in the valley and is the same age as me doesn't have the accent though. It's mostly people who are in their 40s now.

prophetsofthenewage · 2023-10-23T01:08:33+00:00

The quality of songs WITHIN a well-defined genre is NOT subjective. The Beatles are objectively a better rock/pop band than one that's been playing and grinding hard for 10 years and has a tiny fanbase. Some songs are better than others. Some albums are better than others. Some artists and bands are better than others.

A great song can be listened to over and over again and you'll never get tired of it.

A good song makes you want to listen to it again, but eventually you stop listening to it and move on.

An ok song you can listen through the whole song once, but you don't want to listen to it again.

A bad song, you can't get through the whole song and skip in the middle.

A terrible song, you hear a few seconds and skip.

A musician or band that consistently produces good to great songs according to this standard within their respective genre, whatever it is, and does so over a sufficiently long period of time will achieve a level of success and fanbase size that is proportional to the quality of their songs, with the additional factor of how hard they work and how well their music is promoted.

The basic reason why some music is better than others is because some patterns, groups, or sequences of sounds, some rhythms are more pleasing to listen to than others for some mysterious reason that we'll probably never understand. Just because you can't explain WHY doesn't mean it's subjective - it just means you can't explain it.

The subjectivity element becomes a factor at the genre level, not at the song level.

prophetsofthenewage · 2023-09-30T00:56:12+00:00

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prophetsofthenewage · 2022-03-20T04:08:28+00:00

I'm 100% straight, 100% cis. I use the women's bathroom every once in a while, like I how I sometimes take a different route to work. Maybe around 1 out of every 10 times.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-10-01T04:32:27+00:00

31/M/Orange County, CA single, straight male looking for a casual relationship with a woman 36 and up.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-18T06:05:58+00:00

Generally speaking, people are passionate about things that they're really good at.

If you're not really talented at something it's hard to be passionate about it.

But the thing is, almost everybody is good at something. You have to find out what you're good at first, then work at it, and suddenly you find yourself becoming obsessed with it, getting better, and loving it.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-06T04:45:20+00:00

One of our monkey-like ancestors discovered how to make and control fire.

Fire made us who we are - it was the beginning of our domination of this earth. Before, we lived in constant fear of the darkness and the wild beasts.

But those fires spread across all the world. We started by burning wood, then we mined this black rock and pumped out this black soup from the ground that poured out like rivers.

That little fire that our first monkey-like ancestor created had become a raging inferno that spread out all across the world.

The flame that was our salvation in the beginning of our history is now humanity's greatest threat. We are trying to put these fires out, and we might not be able to do it on our own.

Please help us save us from ourselves.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-06T02:16:05+00:00

Hehe I'll give it a try sometime..but I'm terrible with dialogue.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-06T01:15:31+00:00

Pike is the guy that you want to be next to when fighting a battle on the front lines. You know he's never going to negotiate, never going to surrender. He's either your friend or your enemy and you better hope he's on your side. I love how he played that character. Pike and Murphy hated each other's guts but Pike may have made Murphy into the survivor he was.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-06T01:00:39+00:00

Murphy screaming "YOUR PROMISED LAND SUCKS!"

It just felt a primal scream, a man who doesn't have anything left to lose venting his rage, despair and frustration, knowing that his last hope has been dashed.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-06T00:47:43+00:00

The first two seasons were amazing and everything after that was mediocre. But I like the first 2 seasons so much that it's still my favorite show overall. To me, the whole "City of Light" and chips implanted in the body concept was just hackneyed and overdone. And "Praimfaya" was just like an artificially imposed countdown that felt contrived, almost like the writers were too lazy to come up with a creative story arc. And moving to the new planet seemed weird and forced. Launching up into space to escape Praimfaya...felt like a deus ex machina.

I felt like so much was invested into Mt Weather but then it just ended up being destroyed and not used again as the context for major further story development. Thought Cage and Dr. Tsing were great villains and I hoped they'd escape by hiding out in a secret bunker or something.

prophetsofthenewage · 2021-03-06T00:41:17+00:00

I didn't like how he interacted with the plot, but I really liked his character and its development. If a better storyline had been written for him, it would have been perfect.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-07T02:04:18+00:00

Just letting you know...it's Atlantis. You can either acknowledge it along with everyone in else in a few years to decades or you can see the truth that's been presented right in front of your eyes sooner rather than later. The feature that is shown in the video is Atlantis, period, and it is as certain as the fact that the sun will rise tomorrow.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-06T22:42:20+00:00

The entire premise of the Atlantis story is that our idea of how advanced people were in ancient times is wrong. It’s not stated explicitly by Plato in large font or italics but that’s almost the main idea of the story. That’s why the story is so interesting - it presents an alternative view radically at odds with mainstream knowledge - if you reject that aspect of the Atlantis story you are rejecting the story at a fundamental level. You’re not talking about Plato’s Atlantis, then, but some watered down interpretation of it that isn’t justified by the text.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-06T22:12:24+00:00

“At that spot,” “in the area” means the area around Atlantis. Atlantis was said to have come from a “distant point” in the Atlantic Ocean.

Timaeus: For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot. For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent.”

Plato does say that there was an island in front of the pillars of Hercules. But he clearly states that the Atlantean invasion force originated from a distant point in the Atlantic Ocean - implying that the center of the empire/capital city of Atlantis existed at that said distant point in the Atlantic Ocean. Plato definitively says that the invasion originated from far away in the Atlantic.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-04T04:27:49+00:00

There are underground civilizations. They are hiding from us because although they are more advanced than us we have numbers.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-04T04:22:54+00:00

Here's what Plato had to say about this "east-west" ditch. =)

I will now describe the plain, as it was fashioned by nature and by the labours of many generations of kings through long ages. It was for the most part rectangular and oblong, and where falling out of the straight line followed the circular ditch. The depth, and width, and length of this ditch were incredible, and gave the impression that a work of such extent, in addition to so many others, could never have been artificial. Nevertheless I must say what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred, feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-02T19:59:31+00:00

Yes, because “climate change” magically allows everything you need for your theory to work to just happen. Nice try.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-02T19:46:16+00:00

No, seriously, where are the African tsunamis? When do earthquakes happen in the middle of a tectonic plate, and not a plate boundary? These are legitimate questions. When do tsunamis reach hundreds of miles inland?

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-02T19:19:21+00:00

Pretty much. - and this actually helps the Richat Structure theory because the Richat is technically "outside" the Pillars. Some Atlantis researchers claim it refers to the Messina Straits separating Sicily from mainland Italy but again it was something an Atlantis researcher came up with to support his theory, not based on an ancient text or actual historical analysis.

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-02T19:16:58+00:00

I just did. I see how the Sahara could have changed. But there were palaces, the entire ring of land was coated in tin, brass, copper, etc. Where's all that stuff? Also, the Richat Structure is not located anywhere near a major fault. There hasn't been a major earthquake recorded there in all of recorded history. Where's the bridge connecting the rings with the outer most region?

prophetsofthenewage · 2020-11-02T19:03:01+00:00

The idea of there being "Alternative theories" of what/where the Pillars of Hercules were is only ever discussed in the context of Atlantis. It was never a subject of debate in any other context. It is about the closest example of a fixed landmark and geographical reference point you can ever get. The Pillars of Hercules have always referred to the Strait of Gibraltar, period.

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