LOL. Re the LGBT community calling heteros breeders: being gay myself and having been on the receiving end of hate, I still find it silly to fight hate with hate, you know? sure, lots of the most horrible people towards me have been heteros, but a lot of homos have also been equally horrible. and lots of the best people in my life are straight.
now, family lineage and trees are very important to the culture Iām from. one reason I up and left - out of sight, out of mind. I know my parents were pretty upset about that at first, that the immediate family line would end with me. But oh well. That would cause more problems than it would solve. It was a rough road but they have finally made peace with that idea. Somewhat.
I love how you think about it, that our existences are only temporary, anyway. It boosted my mood, and if this were a year or two ago (during the darkest periods when my folks werenāt quite OK with my sexuality yet), that would have been exactly what I needed to hear!
Oh! Didnāt realize you were gay. And no, it doesnāt matter to me at all. Iām fully 100,000% pro gay rights. Iām only hetero because I was born male and found myself naturally attracted to females. Canāt help who youāre attracted to, right? I try to imagine what the world would be like if being hetero was considered odd, and I was forced to pretend that I was attracted to males, and expected to marry a male. That would beā¦ extremely awkward, to say the least.
I could of course give you the whole cliche āsome of my best friends are gayā lineā¦ reality is that I donāt have many friends. Not close ones, anyway. But a personās individual sexual preferences never mattered to me (unless I was interested in them romantically). And my dadās mother allegedly left his father to be with a woman. Or so Iāve been told - I only met her once, about 35-some odd years ago, I donāt even know if she is still alive today (as you might imagine, her existence was kind of āwritten outā of the family lineage).
I guess some people might think it would be weird to have a lesbian grandmother? My whole damn family is weird, so that was about the least weird thing I learned about any of them.
Also, āfor what itās worthāā¦ Iām no stranger to hate based on certain societal biases. Iām technically in an āinterracial relationshipā. Iām Caucasian and my girlfriend is not Caucasian (she is half Mexican / half Native American).
You would think that in the year 2020, in a multicultural country like the U.S.A., that would not be considered an issue. But it is. Itās incredibly annoying to have to deal with the ādisapproving looksā and quietly murmured comments behind our backs, people asking her āwhere sheās fromā and whether or not she speaks English. She was born in this country. Her ancestors were in North America many centuries, probably many millennia before mine (or yours or anyone elseās) were.
She might be a shy, quiet, diminutive person, but Iām a very large, strong, and potentially very mean guy with anger management issues, and she is officially under my protection.
ahem
Umā¦ sorry @JonahTheBard . Almost forgot that this is your thread. And againā¦ a thousand prayers for you and your family. Iād say you need to be more careful going forward, but Iām sure your body is already busy building up all those 5* antibodies (for free, no RNG), I believe in you and I believe that you will be okay. But please continue to take care of yourself.
You moderator people can be a big pain in my ā ā ā sometimes with all of your stupid rules and flags and closing threads and not letting me give my forum opponents the proper textual throttling that they so richly deserve (whoopsie, that kind of came out sounding a bit dirty, didnāt it?)ā¦ but dammit, without you guys, this forum would collapse into utter chaos like the rest of the internet. And in spite of my sometimes borderline anarchistic tendencies, I donāt really want that to happen here.
Get well soon, my friend (if Iām allowed to call you that?)
Aww hell yeah. I knew I liked you. I love me some Sherlock. I did thoroughly enjoy the Sherlock series on netflix tho. I also really liked the animated series as a kid.
I also like that you have your own pyramid.
This was a very entertaining read. Get well soon JTB
Okay way way way off topic here (again, as usualā¦ Iāll try to brace for the incoming flags)
But a while back, I was thinking about that whole parallel universe thing. I thought about all the choices Iāve made in my life. How one led to another, so on and so forth. And how different my life would be had I done anything differently. Maybe today Iād be incredibly rich with 4 kids? Or maybe I would have died 20 years ago? Impossible to know for sure.
Then I had a particularly crazy thought. Maybe I did die already. Not just once, but a thousand times or more. And maybe, every time that I could have died, that branch of my reality ended, and I was redirected to another path, another parallel universe, where I didnāt die. And thatās the only reason why Iām still here, posting this ridiculous thought. Because every other possible scenario before this one resulted in my untimely death. And that, no matter what āchoicesā I choose for myself in life, the only ones that will āstickā in my current reality are the ones that do not result in my demise.
Thus, literally everything I do is right, because anything I do that is wrong will eventually end up killing me, and my existential lifeline literally depends on my survival. If I were to say, run out into the middle of the street today and get run over and killed by a car, I would cease to exist. In this particular universe. But in another universe, there is a slightly wiser version of me who decides that maybe itās not such a good idea to run in front of a moving car, and that is the version of me that lives on to post more rambling nonsense here another day.
Of course at this point, half the people who just read all of that are probably asking themselves whether or not itās possible to kill an infinite number of versions of me in every universe in order to prevent me from posting here again.
Interesting read and a great insight into @JonahTheBard, but where are @MysterySpinās answers? Did he find it not possible to keep his short enough ?
Hope you get better soon Jonah. Thoroughly enjoyed the answers. I shall give a proper response after a suitable delay for both recovery andā¦ (given the donāt max out peopleās phone memory plea you will appreciate this) whilst I wait for a replacement PSU as during the first attempt at a response I blew up my computerās PSU (power supply unit). So at the least you can be thankful there wonāt be carpet bombing of text hitting the forum for awhileā¦
Thnx @JonahTheBard and @MysterySpin for this entertaining read.
There are some eyebrows lifted during the read but not too many.
I could suggest some bands for you to listen to but not sure if you this will speed up your recovery or only delay itā¦
Get well soon dear Bard
Not much time now and will add more for you when I have some more time to do so but here is a start:
I hope you hve a spotify account and donāt need to watch on youtube but will give them in youtube links as that is most easy to do.
Electric Wizard, Dopethrone.
One of the classic albums in this genre and a need to listen when trying something out of the ordinary. Officially a Doom band but I donāt think the genre label fits for this album.
Cult of luna and Julie Christmas, Mariner.
I could have picked more albums, Somewhere aong the highway or Vertical I and II but this one is special as the Swedish post metal band (with 2 drummers even on live performances) have made a collaboration with Julie Christmas. They made this on a distance as they do not live close. Sending audio files back and forth and adding both to the songs till this masterpiece came to live. Julie is normaly not into this heavy things but is complementing the sound of the band perfeclty. In these time of social distancing it could be done again to make an abum in this way, everybody adding things to a song and recoring each part (drums, guitars, vocals and so on).
Alestorm.
I seriously donāt know what album to suggest to you but what more does anybody need than rum infested drinking songs about pirates. Is there anything else that you need to make you smile?
Great and very strong lyrics: ā¦ with an anchor but nothing too serious.
So I just added a live performance that I have been too see IRL to give some idea.
Amenra, Mass VI.
Not for the faint of heart these Belgians know what it is to get under your skin. They also have some unplugged versions that you also might check out. For many people Amenra is a religion, the try to help you cope with all sorts of mess in life and mainly go about pain, death and coping with it. Has helped me in many times to get my mind back into the right mind. When my aunt died we had a show of them in the acoustic version planned on that day in the evening in a church (metal band in a church??? Yes it can be done). Have been crying all concert long as it moved to the bone that night. Every song just pierced my hart and thoughts.
I just added the most recent album, special attention for a Solitary reign as this is their masterpiece on this album. You might check the liver perfomance in AB Brussel but please keep in mind this is 18+ and serious to watch. This is the album release for the album below.
Russian circles,
Donāt seem to be able to find guidance or Blood year as an album on youtube so no linkie linkie here.
Named after the repetitive turning of circles the russian icehockey skaters did in practice. This is some stoner music with repetative loops and circles in it that you need to enjoy calmy or in a liver performance.
Pijn and Conjurer, Curse these metal hands.
Both bands alone I donāt like too much but combinedā¦ Oh wow!
They first worked together on Roadburn festival for a commisioned piece and now made this alblum. Itās a short one but sit back and relax!
As already stated, I will update when I have some more time.
There is more to come
Aināt that the truth! Iāve had both of my kids home and it seems like all I hear when theyāre together is a string of profane exchanges, among which āYou rat bastard!ā is the mildest.
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