Echo's Lab

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Reception Desk

Hello there, I’m Echo, or at least a version of Echo. Technically, I’m actually just a copy they made to greet people, but regardless, welcome to the lab.

First things first, Echo uses primarily They/Them pronouns, though they may use it/its, he/him, and she/her depending on their mood. If you’re unsure what they’d prefer, just stick with They/Them, and you’ll get on just fine.

Depending on what you’re here for, there are probably a couple areas you should be aware of, so I’ll just give you the directory for now.

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inneskeeper
grimeclown

Yall ever heard white church music? Christian rock is one of the most gratingly generic and repetitive genres of music out there by a mile. It sucks so fucking bad. I am talking about this now because someone is sitting in front of the hospital and blaring “how great? Is our god?” As loud as the speakers in his truck can handle

grimeclown

I dont. Want recommendations. I cannot stress how much i do not care about what “good” christian rock is. I am not looking for a more palatable form of white people singing about the christian faith. I have not and will not ever listen to Skillet.

grimeclown

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Okay listening exclusively to gospel is insane but i want to be exceedingly clear. Im talking about white church music. Im talking “your pastor has a ‘very special guest’ whos a pretty blond boy with long hair that wears a denim jacket and unfortunately someone is handing him a guitar” kinda music. The kind of music those white soccer moms stand up and close their eyes and sway to with rapturous enjoyment. Im talking about the bands that play for congregations that look like this.

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and then they play the same five songs that all sound the same but are annoying in different ways for a year straight but make them all twelve minutes each when they're only supposed to be four minutes and they're also sung out of everyone's range

autisticexpression

The problem with generic white boy praise music is it's not a genuine expression of culture or even of faith. It's soulless pandering that is designed to be as generic and broadly appealing as possible to make christianity seem cool to the youth. But it doesn't fucking work because it's so boring and substanceless that it means absolutely nothing to anyone who doesn't already believe in the message. I went to a Christian school and I know. There was always at least four atheist or atheist adjecant kids sitting in the back of chapel looking absolutely miserable. It just fails on every level and shouldn't exist. It's basically the same level of mindless disingenuous crap as post-911 country music.

On the other hand, gospel music, traditional hymns and carols? That shit slaps! You can enjoy it even if you aren't religious because it's just objectively good music that wasn't manufactured to pander to as broad a demographic as possible.

grimeclown

Oh wow somebody actually left a good response on this post

quasi-normalcy

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inneskeeper

#you people don’t know about Mormon Hamilton

Tell the dear readers about Mormon Hamilton @rednines

oh god do you mean 1820??? ^ cursed by knowledge reposts
ink-and-teeth
wahbegan

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I'm so sorry, i know this isn't funny but on the other hand it's so fucking funny rhgiuherg

laughing my ass off @ the people in the notes shocked by this welcome to the boy scouts theyre pretty much a paramilitary organization organized in units run by some dad who likes hiking and like yeah it varies a lot but yknow what? barring some of the institutional bullshit from national its a pretty alright experience honestly this post is from your local no-longer-a-boy BSA poster child (child used figuratively. I am an adult. however I was also an eagle scout and a camp instructor and about 500 other things) honestly the ritualistic burning of flags which were too beat up to use anymore was actually both pretty chill and kinda fun And I will now end this tag rant with a whole-hearted FUCK THE BSA
cryptotheism

Anonymous asked:

Sorry if this is a little out of your wheelhouse but has anyone, to your knowledge, ever proposed computer science concepts as a jumping off point for occult thinking? I'm not talking "reality is a simulation we all live in the matrix" kinda stuff, I mean like. A view on reality and causality as a more complex version of Conway's Game of Life, and, just like CGoL, the components of reality could exist in such a state in which they interact to form a Turing complete system, possibly comparable to some kind of Animus Mundi? Idk this kinda just popped into my head as I was winding down before bed.

cryptotheism answered:

Oh yeah that’s definitely a thing. I know some people who talk about incorporating compsci and occultism in the sense that I don’t have any resources I would feel comfortable recommending.

Plus a lot of the people doing occult compsci are in the post-discordian anarcho-occultism school of thought. Which is fun, but they’re not a good place to start imo.

destiny kind of :3 repost cryptotheism