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This admittedly just about me and not much else, but it's melting my brain that it happened and I had to share somewhere.

I've been to like three EDM shows in my life, and they were all about 10 years ago. One time I went to this EDM show on 4/20 because why not lol I go there and it's a pretty good show from a guy who is pretty famous and a big pull for the venue (Minnesota is his name), and the other DJ was great as well.

The show is great, we all leave the main auditorium stage and are in the front room chilling and decompressing before we actually leave the bar (50 of us?). But then both DJs set up their equipment and started playing a popup set. Everyone's going nuts because Minnesota is a huge name, and he's just jamming out in this little room. I am blown away, everyone talks about how that's really rare and we all should feel really lucky.

Fast Forward to today and I see the Lineup for Electric Forest, and lo and behold the name of the dude opening for Minnesota back in the day, Illenium, is now headlining one of the biggest festivals on America and selling out 80k stadiums! So basically I got to see the EDM equivalent of an early MC5/Stooges or an 80s Nirvana/Sonic Youth concert, and the funniest part is now my "coolest" music moment belongs to a genre I don't really care about lol. It's more of a, "that's neat," than "OMG I GOT TO SEE ILLENIUM!!!"

Hail Satan, and sorry for being a complete narcissist with this post.

They never brought this up, but satanism is gnosticism and I find it really hard to believe that specifically Michael Aquino didn't know this.

I won't do a deep dive into this (there's great summaries of gnosticism on YouTube that explain it better than I can), but they think God is actually a flawed lesser god known as the demiurge, and we need to learn to look above this to see the sin in Christianity and find something beyond it. This is really close to what LaVey was getting at IMO.

Also there's this idea in gnosticism that there's a divine spark we have in our soul, and we need to learn rituals to get closer to it. But this is like that black flame Aquino talks about.

The biggest difference IMO is that gnosticism says we are all one, and satanism says we are all individuals. But this gets to my biggest gripe of satanism: it if it's all about individualism, then why do you need a church? The churches they themselves created are evidence that an organized group inherently can't be individualistic, but they argue with this like arguing that water isn't really wet.

Religious side note: if you ever feel religious or feel that light inside you and don't know what it is or what to do with it, I really think Quakerism and Zen Buddhism are ways to cultivate that feeling without lying to yourself. A lot of modern Quakers don't even believe in God or Jesus in the sense we think of. They think all that matters is we get clear enough to find our inner light, then try to follow it (like if you're truly a creature of God, why do you need anything else?). Like I think there's a lot of "accidental Quakers" out there doing this without having a name or identified philosophy for it.

Hail Satan and hail following the inner light/chi/divine spark/black flame

Edit: I really appreciate the replies, I knew I would find experts on here who could help educate me on how/where my analogy breaks down. A lot of this is very new to me admittedly, so I appreciate any knowledge I can get.

So I'm a total Joe Pera archetype, but I used to go to drag shows all the time. The people at the shows are the best, and I really thought it was awesome and healthy that people born a certain way could have a platform to truly become what they want to be for the duration of a song.

That being said, if I were talking to Alaska, I kind of wouldn't care at all if she was a drag queen, or whatever else. Like it took me five minutes to figure out she was a drag queen anyway (I think drag is about respecting the female in the queen, not how well they can "fool" you). But then when I found out she was a "drag racer" lol, I kind of just didn't care. Like not only is this mostly a podcast, but it just genuinely seems irrelevant to anything going on with the content of the show.

I think this seems like a good idea, but I don't know if I'm underselling their uniqueness or doing the opposite of what I want, ignoring who they are. Alaska obviously puts forth a lot of effort and care into being who she is, and I don't want to be dismissing of other cultures for the sake of equality.

Lastly this happens with other things as well like race and gender. My best friend has cerebral palsy and with him I'm like, "He's just him until he tells me he needs accommodation, and try to see if you can help him in ways he will appreciate." But if I apply that to someone like Alaska, is that treating drag like it's a disability? And even if I am, is that such a bad thing, like people with disabilities are no different than the rest of us for the most part.

Sorry for this dump. I'm just in a really down/melancholy mood, and it's making me contemplate really heavy things.

Hail Alaska, I hope she comes back. She's probably away above this, but she would be great as a LP Network regular, like she would be great energy on so many of their shows.

I don't want to add a bunch of details, just that it was on his x/twitter. I absolutely hate cancer, and nothing but empathy to their whole family.

It's not that I hadn't listened to the lyrics, but after these episodes I realized it's talking about what Henry says: black magic isn't ghosts and demons, it's real things that happen which will have a sort of "intoxicating" effect on society.

So the song is not a metaphor at all, it's literally saying war is the direct result of black magic, which is very real and happens everywhere. The lyrics are the same, comparing war to the occult and all that. But the thing that clicked is that it's not even a comparison, they're just the same exact thing.

"Satan laughing, spreads his wings..." Like it's so much heavier than I ever realized...

No takes, just kinda sad.

If it matters I'm not a big fan of these cameras everywhere, and I really feel like in a democracy that giving people the freedom to do what they want without surveillance will always result in some crime (you can't have order without restriction). But then I just wanted to visit the issue from the other side and think about what the cameras might actually be good for. My first thought was obviously surveillance (which is the hot topic that makes me so uncomfortable), but then I was like, "I bet these things will make it hard for highway/transient killers to not create a location fingerprint that will connect them to their crimes." The big one I thought about was the Texas killing fields, and I can't help but think having surveillance cameras up there might catch a killer or two (hopefully)

Again on a personal level I'm not so sure about them. But (big but lol) if they become a thing like it seems like they will, do you all think they will make a lot of these serial killers who have evaded detection to all the sudden look very suspect? I kind of think it might end up being the silver lining of this cloud that is living in a surveillance state.

Hail Satan

This actually started because my great grandpa ran a family circus back in the 10s and 20s, but then I was listening to LaVey and his carnival history, and I realized, 'This is so much of why America is the country it is today, a book or documentary on all that old travelling shows would be really interesting.". And the more I think about it the more this idea explodes in my mind.

• The first one I thought of was revivals, because a revival is like a carnival of God. And the revival is so integral to why American religion is the way it is. Then it kept going

• Rodeos: we still love this cowboy stuff to this day

• Wild West Shows: Different but where the trope of every Western comes from

• Minstrel Shows: A sad, depressing reason into why we still exploit black people for their culture

• Medicine Shows: Kind of explains why Americans can fall so hard for snake oil salesmen

I will stop there, but those are by no means the only traveling shows there were. It's just interesting how much of American history and culture comes from these traveling shows (Like Marcus said about the carnival being where "all of it started")

Hail Satan, and if any of you know how to get a hold of Ken Burns, please hook me up.

I just had to share this because it felt like a very "LPOTL" moment

I was super nervous about getting a root canal based on what everyone says, and I put on my noise cancelling headphones and this last episode on Anton Lavey.

The whole process lasted 15 minutes and was pain free, but right in the middle of it they started playing Lavey's calliope music. So I'm basically pinned down in a chair with a dude drilling into my mouth while listening to big top circus tunes. I've never felt like I was in a horror movie moreso than I did today. I was just sitting there listening to the "do do doodle doodle do do doo dooo," thinking, "What in the little shop of horrors is going on right now?"

Hail Satan and hail calliope

It's just a brand that's been around forever, I never see mentioned here (I think because you have to be at least a novice mechanic to buy your own parts). I replaced the thermostat on my girlfriend's Subaru, and bought some new Gates hoses as preventative maintenance. I don't think all their stuff is, but my hoses were made in the USA! And they have a lifetime warranty so if your "new" hose bursts even five years later, they'll still replace it. Also I had to buy new hose clamps because the new hoses are so thick and heavy duty that the stock (crappy) hose clamps just weren't big enough around. My next project for the Subie will be the serpentine belt, and I will be buying a Gates belt. Hopefully it's American made as well, but even if isn't I'm like 95% sure they will be the best there is, like even better than stock.

Note: I am not a mechanic so it's possible they got bought out or something like that. But even if that's the case, the hoses I got today were big and beefy. I don't have to worry about her car overheating now, which is always a great thing.

I don't watch this show but my gf had it on. It's s3e7 about 7:30 in to it, and this dude is shadow boxing in this hotel with a sex worker on the bed. It just starts playing this really badass saxophone riff for about 10 seconds and that's it. I tried to use sound ID but they're talking over the top and it won't pick it up.

I found somewhere online trying to say it's blue monk and it's definitely not because it's very "free" and full of expression. The audio captions just say "( dissonant jazz saxophone playing )" which imo is enough of a clue it isn't Blue Monk lol.

I know this is weird and crazy but it's stuck in my head and I want to listen to it so bad. If you can help me out, I would appreciate it so much! I just want to know what it is because it was freaking amazing even for 10 seconds and I just want to listen to it so bad lol

Has Dan ever interviewed his dad in a long format to ask him about his earlier life and immigration? I love hearing stories of parents and grandparents coming to America, and I love listening to Papi.

Disclaimer: I'm very new to this, so my question is genuine. I'm not saying people are silly for not investing in them, but that I don't get why more people aren't.

I honestly think Toyota is the best run company in the world. Their balance sheet is fine, and although they've had some issues in the past few years, they had a cleaning of house this year to get back to their core Toyota values (CEO stepped down). Their P/E Ratio I think is around 15.

Likewise VW looks like a steal. I know they seem like a dumpster fire, but they're a dumpster fire with a lot of cash to ride out the storm they created. In addition their P/E ratio is below FIVE, and earlier this year was around 3.5! Like even if they lost 2/3 of their earnings, the stock is still priced the save as Toyota. And VW is a staple of Europe. They admittedly have a lot more employees per car produced because they actually try to not automate their plants (literally "Volkswagen" lol), but I think that is actually a plus for a European company unlike ones in other places. I could see them getting outside support if needed, if only because they try to keep so many Europeans employed.

The thing about all this is that Toyota is still down like 12% on the year lol But man, I really don't get why. I know Buffet stays away from auto stocks and he instead invested in dealerships and auto insurance, but I was just curious if any of you consider these really underpriced stocks and would be willing to take them into your portfolio.

I like international Olympic hockey more because it's cleaner, a bit slower, and much easier to tell what's going on. But I don't know how to turn my love for my heritage into a love for a nhl team. I like Barkov and really enjoyed watching him play in the US vs Finland game the other day, but I don't really like how rough and cluttered the Panthers play. I know it's good defense but good hockey defense makes the game literally hard to follow.

I know I like the Stars, but it's like I want to like the Avalanche and other teams as well (Hurricanes, Predators, etc) This works on the NBA but in the NHL it feels like I'm supposed to have a single team.

I was just curious what the international fans on here do when it comes to NHL. Thanks for the help and hail Selanne lol

This is exactly why Knicks fans are so annoying lol

Note: I'm AudHD which may be part of this. I'm not asking for accommodation lol I'm just wondering how much of my issues are unique to me and my situation vs something other people experience.

I attended a boot camp back during the pandemic, and struck gold with a consulting firm. I was laid off whenever our contracts started laying off people, but I found a second job that was everything I wanted. The issue was I struggled to find any state of relaxation or flow. I never was able to code without being stressed while doing so, and it made it so it was just impossible to stay productive and not get burnt out within hours of being there on Monday.

So I'm not sure if my negative experience is a sign to look for another career, or a sign to maybe go back to school and learn the skills everyone else has to make me feel like a peer more than an imposter. The other idea I have is to become an electrician which I really think would make me really happy. Plus I get paid as an apprentic, and knowing how to code as an electrician seems like it would give me opportunities to get into smart homes and the like (low voltage systems).

I kind of feel like I just want to change careers, but I'm not sure if I'm making the right choice. I just wanted to see what you all think about the idea of just being happier at a job that's more tangible and not as virtual.

If I'm a person getting one, I'll be disappointed unless I get way more than I paid for, because I didn't get a choice on what I got. But if I'm selling stuff, why would I just put a bunch a valuable stuff in a box when I can sell it regularly for more?

The only way to make it worth while is if the person putting together the mystery boxes is intentionally trying to give away great stuff as a promo (like free mystery box as part of a package), or get rid of crap they don't want anymore. They'll never be worth it as long as the people putting them together want to make money off of them.

Note: Mystery Crates are fine.