The obvious question: what happened? Itβs impossible to pinpoint one thing. I sincerely believed it, and always wanted to "follow the lord" as closely as possible, so doctrine was important to me. I was alway studying a topic and length - hell, heaven, tongues, homosexuality for example - and I would be either alarmed at what the bible clearly says (about women, for example) or doesn't say (about heaven, for example). I struggled with how immoral and inept god seemed in the OT. The more I studied, the less the bible made sense. Once I allowed myself to examine weather or not a god existed at all, that last piece fell into place. It took me a good year to get my head back on straight after that, but it was worth it.
Edited to add: Iβm a woman.
Iβm not interested in engaging in βprove god doesnβt existβ (I donβt claim I can) βyou werenβt a true believerβ (I was) biblical doctrine (I donβt care what it says) or insults. Thanks.
Today, Iβll be tackling the debut album of one of the best-loved industrial bands--though it actually isnβt all that βindustrialβ: With Sympathy by Ministry, first released in 1983. Ministry are one of those acts that have gone through many stylistic evolutions throughout their career, and if youβre familiar with some of their more acclaimed works, it may surprise you to learn where they started out.
While With Sympathy was the first full LP released under the Ministry name, itβs not the very first thing in their discography--that honour goes to the 12β single βIβm Falling,β released in 1981. With a springy post-punk bass line and a tinny mechanical rhythm, βIβm Fallingβ is a rough-edged piece of cold wave. It was released on the famous Wax Trax! Records, well-known as the home of many of the most illustrious industrial acts of the 80s and 90s, from Coil and Laibach to Meat Beat Manifesto. But for their follow-up LP, Ministry would work with a major label, Arista, and twist that bass-heavy sound into something with less hiss and more groove.
On the opening track, βEffigy,β a bright synth line artfully fences an electric guitar riff for dominance, showing the extent to which the sonic blueprint of British New Wave acts like A Flock of Seagulls prefigured With Sympathy. This is an album that could only have been conceived in 1983, in the full flush of synth-popβs mainstream popularity, and it does feel like a cash-in on the success that imported European synth-pop achieved in the first few years of the 1980s--even in Ministryβs native America.
While Iβve covered some albums with somewhat controversial legacies before, With Sympathy probably sets the record for the work thatβs most despised by its own creator: Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen has disowned this album even harder than Ralf Huetter did the Kraftwerk albums before Autobahn, even going so far as to claim its affable, fairly commercial sound was entirely the product of Aristaβs executive meddling. As with all legends of how great art was made, I donβt particularly believe or disbelieve this legend, or think itβs possible to know if itβs βtrueβ--I simply present it to you as a piece of context, a myth that informs the history of this work.
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I think my phone number got leaked some way or another several months back because the calls have become more and more frequent recently.
At least I can tell it's a scam call rightaway because of the fake +65 extension and the ridiculous English automated speaking voice but it can get really annoying at times especially if I'm in a meeting or doing my work.
At this point I'm seeing a change in my phone number as the only option but I'm not sure if I may get targeted again. Is this a common thing for anyone else...to get the same calls every single day?
