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Lady Gaga Apologizes For 'ARTPOP'
What began as an explanation for the delay of Lady Gaga's "Do What You Want" music video quickly evolved into an apology to fans for what we can only describe as part one of the ARTPOP era. Specifically she put her management team on blast.
Lady Gaga now explains that the "next few months of ARTPOP will truly be its beginning."
Check out Gaga's full message to her Little Monsters:
DWUW Video
It is late because, just like with the Applause video unfortunately, I was given a week to plan and execute it. It is very devastating for someone like me, I devote every moment of my life to creating fantasies for you. All my my most successful videos were planned over a period of time when I was rested and my creativity was honored. Those who have betrayed me gravely mismanaged my time and health and left me on my own to damage control any problems that ensued as a result. Millions of dollars are not enough for some people. They want billions. Then they need trillions. I was not enough for some people. They wanted more. I am very grateful to the photographers and designers who have always stood by me to make sure my fans are never aware of the things that happen behind the scenes, but unfortunately after my surgery I was too sick, too tired, and too sad to control the damage on my own. My label was not aware that this was going on. The next few months of ARTPOP will truly be its beginning. Because those who did not care about ARTPOP's success are now gone, and the dreams I have been planning can now come to fruition. Please forgive me that I did not foresee this coming, I never thought after all the years of hard work that those I called friends and partners would ever care so little at a time I needed them the most. Give me a chance to show you the meaning of seeing art all around you. Open your hearts to me again that I may show you the joy of us coming together through our talents, that we are stronger as a unit than when we are alone. Let me be for you the Goddess that I know I truly am, let me show you the visions that have been in my mind for two years. I love you. Forgive me monsters. Forgive me ARTPOP. You are my whole world.
What do you make of Gaga's apology to her fans, Instincters? Is there anything to forgive? Are you looking forward to the new beginning of the ARTPOP era?
I just am so tired of the word "art" thrown around these days by pop singers, but especially this Lady of Toucan overuses it.
Think about it. Do great rock bands/pop bands carry on about their art when they discuss their music? They just try to write good songs and let their songs speak for themselves.
I'd like her to explain this whole concept of "art" that she talks so endlessly about, and that apparently so many people like Billboard, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Glamour, The Telegraph (UK) need schooling on.
Gaga needs to be kicked out away maybe Alaska and return to her point of origin. We don't need this left wing gas bag spewing her garbage of America, our rights,
and our customs from within our own shores.
Gaga is an attention seeker. Her sole motivation is to be famous. Nothing more nothing less!
Regardless of your political orientation, her music and so-called "message": is pure shit. Everything from hijacking and betraying the spirit of animal rights league to co-opting the LGBT lifestyle, "Gag-A" uses all in order to make a buck for herself. She is the Sarah Palin of pop and her fall in to disgrace cannot come too soon for logic alone.
Philosophers to the likes of Tolstoy, Hegel, Wittgenstein and Maritain all attempted to formulate an objective definition to the subjective topic of art. All attempts failed. Art can best be described as that which provides a particular kind of pleasure, emotion, meaning and importance. To Gaga and her fans this is what ArtPop provides. To the rest of you who don't get it, move on! And I must add... strip some of the ArtPop tracks from EDM to accoustic, and you will find serious social statements masked by electronica.
I've read all of these comments almost and every single one is a mirrored image of the one before. Yeah ARTPOP didn't make the sales or the charts like it was advertised. But since Applause was released everyone had the mindset that ARTPOP was gonna flop before any other songs were released which is so fucking terrible. It's actually an amazing album but of course, I guess you've actually got to have a brain for something that's not your cookie cutter popstar shit. And every single song has a deeper meaning and she has a lot of metaphors in all her work. What you say about her copying someone is called inspiration. If you know anything about writing music, you'll know that if you have a song stuck in your head, that song will come out in a way in the music and the lyrics. Just like every other artist. Everyone has a song that sounds like one of the past artists. There's so much unneeded hate for Gaga because she puts a lot of theatre in her fame. Yeah she likes the spotlight or she wouldn't have become famous. And I noticed a comment how her fans were hateful and she needs to say something to them. She definitely has. She's said several things about it calling them fake fans and all that. But she has no control over what her fans do. No celebrity does. All your
I'm just sick of her and her ugly outfits. She's trying to be Madonna, but Madonna was hot and sexy and still looks better than Gaga now. Her first album was ok, but then she went in to rip off other artists mode. Now her music is a joke and she is too. Her fans are the most hateful and rude fans in the world. They have caused fans of other artists not to buy anything by Gaga. It's like they turned every fan of any other artist against Gaga for good. Good luck on getting them back. The damage is done.
It is a showbiz and critics are everywhere. If you are a celebrity, you get as many good things and also bad things. You sign up for this and you have no one to blame except yourself.
Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. This album is the ultimate "ARTFLOP" ! Apart from the lack of depth, your fans are actually killing this album. Your fans are bunch of idiots. Why?
Gaga, please don't let your fans be so hideously damaging, hurtful, spread violence on the social media. If you are a "Mother Monster" why haven't you as a responsible young woman said "no violence" to Monsters because it reflects badly on you. If you believe and stand for kindness, self-accepted, positive self-image and individuality don't let Monsters try to tear other people down. You said you are anti-bullying but why you can be a true "leader"?
So Lady, Stefani, Germanotta, Gaga, Mother, Anti-Bullying Champion whatever you want to be called, Monsters reflect you. If this you want out in this world of music...this is how you want to be perceived..carry on. Please continue wasting your time by making an album only for your vile and childish fans to enjoy it. As a "mother"....Lady Gaga, you are the worst example of a leader. You want a hype, go and Tweet your fans about a thing called...RESPECT and walk the talk. However, before you do that make sure you stop at the dry cleaner and pick your meat dress. You actually need that because 2-3 years from now, the only thing people will remember about you because of that dress. :(
Tell you why I hate Born This Way and Artpop...because the lyrics, and the delivery, and the videos, all suggest to me the same message: "here I am, I'm exactly what you want Monsters, and you can have me right now if you like, baby". They're so fucking passive
The lyrics are all like, "Am I hot enough in this garbage for you? Did I weird enough to turn you on? Do you like good girls? Bad girls? We can do whatever you want, baby. I'll just be lying attractively over here while you play your games, biting my lip and waiting to service you...bla bla bla".
I don't get a sense of real emotion, genuine feeling, an urge to tell a story, to expose a hurt, to soothe an ache, anything. And I don't ask for that from Katy Perry, because everything about Katy Perry screams "I Am a Human Barbie, Please Consider Me in That Light When Passing Judgments." Gaga on the other hand is trying on the persona of the jaded chanteuse, the world-weary crooner with a string of broken hearts, and yet I cannot find a fucking shred of heart in those songs. I can barely find a sentient human consciousness.
If, years from now, we realize she was doing a concept album from the perspective of an inflatable love doll, I'll knit her a Grammy by hand. But until then, I reserve the right to loathe her especially soulless pop....
ARTPOP should come with a money back guarantee sticker on the cover.
You are doing something quite wrong when you go from having one of the most acclaimed and successful pop records like The Fame Monster was, to something like ARTPOP. This record is highly overproduced and sounds dated, it seems like she has no aim to evolve, she's stuck with cheap EDM music beats.
Lady Gaga's lyrics have never been a highlight, however stupid lyrics can get a pass if the production and execution of the song is good overall. Not the case this time, the only song that can approach these qualifications is Bad Romance. The rest is overproduced, oversung, oversexualized, incoherent and poorly executed.
She made so much hype about Applause before its release. Interviews, Tweets, a countdown on Facebook... Well the song comes out and its mediocre. Anyone who bought the single should have every right to feel duked.
Let's talk about Gaga's pretentiousness. Wasn't this labeled as the new Thriller by someone in her team? Well, someone should hit that guy's head. The title not only is pretentious also cringeworthy and brainfart. I wonder if this is really what Gaga's conceive as art mixing with pop culture or she just got lost in the process, as per usual. This is more like Gaga singing about how much she likes to get praised, and talking about meaningless stuff, something she has been doing since record number one. Fame, money, sex, love. How innovative, does she still have something different to offer, besides her obnoxious, ridiculous and desperate look-at-me costumes?
If we take ARTPOP as the answer for this question, is a big NO. Please America...grow up !!!
Overexposure is what happened to Ms. Stefani Germagornorrhea.
The constant need to be in the public eye and the outlandish costumes have gotten stale. Now, she has resorted to appearing in the nude, a sure sign of a has-been trying to stay relevant.
Artpop is so bad even Santa refused to give it away for free......
I would actually say the reason she is 'flopping' is because more and more people are onto the fact she is a shallow, manipulated and controlled media 'hype', blatantly pushing all manner of 'Illuminati' and satanic messages for the boys and girls of today's youth culture - who are not quite as vapid and stupid as people think.
The masses are onto the fact they are being lied to by someone who isn't quite what she seems. Anyone who watched her lucifarian video to Alejandro, replete with inverted crosses and blatant occult symbolism soon cottoned on to the fact that there is more to this than meets the eye for 'crazy old GaGa'...
More people would respect her if she decided to be honest and turned whistleblower on what is REALLY going on in the music business and talking about REAL things - instead of peddling occultism to kids and pretending to be something she isn't.
Best of luck though because she wont get my money no more...
Lady Gaga is an imposter a human tumbler account. All her music, costumes, and Madonna-esque persona come from brilliant artist before her. She doesn't write her own songs completely (look at her credits in Artpop) she only wrote 2-3 songs. She needs at least 6-7 people to come out with a lukewarm hit song like Applause or Do What U Want. Yup but she takes credit for them all. Embarassing and phony.
She is a flop con artist who shouldn't be paid for literally copying other people's work!!! Lil monsters can cry all they want that she doesn't copy and writes all her albums the only people they fool are 10-17 year olds.
She's definitely peaked here – thank goodness. For a while she was ubiquitous. She just makes me ragey because she is lazy and derivative and encourages a whole gang of people to pass meaninglessness off as interpretation. I live in NY – we have enough bad art here as it is. I don't need her encouraging more.
RIP Lady Gaga (2008-2014)
It's easy t understand why ARTPOP flops.
Any singers who rely on "schtick" instead of simply writing ground-breaking tunes that people can truly appreciate and evoke emotions. Once the "shock value" of being different wears off, you damn well better have something else to back it up, and quite frankly, she doesn't. She's just a run-of-the-mill pop star with many cheap Euro-thrash flavor.
Once her odd-ness became commonplace for her, it's no longer going to garner the media attention that it used to, so the only thing left to talk about is asslicking her fans and begging them to download her songs from iTunes multiple times, watching YouTube, which to be honest, is just recycled Cher, Donna Summer, Kylie and Madonna's era. Of course these pop stars do not need to go on Twitter telling the world how good they music would sound and let their music speak.....
She is in a contest with herself to outdo her last exhibition. Boring !
Her sole motivation is just to be famous. Nothing to do with music or art.
I just am so tired of the word "art" thrown around these days by pop singers, but especially Gaga overuses it. Think about it. Do great rock bands/pop bands carry on about their art when they discuss their music? They just try to write good songs and let their songs speak for themselves.
Gaga is an attention seeker. I'd like her to explain this whole concept of "art" that she talks so endlessly about, and that apparently so many journalists from the Billboard Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Glamour, The Telegraph (UK) praised her.
The main problem with Gaga she hasn't evolved any...she's devolving.If i was her, I would create a totally new persona, get rid of that stupid embarrassing name "Gaga" completely and change the sound to something more stripped down and maybe go into a different genre like P!nk or Hard Rock or Soul. Those flashy and cheap pop EDM tunes come off sounding so cheap and basic after a while.
Leave it to Miley, Bieber or ....just turn the stove and lie down, Gaga!
UGH! Same old "Reductive" bullshit coming from Gaga and her fucked up "monster's" garbage. She's the devil in disguise trying to mislead all you fools into her fucked up world. She can't separate fantasy from reality. A "Goddess" LMAO!!! WoW! What a goof! WHat was she high on this time when she wrote her pathetic apology letter...Playing the same old "pitty me" "I'm the victim" once again...what garbage! Just like her music and "talent" she seems to think she has! FUCK OFF & GO AWAY!... Neeeeext!
Ok. Look. All you people on here who wish to bash the shit out of Lady Gaga, for having the balls to do something NONE of you would EVER do. Go somewhere else with that bull shit. I am sorry that you do not know how the fame world works. Ok, so there is not a scar showing, HELLO ITS CALLED COVER UP!!!!!!! Fucking idiots. She apologized for something that happened, and she was ill. When you are ill, do you do all that you say you will do? No, I dont think so. So give Lady Gaga a break, she is HUMAN JUST AS YOU AND I ARE! Now, this is to Lady Gaga, if she reads this. You had no reason to apologize. If they are your true friends, and fans they will understand. Keep doing you, I and many of your other Little Monsters love you and forever support you. Get well and keep up the great work. :) <3
i think she is identifying that this album has not been as successful as prior ones. She seems to attribute illness and poor management, but also is accepting it as her responsibility, and her problem to fix. I appreciate that, and don't have a reason to think she just made up a surgery as an excuse -there are many more plausible alternatives should could've chosen if that were her intention.
First off no one who calls themselves "monsters" can give a true statement. I don't consider myself a "monster" at all but understand and can appreciate all types of music, this cd point blank was well done. As for her apology I agree with some folks, she really caught up In her own and where there's a mistake or downfall she's able to blame someone else. Not fair singers, if you can write the music and get the praise you she be able to take the negative as well.
Gaga was good at the start of her career shes now fallen for her own hype and releases plastic badly written songs she can blame those around her but really she wrote and recorded the songs no one held a gun to her head artpop is the worse album she has ever recorded. She needs to brush it under the rug now and collect herself stop believing her own hype and come up with something inventive and original because most of us are losing faith that she has it in her anymore. A good start maybe to cut the ties with the bullying trolling monster brigade who threaten babies lives wish cancer, aid and death on people and are the main bullies on the net for a lady so anti bullying it seems her monsters haven't listened to a word she has said and she needs to speak out against them now before all sane rational people are driven away from giving her a chance by them.
Love to ya Lady Gaga! No worries, folks get greedy in business and forget they get paid based on the production of the art. For the folks who don't understand the illusion she is presenting in both her comments and her persona .. you don't understand the art and are there for the pop. No worries your money pays the bills :-)!
The funny thing is that you Gaga fans can never seem to be able to explain exactly what it is that rest of us "don't get". When you get asked to explain you just tell us that if we were able to get it we would have done so by now. Maybe we're missing the point, or perhaps it is just that Gaga fans can't accept that not everything she does is brilliant. Oh and what exactly does YOUR money pay for might I ask? Does Gaga have 2 bank accounts? One for money from people in it for the pop (as you put it) and one for people who are supposedly real fans? What a strange statement to make.
Lady GaGa has had some good runs and ARTPOP has some hits and misses on it. I wasnt too big on Applause. But I kinda liked Dope. I am not a fan of her image either. She is talented. Extremely talented. But I must say, my favorite song by her isnt an original. It has to be the song she did with Tony Bennet, The Lady is a Tramp. Lady GaGa, we love you. We love you a lot. You already have an amazing talent. But you are trying too hard to be different. It is becoming a bit too much. I think that one of the earlier posters was right, I think on your next album, please focus on your greatest asset. And that is your voice. Damn girl, I wish I could have the male version of those golden pipes you have.
She Claims to be a creative force herself, a goddess, Fair enough! Then why does she put the responsibility of her flop album on everyone else if she is such a creative force! i think she is showing ingratitude and that is not cool. before its the release of artpop there was huge huge publicity so it is not nice for her to pretend that we have ammnesia and dont remember how well promoted it was. gaga you should start working on a new material instead of moaning about you being a fail, Katy, Beyonce, and Miley did better, well STEP UP YOUR GAME!
Lady Gaga is a phenomenally talented woman. Period! Any denial of that is based on personal opinion rather than the fact of her incredible voice.
Having said that, I have to admit that I have yet to truly be moved, inspired, awed or even impressed by 90% of what she puts out. My disdain was based mostly on the overblown and (sorry Little Monsters) unoriginal image that was shoved down our throats and this idea that she was so innovative and edgy that everyone should sit up and take notice. Her popularity was fueled by the very same media that her fans claim is responsible for the negativity and they need to realize that you can't have it both ways; in other words don't criticize the media when they aren't reporting in a way that is pleasing to you.
I love many pop divas and don't subscribe to this ridiculous theory that if you like Madonna (which I do) then you can't like Gaga, or if you like Beyonce, you can't like Rihanna. Who we like should be based on output not made up feuds that pit artists against each other. And anyone with eyes and a sense of history can see that ALL ARTISTS are influenced by or borrow from the past. It's unfortunate that Gaga seems so reluctant to admit how much someone like Madonna has inspired her.
In the case of ARTPOP - I tried. I REALLY REALLY tried because I loved the song Applause and the video. I bought the album and struggled numerous times to like it. Repeated plays made me appreciate more of the tracks but I could never say that this was a great CD or great music. These are not songs that will hold up over time, nor are they songs that are memorable in my opinion. Does that mean that Gaga is crap? Hardly. She's got the pipes and the writing talent to impress anyone who allows themselves to be open to it - now if only she'd take the time to utilize those two things and actually give the public something that is substantial and not just an artistic statement. All artists are under tremendous pressure to produce - after all the music business is just that...a business designed to make money - so to use that as an excuse is a cop out.
I may never be a true fan of hers but I'm not ready for her to "go away" as some people would like. I would prefer to see her evolve and put out the good music I know she has in her. This is not a case of Justin Bieber, whose "talent" is marginal, or even Miley Cyrus (also marginal). Hell, even Katy Perry needs to grow up and stop singing songs that sound like a 14 year old should be recording them. Gaga is the real deal. Once she makes a decision to stop relying solely on image and trying to merely increase The Fame, she may end up being a great artist instead of just a good one.
i'm not trying to hate on her at all....in fact i love the song Do What You Want....however not only did interscope promote her album with so much $ but since it did so bad they had to fire 50 people allegedly. She claims most of her fame on being original when in fact her looks and music are copies from previous artists...the only difference is she exaggerates them....if MDNA came on stage riding a horse.....she'll come on stage riding 2 horses painted pink with "artpop" spray painted on them. Focus more on your music than ur image and please we get it you love your body but do you have to be naked on stage every performance you give same thing goes for Miley. Katy Perry has tits and ass and a great physique and her Roar music video was the most skin she ever showed.
Have everyone taken the time to listen to her album, Artpop? It gets addictive, the beat is sick. I thought I hated it until I loved it. LOVE ALL THE SONGS (EXCEPT SWINE). I have no idea why it's a flop (still, one of the bestsellers of 2013). Please listen before you give hatred comment. tq
The fact is it sold a third of her last one, and here in the UK failed to make the Best Sellers of 2013 album chart, so no, it wasn't one of the best sellers of 2013, not by a long chalk.
The fact is she was tweeting the DWYW video had weeks of planning and a 3 day shoot, now suddenly it was no planning and thrown together? So what is true and what is a lie?
Gaga has always talked herself up but now it's falling apart it's everyone around her that's to blame? Is she a puppet or a 'Goddess'? She can't be both.
IGNORANCE FROM QUEENS!!!! Hmmmmmm Seems To Be An On Going Thing In The Gay Community Its Pathetic !!! Why Say Hurtful Things About Someone You Dont Even Know? Are You That Bored With Your Own Lives ?? HATE Is Not A Good LOOK !!! Look At Yourseld In The Mirror And Ask Yourself Why Am I SOOO Hateful Toward Others ? When Most Of The Hold World Already Hates Us As Gay People !!! I Mean Really ????
I love her immensely but I'm sorry I've listened to art poop over and over trying to find the art or pop in it ..its not an easy album to swallow and sounds dated and far from goddess like ...def trying to hard she has a great voice but is missing on this album with the over produced over synthd boring tracks.. at least if your gonna auto tune and over synth ever track make it fun and catchy ie britney jean
All of u r hypocrites and infidels. If you don't have anything positive to say and go about it on a comment line. When she has no time of day to listen to your stupid remarks. Just Remember that your living in your pathetic world and pissed off because you can't make it to where you dreamed of goin. Don't hate on someone who has. You fuckin dumb ass bitches
Staph-infection Germ-a-nothing, give it a rest already; you perform with pedo's, you wear fur, you lied about having had surgery to avoid slow ticket sales(and you even had to give then away for free, loser), you back tracked being a gay icon(even though you have more than full support of the Gay Dollar...made your trani dick Hollar!), you ripped off a bunch of indie artists with Fart Poop, your antics and shock value are boring, tired, and uninspired; you fired the people who made your brand what it is(dumb ass), you also killed and took the name of the one woman whose shadow you rode to the top, you crap on Madonna (and other artists) and then you rip-off her look, sound and other aspects of her body of work; you deny in this pathetic apology what an averous cow you truly are...PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP. You're beyound REDUCTIVE...You're past your prime and own being a responsible failure cause you can't you Proud Insignificant Dog Queef!!
So fucking what?!? As if quantity is somehow a substitute for quality? Tell me fucktard, how many albums did Beethoven sell?!? Yet he is still regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time (and one, I might add, whose admiration will continue to far outstrip that of your phony pop "icon!")


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"You came back a second time because you said you changed. You're doing the exact opposite!"
"I don't care about this tribe. I want them all to die."
"Well, that's clear because you're punishing them by costing them a tribe member in a game about numbers."
"Well, maybe that's the best move for me."
"A very SELFISH move."
"Well... I peed in the water supply and took a dump in Gervase's shoes so I think I should probably go home now. I had typhoid fever once during a game of dodge ball and I really don't want to get it again."
"So this is you quitting a second time? The first time was when you feigned appendicitis, but you didn't have it. You want to own that one now?"
*bites fist... oh snap!*
"I don't know what it was. Appendicitis, a bacterial infection, a mosquito bite..."
Tina then opens her mouth and tries to contribute, "Mwarm mwah mwyum." Oh dear, Tina forgot her teeth again. Long story short, Fancy Pants knows he doesn't have a black person's chance at a KKK rally to win this game so instead of sitting around waiting to be voted out, he'd rather sit on his Restoration Hardware sofa and thumb through the new Brooks Brothers catalog. Dimples, who has hopefully learned his lesson on stunt casting, points Fancy Pants in the direction of the exit sign. Good riddance!
Fancy Pants may have sashayed his way out of the game, but we've still got a Rhode Island fight to the death to get to. For today's Challenge, you will stack a bunch of dominoes, knock them over, release a ball and smash a plate. The last one to smash their plate is out of the game forever. Candice, the challenge dominator, once again smokes her competition and finishes in first place and once again rewards Wifey (John) with another clue for the Hidden Immunity Idol. After a tense stand off between Frowny and Rachel, with lots of false starts are redo's, Frowny narrowly edges out Rachel and is safe! This means we must bid adieu to Rachel. Rachel, we hardly knew ye. Later!
Back at camp, the WangChung's sympathetically pat Tyson on the back and mourn the loss of Rachel. Did she die? No. Does she have the typhoid Fancy Pants planted at camp? No. Nonetheless! Tyson is suddenly a sniffling puddle of a tears. OK, so I need to interject here. This new soft Tyson is not the Tyson of yesteryear. This new cupcake wearing Tyson has feelings and things and I don't like it. I tell you, I don't like it! Fancy Pants may have been wrong about a lot of things, but one thing he was right about was wanting to play the game. Come on WangChungs! You're an embarrassment to your fellow Survivor alumni sitting at home all pissed off they didn't get invited back. Hug and rub each other on your own time not on my time.
Meanwhile at Benihana, the tribe is shaking their heads and musing over what just happened at Rhode Island. Pythagoras then asks the group, "Am I being a tyrant?" The Benihana's all look at the ground and awkwardly kick the sand around, "No, not at all. What? Tyrant? Who?"
With nothing much to do but laze around and keep the fire lit, Wifey decides that now is the time to try to find that pesky Hidden Immunity Idol again. The first clue, with exact latitude and longitude points, was way too vague so maybe the new clue will steer him in the right direction. Wifey steals away into the trees, trips over a ceramic necklace with the face of a Filipino warrior and opens up his second clue... Look down you moron! Wifey scratches his head and talks to himself, "Look down, look down... like down under the water? Down where?!" Realizing that he'll never find the Hidden Immunity Idol all on his own, Wifey whispers the clues to Pythagoras and asks him where he thinks the Idol might be hiding. Pythagoras jumps up to help Wifey search for the Idol, but Wifey quickly stops him and says, "Oh no, I don't want you to help me. I just want you to tell me. You stay here. I'll go find it." Hearing this, Pythagoras begins to wonder to himself if he can really trust Wifey. Is Wifey one of his guys or is Wifey a shady pie baker waiting for his lady to return to the game?
Later on in the day, both tribes collect their Tree Mail and discover that they will be going head to head with their loved ones in a gladiator style duel to the death. The WangChung's gasp with excitement and giggle at the idea of beating up their loved ones. But over at Benihana the mood is quite different. Yogi Vytas hears the Tree Mail and nervously asks Pythagoras to spar with him in preparation for the Challenge. As we learned when the season began, Yogi Vytas and Aras have a complicated sibling rivalry that stems from Aras being the Golden Child who is loved and adored by his parents and Yogi Vytas being the back alley junkie who was locked out of the house on a regular basis. Nothing would make Yogi Vytas happier than finally shoving Aras on his ass and, fingers crossed, knocking out a few of his teeth to boot!
And this brings us to the big Immunity Challenge. Come on in guys! For today's Challenge you will battle one on one... Sumo style! You will use a bag to knock your opponent into the water before a mischievous Hawkman begins to play with his remote control and tilt the both of you into the deep abyss. The first tribe to five points wins Immunity and a Reward of comfort - a tarp, pillows, blankets and a mosquito net. Survivors ready, go!
The battles begin as both tribes manage to score back and forth, back and forth, in the first rounds. As the balance in the scoring continues to shift so does the familial tension. Tina is positively gum smacking giddy when Laura B. shoves her daughter Katie into the water while Yogi Vytas fist pumps excitedly watching Wifey push Aras off the platform.
But it is during HayDouche (Hayden) V. Tyson do we get a visit from a long time friend. Say hello to Dr. Ramona, bitches! Dr. Ramona is a Survivor favorite who, with one word, can ruin lives and destroy dreams. Will she do it again today? *shrugs shoulders* Ouch! Speaking of shoulders, HayDouche bulldozed Tyson into the water dislocating Tyson's shoulder in the process. Tyson immediately tossed up his white flag and was ready to be done with Survivor once and for all. Dr. Ramona, however, has a different recommendation, "It's goord yew dislocayterd youra sholda becawrz nowr yew'll have betta rayenge uf moition." (The Australian accent is a complicated mystery.) In other words, Tyson, take back your white flag. You can still play.
With a score of 3-2 and the Benihana's in the lead, we finally get that family face off we've been waiting for. Next up is Tina V. Katie. Tina is wrinkly and shaky on spindly legs, but she's a tough old broad. Katie, on the other hand, has youth and resentment on her side... "You wouldn't let me go to the Fall Out Boy concert with my friends!" The battle begins as mother and daughter stare into each other's eyes. Tina flips her teeth upside down and goes cross eyed causing Katie to burst into giggles and giving Tina the opening she was hoping for. Whoosh! Buh bye Katie. The score is now 3-3.
Next up is the battle we've all been waiting for. Brother V. Brother. Aras V. Yogi Vytas. For this duel, the Hawkman shows no mercy. He demands a good fight and will do anything possible to ensure he gets it.
With the platform twisting and turning and the spikes coming and going, the brothers push and shove with brute force. With the Hawkman cackling in the background, the brothers come to a standstill as Aras kneels on top of Yogi. Aras, being the good brother, decides to let Yogi get to his feet and collect himself. Yogi, the evil brother, decides instead to lunge at Aras' legs and take him by surprise. It was a sneaky move, but as we all know good will always triumph over evil and Vytas will still be locked out of the house. With that said, Aras wins the point and the score is now 4-3.
Last up is another mother/daughter combo - Medusa (Laura) V. Ciera. Medusa readies herself in front of her daughter and wipes away a stray tear. Dimples quickly lowers his hand and shouts, "Go!" With a shove and a cry, "You made me a grandmother at 39, you little trollop!!!", Medusa wins the point and WANGCHUNG WINS IMMUNITY!!!
Back at Benihana the mood is mopey and morose. The tribe is regretting some of the choices they made while Yogi Vytas trembles with the shakes and wonders to himself if poppies grow in The Philippines. In an effort to get his tribe back on track, Pythagoras pulls the Dudes aside for a Dude meeting where the manly men discuss who is going home next. Wifey has extremely strong feelings about Katie and is pissed off that she not only lost to her 60 year old mother, but giggled after she lost. Giggled! The nerve! On the other hand, Katie does help Wifey out in the kitchen while Ciera sits on her ass and does nothing. Those pies aren't going to bake themselves, you know. Yogi, defeated and depressed, shrugs his shoulders and mumbles, "I don't care who goes home."
Ultimately, the Dudes decide that Ciera will be going home tonight. But for now, for the rest of the afternoon, they'll enjoy themselves and not worry about a thing. With a coconut cream pie (shaved coconut inside of a coconut shell and topped with foamy sea water) in the oven and nothing else to do, Wifey decides to go hunting for the Hidden Immunity Idol again. But the second Wifey steals away, Pythagoras whispers to the rest of the Dudes that Wifey is the one who needs to go home tonight. He reasons that Candice is killing it at Rhode Island and if she rejoins the game with Wifey and his Idol, then it could be mean big trouble for all of them down the road. Pythagoras will no longer have control over Wifey. Candice will!
Armed with his plans for a colossal blindside, Pythagoras skips over to the girls and tells them that unless they vote for Wifey tonight, then one of them will be going home. The girls' silence and uneasy shiftiness only fuels Pythagoras' ego even more. When that pesky pride starts churning in your belly you tend to burp out hasty and stinky things. And this is exactly what happens to Pythagoras. With his chest puffed out and his scheme to get rid of Wifey going according to plan, Pythagoras then tells the girls that he'll just go ahead and throw a vote in Wifey's direction in case he comes back into the game later on down the road.
Quietly listening to all of this is Yogi Vytas. Yogi is a smart and articulate guy. He's crafty too - most criminals are. So when Yogi comes up with the idea to get rid of Pythagoras instead of Wifey, I cheered him on and tapped a vein in solidarity. This is going to be so exciting! Yogi will slither and scheme. He'll avoid tripping any alarms and finally- finally! - he'll succeed at something his brother would have never conceived. Patiently, I watched Yogi workshop his idea to get rid of Pythagoras to the girls. Naturally, the girls are ecstatic. They can't stand Pythagoras and would love nothing more than to blindside his ass out of the game. Conversely, when he mentions the idea to his fellow Dudes, they are noncommittal and vague.
Yogi then does what I suspect he's done all his life... he second guesses himself. His inner monologue might have gone something like, "Oh, who am I kidding? I can never pull this off. Aras would be able to pull it off. Aras is perfect! Perfect and shiny and golden. God, I hate him. I HATE HIM!!!" And then Vytas threw in the towel, gathered his belongings and headed to Tribal Council.
And voila! Here we are at Tribal. Dimples begins by pointing and laughing at the Benihana's for losing yet again for a third time. He also points out how the men were the only people to score in the Flash Gordon Challenge. Dimples asks Wifey if this was a factor in deciding who to vote out tonight. Wifey nods that it is definitely a factor. He's a brawny dude who knows his way around an Easy Bake Oven. It would be hard for any girl to go up against that.
Dimples then turns to the girls and gleefully points out how both of them got their asses kicked by the crotchety old mothers. Katie sighs and says it was frustrating as Ciera nods and agrees that it was totally embarrassing.
The conversation then shifts to how the men seem to be in control of the tribe and how the women are being picked off one by one. Yogi Vytas, with his eyes shining in the firelight, comments that actually the tribe dynamics aren't as simple as men versus women. Trust is the currency of the day, not sex. It's hard not to like Yogi Vytas in moments like these... moments where he is strong in his conviction and eloquent. If we could only smoosh that little devil sitting on his shoulder like Tina smooshed her daughter back in the Challenge, we could have a new shiny golden Baskauskas brother not called Aras.
We then turn our attention to Pythagoras, back from his summer stock appearance in Show Boat, who is more than happy to take all the credit for being the tribe kingpin. But, you know Dimples, being a kingpin isn't all it's cracked up to be. It makes you sensitive, it makes you a target, and it makes you wear your baseball cap backwards even though you're like in your 40's.
Alright, enough of this. Let's get to the vote! By a vote of Key Lime to Pumpkin, Wifey is the 3rd person voted out of Survivor: Blood V. Water.
So, what did you think of last night's episode? Will CBS ever stop its stunt casting (HA!)? Why is Tyson so hormonal this season? Will Yogi Vytas ever follow through with one of his plans? Comment it out bitches and have a great day!


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Christian Singer Natalie Grant Left The Grammys Early. Guess Why...
Updated Monday 11:05 a.m. PST
Natalie Grant responded to us directly with the following. She tweets:
@instinctmag I absolutely NEVER said that is why. In fact, I left before that ever happened and heard about it after the fact.
— Natalie Grant (@NatalieGrant) January 27, 2014
We're still curious as to why she left early. Any ideas, Instincters? Was the show too sexually risqué?
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Contemporary Christian singer Natalie Grant walked out of the Grammy Awards early on Sunday night and we'll give you one guess as to why.
The singer posted this on Facebook:
Hmm...we think Jesus would've enjoyed that wedding. Probably the reception too!
What do you think of her statement, Instincters?
(H/T: Boy Culture)
Enough is enough. To all of you "gay christians" that are posting, you are wolves in sheep's skin! The Bible is clear that there can be no salvation apart from repentance. Repentance is NOT just admitting your sin - but TURNING AWAY from it. If you can't admit that your homosexuality is a sin, how can you turn away from it? If you haven't turned away and have no intention of turning away from it, YOU ARE NO CHRISTIAN - BY GOD'S STANDARDS, NOT MINE. YOU are the cause of the turmoil in today's church. There are too many people unwilling to turn away from sin, yet call themselves Christians. To any who might say, "homosexuality is not a sin," I ask you - Where does the Bible say that homosexuality is not a sin? Eating unclean foods WAS a sin until God told Peter it was ok. If homosexuality was a sin (overwhelming evidence in the Old Testament) but God has now decided it's fine, there would be a record of a similar event in which He would say it was ok. There isn't.
"I walked out." Posted at 11:22pm on Jan 26//An innocent (public) tweet by @nataliegrant in reply to an innocent question tweeted by @shearamsey : "how do you feel about being at the Grammys right now?"
"I walked out." PERIOD. 13 characters. To the pure, these words were and are pure, but 1 twitter handle desired to pursue their own agenda. "I walked out." was labeled as "hate speech" and with the stroke of a hashtag---hate, twisted truth, and division moved across cyberspace. And to what end? If I look for hate then I will most likely create it. Fans of Ms. Grant know her 3 words were pure because the heart in her music and good works is pure. As Believers we will choose to do good, even in the face of hate.
(Titus 1:15-16;Matt 5:44)
Just to be clear, you're saying that her leaving the Grammy's and posting that she left the Grammy's on facebook is in some way attempting to run your life? You're just another Christian-hater who wants to say the same thing every single time a Christian does or says anything: "They're trying to run my life!" No we're not. Also, go do a little research or at least post a credible source if you feel the need to put a figure of 5.25 billion people that disagree with the Bible. You are wrong - end of story until you have proof. If you want to defy and mock the Almighty and stand up to His eternal wrath, that's your business but you WILL lose whether you admit it in the here and now or not.
Look Mr Noramlhuman apparent you must a 4th grader ignorant little kid who does not know how to write Jesus. And He is not trying to run nobodies life, definatelly not yours, Is just the fact that if you are a real Christian (which she is ) You see Evil you get away from evil. that's it. And she followed God's order. She is not better than no one. She exersiced her rights. And for your information the bible is a living document for those 5.25 billions . Here read this you will an idea.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 (New International Version) Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.
She didn't issue a statement condemning the weddings or the show. She just left. It's really her business. I don't know her or her music but based solely on this account I support her leaving a show for personal reasons that I have no idea about. Perhaps she was feeling ill? Perhaps there was a family emergency? None of us knows, so I don't know why we're speculating on it when there are plenty of actual villains to write about. Did y'all get bored with Kirk Cameron?
ld Like share I lived about 12 years life as being a homosexual all the men in my life influenced me to believe i was gay because I was sensitive gentle loving and caring. plus i was and still am in affectionate person. i share with the males who will allow me to whom i love. it wasn't till i met Jesus Christ that i found out i wasn't gay but mislead. He begin to show me what love is and is not. Affection Is just an expression of love. Theres nothing wrong with expressing pure love between to of the same sex. But as hard and long as I tried resist this truth I couldnt 2men or 2 women having sex unnatural In God's eyes. Does God hate gay people NO does he hate homosexuality YES. And to you so called straight people,and Christian's who like to condemn homosexuals remember If you lie fornicate or even lust your as guilty men or women who have sex with the same sex to you homosexuals I've been there and i understand. I love you all So does God but he leaves us the choice to serve him or our own will feel free to contact me if you have any questions and remember my Intentions arent to anger or argue with none i love you though it may not seem like it, but i will always speak the truth. Cant say i love u if I lied to u even if it is to protect your feelings i must always speak the truth in love.. God bless you all.
Guy it sounds like someone Bible beat you into submission. You are honestly the most misguided type of gay possible. You turn your back on science and thousands of years of history. Gays have been around since the earliest days of man. Stop speaking for God because while you are trying to defend gays you're also trying to shame them into feeling as though they will go to hell! Every credible mental health professional who has some understanding of sexuality and biology realizes homosexuality is not some deviancy. It is natural in Nature and in people. So get off your pulpit and seek counseling!
Who gives a fuck why she left let her do her own business dam all these talks about shit that isn't even important fucking ppl really how bored are u ( am currently really fucking bored ) let ppl do there own thing n you do you gays lesbians trannys straight ppl who cares n really bringing Jesus into this dam y'all straight out tripping man really 2014 ppl move alone already
I am a Christian because I have accepted Jesus & have a relationship with him & seek to live my life for him.- yet i am a sinner, because I'm human. No sin is "badder" then another in God's eyes. I can't cast any judgment on a man or woman - I can only show Love to them: gay, straight, black, white, mexican, etc & I believe truly loving someone is loving them through accepting them as a person. Not their sin. I will never treat a gay or straight person with a different amount of kindness. But I will speak God's truth to my gay friend, my straight friend & all others I come into contact. I accept other Christians around me to point out in me where i need to get right with God. Jesus came to this earth to love others, speak truth to EVERYONE & let them know that it is through JESUS we have life. Not through the things of this world that will end once we die.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
I pray my straight friends, gay friends, black, white, asian, & Hispanic friends will seek Jesus & know that it is only through a relationship with Jesus we have true LIFE & everlasting LIFE.
Everyday is straight pride, moron. Every parade and practically every show/movie/song/magazine/advertisement glorifies the heterosexual demographic. Sorry we would like to carve out a little time to let others like us know they're not alone and we're not the heinous people jerks like you paint us to be and maybe even say to the world of hateful bigots that continue to try and define our humanity that we are proud of who we are in spite of their bullshitery. Now go be stupid and self-righteous elsewhere.
Luke, Luke, Luke. You just made my point. I ask you, where in my post did I express hatred, or bigotry, or paint anyone out to be a heinous person. It seems to me you are seething with hate.
Personally, I love all people, couldn't give two shits if they are gay, straight, black white, my point was, and is, who cares? But I am tired of being labeled as a hater because I want to embrace my own values. For me, straight works, God loves me for the sinner I am, and He makes no differentiation between my sin and the next guys. Pretty damn simple. doesnt make me a hater, or a moron. I, like you, am just who I am, and have a right to be proud of it and celebrate. ( and get a bumper sticker).
Not an intelligent or meaningful comparison. You completely missed the point, didn't you? Am I not allowed to celebrate my straightness with parades and bumper stickers and flags, tee shirts, etc.? I simply want equality for everyone. Spare me the ridiculous comparison to Hitler. Move along now....
Seriously? Who gives a fuck why she left? Jesus Christ I'm getting so fucking sick of the LGBT community making scandal where there is none... You're all acting like fucking republicans with all the made up scandals. Settle the fuck down already. Does her leaving early effect you? No? Then SHUT THE FUCK UP! Who gives a shit?
She left due to the satanic rituals and sexually explicit behavior. Come on now. Katy Perry dancing around a broomstick with Baphomet costumes around her? She was wearing a huge masonic cross (so was Madonna by the way) encircled by fire and dancing with demons. Wake up people. Satanism is not cool which is what they are trying to push. I'm proud of Natalie for standing up and walking out for what she believes in. Not to mention watching Jayz and Beyonce was kinda gross. THAT is why she left. She had no idea about the mass gay wedding (which I see nothing wrong with but couldn't have been very romantic and all those people were USED in a huge publicity stunt) because it happened AFTER she left. Why are people so quick to feel persecuted. GET OVER IT! She has tweeted nothing but positive messages affirming her love for Christ and her decision to be a singer for him and not for the money or the attention. All the people pointing the finger at her need to take a good close look at themselves.
I'm not sure why I came to this page but what I have read is not people discussing things, they are arguments and insults. I have not seen people whole heartedly speak of tolerance, understanding or acceptance. I have not seen very many Christians act as such and I have not seen people who truly understand what they claim to know.
I am a Christian, I do not go to church nor do I claim to have every page of the bible memorized.
I accept people, I try to pass love onto those that I can and respect those I cannot I do not bash or insult gays or lesbians and have had good friends in both categories. I do not recall a single phrase in the bible that automatically condemns homosexuals to hell if someone can come up with this popular part in the good book and show me it that would be great as I am greatly unaware of its existence. Christians do not spread hate, if you are spreading your "divine" judgment (which is the big guy upstairs job and not yours) or if you are spreading hate then you are misrepresenting us so please stop.
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First corinthians Chapter six vs nine. But yes you are right when you say you accecpt them. God doesn't Hate them. He hates what they do. He hates all sin. but alot people need to realize the same way guy came to them me and you with love and acceptance. That's how we need to approach them.
The Bible says "there will be days like this" (paraphrased) and standing up for Christian principals requires courage and boldness. It certainly isn't what is most popular. I don't think Natalie Grant's decision stands as any judgement toward anyone. She chose to distance herself. The Old Testament speaks of things that are detestable to God.The New Testament speaks of redemption through acceptance of Christ as Lord and Savior. The divide between the outrageously secular and those who chose the more narrow path spoken of In the Bible is only becoming increasingly wider. EVERYONE must choose for themselves which path they will take.
The Bible says we are to go and sin no more. Living in daily deliberate sin is not acceptable to God. Christianity requires that a person accepts that they are a sinner, that behavior contrary to His Word is sin. We MUST repent and have changed lives if we are truly living for Christ. Does this mean a person is condemned to hell if they are homosexual? No, of course not, and we are not able to know the personal relationship that a person has to Jesus. However the Bible is very clear that we can know people by their fruits.
If I were to get married...whether gay or straight....I dont think I would choose such a special and sacred time as this to do it in this environment...at a Grammy Awards show! I mean, REALLY? They had less than 60 seconds to do anything at all meaningful! It was extremely rushed! --and with so many others too at the same time! To me, that did not honor such a sacred event ...for ANY one! (Gay OR Straight !!) But....to each his own, I suppose.
The Nazi's were Christians. The Westboro Baptist Church is Christian. 100s of pedophile Catholic priests are Christian. I have been in church for more years than some commenters here have been alive. And I am ultimately disgusted with and fear the levels of hate, intolerance, hate speak, and intended violence with which "proud Christians" associate. Being Christian does not give you special
rights, and hating and threatening others will not bring you into the house of The Lord. Christianity has become cold and angry and deeply intolerant, if messages here are any indicator. The Lord Christ himself brought sexual sin into his world and healed it through tolerance re: Mary Magdalene. Nothing is more dangerous than a righteous heart filled with hate, who believes they act in the interest of God. You read YOUR books--you will find writing about how words of hate go unannointed, and draw good hearts to sin. I no longer feel comfortable raising children in the church. There is more hate and elitism there than anyone is willing to admit. If Natalie left because the violence on this board is in her heart as well, I am happy she left before more people were exposed to her.
You have a lot of hate in your comment. Sin is Sin. God will deal with ALL sinners. Many will seek but few shall find. perhaps you should focus on the seekers and not the hypocrits. Love the sinner, Hate the sin. Christians don't hate sinners. They themselves are sinners. The Christian Church was set up as a sinners anonymous to help each other stay on the path which leads to Eternal Life. A path which only leads through Christ. That just doesn't appeal to everyone. It also doesn't take away a guilty conscience. So the next time you feel guilty around Christians, It's not them,It's YOUR conscience. But a Christian who only finds pleasure in hateful judgement on outsiders. That's NOT what Christ would do!!
Really, a Christian lives by her beliefs and we end up with all the "Love - PC" crowd hating her? What happened to diversity, why are the gayers so judgmental - one individual has advocated that a certain lifestyle isn't for her, we have entire nations of Muslims that would behead the gayers for just being who they are, but no they have to have 100% of everyone not just tolerating or accepting it they want approval. They need to get a life.................
I'm sorry..did you just say "the gayers"? Let me help you out with some of your inquiries.
You asked: " What happened to diversity, why are the gayers so judgmental?"
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the term "pot calling the kettle black"? You see, diversity, and tolerance of diversity, is what gays have been asking for. Please don't embarrass yourself by expecting anyone to believe that it has existed, and that isn't good enough for the gays.
You state: "but no they have to have 100% of everyone not just tolerating or accepting it they want approval. They need to get a life"
Poodle, I don't care if you tolerate or accept or approve of anything I do. I;m not throwing a rope over a rafter because I don't have the full support of someone I will never meet, and someone who has no bearing n my life. What I do want....nay, what I DEMAND...is that I am able to walk down the street without fear of being dragged into an alley by cowards and beaten to death because of who I love. WHO. I. LOVE. Get it? And I have a life. In fact, it's perfect now. In October 2013, I was FINALLY given the LEGAL RIGHT to marry my husband, a man I have shared a home & life with for 8 years prior. NOTHING I do is to get your approval. I don't need it. I never will, just as you will never need mine. The difference is, I wouldn't sneak up on you and beat you over the head with a ball bat for being in love, no matter WHO you love.
With regards to Natalie Grant, and why she left early, that is her decision to make and live with. Maybe she had some bad shrimp. I don't care why she left. Doesn't affect me at all. as nothing I do affects her, or shouldn't affect her. The difference is, there are people that ALLOW what I do with my life to affect them. They spend so much time finding things to hate about others, rather than just living happily ever after. So sad for them....what a waste of a beautiful life.
Stop this petty arguing. What does it accomplish? I have been beaten for being gay and loved for being who I am. The question of love is individual not a matter for public display. The question and purpose of what was on the show was about legality and acceptance how can any of us hope to be accepting and loving of others if we all sit in hate. And let me be clear this kind of arguing is hate meant to prickle the skin and push the buttons. I for one may not agree with religion but I would die to make sure the people who do believe could. Freedom is not about sacrificing personal belief but about affording others the right to believ. Giving that Right denotes an inner strength and conviction that we all should strive to have. It means though there are many other ways to think and we could choose any we have chosen and not been forced to choose. How may of you would want to be forced? By that means we be come weak and internally so resentment and suffering become the lot of he who is forced to abide. Thus without choice there can not be any who have chosen.
- where does 'love' exists - does it exists in the hearts of god (his children) or in those of satanists?
- how is that humans who love each other, unconditionally, became 'satans'... and those who 'hate' 'punish' 'kill' 'judge' etc., became 'children of god'?
- why is this singer returned if she find it so great singing a song for him; and that the 'gay marriages' is not the reason?
- why is that those who show the homophobic character does not have any of His reflection in them - of kindness, of forgiveness, of peaceful... why do they resort to kill, punish, judge...? arent these the characters of those who are responsible for crucifixion of jesus?
take any homophobe - his/her resemblance is more towards evil than to the god.
funny, as a non-chirstian, i find as though christians vehemently believe that devil is stronger, if not, as strong as god is.
if you believe in God you read the Bible you believe in the whole Bible. not read 1 page oh i like that so I believe that and so iam going follow what God says but then you turn the page your like hell no thats wrong so I am not going to follow that because you dont like what it states, it dosent work like that. I believe in God and the whole Bible its God word. show love and pray for everyone because everyone needs it and everybody has to answer to their action one day. God bless yall all
I can agree with one thing. "I will" stand before God one day. So everyone else can keep their opinions, statements, hatreds and everything else to them self. Because if I want to marry a man that is my choice to do so. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but maybe people should start keeping their opinions to themselves. Because opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and most of them stink.
I agree James! People spend entirely too much time sharing their opinions, and not near enough time sharing their Love. Jesus said to let your yea be yea and your nah be nah. Not get on Social Media and spew out hatred all over the internet via your opinions. I believe if God has laid something in your heart to share with people then share it, but that doesn't include your opinions. I also believe that whatever convictions you live by in life are just that, your convictions, and we as Christians don't have some exclusive privilege of shoving our convictions down anyone's throat or purposefully trying to make them someone else's convictions. It's bullshit!! Not Christianity!!
Very true Charlotte. What gets me is just because as a homosexual that is hated that gives me the right to act like everyone else a spew hatred every where. I don't think so. My Mom always said "kill'em with kindness." She also quoted the old saying "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I fall short sometimes, but I do my best to respect others and show them love. I have better things to do then judge someone for how they want to live their lives.
Listening to the people on here,it shows me that christians will be treated like criminals. Preaching from the bible will be against the law. People on here twisting the bible to fit their own agenda. Just because you are for traditional marriage does not mean you are homophobic. Do you people hate christians? The bottom line is this..we will all stand before the Almighty...and I care more about not offending him than offending homosexuals. You can call me nasty names..big whoop...Just remember that homosexual behavior is abnormal and no matter how much you shout that it is normal..IT"S NOT!!!!!
who told you it was abnormal? God created ALL of mankind... repeat that in your head-- ALL of mankind--- I know many many gay people or not normal as you have phrased it, and all of them know from a very early start that they were gay....they were born gay or "not normal" as you quoted.... if all of the people who speak out, protest, harm, kill, slander, the gays in the world would stop focusing on the sexuality part of their love(and believe me you all do) you would see that their lives are just as "normal" as ours... no matter what religion, beliefs, status, race, or who we are-- LIVE AND LET LIVE... if one of your children, sister, brother. best friend, or other family member to you that they were gay---- WHAT WOULD YOU DO????????????????????????????
you can stand before any imaginary friend you want that is up to you i will return to the earth and fertilize flowers and grass an live on that way. However Christians are the best at twisting the bible it is not gods word but the words of men telling a story about a man called Jesus and if you find the original translation you will find unicorns and all sorts of mythical creature we now know don't exist were in the original version. However its a good guide to how to live and the morals are good jesus love me and my same sex marriage i am sure if he exists however i am not sure he loves those that presume to speak for him if he does exist.
Natalie, Jesus doesn't give a fuck about you singing for him. As a matter of fact, he has so many angels singing for him and his glory, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the eternity, he is ready to puke if someone on Earth tries to make him listening to another song about him.
So, give it a rest Natalie. Sing about someone else. You can sing about your idol George W. Bush. I am sure he'd love it and Jesus wont have second thoughts about sending you to hell to make Lucifer puke from your singing.
you're response just explains your ignorance and hatred for those who don't have the same outlook as you do. You are very immature with that kind of message and I hope that you will look for the truth. Whether you disagree with us or not, you have no reason to belittle and insult us. What a naive little person you are...
naive little person mmm hang on he made a logical point if and its a big if Jesus god and heaven exists and arn't just imaginary friends for insecure little people who can take responsibility for their own actions . The heaven exists as doe the choir on high singing the glory of god so if all that exists he makes a good point Jesus is going to be bored stiff of songs about him.
How does one scream in a comments section, exactly?
Do you honestly know the definition of "psychosis"? When you use it that way it makes you seem as if you don't.
And, by your own logic re: pyschosis, you by beating a dead horse at someone else to make them feel bad, also got a case of the old psychosises. Don't worry, nothing some moonshine and a lil Bactrim cant sort out.
"I've never been more honored to ..... sing for Jesus."
(1) If she were actually doing that, then she would follow Jesus commandment to sell all she has and give it to the poor, and that includes all the royalties and concert fees.
(2) That she has not done so (or intend to do so) she has exposed herself as a liar. Someone should tell her that Paul said liars won't get into heaven.
Using Jesus as your backbone to spew hatred about things you consider sins is a sin. Shut the fuck up, or use that hateful energy to get angry about real shit, like hungry children, or cancer. Natalie Grant or whatever her name is, and the rest of you conservative assholes are a joke, just like your religion. Fuck off.
Spewing hatred would be her running to the stage, grabbing the mic, and basically doing what you just did, except hatefully toward those she disagrees with. Get a life. She didn't in any way spew hatred; she simply made the decision not to stay where she felt out of place. It's just like when a good parent tells his or her child to stay away from bad influences. If the child avoids them as he or she should, has he or she spewed hatred? Absolutely not. Natalie's God - THE God - told her to love the people but never said she needed to WILLFULLY engage in what His Word indicates as sinful entertainment. Doesn't matter if you agree or not, but you're the bigot, a bully looking to pick a fight. She simply walked away and look how the world is attacking and provoking her. Yeah, we're the problem huh? Again, get a life.


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WASHINGTON - It's like a giant game of wait-and-see, but with millions of dollars of federal funding on the line for Colorado.
As Congress scrambles to avert automatic spending cuts, called sequestration, before they take effect Friday, local organizations and officials are left wondering how they can prepare for something that was never supposed to happen in the first place.
The sequester, first passed through the Budget Control Act of 2011, was intended to force the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to make a deal that would cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget throughout 10 years.
If the committee didn't do that by its deadline, automatic cuts would begin - cuts so massive, the committee would surely act to avoid them.
But it didn't.
"The sequester was never intended to be policy," said Amy Brundage, deputy White House press secretary for the economy, in a conference call with reporters Monday. "These cuts were never intended to be policy, and they shouldn't happen."
And now, $85 billion stands to be slashed nationwide this fiscal year - evenly divided between domestic and defense programs - starting Friday.
In Colorado, $90 million could be cut from nondefense programs this fiscal year, said Eric Brown, a spokesman for Gov. John Hickenlooper. The state also could see an $810 million economic impact from defense-related cuts this fiscal year, Brown said in an email.
Ripple effects
Locally, the Durango-La Plata County Airport, local school districts, Fort Lewis College and Mesa Verde National Park are just some of many organizations that could see their coffers diminished beginning Friday.
But until that happens - or if Congress stops it from happening - there's not much officials can do.
"We have not made any contingency plans yet," said Ron LeBlanc, Durango's city manager. "Until we get further information, it's fruitless."
For Durango, federal funding plays a large role in local transportation, LeBlanc said. The Durango-La Plata County Airport and the city's public transit system gets the majority of its funding from federal agencies, he said.
The airport is operating normally, according to Gary Suiter, interim director of aviation, until officials hear otherwise from the federal government.
Other parts of the city also could take hits.
"We work closely with the Forestry Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, on a variety of properties and programs," LeBlanc said. "I don't know how they're going to be affected. In turn, they can't tell me what it's going to mean for the city."
On the county level, La Plata County might be forced to reduce staffing - which would limit the services it can provide, said Lezlie Mayer, the county's director of human services.
"Just a reduction in staff would mean a reduction in programs," she said.
But no sequestration-specific plans for the county have been made, she added.
In neighboring Montezuma County, Mesa Verde National Park could see its budget down by $321,000 in this fiscal year, according to the Cortez Journal, as part of cuts to the National Park Service.
Betty Lieurance, public information officer at Mesa Verde, told The Durango Herald shorter winter hours could be kept in place during summer and fewer tours might be offered.
Lori Montgomery, Bureau of Land Management district manager for Southwest Colorado, said it's too early to identify cuts for public-lands funding.
"Right now, we don't have anything," she said
Throughout Colorado, about 1,170 fewer low-income students would receive aid for college, and about 430 fewer students would get work-study jobs, according to the White House website.
But Fort Lewis College - which receives several million dollars in federal grants - still can't get ready for that, said spokesman Mitch Davis.
"At this point, it's hard for us to prepare for anything," he said. "We're kind of waiting to see what happens."
"It certainly wouldn't be a good thing for Fort Lewis Colege," he said.
Local school districts also could be affected, particularly in terms of federal funding for special education, free and reduced lunches, and other programs.
The state could lose about $8.4 million in primary- and secondary-education funding, according to White House estimates, which would put 120 teacher and aide jobs in jeopardy. Colorado also might lose an additional $8.1 million allocated for students with disabilities.
"I think everybody's kind of hoping for a best-case scenario," said Durango School District Chief Financial Officer Laine Gibson.
The district received $1,836,710 in federal funding in fiscal year 2011-12, with $750,000 to $755,000 allocated for free and reduced lunches, Gibson said.
"I don't think we let students go hungry," he said.
Officials in the Montezuma-Cortez School District face the same problems, but the district already is having preliminary discussions about potential cuts.
"It's going to be really a crushing blow when this goes through," said Superintendent Alex Carter. "We really rely hugely on federal grants."
The Ignacio School District could be affected "to the tune of $43,000" if the cuts go through, according to Annie Gunderson, the district's finance director.
The district relies on impact aid, which is financial assistance for schools that are on federal land and therefore cannot collect property-tax revenue.
"It helps us tremendously," Superintendent Rocco Fuschetto. "It's why we're able to provide some of the services we're providing is because we get extra help from the federal government."
The sequester cuts were originally slated to begin at the start of 2013, but lawmakers changed the deadline to March 1.
The White House has released state-by-state impact estimates this week, in an effort to pressure Congress.
"There's a fair amount of scare tactics being put in place," said Josh Green, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez.
Tipton and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., voted against the fiscal cliff legislation. The Colorado lawmakers both had said they wanted legislation to address spending reform and deficit reduction.
"The sequester is not good policy and would be damaging to Colorado and the economy," said Bennet spokesman Adam Bozzi in an email.


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What's old is new again, as a project to renovate a downtown commercial building in Tryon harkens back to an era when the idyllic Polk County town was a transportation hub.
What's old is new again, as a project to renovate a downtown commercial building in Tryon harkens back to an era when the idyllic Polk County town was a transportation hub.
St. Luke's Plaza, on Trade Street at the heart of the downtown retail complex, will include a caf� and wine bar, a retail outfitter company, and an outdoor area for dining, gathering and live performances.
"The renovation project purposely teases out the building's original function as a Sinclair Service Station," says Chrys Armbrust, economic development director for the town of Tryon.
The project follows the recent restorations of Tryon's train depot and clock tower, both across from the retail complex.
The building that for years housed the St. Luke's Thrift Store originally served as a service station when it was built in 1935.
"In a way, this is recreating Tryon's past as a rail and car thoroughfare," says Dean Trakas of Brady/Trakas Architects, the Tryon firm behind the project.
"At one time, there were six gas stations in Tryon," Trakas says. "There was one with a peaked roof near the railroad tracks, so there is a precedent for this in Tryon."
The peaked roof has been added — the building's original roof was fl at.
Commercially, the project has concentrated on improving what was an empty building with upgrades and retrofitting so retail businesses can open.
The main tenant is The Ruby Slipper, a caf� owned by Melanie Archer. Archer will run a restaurant and a wine bar, and sell ice cream out of the space.
Walls in the establishment will exhibit artwork, which will be for sale to the public.
Trakas is looking forward to seeing how the downtown wine bar will add to Tryon's appeal.
"That is the part everyone's really excited about," he said. "To have somewhere to hang out."
Armbrust sees potential in the building for just that, with its spacious, newly landscaped outdoor area.
"On the public improvement side, the project realizes a long� anticipated, public gathering space," Armbrust said.
A pergola for relaxed public gathering and performances could someday link into the much-talkedabout Nina Simone Festival, which potentially could bring aficionados of jazz to Tryon on a regular basis.
"The project will build investor confidence in Tryon's commercial district, will increase pedestrian and consumer presence, and add retail options for consumers," Armbrust said.
Retail outfitter Terra on Trade is moving its store to the plaza, in what Trakas sees as synergy for attracting the cycling crowd.
"This would be the perfect stopping place," he said of the popular Saluda Grade run for bikes.
"We really want to make this place bike friendly," he said, adding that more signs and trails could make Tryon a more popular destination for cyclists.
Planning for St. Luke's Plaza has been long term, a part of an overall vision for downtown Tryon led by Armbrust. For the past seven years, he has been focused on making the project a reality.
The project was in Armbrust's sights as he began his tenure with the Tryon Downtown Development Associat ion, inspired by an idea born from Tryon's Streetscape master plan, completed in 2001 by consulting group Milone and MacBroom.
"The St. Luke's Plaza project has been an anticipated downtown commercial center and public gathering space since the creation of Tryon's Streetscape Masterplan," Armbrust said.
Tryon Mayor Alan Peoples recognizesArmbrust's work over the long term.
"Chrys is our spark plug for getting things done in this town," he said.
Armbrust's longstanding connection with Charleston-based developer Bob Lane led to Lane's interest in purchasing the property, Peoples added.
"It was my pleasure to negotiate, on behalf of Bob Lane, the initial offer to purchase," Armbrust said. "It has been an equal pleasure to participate in the ongoing processes of design and construction implementation."
Lane is "amazed" to have a project in which the architect and the builder (Mike Karaman) are so excited to bring the building to life.
"Tryon is a wonderful town to do business in," Lane said.
He liked the idea of taking the building's original flat roof to the peaked design that was so popular for service stations in the early 20th century.
"Bob's original inspiration was a print of a Sinclair gas station that had a peaked roof," Trakas said.
He's proud of the way the new retail building echoes the look of a service station, with its front windows that mimic the large bays into which cars once drove for repair and oil changes. The original brick and scored concrete walls have been exposed, and the original transom windows remain, as well as the building's decorative tin ceiling.
The new terra cottacolored peaked roof is identical to the train depot — a way to tie the buildings together, stylistically.
The designated name, St. Luke's Plaza, is an intentional nod to two concepts, each of which resonates in the principal attributes of the historic figure of St. Luke: first, as patron saint of artists, and second, as patron saint of doctors, according to Armbrust.
Arts and healing relate to Tryon in its founding as an artists community, and to St. Luke's Hospital, which was first located in the upper story of the present Owen's Pharmacy.


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