Random Ramblings

Having an iPhone means I'm condemed to iTunes.
Grrrrrrr...... iTunes.

Ain't nothing wrong with iTunes.

Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on Earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky

One of the most drawn out metaphors, yet one of the greatest. I love this song.

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Having an iPhone means I'm condemed to iTunes.
Grrrrrrr...... iTunes.

I hate all apple products   I am a windows guy all the way..Everything I have is microsft/windows...even my phone is a Microsoft windows phone... I love it

rockerVu2 wrote:

Having an iPhone means I'm condemed to iTunes.
Grrrrrrr...... iTunes.

No you're not.  I have an iPhone and never use iTunes, yet I listen to music on my iPhone all the time.

Amazon Music App

I am pretty sure you don't need Amazon Prime to use the Amazon Music App, as anyone can have Amazon cloud space (up to 5 gb free).  However, if you have Amazon Prime then you can stream music from their "Prime library." In fact, you don't need to stream (as that takes data unless you are on wifi); while you cannot download "prime" tunes to your computer, you can download them to devices like the iPhone, Kindle, etc., because you don't have access to the files (unless you're a hacker  ).

To get your own music on the iPhone you simply upload it from you computer to your cloud space, and then download it to your iPhone .... or simply stream them.

Another benefit of Amazon Prime is that any MP3s you purchase from Amazon are automatically available for download and streaming without using any of your cloud space, and many CDs purchased from Amazon are "autorip", meaning they are also available for download and streaming without using your own cloud space. (This may not actually require Prime, but since I have Prime I don't know for sure). I currently have close to 50 albums in my cloud library, but none of them are using my own personal cloud space as all are CDs or MP3s that I purchased from Amazon.com.

Sadly, you cannot simply transfer your own music to your iPhone without iTunes, Amazon Music, or some such other application. So in that respect the iPhone is a bit limiting.  Also, if the Amazon Music app requires a Prime membership (again, I'm not sure, as I had the Prime membership before Amazon came out with the app), then you'll have to fork over $100 per year to use it; that's the cost of a Prime membership. However, IMO Amazon Prime is more than worth the annual fees. 

About Amazon Prime

I don't have Amazon prime, but every MP3 I have ever purchased from Amazon is kept in my Amazon Cloud without using any of my free storage space.

Staybrite wrote:

I don't have Amazon prime, but every MP3 I have ever purchased from Amazon is kept in my Amazon Cloud without using any of my free storage space.

Well there ya go!  The only remaining question is if non-Prime uses can use the Amazon Music App, which I would assume would be the case; they just would not have access to Amazon's Prime music, which is essentially Amazon's version of Spotify.

I did well on both my history and English papers. Yay! I'm not very interesting. Sorry I don't post around much.

Well, that's good news, in any case. What were the papers about?

English: American poets. History: FDR

xenonlion wrote:

I did well on both my history and English papers. Yay! I'm not very interesting. Sorry I don't post around much.

Hopefully you did better with your history than these morons!

Why people in church can  treat each other on a way this world can do?
Without having a sense of how hard those words hit the other

Does God agree when people in church treat each other on a way like that?

rockerVu2 wrote:

Why people in church can  treat each other on a way this world can do?
Without having a sense of how hard those words hit the other

Does God agree when people in church treat each other on a way like that?

I hear ya! I know of a young lady that I almost never see anymore and that used to go to our church. Her husband cheated on her multiple times, then finally left her, so she divorced him, and while many of us supported and prayed for her one woman in particular, a woman that is "church royalty" (most of you know what I mean by that), berated her for leaving her husband. Now she has left the church and wants very little to do with any of us, and last I heard she was unequally yoked with an unbeliever.

Writing a paper on double predestination, or reprobation, or the doctrine that if some are predestined to salvation, the others must be predestined to damnation. It is really mind-twisting. The paradox of God's sovereignty and our responsibility is practically incomprehensible. AGH!

QUICK! LOCK THIS THREAD BEFORE SOMEONE STARTS A THEOLOGY DEBATE!!!

You got that right!

I apologize for posting something that you see as a theological debate.
I will remove this post.

It was only something that bothers me very much and I want to vent it here.

I cannot believe that video above with the students who don't know those BASIC history questions !!! OMG our next gen is sad !  They know about Brad Pitt's personal life and some stupid show called Jersey Shore... but they know NOTHING about the great history of this country !!  I may not remember everything I learned, but I could answer all those questions (except the Brad and Jersey ones) no problem... and not only that, but I'm proud of my country and it's history. Sheesh ! Shame on whoever's responsible for dumbing down the next gen.

rockerVu2 wrote:

I apologize for posting something that you see as a theological debate.
I will remove this post.

It was only something that bothers me very much and I want to vent it here.

it wasn't your post, it was Driven's. Perhaps I should have quoted it. And my response was more in jest, although I could easily see someone starting a debate over his statement.

Please feel free to vent here whenever you need to.  Heaven knows I do! In fact, I agree with your post about how people in church don't always treat others as they should, and am in fact probably guilty of that myself at times.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

I cannot believe that video above with the students who don't know those BASIC history questions !!! OMG our next gen is sad !  They know about Brad Pitt's personal life and some stupid show called Jersey Shore... but they know NOTHING about the great history of this country !!  I may not remember everything I learned, but I could answer all those questions (except the Brad and Jersey ones) no problem... and not only that, but I'm proud of my country and it's history. Sheesh ! Shame on whoever's responsible for dumbing down the next gen.

Sad, isn't it!?  My 14-year-old didn't know the civil war question, but she hasn't had that in school yet so has some excuse. However, she know who the vice president was!

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I could easily see someone starting a debate over his statement.

now who would do that ...me ... I dont care if someone is Calvinist, Catholic, Wiccian or Muslim..its all the same to me and I dont care...no arguments or debates..to each his own..  
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 My 14-year-old didn't know the civil war question, but she hasn't had that in school yet so has some excuse.

maybe you should take a look at your kids history book....some states have taken the civil war out and almost everything else has been rewritten and retold... Here in parts of Oklahoma and down in Texas alot of schools dont even have history class anymore...One  of the schools in Tulsa has a class on the proper way to use an android phone...its actually a whole semester

Savage Amusement wrote:

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I could easily see someone starting a debate over his statement.

now who would do that ...me ... I dont care if someone is Calvinist, Catholic, Wiccian or Muslim..its all the same to me and I dont care...no arguments or debates..to each his own..  

I will admit you came to mind, but in all honesty I found myself wanting to post something about it.

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I will admit you came to mind, but in all honesty I found myself wanting to post something about it.

Nope, I told ya I wont debate theology or religion anymore..I just dont care what anyone believes or who they believe in..its between them and their God alone

Now politics, gay marriage and "Christian" metal labels..thats something different and I will debate that