It's starting to get bad against those of us who are believers. On days that I do my major house cleaning I put on worship music and my daughter and I sing and dance as we are cleaning. Well, most of the time we get so into it that the volume gets turned up loud Everytime we do this I think to myself "Is today the day I get a knock at my door and get told that if I don't turn off my believer's music that I will be arrested?". This used to be a crazy thought now it's not Even sadder is the idea that the neighbors blasting their horrible rock music won't be bothered for a second by the law.
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If your music is disturbing the peace, then yes, someone should call the police. Don't try to make it out like you're being persecuted, either. You have as much right to call the cops on anyone else for doing the same with their music, whatever it may be.
If my neighbor was playing religious music too loud, I'd say there's only a few antidotes: death metal, thrash metal, or black metal. Take your pick. Immolation, Gorgoroth, and Slayer would be my recommendations.
Oh the fun you could have with a convincing police uniform at Kelly's house.
"Sorry ma'am, all music pertaining to God the Creator of All Things is hearby banned. When Obama the muslim antichrist steps into power, he does not want his atheist junta polluted by the music of the faithful. Hail Satan!"
"This is persecution!"
"Is that insubordination? Control, we have an unsubmissive believer, dispatch the Retrieve and Brainwash squad on the double."
"Oh nooooo! Run darling, out the back door!"
"Heh. Pity they've gone and such a nice tv behind..."
If your shitty "music" is too loud, you might just miss the trumpet's call!
Oh, the horror! Truly "left behind."
The difference between your "believer's music" and the "horrible rock music" of your neighbors?
More than likely, theirs will have unbearably loud BASS pumping.
Odds are, if you had yours cranked up fully, I'd still barely hear it, let alone feel it more than a block away.
Given the choice, I'd pick yours as the less annoying one.
If you're that anxious to be persecuted, go to a country that actually DOES persecute Christians. This one panders to them instead, which is quite the opposite, so I doubt you'll get your martyrdom aspirations fulfilled here.
~David D.G.
Wait, I don't get it. Someone actually called the police on her or she's claiming Christian persectution because she considers the possibility that someone may call them ??
If the latter is the case my heart just goes out to her. We all have problems but I can't imagine living with the horror of thinking there's a possibility somebody might call the police on me whenever I blast my music at full volume even though nobody ever has. These poor, poor people.
"Everytime we do this I think to myself "Is today the day I get a knock at my door and get told that if I don't turn off my believer's music that I will be arrested?""
You people really buy into this "persecution" bullshit, don't you?
Hehe... I'd find that a perfectly good reason to get some earplugs (hey, I don't want hearing damage!), put my speakers all flush against the presumably shared wall of the apartment (again, assuming a lot here from the quote), and crank some Laibach of the choicer bits of their album "Jesus Christ Superstars" followed by some Ministry like "Never Believe" and "Faith Collapsing." After that I could perhaps turn to some RevCo ("Viagra Culture" in particular) and Skinny Puppy. If they haven't had a heart attack by that point, I'd turn the music back down and enjoy some good Siouxsie and the Banshees and Abney Park.
Bet she'd call the police before the first track of "Jesus Christ Superstars" is done.
People, you should read better:
"Everytime we do this I think to myself "Is today the day I get a knock at my door and get told that if I don't turn off my believer's music that I will be arrested?"
In other words, nothing actually happened. It's not persecution fantasy, it's IMAGINAIRY persecution fantasy.
If I lived next door to you, I'd put on stuff in the strangest, most un-danceable time signatures, just so you couldn't dance anymore.
Firstly, if the neighbor's music is bothering you, you CAN call the cops. Second, there is nothing even close to the situation you are talking about in your little persecution fantasy. Being told that you can't corner someone and scream yourself purple how they're evil and going to hell is not persecution, is protecting the rest of us from harassment.
WTF are you talking about, you silly ass. Unless you live in an apartment building and are blasting your music no one is going to knock on your damned door. No one cares if you are singing and dancing for jeebus while you are scrubbing your damned toilets. Please, please get over yourself.
Paranoia? Anyone who blasts loud music, no matter the genre, will be told to turn it down, but I doubt they'll be arrested unless they fuck with the cops. So no, your persecution fantasies won't come true today.
We're bothered every weekend by the cops because my dad, despite my frequent requests to turn it down just a skosh so I don't go deaf before I'm 21, plays Judas Priest and Black Sabbath all night at full volume. And he has, like, one of the best stereo systems you can buy.
I have no problem with the music. Just the volume, because I already can't hear out of one ear very well.
By the way, it's the volume, not the content, that you'd get a noise complaint for. Disturbing the peace is something people call the police for; "zomg, they were listening to HYMNS!" isn't. Not in the real, rational human world, anyway.
Though, the cops in my hometown are really dumb and go away when my dad says, "Oh, that wasn't me." (My stepmom warns him and he turns it down or off before the po-po gets there.)
Wait.
You are fantasizing about being asked to turn your music down, since it hasn't happened yet.
Then you are fantasizing tbat the neighbors will not be asked to do so.
So from these fantasies, you imply that you are persecuted.
Dick.
"Is today the day I get a knock at my door and get told that if I don't turn off my believer's music that I will be arrested?"
Why? Do you live in Afghanistan? Unfortunately, that might happen there. But you are safe here - unless the music is obnoxiously loud. But that goes for any music, you dumb cunt.
Oh yes, fundies are so oppressed, dear christ, why just yesterday my neighbor was drug into the streets and beaten by police for looking at a cross....
Why is it always about them, nothing remotely close to affecting them takes place and fundies scream 'oh my god, my religion is being oppressed'
"On days that I do my major house cleaning "
Why bother, you're getting raptured. I'm going to be here for another 20 or so years, and I don't do any major (or minor) house cleaning!!
Eh? So nobody has actually complained, you've just worked yourself into a frenzy because you think they might do one day?
I'm guessing that you've complained about your neighbour's rock music and the police told you to shut up.
If my neighbors play their music too loud (which is all the time, and it's like Mexican polka or something) and it's REALLY getting on my nerves (which isn't TOO often) I turn my speakers to where the noise is coming from, and blast Dark Tranquility :-)
Your evidence that it's "starting to get bad" is that you have some crazy dipshit paranoid fear, not that anything actually happened? Well, you're on the right website, that's for sure.
ummm. it's the music that bothers others, it's the volume, just turn it down a notch and you will be fine. By the by, your not persecuted, stop pretending you are it gets old
It sounds like kelly here actually believes there is a law against "worship music".
She probably thinks the Establishment Clause, which prevents things like the display of a Nativity scene on government property, also pertains to private individuals.
It's not an uncommon myth among Christians who want to feel persecuted.
So you don't mind if I play my Manson at full blast while I clean my home? Or would you be on the phone to the cops?
Just go flog yourself and pour salt in the wounds, it will fill your masochistic needs without pestering anyone else.
Down, not off. DOWN. that's what they asked kids to do in the dorms, whether they were playing rock music or classical. Sheesh, some people are never happy unless they can find something to cry and whine about like a bunch of spoiled five-year-olds.
Oh, gosh, you poor, persecuted woman! How terrible life must be, going to church on Sundays, attending Wednesday night Bible studies, sending your kids to Bible camp, having Christian bookstores where you can buy your favorite books and music, celebrating Christmas with a manger scene in your front yard, praying and studying the Bible every day, and just generally having the complete freedom to worship God however, wherever, and whenever you please. I feel so sorry for you, never knowing if your neighbors might bitch at you about your excessively loud music and total inconsideration for other people's feelings. What a sad, miserable, scary life you must lead! Why, it must be almost as bad as when Christians persecuted, tortured, and killed anyone they suspected of being a heretic.
On second thought, I don't feel sorry for you, you self-centered, useless twit.
IF someone complains, it's probably going to be about the volume, not what you are playing.
I guess that you're an American, Kelly. A majority of the population in the US of A are believers, so you have nothing to worry about; it's still a crazy thought. A majority of the population in Sweden are non-believers, but you're still free to play whatever awful music you want, as long as you don't disturb your neighbors.
Its been 4 years now, have you been arrested yet? No? Funny that.
But then, I'm sure that you've found something else to worry about. "My toilet's clogged! Its the Endtimes!!!"
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