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I noticed a lot of AGSers have some Midi Maker Studio Thingy that they use to make the music for the games.

I've googled it, but the best I got was some stuwpid trial version that won't let me mess with it anymore after a couple of days.

Is there some site that will let me download it for free (because I'm a cheap bastard)?

seeing as to how this forum is extremely active, and the members often have differentiating religious opinions, I would like to discuss my favorite book of the New Testament: Revelation

Or rather, the visions John saw within it.



What interests me most is the four horsemen (the first four scrolls), a conquerer, a troublemaker, a plague-bringer, and a death-summoner.



Genises says that the Earth was created in 6 days, and God rested on the 7th. However, it's scientifically proven that the Earth took millions of years to create.

So, if millions of years is simply 6 days for God, then when John says that his visions happen over a period of 7 years, who's to say that he doesn't mean that it's a chain of events that were set into place since the Earth's very creation?

Back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
If the Earth has been doomed since the beginning, there should obviously be historical moments that fit the signs John describes.
As such, the four horsemen could be four historical figures who everyone knows and recognizes for their achievements.

For example: The first horsemen could have been Napolean.

Revelation says that the first horsemen is a conqueror, and that he rode a white horse, and that he conquers a vast majority of the lands around him, he carries a bow, and given to him was a crown.

Napolean was a conqueror who rode a white horse, who conquered most of Europe, and took the crown from the Pope. The bow could be symbolic of long-range weaponry, as Napolean was known to create wars between nations without ever getting France involved.


The second horsemen is conflict on Earth. A red horse whose rider causes nations to fight with one another and carries a mighty sword.

Hitler started the second World War, the Nazi symbol is red and looks a bit like a horse to me... And the sword may represent political strength, which he had.
Of course, I'm not so sure about that one, but still....



I would like to know your opinions on the book of Revelation, and any ideas you may have as to the many things John sees.

In the General Discussion forum, there are a lot of silly topics, but hopefully no one minds a serious one, as well.


I've noticed a lot of Christians have been claiming things in the Lord's name that I seriously doubt the good Lord had anything to do with.

All due to a little thing called 'free will'. The ability to think for ourselves and choose our own actions.


The best example I can think of is the Youth Group at my church. They went on a missionary trip to Nevada, and came back some few weeks later to tell us all about it in a speech.

They told of how SATAN kicked them out of a park for practising religion in public.

They also spoke of how GOD allowed them to find another church that would help them.

How GOD informed the park director that it was a city park, and they could do whatever they wanted there.

How SATAN still wouldn't let them.


And they ended this speech with, "We knew we were doing the right thing because we were being prosecuted."


Now, while my entire church gives them a standing ovation and a few women behind me are crying because it's apparently some beautiful religious moment, I'm muttering angrily to myself and staying firmly planted in my seat.


I hate to tell them this, but (believe it or not) God isn't responsible for every little good thing, bad thing, mishap, convenience, inconvenience, or event that happens to you in your life.


(my grandmother would kill me if she read that)