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  1. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    Must have been very hard to go through that at that age. Thank God he protected you through it and you found faith later! But just to clarify, the video you quoted isn't really my testimony. It's based on New Testament accounts of Jesus raising the daughter of Jairus in Mark 5:21–43, Matthew...
  2. ChrisTillinen

    Master Remove the Cord and Break the Golden bowl

    I'll just add that the issue with white text against partially white background seems to be less of a problem when I watch the video directly on YouTube so that it plays in larger size.
  3. ChrisTillinen

    Master Remove the Cord and Break the Golden bowl

    I like the poem very much! But I think the video could be improved in some ways. (Hardly surprising because this is your first poetry video, unless I'm mistaken.) The biggest thing is that the music is too loud in comparison to the reader's voice. It's hard to hear the words. So adjusting the...
  4. ChrisTillinen

    The hadron collider

    I don't know how common this is in other countries, but at least in Finland, quite many people actually call duct tape "Jesus tape". I guess it's because it can save you in many difficult situations, but one could also find a rationale for that name from Colossians 1:17.
  5. ChrisTillinen

    Salvation Amidst the Waters

    In the mist of early morning hours On the Sea of Galilee a boat sails The roaring waves show their raging powers Rattling the boat's sturdy cedary base These stormy waters are indeed a theater Of quiet hope and life's endless drama plays Dread of harsh elements makes many a man falter Yet here...
  6. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    See my reply in the private message. Given how I've made 10 videos based on my old poems within two weeks, it just seems unfair to others if I post all of them separately. That would push down recent threads started by others too quickly. But when I write new poems, I plan to post them...
  7. ChrisTillinen

    Dad jokes

    I've heard that the Big Bang theory was proposed by a Catholic priest (Georges Lemaître). But it's hardly surprising that they didn't tie the knot. Neither scientific theories nor Catholic priests can marry.
  8. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    Another one. I had an earlier version that would have probably gone way overboard in the creepiness of its audiovisuals (reminiscent of a horror movie). Perhaps this version is at just the right level in that regard.
  9. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    Here's a new one again.
  10. ChrisTillinen

    Heaven? Not Interested.

    I get a sense of both restoration and going beyond anything that has been so far. It won't be just a return to Eden as it was. Seems to me it would be hard to think that 1 Corinthians 15:35-56 is describing just restoration.
  11. ChrisTillinen

    Heaven? Not Interested.

    It may be a mistake to draw a very stark distinction between "this world" and "heaven" and then leave it at that. There's a sense in which "this world" represents everything that is going to pass away, but it is also true that in another sense, "the world" as the current creation of God is not...
  12. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    Another one again.
  13. ChrisTillinen

    Dad jokes

    So there's at least one context in which mathematics is more fruitful than physics or chemistry.
  14. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    And another one. Had to switch to a different reader's voice for this one. The deep male voice would have sounded too odd here.
  15. ChrisTillinen

    Dad jokes

    Is the minimum wage intended just for really small mothers?
  16. ChrisTillinen

    What is Your Guilty Pleasure Today? (Or Any Other Day.) :)

    Today I ate 250 grams (almost 9 ounces) of a dessert that consisted of some kind of mikly-creamy mix, crushed oreos, licorice sauce, and some other ingredients.
  17. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    I made another one. I think the video/animation background is a nice addition in comparison to my previous videos that had still pictures as a background.
  18. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    Don't know which other site you used, but I guess TTS is text to speech. MP3 is a good format to use, but many other formats should work as well. There are free tools for conversion to different formats anyway if that's needed.
  19. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    Hmm, that's odd. I was able to use Elevenlabs without giving a credit card number and without even registering (even though I later did register and pay the monthly fee just to get a bigger quota). If you just go to elevenlabs.io do you get the same view as in this screenshot (see attachment...
  20. ChrisTillinen

    Poetry Videos

    ElevenLabs (the one I use) is free for very limited usage (something like 1000 characters per day) even without registration. Then there's some fixed number of characters (perhaps 10000) that can be used with free registration. Also they give 30000 characters per month for a small monthly fee...