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I've had three jobs over a number of years. I've never really had any huge ambitions. I'm currently not working and I'm trying to figure out whether I should go back to school or look for a job. 3. They leave songwriting to the songwriters I'm not saying artists shouldn't write their own...

Plus my dad is an amateur musician, and back in the 70s he'd travel around and play the keyboard with different groups. I can't remember a time when we didn't have a piano in the house.

Like I said, everyone has a different taste. Good, don't bother, they aren't worth your time. Mid 20s. Maybe I had a taste for that sort of music 'cause my parents lived through the age of hippies.

And by the way, this is all coming from someone who went through a huge Beatles craze in high school. And not just their early stuff. While everyone in my school was listening to Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers, I was listening to the whole Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band album.

That's fine. Everyone has different taste. I actually don't mind some autotune if it fits the song. In Japan, autotune, when it's called for, is believed to make a song better. And I've heard these girls sing live, they sound just as good. That's another thing. 2. More Depth and Layers There...

I can give you 7 things Japanese music does way better than American music does nowadays. 1. In Japan, melody comes first Americans have gotten really sloppy in creating melodies. I've heard from someone who knows music theory really well, and they said that a lot of Japanese music is much...

Problem is, in America, talent no longer matters. It costs $500,000 to break a new act into the industry, not to mention it's incredibly risky. So the industry just finds a pretty face that may have sung a couple times before on a contest, even if they weren't that good. Then they literally...

That may be true, but who really listens to their music anymore? I'm talking about nowadays. And you might be surprised. Just because it's a different country doesn't automatically mean it's not better.

I've already tried another church. And I am aware of the difference I make, by just bothering everyone else. Seriously. Whenever I'm with anyone, even my family, I always get the sense that I'm just bothering them, unless they want me to do something for them. And like I said, I've only known...

Japanese pop music. I don't care if it's not in English. It's at least creative compared to the tasteless drivel we have here.

I like translating J-pop songs. I can't stand the trash and garbage we have in America. I'm also something of a geek and an intellectual. Unfortunately, I don't have any close friends, no matter how much and how hard I've tried. And my family and I have little to nothing in common.

I always go looking for what I can do for him. That's why I go, otherwise I wouldn't. Looking for what I can do for him doesn't mean I have to be happy about it. In fact I don't like volunteering most of the time, but I force myself to do it because that's what Christians do. What I like is...

I do. But mine are unusual and I don't have anyone to share them with.

Problem is, I only do it 'cause I'm supposed to. Otherwise, I have no motivation. I've sought God and fulfillment from him plenty of times before, and it's never lasted.

I'm not allowed to, according to the bible.

I'm talking about pretending to be happy in church and knowing you're faking it.

I already tried. It made me feel like I was lying. And 90% of sins are committed because someone wants to be happy. So it's obvious to me that wanting happiness is bad for you and others.

If you were to ask me what an ideal Christian looks like, I'd probably say this. Someone who lives like a monk/nun. Someone who knows the bible backwards. Someone who spends their waking hours in prayer and goes about doing good deeds during the day before returning to solitude at night. Or...

Bottom line, as I said before, God doesn't exist to make you happy, he exists to glorify himself. My happiness and yours are irrelevant. There can only be one or the other. My happiness or God's. And God must always come first. Besides, happiness is superficial and lightweight. Trying to be...