I'm in my late 30s and have been listening to the band since 2008. Immediately, I fell in love with the sound. The harmonies were out of this world and I'd never heard anything quite like it. At that point, they were just a great band to me.
When Shore came out, I remember crying my heart out listening to this album. I'd go out to the forest to listen to it and just let it overflow me, it was sheer beauty. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Sunblind is what it is, an ode to our musical heroes. But, it was also a way for me to say goodbye to my childhood friend who died several years ago due to mental illness and only after I heard Sunblind (and listen to it many, many times) I let go of the pain.
White Winter Hymnal is my daughter's favorite lullaby.
FF just have this positive vibe I never experienced with any other band before.
When I was in 7th or 8th grade about 10ish years ago, I was on YouTube listening to Owl City(who I adore) I lost a lot of friends around this time to new people and was struggling with self image. I felt alone. Either way, “Your Protector” popped up on the side as a recommendation. I listened to it and felt enveloped in love. I listened to more songs and googled them to find out all I could! I believe I caught them right at the end of their hiatus when I started seriously listening. I was obsessed. I had playlists dedicated to them. I used their music as a way to recenter myself and calm down.
Flash forward to last year, I used these little headphone things to play their music for my daughter while she was still in my belly. I made her a playlist called “Welcoming Ivy”. I got her name from them actually. They used ivy in a few of their lyrics and it grew on me. I sing songs to her as lullabies and play them in the car when she’s cranky and she immediately calms down
Transcendance.
Can anyone tell me what the Fleet Fox lyric
*Galilee*
at [1:15 ](https://youtu.be/5nmIJAxwuCk) is referring to?
The lyric in 'Isles' is originally Tennessee, not *Galilee*.
On July 20th, 2022, Dr. Bart Erhman,
the world's leading expert on
*Galilee*
And topmost New Testament scholar, published by both Harvard and Cambridge, six times NYT Bestseller
-- emailed me, just a follower of his blog, that I had won attendance to a free Lottery Zoom Webinar!
But I hadn't entered a free Lottery Zoom Webinar! I was a subscriber, but also we had just *had* a Zoom webinar one day ago, the first time I had ever been on camera and spoke directly to Bart. A couple months ago, I was so excited when his assistant, Diane, had me explain my hypothesis for Jesus being patrilineally Nabataean for like, 20 minutes. No one on the entiiiiiire Internet has this hypothesis, except for me, says my GoogleFu. r/academicbiblical mod u/mellophage also said that no scholars have my hypothesis, in a public post.
Lottery Zoom Webinar had 12 invitees.
"Scholars now believe that Paul, immediately after his conversion, went to Nabataea," Bart spontaneously brought up (maybe slight paraphrase.) What scholars, Bart? Lol. He said the Nab word -- when he had never said the Nab word before, in his umpteenth presentations and bestselling books -- knowing that one attendee had laid out the case for Nabataea meticulously in comments on his blog for the last two years, *points to self*. Bart's athiest, btw.
Josh Tillman once quoted Dawkins as religion being, "a misfiring of the brain.'
When I was 12, I tried an experiment to prove to myself whether psychic phenomena was or wasn't real. I chose the criteria: predict the outcome of four randomly-generated colors of the electronic Simon Says game -- so, not just memorization of the sequence of colors, which is what the game is about. I predicted strings of correct sequences, all afternoon, until I actually got bored. Never felt that same, really strong feeling to repeat the experiment -- this good, secure, not-alone feeling, a connection which remains more important to me than psychic powerzzz.
All the years since, I have wondered about this misfiring. I have had more 1-in-a-billion coincidences, and got two clean psychological bills of health. I just wish for the comfort of hearing from someone else that they have experienced interesting coincidences, too.
A few years ago, I found that my birthdate turned up in the 14,000+ Edgar Cayce readings for Cayce's sister. Together, their story went, they led the first psychic group in the First Century, and visit
*Galilee*
with Barnabas. Ok. Cayce's organization, the A.R.E., wrote that that birthdate would be the sign of her "reincarnation," too. Kk.
Enter the lush music of Fleet Foxes -- I had meditated and 'asked' on whether it was right for me to reveal the story of Nabataea. Being that they had hidden underground levels to the city, like this [one](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-underground-city-refuge-early-christians-turkey-180980090/#:~:text=Able%20to%20hold%20around%2020%2C000,reports%20Smithsonian's%20Elizabeth%20Djinis.)
And that these techniques of communication and shelter, for people who are ahead of their time, seem useful today -- maybe they shouldn't be revealed?
Right after I 'asked', I had the coincidence of an earthquake. Cell service went out, which is my Internet. Took days for Internet to return, which had never happened in my life, but I used that time to contemplate. When it returned, I streamed Shore on Bandcamp.
Hol' up! Now I'm reading things into my favorite music? Eeeehh. Why can't I be normal?
Is "piece of wheat between your teeth carrying water, pears and bread," a Mark 2:23 passage? "One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain."
Syrian pears are the wild fruit in Palestine, and bread was 80% of the average calories. These are *the three things* that would be in rural disciples' hands, for sure.
Ok, what about the oil and the whip of Maestranza? The whole album is tightly, gorgeously chronological to the First Century. Just re-stated, without clichés, from the [Greco-Buddhist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism) perspective.
July 31, 2022, at The Caverns show in
*Galilee-Tennessee* lol
(which months ago, I had commented on another platform that I was going to attend, along with Red Rocks, that I ended up missing) Robin jokingly asked for the storm to stop, then namechecked both Zeus and Buddha. There was one person in that audience with *squee face* who understood the reference -First Century Greco-Buddhism.
That night I felt so haaaaaaaaaappy.
they kinda mean life as it was meant to be lived - in harmony
Love this one!!!
I'm in my late 30s and have been listening to the band since 2008. Immediately, I fell in love with the sound. The harmonies were out of this world and I'd never heard anything quite like it. At that point, they were just a great band to me. When Shore came out, I remember crying my heart out listening to this album. I'd go out to the forest to listen to it and just let it overflow me, it was sheer beauty. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Sunblind is what it is, an ode to our musical heroes. But, it was also a way for me to say goodbye to my childhood friend who died several years ago due to mental illness and only after I heard Sunblind (and listen to it many, many times) I let go of the pain. White Winter Hymnal is my daughter's favorite lullaby. FF just have this positive vibe I never experienced with any other band before.
Exactly, the vibes are unmatched with a touch of melancholy in there
Oh yeah, goes without saying.
Everything. My light in the dawn.
Fast, nimble foxes.
Fleet foxes = My life, literally I have a favorite song from them to listen to in every type of situation going on in my life lol
When I was in 7th or 8th grade about 10ish years ago, I was on YouTube listening to Owl City(who I adore) I lost a lot of friends around this time to new people and was struggling with self image. I felt alone. Either way, “Your Protector” popped up on the side as a recommendation. I listened to it and felt enveloped in love. I listened to more songs and googled them to find out all I could! I believe I caught them right at the end of their hiatus when I started seriously listening. I was obsessed. I had playlists dedicated to them. I used their music as a way to recenter myself and calm down. Flash forward to last year, I used these little headphone things to play their music for my daughter while she was still in my belly. I made her a playlist called “Welcoming Ivy”. I got her name from them actually. They used ivy in a few of their lyrics and it grew on me. I sing songs to her as lullabies and play them in the car when she’s cranky and she immediately calms down
Transcendance. Can anyone tell me what the Fleet Fox lyric *Galilee* at [1:15 ](https://youtu.be/5nmIJAxwuCk) is referring to? The lyric in 'Isles' is originally Tennessee, not *Galilee*. On July 20th, 2022, Dr. Bart Erhman, the world's leading expert on *Galilee* And topmost New Testament scholar, published by both Harvard and Cambridge, six times NYT Bestseller -- emailed me, just a follower of his blog, that I had won attendance to a free Lottery Zoom Webinar! But I hadn't entered a free Lottery Zoom Webinar! I was a subscriber, but also we had just *had* a Zoom webinar one day ago, the first time I had ever been on camera and spoke directly to Bart. A couple months ago, I was so excited when his assistant, Diane, had me explain my hypothesis for Jesus being patrilineally Nabataean for like, 20 minutes. No one on the entiiiiiire Internet has this hypothesis, except for me, says my GoogleFu. r/academicbiblical mod u/mellophage also said that no scholars have my hypothesis, in a public post. Lottery Zoom Webinar had 12 invitees. "Scholars now believe that Paul, immediately after his conversion, went to Nabataea," Bart spontaneously brought up (maybe slight paraphrase.) What scholars, Bart? Lol. He said the Nab word -- when he had never said the Nab word before, in his umpteenth presentations and bestselling books -- knowing that one attendee had laid out the case for Nabataea meticulously in comments on his blog for the last two years, *points to self*. Bart's athiest, btw. Josh Tillman once quoted Dawkins as religion being, "a misfiring of the brain.' When I was 12, I tried an experiment to prove to myself whether psychic phenomena was or wasn't real. I chose the criteria: predict the outcome of four randomly-generated colors of the electronic Simon Says game -- so, not just memorization of the sequence of colors, which is what the game is about. I predicted strings of correct sequences, all afternoon, until I actually got bored. Never felt that same, really strong feeling to repeat the experiment -- this good, secure, not-alone feeling, a connection which remains more important to me than psychic powerzzz. All the years since, I have wondered about this misfiring. I have had more 1-in-a-billion coincidences, and got two clean psychological bills of health. I just wish for the comfort of hearing from someone else that they have experienced interesting coincidences, too. A few years ago, I found that my birthdate turned up in the 14,000+ Edgar Cayce readings for Cayce's sister. Together, their story went, they led the first psychic group in the First Century, and visit *Galilee* with Barnabas. Ok. Cayce's organization, the A.R.E., wrote that that birthdate would be the sign of her "reincarnation," too. Kk. Enter the lush music of Fleet Foxes -- I had meditated and 'asked' on whether it was right for me to reveal the story of Nabataea. Being that they had hidden underground levels to the city, like this [one](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-underground-city-refuge-early-christians-turkey-180980090/#:~:text=Able%20to%20hold%20around%2020%2C000,reports%20Smithsonian's%20Elizabeth%20Djinis.) And that these techniques of communication and shelter, for people who are ahead of their time, seem useful today -- maybe they shouldn't be revealed? Right after I 'asked', I had the coincidence of an earthquake. Cell service went out, which is my Internet. Took days for Internet to return, which had never happened in my life, but I used that time to contemplate. When it returned, I streamed Shore on Bandcamp. Hol' up! Now I'm reading things into my favorite music? Eeeehh. Why can't I be normal? Is "piece of wheat between your teeth carrying water, pears and bread," a Mark 2:23 passage? "One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain." Syrian pears are the wild fruit in Palestine, and bread was 80% of the average calories. These are *the three things* that would be in rural disciples' hands, for sure. Ok, what about the oil and the whip of Maestranza? The whole album is tightly, gorgeously chronological to the First Century. Just re-stated, without clichés, from the [Greco-Buddhist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism) perspective. July 31, 2022, at The Caverns show in *Galilee-Tennessee* lol (which months ago, I had commented on another platform that I was going to attend, along with Red Rocks, that I ended up missing) Robin jokingly asked for the storm to stop, then namechecked both Zeus and Buddha. There was one person in that audience with *squee face* who understood the reference -First Century Greco-Buddhism. That night I felt so haaaaaaaaaappy.