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"Truth is love, truth creates, truth gives inspiration. Distortion deceives, distortion destroys, distortion attacks."
"Art involves distortion, it involves hyperbole, it involves exaggeration, but you can't just randomly distort something and call it art."
"It's fascinating how something that is a positive idea and a positive moral philosophy how that gets distorted in its retelling and then becomes something much poorer."
"The dark voice said the usual things but this time something was different...as he drove down the road, the reality became distorted, the air around the vehicle began to flicker and spirits began to appear around the car."
"Permanent Distortion: How the financial markets abandoned the real economy forever."
"It's important to express ourselves because you'll get some rewriting of history takes place."
"Social media was supposed to be a mirror for society... but it became a fun house mirror."
"You do not have the power to twist or distort reality without it snapping back at you."
"It's honestly heartbreaking to see beliefs meant to promote purity and goodness distorted into something just so profoundly evil and abusive."
"War is peace, um this is a statistical version of that right mostly peaceful is uh a way to ignore the violence right now um ignorance is remind me freedom is slavery is the second one and ignorance is strength."
"They all take a concept that we associate with childhood, innocence, and security, and they contort it into something horrifying."
"These are the ironies and paradoxes that can arise when we define any broad group in a distorted way."
"We're prone to fantasy due to our history of distorting reality."
"You cannot take a secular doctrine and combine it with scripture without distorting and perverting the gospel."
"It's just really almost surreal to listen to the media arm completely given an entirely distorted view of how the world actually works."
"It just has a really cool character to it... it's like almost like another distortion pedal in the way that I use it."
"The profit in the United States... distorts our health care system."
"Regular people who are in the dark are given this fun house mirror version of what this show really is."
"We are seeing ourselves reflected in the media as if in a funhouse mirror."
"Lust is the thing that takes what God called natural and distorts it, contorts it, manipulates it."
"The camps distorted the Soviet economy, taking far longer than it should have to become mechanized." - Anne Applebaum
"The ego's job is to tarnish the messenger, the teacher, or the mentor."
"This is a complete perversion of our faith, a complete perversion of what we understand with sex relationships identity."
"He literally can't hear the music to his left, and thanks to the distortion neither can you."
"Oh, thank you, yeah I, these are, you, these are, where's my glasses, yeah I don't know why it's distorted, I can't, I couldn't begin to tell you why it's distorted."
"It lit literalizes and materializes spiritual things to the point that they don't even resemble what they originally are."
"The universe is not trying to eliminate all of those; the universe is trying to eliminate the distortions that are stopping you from having what you actually want."
"Every map projection has distortion in either the direction, shape, area, or distance."
"The problem with splitting is that it distorts how you see the world."
"When you boost the amplitude of a signal, the sound gets louder, but when it exceeds the maximal range, it gets distorted."
"The girl decides to try to stop the heat with her cold energy, but because of the shock she has experienced, her energy is distorted, and she cannot create a human barrier."
"It's like they're talking to me through a tin can."
"The idea of being um interesting, the idea of being you know um desirable has been so distorted over the past generation and a half."
"The animation was part 2D, part 3D with this super dope picture distortion in the background and faces that looked hand-drawn."
"Amp is one of my favorite distortion units in Ableton."
"Dynamic tube is one of those less commonly used ones but it's great for adding a very nice kind of harmonic pleasant distortion to any sort of sound."
"God created love; the enemy perverted it."
"It's surprisingly easy to distort."
"Alleviate distortion by adding more seams rather than massaging UVs."
"The internet warps us into false realities where we can spend hours trapped inside of it."
"They twist it and they use it as justification for achieving their own selfish interests."
"If your topology is too low in resolution, you will have a greater amount of distortion."
"...when it comes right down to it nobody actually prefers to have their image distorted."
"Memories are odd, every time that you reflect on one you skew it just a bit."
"Desire really is something profoundly spiritual... It can be distorted."
"The truth can get distorted when we focus on who's winning an argument and who's losing an argument."
"Valve amplifiers have a raw sound that will drive into distortion easily."
"I love it, you know, lenses can distort the space quite a bit."
"Revenge can distort even the most righteous intentions."
"If you do not understand the distortions that you're living inside of, you will never find your way out."
"There's certain characteristics that distortion and saturation and all those electronics add to music."
"The distortion that it brings is really summarizing and then it has two really cool switches like- kill."
"The double mirror: introspection tainted by brainwashed reality."
"Gravitational lensing bends light's path, creating distorted views of objects near a black hole."
"I will say with full confidence that is an absolute lie. No, your thought did not come true. There is no connection to that. But I can't sit here and convince you. You're gonna have to come to the realization that I am feeding distortions."
"Basically any cognitive, psychological distortion can become a defense mechanisms."
"There's this distortion that happens because of the lies people tell about their businesses."
"It's just like having on any processor dried a wet signal you have it completely dry and you have then a distortion and you just sneak it in towards the wet."
"When there's a hyper-emphasis on anything, it becomes this weird sort of mutated monster that it was never meant to be."
"...the devil seeks to pervert it and to spoil the gospel."
"The reason he did it is because he found himself playing Fender amps, twins perhaps, in his favorite bars and clubs and it was just too loud. He couldn't crank him. He didn't get the distortion he wanted because he had to play quietly."
"These could even be old friends ex like uh this could have been an old friend that was a distorted feminine or family."
"No map projection will maintain all distances; if you have to do other things to help minimize that distortion in that."
"Complementarianism which we believe to be the glorious revelation of God can be distorted into male superiority."
"That's probably the best sounding, most realistic slight distortion pedal I've ever used."
"Submission is a hard one for some of us to hear and even want to wrap our mind around the idea of doing something like this because of how the world has distorted and how sinful Fallen people have distorted it."
"Mischaracterization by the media is common."
"You can crank that amp up into the power station and boom, there's your distortion."
"The Quran can never be distorted."
"The root of idolatry is the exchange of God's glory for something less."
"Idolatry is powered by the devil."
"Every aspect of our life not formed by God's love can become distorted."
"Now I know how to make records loud and avoid those distortions."
"Managing loudness in mastering and preventing unpleasant distortion is a game."
"For drums, adding a soft Distortion can give each hit more definition and punch."
"The biblical truth of penal substitution is there by both distorted and shrunk."
"You want it all distorted all those values you want it all distorted."
"The gravity near the black hole is so powerful that it stretches and warps everything around it."
"If people didn't have that balance within them and you didn't have that balance within you, there's an energy then where there's like an imbalance and that's why there's cracks in the foundation where distortion can creep in."
"The magic of anti-semitism is that all the facts are reinterpreted as showing the opposite."
"I would have to like pause and count to ten and then really kind of fact check it like okay is this true or am I just basing this off of like a cognitive distortion that's making me believe that it's true for myself."
"The devil wants to distort the human person by making it something ugly and Despicable."
"The natural realm began to decay, began to die. If that is true, then when we are looking back through that wall to try to go back in time to determine, for example, how old the universe is, we’re looking back through that wall that may distort our observation."
"The PV 5150 Mesa Boogie dual rectifier and Marshall jcm 800, each crafting within the depths of their preamps a high gain distortion sign which captured the Sonic imagination of generations and multiple genres of metalheads."
"Distortion makes you hear harmonics of the sound higher up."
"Jealousy will set up a funhouse in your head. It's a whole bunch of distorted mirrors."
"Time continued to slow down again and again I could hear this horrible unwinding noise like a spring creaking against itself with each slowdown."
"This is a really good way to show off map distortion."
"Someone here had some sort of distorted view of you or they really wanted other people to have some sort of distorted view of you."
"He's seeking to distort the character of the God who has given the Word."
"We were becoming a distortion of ourselves over the past 10 or 12 years, beginning with the unfortunate circumstances of the 2000 election where the Florida count was suspended and the Supreme Court justices appointed George Bush as president."
"You cannot account for this level of distortion if you just assume that the gravity is being generated by the stars and the gas."
"The rise of the Ku Klux Klan inspired by the 1915 epic film 'Birth of a Nation' presented a very distorted white supremacist view of post-civil war history."
"The narcissist's idealization is like a Hall of Mirrors, distorted and unreal."
"The rat actually kills a bit of the low end, you know. It kills the sound you got."
"If that's just not enough distortion for you, there is a fairly new plugin called Destructor."
"...this tells us that the sound coming out of our eq plug-in is already clipping it's already distorting our incoming signal was peaking at negative 0.6 but as soon as we boosted the eq on one plugin we're now clipping as you can see by this red indicator light."
"You see that it comes into consciousness, you can feel at multiple levels that it's distorted and there's delusion around it, and yet you also see yourself sometimes acting on it."
"It feels more confident, is able to play louder, and there's less distortion at higher volumes compared to some of the other low power 2 amps that I recently reviewed."
"It's across the whole space. There's a competition that creates distortions based on partial truths or based on partial value sets."
"The next problem and probably one of the biggest problems shooting at ultra wide angle is distortion."
"Sometimes we take a story and begin to twist it around in order to find something to say and miss the main point."
"The scale and the mirror sometimes can lie to us and that can really get in your head."
"Trauma teaches us twisted things and lies about God."
"Most automatic thoughts are negative and sometimes our Mac thoughts are distorted however sometimes they are accurate but the conclusion drawn from the thought is distorted."
"Wherever anything moves from within ourselves, it can be distorted."
"It is dreadful how people twist what they read - and reveal their own minds."
"You want to sound like Jimmy Page? Start turning down your distortion pedals. Turn down your gain pedals."
"Now, if you wanted to do something like this for hair or, you know, like a bunch of trees or things like that, you might want to distort all of these too."
"...because the camera is gonna suck 10 away, so you're gonna end up seeming like your normal self..."
"...complex trauma takes your beautiful brain and it uses it to distort everything in order to survive."
"twisting what we think of as reality"
"Listen to me, I call this a spiritual reality Distortion field."
"Social media got people's heads [__] twisted."
"Everything's really fucked up, but the song was already really fucked up."
"Reality in a world is no longer real."
"This feels like actual textbook definition of gaslighting cuz it's like what world did you warp me into and it works."
"Once your intellect is identified with something, your perception gets so distorted, so distorted."
"Adding distortion to your bass sound...distortion can also really help to add perceived loudness which is really important to getting productions that pop."
"The more than rational distortion, the fiction that results from feeling."
"It is a distorted echo of the true myth."
"Everything that you distort snaps back and often magnified, and everyone knows that."
"Everything that occurs in the Physical Realm is distorted, transient, sometimes periodic, and grotesque reflection of what really happens in the spiritual realm."
"If an angel materializes and changes the gospel, let him go to hell. If we distort the gospel, let us go to hell. That's the seriousness of it."
"Top tip: Create a compound clip to avoid distortion."
"The longer I looked at them, the more distorted they got."
"Leviathan is a twisting serpent... it twists communication so you'll have been willfully misunderstood, belittled, marginalized."
"It's almost as if the glass disappears a little bit over on the sides or the edges."
"The Lena removes a set of distortions and artifacts that weren't so in your face."
"If you hear a distortion on playback of a record it usually means you've got a problem in your setup... there's more distortion added by other elements in an audio system."
"The forest around me morphed and distorted with each loop, taking on sinister undertones."
"What I really love about the lurks is it's the purity of the tone the dirty channel has all the distortion you need and it's not overly distorted."
"They tend to exaggerate and twist your words or even just share frustrated or private thoughts that they really shouldn't be sharing with someone else to make it seem like you are the bad guy."
"That's why it's got into this level you know the Letter stories and a lot of Truth has been Rewritten so much so that now this is where it's got into and in the next 50 years if care is not taken the generation that's gonna come will not know what the truth is."
"History is like a big game of telephone, where each retelling alters the story."
"...if you play a distorted power chord, something magical happens."
"They twisted everything to suit their own agenda."
"Human beings have a capacity to dread the truth, to distort facts when they don't fit our predefined notions of how the world should work."
"The prosperity gospel distorts the biblical gospel by making the good news all about you getting more stuff. Material goods are not at all attached to the true gospel."
"An old console you can push the hell out of it and distort and it'll distort in a great way."
"President Hoover's misquoted Prohibition statement: 'Noble experiment' distorted from 'great social and economic experiment'."
"The line between reality and the disturbing world of the film he's working on kind of starts to blur"
"The teachings seem so good on the surface but when they are dug into they distort the true character of God in such a detrimental way."
"The world has completely distorted what a wife is to be and not to be."
"Exaggeration is what sets the animation world apart from reality."
"Spiritual abuse happens when churches take the Bible and twist it to condemn and go against the core teaching of the Bible, loving others."
"It was as if the barriers between reality and Nightmare were breaking down."
"That is the story of how Christianity came into being and the ultimate turning upside down of Christ's original message, cynically co-opted for political gain."
"For movies like 'Mad Max,' 'Mortal Engines,' 'Godzilla vs. Kong,' 'Justice League,' the SN cut, all that distortion that is like in those movies is made with boxes like this."
"Automate the output level down as you add drive in or else you're just going to clip."
"The distortion is where the magic is at. Guitar amps and microphones routinely use tubes in their circuit design to make them sound better, sound awesome, so the distortion is good."
"It's really all too common for information to get distorted as it makes its way up the organizational chain."
"Everything else is just like kind of just extra sauce on top, distortion of course."
"Tubes make a higher second-order distortion which tends to actually be more pleasing to the ear, it's known for providing that musicality that an old tube tends to have or well, in this case, a new tube amp that sense a flow of liquid-like music reproduction."
"Modern-day Society has really contorted the definition of loyalty."
"In the end, the further away from the original source you go the higher the chances that the meaning of the original has been twisted or misinterpreted, whether intentionally or unintentionally."
"Why? Because you've found it in a few verses and you're going to concoct a whole theology based on that. Can you see how that's a distortion of the biblical message?"
"Really twisted, he's just doesn't have."
"It's like those Japanese video games that are set in America, and it's like this weird distorted vision of what it's like here."
"Every false Doctrine is a truth Twisted."
"False memory can describe a range of different errors in your memory."
"Our understanding is twisted, simple, our understanding is perverted."
"Cults take something that's meant for good and twist it towards their own narrative."
"Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christianity with American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America's constitutional democracy."
"History can be buried, and it can also be erased."
"We all live inside an invisible but ever-present mental box, a perception box. This box distorts our perceptions of everything and everyone around us."
"The concept of Elite capture helps to explain how public resources such as knowledge, attention, and values get distorted and distributed by our power structures."
"A dark vortex could surround you, leading to a twisted version of your house."
"Harmonic distortion... at 86 dB at one meter, distortion is pretty low."
"As soon as you do that actually, you generate tons of distortion."
"So, how does this actually sound? First off, the sub has great DSP limiters. I found you could really crank this one up without creating excess distortion."
"The narcissist reframes your failures as unmitigated and alloy successes, distorting your self-image and weakening you."
"While the former tried to distort the facts, the latter's spirit had to manifest to an investigator for the real story to finally be told."
"The internet is just taking [__] and by the time it gets filtered down, it's a whole different story."
"If we wanted to take all of space-time and squeeze it onto the blackboard, we're going to have to distort it pretty badly."
"Man has such a predilection for systems and Abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally. He's ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic."
"Things taken out of context can be made to look like almost anything."
"The use of different camera angles to really show her distortion in this moment, I think it really does convey to the audience her distortion."
"A distorted reflection of reality."
"I'm rocking this at maximum volume, maximum bass, and maximum treble, and it's getting zero distortion."
"It's the case that autobiographical memories are distorted yeah everybody who studies it carefully agrees with that but some of the things we've assumed about memory and distortion are not accurate."
"A distorted truth is not a truth at all."
"You cannot explain the literal meaning of a metaphor any more than you can take a globe and flatten it onto a map. There's always distortion."
"Our view of the world is always incomplete and distorted."
"A narcissist makes God in their own image instead of conforming themselves to His Image."
"Government is basically just central planning. Government distorts and destroys everything it touches."
"The clipping stage is responsible for introducing distortion into the signal, which creates a saturated guitar sound."
"When one of these tiny atoms flew into a person's eye, it stuck there unknown to him and from that moment he saw everything through a distorted medium or could see only the worst side of what he looked at."
"...oral tradition is a bit like a game of telephone for anyone who's ever played it."
"It's a nice combination of beats with distortion and noise."
"I honestly believe that time can distort so much, that's how some of these figures get immortalized over time, despite the forgetting."
"We need to correct that. Why is it even there? It is there because of lens distortion."
"The magic happens when you have two sine waves that are playing completely different notes and you smash it with distortion."
"What does distortion mean? What does it sound like? That's what we're going to talk about in today's video."
"There are three main types of distortion: harmonic distortion, intermodulated distortion, multi-tone distortion."
"I'm a big fan of distortion and things with character."
"It's key that people need to really pay attention to what others say because there's a lot of distortion going on out there."
"I think that taking something that you're familiar with, especially something from childhood, and kind of distorting it to be something so unfriendly, kind of hits on a level that is hard to explain but it's really disconcerting."
"They create their own realities by making things up or by distorting facts."
"The Reflections in the water are always going to be a little bit distorted because of the lighting and because of the movement of the water."