Unrelated but the camera quality and colors look phenomental

To just add an insight here. What I generally believe is that your opinion on the crowds, is just a self-reflection of your self-talk. Hence when somebody just projects their hate on somebody, it just tells me so much about themselves and their self-talk. As a wise man once said, "The way Sarah speaks about David reveals more about Sarah's character than it does about David's.". Sadly enough, internet is (for a lot of people) just a great place to run their mouths off, which just tells you enough about the overall social and emotional maturity of people.

I like the format where you are in the nature. It has a really chill vibe

It's wrong to hate on people in general gay or not. I am a Christian and we can't support their lifestyle because it goes against the will of the biblical God. Hate the sin, not the person. Technically, people that proclaim to hate gay people are sinning because it is a sin to hate on other people who are all children of God. Love your videos.

It's such a breath of fresh air to have to some level-headed commentary on this. Thank you.

This is why I'm not religious, not because i think the bible is bad, on the contrary i think it teaches great values and virtues, but i don't align with people who use it as an excuse to hate. It's ironic that hateful people use religion when it is explicitly against it. "You've heard to love your neighbour and hate your enemy, but i say to you love your neighbour and pray for those who persecuted you".

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mmmmm yes more levelheaded takes, love the scenery

Wanted to give my perspective on this as a christian. I agree with most of what's said in this video in regards to how we should treat people and such. The so-called christians that rattle on about how horrible X group of people is are absolutely a problem. And there's also people on the other side of the coin who hate most christians based on this ideology. But the unfortunate reality is most christians, especially these ones, are not representing what the bible truly talks about. A lot of people are consumed in this idea there's sides and you have to pick one, when in reality there should be a middle ground between both, sort of like you said. One thing I do want to point out, though, is how you said "pride is sinful" was hateful. I think that's a misunderstanding of it. I don't know the post itself so maybe I'm wrong, but based on what you said it just seemed like a slightly arrogant way of stating his belief. I think it's ok to state disagreements and make a case for why you believe what you believe; regardless of how crazy it sounds; and not have your opinion automatically discounted. That's one big issue with the state of the world, and probably the biggest thing preventing a better middle ground conclusion. Another thing I wanted to point out was you saying that we've grown since the bible was written, and that some things may not still hold true. Again, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing that comes from a perspective of not knowing much about how the bible works. The bible's a book written by God through the hands of various people throughout history. Everything in the bible is meant to be absolute truths, and something a christian is meant to build their beliefs around. One big issue among christians though is some only take parts of it, are misinformed, or act like that's the only thing you can go off. When in reality, you're meant to use it as a base and build off it, as well as applying the information to how you do things. And due to that, something like, as you said, people being gay, would still be considered a sin, regardless of how the world's changed. That being said, christians should be able to respectfully disagree. If you can't convince someone of what you believe in a reasonable manner and it isn't hurting anyone then someone should be respectful of that person's decisions. I do believe defending your beliefs are important, but many people take it too far.

As someone who is both Christian and gay, I find it confusing how so many people who call themselves Christian can be so hateful when the point of Christianity is to love everyone for who they are. The idea that being gay is a sin is also a misunderstanding, as that part of the Bible is in the Old Testament laws, which do not apply to Christians today. What people seem to fail to understand is that the Bible was written especially for the people of when it was written 2000 years ago. This is also the reason for why the Bible has so much sexism and racism. The part of the Bible that says men cannot be gay also says that slavery is okay and that slave owners are allowed to beat their slaves. Again, most people who are homophobic haven’t actually read and don’t understand the Bible, but if you are against people being gay because you agree with what the Bible says, you quite literally also support slavery. Also good point - people are born gay, it’s not a sin or something someone commits, rather it’s just who you are, who god chose you to be.

I was having a really depressing day today, so I decided to just go find some interesting, not over-saturated video to watch to cheer me up. I remembered your channel (which I had unsubscribed from a while ago because you stopped making Minecraft content), and I watched your latest video (this one). It was the most refreshing, interesting thing I've seen all day. Thank you, and I completely agree with what you are saying. Re-subscribed! Edit: You honestly deserve way more views on these sorts of videos, they are so high quality and interesting. Edit #2: I actually prefer these face to face irl videos than the Minecraft ones now that I think about it. Having a real person talking to you in front of an awesome landscape is way more refreshing and even more interesting than seeing someone play Minecraft (which is something I see all the time and get bored of easily since I am someone who's recommended is mostly filled with Minecraft stuff). I think you're going in a good direction, well done! Edit #3: edit #2 no longer applies, I have been watching your newer Minecraft videos and I was wrong, they are brilliant lol

Growing up I never understood why people hate so much, especially gay people and all people of the LGBTQIA+ community. I still have this same mindset where I don't get it, however, turns out, I was gay the whole time lmao. I currently live in one of the most homophobic state in the U.S., Alabama, and I still just try to fake my personality. I'm more out than I used to be, but I'm still hesitant to be out and proud the way others can. Of course I don't agree with the whole kinks on people's arms, that's just straight up disgusting in public, but that's where I draw the line and that's it. And the whole using a book that is billions of decades old is just weird and disgusting. It wasn't even made by God himself, why are we taking lessons from it still? Overall, I just don't get it. I don't get hate in general and I don't think I ever will. We have enough shit to deal with, why would you stress yourself out hating on people you don't even stay around?

Everyone should give this a listen :) considering the Topic of the video, (Heal The World by Micheal Jackson sadly cannot put the link) hate's on the rise but there's always a way to change that! ;) loved the video BTW flowstate, cool how you transitioned from Minecraft content to in person content, production quality is clean.

Unrelated but camera quality reminds me of a movie

It's not just the blatant hate, it's that for EVERY positive thing people have to comment something negative to negate it or disprove it. EVERYTHING is a debate nowadays. Why?

Dude seeing you outside is so chill. The vibes are so good. I love it and I hope I can see more beautiful backdrops like this.

7:38 I agree so much, that language he uses irked me so much

Amazing color palette on this one 🧡🧡

This comment section is a mess lol, passive aggressive hate is still hate and you can't use a 2,000 year old book to support bigotry.

as a trans viewer, super happy to hear you talk about this! and as someone who is no longer religious, but was raised religious, i've just never understood the Christians who use the bible to justify hatred and oppression. if there was one thing i got from Sunday school growing up, it was that God loves *everyone.* religion isn't inherently bad, i even still consider myself a bit spiritual, but it just sucks to see people use it to justify hate.

I myself believe that the problem lies within people who believe that a scripture or old societal custom allows them to manipulate, control, or decide another person's life decisions purely for the sake of said people's "normalcy". People focus far too much on others, on how they themselves are viewed, or how others live their own lives. People just need to make decisions for themselves and continue to live the life they were given to the best of their ability. I personally have been trying to be that random stranger in people's days that spurts out random, and lightly humorous, comments to lighten the mood. Even if it's just a passing greeting or a light joke about a current situation, no harm could be done by simply making somebody else smile. I don't care whether I know the person or not, I find joy when an outsider does the same for me. Bringing light and joy to my fellow people who live in a world completely enveloped in past drama and controversy. Sharing a lighthearted experience with somebody that lives in the same town as I do, somebody who I may see again. I see no harm in putting my efforts into sharing these happy or genuine moments with these strangers, especially when compared to the equivalent damage I could cause by instead giving into the impatient and arrogant urges that reside within us all. Anybody and everybody can and will lose their patience at many points in their life, we're all human; but that cannot allow us to become overrun by that hatred and selfishness. We must be compassionate and patient with everyone, I believe wholeheartedly that there is absolutely no real reason to do otherwise.

To answer the question, hate certainly is “on the rise”. Even in this comment section I was met with nothing but hate for being gay. I had assumptions made about me, I was told that I “hate god” even though I am a Christian, and was even told that my parents (who are catholic) are heretics for supporting me. What sucks is that I’m met with hate basically everywhere, even by people who are supposed to be my brothers and sisters in faith. The reality is that I didn’t choose to be gay. I had people try to tell me otherwise, even though they were straight and had no experience with what they were talking about. God made all of us, and they chose to make people like me gay, and god doesn’t make mistakes. And here I had thought this was a welcoming community…

please please please, i don’t mind you talking about anything i just miss the old format with the cinematic minecraft gameplay you were the only channel that hit that mark i seriously think if you keep up with that you could be really massive man it was extremely unique

I completely understand people being religious and stuff like that, but just because someone goes against what the bible says, doesn't mean that person doesn't deserve respect. It even says in the bible that god loves everyone and stuff like that, and all said person has to do is accept Christ into their heart. Just because someone is gay doesn't mean you cant respect them, and explain to them your point of veiw.

There definitely are more and more people who normally would only ever be noticed online and are now making their views known IRL. More and more people are not feeling the pressure of society and feel comfortable making everyone else miserable and its sad.

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For those who haven't read it bible doesn't say to hate those who are gay or trans but to hate the sin instead. Many consider it hateful to call someones lifestyle bad, but you have to really hate someone to want them to stay in a lifestyle you consider unhealthy. Especially if you believe that life style to lead to eternal separation from God. Side note just because the Bible is old doesn't make it unreliable or a bad thing. Everything we have today is from something old.

Even if you don't necessarily agree with how people think/act, its not that hard to still care about people and be a decent human being, no one's forcing you to interact/be around anyone you don't want to be. I feel like as long as there is common respect, we should treat everyone the same.

Flowstate, it seems a lot of your viewership are Christians, including myself. It teaches nothing but love. Why don’t you dip your toes in and see what it’s really about? Seen as though you seem to be fairly intelligent and open minded.

I’m not religious never was although I was baptized Christian, I understand we all have our beliefs but if someone uses them to tell me how to live my life then I’ll tell you how I feel. I have my opinions on religion but I do my best to keep them to myself. This is an interesting video. The explaining of the public pride parade I as a bisexual man absolutely agree with. Public nudity is unacceptable period. I agree with this video.

Whether Christianity is true or not is its own debate, but if you do conclude that Christianity is true and you interpret the scripture as saying that being gay is a sin, that does not give permission to hate people. It is written that we should love our neighbor. We all sin, some people struggle with a different sin but we are all dealing with our own sins as well so don't hate on people.

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I appreciate you making a video about this topic, because I believe more people have to talk about these kind of things. Overall I feel like this video is well rounded, but I offer a couple good faith critiques (in order of when they appear in the video): 1 - 1:29 - Your average person who holds these harmful and hateful beliefs may justify their opinions based on a 2,000 year old book, but the politicians do this for power and control. Hate is absolutely on the rise, but there are people who are manipulating others into acting out the hate in exchange for control. 2 - 3:43 - "...and so just like being gay, or you know maybe having like a mental disability, why would you make fun of someone for that?". Personally, I know what you mean by this. But for future reference this could be taken in a bad way (comparing LGBTQ w/ things that people associate negative connotations to). There's already enough hate being flung at the LGBTQ community that attempts to equate the way that people are to mental disorders ya know? As well intentioned as you may be, we know the internet will take something and run. 3 - 5:14 - Kink at pride discourse can get off the rails really fast due to it's complexity and depth, but typically these events are blown out of proportion by bad actors. Nobody, at least in good faith, would defend indecent exposure. Likewise, the people who are generating outrage at these events online are not good faith actors (more often than not). Their goal is often to turn public perception of all pride events negative by any means possible. 4 - 9:00 - "People are worthy of life. There are parts of the world where this is objected to" + "You would like to think that not calling for (insert bad thing here) is a universally agreed upon thing". History is not on a linear path. At least morality wise. There are always actors who will try to abuse the reigns of power. Progress isn't a one time achievement. It's a constant battle. We all must remain aware of this fact. In summary: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." - Martin Luther King. It may bend towards justice, but it does not do so on it's own. WE must bend it, we must shape it, and then defend it.

The Bible says to love everyone as you love yourself and hate sin. As a Christian myself I do not hate gays and other people like that but I can’t support the way they act and their choice to do that because it’s against Gods word. The only thing to help people is share the good news of Jesus Christ and hope they come to him.

Honestly, I think it's true - I'm wondering if it's because of stressing times and news?

A Christian perspective here: I think the biggest issue is that people commonly conflate disagreement with hate. Us Christians disagree with the lifestyle that LGBT people live, and since they feel that is their identity it makes them feel hated by us. As christians i think we need to empathize with this, since there are so many people who disagree with how christians live their lives too, but we cannot conflate that disagreement with hatred. The Bible does say that homosexual acts are a sin, and im not willing to back down from my faith- But it also says that hating others is a sin, and that being in debt is a sin, being gluttonous is a sin, being selfish or insulting others is a sin. Many things that are very common in first world cultures nowadays. The truth is that we've all fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and that means that every one of us, including us christians, have sinned and will sin in the future. Thats exactly what the good news of Jesus is, that He paid the price for our sin and that we now get to make the choice whether we want to be with God or not. This does not affirm sin, but offers us a way out of it, and it truly is a choice. A biblical christian believes our job is to show people the love of God and pray for them and teach them in hopes that they will choose to be set free from sin, and to show Gods love within all of that. Its not our choice if someone does or doesnt come to the Lord though, thats why we just have to lead with love. Also, i really like the atmospheres your videos have, the cinematography and sound design is always brilliant!

I completely agree with you here. Well, In my opinion, Religion is mostly a bad thing. Like, you just have to believe, and you cannot question it at all. The bible says to just do Exactly what it says, and to not question it. So what happens is, people gets completely blinded and just follow everything the bible says, for example the bible said people who are gay are bad. they say to the people who are gay bad, and treat them badly, Without knowing Why. They are used to doing these actions, just doing what religion says and there is no proof on why they are doing this. It's hard to change the mind of a really religious person. They are not used to like, stopping what they are believing in and to ask themselves, what am I doing? Is this worth it? Why do I have to do all of this? They're not used to that, because they are completely commanded to not question anything. This really kills curiosity. I have an example. Let's say I am homeless. A religious person came to me and gave me 20 dollars. He was being kind. But, was he kind just to go to heaven, or he actually cares about me? You cannot be sure at all of their answer. But if a Non religious person gave me the 20 dollars, they definitely care about you, with their whole heart. Because non religious people don't believe in heaven and hell. I brought this example because, people who are religious Wants to go to heaven right? they don't really care much for others. I am not saying All religious people, but most, or some religious people mostly care to go to heaven. When god says that, if you do this action, you will go to heaven, and you would satisfy me. So people do Exactly what he says. God said gay people are bad. If you agree with me, you satisfy me, so you have extra points to go to heaven. (kind of like that, I'm not sure xd, I am no longer religious). When they know that If they say to gay people are bad they satisfy god, which means they will go to heaven, they will Definitely do what god says. Because he said they will go to heaven. And so, that's why it's hard to change the mind of a religious person. But again, like you said in you're video, it does not mean religious is a SUPER bad thing, no. It has good things in it. Just like you said, being kind to people and stuff. But the idea of heaven and hell really ruined the curiosity of people, and completely blinded them. I just wanted to share my thoughts here. I hope you maybe got a better perspective about religion I guess.

Christianity teaches to love everyone, whether they are gay straight whatever. The guy didnt say he hated them he just said pride was sinful, which it is. Pride as in the feeling. maybe read it instead of going on uneducated rants.

Hate is the root of all evil

Please make more content like this. As this channel started with minecraft videos, its hard for the algorithm to recommend this to a totally new audience. In fact i wasn't ever recommended these videos. Please make a new channel, exclusively for content like this. Thank you.

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Being an Orthodox Christian, this is a subject that is very complicated. The Bible tells us to "Love thy neighbour" no matter who or what they are. Here is the thing. There is a but. I will love and respect everyone, but i will just not want to live their life style. If you, as a Christian think being aggressive and hating is a good idea, that is absolutely not what Jesus would do. Instead, He would pray for them. Not forcing His ideas on them, not hate them but just pray. Once again. There is a but. This but is that if you are part of the lgbtq+ then it isnt rlly respectful to go to Church and claim yourself as a "Christian". Same for a Muslim to eat pork infront of all his other Muslim friends and family. I obviously cannot explain that well as i am not a priest, but please just keep in mind that both sides here are just trying to do what they believe is best. God bless you Flowstate!🙏

Hey man there's a difference of being hateful and following a religion which doesn't agree with pride but Christians should be allowed to be able to follow there religions. But no I don't think gay people should get made fun of.

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As a christian I don’t agree with people being gay or stuff like that, that is my opinion and everyone is allowed to have there own and not be judged just like gay people. As a christian the bible tells us to love everyone no mater what. This is because Jesus died for our sins so we can live, he loved us first so we should love others first. So as a christian I say that we should show others the love of Christ no matter what. It’s Gods job to judge us, not ours. Another great video! Keep it up. Remember everyone don’t be afraid to tell others you opinion especially when it’s different. But please try to be kind to others.

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Pride is talked about in the Bible numerous times, and it was always to one's downfall and considered a sin. Just like sleeping with the same sex is a sin by God's standards. It's always wise to look at yourself and then look at creation and see how small we are in a universe that was created. People think they know everything now days when they have done nothing with their life. God has rules for a reason. it's not always just because he doesn't want you to do something. It's like adultery, for example. Why is it wrong to cheat on your spouse? I understand that morally, it's wrong, but who designed our morals and who gave us those feelings in the first place? God said adultery was a sin not just because he doesn't want you to have fun and enjoy other people he literally created Adam and Eve for each other that was creation and he understood how bad it would be for humanity if they did sleep with other people. I mean, look what divorce does to people. It's not surprising to say that cheating on one another destroys the life of everyone involved. Sexual sins have always done this. My point is that God made rules for a reason, and they weren't made to hinder you but to empower you. We always go against God and his creation. Whether you believe in the Bible or not, I would always recommend reading the Bible before making accusations. Spiritual warfare is real, and anyone who has had any experience with Jesus Christ would understand that this world and especially this nation right now, feels dark and unsteady. Demonic influence has never been higher in America.

God loves gay people, God loves everybody. But from a 16 yr olds perspective I can only see homosexuality being a sin because you can't reproduce. and in the bible God said he created man and female in his image to recreate. **READ** Genesis 1:27-28 "So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds.'"

We progress because of religion, without it we regress, there's no way you think people back in the day are less smarter than now, ✝️✝️✝️

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Christian's belive that the gay lifestyle is harmful to the person who choses to live that way. So it wouldnt be loving to support a harmful lifestyle.

In my opinion, if being gay was ok, there would not have been 2 genders in the first place. Thats why God created man and woman. And i think if it was ok maybe we wouldve seen the animals doing it also. But they're not, cause they know which gender they have to be with being whatever gender they are. When i was small i use to think that it was ok to like other girls being as i am a girl myself. Cause "love is love" right? but when Christ saved me from that thought process, depression, suicide and porn, ive never felt more free. There is a thin line between love and lust and many dont know the difference. Why is it ok to accept "loving your neighbor as yourself", but not ok to accept that being gay is morally wrong? I would disgree that we have evolved. Cause we just keep repeating the same things over and over again throughout history. I dont hate people who are gay, i was once there myself like i said. I hate the sin cause it causes them to be in more pain (something they dont even know is hurting them). And for those who dont believe in Jesus, just look back in history and tell me if the Bible lies cause there is evidence all around. And every single one of them is written in the Bible.

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There's nothing privileged about being a white straight man. Gonna have to strongly disagree there, as you lost me on that one