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Comment What is a musical instrument? (Score 1) 328

The answer is yes and no.
What is considered a musical instrument? That's the real question.

As someone who has always had interest in music, but no formal training though interest test show my interest are strongly inline with musicians as well as having physical dexterity good enough http://abstractionphysics.blogspot.com/2010/03/old-test-scores.html ......there remains the fact that available time (working outside of music) does not allow me to train and maintain my brain/hand coordination with musical instruments more than I have. Owning two Violins (one I made, electric), two acoustic guitars (1 being a 12 string), three electronic midi able keyboards (and an upright piano), where would I even find time for all the other instruments?

There is what I hear in my mind and it is through midi instruments and software that make it possible for me to create far beyond my limited mind/body coordination ability not to forget the cost of all the instruments that I'd physically need to do it all manually.

So what is a musical instrument, when the goal is to create music?
What would had the great classical composers accomplished had they the tools of music production today?

Performance.... that's different, but even the there you have such electronic equipment that often extends the performing musicians production/performance. i.e. minimoog synthesizer, marshal amps, etc..

And to make things easier, there is now even cord progressions libraries. i.e. http://www.prosonic-studios.com/Midi-Progressions-Details.aspx?lngCollectionID=76

So there is a divide, a difference between the instruments of music production, creation and live performance. For there is no strictly digital music that creates the stage set, special effects, costumes, etc... that are also an extension of performance entertainment.

Comment All religions... (Score 1) 1251

To fully understand the concept of religion its important to understand why and how this concept came about.

All systems of belief have flaws, for all any belief system is, is a constrained interpretation of the all that is. Why this is, is because abstract language used to communicate shared perspectives cannot express the all..... that is. - T.Rue

There is the why and how we came to create and use abstraction and out of this also came effort to create philosophies inline with the subconscious state of living (as many animals still do today) as the conscious mind cannot handle the massive amount of information the subconscious has access to. We use belief filters (and philosophies) to reduce what all we allow into our consciousness (me for me, you for you)

Interesting reads! Can you put the pieces together?

http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious3.html
Perspective of Mind: Julian Jaynes

http://leftinthedark.org.uk/sites/default/files/Left%20in%20the%20Dark%20free%20edition.pdf
LEFT IN THE DARK

http://esgs.free.fr/uk/art/sands.htm
Science & Sanity (extreme left brain?)

http://umclidet.com/pdf/Frank.R..Wallace.-.Neocheating.pdf
Wallace - Neocheating. (the how to abuse mans left hemisphere?)

http://abstractionphysics.net/pmwiki/index.php
Abstraction Physics (The Mechanics)

http://iamb.net/IJMB/journal/IJMB_Vol_3_1.pdf
NEUROSCIENCE REVEALS THE WHOLE-BRAIN STATE.....(ARTICLE PAGE 73)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp%3Bv=9l6VPpDublg
No More Secrets

There is a reason why the number and size of protest around the world are happening. The common factor is people in the general population are getting fed up with the distortions of the few ruling over them.

I think it would be wise to allow so called Satanist to have their monument and specifically next to the ten commandments as simply a matter of contrast of the biased constraints. Might also go for something from each of the religions that people might get a good look at "in part".

Comment It's only hard and boring because... (Score 1) 207

If it were easy and fun, everyone would be doing it for themselves.
But the Software Industry knows this and avoids anything that will gravitate towards the self recursive act of programming to automate complexity for and by the end users.

Programming can and should be a lot easier but like the Social and earning position of the Roman Numeral Accountants, those in the software industry (both sides - FOSS and Proprietary) do not want this because it will remove their earning and social position (while making genuine software engineering a real industry), Roman Numeral Accounts diminished upon teh introduction and acceptance of the Hindu-Arabic Decimal system (making make easy enough that everyday people can do math beyond what the Roman Numeral Accounts were able to.
Current Software Development Industry methodologies cannot achieve programming at the Holodeck level. To do so requires redoing the understanding of the honest foundation upon which all abstraction are created and used. See: http://abstractionphysics.net/pmwiki/index.php

Honesty is a bitch, because those against it make it so.

Comment Somebody inform China and the rest of the world.. (Score 1) 110

All money is nothing more than an abstract representation of value. It was created to ease trade (to overcome limitations of barter). And the only value in this abstraction we call money is the agreed upon use of it. Problem is, all of this abstract value representation has been abused so badly that it no longer is a genuine honest representation of the real values its supposed to represent. The proof is obvious, once its realized that with all the bankruptcies there is not a single person that can show me the less than zero real value that is supposed to be represented by the less than zero numbers of bankruptcies. Furthermore for a perfect example of how this abstract tool of money can be and has been so wrongly abused and manipulated against the real values its supposed to represent, google "trillion dollar bet" and educate yourself of how much was stolen in real value via abstract representation of real value.

Comment Isn't this really rather redundant? (Score 1) 415

I mean if the NSA in noseing in on people via the internet and what the people access on the internet...... I bet the NSA has the world largest porn and child porn collection and etc... in the world. So I have a question: How much discrediting might they do to the Catholic Church? Given the unsavory history of things the church has done?

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