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[Humble Janitor]

I'm still not sure where you're coming from, Anchor.

Conditioning?

You know, I always believe in balance and that means not becoming addicted to stuff like music or video games, as well as any other substance.

[TheObserver]

Anchor, i have to disagree with painting classical music as inherently superior to popular music forms (jazz, rock, blues, country, hip-hop etc.)
There is 'good' and 'bad' music within all genres which is a totally subjective opinion based on an individuals personal taste.
One can also differentiate between innovators and followers and also between more commercial vs less etc.
In my experience the only 2 songs that truly made me want to puke were "You Light Up My Life" by Debbie Boone and "Achy-Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus.
As far as 'equal temperament' @ A=440 tuning a piano player would have to either re-tune his piano or have multiple pianos to switch keys in 'just temperament'.

[Anchor]

Originally Posted by TheObserver

Anchor, i have to disagree with painting classical music as inherently superior to popular music forms (jazz, rock, blues, country, hip-hop etc.)

I agree, I didn't actually say or mean that but my flippancy might have implied this meaning. Music is interesting because it is all about tuning in the real physical sense and not just the metaphysical sense. It is a harder one to categorize - but it is also at the same time a target rich environment for the manipulators.

I can sing a song about "shooting my bitch up", and it's only a song right - so that's ok is it? Modern music is often accompanied by video's that often border on (or actually are) pornographic. Lets get Dirrty eh?

HJ: My point is that your judgment about what are good and bad things to do is conditioned. You can learn to like (or dislike) things - ultimately it is a matter of consciousness tuning.

The problem with some of the "Entertainment" that is available today is that it leads to compulsive behaviors, consume your time, and distracts you from the "now", the truth of the moment and plugged well in to the "matrix" into which we have descended - led along in a way that avoids us realizing it by master tricksters.

Saying - its all about balance is somewhat correct in my view - but it is also about not making excuses for doing the escape work

Its all about your choice and your responsibility for that choice.

A..

PS:

As far as 'equal temperament' @ A=440 tuning a piano player would have to either re-tune his piano or have multiple pianos to switch keys in 'just temperament'.

I dont understand what this means - what is temperament in this context?

[Humble Janitor]

To be fair, a lot of the music I listen to nowadays has classical tendencies, even if it's rooted more in sub-genres of Metal music. The stuff I've been hearing recently is beautiful and some bands even seem to be in tune with spritual changes, etc.

I do not consider these things to be an "escape".

What good is life if you can't appreciate each lifetime for what it is?

[Anchor]

Originally Posted by Humble Janitor

The stuff I've been hearing recently is beautiful and some bands even seem to be in tune with spritual changes, etc.

Completely agree - and me too!

What good is life if you can't appreciate each lifetime for what it is?

None. But there is more to it than just that.

If you can define why you like something that would be interesting.

A..

[TheObserver]

Originally Posted by Anchor

PS: I dont understand what this means - what is temperament in this context?

Oh that's about the solfeggio frequencies thing and the 'conspiracy' that standard modern western tuning is somehow less in tune,
which is true in that if you tune an instrument to play perfectly in one key it will play in other keys badly so equal temperament
is a compromise tuning that plays all keys very well instead of one key impeccably perfect.
Wikipedia has excellent (albeit highly technical) info on this, read the articles on A440, equal temperament, tuning etc
(they all link to each other and there is plenty other articles linked as well)
As far as lyrics that's free speech and sexy videos are marketing most of the time and art the rest.

[Phtha]

Yes this is true, as tuning to A 417 from A 440 is only a half-step down in the western solfeggio. So that means that if one is tuned to standard 440 then the note G# is 417 rather then A. I've tuned my guitar to A 417 because I enjoy playing in the A key, but now if I goto g# it will not be at 417 anymore. You win you lose. t

Here is a guy that has a total different view on the 528 frequencies, scroll down until you see the bold "The Real Meaning of 528Hz".
This guy has a ton of other stuff at his site as well. He reminds me of 777 in a lot of ways. A master at symbology.
http://illuminatimatrix.wordpress.co...-of-numbers-2/

Originally Posted by TheObserver

Oh that's about the solfeggio frequencies thing and the 'conspiracy' that standard modern western tuning is somehow less in tune,
which is true in that if you tune an instrument to play perfectly in one key it will play in other keys badly so equal temperament
is a compromise tuning that plays all keys very well instead of one key impeccably perfect.

[orthodoxymoron]

Making music is a lot like making love. Watching others make music is almost pornographic. I like to watch.

[orthodoxymoron]

Ug! Ug! Ug! Oh Ug!

Rub a dub dub...three men in a hot tub!

Does anyone know what happens when one reverses the batteries in the Energizer Bunny?

[orthodoxymoron]

Romans 7 - King James Bible - Saul/Paul/Josephus/? (A multi-tasker who might be alive and well...and posting on Avalon? Who knows?) This is a very heavy subject...and it's getting me down. Atlas shrugged...and maybe I should too! Oh wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Are these the words of an agonized God of This World? I don't ask this question lightly or condemningly. I keep thinking that the Human God of This World tried to do the right thing...but got overwhelmed by problems and temptations...and that the Dracs took advantage of the situation. I also keep thinking that the full history of human life is excruciatingly painful and sad. The Dracs may have some sad stories to tell as well.

1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.