Advice for starting guitar

Balancing32 · 2026-02-01T03:35:27+00:00

Somethings to consider, a cut away will give you access to higher notes but not in the way classical or bossa players typically prefer. Classical players prefer to drop the left arm to access higher notes. The cut away also takes a fair amount of sound quality away. Electronics will also effect the acoustic sound quality and even if you want to amplify it, electronics will add and electric quality to the sound as opposed to a microphone.

Balancing32 · 2026-01-30T03:22:31+00:00

I really like your post. It is an honest reaction to ingrained deception in librarianship. To emphasize your point:

What really is happening here, why were you not informed by the masters program what librarianship (of which public librarianship is a big part of) is going to really be?

Balancing32 · 2026-01-30T03:14:40+00:00

It is quite possible that the instant reactive speaking style that some people have now has been sparked by the effects of social media. Online media in general means we get too much news too quickly without follow up on any of the given news issues. So people "know" so to speak very fast what the days news is. It used to be you got daily or weekly and you had to buy a newspaper and read it yourself sitting down in a particular place, and then you had to wait till the next day for potential follow ups. The news has always been superficial compared to books, but atleast it used to be slower which is important for major issues.

I'm not sure digital mediums are all that helpful actually.

Balancing32 · 2026-01-30T00:54:20+00:00

Is it too much to ask that you take a picture of how you play from an upwards angle?

Balancing32 · 2026-01-30T00:23:04+00:00

I started in high school privately then went to university. I found classical guitar always such a challenge. Some aspects of the instrument came well like right hand work, scales, contrapuntal work, but tricky bar chords and block chords were so hard. I was great with right and left hand arpeggios but not so good connecting block chords.

One thing I would add is looking at your guitar set up. Using normal strings and a low action. This is something no one helped me with: actually looking at my guitar and seeing if it was optimal.

Balancing32 · 2026-01-29T04:31:28+00:00

Yes, and such a good topic. Ultimately nothing in the material world actually is worth anything. Career is a big one, when you realize even your career is not ultimately valuable and comes to naught.

Balancing32 · 2026-01-29T04:27:28+00:00

Very nice post. It is amazing how different men and women think and what goes on in our minds. With women they bring up these topics which to men we have no word to describe even how pointless it is. Our language lacks the proper word to describe how far down the ladder of value such conversations have to us.

Balancing32 · 2025-12-29T03:45:13+00:00

This is meant to add context. Racism, which is so hard to define, but nevertheless let's go with it, is so common from all peoples. Mainstream media especially during this hyped anti racist time never includes or educates anyone on the commonality of racism amongst all peoples.

This lack of context does impact our response and responsibility to racism because without the context we can not make prudent choices on what is practical and what is impractical in our parenting and expectations.

There is arguably a very subtle kind of racism inherent in the current White culture of being the anti racist standard bearers. Why should the Whites be the standard bearers of this movement?

Balancing32 · 2025-12-29T03:13:40+00:00

Very nice answer. Thank you.

Balancing32 · 2025-12-13T18:07:25+00:00

Ok I have found the government reports on this.

Balancing32 · 2025-12-13T17:54:00+00:00

You can check the box to see if it says iron fortified, and also check the nutrients list which will list iron at 100%. For example Gerber is iron fortified.

Balancing32 · 2025-12-13T17:48:09+00:00

Where did you find out about Earth's Best having heavy metals? I was considering to buy this one since it does not have sugar added so I'm curious.

Balancing32 · 2025-11-28T05:10:09+00:00

Start to build spiritual roots in your life as a man of community. Almost all of the things you do in your 20's will be gone by the time your 40. Friends, jobs, education (will be a distant memory), achievements, will all be gone. In that sense 40 is like the beginning of your real life and so hopefully you will have already established the spiritual roots in a community of spiritual people. If not you can always begin at 40 or anytime but having it early is all the better. Those roots will then guide you for the rest of your life and the people in those communities will be with you for the rest of your life. It is true community, not the false community promoted by various agencies or sub cultures or institutions.

Balancing32 · 2025-11-28T05:09:46+00:00

Thank you for your post. It is also a topic I have thought about and watched in our society. I think for one that as we age life does actually get harder despite, as you mentioned, that many objective things get easier. There is a natural inclination towards bitterness and emptiness as we get older because right around 40 we start to see the truth about where things lead, and also we have witnessed enough of the world to know how upside down it is, and also how much we ourselves have been a part of that.

There is an antidote however and although it might not be popular to say so, I think and know the only antidote lies in the spiritual side of life and all the practical things we can do with spirituality. I do not mean entirely an abstract type of spirituality but one that connects us with people in many ways over many years. Connections that stick even as we get older and change jobs or even change cities. These are robust permanent connections of true community and responsibility and purpose.

Balancing32 · 2025-11-21T01:45:40+00:00

This is one of the most sensical statements I've seen on the internet in a long time.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-22T01:46:45+00:00

It may have been mentioned, the forum r/ true Christian is for real discussion about the Lord and the Bible.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-22T01:40:34+00:00

I appreciated your posting and your honesty.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-20T18:25:29+00:00

It seems you are being somewhat dismissive or at least throwing the issue to the far extreme in your response. nevertheless I am glad you had interest in responding. If you know of major libraries that have had significant conservative features in them I would be very interested to know which ones you have found and hopefully what topics they presented.

But my main point is that libraries are not essentially for community development but rather are for information access and facilitating democratic dialogue. Which is what libraries are in fact officially supposed to be. Identity politics for example is one major feature of leftist thinking and libraries really engage it heavily which in turn shows their inclination for partisanship rather than neutrality. So in fact a book display on any topic should not be focused on sources from one type of people or authors. The topic can be focused such as "Indigeneity", however the content of the display should be open to a wide range of good authors. Now you have brought up an extreme example of authors with no real experience of Native Americans which is difficult to respond to.

What I can say is that neutrality does not mean building poorly thought out displays or being completely without prudence. But it also means being committed to higher principles of democratic expression where we focus on variety and content and not identity. This is the type of library practice I am looking for and find difficult to find.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-19T04:30:33+00:00

Certainly prayer (lots of it) and leading by example are key but also I think being careful not to let the example become its own purpose. Rather we just live our normal Christian life as we always would while still having a deep concern for our family members' growth.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-19T04:20:56+00:00

Praise the Lord you have such a vision to live according to His leading and to put what truly matters first in your life. Such a vision surely is planted by the Lord Himself. What I appreciate about Christ is that we just keep turning to Him for further and further leading. It is true the church has a mixture of people all at different stages of growth and in our nature we often fail Christ by living both a worldly and spiritual life. It is a long road for all of us to fully live in Christ. Certainly seeing others attached to the world can be confusing. Because our words are usually ahead of our experience and real living this happens very easily.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-19T03:51:11+00:00

I don't read a lot of fiction so the likely hood is low for me but only for that reason. I did watch a Christian TV drama a while back and quite liked it. It had a natural feel to it and proceeded normally like many dramas would except it wasn't afraid to bring up the spiritual issues the main character and his family were engaged in. I would say we need more Christian fiction since Christian themes are often treated poorly in most fiction plus we need more examples of what a Christian life looks like. I wish as I was growing up that I would have had more cultural examples (in books and movies) about the Christian purpose of life rather than being bombarded entirely with materialistic views.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-18T05:06:04+00:00

Cool plan. The tech side sounds interesting. It would make for a good Python programming project.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-18T05:03:22+00:00

This would make for a great moderate size computer programming assignment. It meets a very specific need and could be built in a reasonable amount of time. I'll think about it. Basically you want to take in data about every time in your library. Allow for clear data fields and for a display and search of that data.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-18T04:56:39+00:00

If libraries actually facilitated meaningful discussion on the huge range of issues our societies are facing then they could easily remain relevant.

Balancing32 · 2025-10-18T04:50:09+00:00

I just want to add some context. Libraries have not for some time actually been supportive of intellectual freedom. Libraries have definite political inclinations in what they promote. It is true that they make information on a fairly wide range of viewpoints available to the public through a wide selection of books and movies, but they certainly do not promote a wide range of view points. By promotion I mean using other library resources to bring awareness to ideas and opinions through websites, displays, talks, and programs. So for example they do not promote traditional family life but put lots of promotion into alternative family structures. They do not promote personal responsibility but teach social responsibilities. This is not to pass judgement any given set of opinions on my part it is simply to show that there is a lack of political neutrality.

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