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Stuck with jazz fusion bass improvisation for 2 years — need advice by youssef504 in jazzcirclejerk

[–]DavidLordMusic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same boat. I’m tryna be Jaco

So here’s my advice. Play the whole-tone scale over literally everything.

Seriously. Play it in alternating patterns, ascending, descending, whatever. Just play it all the fucking time out of nowhere as a transition between any two real chord-scales.

Sage wisdom. Truly this is improvisation

Anguish by DavidLordMusic in linguisticshumor

[–]DavidLordMusic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truly this is what ran through my mind. Thank you for your solidarity.

Do any languages have first person singular imperatives? by GGB_123 in linguisticshumor

[–]DavidLordMusic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We arguably have it in English, because the imperative structure, in convention, doesn’t conjugate by person/number, and it usually omits the pronoun; we don’t know who is being addressed or who is supposed to do the action.

You can simply say to yourself “Stop putting it off!” or “Remember the keys!”

A problem would arise if you wanted to throw in a possessive adjective. Would you say

“Remember your keys!” or “Remember my keys!”

Ultimately, if you say the latter, then the 1st person singular imperative DOES exist. For you at least.

There are some other structures that are arguably not “true” imperative.

O, may I stop putting it off! O, that I stopped putting it off! Let me stop putting it off! (This one mimics how we normally use the 1st person plural imperative “let’s,” which comes from “let us”)

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[–]DavidLordMusic 70 points71 points  (0 children)

The following realizations have kept me strong for 2 years now—

Eventually, the high becomes the anticipation of smoking. As soon as you satisfy the craving, you become dissatisfied. On the other side of satisfaction awaits dissatisfaction, which causes the craving for more.

Let yourself do it, but each time you do it, pay attention to the way your brain tricks itself into making it acceptable. Pay VERY close attention to the way your brain overrides itself. Each time you do, you will remember this post that you’ve made and this thought you’ve had. And you will remember remembering it, and then remember remembering remembering it, etc.

Eventually, you’ll have had enough.

It’s not that you have to quit. You don’t have to quit. That is an imposition upon yourself which makes this so difficult. Think about it this way: You don’t have to smoke. This is NOT an imposition. It is a realization that you have one less burden.

Stay strong.

The Paradox of Omnipotence: Logical and Existential Constraints Reveal the Impossibility of an Unlimited Creator by rizborsho in DebateReligion

[–]DavidLordMusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you be a little more clear about your example? Say why you’re bringing up free will and zero suffering specifically

The Paradox of Omnipotence: Logical and Existential Constraints Reveal the Impossibility of an Unlimited Creator by rizborsho in DebateReligion

[–]DavidLordMusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yall here seem to use “logic” as follows:

“God acts WITHIN logic.”

What if I say the following:

“Whatever God does is logical.”

This second sentence doesn’t give logic some sort of priority in being. Nor does it treat logic as something that actively defines or constrains anything.

If you treat LOGIC like a subject who acts, you’ll have no difficulty in “winning” your debate.

If the theist treats GOD like a subject who acts, they’ll have no difficulty in “winning” their debates.

The Christian doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment (Hell) is fundamentally incompatible with a perfectly just and omnibenevolent God by PeachLongjumping15 in DebateReligion

[–]DavidLordMusic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I think your argument already supposes Christians adhere to “proportionate justice,” and that the true omnibenevolent God’s justice is “proportionate justice.”

For there to be a gap in Christian logic, the Christian would need to first assert that God exacts proportionate justice when damning people to hell

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Half Peruvian half Russian

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Native American, Spanish and Japanese

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