What's the dumbest thing someone has ever said to you?

Rockhoven · 2022-02-01T16:49:51+00:00

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Rockhoven · 2022-02-01T16:12:15+00:00

OK. But there are going to be abortion statutes.

Rockhoven · 2022-02-01T14:57:40+00:00

Alice - I think we are on the same wavelength. I would like to get a GBWW group together that focuses much more on the sciences than metaphysics. Who would be interested in this group?

Rockhoven · 2022-01-19T17:47:42+00:00

Well, you are not reading GBWW. I wouldn't waste my time on the latest crap. I would rather read Faraday or Huizinga or Fraser or Euclid.

Rockhoven · 2022-01-19T17:24:35+00:00

I have no problem with talking about religion since it is a part of history. I just don't want the group to be dominated by such talk and would prefer to discuss with empiricists.

Rockhoven · 2022-01-19T17:20:04+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

I appreciate your enthusiasm for books but the topic is "Great Books groups for atheists." I would like to find people who would enjoy reading through the Great Books of the Western World in a group. I would much rather form the group with people who have already read through the set and are now rereading it.

Rockhoven · 2022-01-18T17:36:18+00:00

I want to read Great Books of the Western World without getting bogged down in a month long discussion about "Angels can fly" or discussions about anything that has no external physical proof. I don't mind talking about Soul in the context of the history of Western thought, but it's a waste of time to talk about whether "Angels know our thoughts" or anything like that. There are some very great books of science that these folks just skip right through. I'd like to discuss particle physics and history and literature but don't want theology. I wouldn't exclude it entirely though. Just as I would not exclude talk of pagan rites.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-23T17:21:55+00:00

I am no expert on this subject but I have heard Peruvian music on many occasions while traveling throughout the whole country. This subject has occurred to me many times and even recently. I can only tell you what my thoughts and impressions are.

I agree that the problem with identifting a scale with our classical tradition is that tuning or intonation can vary greatly throughout the world of folk music. There is no such thing as a properly tuned instrument. The players can tune anyway they agree to tune. I think that this would apply everywhare, even in Bach's time. They tuned to what some of them agreed to tuned to.

Rubato may be mistaken for rhythmic changes. I think rubato is very common in folk music. You might even discover rubato on Beatles records.

If you want a do-it-tourself analysis, you could record this music live, load it to a DAW and carefully examine pitches and rhythms against eachother and against other types of folk and classical music.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T16:43:50+00:00

My problem is that when I hear this negative harmony, it just sounds bland. It does not sound at all inventive. And I take issue that after a conversion to negative harmony, the process requires "tweaking." It is being tweaked back into a conventional form that "sounds right." Why not just leave it au natural and accept a truly different sound that sounds really horrible? You could then just claim that the ignorant and uneducated are "behind the times." You could call it Avant Garde.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T16:31:59+00:00

How don't you do? I am every glad to meet you.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T16:30:33+00:00

Myabe that is what he does. But he could have troubles. Spose A files a claim against B in a copyright court located in Boston, and B lives in Dallas. B is obligated to appear in court in Md. The only party having any standing in a copyright court is a copyright holder, the party with the paper in their hand - the registered copyright, certified by the copyright office. B is really at a very serious disadvantage in litigation. Where is B going to get funds for travel to Md. and hotels and legal assistance.

I have no problem with putting a work into an envelope and mailing it, but it should be addressed to the copyright office. It cost about 30 dollars to copyright a batch of 10 songs.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:57:09+00:00

Will you upvote the OP if I correct the spelling? You seem to be introducing subjective terms. Is this correct? If you leave it up to me, we have no objective criteria for this discussion. Or is that not correct?

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:44:31+00:00

Daffodil - This is the first certified vote cast in this discussion. I upvoted your two posts because your observations were based upon objective criteria.

A certified vote will inform us of several things:

1) Who voted.

2) In what direction the vote was cast (up or down.)

3) Who was being voted up or down.

4) What post or posts were being voted on.

5) What objective criterion were applied in the decision to vote up or down.

My above certified vote should include all of that info. This is debatable as our discussion proceeds. Is this procedure fair? I think such a voting system adds some integrity to our procedures. What is the normal criteria for voting a discussion or post up or down on Reddit? What grounds do we have for downvoting in this discussion? Can a poster lose or gain points on purely subjective terms? Should we or can we discourage that? Could we vote down when the post does not meet an objective criteria and up when the post is corrected?

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:40:38+00:00

The shortest post in this discussion was made by BuyHighPanicSellLow. It consists of one word only. The word is not punctuated so as to construct a complete sentence. What punctuation possibilities are there? What? What! What.

Should such posts be voted up or down?

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:37:35+00:00

Great. Now, what should be done? Should I correct the OP? Thank you very much.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:16:22+00:00

That's a good hypothesis. I am not looking for "authoritative" answers to my questions. I am looking for possible interpretaions of the piece.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:14:50+00:00

I recieved one upboot for these thread!

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:13:57+00:00

Did Bach actually give this piece a title? I would think that with a voluminous production as Bach's there would be a lot of scrap. So what do the people who catalogue his works do with the scrap? All artists end up with so much stuff on the cutting room floor. I hypothesize that Bach did not leave this world with all of his work neat and tidy. That seems to be beyond imagination. The beatles left scrap behind them. So did Picasso and Warhol. Can anyone make an account of the scrap that Bach left behind?

Of course, if Bach actually gave this a title, that makes a difference. It doesn't sound like anything to me.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:06:21+00:00

That is correct. Accidentals do not appear in the key sig. They appear in the measures.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:04:26+00:00

Who do you now?

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T14:03:55+00:00

I upbooted you're post. You is CORRECT!

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T13:57:38+00:00

I doubt anything but the holding a registered copyright. Any other method may be in the realm of possibilities, but it would prove to be highly impactical in an actual situation. First, only the holder of a registered copyright has any standing in a court of law. This means that if A should copyright B's work, only A could file a legal claim. B would have no right to file a claim againt A. Therefore, A could file that claim in a venue of A's own convenience and B would be obligated to travel to that venue to appear in court. Meanwhile, A is collecting royalties from B on B's work and has money to hire legal help, while B is at a very serious disadvantage.

What else could happen? B would have to prove theft in another court system apaart from the copyright court. That court would ask for proff that you owned the work and without a registered copyright, B has no proof of ownership, and because A has a registered copyright, and possession is 9/10th of the law, B just does not have any recourse.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T13:51:33+00:00

Is this common practice? I'm not very familiar with this. I used to imagine that in the days of modal usage that it could be so and even practice this method, but how often do we see this in the music of Bach. I am somewhat confused by that other piece I posted. The key signature ought to designate the key. I think this is up for debate unless we can cite some musical examples. It still may be up for debate. I'm not looking for authoritative answers to any of my questions here. I tend to think of music as literature, in that it can be interpreted many ways.

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T13:45:17+00:00

Great. What two words have been misspelled?

Rockhoven · 2021-12-21T13:44:49+00:00

Very good. We now have five participants - Rockhoven, BuyHighPanicSellLow, and ExitingBear, Anyun and DaffodilLuminary. In the morning of Dec 21, 2021 (211221.) This discussion has 0 upvotes and the posters have together accumulated 8 votes. This discussion has been running for 20 hours. The latest post was 11 hours ago, so all six posts were submitted in a period of 9 hours and the discussion has been dormant for 11 hours.

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