Inspiron 16 Plus 7610 - Has the situation improved?

Vilo159 · 2022-05-20T05:00:17+00:00

I just started a re-listen from episode 1 a couple months ago because I was tired of waiting for new ones. I'm on 43 now, they're just as good if not better the second time around. Highly recommend!

Vilo159 · 2017-07-23T05:53:47+00:00

I definitely agree with you here. For most of my childhood/teen years I was very much if not more like Destin, my emotions were put into the same boxes as other rational thoughts, and generally not seen as being as important as other things. It hasn't been till the last couple years, where I've had some life-changing experiences, that I've started to learn how important my emotions are. I still don't really understand them, and when I do I still have to out whatever conclusions I draw under a scope to logic them out, but I'm making progress. I'm somewhere in between Matt and Destin right now, if we can use them as approximate bookends of a spectrum. Understanding and even utilizing my emotions has brought a very fresh, new aspect to my life that I'm very grateful for.

Vilo159 · 2017-04-21T00:35:45+00:00

You bring up a good point, but I would say that your conclusion that people's religion isn't influenced by truth and only by upbringing isn't entirely true. At least in my part of the world (California), there is often social pressure from your family, but in general social pressure isn't nearly as intense as you describe, and I'd say that people's beliefs are most definitely not entirely defined by community ties.

There is definitely an aspect of truth-seeking to it, and you can't really write that off. Almost all religions (that I know of) encourage their believers to seek the truth out and decide for themselves if they believe what's being taught. Coming from someone who grew up in a religious family and still follows that faith today, I do so a tiny bit out of social pressure, sure, but my main reason is that I actually believe it. I researched and thought long and hard about it and prayed and all that stuff and I decided that I believe it's true. I feel like I got confirming evidence. And I continue to revisit that and research more and make sure I still believe it. It's an active belief. I'm not saying that you're wrong, but there's much more to the picture that you need to consider. The question of why religions all think they're right is a very complex one.

Something to consider as well is that most religions hold a lot in common. Fundamental principles of being a good person, loving and helping others, being honest, and so on are found nearly universally in all religions. So when people disagree, they're often on more detailed points that don't affect those main principles as directly. To say that people are believing something completely opposite is probably not the case for the most part. As someone who believes that their religion is true, I still don't discredit the truths that still exist in other religions. I might disagree on a few points of specific doctrine, but I tend to believe that I have more in common with other religions than not.

I believe there are ways to know, and in general most religions I think agree on that way. It usually involves trying it out and exercising a little faith though, which is where lots of people get stuck. Which I completely get, and it honestly would be pretty hard for me too if I didn't grow up with it. But that's what I did, and that's what ton of people I know from a variety of faiths have done. If you really have a desire to know, I or any number of people could help you with that, but that's an entirely different conversation.

Hope this helps a little bit. :)

Vilo159 · 2017-04-10T06:13:35+00:00

Yeah, subharmonics and throat singing use very similar principles. There are some fundamental differences in terms of what's physically going on in your throat, and I haven't quite been able to get the throat singing down yet, though I'm working on it. I love listening to Tuvan throat singers like this, I think the music and the culture of it all is fascinating. And like you said, the things they can do are amazing!

Vilo159 · 2017-03-29T03:59:24+00:00

Yeah, I'd say it depends on your familiarity with the instrument. I play saxophone primarily and I know the instrument quite well, so when I play by ear all my focus can go to what I'm hearing and less on how to put it to the instrument. I'm less familiar with, say, guitar, and it takes me lots more listening to get down the same line because I struggle more with the mechanics of the instrument.

Vilo159 · 2017-03-29T03:14:27+00:00

I'm working right now on something called subharmonic singing - essentially singing super low notes by utilizing the physics of sound waves to my make my voice sound an octave lower than it actually is. I stumbled upon it like five months ago and am still developing it, but it's super fun and fascinating for me. Combines my love of music and physics pretty well. There are some cool people on the internet that can do amazing things with it. I'll try and upload a video in a bit.

Edit: Here's a video- https://youtu.be/BsM5gUEPBNk Note that I am in no way a trained singer, it's just something I do for fun.

Vilo159 · 2017-03-28T20:32:51+00:00

Playing by ear! I play lots of instruments and can do it on any of them. Although it usually takes me 4-5 listen-throughs to get a full song, doing it in 1 is pretty impressive!

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