NoBimbosAllowed
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I'm unclear as to how knowing non-digital colour palettes has anything to do with perceptions. She could be visualizing pantone 648 when she sees the number 6, but to her it's going to be blue. Not having a name for a shade doesn't change the colour of the shade, just the ability for someone else to replicate that colour.
This thread was started on the topic of synthesia, not professional creativity.
I'm also not sure what you're trying to say about creative people. Am I now no longer to consider myself a musician despite my 20 years at the piano and 15 plus years playing fiddle because I've never been paid to do it? What about my hobby creative projects? I use the same skills I've honed through my career, often staying late in the shop to work on them. I've never sold one, because that's not my goal. I do it so I can express my creative side and sometimes to help me process some things. I have gifted them to many people though.
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Out of all the dvds you've PAID for, how many have been half-assed hobbyist "I burned this at home" dvds by friends or people on messageboards versus all the other dvd's you own?
I can't speak to dvds, but about 95 percent of the cd's I've purchased in the past number of years have been from the performer, usually at a show in a small venue or house concert, many pwyc covers at the door. Does that put them in the category of hobbyist in your mind? Many have jobs outside of music to support themselves. This day and age, you can set up a recording studio in your basement and get a decent recording (with the right tools and know how). I've never purchased music online, and don't have an itunes account (though I'm going to have to get one now that my mom gave me her ipod.  ).
If you think that your words are only insulting to those that you are adressing personally, you're wrong. I've seen you make sweeping generalizations that by themselves aren't that bad, but you then feel the need to lace your opinion with insults towards anyone that your opinion is contrary to. I've repeatedly been insulted by your statements, if only by proximity (I'm in north america, and you've shown your feelings about our culture more than once). The sad part is I know you're capable of having intelligent, constructive discussion, and yet you choose to go the more negative route.
the nature of the beast never matters compared to the competency of the zookeepers.
I was always aware that at some point your views on creativity and mine one would butt-heads. You can say that you found my posts insulting, but it's also insulting for my other friends who have been successful buskers for 15 years, and studied music for 30 years, to hear someone else say "I am a musician" when that person has done nothing more than use garage-band to swipe and re-order music created by other people. And they've only been doing tat, via garageband, for less than a year.
If such a person equated themselves with YOU, Lovethyself, *I* would be offended.
But such an offense, both ways, is unavoidable. If a chiropractor with 2 years under their belt stated that they were of the same merit as someone who'd spent over 12 years of their life becoming one of the best spinal-cord-damage-specialist surgeons in the world, I imagine you would have the same problem with me if I said "Bullshit, not even close". maybe not, but I think it's likely.
A person who knows 5 shamanic prayers and can recite them well is not the same as someone willing to undergo rituals to become a shaman where they might suffer some physically hideous things. If you hang out in a new-age Mushroom Experience Group the mountains of Santa Cruz for a week, with people who claim one-64th lakota Sioux in their blood, it's not the same as going through what Carlos Castaneda went through, when he suffered the not-so-sweet effects of Peyote buttons.
And many times people who say "no sorry, that's incorrect" are labelled with the "negative" moniker. Which is fine but it does not in fact change whether or not someone else is hanging their hat on a "want" rather than something more extant than that.
And as for "The sad part is I know you're capable of having intelligent, constructive discussion, and yet you choose to go the more negative route.", that's passive aggressive which is just as aggressive and insulting as straight-out insulting. Ad again a double-edged scalpel: one could say it's sad with your world-experience that you want to confuse "feel-good pollyanna stuff" with open-heartedness at the expense of anything truly beneficial to anyone who might choose, of their own accord, to embrace what talents they have and possibly go past what is "the path most easy". And let's remember that the author of "The Road Less Travelled" had a follow-up book: "The People of the Lie", which basically renounced the bulk of what made said-authour famous in "The Road Less Travelled".
Adn if you want to get negative yourself (in a passive manner) and say "I've repeatedly been insulted by your statements, if only by proximity (I'm in north america, and you've shown your feelings about our culture more than once).", this seems like someone remembering the occasional bad comment while forgetting the greater amount of good ones. Like my comments about Texans? Like my comments about Chicago? My fond remembrances of New Mexico? Your point falls down from cherry-picking.
I've seen many people who had a great shot at going where they wanted to go when they were in their early years, and then got suckered into "just wish upon a star and it's the same as working at Parkes or NASA". And it ain't, and even in various Neo-Pagan Groups and re-constructionist circles, these folk regret falling into that "wish-fullfilment" quagmire.
You want positive? How about the notion I'd WANT Athena, 15 years from now, to be published or distributed or "craic'ed" in any way she'd be happy about, i a way where not only she could sleep well at night, but look at anyone in her life, point to something she'd done, and with pride say "I managed to pull that off, and people LOVED it. MILLIONS of people loved it."
You have not said, here, despite comments about "positive/negative", what you think Athena is CAPABLE of. You've merely reacted against my "anti-Neo-Pagan" sentiments, and drawn quite a long bow in your comments against such.
And to be honest, as much as you are basically saying "I am disappointed in you", I am at lEAST as disappointed in you. Taking a casual shot with candied language is STILL taking a casual shot. So at the very least, we are very much on the same footing, here.
There is no upprr-hand, even an un-admitted upperhand, to be gained by guilt-tripping, Lovethyself, because what you did above was in no way 'pagan' or post-tradiotional-creed'; it was absolutely what a 30-Rock cliched Catholic Nanna or Jewish Bubba would have said.
So no, that attempt at standardized-guilt-tripping carries no weight from someone who has said they are never comfortable with standardized Abrahamic stuff.
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