Joseph Maynor

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  6. Posted

    7 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

    As of now, the yes’s are at three and the no’s are at eleven.

    A disproportionate amount of people who are into this work are not into football.

    My original hypothesis had been confirmed, and this is our conclusion.

    But if you haven’t answered the poll so far, please do so. Unless you’re not American, as the NFL is an American cultural event.

    The sample size doesn't represent all the people who are into this work.  But I think you are still right.  

  7. Posted

    On 2/5/2026 at 8:07 PM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    Original aesthetics are very close to what I think of as individuals with an artists vision or a directorial eye. 

    I agree. This is deep.  But what you say writ large as conscious creators.  Some people might recoil at this and think it's ego.  There's a common feeling that any kind of doing is ego.  It's Creation.  

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    5 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

    I am a dancer / musician you could say. I play multiple instruments like didgeridoo, native flutes, djembe and other drums, handpan, rattles, jew harp, clap sticks, tibetan bowls and many others. Nothing feels better than dancing tho, its something else.

    Rhythm is like the foundation or roots, melody is like the shoots and fruits :) 

     

    Birds are natural musicians.  You know this.  When I was learning how to play Jazz I would go to the forest and improvise with the birds.  You can get them to respect form too, they'll get it.  Like you start playing a twelve bar chorus over and over and they will join in and get the structure almost immediately.  But also, I felt like I was imposing myself on their jam session which is ongoing by default.

     

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    6 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    Right so the question is do people socialize for an egoic gain or do they just do it.   In ALL cases it's has egoic gain in some way.  Even if its just to not be alone. Nothing wrong with that but you can see where it can lead.  

    That's the question.  And IMO this is why getting clear on what friendship means is so crucial.  When there's no friendship (or a false pretense of one on either side) -- exploitation can happen.  Most of us have no idea what friendship means, and so we default to living alone and paranoid and unhappy with our current relationships.

  15. Posted

    23 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    They are all necessary for survival but health is first- then finances, then relationships.  The ego often ignores health and goes for power and relations often comes with power.  You can't be isolated and have power.  You have to rule over someone.

    I disagree with this.  I think the ego ignores relationships due to selfishness and focuses on health and finances deficits being a result of lack of social support or social alignment, and then blames others for not having more social or relationship abundance.  Anyway, we may disagree here and I'm fine with it.  Good to have a contrary point of view to consider.

  22. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    On 2/5/2026 at 6:38 PM, Human Mint said:

    The CEO of Suno is one such example of a scammer. Explicitly only caring about the money and trying to convince people to drop music skill aquisition and trade it for quick AI songs which of course are dumb because to make a good promt you still need a skilled artist. It is not even fun not being able to create the music by your own. It is absolute and exclusively a scam.

    Music made by AI was something that inevitably someone would have created. But it could've been directed by a mature person and not such an asshole. A mature person would promote such app as that only complements in specific occasions and train people to spot those ocassions. A mature person would not lead people into brainrot.

    This reminds me of vibe coding too.  We're becoming more like music producers and managers instead of formerly technicians and engineers.  But the downside is the delegation of trust and how that can limit a creator and the actual artwork produced.  AI is a tool but no more than that.  

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    8 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

    This is what came to me in my earlier days of meditation, that if we don't change and grow, we will keep reincarnating and repeating the same cycles. 

    Eventually we have to level up :P but first we must stop playing the lower levels, if you will.

    This is where you and me might have different insights.  Thanks for taking the time to explain this.  I love it.

  24. Posted

    4 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

    I am aware of that stuff, it can get very interesting indeed, but after awhile, its the same patterns over and over again, eventually the cycle no longer provides growth, unless you yourself are actually playing rather than watching other people play all the time. That's at least what I have come to realize in life in general.

    For example: I used to watch people all the time playing music and sports and singing and until i started playing and practicing myself. I finally understood why i watched so much and realized i needed this for my own self-therapy and healing that no screen or watching others could provide me as deeply, besides the inspiration. Then there was something new and unpredictable every time, and growth out of general day to day patterns started to occur, and that's when it clicked to me more deeply when Bashar said that "physical action" is the "language" of physical reality, that if we aren't living what we watch, preach, read, exchange with, it only becomes dead weight on our beings and a burden.

    Ultimately these sports are a symbology for winning at life IMO, we all wanna win, but competitive winning is a lower form of consciousness how i see it today, you can win at life without competition. Buddha did it, Christ did it, many others did, and excelled far more than any sports star or competition-based system ever did. I could of been a great soccer player and even basketball but i dropped it when a higher consciousness took over. Pissed my father off a lot because he was hoping i become a millionaire and fulfill his desires, but i found far greater peace and dropped trying to always be the best at everything, because I mostly was, and my ego was becoming too toxic, then the universe would slap me in the face again and again.

    No right or wrongs ofc, just my two cents, eventually we all need to level up and drop things that no longer help us grow and expand.

     

    Why do you have a desire to win in the way you are suggesting here?

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    1 hour ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    Some of the greatest masters are not known for the technical ability. Some just for what they introduced as a concept IE Andy Warhol.

    All of the above is sort of why I dislike art critics so much. 

    You cannot just measure it with a ruler, see it conforms and slap 'great' on it.

    True.  But Andy Warhol has an original aesthetic like Elmore James does that makes their artworks great.  You don't need to be technically excellent at skill to create great art.  You can have an original aesthetic that is amazing.  This is why some overly-technical music sounds awful in a way because it's too many notes or some other balance is off.