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To: D-fendr; count-your-change
Just 'cause I think it's interesting: What sounds good, harmony, are (small) even number divisions of the wavelength/frequency. At first man liked, or considered harmony as 1/1 division, then added octaves, 1/2 ratios, the 1/3, 1/4. As we get to modern jazz, what is considered harmony goes much further out - but this sounds discordant to many

Good observation. Just another example that "good taste" or "harmony" is also man-made, and that culture (man-made) and the effect of habit tend to enforce these definitions as "true".

The concept and what constitutes deity (God) also changes from culture to culture and from era to era. Only totalitarian minds insist on officially "true" colors, music, taste, and God, because they are protecting their own man-made definition of truth.

Thus, in the former Soviet Union, along with prescribed politically correct thinking, only classical art was considered "true." Modern art was forbidden.

In America it used to be anathema to for women to wear white stockings after a certain time of the year (and it still might be), and in Japan for the longest time only those of ethnic Japanese ancestry could become sumo wrestlers because only the Japanese ethnicity conferred the "dignity" necessary for that calling!

The opposite of that are people who are no less purists by who insist that traffic rules are too restricitrve and that driving on both sides of the street as you will is true freedom, and damn the consequences!

And you have Jews who say Torah was written by God before the world existed, who say that God chose the Jews to convince the world that Yahweh is the only God, and then you have Christians who claim the Jews were wrong and they are right and their triune God is true, and he will convert the world and even most of the Jews eventually and show them their "error," and then you have the Muslims who also want to convert the unbelievers or they will cut off their heads.

It seems to me that man created his God, in his image and character, just the way he would like to be. Is an idealized projection of man that is used to justify what men do.

1,701 posted on 07/23/2010 9:48:40 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
Just another example that "good taste" or "harmony" is also man-madeActually I thought it was evidence for the the opposite. Why did you come to your conclusion?
1,713 posted on 07/23/2010 10:23:51 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: kosta50
I'm having tag dyslexia: Just another example that "good taste" or "harmony" is also man-made

Actually I thought it was evidence for the the opposite. Why did you come to your conclusion?

1,714 posted on 07/23/2010 10:27:32 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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