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I am kind of puzzled because I can admit a certain aggressive ugliness in art nowadays that a lot of Christians are drawing attention to. However I am conflicted because I compose as a hobby and I feel like I want to compose in a godly way. But the truth be told, I am very enamored with the so-called "excesses" of 20th century music. Like I like dissonant music, even atonal music and I am wondering is that perhaps wrong because of some objective standard of ugliness (which I may well admit exists in music)? Also as someone "on the inside", I am aware of the difficulties of drawing a line in the sand, like Act 3 Scene 2 of the Meistersinger Von Nurmburg byWagner would have been regarded as completely "decadent" and "bizarre' by listeners of its day, now its just somewhat mysterious proto-impressionism and quite pretty.

Meanwhile there are scores of dissonant and atonal music written by ardent Christ followers. Messiaen is the most obvious example of this but if you are insistent on the whole evangelical thing, then Joonas Kokkonen was one of 3 composers who stamped their catalog "SDG" with one other of course being Bach, a composer who in his own right and time performed some hyper-chromatic stunts.

I am also not a painter in the slightest but I find the notion of cubism very interesting and my favorite painting is called The Arrival; its an abstracted cubist picture of a ship docking in a harbor.

This is really something that has been nagging at me, if I am proceeding in good faith with my own compositions. I felt like I had it worked out that, because music is inherently abstract, without words or text or visuals of some kind, its fundamentally incorruptible; at worst you'll just produce meaningless noise. But I don't know, maybe that is a cope. These are tough questions for sure.

Hi., I'm not very tech savvy. Its an HP Victus gaming laptop. I want to make sure I download the correct driver, so how do I go about this? I typed "Realtek wifi driver HP Victus laptop" but it didn't help to add these search terms (I originally searched Realtek wifi driver). The second link was to the Lenovo site and it seemed to want a serial number, so I get the feeling you cannot just download any old wifi driver made by realtek and expect it to work. Please help me and thank you.

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Isn't this just admitting that atonal music is missing a fundamental ingredient other music has (pitch relationships), so it is basically inferior. The bizarre thing is that the founding fathers of atonality never gave this excuse themselves; they thought pitch relationships were an important part of their late music's expression. Schoenberg even suggested Cage should not become a composer when the pupil admitted he had no ear for harmony. So in short this is not helping the case of atonality because other music has textures and dynamics and melody and harmony and there is melody and harmony front in center in the SVS compositions and a greta deal of atonal music in general. Also a lot of these composers, like Babbitt, owing to their procrtustean formulai have no more control over the dynamics and textures than the harmony and melody. If you are a fan of atonal music, stop making this your case; it doesn't hold water.

Spyro isn't Crash, there is no formula that you can follow and produce a spyro game. Maybe for superfans having the critter is enough to make something a Spyro game but in reality Spyro hinges on its aesthetics, that being tight imaginitive level design (ie, not more openworld slop) and of course the musical stylings of Copeland, whether in person or in spirit. I am completely unhyped for this game and its just another cartoony genreric fantasy game I don't care about.

Many operas are known for their staggering music but I cannot think of a single opera known for its text. Wagner considered himself Beethoven combined with Shakespeare but I mean that is Wagner's opinion of himself which should be taken with a mountain of salt. Can anyone clue me in to such a work?

Can atonal music sound happy or nostalgic? Please give examples of atonal music that doesn't just sound vaguely ominous or erratic.

We have a common computer. My dad uninstalled Musehub because it was using a lot of memory. At some point the musesounds were eliminated and I am now stuck with the crappy microsoft midi sounds. Why do they do this? It also happened on my personal computer after I took it offline. Very annoying.

I don't know how to explain this but it feels like I'm constantly warring in my mind. Its not like just dealing with temptation but it literally tries to curse mundane things and I feel like I have to fight against it. What should I do about this? The "professionals" call it schizophrenia and it definitely feels like my mind is split in two but what am I supposed to do? Fight against it constantly or just ignore it (which is so hard because its scary)? Its really ruining my life. I've been in this battle for years now and I just want out. I even avoid exposing myself to new things n the news and media so my mind has less to work with but the Bible has plenty on its own. I feel like I'm running around with a timebomb strapped to my head and I'm just tired.

I did some stupid things without any counsel from a church body (as I wasn't part of one at the time). Namely, I fell for a number of youtube channels that said to just listen to God speak to you all day and tell you what to do, claiming these instructions will be just as inspired as the Bible itself. Long story short this ended with me crossing 6 lanes of heavy traffic in my underwear. Even though by God's grace, I survived, it got me into the clutches of the psychiatric system. They now have me on Abilify (which when I started taking my thought life became much worse and I don't find this coincidental) but worst of all, because of frequent admissions due to these thoughts manifesting in noticeable anxiety, they now have me on a drug for treatment resistant schizophrenia called Clozapine which has five black-box warnings. I don't know how I can justify taking this stuff since its so dangerous as to have these warnings and associated blood tests; it feels like poor stewardship of my life and body. They won't let me take any of the medications out of the picture and just pile pill on injection on pill. I want to remember what it was like when I just had the brain God gave me. God has not given me a spirit to fear but of peace, love and a sound mind. That's just what the Bible says, that I as a believer have soundness of mind, not "treatment resistant schizophrenia". In fact I am more than a little concerned that in the Bible madness is associated with an evil heart, foolishness or being demon possessed.

I've realized with the mental battles I've gone through in the last year that the flesh is not just some "misguided creature", it wants it ALL (your time your energy, your peace and your very salvation). Its not just trying to see what it can get away with and still be saved. It doesn't want you to be saved, it wants infamy in hell, it hates God, doesn't want to submit to Him in the least, and it hates YOUR VERY soul. I may have realized this a bit late and it was hard to come to terms with but I have seen how it thinks and I realize its far more sinister than we typically view it. Who can save us from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Amen

I have no idea what to do. I am on clozapine and abilify and I just can't seem to connect with God like I used to. I'm on a CTO but I just want to remember my life before these medications. I'm also in the hospital because I missed some doses of Cloz and "have to" be retitrated onto it. This sucks. I want to leave this all behind. I know the medication is just making things worse. God has not given me a spirit of fear but of love peace and a sound mind! How do I overcome this? I live in Canada. Should i just pack my things and leave for another province?

I started piano last year and have blown through the first 4 books (including the preliminary one). I heard fugues are a major filter. I Imagine polythythms are tough as well. So when can I expect this accelerated progress to stop?

I mean how can you listen to music that almost never lets an instrument that sounds like a metallic cat take a moment to breathe? I'm here listening to Brandenburg Cto 5 and I am about to break.

Either its the bloodwork or you stop doing all that and stop taking the pills in which case they can drag you back in any number of times to be titrated back onto them. This pill is a flipping trap! What is wrong with these people?