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[artomlin2002]

I've been wrestling with the ideas presented in:

-The Dhammapada
"Live without covetous greed / fill your mind with benevolence. / Be mindful and one-pointed /
inwardly stable and concentrated."

-The Humanist Manifesto (particularly the second one)
"We urge recognition of the common humanity of all people. [...] We are

Comments

[ctuagent88]

"There are more things in heaven and earth...
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

[mystic_returns]

reed isn't reading philosophy.

[ctuagent88]

It's not to be taken as literal

[mystic_returns]

I don't like the humanism philosophy in general, but haven't read the book your speaking of so i can't comment.

The player piano, I know the story haven't read it... but its interesting to see how this is somewhat happening (not as extreme as whats in the story). The manufacturing jobs are replaced largeley by machines what used to take 100s of people do takes 10... Not in the way described. ITs also interesting that in the world of music, the invention of virtual instruments (software instruments) allow people to create digital compositions of instruments with out actually any knowledge of the instrument sounds the computer is recreating. Oddly the one instrument one has to know to take advantage of VSTi is Piano.