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Galmin · The King has spoken! Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 1711

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Sex and beer? What would really be a "bummer" is if sex and beer were the only things in life that WERE any fun.

Good side-stepping there.

How about reproduction? If the meaning of life is to raise your own flesh and blood kids? Nuns and monks do not do much of that, normally...

Your thoughts, please.

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I'm just glad that the Bible says nothing about making music!

That didn't keep the dogma from branding a certain scale as "The Devils Scale" and hunt down composers using it.

Religion at its best, no doubt :toc

Rev9Volts · Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1327

they have little boys.

DreamTone7 · Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2571

"How about reproduction? If the meaning of life is to raise your own flesh and blood kids? Nuns and monks do not do much of that, normally..."

I would say that that is a very big "If". The meaning of life is a tough one....but is almost certainly more than simple procreation. Interestingly enough, it is a question that our very existance answers every day.

But now you've got me curious. What is "The Devils Scale"? Do you know what scale it is? Lydian, Phrygian or...?

DreamTone7 · Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2571

Lydian.....let's see.

1-2-3-#4-5-6-7-8

What's Lydian tritone? (I gotta know!)

DreamTone7 · Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2571

Did a little research and find it to be an interval of two minor thirds. The V chord in any major scale has this interval (as long as the dim7 note is played.....as in G7, Db7, etc.) It always resolves to the I. Interesting!

BTW, I think we hi-jacked the thread.

Galmin · The King has spoken! Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 1711

Oops, it's a chord progression; tritone aka 'The Devil's Interval'

People were killed for playing it.

Edited by: Galmin at: 7/25/03 10:37 pm

Galmin · The King has spoken! Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 1711

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BTW, I think we hi-jacked the thread.

Who cares, lets hear some devil music

Rev9Volts · Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1327

so when do you think it became this way?

amen-ra an egyption pahroh about 3500 years ago came up with the monothesium idea. however he kind of had a bad ending anfd the egyptians went back to polytheism.

which is where the term of "amen" came about to end prayers.

ra is for the sun god.

anyhoo...

DreamTone7 · Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2571

"so when do you think it became this way?"

According to the Bible...if you do a lot of figuring...Adam was made about 5,000 years before Christ? (I read this somewhere, and can't remember for sure.) If my figure is accurate, that would place monotheism for the one God (Jehovah) before that of Ra.

Rev9Volts · Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1327

perhaps. there is much evidence "man" has been around longer than that 5000 years, which would to me seem to make the adam and eve story aligorical and not literal even though no one will know till we are dead.

still i am not sure the jews did not get it from ra.