@encryptedmind, thanks for the response, but I don’t think you answered my question, specifically about why perfection angers the gods which to me seems to be anthropomorphizing the idea of a god (gods?) and also discouraging the pursuit of perfection… personally I don’t think the gods give a shit…
Pursuit of perfection is no bad thing as long as you know it can’t be attained, but at the same time know that whatever you have right now could be better.
Perhaps we are saying the same thing but in different ways!
Actually it’s very much the same thing we are talking about with some arcs that go about each other.
I think what God wants is us humans to feel adequate already because otherwise it’s a direct insult to God as if us telling him ‘you are God and you made us like this? We ain’t happy, we want bigger tits, longer noses and flatter stomachs’… God gave you full opportunity to develop yourself you to your best in that one lifetime chance and unless its a mystery if someone gets born deficient in some foundational ability, it will indeed be an insult we make to God if we continue that line of thinking. Also not to mention ingratitude even if it is hell on Earth or somewhere between heaven and hell.
Secondly he wants us to explore our design and exhalt the individual differences between one another and revel in its glory. Anyone can already appreciate the fact that all women and men if looked the same then no matter how perfect we are we will never be truly individual in physical form and that privilege will be lost automatically. So yes being different is a privilege even if it is skin deep. Our personalities will differ no doubt and in that kind of society where everyone lacks physical individuality a different kind of chaos will occur. Thank God that is not the case. He wants humans to be like the musical instruments in a symphonic orchestra being a master of ones’s own construction and abilities. Instead of a viola playing what a viola can and should, we end up doing comparisons and demotions as if the violin can do the job of the timpani and the piano the job of the clarinet. And becos of that error humans are suffering from it. That under utilised potential makes the music suffer and soon the instrument thinks maybe it should quit playing music. Big mistake, becos it was designed exclusively for making music. What happens is a Tuba thinks it can only fart. An Oboe thinks it can only moan, it’s voice is too reedy; timpani thinks it’s too heavy, should be more nimble and so on. Rather than building technique and character through discipline and musicianship and collaboration and cohabitation, we have chosen to feel inadequate, differentiate, compare and condescend each other and hence the human symphony is dead so far and lives only thorough those singluar instruments in isolation from generation to generation who have bucked this trend and managed to master some aspects of their construction to shine as an instrument and as a vessel for God to play with and inspire with his universal source and LO it sounds like proper music. Imagine what a symphony would sound like if all instruments did their part and it was not only a solo performance each and every time. On any given time the last generation leaves space for the next, and yet becos the earlier generations made that mistake the next generation suffers and it seems our habits are rather easy to develop and our character begins to settle in dust. No wonder Earth sucks in a lot of things. But we can’t blame our universal playground just becos we have decided not to play with each other but rather fight with each other. It’s like complaining about the RT60 reverb value of a concert hall, Earth, when we did nothing to practice for our symphonic performance. We suck. Not the room. We are all given an opportunity to perform in the universal stage and yet we squander that one supreme privilege and when the time comes all we can muster is an off note out of sequence on an empty sheet paper devoid of both skills and character and true originality or even a cohesive team performance. Only a few give an outstanding solo performance in their universal stage schedule and go with pride but remain wistful about the rest of us. No wonder every intellectual admonishes the ‘masses’ because they never truly chip in with their efforts and never play music but only succeed in making noise.
The other analogy is of a gardener. God has given each of us a garden, huge and limitless and beautiful. He wants you to grow it and develop it and take care of it. You are it’s primary gardener and chief owner of yourself. Would you rather show God a dead and uncared garden with rotting plants and unwatered and unfertilized orchids full of insects and bugs in a deshevelled arrangement OR would you rather prefer to tend your garden tenderly and show discipline, integrity and creativity to develop an outstanding garden best suited to your tastes, as warranted by God’s gift of free will, and feel proud about it? God never wants anyone’s failure but we both partake in it and submit to it.
Similar analogy in the Bible’s Master and 3 servants story. Burying your talents for safety and worship as a memento of your master will only enrage him and the verdict as on the Bible is ‘you will also lose whatever else you have along with the fact that you wasted your God gifted opportunity’. The instructions are very loud and clear. Many of us choose willfully to engage in sacrilege or get sucked by Satan’s web of deciet.
When anyone chooses to pursue external perfection rather acknowledging God directly it’s both disrespect and disservice to both him and oneself. He wants us to excel at our design and not run after the distractions.
Hence inner perfection is certainly attainable becos it is licensed and supported by God’s blessing and his expectations while external perfection is only superficial and temporary and a transient fad most definitely fueled by Satan’s vices of inadequecy, comparison and regression instead of getting inspired by someone elses hard work and blessings,
waywardness and greed fueled by superficial and artificial goals which are in turn fuelled by hubris and where does that come from -Satan, the original Mr. Hubris and this is how he spreads destruction by tricking humans out their performance schedule and wasting their time and talent. He certainly gets a good laugh out of all this and he has had all this time to perfect his craft.
This means that humans have an additional responsibility to maintain a defensive stance against the machinations of Satan. You would imagine God created this magnificent and complex system of life where we can and are thriving for the fortunate, well guided amd gifted among us. It’s not like he wants us to taste heaven just yet, he wants an admission test too, fittingly because he wants us to adhere and rise up to his expectations. If we are living in his house, his rules. Simple. So he has given Satan his role to test humans and do his bidding within limits so that we have an incentive to achieve as well like a rewarding system. If life was too simple then humans would lose a sense of endeavour and by design we ourselves are not Gods so we don’t have that privilege too.
Regards to Renoise, think of a software in some years ahead called ‘UniversalSonicCanvas Ver Timeless’. It loads any and every plugin in this world and works with any production paradigm z better than Protools, Live, Cubase and has all their features too. Super lightweight and also has entire Renoise built into it. No bugs and can run Korg plugins without hinderance and has the best automation ever. I can already tell it will not be adopted by everyone totally because it’s just too perfect. Almost like paralysis by overanalysis. Every project can work in any direction and the internal convertor can convert a Renoise project to a Live project or a Logic project and vice versa. So where is your uniqueness and originality and innovativeness? That playgourd is stolen from you. You cannot make any sandcastles anymore, no place to hide and discover because the map is already there with a legend and an itenary. You lose the entire human incentive to better anything at all. Because everything can be done by a click. No one would be busy mastering a piano if it also can do guitar chord voicings and sound like a Tuba. Sure we have some thing similar by modern synthesis technologies but it ain’t the same thing. A piano will never be a guitar or a timpani. Those differences if blurred will lose their original meaning. It’s like the New World Order of music software. Totalitarian and intimidating and still man made. Artificial. Limiting in essence.Too forgiving. It does all backups for you too! Never mind reading the user manual becos it’s page length is 3 billion pages and quick start reads like ‘let the software do the thinking for you and see what suits best, please fill the quick automated survey next’
Good luck making any music with that one! I will stay away from it like the plague if I ever see the misfortune of ‘USC Ver T’ in the market. Back to MPC and Renoise.
Your skills will atrophy and become reliant on what the software can offer to you versus what you can do with the software. That is what Satan wants. Rather than you spend time gardening your God gifted and assigned garden space , he wants you to spend that time reading up on gardening catalogues and do a lot of window shopping for that ‘ideal’ gardening tool that will develop the ‘perdect garden’ FOR you. In that process he takes away your incentive, drive, rigour, creativity, innovativeness, originality and the final rewards too. He will take all your rewards and eat them for lunch:)
Another analogy is like a gym which has all the equipment in the world. You will never exercise again obviously. If you instead have just 1 pull up bar in your bedroom and you decide to make the most of it, you most definitely will build a tighter physique from regular use of it, rather than reading up exercise fantasy manuals or sales catalogues or delaying your progress by never going to the gym ever again.
Another analogy is gravity, sure it pulls you down and that is why you have posture and pose, poise and form and grace and you get to build muscle and bone density precisely because of it. If everyone was just floating around then even things like pooing would be very very difficult indeed.
Our world is perfect already by conception, we made it imperfect because we have been misinterpreting our goals rather too easily.
Sure Renoise (next version) is always a good thing, even it’s a mirage.
