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GLnoG t1_j8kj33e wrote

Anecdotal, but in my own experience with faith: it's not about not wanting to know the reality, but rather about fervently wanting to know and experience a reality that doesn't exists.

Rambling here, but i think you can argue faith is the desire for a certain idea of reality to exist, or the belief that that idea of reality does indeed already exists, or doesn't exists yet; the word "yet" being fundamental to that whole belief system.

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GLnoG t1_j8khzim wrote

It is very interesting to observe where the feeling of curiosity and love increase and decrease relative to each other depending on what they were caused by.

For example: Just about every mother you know decides to stay ignorant about the bad parts of their kids; so, you can make the assumption that their love for them is greater than their curiosity. That is very interesting.

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GLnoG t1_j2ezoh9 wrote

I've been playing acoustic guitar for like 5 years now. I imagine chord digitation would be fairly similar with electric guitar.

You have to press the strings with the very tip of your fingers. But I really mean the very tip, so that the sides of your fingers don't touch the strings you don't want to press; when this happens, it causes weird vibrations in the other strings that make your chords not sound as-clean. You also have to press the strings with enough force, otherwise there's gonna be weird micro-bounces between it and the fret that aren't gonna let it sound clear. If you struggle pressing the strings too much, maybe you need softer strings (strings that require less force when pressed to emit sound, like nylon strings compared to metal strings).

A common thing I see happening with beginners is that they can't "open" their hands enough to digitate the chords. Their hands don't seem to be as-flexible, so they trip over themselves a lot; wich is completely understandable, flexible hands are something you acquire through practice. Just try to "open more" your hands, so that you don't touch strings you don't want to touch as you play.

Start with simple chords. Nobody's gonna start with f'ing jazz chords. The first thing you can learn is (chords) Am-Em or Am-E sucesions on the first two frets; that way you're gonna acquire flexibility and your hand is gonna get used to the positions.

Also, there's is a good chance your chords don't sound as-well because the distance between the strings of your guitar is too little, your fingers are too big, both, or your strings are too big and you need thinner strings. In either of those cases, you can either keep practicing pressing the strings with the very tip of your finger, or get a guitar with a bigger neck width.

Cheers!

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GLnoG t1_iupfc7q wrote

You could argue science is a part of history. It was developed, and that process is registered in books; that process of development of scientific knowledge is history in itself.

Newton creating calculus is a part of maths history. Einstein coming up with relativity is a part of physics history, to name some examples.

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