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Maybe so, my friend, maybe so.

I admit I studied history in college because I love the subject, not because I was looking ahead to the future.

I never was an intellectual, so all things considered, if I had to do it all over, I'd be born into a musical family and become a professional musician. that is where my heart is.

I honestly think there is more than one type of intelligence, and that artistic intelligence is one of them.

yes! it is a variant of kinesiologic intelligence, like that of athletes.

do you own any instruments, blabby, singing around the house perhaps?

I own a prehistoric synth, the Casio VL-Tone 1, a combo calculator and monophonic quasi-synth, that I obtained way back in the early 80s [I'm old]. also own a casiotone mt-240 that my mother bought me for a birthday present in the mid-80s that I still use. used to own an angel bass recorder but had to sell that when I was short of cash. have a hulking gulbransen theatrum organ that my tv rests atop. it is the most gorgeous-sounding home organ I have heard, easily besting the rather pedestrian [but elaborate] sounds of the mighty conn 650 theatre organ. but my playing skills are easily bested by your typical Suzuki student. I can play churchy stuff, though. having perfect pitch is helpful as people I know have me tune their guitars for them from time to time. I like to do bad elvis impressions [I have the same kind of dark baritone he had, maybe a fifth lower, a bass-baritone akin to a radio announcer. also if you get me juiced up I might be prone to jumping atop a table and shouting out "mack the knife"
I mainly do digital audio restoration of old phonographic recordings. so tell me, what do you do musically? enquiring minds want to know

This is a bit backwards as politics is a branch of philosophy, but politics of today is for the most part detatched its more fundamental roots. That's why most politicians have been reduced to non-principled pragmatic idiots led by the whims of the masses. They are not leaders, but followers. I don't like to talk about anything but nothing, which has not been proved to exist anywhere, and I don't think they will ever find it.

Maybe so, but in the end, whatever world view we have goes back to the political stance we believe in.

I like to discuss politics in the broad sense - which system of government creates the best society, and what constitutes the "best" society. I don't like discussing Republicans and Democrats because I think they all represent multi-national corporations now.
I like discussing religion even though I am agnostic. I like to speculate on the nature of God, if one exists. I also think there are some quite astonishing passages in the Bible that people seem to overlook. My own view is that there are many gods, and that we are ourselves infant gods. I believe that, if the Bible is correct (big IF), then Earth is a nursury.

i'm honestly not acquainted with synths and organs but golly ge that sounds like am impressive repertoire of booming melody creating devices. it seems beyond me sometimes how people come up with such glorious machines.
as for me, my largest musical instrument is a weathered lester spinet piano my father acquired from a friend of my sister's mentor some 4 or 5 years back. while originally meant for my sister, she showed no interest in it and it was i that eventually got into it, listening to Liszt's Transcendental Etudes and playing bits and pieces of them, the very few parts that i could. and after taking lessons, video game OST's
after my folks picked up on my interest in it they moved the piano inside from the porch (pianos and fluctuations in humidity don't mix well) to my tiny room where it now stays.
starting january 2012 i took lessons from the wife of my dad's coworker, i was a very fast learner and thusly, ended up with tons more homework than other students. i like to think she was proud of me, but truth is i quickly lost interest when i ended up playing in a duet with her in a church concert with some other musicians. i don't regret it but at the time i was very recalcitrant. she moved away that year and when i expressed interest again she was gone.

a good amount of they keys in the lower octaves are out of tune, one key's hammer has the head felt peeling off from the actual head molding and it looks like it will fall off any moment. even back in the day i don't think i gave the old piano much of a beating though.

i also own a 73 kay casio keyboard, a gift. from three years ago. if i do ever get back to pianoing i may use that, as i am very reticent with my music for some reason, at least the keyboard is quieter.

ironically, the problem with pianos is that they aren't piano enough, in terms of playing at a whisper. synths are much better at that sort of thing where one wants to practice without bothering anybody else using headphones. maybe one day you will be able to give the lester a bit of TLC and get it as good as new again. being able to play lizst is pretty advanced, you sound like you have the talent to where you might give music in college a try in terms of at least a minor. just a thought. there can never be enough musicians on earth to suit me. wish I was one of 'em.

I have not one ounce of musical talent . I admit, I always have envied you guys who do.

^^^ I never let that stop me from playing...

Make yourself a guitbass and have a ball.

http://www.inthequeue.com/guitbass/

Who knows .

I think if you lucked into finding an excellent music teacher, you may well be surprised. I believe there is music hiding in you, just waiting for the right means of expression.