Day 16 ⇝ Your views on mainstream music
It comes down to this. Listen to what you like. Good music is just good music to the listener. It is a shame real talent can get overlooked in the face of manufactured artists and groups. However, I also feel that is important for people to 1) accept a band they dislike is technically talented 2) for others to accept a person may just not like a band, not because they think they lack talent, but because it is not to their taste.
Balkenlisation of people based upon their taste in music e.g. 'I'm metal and won't compromise' is dumb.
Day 17 ⇝ Your highs and lows of this past year
Highs
- Going to Paris and Versailles
- Getting kittens
- Getting my literature review published
- Getting another year of funding
- Organising a new roleplay group
- Going to York
- Going to the CCG conference in Cambridge Genome Campus
- Sam's birthday
- My smartphone changed my life
Downs
- Up and down depression with work
- The flat being more of a problem because it is new build
- Money issues
- Not getting leverhulme funding
Day 18 ⇝ Your beliefs
I tend towards open paganism/hermetic philosophy, which allows for the integration of science, not it's exclusion. I may not believe in gods or spirits etc, but I do believe in some greater cosmic force, something that is more akin to the very essence of the universe and so in present in all, but greater than the sum of parts. I don't believe in magic in the typical 'oh your become a frog' stuff. But magic of the mind, the ability to recognise the mental energies that can be manipulated into allowing a person to do the things they wish to do. Science is of course magic of world that is well documented and reproducible, so I allow for there to be phenomena that currently cannot be explain by science and so falls into the realm of paranormal and magic.
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