[MD] Reductionism

[plattholden at gmail.com]

John Carl,

Nice to have a fellow guitar player on the site, though my playing is 
limited for the most part to old country-Western songs like, "The Cat 
Came Back" and Burl Ives numbers like, "The Blue Tail Fly." But, what 
really caught my eye was your inspiring story of defying the 
pronouncement of a SOM doctor. Science continues to belittle the 
exceptionalism of the human being. It considers people to be little more 
than orangutans in suits and dresses in spite of tons of evidence to the 
contrary, including your remarkable recovery against the medical odds.
Congratulations and thanks for renewing my faith in individual 
achievement, the catalyst of progress and carrier of Quality.

Platt




On 16 Jun 2009 at 8:39, John Carl wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Krimel <Krimel at krimel.com> wrote:
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> > I think Case is, in fact cutting off his nose to spite his face. I think he
> > is being stubborn and frivolous. But I don't play guitar or study music
> > theory so he never listens to me.
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> Well I do, so maybe he'll "listen" to me.
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> Case?  Just keep on keepin' on.  I have three cousins who's dad is in a band
> and a retired high school music teacher.  They all grew up learning theory
> and practicing a mandated  1 1/2 hours per day.  They were all talented and
> really good at their instruments when they were kids.
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> Since they became adults, not one of them has picked up an instrument.
>  They've forgotten everything they learned.  They hated music.
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> I, on the other hand, have simply plunked along for pleasure my whole life
> and still enjoy playing guitar.  Those that listen to me enjoy my guitar
> playing also.  I will say tho, that my pleasure is increased when somebody
> teaches me a new trick, or I add some knowledge and it was a great deal of
> improvement to learn to read music and gain some theory - it helps
> tremendously to have some intellectual knowledge in hand when you go
> experimenting.  But you do have to find the right sort of teacher - one that
> takes you where you are and boosts you up.
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> I can also say, that guitar saved my life.  I had an accident 8 years ago
> that severed my median nerve at the elbow, the left elbow.  According to the
> doctor, such damage is irreversible.  Nerves don't regenerate past a certain
> point.  However, an interesting phenemona of music is that over the years
> your neural pathways do this "left brain/right brain" cross development and
> because of the guitar playing and the odd musically generated neural
> development in my left hand, my nerves rebuilt the motor connections that
> enable me to work today, even though I still have no feeling in my thumb or
> fingers.  Doctor is amazed and I?
> 
> I-I-I believe in music, I-I-I believe in Love.
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