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SeanTocker? Um, general discussion forum?

Anyways, Azriel, I like some augmented and strange chords it just depends. I mean, I use a lot of bar chords as well but it just depends. You should upload something on youtube sometime.

My style varies in waves but overall my typical styles are funk, metal, hard-rock, and psychedelic hahaha, actually pretty wide but generally I'll go in phases and just focus on one of those styles for a while then go into another phase...

I'd say after I played for about 3 years I was intermediate and now that I've been playing 6 years I'm advanced but not like SRV advanced bahahahah

Hey, was just wondering what your guys's styles of guitar playing were. Favorist guitarist(s), who you mimic in your style of playing, riffs/licks you use occasionally in your solos and such.

I want a discussion thread for guitar players to have a place to talk about anything concerning guitars, mostly about playing though.

Also if you need help with what to do if for example you break something and need advice for fixing it.

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I'll start off by saying I have many guitars... I have a fender squier, hagstrom electric, a custom 335, ibanez 335, washburn acoustic electric, and a michael kelly electric. I've been thinking of selling the michael kelly and the ibanez lately though just cause i prefer playing my custom 335 of the hagstrom, and of course my fender was my first guitar and i have to keep at least one acoustic even though it never gets played.

My favorite guitarists if I were to limit myself to three musicians would be Hendrix, Vaughn, and John Frusciante.

My favorite band is def. the Chili Peppers and have been since I was like 13.

I definitely mimic Frusciante the most in my style of playing. I don't sweep pick (first off cause I can't) but my style doesn't reall call for it and I just don't like it... I sustain a lot of notes in my solos and go for a more melodic style of playing and I use A LOT of hammer/pull-offs like Frusciante. I've been beefing up my solo repertoire by learning new riffs and licks from watching and listening to Frusciante and some youtube vidoeos.

I play a couple different genres of music including funk, rock, metal, psychedelic, experimental, and anything of a mixture of those as well.

I've been wanting to learn some more new riffs and licks, like hammer/pull-off stuff, so if anyone has any good vids or references I'd appreciate anything you could explain or send me a link to or anything.

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What about you guys? I hope this can become a thread where anyone who plays guitar on the forums can get a good discussion going!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsTPuSue5RE

Love the solo in this song.

If there is never proof (which there never will be) for one way or the other, are you okay with living your life without taking a stance on either side? Let's say God exists, and let's say it's the Christian God, are you okay with the way you believe as compared to if he didn't exist?

If he doesn't exist you're line of thinking doesn't really matter in an eternal since, but if he does, then it does.

Since no one knows, why not just live by what God wants, just in case he is real. Except a 'just in case' attitude isn't what God wants either...

Just wondering

So just in general where are you normally at when you find time to get on diablofans?

So for me, and probably like a lot of the rest of you... actually probably not cause you might have important things to do... is at work.

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If anyone will address another concern I have about Christianity. The Earth was apparently created 6000 years ago while Jesus came to be 2000 years ago. If Jesus was the messenger of God in a sense and as such, the bible was created in his honour, and the bible speaks of obeying the ten commandments or you will go to hell if you don't pray for forgiveness, then would've all those that lived between 2000-6000 years ago be left in the dark about it all and since they had no knowledge of praying or of god then they would go to hell because everyone obviously sins.

I don't know much about the old testament, but did this book address this concern? What was the ancient peoples' beliefs regarding Christianity?

Good try, but not even close to a valid argument.

Before Christ, judaism was God's religion he ordained. People had to offer animal sacrifices to have their sins "rolled back" for the year, this system was never perfect and God meant it not be so Christ could be the perfect sacrifice to forgive everyone's sins if they accepted him. But, if someone died under the old law (old testament) and was a devout jew keeping the commandments of the old law and died, they would be saved.

I didn't know Christianity was a balancing act... More good things than bad is what makes God forgive you? If that's your personal conviction that's fine but that's not what the bible supports. I mean even the one parable (can't remember the name of it, google what I'm paraphrasing) that talks about the guy who hired these guys to work for him and they work the entire day and then he hired another guy for like the last hour of the day to do the same work as the other guys and then he gave them all the same amount of pay... Now I realize parables are probably one of the most debated elements of the bible in their meaning but I would say it's not how many good compared to bad you do, it's where you're at at the moment.

For example, Jeffery Dahmer or w/e his name was was a serial killer who ate the people he killed... Now, he was "converted" in prison before his execution, I'm sure his bad outweighs his good, but if he truly actually did repent and so forth do you think he will go to heaven?

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Actually he is right. Anybody with a scientific degree is usually not religious. Most college professors are atheist, usually those in mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy, biology (especially this one), etc. There is no taboo in science, and saying that there is might be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

I'm studying lab medicine and I still believe in God and have complete faith in my religion. Science explains the big bang and all that crap, it still fails to explain where all the shit that "banged" came from. If it managed to find that out, where did the things that resulted in the things that resulted in the big bang come from? And so on. God is the final answer, and all one has to have is faith to believe in it all. If God went on CNN and went like "hey you blasphemous fuckers, how about you stop listening to all your black Metal shit, put down your liquor bottle, and worship me, EH?" it would be absolutely fucking silly, and there'd be no thing as faith then, and everyone would simply worship God; and where's the "test" in that?

All that I see in this thread is people discussing Christianity. What about Judaism? What about Islam? Can you please tell me how Islam has failed? You seem hellbent on showcasing Christianity's failure, can you please tell me Islam's "wrongs" ? Let's assume for the sake of example, that the Bible is wrong here and there because it has been written again and again by that guy and that guy, with plenty of differences between people with regards to several subject. Islam only has the Quran. Islam only has two sects, differing in slight things, all things considered. Since some of you like to think that they know everything, and therefore everyone who is religious or even believes in God is a fucking nutcase, please tell me what you KNOW about Islam, what you think it has gotten wrong in its Holy book, what you think science has disproved in the Quran...etc. Oh wait, you haven't read the Quran? You don't know anything about Islam bar the fact that Muslims are turban wearing terrorists? Heh, thought so.

Win. Lol CNN... had me laughing so hard at work.

On a complete side note, I love how people discuss Christianity and don't even know the core beliefs of Christianity... Faith/Belief alone is not the plan of salvation according to the New Testament.

just installed d2 lod, gotta get the patch real quick, someone play with me on west!!!!!!

im gonna have my friend at work who put ubuntu on here shoe me a couple things about linux. i ended up (atm actually) installing d2 on my sister's laptop which runs windows lol

just checked out groove addicts, nice

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Britney Spears, Jonas Brothers, Celine Dion, Slayer...

The second after reading this I was like, wtf?? But to each his own

anyways...

Red Hot Chili Peppers
John Frusciante (solo work)
Ataxia
Kooks
Arctic Monkeys
Kings of Leon
As I Lay Dying
Nirvana
Kaiser Chiefs
The Streets
Velvet Revolver
The Beatles

I don't know, so, so many more, I just can't think at the moment...

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Murder is a pre-meditated killing out of hatred, so self-defense wouldn't constitute murder, but manslaughter. Manslaughter, according to the bible is not a sin, so, according to the bible I'd say it's safe to say that manslaughter is not evil, but that doesn't make it good either, right? I think each scenario just needs weighed out in context and not generalized.

Hey I got another thing to bring up in conversation which is where do we get our morals from? I would say we are all "moral" people here in the sense we aren't murdering people or stealing etc... But why aren't we? If you find a wallet on the ground why do you turn it into the police department?

Since the general consensus here is that good and evil can't be defined except by the individual defining it themself, then how have we all come to the conclusion (as well as most people) that these things are evil?

I would argue that all morals have a stem from religion because religion (in my case christianity, but even in a general sense most big religions are morally pretty good in general) set a standard for us to agree upon instead of everyone just going by their own standard, which if we did that (and we do to some extent, but I would argue we form our morals unknowingly from religious doctrines) I believe the world would be even more chaos than what it is now.

But I would argue that it didn't stem with religion, it came from the sense of community. Just look at the animal kingdom; different of species of animals commit immoral acts against each other, eating each other, fighting each other, stealing, etc. But if you look at one specific species you would see herds, packs, prides, all grouped together and all care for each other, now animals don't have religion do they?

Religion at best is a concept we as humans made up to consist of morals. If you look at Christianity's Ten Commandments most of it is a basic list of morals that we generally accept in society, but we couldn't have just made it up, there had to be a time where we had no religion but we still had morals obviously (or we would still be Stone Age currently).

Animals don't think of eating prey as immoral dude. Animals don't travel in packs because they care for each other on the level of human caring, or even in a sense to prove that humans formed their own morals because even lower species have morals... They travel in packs for survival reasons, not for any moral reasons.

I believe there's always been religion, but I also believe the world is approx. about 6000 years old.