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I don’t believe in magical thinking.
This means I don’t believe in any of the beliefs listed below.

Alien Crop circles
Angels / Archangels
Astrology
Baptisms
Big Foot
Blessings
Boogeymen
Chemtrails (other than contrails.)
Clairvoyance
Crystal power (excepting piezo effects)
Curses
Demons
Dowsing
Devils
ESP
Evil
Exorcisms
Fairies
Faith healing
Fortune telling
Ghosts
Ghouls
Goblins
Gods (any, all, including the concept of Jesus as lord)
Good luck charms (4 leaf clovers, rabbit’s feet, et al)
Hexes
(that) Homosexuality and deviations are by choice, not genetics.
Hoping
Immortality
Incantations
Jinxes
Kharma
Last rites
Laying of hands
Loch Ness Monster
Luck
Lucky numbers or objects
Magic (true, not by performing “magicians”)
Martians (present-day anyway)
Mojos
Numerology
Oracles
Ouija boards
Palm readers
Past lives
Physical representations (Jesus’ likeness in trees, food, etc. Virgin Mary appearances, etc)
Poltergeists
Potions and elixirs
Powers of inanimate objects and shapes (crosses, pentagons, etc)
Power of positive thinking
Prophecy
Psychics
Prayer
Premonitions
Rain Dances
Reincarnations
Rituals (purifications, carrying a bride over a threshold, fertility, rain dances, etc.)
Sainthood
Santa Claus
Sin
Sorcerers
Souls
Spells
Spirits and spirituality
Sprites
Superheros (Batman, Superman, Spiderman, The Hulk, etc.)
Supernatural powers
Superstitions (stepping on a crack, four leaf clovers, under a ladder, black cat crossing, throwing salt over shoulder, knocking on wood, et al)
Tarot cards
Tea leaf reading
Telekinesis
Telepathy
The Easter Bunny
The Tooth Fairy
Time travelling
Trolls
Unicorns
Vampires
Vigils
Voodoo
Warlocks
Werewolves
Wishing
Witches
Wizards
Worship
Zombies

None of these beliefs above have any solid evidence of existence yet provided for.
No religions either: Including Christian (all sects), Islam, Buddha, Hindu, Taoism, Scientology, Zen, etc, etc,

Certain beliefs I have are real, but limited.
For example, chiropractic, accupuncture/accupressure, etc.

Below is what I DO believe exists, yet are all unseen by the unaided human eye (except for light and certain lasers).

Anti-biotics (unseen)
Atomic and sub-atomic particles (quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, etc) (unseen)
Atoms and molecules (unseen)
Bacteria (unseen)
Cells (blood, plasma, cancer, stem etc) (unseen)
DNA / RNA (unseen)
Electricity (unseen- closest natural sighting would be lightning)
Electromagnetic inductance (unseen)
Lasers (can be seen or unseen depending on frequency or type)
Life on other planets (unseen)
Magnetism (unseen)
Microbes (unseen)
Photosynthesis (unseen)
Proteins (unseen)
Radiation (infrared, radio frequencies, microwaves, x-rays, atomic, nuclear, cosmic, gamma, etc. (unseen)
Viruses (unseen)

–Kevin Lightner, 6/19/2014

My idea would be to make a configurable modular.

Identical panels with controls and jacks, but hi-speed A/D and D/A and internal processor inside. Possibly DSP.

Made cheaply using surface mount techniques and with having to design only one panel, the modules could have their function defined by what program they’re set to run.

Make one an envelope, make one an oscillator, cascade several and make a sequencer, etc. Redefine as needed and upload future new programs and ideas.

Done right, they wouldn’t cost too much and they could have their programming info made public, so others would offer new functions.

Panels could be offered in 1/8″, 1/4″ and banana jacks too.

 

January 10, 2003, 5PM