32dB

Or "how to differentiate sacred and profane with iPhone".

If you go to the Varatec Monastery you'll find a sacred place. A heaven for those not in a hurry. If you go there and just make the usual ritual (go on the left, put a candel, give some money, leave early ...) ... then you didn't understood anything at all. STAY for 10 minutes and listen. Better book one hour. You don't have to believe something. I don't force myself to. Just listen. Unfortunately there's no iPhone app to measure how sacred the voice orchestra is singing. Don't go during the night without booking -- because you won't find anything decent open around.

BUT.

The Agapia Monastery is measurable :-) ... you can use the iPhone to count how much noice (dB) is around. You'll be amazed to find 32dB and lower ... even with some very very light wind and some birds singing ... :-))

Can iPhone be used to differentiate a sacred place and a profane place ? Yes. Well. No. Maybe. It depends. But you can measure the silence. If you manage to really find it.

Honestly I was always too busy and in a hurry NOT to read and learn about the "human naive world". The technical books are so challenging and always updated and too many ... that I preserve myself for older age :-P

But I remember reading about "Mircea Eliade" - one of the few romanian minds who made a big contribution to the understanding of religion and the various totems, signs, hierophanies, sacred, profane, axis mundi, illo tempore ... it's funny that when time goes - you don't remember all the details but some significant powerful words and concepts.

Well I suppose "Mircea" would be really pissed or glad to learn that at least one metric was invented to differentiate between sacred an profane - and it's usable through the iPhone :-)

PS:

unfortunately there's no iPhone app to measure the useless days, useless hours - those kind of days/hours when apparently one do something in life - but in the end there's no result/fun at all - they just pass and the lifetime counter just decrease; there's no app to measure what is the percent of one's life when he/she really feels to live; how many times one feels the need to do something great; how many times one realize it's too late to do something; how many times one realize being selfish is not working and not it's interest; how many times it's hard to make a balance between passion and 'too much'; how many times one's afraid to do something because it can be stupid; how many times one's afraid to do anything at all; how many times one's pretending to be what's not the case; how many times one is forgetting what MOM said; how many times one forget the origins. How many times one has the courage to take a big challenge and risk for something big. How many times one is too modest to pretend what it is possible.

So many missing iPhone apps ... that I wonder if it's usable at all :-)