Tue 7 Jun, 2005 07:29 pm - [quote="Steve (as 41oo)"]brown's latest book, written to an identical formula, just change a few proper nouns, is MUCH MUCH worse than the da Vinci code.[/quote]
...depend on the... (view)
Mon 28 Mar, 2005 01:21 pm - Val ~
You're right! Feelings of transcendency and their unspoken allegories are not to be argued with. You have exceptional taste! (view)
Mon 28 Mar, 2005 01:14 pm - ...it's also to give rank stupidity a vocabulary - a semantic by which to measure and incorporate paradoxes - and a purpose (telos) to grant its raison d'etre. Popes used to do that; if... (view)
Fri 25 Mar, 2005 12:33 am - Val ~
Late Beethoven certainly is virtual proof that "music is a greater revelation than philosophy" and I'm sure you know who said that! It's a perfect affirmation that... (view)
Wed 23 Mar, 2005 09:26 pm - Life is the "incommensurate" which bulldozes through uncertainties until it arrives at the one thing it has always been certain of. The "intervening" are the variables of... (view)
Mon 21 Mar, 2005 11:18 pm - Life is without input to an afterlife. The ONLY thing that would enforce a counter response is a "belief" no matter how stupid, complex, sophisticated or profound. But while I live, I am... (view)
Mon 21 Mar, 2005 01:51 pm - [quote]That is, is experience (listening) passive or active?[/quote]
Depends on whether you're meditating or conducting. One could make you a philosopher and the other could make you live 20... (view)
Mon 21 Mar, 2005 12:32 am - [quote]what is the music that one falls asleep to - I'll give it a try -[/quote]
...try the Goldberg Variations. Evidently that's the reason Bach wrote it, to put some blue-blooded... (view)
Sun 20 Mar, 2005 01:04 am - Waldo_
...appreciate your appreciation of these "bagatelles". On re-reading, I would have revised a few and probably would have chosen a different one for "top marks" Thanks... (view)
Sat 19 Mar, 2005 01:07 am - You cannot "select" a non-belief. You can only deselect the ones you have until you don't have any. This may be a precondition for a more syncretic view because it requires... (view)