tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4920942077207712522..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Beauty and SadnessGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68479598569749782202015-01-28T18:25:00.809-08:002015-01-28T18:25:00.809-08:00WOW! Loved that video. And yes, spot on!WOW! Loved that video. And yes, spot on!Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91253848448936870582015-01-27T08:46:37.709-08:002015-01-27T08:46:37.709-08:00Just got around to watching the video. Very cool! ...Just got around to watching the video. Very cool! I have a fair amount of Galper playing with Phil Woods -- now I'll hear it in a whole new way!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70568975239813587652015-01-26T07:25:37.385-08:002015-01-26T07:25:37.385-08:00Re: Schopenhauer and music, pianist Hal Galper tal...Re: Schopenhauer and music, pianist Hal Galper talks from the Inside:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7DgCrziI8<br /><br />This could not be more spot on.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9168329350508924912015-01-25T18:13:45.777-08:002015-01-25T18:13:45.777-08:00Well like he said near the end, one of the good th...Well like he said near the end, one of the good things of being old is he believes he will be spared having to go through the final demise.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4221758544021022842015-01-25T12:14:16.112-08:002015-01-25T12:14:16.112-08:00(^▽^)(^▽^)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46956631623436642032015-01-25T12:01:00.750-08:002015-01-25T12:01:00.750-08:00I don't know if I've ever seen someone who...I don't know if I've ever seen someone who is so jovial while delivering bad news, except for maybe Dr. Hibbert on the Simpsons.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25513133799507004422015-01-24T22:49:13.606-08:002015-01-24T22:49:13.606-08:00That is a superb interview. I never get bored list...That is a superb interview. I never get bored listening to Sowell, or reading his books.<br />He's a fountain of wisdom and rather than promoting ideology he seeks out and promotes truth.<br /><br />No wonder leftist rabble rousers hate him so much.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72763265922364702492015-01-24T18:48:23.063-08:002015-01-24T18:48:23.063-08:00Great interview with former Marxist Thomas Sowell....Great interview with former Marxist <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/01/after-last-night-detoxify-here.php" rel="nofollow">Thomas Sowell</a>. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26395221796068177732015-01-24T13:48:51.062-08:002015-01-24T13:48:51.062-08:00So, in these mountains bluebirds sit around and ta...So, in these mountains bluebirds sit around and talk.<br />Author, indeed. Enough to make kings dance before the Lord, in undies.<br /><br />When not depressed, just maudlin. Probably OK, if spread out enough to not matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82964848142031461842015-01-23T19:36:36.226-08:002015-01-23T19:36:36.226-08:00Bad link - try hereBad link - try <a href="http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/01/23/richard-lubbock/" rel="nofollow">here</a>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75499942050296001002015-01-23T19:26:41.711-08:002015-01-23T19:26:41.711-08:00"<a href="http://www.davidwarrenonlin..."<a href="http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/01/23/richard-lubbock/“>If you listen carefully, you will hear, hidden beneath the screeches, squawks, and thwacks of the cosmos, the melodies and counterpoint of breathtaking music. Conscientious philosophers should try to experience that underlying beauty, to understand it, and to add to it</a>."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51145147742101104902015-01-23T17:41:22.045-08:002015-01-23T17:41:22.045-08:00Give it a couple weeks -- sadly, the effect isn...Give it a couple weeks -- sadly, the effect isn't immediate, like a drug. <br /><br />(✖╭╮✖)<br /><br />And Joan, that's not babbling, that's jammin' on the edge of articulation . I know, because IT'S WHAT WE DO HERE. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65927435744690655612015-01-23T17:23:15.940-08:002015-01-23T17:23:15.940-08:00I'd never thought of adding unsweetened cocoa ...I'd never thought of adding unsweetened cocoa to my coffee. May have to give that a try tomorrow, if I can remember. Lord knows my brain needs all the help it can get these days.<br /><br />Joan, I know exactly what you mean. I think that's why it's such a complaint for people when the music at church doesn't hit the right notes, so to speak. Not that I'm blaming churches, since they can only work with who they have and chances are that at least some people will object to pretty much everything, taste-wise.<br /><br />Come to think of it, one thing that does bug me is when they don't include a score. Obviously not everyone can read notes, but it doesn't take much brainpower to figure out when you're supposed to go higher and lower. Nothing like having a mass of people learning a new hymn when only one or two of them actually know how it goes...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55752690668390516202015-01-23T17:15:13.121-08:002015-01-23T17:15:13.121-08:00I find it so hard to comment on music. It carries ...I find it so hard to comment on music. It carries Spirit as does any other form of communication; i.e., the Spirit that went into its creation comes out when we experience it. And yet it is more than the visual arts, somehow. I can't feel 'saved' without music. It's a glimpse beyond the veil, a healing of the separation we must suffer until all is made whole again. It's the praise that it carries to the throne of the Coolest Cat, the communion of the jokes in jazz, the whole existentialada when we don't have words for the ache, the hurt, the happy, or the hilarious Light of our being <i>in Him</i>. <br /><br />It's a sensory ignition in the way that scent is, but smells are like a hit of some drug. Music is a spiritual ignition that drills into one's spirit and lingers long after to heal up or break open or just bridge over those troubled waters. <br /><br />See? I babble. I am its servant. I cannot sing a note if it's to "perform" ... but to worship, I am a helpless vessel of music. It owns me, I do not master it. It is His in some way I cannot express. Feh. I babble.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-113591862306914272015-01-23T16:35:07.040-08:002015-01-23T16:35:07.040-08:00B complex and D3 are good -- make sure it's D3...B complex and D3 are good -- make sure it's D<b>3</b>. Also 3 or 4 grams of fish oil -- not of the oil itself, but of EFA and DHA, which are the biologically active thingies. Also turmeric and a couple of teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa. I've been adding the latter to my coffee in the morning, and you can hardly taste it. I think it has made me smarter, or at least slowed down the deterioration. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43326418011514460232015-01-23T16:13:17.658-08:002015-01-23T16:13:17.658-08:00"This is better: music is an "unconsciou..."This is better: music is an "unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know that it is philosophizing." Thus, "our imagination is... susceptible to music" and "seeks to give form to that invisible yet lively spirit-world which speaks to us directly, and clothe it with flesh and blood." But for Schopenhauer, this "lively spirit world" is just an impotent Wiener process of the same old impersonal World Will."<br /><br />Not to be confused with Der Wienerschnitzel process.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16666330994785913942015-01-23T16:07:21.685-08:002015-01-23T16:07:21.685-08:00Looks like Arty was the life of the party.Looks like Arty was the life of the party.Skullynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73658803495318747972015-01-23T16:05:38.652-08:002015-01-23T16:05:38.652-08:00Here's a short article from the Mayo Clinic ab...Here's a short article from the Mayo Clinic about it:<br />http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/expert-answers/vitamin-b12-and-depression/FAQ-20058077<br /><br />Nothin' from the Mustard Clinic though.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57869493097669422122015-01-23T15:56:33.403-08:002015-01-23T15:56:33.403-08:00Hi Julie,
A couple of years ago my Doc found I was...Hi Julie,<br />A couple of years ago my Doc found I was running low on B-12 and D. Now that I take supplements I don't get depressed nearly as much as I used to. <br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65480076638724737552015-01-23T15:19:04.385-08:002015-01-23T15:19:04.385-08:00The sad dead emojis are cracking me up.
We're...The sad dead emojis are cracking me up.<br /><br /><i>We're still dead, but at least the meaningless impersonal will that willed us wills on forever.</i><br /><br />See, this is why I don't really care if reincarnation is real. I can't remember any of those past lives. Unless there is some way to retrieve them on the other side of the veil and make all the lives into an integrated whole (and hopefully with a good karma balance in the cosmic bank account), they seem kind of pointless.<br /><br /><i>Try getting a bit more sunlight, or maybe eat more fish.</i><br /><br />I've found a good B-vitamin supplement to be helpful, too. Though admittedly, there may be a placebo effect. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2849762552833581752015-01-23T11:54:21.134-08:002015-01-23T11:54:21.134-08:00The dour power of Schopenhauer :)
(or maybe :( is...The dour power of Schopenhauer :)<br /><br />(or maybe :( is more appropriate)EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76321730937307216412015-01-23T11:26:59.209-08:002015-01-23T11:26:59.209-08:00Having suffered from depression in various degree,...Having suffered from depression in various degree, it's true that during those periods I tend to think I'm the only one around seeing the world realistically.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46885229862418556422015-01-23T11:04:52.607-08:002015-01-23T11:04:52.607-08:00Interesting too that Judaism emphasizes the hedoni...Interesting too that Judaism emphasizes the hedonic side of things, not the an-hedonic...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69882055734174993162015-01-23T11:03:13.060-08:002015-01-23T11:03:13.060-08:00The first sentence of this video is on topic:
htt...The first sentence of this video is on topic:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqJ4pt-Ad4<br /><br />Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2434694813257475692015-01-23T11:00:37.529-08:002015-01-23T11:00:37.529-08:00Scruton's book on musical aesthetics is long, ...Scruton's book on musical aesthetics is long, but what I've read so far is very good and clearly written.<br /><br />"Anhedonia"<br /><br />Dude, I saw them open for Slayer! They rocked, sorta.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.com