*If we ever experienced a problem anywhere, it came about, in some degree, due to certain wrong assumptions, either co-present with, or just prior to the given problem's actually taking place.
TENETS
* Unless you believe in God, the One, and or the infinite, every assumption is contingent.
* PROCESS (or if you prefer spirit, or activity) PRECEDES IMAGE. Image may, to some extent, (and sometimes almost perfectly) represent process. But process is always superior to and always more real than image. If process precedes image this might suggest also that mind precedes matter and energy.
* Everything we believe, or say we know, is based on a factual or value judgment. Both kinds of judgment always entail the other to some extent, and nothing can be known or exists for us without them.
* No fact or purported fact is true or false without someone to assert and believe it to be such. If an assertion or claim is deemed true or false then, and we are thorough, we should ask who is it that says so (or has said so), and what criteria are (were) they using? There is no such thing as "faceless" truth or reality -- at least none we are capable of knowing.
* You can't escape reason. If you aren't rational yourself, someone else will be rational for you; nor do their intentions toward you need to be friendly or benevolent.
* Every point of view and opinion has its truth to it -- even the most abhorrent and unacceptable to us. This said, we are naturally inclined to assume that some opinions have much greater truth to them than others. Even so, what little truth there is in any point of view must, at least at some juncture, and certainly with respect to issues of heated controversy, be justly and reasonably respected. Why? Because we would not be honest (and therefore not truthful) if we didn't.
*Ultimately, and when all is said and done, thought without heart is nothing.
* Most, if not all, of society's very worst problems arise from (certain) spirit people and those who listen to them -- whether the former comes in the shape of "God," angel, devil or what have you. It is these people who are most the source and cause of real unhappiness. If then you chance to have contact with such, while having (one assumes) overcome their lures, deceptions, and pretenses of benevolence and higher knowledge, I recommend that this (i.e. "unhappiness" or "unhappiness itself") is what you call them. Blame and curse them for (most) everything wrong; for it is it is they who have been and are the ruin of everyone and everything (that is, if anyone is or could be said to be so.)
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The favorite concluding phrase I noticed I've most been using of late when trying to expound to, and or reason with these people comes from Curly Howard, and that is -- "...get the picture?"
In that movement from the violin concerto we posted of late, you will possibly have notice or already been aware that Mozart utilizes or invokes a Turkish theme; a musical device fairly common with some famous 17th and 18th century composers -- and doubtless the practice of adopting Eastern music in the West spans much, much further back in time than that. Well, here are three samples of authentic Turkish music such as composers Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven might have heard. The first is a martial air; the second a conventional song from the 18th century, and the third a violin work which sounds something like "Fritz Kreisler meets Django Reinhardt."
["Ottoman Army Music from early 17th century" -- Ottoman Military Band with alias Mehter]
["Turkish Music from 18th century - Yine bir gülnihal" by Hamamizade Ismail Dede Efendi and played by Sarband]
["Turkish Music - Violin" -- by Kemani Haydar Tatliyay; performed by ?]
How only fitting that the logo used by King County should be that of a Martin Luther King impersonator.
You may find it disagreeable to hear but, even so, you need to know the truth, and that is that real science is not someone pretending to do real science.
In addition being enjoyable (though the YT audio could stand improving), the following is, I think, an especially edifying rendering of Mendelssohn's well known "Hebrides Overture;" inasmuch as the quantity of instruments the piece ordinarily calls for is scaled downed markedly, and which serves to remind us that any music -- including the most elaborate overtures or sophisticated symphonies -- can be performed on both different numbers and types of instruments -- and still be, in essence, the same thing. This is the group ConjuntXXI! from Barcelona, Spain with Marta Carreton, conductor.
The fifth movement to Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 (K219); here with Yehudi Menuhin and the Wiener Symphoniker under the baton of Herbert Von Karajan, c. 1966.
How are spirit people like Getty Images? They will charge you 50.00 to rent a .jpg or .bmp of theirs to use, say, at your website for three months; rather than give you the same (as you would expect a multi-million dollar organization would for such a materially trivial thing) for free or else for a very small nominal fee (like 1.00-2.00.)
The following are a sketch and two paintings by Robert Dighton (c.1752-1814), an eighteenth century British artist who often drew humorous subjects. The first of these is "The King's Shilling" (1781); the second "Geography Bewitched;" and the third "A Windy Day" (1783). Click on image to see a larger version.
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This description of the third illustration here by Dighton comes as an excerpt from 1776: The British Story of the American Revolution, p. 59; published as companion guide to an exhibition held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich at the time of America's Bicentennial.
"Windy Day, St. Paul's Churchyard
1783. Watercolor...
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
St. Paul's Churchyard was a centre for London's print shops...The sudden gusts of wind around St. Paul's caused by the high buildings, were notorious and attributed to the devil, for shops displaying pornography [sic] clustered in the churchyard."
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Miscellaneous
"Single-handedly,
Fought both the League of Horror
And the Organization Against Freedom
For over a Decade,
AND beat them -- MANY times!"
This is my recommendation of things and people sundry which others may have missed. For some these will already be well known, but for others less so. It is for these last that the suggestion is proffered.
Since its inception, posting the "recommendation of the week," although much fun along the way, has also become a bit of an inconvenient chore requiring a regular schedule. Meanwhile, but more importantly, since I effectively (aside from the above mentioned exception) receive no feedback on them (or on this website generally), I can't think it warrants the personal investment any longer to keep it going. In addition to lack of feedback, I simply don't have the extra money (I feel) necessary to explore different music, movies, books etc. -- in turn necessary to maintain the span, color, and variety of the selections, taking the list as a whole. Consequently, unless and until I do ever finally get feedback and or "somehow" come
into some funds, the "recommendation of the week" at present (as of August 2009) has been discontinued.
Otherwise and as an expedient, what I intend to do in future in its place is post or mention music, movies, books etc. among my regular "Oracles;" as inspiration moves me or of unusually special interest comes up; something, of course, I already have, to some extent at least, been doing for some time.
Your Choice
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Well, I would be certainly if I wasn't being black-balled, blacklisted, and my communications routinely tampered with. This is pitiful I know, and I have put off doing this literally for years. But now is the time for it to be known that if anyone will send me money I'll take it. And if truth be told, the more money I have the more of a wallop I can put to these Hell people (certainly they don't want me having any, and have and will gyp and short change me just about whenever they can.) So please consider giving to this website if you can at all possibly afford it. Proceeds also go to assist the Institute for Ben Turpin Studies. So far I have sold only one book at my "Bookshop;" so it is not at all impossible that even if you try what you might send won't be allowed to get through to me. If this happens -- oh well, thanks anyway! (Also, by the way, if you try to send money, whether by Pay Pal or otherwise, and for some reason I don't receive it or am prevented from doing so please report this to Social Security; because interference of my receiving such or other funds or donations goes clearly against Social Security's understandable wish that I no longer be a dependent on them if possible.)
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