Previous William Thomas Sherman Info Page postings, quotes, observations, etc.
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It's a shame the audio on this is not better. Oh well, those with good speakers are in luck.
["Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous / Ready To Go - Reading Festival 1997"]
[ch. 7]
2...In the first place, then, let us see what reason itself can discover respecting sun, moon, and stars—whether the opinion, entertained by some, of their unchangeableness be correct—and let the declarations of holy Scripture, as far as possible, be first adduced. For Job appears to assert that not only may the stars be subject to sin, but even that they are actually not clean from the contagion of it. The following are his words: “The stars also are not clean in Your sight.” Nor is this to be understood of the splendour of their physical substance, as if one were to say, for example, of a garment, that it is not clean; for if such were the meaning, then the accusation of a want of cleanness in the splendour of their bodily substance would imply an injurious reflection upon their Creator. For if they are unable, through their own diligent efforts, either to acquire for themselves a body of greater brightness, or through their sloth to make the one they have less pure, how should they incur censure for being stars that are not clean, if they receive no praise because they are so?
3...Yet if the stars are living and rational beings, there will undoubtedly appear among them both an advance and a falling back. For the language of Job, “the stars are not clean in His sight,” seems to me to convey some such idea.
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), On First Principles, Book I
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The price of a Guarneri del Gesù violins can run into the tens of millions of dollars, and throw in Paganini and Salvatore Accardo as well and you get double your money's worth.
["Paganini, Caprice no 24, by S. Accardo on Guarneri del Gesù"]
A GREAT VILLAIN
"When Themistocles was about to sacrifice, close to the admiral's galley, there were three prisoners brought to him, fine looking men, and richly dressed in ornamented clothing and gold, said to be the children of Artayctes and Sandauce, sister to Xerxes. As soon as the seer Euphrantides saw them, and observed that at the same time the fire blazed out from the offerings with a more than ordinary flame, and a man sneezed on the right, which was an intimation of a fortunate event, he took Themistocles by the hand, and bade him consecrate the three young men for sacrifice, and offer them up with prayers for victory to Bacchus the Devourer; so should the Greeks not only save themselves, but also obtain victory. Themistocles was much disturbed at this strange and terrible prophecy, but the common people, who in any difficult crisis and great exigency ever look for relief rather to strange and extravagant than to reasonable means, calling upon Bacchus with one voice, led the captives to the altar, and compelled the execution of the sacrifice as the seer had commanded. This is reported by Phanias the Lesbian [i.e., of the island Lesbos], a philosopher well read in history."
~ Plutarch, "Themistolcles," ch. 13.
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["Cathy's Theme from "Wuthering Heights" (1939" - Itzhak Perlman and Boston Pops]
[ch. 6]
2. Seeing, then, that such is the end, when all enemies will be subdued to Christ, when death— the last enemy— shall be destroyed, and when the kingdom shall be delivered up by Christ (to whom all things are subject) to God the Father; let us, I say, from such an end as this, contemplate the beginnings of things. For the end is always like the beginning: and, therefore, as there is one end to all things, so ought we to understand that there was one beginning; and as there is one end to many things, so there spring from one beginning many differences and varieties, which again, through the goodness of God, and by subjection to Christ, and through the unity of the Holy Spirit, are recalled to one end, which is like the beginning...
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), On First Principles, Book I
Would you possibly be interested in knowing what it is like to actually meet a spirit person?
Many years ago and as child I saw the "Green Acres" episode "The Ballad of Molly Turgiss" (S. 1, ep. 26, 1966). While it didn't exactly frighten me, it did sort of freak me out. In coming back to watch the same now, I am reminded how much it gives a reasonably good depiction of what it is actually like meeting some spirit people; at least those parts of the program where "Molly" is seen in the mirror. The scenes where she is shown full bodied, while perhaps not strictly speaking impossible, are for practical purposes highly unlikely. She doesn't talk, but she does and can react; shows emotion and has facial expressions. Also, spirit people have relatively little color to them, are somewhat transparent, and tend to be rather grayish; at least the many I had visit.
Again, if interested, you can view the episode on amazon.com at:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004F1HPBM?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_aiv-20
[see episode 26]
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"Rock" on!
Two favorite Rachmaninoff pieces, the adagio from Symphony no. 2 and Vocalise. Music that can reach the inmost soul or that soothes the savage beast - take your pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRxHyZDU-Q
["Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 2 Op. 27 III. Adagio: Adagio (LSO) - London Symphony Orchestra]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esu1TUAAcMA
["Rachmaninoff conducts Vocalise (Less Noise!)"]
