Noble Dust

Sort of; I've been reading about people's "Out of Body Experiences" and I thought I was having one of those, so that might have colored my "in dream" ...

Ok, you dreamers. Is lucid dreaming something that can happen spontaneously? (Is it even a real thing?) I had a dream last night where I was flying ov...

Funny, I just read through a summary of that in Karen Armstrong’s “A History Of God”, although she didn’t mention a similarity between Hillel and Jesu...

Where's your imagination brah? Kid comes out of the womb: "Holy fuck that hurt! I'm scared as shit, what the hell is this place??! It was so warm and ...

It'd be cool if babies were born with language ability and gradually had to figure out pronoun use on their own.

My nickname in middle school was Schwebe.

I’m saying none of that.

Isn’t the point of ridding the human race of religious “fables” presumably to eradicate the types of suffering and injustice they’ve caused? Why pursu...

I’m not sure what your point is. All I know is Fight Fire With Fire is a Kansas song.

Is it?

I’m not quite at the same point as you, but I know what you’re saying. None of the big three feel right, but I’m the closest to theism, without gettin...

I agreed with T Clark but this isn’t my position. I’ve read and continue to explore the literature myself. There’s a difference between a balanced, me...

I think this is what annoys me; the irony of a sort of fundamentalist proselytizing against the Christian myth.

Just trying to help.

I feel seen... :yikes:

I agree with you and largely abstain from jumping in the ring.

I don't understand your need to vehemently attack all angles of the Christian myth. It's seems to be an unbalanced position; a weird obsession. Of cou...

Do you have specific examples; a compare and contrast? I don't disagree, but the complaint seems a bit vague. Thanks.

I'm not an atheist, but have lost pretty much all interest in the pointless battle between atheism and theism. I'm also not pissed off at the church a...

A question for @"Shawn", perhaps.

In my mind, one reason is the importance of tradition within Christianity. If to be a Christian means to have faith in the basic tenets of Christianit...

Haha, yeah I watched some of his other videos. Funny dude.

Hanover, is that you?

Love the Pink Floyd sample in this track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44QpIke0JKo

:yikes:

I seem to recall you asking for "shoutbox production"? I'm sorry...

I see @"Baden" on the right side. Proper, correct in so many ways, but secretly longing for the keys to the left hand path. Keys revoked from him by n...

Interesting. I liked how it felt like the author was seeing his own guilt for stealing a car at every turn...then it turned surreal with the realizati...

The use of + signals an avant garde poem ushering in a new era.

The second track where John and Elvin fight for 9 minutes is also a favorite track for me.

I actually forgot Welcome was on there, and thought I was ripping you a new fav track.

A great album that get's overlooked for obvious reasons. Cool to imagine someone transitioning from death metal to this. Listening closely in headphon...

E minor to E major! Crazy how simple it is, and how good it sounds and, to me, it shouldn't, but it does. I also enjoyed listening more closely to Col...

Same. :up:

As to Coltrane, love jazz but have no training. Listening now, but will probably have no insight.

Nice, a change from minor to major lydian (same home note but changes from minor to major with the perfect fourth going up a half step, which is actua...

:yikes: Just wondering if there's an example of a chord change you liked, I reckon.

Anyway, what about yourself? Sorry for taking the spotlight, as always.

More than interesting...

But for real, I was really inspired today to read this page from Micaela Haslam, the eminent expert on this particular Reich piece. Reading about how ...

A testament to my larvae-infested brain.

Around 3:26 a background piano voice introduces a new rhythmic motif which sets up the chord change that I can't get out of my head.

Here's what's been stuck in my brain for about a week, but it takes some explanation, maybe better for the music thread (although no one talks about m...

Anyone ever get a specific chord change stuck in their mind? No?...

Darian's sense of sight flickered in and out like a dying light fixture - scattershot memories of someone refusing to change the bulb - and he tried t...

If by mature you mean "wise", I would agree (in regards to both subjects). On the other hand, we're all at various levels of maturity, as are various ...

^That's an old joke, btw...

My dad used to make me shovel the yard.

The difference between beer-bellied football fanatics and hardened mafia bosses on one hand, and rich, spoiled college kids and woke hipsters on the o...

Didn't Genghis Khan take Buffalo for a hot sec?