Noble Dust

Fair enough. I just love that bassline and how Don sounds like he's being run through Frippertronics or something.

Stunning, @"The Opposite" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVZfIkKNqkA

I see eyeballs. (Ice-y eyeballs?)

As a dumb music kid who doesn't understand stocks, is there any motivation to the market other than making money?

Exactly. :ok:

This shit sucks

I could care less https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc

lol!

No, it's not my preference that "free of" is negative and "free to" is positive; it's just grammatically correct.

"Free of" is negative; "free to" is positive. "Free" is by nature a positive concept.

I'm suggesting that the OP framing of "free of" could potentially be the wrong way to frame the free will question.

What about free to?

:cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdmL835q9To

If this is all you're frustrated with, then, of course, stuff the naysayers. Feel it roll off your back as you continue forward. It's actually less co...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqjz5mXrLQ&list=PLVhjwEM59tQRFIjJbqT0JfgXPiLrw6BEg

I think 99% of us are susceptible to the fossilization of our understanding, whether of music or philosophy or whatever, as we grow older. It's rare t...

Sure, it's a pithy statement, but what evidence can you give that the soundcloud and youtube artists are "honest" in their work? It's a qualitative co...

How do we feel about ouillée? It's pronounced "oo yay!"

You're a more experienced musician than me, so I shouldn't have to remind you that this mindset is the antithesis to the creative urge itself. Do you ...

https://external-preview.redd.it/GTFyL8zqT0j-rR-XkD712jmxVzctuTot83HGEwUGs2s.png?auto=webp&s=63fd2da86213ae8e67833574a1fe3e92a70c2ffe

Pivot to political thread you haven't been lambasted in yet. More at 4am.

Since it's the American election I just assumed we were talking about it.

Sorry. I figure some actual anecdotal observations are better than musings from across the pond.

As I re-read the post I made, I realize this is anecdotal evidence, not "more than anecdotal". Oh well.

To your point, the "typical conservatives" I know in the town where I grew up are not "good at divorcing people from subjects". They are very emotiona...

Fair enough. I can offer more than anecdotal observations, if anyone is interested.

Hopefully Drumpf?

I probably score high on "superstitious" when it comes to philosophy forum member questionaries. I'm embarrassed to say that not only do I trust my sp...

Ok, fair enough.

Damn, forget I said that. *Knocks on wood*

Eh? You're still making the argument that how close it is "shows" X right?

With a few caveats, as someone raised in a conservative American world, I think your comments are pretty close to the reality.

It doesn't show "how much we're able to put up with", it just shows how divided our country is, which is no shock to anyone.

My all-powerful spidey sense was twitching this way and that, but it's twitching pretty blue at the moment.

Yeah was gonna say, I'm not too depressed (beyond the basic threshold) at the moment?

Yes, but, as a rule, no one is grateful for what they've inherited. And this does throw into question just how quality of life is measured. Quality ha...

Do you speak from experience?

:sweat:

:up: In that case, I don't have much wisdom.

So you're enquiring into something that would resemble a "holistic health" type approach?

I'm emotionally driven myself, so I'm probably at a bit of a disadvantage in philosophical discussions of emotion, but one thing that stands out is th...

Eh, re-reading that, I don't like that version either.

I recognize that we're working from different viewpoints here, and maybe the way I'm wording things is a little bit leading. Off the top of my head, h...

Again, on a philosophical level, what are the grounds you're standing on that lead you to conclude that the physical mechanics of emotion are emotion ...

What's to say that it's not the other way around? Philosophically, how do you explain that the physical mechanics of emotion are the emotion? It's a s...

Lol!

:gasp:

Noble Dust is an album I made about 10 years ago; it's a phrase that to me at the time represented the dichotomy of mortality (Dust) vs. the inherent ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Mg4WSK_v8

And I'm blah blah blah