Noble Dust

I'll take a closer look, was running out the door this morn. I read "according to studies" and responded. lol. Low post quality on my part...ah well, ...

Belief system is an ok placeholder for now, I guess. But no, every belief system has a god figure. Hence why "religion" still somewhat works; it's a m...

My issue with rice and beans is threefold: 1, canned beans are more expensive than dried; 2, dried beans take forever to make, and 3...its not excitin...

Again, you can't rationalize your way into a mystical experience...

I think I can see a little of the I Ching's flexibility in the contrast between your interpretation and unenlightened's. The plot thickens. Good stuff...

It also could be deja vu on my part.

@"god must be atheist" Yeah, I'd frame it the other way, if anything at all. Hygiene (the need and preference for personal physical cleanliness) as re...

Pro tip: If you're broke like me but you don't want to eat trash, get the pasta and the red sauce, but also invest in a pound of ground chicken for $3...

Didn't you already make that joke?...

All music was "modern" and laughed at at some point.

Thanks, had meant to turn the discussion back to Maritain anyway.

I too care not.

"A reality that underlies" is something purely experiential; you can't rationalize your way into a mystical experience; quite the opposite. It's supra...

Religions, all of them. Like I said, maybe a new word is in order...or maybe not. What religion does for people is a function which survives the appar...

Experience is not an easy way out. I trust experience will avail itself to you over time; difficultly as it always does. I've explained what that mean...

If the idea of a reality which "underlies" is foreign to you, then I don't know what else I can say.

Thanks. I'm just the joker in the back of the room, though. Any accidental logical cohesion on my part is exactly that. :rofl:

Experience. "Ow, that's hot"; "wow, that's breathtaking", "shit, I fucked up and she hates me now", "damn, I'm an addict and I don't know what to do",...

Putting down the book sounds good to me; I think I get the idea.

Janus said it better than me, as usual. I still stand by my annoying bullshit, though.

Do you mean some other way than consulting it?

If I believe you used this red herring in error, does that prove your argument right? Or, if I believe you used the argument nefariously, does that pr...

This "childlike care" isn't care, it's ultimately a selfish but fully appropriate need, as a child, for protection and nurture. So, as a child, the no...

Sounds like he's not opposed to wisdom?..

Crime And Punishment - Dostoevsky (found it on the street :fire: ) Man And His Symbols - Edited by C.G. Jung The Destiny Of Man - Nikolai Berdyaev On ...

I somewhat disagree. I've said for years that beauty is there waiting; an "object" waiting for a "subject" to perceive it. This isn't a theory, it's a...

Can you elaborate?

I've also been dipping my toes into the Jung shallow end, so it all seems pretty pertinent. I read his little book Modern Man In Search Of A Soul, and...

Sorry to be that '1-year-old-thread' guy, but it's the fucking Phil of Art section, which is basically 1 year old anyway, so this response practically...

Do you have any thoughts on your experience?

Nice, what's your profoundly incisive take? What practical knowledge can I gleen from your subtle I Ching interpretations?

I wanna know it all, buddy. And I'm asking if anyone's consulted the I Ching, not you. :razz: So, have you consulted the I Ching?

"Quintessential Hamlet" doesn't make sense, though. I might as well say "Quintessential 'The Window'" (my forthcoming album). It's a non sequitur.

I think it's just more a product of me being involved in music, ironically. Knowing how stuff is done, seeing old trends come back...When your'e invol...

But yeah I'm basically the same age as Opeth lol

I guess by "getting old" I mean I'm not tracking with any musical trends so much anymore, whether new, or old stuff coming back. Of course I know Aeso...

Oh, "Reverse Conversion Therapy" by Arthur Moon is a hot track. In the style that I work in, more or less.

I'm getting old, I don't know who any of those artists are. I'm racking my brain for what's been exciting to me recently...I was revisiting some Opeth...

Quintessential basically denotes someone's own personal, unique seminal aesthetic experience being replicated later in life (or not, more often than n...

*soars*

Life...? Was really hoping to hear from you in particular on this point :fire: looking forward to your consulting experiences As a songwriter...I feel...

Anyone have experience consulting the I Ching?

My most recent rec https://afterhours-imprint.bandcamp.com/album/imagination-deprivation

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Ah, finally, an emotional response.

Notice how now @streetlightex is weirdly absent. :ok:

There's no shift of register. It's all fucking bullshit.

:blush:

Streetlight, c. 2019.

:rofl: :vomit: