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#21
Life As An Atheist / Re: Atheism lives
Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 11:13:00 PMi am not an atheist. my life is only as bleak as i make it.
what do you want out of life, marcus?
what are you looking for that you cannot supply on your own?
what do you want out of life, marcus?
what are you looking for that you cannot supply on your own?
#22
Life As An Atheist / Atheism lives
Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 11:09:38 PMLife as an atheist is bleak. The atheist is surrounded by ignorance, fear and fraud.
#23
Laid Back Lounge / Re: Books, what is the preferr...
Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 11:03:37 PMsome stuff i read online. some stuff i buy kindles.
other things are so old and esoteric that i read them n crumblnig papper.
https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Exhaust-Systems-Engineering-Performance/dp/0837603099
https://www.amazon.com/Motorcycle-Engineering-Phil-Irving-1973-08-02/dp/B01K3ROFD2
and this
https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-One-Years-Plains-Mountains-Authentic/dp/1143574311
^^^available in kindle. my ancient 19th centrury copy fro my grandfather was crumbling n acid paper, but it didnt matter because i lost it in the floods. but i cn recover it on th enet and may try. it was a racist period piece, but you cannot judge the past by the present, only refuse to honor and repeat it.
other things are so old and esoteric that i read them n crumblnig papper.
https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Exhaust-Systems-Engineering-Performance/dp/0837603099
https://www.amazon.com/Motorcycle-Engineering-Phil-Irving-1973-08-02/dp/B01K3ROFD2
and this
https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-One-Years-Plains-Mountains-Authentic/dp/1143574311
^^^available in kindle. my ancient 19th centrury copy fro my grandfather was crumbling n acid paper, but it didnt matter because i lost it in the floods. but i cn recover it on th enet and may try. it was a racist period piece, but you cannot judge the past by the present, only refuse to honor and repeat it.
#24
Music / Re: What are you listening to?
Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 11:00:57 PMexcept when youre talking about the iliad. the oddesey. the aeanid. beowulf. roland. and prose shit like chaucer and on and on.
snatches are best captured by me, certainly, because im a moron. but if i could, id do the whole things.
snatches are best captured by me, certainly, because im a moron. but if i could, id do the whole things.
#25
Art / Re: beauty
Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 10:53:54 PMart is how self absorbed people relieve their inner tensions.
sometimes the results are spectacular. other times they are less transferable.
the succeses far outweigh the failures.
sometimes the results are spectacular. other times they are less transferable.
the succeses far outweigh the failures.
#26
Media / Re: What are you watching?
Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 10:51:37 PMi have no access to watch anything.
and i dont appear to be missing anything?
not saying other people dont find value, but i dont have the time in my disorganized life to work through it.
and i dont appear to be missing anything?
not saying other people dont find value, but i dont have the time in my disorganized life to work through it.
#27
Music / Re: What are you listening to?
Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 10:50:41 PMQuote from: billy rubin on May 27, 2023, 08:51:37 PMand this one too. a delicate piece that i am still listening to
when i find a piece of music i like, i listen to it over and over and over, until i can anticipate the instruments, , the sequence of movements, the different melodies, and the different themes coming and going. i dont know anything about music theory, but i can sometimes piece together a bit of what the artists are doing by stupid brute force.
the advantage of this is that i can eventually carry fairly long pieces of music in my head, that i can replay to myself when ever i want. poetry is like that-- you cant possess a piece of poetry until youve internalized it so throughly that you can recite it yourself.
i can do short pieces of poetry--lewis carroll-level stuff-- and before i die i want to actualize a lifelong dream of memorizing as much of coleridges rime of the ancient mariner as i can. if i can do some of thati will finally achieved a bit of value n my life that might last a while.
i would do eliot but he infuriates me whenever i read anything he wrote, like james joyce. but like with joyce, i keep coming back.
Poetry is best captured in snatches.
#28
Philosophy / Re: On Free Will
Last post by billy rubin - May 27, 2023, 10:49:54 PMlaw is defined by lawgivers, which are defined by power.
not by reason./
not by reason./
#29
Laid Back Lounge / Re: Books, what is the preferr...
Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 10:45:12 PMQuote from: No one on May 27, 2023, 01:48:57 PMOsmosis.
How I wish.
#30
History / Re: What is history?
Last post by MarcusA - May 27, 2023, 10:41:51 PMThe one charm of the past is that it is the past. - Oscar Wilde