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It is possible, though also improbable, that some here know of Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full; But now we only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar … Promethean, would you kindly translate this stanza into Ebonics? ...perfectly understandable,...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 8:01 pm Dubious: you are perfect for all of this.

As someone who exceeds even your level of perfection, I'm happy to benefit you any way I can in your prodigious efforts to work your way up!

Beethoven can hardly be considered a musician. Some of his *music* sounds to me like a garbage truck rumbling over a pot-holed back alley -- and then those caterwauling felines! And all of it ALL OF IT is just noise. I am surprised people don't see through it. All those sentiments, feelings indeed ...

Beethoven can hardly be considered a musician. Some of his *music* sounds to me like a garbage truck rumbling over a pot-holed back alley -- and then those caterwauling felines! And all of it ALL OF IT is just noise. I am surprised people don't see through it. All those sentiments, feelings indeed ...

But, the existing eternal Universe does not expand, and could not ever expand. How do you know that? For a few reasons, at least: 1. The definition for the word 'Universe' includes, everything; totality; all-there-is; all existing matter and space considered as a whole. 2. Every action causes a rea...

Yes! Music is never simply a description but the pure effect of what it describes whose influx can only be equal to the capacity of the hearer to blend with it; in certain works music is beyond any philosphy words can convey. Let me translate that into duck .... Well, that was Beethoven's view as w...

Could you — as an exercise I mean — deliberately not-do you?[/b] Think about it! You’d be you technically but offering an interesting performance with surprising and lively twists. Or perhaps bust out into song. Can you hold a tune?! Absolutely! I can un-do me each time I revise or reject something...

Discovered, perceived, realized are better terms. Then the sentence makes good sense. Correction: Discovered is the wrong word, since to be so it must first exist discovered or not, independent of your existence. Perceived relates to the mind's inner content as well as reflecting what is outwardly ...

Still it is my belief that a higher intelligence (though this usage might offend or seem haughty) can and does conceive of and note the realness of what I am referring to as *supernatural* to nature. ...the upshot and conclusion of that would be, it defaults to your opinion only. There is no such t...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 7:40 pm
Metaphysical authority is real — realness itself. To align with it is a choice of higher intelligence.

...so much for metaphysical authority which has always reeked as a self-crowning event...with or without butt-plugs.

Metaphysics demands we keep the physics waiting.

…. I do often sort of admire your vain clucking. The butt-plug is helping after all! The butt-plug kid speaks again! As a perfectionist in stupidity, it won't be long before accomplishing SINGULARITY. A slight arc more to close the circle and you will have reached your apotheosis! Congrats! :lol: :...

...a really stupid expression which means nothing Could you — as an exercise I mean — deliberately not-do you?[/b] Think about it! You’d be you technically but offering an interesting performance with surprising and lively twists. Or perhaps bust out into song. Can you hold a tune?! Absolutely! I c...

Anything that recurs, first must occur. - The first occurance of something is the creation of that something, not the recurrance of that something. - After the occurance happens the first time, then for reality to correlate with the concept of eternal, recurrence would continue on without end. Yes!...

How can something eternal have a beginning ... Anything that recurs, first must occur. - The first occurance of something is the creation of that something, not the recurrance of that something. - After the occurance happens the first time, then for reality to correlate with the concept of eternal,...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 12:56 am
Again: You do you.

...a really stupid expression which means nothing, showing that you don't know what to say except know-it-all distortions by which you have always presumed to know me and others, and the cloned views you get from reading without thinking. That much is obvious.