tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post4335113160867461132..comments2023-11-02T03:10:39.674-07:00Comments on GeeeeeZ!: Sunday Faith BlogZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-53958387120975667972011-06-29T22:46:40.213-07:002011-06-29T22:46:40.213-07:00TestingTestingPrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13797497106506468128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-60069480461154885522011-06-28T04:55:55.655-07:002011-06-28T04:55:55.655-07:00@ Thersites
The freedom to err would appear to be ...@ Thersites<br /><i>The freedom to err would appear to be essential to increasing mankind's store of knowledge (and construction of new Towers of Babel).</i><br /><br />Every place has its moods, especially if it has been cultivated with such care as this one ... which is why i am taking this discussion <a href="http://dropyourhat.blogspot.com/2011/06/of-temptations-other-sundry-things.html" rel="nofollow">elsewhere</a>. :)nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-80105705758355397512011-06-27T19:09:32.395-07:002011-06-27T19:09:32.395-07:00;)
hehehe;)<br /><br />hehehe(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-49663555217849655292011-06-27T17:46:32.252-07:002011-06-27T17:46:32.252-07:00Beamish, I play jazz, though I play more classical...Beamish, I play jazz, though I play more classical and sight read most of it. Improvisation isn't 'mistakes', it's putting to practice theory/chords/etc. It's actually a lot more difficult than sight reading sometimes.<br />Very rewarding, though.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-68866640986888074102011-06-27T17:29:36.769-07:002011-06-27T17:29:36.769-07:00Well, there is a mathematical formula to jazz wher...Well, there is a mathematical formula to jazz where one note determines the next three or four, but the best jazz players improvize within that formula :)(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-42069683503600272462011-06-27T14:20:59.883-07:002011-06-27T14:20:59.883-07:00"No one learns to play jazz. They merely lear..."No one learns to play jazz. They merely learn to make their mistakes more pleasing to the ears."<br /><br />actually, that's not true, but it's a cute way of describing it!Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-13162702469856865382011-06-27T14:09:49.665-07:002011-06-27T14:09:49.665-07:00Figured you'd like that Z :)
No one learns to...Figured you'd like that Z :)<br /><br />No one learns to play jazz. They merely learn to make their mistakes more pleasing to the ears.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-20323445814426635752011-06-27T13:35:37.894-07:002011-06-27T13:35:37.894-07:00"Once is a mistake, twice is jazz." -
T..."Once is a mistake, twice is jazz." -<br /><br />THAT is EXQUISITE, said the pianist.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-17378437657404918672011-06-27T13:23:58.425-07:002011-06-27T13:23:58.425-07:00"Once is a mistake, twice is jazz." - un..."Once is a mistake, twice is jazz." - unknown(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-8905763009742826352011-06-27T13:22:58.062-07:002011-06-27T13:22:58.062-07:00The freedom to err would appear to be essential to...The freedom to err would appear to be essential to increasing mankind's store of knowledge (and construction of new Towers of Babel).Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-13280688236566182552011-06-27T13:20:30.993-07:002011-06-27T13:20:30.993-07:00Indeed. Mirror's of the abyss, "If you s...Indeed. Mirror's of the abyss, "If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you." --Nietzsche<br /><br /><i>Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.</i> <br />--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe <br /><br /><br /><i>It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.</i> --Thomas Jefferson <br /><br /><br /><i>No one who lives in error is free.</i> --Euripides <br /><br /><br /><i>The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.</i> --VoltaireThersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-62121364193999073402011-06-27T13:02:34.773-07:002011-06-27T13:02:34.773-07:00Science once again mapping the interiors of the hu...<i>Science once again mapping the interiors of the human mind, just as the ancient Athenians and Egyptians did.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghavad_Gita" rel="nofollow"><br />>...and the Hindus long before either of them...</a><br /><br />;)(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-82065817268987852732011-06-27T13:02:25.708-07:002011-06-27T13:02:25.708-07:00for that freedom is the beginning of "true fa...<i>for that freedom is the beginning of "true faith"</i>...<br /><br />...Thy Will be done<br /><br /><i>A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.</i> --James Joyce <br /><br /><i>Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.</i> --Salvador DaliThersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-85119164133444613702011-06-27T12:45:51.370-07:002011-06-27T12:45:51.370-07:00Science once again mapping the interiors of the hu...Science once again mapping the interiors of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology" rel="nofollow">human mind</a>, just as the ancient <a href="http://www.planetware.com/i/map/GR/athens-acropolis-map.jpg" rel="nofollow">Athenians</a> and <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fhVpDW9sV30/SQArJHYrrYI/AAAAAAAAAr0/ic0IOh_AKgY/s400/275px-karnak_temple_map.jpg" rel="nofollow">Egyptians</a> did.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-27671284663932071252011-06-27T12:45:01.072-07:002011-06-27T12:45:01.072-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-21477422499972188162011-06-27T12:44:21.493-07:002011-06-27T12:44:21.493-07:00@ Thersites & Mrs. Z
...the majority of men w...@ Thersites & Mrs. Z<br /><br />...the majority of men will always need a 'miracle" to give value to things. Even reason, for instance, has had not a few of them, e.g., electricity, airplane. It is like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor" rel="nofollow">the Grand Inquisitor</a> says re Christ's Second Temptation. But, remember Christ's response to it:<br /><br /><i>Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god.</i><br /><br />...in other words, Christ would that men believed in Him out of their own free will, and not because he could wrought some miracle, or give them bread (First Temptation). He valued their freedom more than anything else, for that freedom is the beginning of "true faith". ;)<br /><br />...which is why, "<i>blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.</i>"nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-42214425387323190382011-06-27T12:38:47.462-07:002011-06-27T12:38:47.462-07:00Ever hear tell of the holographic principle?Ever hear tell of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle" rel="nofollow">holographic principle</a>?Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-10714608110780000602011-06-27T12:34:04.118-07:002011-06-27T12:34:04.118-07:00Plato, "Cratylus"
SOCRATES: Nor can we ...Plato, "Cratylus"<br /><br /><i>SOCRATES: Nor can we reasonably say, Cratylus, that there is knowledge at all, if everything is in a state of transition and there is nothing abiding; for knowledge too cannot continue to be knowledge unless continuing always to abide and exist. But if the very nature of knowledge changes, at the time when the change occurs there will be no knowledge; and if the transition is always going on, there will always be no knowledge, and, according to this view, there will be no one to know and nothing to be known: but if that which knows and that which is known exists ever, and the beautiful and the good and every other thing also exist, then I do not think that they can resemble a process or flux, as we were just now supposing. Whether there is this eternal nature in things, or whether the truth is what Heracleitus and his followers and many others say, is a question hard to determine; and no man of sense will like to put himself or the education of his mind in the power of names: neither will he so far trust names or the givers of names as to be confident in any knowledge which condemns himself and other existences to an unhealthy state of unreality; he will not believe that all things leak like a pot, or imagine that the world is a man who has a running at the nose. This may be true, Cratylus, but is also very likely to be untrue; and therefore I would not have you be too easily persuaded of it. Reflect well and like a man, and do not easily accept such a doctrine; for you are young and of an age to learn. And when you have found the truth, come and tell me. </i>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-55275276661281597482011-06-27T12:22:06.974-07:002011-06-27T12:22:06.974-07:00Plato's Allegory of the Sun preceeds his "...Plato's Allegory of the Sun preceeds his "Divided Line" epistemology in "Republic", for good ray-suns.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-89211912444524763822011-06-27T12:18:57.583-07:002011-06-27T12:18:57.583-07:00Indeed, it's much like "faith".
Nie...Indeed, it's much like "faith".<br /><br />Nietzsche, WtP 493 (1885) - <i>Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.</i><br /><br />For <b>Thine is the Power</b> and Glory, Forever. Amen<br /><br />Nietzsche, WtP 534 (1887-1888) <i>The criterion of truth resides in the enhancement of the feeling of power.</i>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-58117436972620409022011-06-27T12:09:04.419-07:002011-06-27T12:09:04.419-07:00@Thersites
Both represent life-preserving powers, ...@Thersites<br /><i>Both represent life-preserving powers, one based upon the seen, another upon the "yet unseen".</i><br /><br />...Like i said, FJ, I don't want to wax philosophical here - goes without saying that you will forgive me. I will say only this ... even if reason were to reveal the truth of things, it cannot give value to them. For that, you will still need faith.<br /><br />Truth is a kind of error, remember. :)nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-80540624439429247042011-06-27T12:05:55.678-07:002011-06-27T12:05:55.678-07:00;)<a href="http://windblower.fatcow.com/images/blogimages/thetwoeyesIMG.jpg" rel="nofollow">;)</a>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-55915596070979514792011-06-27T12:04:05.236-07:002011-06-27T12:04:05.236-07:00Of course, His ray-suns are not always as obvious ...Of course, His ray-suns are not always as obvious as my own. ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-2217893338104923522011-06-27T11:41:10.883-07:002011-06-27T11:41:10.883-07:00reason may also prove to be a matter of faith.
Bo...<i>reason may also prove to be a matter of faith.</i><br /><br />Both represent life-preserving powers, one based upon the seen, another upon the "yet unseen".<br /><br />True opinion can get you to Larissa. But so can returning after having once visitted there.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516627478339613810.post-4264140696488187762011-06-27T11:40:47.634-07:002011-06-27T11:40:47.634-07:00Heb 11:1 (NIV) Now faith is being sure of what we ...Heb 11:1 (NIV) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.<br /><br />John 20: 29 <br />Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; <br />blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.com