Last post wins!!!!!

[perfect_pitch]

You talk a lot.

Sometimes talking too little causes a lack of action.

[j_tour]

Sometimes talking too little causes a lack of action.

Roll over and take action, then. 

Exit thread left, j_tour enters and wins.

[perfect_pitch]

Roll over and take action, then. 

Okay - p*** off and let me win the thread then.

Hows this for an action:

[lostinidlewonder]

[perfect_pitch]

I really don't like him as a player... the emotion of the music should come out of the piano... not his silly facial expressions.

Look at Pollini, Ashkenazy, Horowitz - none of them needed idiotic faces.

[j_tour]

I think p_p could make more constructive use of that finger.

Embrace a bias for action.

And, yes, excessive histrionics on the part of a performer should be a cue that the performer would be better suited to studio work.  Cf. Glenn Gould:  he had good sense to keep his antics off the stage, as he became an adult.

Audiences for those sorts of stunts should not be encouraged, but rather corrected concerning their defective judgment.  Eventually the performers will conform to acceptable public displays.

[lostinidlewonder]

Pp wants more faces? Fine!

[j_tour]

Pp wants more faces? Fine!

Oh, come on, now.

[perfect_pitch]

Eventually the performers will conform to acceptable public displays.

Will they though? In a time where social media is everywhere and people are sharing video clips incessantly... it seems people feel they need to have something different - wacky faces are just something that set them apart from the others.

Yes, they get laughed at from others, but to those that don't know better - they probably feel that they're just so 'in tune with the music'.   

Oh, come on, now. Who in the heck names their kid 'Dick Burns'

[j_tour]

Yes, they get laughed at from others, but to those that don't know better - they probably feel that they're just so 'in tune with the music'.   

I know.  Those defectives must be corrected.  With a firm hand and a visit to a reeducation camp. 

They will learn, or they will perish.

Oh, come on, now. Who in the heck names their kid 'Dick Burns'

Hey.  Don't doxx me!  I like that name!  It's kind of an Homeric epithet.

And, hello?  Robert Burns had a brother.  Richard Burns.

[lostinidlewonder]

[perfect_pitch]

And, hello?  Robert Burns had a brother.  Richard Burns.

You talking about the Scottish Poet??? I'm pretty sure he didn't have a brother called Richard. He had 3 sisters and two brothers, I think who were William, John and Gilbert (I think).

[j_tour]

You talking about the Scottish Poet??? I'm pretty sure he didn't have a brother called Richard. He had 3 sisters and two brothers, I think who were William, John and Gilbert (I think).

You think you're so merry and apt.  Say what you will, but no Irish family called their daughters the likes of "Bill," "Jack," nor "Gil." 

Not at all.

Now, one doesn't regularly acknowledge Richard Burns, because he brought ignominy and shame to the family name and whatever language he spoke.

But it's just as well, because, entre nous, Dick Burns was a cretin.

Jimmy Burns was buried in a peat field and his remains live on in Islay Scotches to this day.

[perfect_pitch]

Jesus Christ... can you give the ol' comics a rest??? No one reads them anymore... it was the product of a bygone age, but people don't give a crap about it anymore.

Now they want to see *** jackarses pull stupid arse stunts on TikTok.

[j_tour]

Now they want to see *** jackarses pull stupid arse stunts on TikTok.

It's been established that "they" are imbeciles who like to watch hysterical, deviant pianists.

You should sit on it, mister.

[perfect_pitch]

This is the only thing I sit on...



And god damn, is it comfortable.

[j_tour]

Are those holes in the cushion?  What are they for?

[perfect_pitch]

Do you really have to ask???

[j_tour]

Do you really have to ask???

In the privacy of your own studio, I don't ask questions! 

That does look like a nice bench, though.  Well loved, I'm sure.

Seriously, though, I myself use an ancient wooden chair with a back at home....no, not a Glenn Gould contraption.  It's good enough, but that is a handsome piano bench you've depicted. 

[lostinidlewonder]

Are those holes in the cushion?  What are they for?

To collect stuff, no time to go toilet when practicing. Did you not notice a compartment under the seat also? Start to use it appropriately please.

[j_tour]

To collect stuff, no time to go toilet when practicing. Did you not notice a compartment under the seat also?

Oh, I noticed.  I think we have different definitions of "stuffing."

[perfect_pitch]

To collect stuff, no time to go toilet when practicing. Did you not notice a compartment under the seat also? Start to use it appropriately please.

The fact that your mind went there is just... horrifying.

No... it is not used in that manner. I'm sure students would complain very quickly if it were used in that manner. I would never sully my studio like that.

[lostinidlewonder]

Some people don't use the piano bench and instead use jars storing in fear that they might lose something if it's disposed of. Houseful of labelled jars, oh the warm musk of asphyxiation. Just don't delve into coprophagia unless you regulary brush your teeth..... with conc nitric acid.

[j_tour]

Just don't delve into coprophagia

Do it.  Now!  It's cool.

[lostinidlewonder]

Let's not but if anyone asks we'll say we did.

[perfect_pitch]

Is it just me or is that meant to somehow emulate one of the Beavis or Butthead people in real life... (not that I was ever allowed to watch that TV show)...

...but if it is, then it's times like that I believe in involuntary euthanasia.

Let the smart people flourish and put the idiots of the world down. It's how we let humanity survive strong.

[j_tour]

...but if it is, then it's times like that I believe in involuntary euthanasia.

[perfect_pitch]

Holy crap - that is terrifying. Why would someone make that???

The internet is already full of creepy sh*t... why add more to that pile???

[j_tour]

[lostinidlewonder]

Let the smart people flourish and put the idiots of the world down. It's how we let humanity survive strong.

You would have been good friends with a guy called Adolf.

[j_tour]

Adolf Reinach, the famous philosopher?  An extremely important figure very relevant to today's endless bleating about LMM chatG trash.

[perfect_pitch]

You would have been good friends with a guy called Adolf.

Not really - he was a racist arsehole who just wanted to wipe out the Jewish people.

You have to admit though, given the sheer amount of rubbish you see on TikTok - there are plenty of people who pull the most idiotic and stupid pranks, who are definitely oxygen thieves.

[j_tour]

Not really - he was a racist arsehole who just wanted to wipe out the Jewish people.

Reinach was an incredibly influential architect of present-day methods in formal ontology.

But funny your mind went elsewhere.

[perfect_pitch]

Funnily enough... I saw Lostinidlewonders post, but didn't see yours.

And anytime you usually say the word 'Adolf', only one name comes to mind anyway.

[j_tour]

And anytime you usually say the word 'Adolf', only one name comes to mind anyway.

Right. 

Adolf Reinach.

Any other answer is wrong.

You people have strange fixations, and I shall pray for you during this Paschal Season.

[perfect_pitch]

You people have strange fixations, and I shall pray for you during this Paschal Season.

You don't have to pray for me - I ain't religious.

[j_tour]

You don't have to pray for me - I ain't religious.

Yeah, we all heard you the first dozen times you said that, Reinach.

ZOMG there's an atheist or agnostic on the internet!  Alert the media!  Think of the children!  Hide the Holbeins, preserve the Fabergés, and roll up the Titian!

[perfect_pitch]

Well, we have to let go of this so called belief in an omnipotent god. There's floods, natural disasters and COVID killing people - so what good is some deity who sits back and just watches the world go to pieces without intervening???

[j_tour]

Well, we have to let go of this so called belief in an omnipotent god. There's floods, natural disasters and COVID killing people - so what good is some deity who sits back and just watches the world go to pieces without intervening???

I'm not saying there is a god, much less a pater omnipotens.  Then again, music can roil saboteurs and make crowds frenzied.

Besides, the world could do with a bit of suffering:  many of its inhabitants are crude, corrupt, evil, and should be punished.

[perfect_pitch]

Okay - I'm curious as to know what happens before and after that panel... some context would be great.

You wonder what goes on in a number of these panels... for instance:

[lostinidlewonder]

Here's proof.

Does an ant look at a human and understand what it is? Can a being stuck in a 3d existence ever understand or prove a multidimensional entity? That difference is many times greater than ant vs human which share the same dimension of reality.

[j_tour]

What's all this hippie talk?  Sounds like Aquinas's analogical theory of being.



And, yes, the comic panels are presented without context.  That's why they amuse me.

[perfect_pitch]

Does an ant look at a human and understand what it is?

It may not know what exactly it is, but it can see it. It can fear it. It tries to run away from us when we try and squish the little buggers.

And, yes, the comic panels are presented without context.  That's why they amuse me.

I see what you mean... what do you make of this then?

[j_tour]

I see what you mean... what do you make of this then?

I expect I rightly don't know!  But it is mighty queer, as an isolated panel.  Nice find, BTW. 

I'm thinking about taking back some of the things I said about you.

[lostinidlewonder]

It may not know what exactly it is, but it can see it. It can fear it. It tries to run away from us when we try and squish the little buggers.

You give ants far too much ability to discern what they "see" in us. It is no wonder then why you cannot see that humans are in very much the same position in this universe we live in, we are most likely just like ants.

What's all this hippie talk?  Sounds like Aquinas's analogical theory of being.

More than we cannot hope to ever fully define, due to our human limitations, powers much greater than us, it is beyond our ability to reason. We will blow ourselves up before we can even realize what surface to scratch.

[j_tour]

More than we cannot hope to ever fully define, due to our human limitations, powers much greater than us, it is beyond our ability to reason. We will blow ourselves up before we can even realize what surface to scratch.

Yes, that is one possible ontology.  Among several others, as I'm sure you are aware.

I had better hopes for you, somehow:  maybe a more geometrico Spinozan idea.

But you have put some thought into the matter, therefore you can be saved.

it is beyond our ability to reason. We will blow ourselves up before we can even realize what surface to scratch.

Well, that's a pretty radical stance, and I'm not convinced you believe that, truly.  I'm drawing a blank on exactly what scholastics or early modern theologians held such a view, but I am admittedly not a scholar in this regard.

If you would care to elaborate, I'd be interested, but prima facie this stance raises some very severe problems.

I'd like to know more about this theory.  The linkage problem of word and thing is very well explained, somewhat, by various theories of being, but this leaves no purchase to me except mysticism.

To which, BTW, I'm not unsympathetic.  But I have not encountered a statement as bold among mere fellow travelers, at least among those who seem sincere and coherent, which qualities I ascribe to you.

[perfect_pitch]

I'd comment on this rather quizzical and deep discussion, however...

[j_tour]

[lostinidlewonder]

Yes, that is one possible ontology.  Among several others, as I'm sure you are aware.

If it were able to be captured completely by the human mind it would limit it, the logic is undeniable.

Well, that's a pretty radical stance, and I'm not convinced you believe that, truly.

The blowing up part is quite serious and well known as much as we like to live in ignorance that this great flood is upon us.
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/

[perfect_pitch]

If it were able to be captured completely by the human mind it would limit it, the logic is undeniable.
The blowing up part is quite serious and well known as much as we like to live in ignorance that this great flood is upon us.

That's quite a pessimistic way to look at it. I prefer to think we're 86310 seconds away from total harmony and freedom