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"Yes, do tell your reasons...inside."

The Vince Guaraldi Trio perform Gershwin's "Looking for a Boy"

Thanks for your warm encouragement, Adi. It's appreciated

Been missing my mom more than usual lately. Here's my performance translation of Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from the Rückert - Lieder series. Doing this work in the weeks after her death helped me get through, and I was proud to do it in her honor. I’ve been missing from the world lately, Away from those with whom I once spent time; They’ve not heard from me, so long, ultimately, They think I’ve moved on to Death’s colder clime. I’m done caring about them all greatly; They think I’m dead or unsteady; Let them think so, calm or irately, ‘Cause I’m dead to this world already (world already). On the world’s turmoil, I watch sedately, And can rest detached right where I belong; Living alone in my heaven stately (in heaven stately), With only my loves, and with my song. Jessye Norman and Irwin Gage perform

So well done. The terror of teenage suicide, the depression felt, the anxiety of living in a tormented world, the loneliness, the feeling of no one caring whether you live or die; you captured it all. Please do add to it. Tell of the reclaimed life beyond it will be "all right". Did you name him Stone because you wanted him to be hard and strong? Wonderful name.

Michael Christian Durrant performs his arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon

Perhaps as part of the same "information dump" the Navy just confirmed a warship 100 miles off the Southern California coast was compromised by a 100 or more "Tic-Tac" shaped aerial phenomena, who seemed to be scanning the vessel stem to stern. The Navy has no explanation, as remote controlled drones are blocked by military radio signals, and they cannot operate at great distances. This, in case you were wondering, was in 2017.

Adam Cicchillitti performs Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in A-major, K. 209

yikes, lol

"Good luck, sister."

Arguably the hottest (*fans self*) Christmas song ever!

Pandas in the snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UvbhER4RmM

Ran into this this evening... Camile Thomas and the Brussels Philharmonic perform Una furtiva lagrima (A Wayward Tear) from Donizetti's Elixir of Love

I love your writing, your characters narrative is most compelling, so real as if they are next you telling the story. I have mentioned it before but I do wish you could write faster. Reading your stories is like the 50's and serial movies that always left you up in the air. I guess you don't know from those times and I'm sure you know you are doing it and it is so frustrating but YOUR WRITING IS SO DAMN GOOD THAT I FOR ONE CAN"T STAY AWAY.

"Close your eyes, Pikachu, and think of Japan."

No, lol, you wouldn't want to see these two get together. They do have ones waiting for them though ❤️

"As long as one is not bothering others one can believe what one wants."

I have to say, "being human" is a rotten excuse for professionals acting petty and vindictive to new theories. Just this week, a new discovery advances a Stephen Hawking theory that was lambasted when it first appeared. Even a person of his stature was treated as "feeble minded" by his colleagues for proposing things that upset the applecart of their cozy preconceived notions. You should read chapter 24 of my Mojo -- It will drive you insane

Yes, and "belief" in failed findings, because it's more comfortable to convention, is a major disadvantage to true science. It goes hand in hand with the hubris of "knowing" without testing. I know nothing about the Geller tests, but much about the random generators developed by the University of Virginia producing results beyond chance ranges. But, believe what's comfortable for you

Schopenhauer is clear enough: he said "all truth" -- which precludes all that is not the truth, like BS

Regarding Astrology specifically, devotees will point out how easy it is to test scientifically. Setting aside any notions on "how" it might work, simple, observable tests have been published. In very repeatable findings, a gathering of professionals, isolated from one another, but working in the same place and at the same time, can be given the randomly selected birthdate and map coordinates of a person from history. Not only do the Astrologers produce "readings" for this person that are alike in details, the findings match the historical record of what the person was actually like. Concerning the "how it works," like feng shui, Astrology can be considered a documented set of observations -- one generated and refined over thousands of human generations -- that has produced a canon of referenceable data on predicting outcomes based on recored precedent; that's all. One does not need to think the "planets speaks" to give due to accurate information, when accurate information is provable.