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The Diner / Re: Lesser cuts

Last post by (poco) Sforzando - Today at 06:03:43 PM

I thought this thread was going to be a debate on the relative merits of chuck steak vs. filet mignon.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: The Super-Duper Cheap Barg...

Last post by NumberSix - Today at 05:29:04 PM

Wow, first post here in almost 4 months.



10 CDs, 300 page booklet, US $22.90 from Presto if you don't pay VAT

But, but, but they're all in German. Who can understand them?

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by NumberSix - Today at 05:24:06 PM

Kalevi Aho:

Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (2010)
Martyn Brabbins, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Jörgen van Rijen (Trombone)

Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Orchestra (2011)
Martyn Brabbins, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Alain De Rudder (Trumpet)

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#4

The Diner / Re: Lesser cuts

Last post by Karl Henning - Today at 04:50:58 PM

Sometimes it can be too much of a gear shift though.

Aye. The fact that you can just about hear the gears grinding is something I've come to like.  😎

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: The Super-Duper Cheap Barg...

Last post by Brian - Today at 04:44:25 PM

Wow, first post here in almost 4 months.



10 CDs, 300 page booklet, US $22.90 from Presto if you don't pay VAT

#6

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Madiel - Today at 04:26:54 PM

Poetic Tone Pictures

#7

The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...

Last post by NumberSix - Today at 04:24:57 PM

*Roger Moore as Ivanhoe*

Wow, I have never heard of this one! Nice find.

ETA: found it on Youtube. Will have to give it a look.

#8

The Diner / Re: Lesser cuts

Last post by KevinP - Today at 04:17:41 PM

What is a track on an otherwise excellent album which you skip all or nearly all of the time?

I'll go first.

Abbey Road, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

If I haven't played Abbey Toad in a while, I'll listen to the LP all the way through, but if I give it a second listen soon after, Maxwell definitely gets skipped. (Further subsequent listens often just start with side 2.)

Except for the synths, Maxwell would fit better on the White Album.

And I, too, like Revolution #9. It's not perfect and would benefit from some editing and whittling down, but I like it. (Sometimes it can be too much of a gear shift though.)

[Sorabji: Transcendental Etudes, Nos. 63-71Fredrik Ullén (Piano)]

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by NumberSix - Today at 03:59:54 PM

Sorabji: Transcendental Etudes, Nos. 63-71
Fredrik Ullén (Piano)

I know Sorabji's famous works are the long ones, but I thought I would give something simpler a try before diving into 4 or 8 hours.

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GMG News / Re: Leaving again, no drama

Last post by Traverso - Today at 03:59:13 PM

I find J. Krishnamurti's Notebook very interesting. He just records his mental experiences over a nine month period rather than trying to expound some philosophy .

https://selfdefinition.org/krishnamurti/Jiddu_Krishnamurt_Notebook.pdf

https://selfdefinition.org/krishnamurti/Jiddu_Krishnamurt_Notebook.pdf
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Krishnamurti is also a suspect case. It is known that he had a 24-year relationship with the wife of the man who edited his books. Several abortions and he advised his so-called followers that sexual abstinence is necessary. They are all giants with feet of clay as Anthony Storr has clearly explained in his book. The book Stripping the Gurus or Madame Blavatsky's Baboon are illuminating books in this respect that relegate claims to the realm of fantasy. Many so-called Indian sages or enlightened spirits were pederasts and not averse to money. I will leave it at that.



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STRIPPING THE GURUS
Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment*
Ramakrishna was a homoerotic pedophile.
His chief disciple, Vivekananda, visited brothels in India.
Krishnamurti carried on an affair for over twenty years with the
wife of a close friend. Chögyam Trungpa drank himself into an early
grave. One of Adi Da's nine "wives" is a former Playboy centerfold.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh sniffed laughing gas to get high. Andrew
Cohen, guru and publisher of What Is Enlightenment? magazine, by
his own reported admission sometimes feels "like a god."
These are typical of the "wizened sages" to whom otherwise-sensible
people give their devotion and unquestioning obedience, surrender
ing their independence, willpower, and life's savings in the hope of
realizing for themselves the same "enlightenment" as they ascribe to
the "perfect, God-realized" master.
Why?
Is it for being emotionally vulnerable and "brainwashed," as the
"anti-cultists" assert? Or for being "willingly psychologically se
duced," as the apologists unsympathetically counter, confident that
they themselves are "too smart" to ever fall into the same trap? Or
have devotees simply walked, with naïvely open hearts and thirsty
souls, into inherent psychological dynamics of power and obedience
which have showed themselves in classic psychological studies from
Milgram to Zimbardo, and to which each one of us is susceptible
every day of our lives?
Like the proud "Rude Boy" Cohen allegedly said, with a laugh, in re
sponse to the nervous breakdown of one of his devoted followers: "It
could happen to any one of you."
Don't let it happen to you. Don't get suckered in. Be prepared. Be in
formed. Find out what reportedly goes on behind the scenes in even
the best of our world's spiritual communities.
You can start by reading this book.