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I'm just relieved you got it, and I wasn't banned! It is so easy to get banned here.

He obtained them in a seedy manner.

http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

Per AR's IOE, malice would be a concept of consciousness.

There is no Dissent section to this forum, but perhaps there should be a Malice subforum.

This is all fun to read. If they brought half the intellectual energy they now devote to maintaining their "integrity" and "purity" to serious analysis of actual philosophical questions, say the analysis of math's relation to reality, they might make some contirbution.

Ashley has been asked to extend his contract. Now, he's playing Link until July 15!

I wasn't going to contribute here, since none of what I like is crap. But the subject of modern singing style as shown on American Idol has come up, and I can't resist juxtaposing these two clips of a great song that I love: FOR THIS ONE, THE SONG ONLY STARTS 30 SECONDS INTO THE CLIP; WAIT FOR IT SAME SONG, SAME SINGER ON AMERICAN IDOL Assuming listeners who like the song, I'd be interested to hear which version they like better, which is more authentic, and which is truer to the spirit of the song.

Best of luck to you both. You are right about the Internet. But as we see, wonderful things can happen also.

Welcome!

I tend to think of it as mastery of the specifically musical manner of speech. (And, incidentally, I suspect that language partakes of music more than vice versa.) It's not just the ability to compose good melodies, but the ability to write melody as naturally as one might speak. In Tchaikovsky, this manifested itself in the ability not only to write good tunes, but to write ones so good as to induce awe. (Just now I am thinking of the Sleeping Beauty waltz, and the way he extends the syncopated phrases that end each section of the main tune.) The Swan Lake waltzes are favorites of mine also. Tchaikovsky is in fact a "Waltz King" if there ever was one. On the topic of "Waltz Kings," Lehár is considered one, but I have to admit that Strauss of Blue Danube fame has more claim to the title. After listening to this concert-waltz for a few dozen bars, one starts wondering: "Where the hell is he finding all these fantastic tunes?" And then he spins out more and more of them--and they all sound like they've been around forever. (Ayn Rand, who said she hated this composition, obviously at the time of her writing had not reached a full appreciation of this quality of melody.)

Of course, it doesn't mean that everyone will start to carry a gun. I don't think I would. And the deterrent effect would make it less necessary as time went on.

But that's just it. It doesn't make it easier for them, but harder.

I'm in favor of weapons for all adults, as long as they are of a type reasonable for self-defense purposes (no bazookas or A-bombs). The possibility that numerous bystanders--all of whom are law-abiding--may be armed would be a powerful crime deterrent. Ceteris paribus, the good always wins, as Atlas Shrugged taught us.

That may be, and it may still be true. It had to be a lark, as I see it.

In Boone's case, the comedy was intentional, as he said at the time. In response to a talk show host's question that seemed to imply some serious motive, he said there was a four-letter word he wanted to say: "J. O. K. E. !"

When 9/11 happened, Rosie said she felt as though all her former beliefs had been shaken up like a snow globe. I guess the flakes have long since settled back to their former positions.

Well ... they're mothers, anyway (to use the current street vernacular).

I actually know the answer to that question. See my signature.

Yes, I'm familiar with Tauber. My favorite version of Widow is mentioned in this article I wrote about music. That version contains Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's "Vilja," which is the one I'm partial to. Finally, here's an article I have about Lehár on my site. Enough! Sorry to hijack this thread so, Elizabeth.

If someone male had turned against him online, would he have sustained a hisnia?

Sullivan definitely! As for Dvorak, I do not know much of his work, but: It is for that reason that I have been telling myself for years to investigate Dvorak. Can you give me an example of his use of this "rhetoric"? I'm delighted that someone else seems to grasp what I mean by this term! By the way, I agree, there were a lot of great melodies in FL's later work. I would mention in his later work "Hab' nur dich allein," "Einer wird kommen," and of course "Dein is mein ganzes Herz."

Practical jokes are not a sin against honesty, but against simple human safety. They may create a danger in some unanticipated way.

I'd like to see a section devoted to stories and observations from: people who knew AR people in the inner circle of AR people who attended NBI There must be all kinds of fascinating tales and trivia still to be told, and that should be given permanance. To me, anyone who even was an NBI student is a quasi-celebrity! I realize we already have a few such people who post here, of course.