tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post2967378588635625976..comments2024-03-27T07:30:21.457-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Your Gallery, O Wondrous Cloud, Is EmptyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-88551562567006373532022-01-30T15:06:35.702-05:002022-01-30T15:06:35.702-05:00eyeToons is alright as long as you can keep it fro...eyeToons is alright as long as you can keep it from connecting you to their store. I have a separate computer for all of my music, so I don't have it connected to anything other than powered speakers or headphones. I like the interface, titles, info, ability to categorize, etc. But I can understand, what with whatever the latest version does, why someone wouldn't want to go there. Also, I only had fewer than 500; am glad I got them built into my juke toy, tho.davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-22843997403739629522022-01-30T13:06:21.746-05:002022-01-30T13:06:21.746-05:001/you point to caitlin johnstone's piece title...1/you point to caitlin johnstone's piece titled <i>It takes a touch of madness to take seriously the possibility that your entire society is insane.</i><br /><br /><br />2/a little over a year ago i posted in this blog's comments area<br /><br />...[Gurdjieff] had no purpose comprehensible to the average, relatively satisfied human being. A prerequisite to any understanding of his aims and an even relative acceptance of his means was dissatisfaction with the status quo in a personal sense, and dissatisfaction with, or distrust of, the state of civilization as we know it.<br /><br />His avowed aim, as stated in his book <i>All and Everything</i> is to "destroy" all contemporary habits, opinions, preconceptions, etc., concerning human existence; such destruction being a necessary condition for the reception and acquisition of totally new concepts about the potentialities of human existence.<br /><br />In one of the few "political" statements he ever made in my presence he said that unless the "wisdom" of the East and the "energy" of the West could be harnessed and used harmoniously, the world would be destroyed.<br /><br />--- Fritz Peters, <i>My Journey with a Mystic</i><br /><br />3/procol harum with orchestra and chorus, london palladium, 2018<br /><br />"life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1YzvyOATgmistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.com