jakelafort

@ Simon

A sociological explanation of where moral behavior comes of is not an answer to the philosophical question.

@ Simon

I’m sorry, but any highbrow discussion of the philosophical foundations of morality collapses in my mind as soon as the word “foraging” crops up. LOL

@ PopeBeanie

I’m curious if you read my discussion above of the difference between not having free will and being insane or having an obsessive-compulsive behavior. If we aren’t free, then what’s the difference between that and someone who truly has no control?

Don’t mess with John Wick even when he only has a pencil in his hand.

Hypothetically, if you were suddenly able to know if you actually had free will or discovered that you don’t have it, would that significantly change the way you live your life? Even if you knew what a “reasonable” definition of it is?

My conclusion is no, I don’t care any more, so I’ll just keep acting as if it’s really me choosing how to…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I’d love to hear any definition of free will that makes sense.

It’s a mythical construct. But it feels like there’s more to it than that. Depending on who’s defining it, it can be a gift from God that usurps determinism. But according to me, believing in determinism, the illusion of free will is a gift, too, and I’m happy with f…[Read more]

Yeah, 23 gets me every time, too.

I like Don’s analyses, when I have time, like right now.

He happened to (unintentionally) stop the video in a spot that looked nice to me, so I took a partial screen shot:

Whoops, Don saw it too! See your post. After I clipped it to post here, I continued the video, and that’s when he clipped his thumbnail…[Read more]

Don-Music has, I think, settled on “23” as his favorite TW song. At one point toward the end it actually makes him tear up a bit. It’s an in-depth analysis of the song.

One thing he notes is something I sensed even though I have zero musicologicsl education is that the song fails to resolve at the end. The last note doesn’t belong to the base…[Read more]

They recorded Teatro over two sold out concerts, and spliced them into one video. They released each song singly, then a whole concert, over a year or so. Thanks, I’ll pay more attention to the picks now, and proximate edits. As you mentioned, they play so consistently, I’ll bet that splicing the best camera angles took the most work. I’m thinking…[Read more]

@ PopeBeanie

The Teatro Metropolitan looks like a pure live video recording but some trickery is definitely involved. One expert reactor thought he was going crazy because after he noticed that Dany keeps spare picks on her mic stand, it drove him crazy that there were six, then a bit later five, and then six again. That’s when he realized that…[Read more]

So, I ran into this performer who has one answer to the question, “How does a violinist prosper in the world of rock?” Meet Lindsey Stirling, who I assumed was British for some reason. Turns out, she’s as American as apple pie and cheeseburgers.

Another, slicker, pro…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Dany, as a matter of fact doesn’t take solos. Her guitar breaks are played as written. She is not inventing them on the fly. Compare several performances of the same song and you’ll realize her “solo” is the same every single time. This is why I call them “guitar breaks” and not “guitar solos.”

Watching always-epic performance rec…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
“John Wick”, however, oh yeah. I intentionally avoided it for years. And then it was on the box one day and I gotta say, it wasn’t all the killing he did, but all those botched attempts at killing him by the bad guys that was mildly amusing.  Because you know they can’t kill him else the movie is over, LOL.

It’s called “the wil…[Read more]

@ Robert

Nothing at that link I didn’t know or hadn’t heard before. I don’t think there’s anything sinister about wanting to make money doing what you love doing. I especially don’t mind hearing the thoughts of people whose education or practical experience have given them a degree of expertise, especially if they are interesting or entertaining…[Read more]

Recently, I watched a reaction video of a TW song by members of a band who love TW but one of them said something like “I’d like Dany to take more guitar solos.” I wrote a comment explaining something about TW and it went something like this:

I think you don’t yet understand The Warning’s project. They exist primarily to present their songs.…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
More i think about more convinced that those persuaded by notion we have free will are either ignorant in that they’ve never truly pondered the issues or have succumbed to that same narcissism driving belief in gods or superstition.

I’d love to hear any definition of free will that makes sense.

You and me both.

On one level, if we do not have free will, one can wonder what, then, is the difference between a person acting normally and someone acting under what we would call a compulsion or due to insanity? Surely, there must be a difference.

I think there is. We don’t think of someone as being compulsive or insane as long as their actions make sense to…[Read more]

Can’t believe Irish Girl never heard of AC/DC.  When they gig in Ireland you will hear them being played everywhere. Even the priests and nuns like them because of that song about the girl who does a ‘”Whole Lotta Rosary” 🙂

@ PopeBeanie

Regarding the Irish girl, I just started it and am at thepoint where she gets up to take her dog for a walk and we get a glance at a part of her apartment. Clearly, she lives in modest digs. It looks like it might be little more than an efficiency or 1-bed unit.

Also, the normal American guy in me has to note that she’s got some…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
The whole “I’m a teacher gonna school you with my reaction” is just an attempt to avoid demonetization of their videos by the copyright owners. Many of the regular reactors have given up, but here is an education loophole of sorts. The best ones are the “stage presence coaches”, LOL.

Well, that’s a little cynical implying…[Read more]