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   From: meanmrmustard@gmail.com   
      
   "liaM" wrote in message news:npnh7q$f09$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 8/25/2016 9:09 PM, djinn wrote:   
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   > "brian mitchell" wrote in message   
   > news:r2eurbdo8pc5n2gbcthiqep7c0tc45nmhr@4ax.com...   
   >   
   > daletx wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/22/2016 5:33 PM, pi wrote:   
   >>> On 2016-08-23 00:11, daletx wrote:   
   >>>> On 8/22/2016 2:59 PM, pi wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2016-08-22 20:11, daletx wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 8/21/2016 6:41 PM, djinn wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "brian mitchell" wrote in message   
   >>>>>>> news:l6akrbdoo3i2flnm60gndq59t8rs8tlfla@4ax.com...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:35:31 -0700, Tang Huyen    
   >>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> On 8/21/2016 12:53 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> "Ned Ludd":   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Frankentang! Get out the pitchforks and torches!   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Not at all, not at all. It's the Miracle of Transfiguration   
   >>>>>>>>> for the modern age.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> I can to some limited extent remake   
   >>>>>>>> myself and reinvent myself, but only so   
   >>>>>>>> much and not any more. It is like   
   >>>>>>>> pressing an inflated doll: you press   
   >>>>>>>> some place in, and another pops out.   
   >>>>>>>> One can turn out to be a monster,   
   >>>>>>>> unawares.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> "Form is not-self. If form was self, this   
   >>>>>>>> form would not lead to affliction, and   
   >>>>>>>> it could be had of form: Let my form   
   >>>>>>>> be thus, let my form not be thus. And   
   >>>>>>>> because form is not-self that it   
   >>>>>>>> therefore leads to affliction, and that   
   >>>>>>>> it cannot be had of form: Let my form   
   >>>>>>>> be thus, let my form not be thus." SN,   
   >>>>>>>> III, 66 (22, 59).   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> So, everything being not-self, I know   
   >>>>>>>> that I should not try too hard to bend   
   >>>>>>>> myself to what I like to be, though it   
   >>>>>>>> does work to some limited extent.   
   >>>>>>>> Given such limited malleability, I   
   >>>>>>>> hope that you folks can take me.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Tang Huyen   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "Out of nine lives, I spent seven   
   >>>>>>> Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven   
   >>>>>>> Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in ..."   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> "a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."   
   >>>>>>>> up on cripple creek   
   >>>>>>>> the band   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "Life is a carnival, believe it or not..."   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> DT   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Human life is cooperation.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> pi   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You're gonna have to name the tune, there, bubba, I ain't familiar with   
   >>>> your lyrics.   
   >>>   
   >>> Natalie Dessay: Bach Cantata, BWV 82a (V: "Ich freue mich auf meinen   
   >>> Tod")   
   >>>   
   >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkptptY4SU   
   >>>   
   >>> I delight in my death,   
   >>> ah, if it were only present already!   
   >>>   
   >>> pi   
   >>   
   >> Very nice, although a far cry from The Band.   
   >>   
   >> I guess we're getting Bach to where we once belonged.   
   >   
   >> The master! :-)   
   >   
   > bach is great but to me beethoven was the most   
   > creative classical music genius. you always knew   
   > what a mad genius beethoven was, but you learn   
   > to appreciate it much more when you sit down at   
   > the piano and actually try to play some of it.   
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   >   
      
   how about learning a piece of music before trying to play it   
   it's so much more satisfying   
      
   The same applies to enlightenment junkies   
      
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   don't understand. I'm familiar with his 5th   
   which is the piece I'm stumbling around in.   
      
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