09-16-2020, 01:49 AM
Whether Buddhism is religion or philosophy is a huge debate. Maybe we need three philosophy courses and not one.
...Performance of a musical instrument early in life has its value in teaching about some of the most subtle realities of mathematics. I noticed that you did not mention country music (rarely showing any intellectual depth) or rap (awful!)... and yet, mass merchandisers of sound equipment such as Best Buy have their sound systems set up to demonstrate how those systems play back country music (which sounds much alike on anything) and rap, which of course isn't music. I did forget Big Band, which has the merit (like classical music in the time of Haydn and Mozart) of operating on different aesthetic levels at once, which is much more than I can say about country music, let alone rap.
One of the great realities of western civilization is that its center has gone from Europe to an erstwhile safe haven in the northern third of the New World before the center becomes Latin America. Mexico and Brazil are both more populous than any European country except Russia.
Scientific laws are quite rigid, and even the word 'relativity' doesn't quite express the ultimate reality that everything is relative to the absolute reality of the speed of light in a vacuum. Quantum physics is a playground for a few experts.
...Performance of a musical instrument early in life has its value in teaching about some of the most subtle realities of mathematics. I noticed that you did not mention country music (rarely showing any intellectual depth) or rap (awful!)... and yet, mass merchandisers of sound equipment such as Best Buy have their sound systems set up to demonstrate how those systems play back country music (which sounds much alike on anything) and rap, which of course isn't music. I did forget Big Band, which has the merit (like classical music in the time of Haydn and Mozart) of operating on different aesthetic levels at once, which is much more than I can say about country music, let alone rap.
One of the great realities of western civilization is that its center has gone from Europe to an erstwhile safe haven in the northern third of the New World before the center becomes Latin America. Mexico and Brazil are both more populous than any European country except Russia.
Scientific laws are quite rigid, and even the word 'relativity' doesn't quite express the ultimate reality that everything is relative to the absolute reality of the speed of light in a vacuum. Quantum physics is a playground for a few experts.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.