Is it 'trolling' to troll pseudo-questions, nonsense, bigotry or trolls? Re: neurosis of a meta-troll.

Got a new book called "Young William James Thinking" by P.J. Croce. Didn't know William James was elder brother of the novelist Henry James until getting this book.

An ideal bedtime reading.

Ideas without experiments are empty, and experiments without ideas are blind. - Kant

So, who is going to invent time machine, if ever?

99.9% of my knowledge of the world is based on my indirect perceptions (internet media) and imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-tlZC7IUMQ

Song of Philosophy of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4wgcXh1u4

Thanks for posting Zucchero's 'Wonderful Life' :sparkle:
Of course, life isn't always wonderful but music can make it so, for a moment at least.
The lyrics talk about magic being everywhere - hmm.

Music helps us be alone with our thoughts. It transports us to a magic world, to a place where everything becomes more tolerable. A place where we can cry until we dry up or smile until we’re sore. — exploring your mind - the magic of music

Wonderful Life
Zucchero
Here I go out to sea again
The sunshine fills my hair
And dreams hang in the air

Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes
You know it feels unfair
There's magic everywhere

Look at me standing
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine

No need to run and hide
It's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh and cry
It's a wonderful, wonderful life

The sun in your eyes
The heat is in your hair
They seem to hate you
Because you're there

I need a friend
Oh I need a friend
To make me happy
Not stand here on my own

Look at me standing
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine

No need to run and hide
It's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh and cry
It's a wonderful, wonderful life

I need a friend
Oh, I need a friend
To make me happy
I'm not so alone

Look at me standing
Here on my own again
Up straight in the sunshine

No need to run and hide
It's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh and cry
It's a wonderful, wonderful life

No need to run and hide
It's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to run and cry
It's a wonderful, wonderful life

Wonderful life
Wonderful life
Wonderful life

Songwriters: Colin Vearncombe
For non-commercial use only.
Data from: Musixmatch

:up:

Plato's Understanding of Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzyo-X7NVLw

Plato's Theory of Forms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TissHzEG_JY

Plato's Form of the Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqevDrh1TM

Plato's Analogy of the Cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d71tYwcpHNM

Plato's Theory of Forms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1BGmuZ6PO8

Judgments presents problems of a serious nature to both psychology and metaphysics. - F. H. Bradley

“Research into ancient Greek music is pointless”—Giuseppe Verdi

“Nobody has ever made head or tail of ancient Greek music, and nobody ever will. That way madness lies”—Wilfred Perrett

Wrong !!

At the root of all Western literature is ancient Greek poetry—Homer’s great epics, the passionate love poems of Sappho, the masterpieces of Greek tragedy and of comic theatre. Almost all of this poetry was or originally involved sung music, often with instrumental accomp­animent. Scholars are now in a position to reconstruct from surviving documents how Greek music actually sounded. By combining this knowledge with modern analogies and imaginative musicianship we may make a start at understanding why it was thought to exert such extraordinary power...

...Now that we can reconstruct some of the sung versions of this poetry in musical form, we are bound to ask the question: how did ancient Greek music affect or interact with the texts of poetry? — Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music

15 mins of video embedded - Greek poetry was accompanied by music. Reconstruction.
At 10.40 - Text on stone with musical notations above. Wow.

Haven't had a chance to look at these.
They're not exactly 'passing philosophical aphorisms' - why did you include them ?
Not for the first time, wondering about the title and OP of the thread...

Any passing philosophical aphorisms? Put down in this thread. — Corvus

Aphorism: a pithy observation which contains a general truth.

On their own - can be thought provoking, so why not include a couple of sentences to express your thoughts ? For example, about:

Judgments presents problems of a serious nature to both psychology and metaphysics. - F. H. Bradley — Corvus

Aphorism: a pithy observation which contains a general truth.

On their own - can be thought provoking, so why not include a couple of sentences to express your thoughts ? For example, about: — Amity

Good point. Initially wanted it only for aphorisms, but then there were useful links for philosophy, songs and quotes, and they were all thrown in together too. Maybe better to separate them in separate threads?

Maybe better to separate them in separate threads? — Corvus

I don't know.
I see some members have a single thread full of 'stuff' they enjoy...

I was able to edit the title. :D

I don't know.
I see some members have a single thread full of 'stuff' they enjoy... — Amity

yeah, will see how it goes.

Nothing quite like an 'et al' :wink:
Always reminds me of eat all you can get !

Nothing quite like an 'et al' :wink:
Always reminds me of eat all you can get ! — Amity

:grin:

Well, here's an 'et al' to be getting on with...

Combining my recent thoughts re Ancient Greek Music, the lyre and poetry.
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/588322
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/588329

Really, I can't believe I didn't know this. Slowly it dawns.

lyric (n.)
"a lyric poem" (one suggestive of music or fit to be sung), 1580s, from French lyrique "short poem expressing personal emotion," from Latin lyricus "of or for the lyre," from Greek lyrikos "singing to the lyre," from lyra (see lyre). Meaning "words of a popular song" is first recorded 1876. — Origin and meaning of lyric

... my recent thoughts re Ancient Greek Music... — Amity

:fire:

With this chorus the profound Greek, so uniquely susceptible to the subtlest and deepest suffering, who had penetrated the destructive agencies of both nature and history, solaced himself. Though he had been in danger of craving a Buddhistic denial of the will, he was saved through art, and through art life reclaimed him. — The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music

:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/529241

That reminded me that I have a book on the ancient Greek poetry. Will take out, and do some reading on it. The ancient Greek poetry also looks very interesting with rich and deep meanings.

Thanks for the reminder. Second time around, another poke with a stick to read that guy...

Your quote from Nietzsche:

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Let's dance :party:
David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbD_kBJc_gI

Perhaps warm up first:
Fred Astaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qsnf5pTl1Y

Back twinges and mental fixations to be sorted out :smile:

Can you dance at the same time ? :wink:

Zorbas Dance (Sirtaki) - Greek wedding Volos - ΦΕΡΑΙ PALACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_kele6tedo

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Start off on your own - others might join in. Or not. Just do it for fun :cool:
Pre-Covid days.
Bristol Zorba the Greek - Flash Mob Dance - Bristol March 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vByc0K1wHes

:cool: :party:

"The shrieking of nothing is killing ..."

Can you dance at the same time ? :wink:

Zorbas Dance (Sirtaki) - Greek wedding Volos - ΦΕΡΑΙ PALACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_kele6tedo — Amity

I have not been dancing for years, now I am sure I would feel awkward. :blush:
I used to like dancing when I used to pub crawling and pleasure seeking with the friends years ago. :nerd:

Dance Wherever You May Be, even if not a Shaker :party:

A movement from Aaaron Copland's Apalachian Spring based upon the Shaker hymn The Lord of the Dance provides the mood for the bird video.

Dance, dance, wherever you may be!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sch4eqwizQU

Dance in your Living Room - Larkin McLean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frD1EeP4cGY

Dance Wherever You May Be, even if not a Shaker :party:
— Amity

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire :wink:

Life is a mortgage taken out from the universe, that will be squared with old age and death, or death.