Music and Music Words and Philosophy

The Hicks were nice and let me on the computer when Dottie and Ellie went to sleep. Their computer is fast ^_^

Earlier I was busting out the old YHO music . . . Paul Hindemith's "Funf Stucke for Orchester" . . . I had a craving to listen to this. It's rather very modern-y (and we as the YHO don't play it very well), but it makes sense, in a way. I like it on certain occasions, this being one. It also makes me reminiscent . . . I remember Saturday morning after the first full moon I ever wrote about in the Marauder journal.

Ooh, yeah; the Zehr Langsam movement, my favorite. I was going to use this for a death once . . . ooh, it could be for the funeral in Noble House.

As I pointed out (rather inappropriately) in English today, I love music words that mean death marches or mourning tunes-- and also descriptions for sadness: Requiem, Elegy, Pavane (so it's really a procession but I always think of Pavane for a Dead Princess or Faure's Pavane, both of which are sad), and the new one for today, Threnady. Such pretty words! Also, Lacrymosa, Doloroso . . . very pretty words.

Wow, this is the movement (the one after my favorite; lol, yes, it keeps moving with the entry) I came up with an idea for a story to.

Anyway . . . I don't know where the people went I was supposed to babysit. They were supposed to pick me up at 4:30-- and they never did . . . and I'm too scared to call them. Hmm . . .

I hate not being online all the time anymore. I really can't RP very much. Yes, I know, I am so pathetic.

Gaa I have too much to do this weekend. I have to help take the damn boat out, and also go to a thing about Yale that will only be an hour long but is two hours away.

Yeah, I think Halloween gets screwed over by college visits. Dammit. MAYBE I can show up at someone else's house, dress up real fast and run over . . . but I really don't think the 12 Grimmauld Place is going to happen.

Maybe if I'm pessimistic, it'll work out???

Okay, this is rather fun: in Spanish, I was randomly compiling a list of philsophical questions. Then, lo and behold, I walk into World History and we're watching a [really old] movie (uh, I mean, film strip . . . yes, with the projector and all . . . like the kind I had to set up in my closet last year and watch with Chris the psycho as he tried to throw printers at me and we freaked out when they played Rienzi in the German Revolutions one) about Socrates and his teachings. I was like, "Hey, more philosophy! Score!"

Answer yes or no to the following questions. Feel free to expand on them, or add "but," or any reserves you might have. I'm posting mine, but later, so you won't be affected by my results. Think of it like a survey, deeper than the usual "What's your name?" and "Do you like vanilla or chocolate better?" survey. My hope is you have to really think about some of them . . . and then you come up with something great and really truly what you believe. Post them; I'd love to see them (you can leave stuff out if you really want to, too; it doesn't matter). It's fun! Yea for the Socratic method!

((Note: "Outside Force" can be anything . . . usually it is interpreted to be God, but you can throw in a say for parents, there, too, and how they raise you . . . ))

-Humans are naturally good.
-Humans are naturally evil.
-Humans require an outside force to become good.
-Human conscience shows how to be good.
-An outside force shows us how to be good.
-Conscience is affected by experience.
-There is one universal path of right that all must follow to be good.
-Each individual follows his own path based on his conscience to be good.

-Children should be taught a uniform code of manners in schools.
-Individual parents should be in charge of their own childrens' discipline.
-Religion should be taught in public schools.
-Religion should be banned in public schools.

-A person owes something to the country he lives in.
-A country owes something to the people that live in it.
-An elected official deserves respect.
-An elected official deserves unquestioned obedience.
-The security of the whole is worth more than the individual liberties of one/some.
-The achievements of the whole are worth more than the achievements of one.
-Civil disobedience is a worthy form of protest.
-All protest can take place within the boundaries of the law and still be effective.

-Life is preferrable to death.
-Life with shame is preferrable to death with honor.
-All lives are of equal worth
-Some lives must be sacrified for the good of the rest.
-War is murder and is therefore evil.
-War spares more lives in proportion to lives lost and is therefore good.

-There is only one right religion.
-There are several right religions, but not all of them.
-All religions are right.
-Even non-religion is right.
-God does not exist.
-God exists.

(obviously, if you said no to the above, you can't answer this)
-God has a physical place of residence.
-God is people's consciences.
-God is loving.
-God is wrathful.
-God causes physical miracles.
-God works through people.

-There is an afterlife.
-Evenutally, all good is rewarded and evil is punished.
-Evil is punished before death.
-Evil is punished after death.
-Evil does not exist.
-Evil actions can be atoned before death.
-Evil actions can be atoned after death.

I could do this all day.

( My Results )

Music and Music Words and Philosophy

The Hicks were nice and let me on the computer when Dottie and Ellie went to sleep. Their computer is fast ^_^

Earlier I was busting out the old YHO music . . . Paul Hindemith's "Funf Stucke for Orchester" . . . I had a craving to listen to this. It's rather very modern-y (and we as the YHO don't play it very well), but it makes sense, in a way. I like it on certain occasions, this being one. It also makes me reminiscent . . . I remember Saturday morning after the first full moon I ever wrote about in the Marauder journal.

Ooh, yeah; the Zehr Langsam movement, my favorite. I was going to use this for a death once . . . ooh, it could be for the funeral in Noble House.

As I pointed out (rather inappropriately) in English today, I love music words that mean death marches or mourning tunes-- and also descriptions for sadness: Requiem, Elegy, Pavane (so it's really a procession but I always think of Pavane for a Dead Princess or Faure's Pavane, both of which are sad), and the new one for today, Threnady. Such pretty words! Also, Lacrymosa, Doloroso . . . very pretty words.

Wow, this is the movement (the one after my favorite; lol, yes, it keeps moving with the entry) I came up with an idea for a story to.

Anyway . . . I don't know where the people went I was supposed to babysit. They were supposed to pick me up at 4:30-- and they never did . . . and I'm too scared to call them. Hmm . . .

I hate not being online all the time anymore. I really can't RP very much. Yes, I know, I am so pathetic.

Gaa I have too much to do this weekend. I have to help take the damn boat out, and also go to a thing about Yale that will only be an hour long but is two hours away.

Yeah, I think Halloween gets screwed over by college visits. Dammit. MAYBE I can show up at someone else's house, dress up real fast and run over . . . but I really don't think the 12 Grimmauld Place is going to happen.

Maybe if I'm pessimistic, it'll work out???

Okay, this is rather fun: in Spanish, I was randomly compiling a list of philsophical questions. Then, lo and behold, I walk into World History and we're watching a [really old] movie (uh, I mean, film strip . . . yes, with the projector and all . . . like the kind I had to set up in my closet last year and watch with Chris the psycho as he tried to throw printers at me and we freaked out when they played Rienzi in the German Revolutions one) about Socrates and his teachings. I was like, "Hey, more philosophy! Score!"

Answer yes or no to the following questions. Feel free to expand on them, or add "but," or any reserves you might have. I'm posting mine, but later, so you won't be affected by my results. Think of it like a survey, deeper than the usual "What's your name?" and "Do you like vanilla or chocolate better?" survey. My hope is you have to really think about some of them . . . and then you come up with something great and really truly what you believe. Post them; I'd love to see them (you can leave stuff out if you really want to, too; it doesn't matter). It's fun! Yea for the Socratic method!

((Note: "Outside Force" can be anything . . . usually it is interpreted to be God, but you can throw in a say for parents, there, too, and how they raise you . . . ))

-Humans are naturally good.
-Humans are naturally evil.
-Humans require an outside force to become good.
-Human conscience shows how to be good.
-An outside force shows us how to be good.
-Conscience is affected by experience.
-There is one universal path of right that all must follow to be good.
-Each individual follows his own path based on his conscience to be good.

-Children should be taught a uniform code of manners in schools.
-Individual parents should be in charge of their own childrens' discipline.
-Religion should be taught in public schools.
-Religion should be banned in public schools.

-A person owes something to the country he lives in.
-A country owes something to the people that live in it.
-An elected official deserves respect.
-An elected official deserves unquestioned obedience.
-The security of the whole is worth more than the individual liberties of one/some.
-The achievements of the whole are worth more than the achievements of one.
-Civil disobedience is a worthy form of protest.
-All protest can take place within the boundaries of the law and still be effective.

-Life is preferrable to death.
-Life with shame is preferrable to death with honor.
-All lives are of equal worth
-Some lives must be sacrified for the good of the rest.
-War is murder and is therefore evil.
-War spares more lives in proportion to lives lost and is therefore good.

-There is only one right religion.
-There are several right religions, but not all of them.
-All religions are right.
-Even non-religion is right.
-God does not exist.
-God exists.

(obviously, if you said no to the above, you can't answer this)
-God has a physical place of residence.
-God is people's consciences.
-God is loving.
-God is wrathful.
-God causes physical miracles.
-God works through people.

-There is an afterlife.
-Evenutally, all good is rewarded and evil is punished.
-Evil is punished before death.
-Evil is punished after death.
-Evil does not exist.
-Evil actions can be atoned before death.
-Evil actions can be atoned after death.

I could do this all day.

( My Results )