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Jan 30, 2003 11:19

I did not know that Stravinsky did a treatment of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. I am intrigued ( Read more... )

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nymysys January 30 2003, 08:50:29 UTC
Are you listening to my cd? ARE YOU?

I agree with you about the latest poll, but for different reasons. I agree with your last statement, also. But probably for different reasons.

Which proves we don't have a very ethical friendship.

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maeglin January 30 2003, 09:04:57 UTC
I'm afraid I haven't listened to your CD recently. Do you have any particular recommendations?

And until I hear your reasons, I am in no position to judge what kind of friendship we have. ;)

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Re: nymysys January 30 2003, 09:07:59 UTC
Your LJ name is from the Nick Cave song that I put on my birthday soundtrack. I was just wondering if perhaps you had listened to it lately. Not that you're not allowed to listen to Nick Cave at any given point. Not only are you allowed, but you should. It's good for testicular health. [snort]

If you cannot judge our frienship by now, there's no hope. Besides, I thought you were judging it all along. :D

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maeglin January 30 2003, 09:14:13 UTC
Oh, duh, right, of course. I listen to that song all the time, and my love of Nick Cave is traceable directly back to your CD. The line is my lj name because, incidentally, my default icon that you are looking at right now's name is Rorschach, from The Watchmen. Which mags insisted that I read, and she was oh, so right.

And your last remark is pure evasion, and I will have none of it. :)

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jarbabyj January 30 2003, 09:09:02 UTC
re: the giant sex poll (pun intended)

Where were all these big dicked dominant bondage freaks when I was single and horny?W

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delphica January 30 2003, 10:28:51 UTC
I'm confirming for Friday, btw, I lost track of the other thread.

I've always thought that one of the nice things about being Catholic is that I already hit my lifetime submission quota, so I can keep that whole deal out of my bedroom, thankyewverramuch.

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maeglin January 30 2003, 11:42:57 UTC
Friday indeed.

I am such a Catholic. If it weren't for the whole God, Jesus, Saints, and dogma thing...

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Sex is like ice cream nycnative January 30 2003, 11:01:56 UTC
I can tell you that I like chocolate ice cream much better than strawberry. I can tell you the differences between the two flavors. Being a fairly well-spoken and well-read person, I coudl invest many thousands of words telling you about the differences between the two flavors.

However, if you ask me *why* I prefer chocolate over strawberry and the person next to me prefers the inverse, I have no answer for that.

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Re: Sex is like ice cream maeglin January 30 2003, 11:41:21 UTC
Come on, Brian, that's facile. :) Though I am deeply biased towards chocolate, I can say, from my heart of hears, that both chocolate and strawberry are ethically neutral choices.

I am sure you can fill in the rest of my contention.

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Re: Sex is like ice cream nycnative January 30 2003, 12:15:39 UTC
You seem to be laboring under an assumption brought about by a paradigm that you dwell in. You're not alone in dwelling in it, and in fact, my personal views might be closer to it than you'd believe. However, to play my advocate...

First, you need to explain to me why sex has to be anything other than "ethically neutral." I don't buy it. Why is sex about ethics? Even if I grant you that ice cream *isn't* about ethics, why is sex any different?

Secondly, even if you managed the feat of convincing me that sex had to be involving ethics, ethics are a very personal and subjective thing, which is the crux of this argument: personal preferences. You'd then have to show me why sex between two people whose personal ethics put them in a mindset that's different from your own is somwhoe "wrong."

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Re: Sex is like ice cream maeglin January 30 2003, 13:13:41 UTC
LJ ate my first post. Let's try this again. I am sure my first post was better.

You seem to be laboring under an assumption brought about by a paradigm that you dwell in.

More like a conscious choice to remain true to my beliefs.

First, you need to explain to me why sex has to be anything other than "ethically neutral." I don't buy it. Why is sex about ethics? Even if I grant you that ice cream *isn't* about ethics, why is sex any different?I'll spare you my grand unified theory of sex and ice cream, as much as I would like to indulge my philosophical side ( ... )

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funkdaddy January 30 2003, 15:42:20 UTC
For good or for ill, ethos anthropos daimon. Heracleitus. It's a handy phrase: man's character is his fate.

This phrase gives me a small measure of comfort. I hope this comfort isn't an indication I'm deluded. Time will tell, I suppose.

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