John
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Comparative spirituality, history, AI, meaning. How do we make the internet a nourishing place to be?
Happy feast of St Francis!
October 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Happy feast of St Francis!
Happy Michaelmas everyone!
September 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Happy Michaelmas everyone!
Happy Easter… Kommt eilet und laufet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fa...
Bach - Easter Oratorio: Kommt, eilet und laufet BWV 249 - Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society
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April 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Happy Easter… Kommt eilet und laufet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fa...
Great day for the Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsZ...
Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Jordi Savall)
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April 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Great day for the Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsZ...
ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor
April 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor
Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto.
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
April 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto.
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.
March 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.
Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
March 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour
January 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour
Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism.
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
January 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism.
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
Happy epiphany! Enjoy one of Bach's great epiphany cantatas, BWV 65 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzr...
Bach - Cantata Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen BWV 65 - Rademann | Netherlands Bach Society
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January 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Happy epiphany! Enjoy one of Bach's great epiphany cantatas, BWV 65 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzr...
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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December 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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Beethoven thread! He hit the ground running. The Op 1 piano trios were the first music he gave an opus number to, in 1795. Even this first work is awesome and worth listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_r...
December 19, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Beethoven thread! He hit the ground running. The Op 1 piano trios were the first music he gave an opus number to, in 1795. Even this first work is awesome and worth listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_r...
On to the classical era! I got serious whiplash in Greenberg's survey course because he brought us straight from JS Bach to Haydn which is like mixing coke with 7 up. For a smoother transition try some CPE Bach, note the use of silence and homophonic texture in place of polyphony
December 19, 2024 at 7:47 PM
On to the classical era! I got serious whiplash in Greenberg's survey course because he brought us straight from JS Bach to Haydn which is like mixing coke with 7 up. For a smoother transition try some CPE Bach, note the use of silence and homophonic texture in place of polyphony
It's Beethoven's birthday and I spent 2024 learning obsessively about classical music so wanted to do a thread that might be inspirational for the curious.
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
December 17, 2024 at 5:24 AM
It's Beethoven's birthday and I spent 2024 learning obsessively about classical music so wanted to do a thread that might be inspirational for the curious.
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
With so many prisoners released in Syria, today is a good day to pray to St Leonard of Noblac, patron of captives, breaker of chains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
December 8, 2024 at 10:06 PM
With so many prisoners released in Syria, today is a good day to pray to St Leonard of Noblac, patron of captives, breaker of chains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
December 2, 2024 at 6:58 AM
TIL there is actually a marsh mallow plant that is the basis of marshmallows
December 2, 2024 at 6:41 AM
TIL there is actually a marsh mallow plant that is the basis of marshmallows
Q for @csaid.bsky.social should we be worried about this bird flu thing? manifold.markets/jgyou/will-t...
Will there be a "large-scale bird flu outbreak" (100+ human confirmed H5N1 cases) in the US by the end of 2025?
56% chance. Defined as 100+ human confirmed H5N1 cases as reported on https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-flu-summary.htm
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November 23, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Q for @csaid.bsky.social should we be worried about this bird flu thing? manifold.markets/jgyou/will-t...
"The foxes have their lairs, the birds of heaven their nests, but I have no place to rest my head."
Ste Therèse de Lisieux, pray for us!
Ste Therèse de Lisieux, pray for us!
October 2, 2024 at 4:27 PM
"The foxes have their lairs, the birds of heaven their nests, but I have no place to rest my head."
Ste Therèse de Lisieux, pray for us!
Ste Therèse de Lisieux, pray for us!
Today's Gospel reading was about the transfiguration, such a cinematic event!
February 26, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Today's Gospel reading was about the transfiguration, such a cinematic event!
Happy Epiphany to all the gentiles out there!
January 6, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Happy Epiphany to all the gentiles out there!
Today's Bishop Barron sermon was especially good. The way to heaven is part of heaven!
Buddhism flipped my perspective here namely, the spiritual path creates heaven _in this life_. You don't even have to believe in literal heaven (do we even know what that means?) if you believe in the Way
Buddhism flipped my perspective here namely, the spiritual path creates heaven _in this life_. You don't even have to believe in literal heaven (do we even know what that means?) if you believe in the Way
How Not to Think About Heaven - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
Friends, the parable at the heart of our Gospel today from Matthew 20 is one of those passages in the New Testament that really bothers people. It proves tha...
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September 24, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Today's Bishop Barron sermon was especially good. The way to heaven is part of heaven!
Buddhism flipped my perspective here namely, the spiritual path creates heaven _in this life_. You don't even have to believe in literal heaven (do we even know what that means?) if you believe in the Way
Buddhism flipped my perspective here namely, the spiritual path creates heaven _in this life_. You don't even have to believe in literal heaven (do we even know what that means?) if you believe in the Way