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I'm not advocating artistic isolationism. My only point is that purity of vision requires a lack of concern for the nature of the reception of its products. For art to say something new and something unique, for it to expand the apparatus of human thought, it has to be made without an audience in mind. If it's for someone, it already has a place in the world; there is a thing that it must be that is for certain people. I'm not saying that there are purely original ideas, which would be preposterous, but rather that we have a near boundless capacity for metaphorical conceptions of the world, and that in order to realise some more of that capacity, we need to express ourselves without concern for the popularity of what we're expressing.
Well, I understand what you are saying. I suppose that the sample indicated was just not to my taste.
The distinction of mind and spirit is actually only a convenient way to codify certain observational data and render it communicable... more-so than it is anything to 'believe' or 'disbelieve' in, per se. The deep nature of reality is essentially paradoxical, in the sense that it is a spontaneous and simultaneous expression and impression of certain fundamental ontological polarities (or perhaps 'qualitative oppositions'), and in the technical discussion, maybe the word 'spirit' becomes problematic, as the most fundamental polarities recognizable to the mind have been identified as: passive-active, subjective-objective, integral-differentiated, and abstract-concrete. (Further: the 'non-dual' perception that transcends the intellect does not imply an elimination of the dualities of mind or of mind itself, but rather a union with primordial timeless awareness able to apprehend paradoxes without disharmony)
So, in essence, to our minds, the universe appears to be a passive-active, abstract-concrete, integral-differentiated, subjective object..... or some such permutation of the above-mentioned terms
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I would like to bring out a quote from Wavy Gravy's movie again to make it salient in this thread:
In the movie 'Saint Misbehavin' he says: "But I, Wavy Gravy, am not a classical clown. I'm an intuitive clown. I love John Townsends definition: 'A clown is a poet who is also... an orangutang.' " and also: "It's the job of the intuitive clown to try and take [serious] work and to turn it into [gentle] fun."
Comedy is not about making fun of people, even if it sometimes may include some satirical lampooning. Comedy is about lifting people's spirits, maintaining levity- especially in dire situations- without losing focus of the necessary.
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I think the essence of comedy is the management of stress in the room. Laughter is an expression of relief. The comic generates distress through confusion or offence, then alleviates it - the punchline renders the joke comprehensible, the context renders the offence palatable - and the audience's response is a cathartic expression of relief. A masterful comic plays the audience's tension like a musical instrument. We use humour day to day in the same way, but differently - life generates stress, and we use humour to alleviate it. There's nothing inherently stressful about sitting in a theatre; the stress from which relief is provided must come from the comedian.
? u do know Sam Kinnison was a preacher long before being a comic....sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a comic is just doing what they do being themselves...eh? :0
The thing i like best about deciphering Joanna's songs...i'm always wrong.
Historical information? Integrity? Not once, according to the archaeological record - an objective record of the past - was there a Jew in Egypt. Never mind Moses, never mind Exodus. All of it, a complete myth. Nor for that matter is there an independent historical record of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, despite accounts of numerous others of the messianic preachers who infested Jerusalem at the time. To say nothing of its philosophical value, which I hold in utter contempt, the Bible is not a reliable source of historical information on almost any subject. I reserve this scorn for the Abrahamic religions, whose content is an aggressive cancer.