The Vocel subject, and listing of some I let close

So if we don't want young men to have to trade off getting an education for a sex life, then we need alternative types of education. So years and years ago I looked into the Great Books Groups. These are not the Great Books Schools, they are study groups. I found out that they meet once a month for a discussion. They read one thing per month, like a book of the Bible, or of Plato, something like that. 12 per year.

So what I find today:
www.greatbooks.org/

So they have Councils
www.greatbooks.org/great-books-now/book-groups/

So I look by my zip code and find nothing. So I look for all of CA. Lots of groups. You just email or call the person listed.

Overall I support this, but I am still not impressed by it. Need more, need a broader context to do it in. Just like I concluded with the above system of study circles.

Let me look at something else here too.

www.philosopher.org/Socrates_Cafe.html

Yes, I like this. Years ago I wrote to them to get the local list.

Yes, still have to snail mail them to get a list.

Here, Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
by Christopher Phillips
www.philosopher.org/Books.html

Again, like with the above two, I still say that you need a much broader context to make this all work.



So I am planning on letting some threads die off and close, unless someone else has something to add. For myself, I have run out of things to say.

The Levels of PLdom
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=61097

Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooter 2014
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=60648

Car Keys and Wallet Dating
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=61164

... tried to distance himself from Nazi policies and was never held accountable
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=61474

Yippie, Dow drops 831 points!
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=61166

Sex In The Home Of Your Parents?
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=61150

So What Do Women Like To Read?
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id=60599

SJG

Nirvana - Come As You Are
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o

This song in my head last night. It must be in the Key of D.

Most everyone can hear relative pitch. But very few can hear absolute pitch. The reason every key sounds different is because the percussion tuning is not changed. Musicians deny that percussion is tuned to any specific pitch, saying that rather it is just tuned until it sounds right. But that is silly, because that is exactly how a violin is played, by making it sound right. Tympani tunes with a crank handle, and it has a gauge right on it. So the kick drum is tuned to A of the 16ft octave, the same as the second to lowest string of a four string bass, 55 hz. All the drums are tuned.

These kind of songs are always in D. I think it has something to do with that A note, the dominant.

So to really know you almost have to play along with it. The D scale has F and C sharped. But it can be done with accidentals too. And some music revolves around other notes than the tonic. Some is Mixolyidian and so it revolves around the dominant and has the 7th ( C# ) flatted. Lots of ways. In the end it is just listening to it and trying to play along which will resolve this.

This ends on the D major triad and the chorus versus end on the D major triad. Usually that is the final determinant of what key it is in.

Alternate guitar tuning is being used, one suggestive of D.

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tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nirvana/come_as_you_are_chords_77621

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Wicked Temptations, how life should be:
www.wickedtemptations.com/standard-sizes/clubwear/tops/white-sleeveless-mayhem-hoodie-w-open-back.html