Open thread 12/22/23
This is what rosin is about. You have no idea how common these slips are, especially when the dancer is balanced on that tiny satin pointe:
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This is what rosin is about. You have no idea how common these slips are, especially when the dancer is balanced on that tiny satin pointe:
I thought this was great. From todays WSJ for those who have access:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-haven-from-the-ivy-leagues-madness-assumption-jews-antisemitism-harvard-f60d063a?st=gikfb2slttmsdqp&reflink=article_copyURL_share
It’s written by the Jewish president of a Catholic college – Assumption
The most important question isn’t how academic administrators respond to antisemitism but why the educations they provide seem to foster such hatred.
Menacing mobs on campus suggest an absence of what has, since Socrates, been recognized as the essential prerequisite for learning: a readiness to acknowledge one’s ignorance.
I know nothing about ballet. I always associated rosin with imparting tackiness to bows used in bowed instruments like violins. But it makes sense it would be good for lots of other things too, including rock climbing, handball, baseball pitching and many more.
In the video, the “host” (– what do you call her? ) said something about “rosin vs box”
Would you explain? I am ballet-ignorant.
Does she mean a flatter than normal
tip? That seems dangerous in other ways for dancers.
I started out not fond of the host & video. Laughing at performance falls … ugh. But I liked her take further on, saying “we’ve all done it” and “it’s all about how you get up … Recovery!”
Regarding fallen support for Israel among the young – this article I am linking to below from ” The Times of Israel ” is about a number of prominent evangelicals visiting the site of one of the attacks in Israel. Included in the group was Joel Rosenberg and the former governor of Arkansas and Baptist minister, Mike Huckabee, whose daughter was the White House spokeswoman for Trump and current governor of Arkansas. There was a couple of opinions in the article about lack of support for Israel . The one that stuck out to me was a pastor at the end of the article that claimed that the spread of ” replacement theology ” is one of the drivers of this among younger Christians. ” Replacement theology” is the horribly erroneous theology that the church has replaced Israel in God’s plans. Probably one of its parallel trends is the dropping of the study of the Old Testament in some churches.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/devastation-of-gaza-border-towns-a-gut-punch-says-huckabee-during-evangelical-tour/
Megyn Kelly is not alone. Our planet is chock-full of regretful regretters. Live and learn, die and learn. It’s a long journey.
Jon Baker. “Replacement Theology” is a new term to me. Apparently, the more literate term is supersessionism.
“Definition
“Replacement Theology – reduced to its simplest form – teaches that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan. The term “Replacement Theology” is relatively new and unfamiliar to many people (in some cases, even those who believe in it). Among theologians, the older and more widely used term is “supersessionism.” The Church “supersedes” Israel. Its proponents teach that God has set aside Israel and made the Church “new Israel,” the new and improved people of God. There are many variations….”
https://shema.com/replacement-theology-its-origins-147/
On the above account, this path of doctrinal interpretation has fueled much Jew hatred in the past.
THIS cannot be good. Yet one can readily see how SWJ/Wokery could find in this a useful doctrine to further their racist retributionist cause. Almost an eye-for-an eye Old Testament redux. A scary development amidst so many other worries.
Times of israel sometimes steps on its own…feet
Hot Air article about the mass shooting in Prague:
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/12/21/in-the-face-of-a-horrific-shooting-rampage-heartbroken-prague-mayor-speaks-pragmatic-truth-n600681
Apparently, there have been mass shootings in Europe, but we rarely hear about them. Instead, the MSM tells us that this is an unique American problem. Key quote from the mayor:
” …”The thing is, of course, a tragedy, it is a tragedy that occurs in the modern world. We know very well that for a number of years we have been hearing from the United States that there has been an excess of some shooter shooting in a school or on the street or somewhere,” Svoboda said in a press briefing.
“We have always thought that this is a matter that does not concern Europe and us, that this is a matter that is also a given in the United States due to the fact that everyone there is armed, etc.”
“Now, unfortunately, it turns out that our world is also changing and we have the problem of the individual shooter whose reasons for what he does are not entirely clear.
And the worst thing about it is that these are things that cannot be solved preventively,” he emphasized.”
We took our grand-daughter to the opening of The Nutcracker last night… Just a wonderful evening and not a single mis-cue or “fall” the whole evening.. That said the opening scene for the “snow queen” ensemble had snow flakes falling from the sky (above the stage) and after a few minutes the entire stage had a white glow from the snow…. got to worrying about exactly what the little video above was describing .. how do you complete the jump when the stage is ready to give way..?? Not a single mis-step… Just beautiful !! Take the kids – a great way to put on a Christmas smile …. Kimo. ps: the little 2/3 year old mice were hilarious!
A cleanser
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaj-Oo9Pgw
https://twitter.com/bullfrog35/status/1722012128327209108
Notice anything
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-22-2023/
Oh, man. Your selection today brought back seeing a ballerina take her ankle out of socket. It’s something you get a visceral empathetic response for. I literally had a body clench a bit on flashing from that still shot to the memory.
Eeeeeechhhhh.
April 1, 2013 — Pittsburgh Pirate A. J. Burnett and the rosin bag: https://youtu.be/NfdojpPB7T4?si=a9SlavNUfB3UnKO6
One of the best I’ve ever seen.
kimo:
The snow scene gives a lot of dancers anxiety about falling. It is extra slippery.
On the above account, this path of doctrinal interpretation has fueled much Jew hatred in the past.
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non ci credo
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/22/a-glaring-sign-of-rot-within-the-cia/
With friends like rove…
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1738262047501267132
Ah, to have the grace and balance of a ballet dancer.
At a certain age, falls become……truly painful, and dangerous. Seeing the dancers fall reminded me of myself. Except I’m not dancing. 🙁 Slow and steady is the best plan. And not falling, of course.
Oligonicella:
And you just reminded me of a couple of patella dislocations I’ve seen in ballet classes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12894827/Supreme-Court-REJECTS-request-fast-track-Trumps-immunity-case-Win-ex-president-justices-rebuff-Jack-Smiths-bid-expedite-increase-chances-trial-delayed.html
On churches dropping study of the Old Testament, old heresies have a way of coming back in some form. Marcion, in the middle of the second century, taught a modified “New Testament only” heresy which was soundly condemned by orthodox Christianity. The reaction to this continues to this day in liturgical churches. The candles at the altar are lit and extinguished in order so that the Gospel candle (the one on the left looking from the congregation) never burns alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism
that seems foolish because the whole book is a thread from Genesis to Revelation, how can one understand Jesus fulfilling the Covenant without reference to Abraham, how does one understand not falling to despair without the Psalms,
now the modern way, of gnosticism that seems to permeate biblical archaelogy, seems equally fraught with error,
The “gnostic gospels” which were unearthed in the deserts in modern times were writings which were well-known to the early Christian fathers, and rejected by them. See the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon. Revisionist scholars have often treated them as new revelations, but they aren’t; they are things which were considered not consistent with apostolic teaching at the time they were written.
well I was speaking of Gnosticism before they discovered them,
of course they spoke of this in the Old Testament, how one shapes Scripture to serve Man, instead of the other way around,
sometimes facile expressions like ‘the poor will alway be with us’ are twisted, that wasnt what He meant,
RE: The UFO Phenomenon and what Lou Elizondo has said about it: a summary.
Lou Elizondo, along with David Grusch, are the only two people, so far, who have been in unique, high level positions which have enabled them to observe and to know more about what the government knows about and has done regarding the UFO Phenomenon than anyone who has come into the public eye before them, and they have spoken out publicly, after clearing what they were going to say with DOD’s Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSA).
(Is DOPSA pro Disclosure, or is the idea that, by allowing these two to say certain things–but not others–(Grusch, for instance, was forbidden by the terms DOPSA set for him from also providing any documents, videos, or images which could confirm his assertions)–they prevent them from becoming so frustrated that they tell far more, DOPSA thus slowing the depth and pace of Disclosure?)
Reportedly, both men have made great personal sacrifices to bring at least some of what they know to the attention of Congress and the public.
From all that I have observed, Elizondo is not some crazy, wild-eyed UFO fanatic, but, instead, presents as a very experienced, educated, dedicated, wise, restrained, thoughtful, and sober individual.
All in all, a very credible person.
Linked below is a compilation of Elizondo’s most significant statements over the last couple of years about the UFO Phenomenon, as seen on Curt Jaimungal’s Youtube channel, “Theories of Everything.”*
Jaimungel introduced this compilation by saying that he will soon air a new, very lengthy, and significant interview with Elizondo, who has been absent from the public stage for several months now.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYeVgeTOgbI
show us some actual proof, and not some peruvian mummies, or shut the yap,
Re: Gnosticism
I have no idea where to shelve “The Gospel of Thomas” but I find it an awesome book. The missing link between Christianity and Zen Buddhism.
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(22) Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being
suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”
They said to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”
Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”
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Then there’s this aphorism, which I believe sufficient change one’s life.
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(6) His disciples questioned him and said to him, “Do you want us to fast? How shall we
pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we observe?”
Jesus said, “Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered.”
Re: Ballet injuries
Frankly the teaser image frightened me so much that I didn’t want to watch!
I was curious as to whether Maya Plisetskaya had suffered any serious injuries during her career.
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In this chapter, Maya Plisetskaya recounts the injuries she suffered throughout her career as a ballerina. One was a sprained ankle while performing Chopiniana on April 16, 1948, at the Bolshoi Theater. A doctor told her that it was impossible to straighten her injured leg and that she must forget about ballet. As a last resort, Maya went to the masseur Nikita Grigoryevich Shum, who healed her leg after two weeks of treatment. She also danced at the premiere of The Seagull with a broken second toe on her left foot in Florence.
–“Eighteen My Injuries, My Healers”
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She performed “The Dying Swan” when she was 80!
I’m such a fan.
Re: ChatGPT 4
We’re getting along. She (I think of her as a she) is more on my level and smoother socially than poor old ChatGPT 3.5.
We can argue. She catches my nuances. I can outthink her, but it’s harder than ChatGPT 3.5.
I’ve been here before. As a chess player I did OK against Sargon, the big hit chess program on the Apple II way back when. But then in the 80s I got outclassed pretty fast by the PC chess programs.
Really. Get ready for AI. I don’t know who I am talking to on my channel to Chat 4, but I can tell she is only going to get smarter.