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Erkan-Yilmaz
Hello again, Peter, it's sad to see you having left here for so long :-( I remember all the contributions you did for lastfm... Hope one day you come back again!
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Synesthesis
Hello my friend, I invite you to my site. Feel free to share classical music: Thanks for the share and join ! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Daily-Classical/1716297455263009 Best wishes,Majo.
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TreatyofWedmore
Hi Peter! Long time, no speak. Hope you are well. Will message v soon to catch up. xxxx
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lifeingeneralfm
http://www.last.fm/music/Giovanni+Battista+Sammartini gosh aren't you clever
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mentionthegypsy
much appreciation for your edit of/additions to kazim koyunku's lfm bio...quite eclectic and interesting mix here...peace, Jazzy
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Grosseteste
The "adolescent silliness" mesage below was aimed at [user]Isis_and_Osiris[/user], who posted a message declaring "war" on me for daring to edit pages of Hungarian artists (but has since deleted it). He or she then uploaded the red incorrect-title graphic for a series of albums to which I listen.
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Grosseteste
To be honest, it's partly this sort of adolescent silliness on the part of so many users of the site, coupled with the lack of interest of the admins, that's driven me away. Play your little games; I'm not interested.
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harrisonford
Very well, I guess this work is custom made for you. Just one thought: we, Hungarians don't ever change the word order in a foreign name. Our language and culture respects the person behind it. We could just as well call George Washington "Washington George" but this would sound ugly as hell to our ears and anyone who would say a famous person's name inversely (in opposite order) would be considered strange or ill.
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harrisonford
Dear Peter, I'd kindly like to ask you to leave the Hungarian artists' pages alone. Thank you! Attila, from Budapest, Hungary
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Grosseteste
Last.fm is making such a mess of scrobbles involving artists or tracks with non-standard characters, and shows so little interest in doing anything about it, that I'm not looking in on the site very often; it's too depressing. I'll be notified by e-mail if anyone leaves me a message, and I'll try to get back to anyone who leaves one.
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AlwaysNoided
Thank you, I try listening to as much variety as I can, though Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart could be lumped into a similar category. I like your taste in classical music, I have a long way to go in that area. I also like your username since I was studying the role of religious scholars in medieval England.
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bschw
Thanks for your reply. I was basically referring to Plantinga's book "Where The Conflict Really Lies" (2011, Oxford University Press). On page 266 he's for instance pretty explicit and claims "Modern Western empirical science originated and flourished in the bosom of Christian theism and originated nowhere else." I actually tend to agree that this premise is false (or at least misleading). While reading the book I had the impression that Plantinga uses the term "MODERN science" so he can gloss over the roots of science in pre-Christian times. Nevertheless I think it's a pretty striking fact that "modern science" at least made significant advances in a Christian era and there might or might not be an interesting explanation for that which has to do with Christianity and which I wouldn't want to miss out on. At the same time I feel that all that Plantinga's arguments establish is that Christianity is not hostile to science; not that it is the ideal context for scientific practice.
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bschw
Or are there maybe indeed aspects about modern science - such as, as Plantinga would hold, a scientist's conviction that the human intellect is an adequate tool to understand the true nature of things - which can only be grounded in some sort of religious or quasi-religious belief and from which it follows that modern science could only begin to flourish in a Christian (or very similar) culture (even though it can survive well in a secular or post-Christian culture)?
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bschw
Hello! What do you make of the historical fact that modern science evolved in a Christian civilization and nowhere else? Many consider it obvious that modern science developed in Christian Europe despite Christianity and mainly in opposition to Christian theology. On the other hand people like Alvin Plantinga claim that various Jewish and Christian beliefs - such as the belief that human beings are made in the image of an omniscient God - were hugely beneficial (and maybe even necessary) factors for the development of modern science. Do you think it was basically accidental that modern science developed in a Christian context?
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CinnamonK
Yes! Please do check out the wonderful Καίτη Χωματά - truly one of the most beautiful and haunting voices I've ever heard. Here's a video homage I made of one of my favourite songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8g0317SCD0). I also heartily recommend Λάκης Παππάς, Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος and Ποπη Αστεριαδη as other worthwhile artists of Greek New Wave. As someone with such similar fine and exquisite taste :] I was wondering if you happened to know any artists similar to Bülent Ortaçgil? Always been on the lookout for any contemporaneous Turkish musicians with a similar sound - but no luck so far!
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Fabula-Nihil
it's about numbers too :D and forget about my top 8, I have more interesting stuff. let's continue in inbox.
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llama-assassina
I see you listen to a lot of Greek musicians, can you recommend some Greek music? I don't know anything about it! Recently I've been interested in Chinese music, if you know something about it I would accept recommendations too :) Thanks!
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llama-assassina
Ofra Haza is amazing :) Then let me recommend you some new artists on Israeli scene! Ruth Dolores Weiss, she's a jazz singer and composer, Eric Berman and Efrat Gosh, rock singers who also write their own music. Their lyrics are great (if you can understand Hebrew of course!) and their live performances are so powerful. I hope you like it :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmcQ62AW7Jc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9YqdSOUu0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJg_ecbGuY
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llama-assassina
Give it a listen and then tell me what you think :D Where do you get all your music? There's a lot of very obscure things in your library. Do you have interest in Israeli artists?
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llama-assassina
Hello there! I highly recommend her Soviet Kitsch or the Live in London album, she's great! You've got so many great artists in your charts that I don't know where I could start!
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VeneficiInferni
""That boy," his master at King Edward's School had said, "could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." "
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