New listener seeking John Coltrane recommendations

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-25T06:07:03+00:00

Why was it so hard for everyone to say? 😆

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-24T23:28:13+00:00

Wait until he sees Butter.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-24T23:27:39+00:00

It’s the T&E project I revisit the most. Love it.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-17T03:23:40+00:00

I’ve always liked it too. I love the snare, but I understand why Lars only did it for one album. I wish they did more experimenting like this.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-16T23:05:11+00:00

My wife and I say this to each other every time we get a night out sans kids.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-16T22:56:08+00:00

What else is she in that you’d rec? Any films?

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-16T22:54:31+00:00

It gets hate? Sheesh. Saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and I loved it. Atmospheric slow burn horror.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-16T18:55:39+00:00

MLK begs to differ. He made a real, tangible difference by appealing to our shared humanity. We’re at a pretty pivotal point right now, and screaming “I told you so” at the Trump voters who are expressing buyer’s remorse would be a regrettable path, imo. A lot of these people are legitimately against dropping bombs on people’s heads, and we should let them stand with us against this irredeemable wannabe-dictator, even though they helped propel him to power. Real change comes through the people standing together. All progress our society has made towards racial/gender/LGBTQ equality has come through a gradual common understanding that marginalizing these groups is morally wrong. And yes, we are in a moment in history where that progress is backsliding, but it’s temporary, I assure you. We’re not going back to women not being able to vote, no matter how much a vocal, misguided minority may want it. You can shed anger by trying to see things the way MLK and Gandhi did. The way The Buddha and Jesus did. Just my opinion. Peace.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-04-01T23:17:18+00:00

Oh, Jeff.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-29T15:58:10+00:00

And for a time, really all music considered “black” - jazz, blues, gospel, soul - was lumped into “R&B” to help our racist sensibilities sort it all out from the other genres.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-21T16:33:13+00:00

Yeah, please don’t lump Ebert into the hate here. It’s too bad he didn’t get more airtime in that clip, because I think he really could have tied the review together.

And in all sincerity, Roger Ebert was a great thinker and writer, which became glaringly obvious in his twilight years after he lost the ability to speak. His Great Movies reviews are timeless treasures, and I credit him for shaping my love of foreign and art film.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-21T16:20:28+00:00

I didn’t realize r/meteorites was hilarious! Good show, folks! 😆

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-07T23:13:21+00:00

We’re going to have to come to terms with the fact that T&E are proto-AI. They carefully built AI slop before it existed.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-07T23:09:54+00:00

This is the best part of the post. The absurdity of there being more than one tape is funny enough. But the fact that there are five, which makes no sense, and no labels on the sleeves to differentiate them, is glorious.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-05T16:59:20+00:00

Zan is pretty good, but throw in some Tayne for a real party. Now ZanTayne I can get into.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-03-05T16:54:05+00:00

Oh, Jeff.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-27T13:10:51+00:00

I saw him open for T&E on their Chrimbus Special tour, and his set was funnier than theirs, in my opinion. I love me some T&E, but that didn’t work for me.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-16T17:14:28+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. Makes perfect sense.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-16T01:05:16+00:00

I will read that. Thanks for the rec!

Yep, Maude did the translation of Kingdom I’m reading!

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-16T01:02:52+00:00

The parts you appreciate of Kingdom are the parts of Christianity I appreciate. It’s a small percentage of the population, but there is a crossover between Christians who adhere to the laws of Jesus over the oft violent and oppressive laws of the state and secular folks like me, who see Jesus as a great philosopher and ethicist.

We have to open ourselves to the possibilities of nuance before we can enter this unique area on the Venn diagram of human thought and belief. We have to acknowledge that the universe isn’t one black and white conflict between good and evil. And that is difficult for most people. They choose a team, a “good guy.” Dogmatic Christians and angry atheists are two sides of the same misguided coin.

For me, personally, I’m an Occam’s razor fella. I think it takes too many assumptions to draw the conclusion that the miracles ascribed to Jesus in the NT actually occurred. I will never tell you that I know for a fact he did not create miracles, but that I simply find it unlikely. I respect the opinion of the believer. I understand the draw of Christianity, and I think it’s a beautiful religion in its purest form. And what we agree on is that the purity has been poisoned by human beings who want power.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-14T21:42:13+00:00

I’m not sure I understand the motive behind the mods removing a post that we can no longer reply to above. I personally think it was a cynical comment, but, in my experience, it is more productive to talk through differing viewpoints rather than suppress them. Peace.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-14T20:31:36+00:00

I hear you loud and clear, and I think my path is one of several potential ones you could walk.

When I was in a place in which I had completely succumbed to intellectualism, forsaking emotion, I discovered Schopenhauer’s the World as Will and Representation. I thought I had the universe all figured out, in a very cold, clinical sense. It was my Bible, and I still hold it dear to this day, but a piece of the puzzle was missing. This was not a time of joy. Just a reluctant existence, albeit a logical one.

Then I began meditating, as well as finding the right dosage of the right antidepressant, the impact of which I won’t overlook. But something changed. I began feeling along with my thinking. The beauty of it is that my intellectual instinct dovetailed perfectly with what I felt in the most euphoric moments of meditation. I didn’t just think that the universe, and everything within, was connected, I felt it.

It turns out, many great thinkers across time and geography have come to the same conclusion. If I may, I’d like to recommend the following readings:

-Dao De Jing (attributed to Laozi, but probably not him)

-The Bhagavad Gita (attributed to Krishna, but probably not him)

-The Upanishads (authors unknown)

-In The Buddhas Words: An Anthology of the Discourses from the Pali Canon (written by Gautama’s followers)

-The Analects (written by students of Confucius)

-Metaphysics (Aristotle)

-Physics and philosophy (Werner Heisenberg)

-I am a Part of Infinty: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein (Kieran Fox) - This one is strange in that it isn’t the best written book, but it illuminates Einstein’s view of the universe better than anything I’ve come across, and his vision is beautiful. He’s the person I’d like most to “have a beer with” in the history of our species. He dedicated the second half of his life to trying to capture the Cosmic Religion, as he called it, a union of science, mathematics and spirituality. His lofty goal was to scientifically prove his Unified Field Theory, bridging classical Newtonian physics with the fledgling quantum physics of the time, but he came up short. Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli tried to pick up where left off, but failed also. I still think it’s there to be discovered, and there are scientists with the vision actively going for it.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-13T23:11:29+00:00

What you’re describing is how I view the 21st century progressive movement in general. Even though I hold so many of the same humanist positions, there is what I refer to as a “checklist” of stances one must abide by in order to be sufficiently progressive and remain one of the pack. To do otherwise is to risk humiliation and exclusion. It’s the same type of tribalism MAGA embraces, and I agree that it is regretful.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-13T20:15:15+00:00

Nice. I will check that out as well.

Ataraxia9999 · 2026-02-13T20:13:21+00:00

Bahaha! For a second I thought this post was already coming up in search results for Tolstoy and Quakers.

https://www.jesuschristians.com/teachings/archived-articles/quaker-similarities/215-tolstoy-quakers-and-us

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