My test is simple.
Are they willing to be wrong if the facts go against them?
Posts by Terry
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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One wonders what the spider thought?
The web, by the spider, is not designed. The architecture is mysteriously innate.
Like most "art" it is a trap for its admirers.
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Apostate with the HIGHEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE has to be this lady
by Terry inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgzcvh3rns&feature=youtu.be.
she is magnificent!
katie kitten.
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So, Terry, how do you get views from 1,000 to 7M? I would love it. What is the game plan?
Tell everybody.
Once you watch her videos, the magic is immediate.
Continue to tell everybody.
Work a plug into your "other" comments on different threads.
Tag your emails with her videos.
PUBLICIZE, PUBLICIZE, PUBLICIZE . . . to borrow a phrase from somebody long ago :)
Facebook posts are pretty good at doing the trick.
Make sure you 'LIKE' each video and leave a message.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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Pointedly:
Sturgeon's Law :
"Ninety percent of everything is crud" or "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
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Thinking of anything having to do with ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE in terms of absolutes is self-defeating.
Public opinion is a snapshot in time. It is a freeze frame of tastes and sentiment.
Looking at the Arts through the perspective of TIME is more reliable, however.
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If we think of the sampling rate of any popularity poll we find the LARGEST SAMPLING is the more reliable.
That is why the "test of time" is productively less arbitrary: more opinions over a wider sampling are reflected in the result.
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Art Movements have been strongly connected with political movements, intellectual outbreaks, revolutionary philosophies, religious zealotry, etc.
Each of those movements hold a mirror up to a time and place in the ongoing flow of history.
"You can never step into the same river twice."
History tells you what was and not what IS.
GREAT ART is rare, rarer, and rarest. It comes in fits and starts. It is feast and famine. The continuum is not continuous so much as it is
fickle, impromptu, and random.
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Two ways people tend to state preferences:
1. I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT IS "GOOD."
2. IT IS "GOOD" BECAUSE I LIKE IT.
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Knowing the difference comes with wisdom which itself comes from experience, exposure, and application of effort.
All the above is my opinion and your mileage may vary.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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In my own opinion, the claims of murder were a publicity ploy to garner worldwide attention for the release
of yet another book.
Note:
"Two research experts from the museum were set on the trail of exploring the claims, however, and have no published their findings that the shocking theory of manslaughter, or even murder, simply does not add up.
In an article in the Burlington Magazine, Louis van Tilborgh and Teio Meendendorp said the train of events suggesting suicide “is eminently defensible, both psychologically and historically”.
They pointed to the nature of the bullet wound, relations with his brother Theo, as well as a letter found in his pocket – which the biography failed to cover – as helping prove his suicide. They also added that it was plausible Van Gogh wanted to commit suicide, which the biographers dispute.
They wrote: “Seen from the perspective that is neglected in this biography, namely Van Gogh’s own view of his life, suicide is so much more plausible than the chance squabble with fatal consequences.”
Van Gogh died in 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise where he was painting the wheat fields. He sustained a gunshot injury to his abdomen while out in those fields before dying in an inn two days later. On his death bed he revealed he had shot himself."
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Don't we see and understand?
IT IS NICE TO AT LAST HAVE SOMETHING REAL for a change.
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LOVE is an involuntary physical and emotional reaction to anything/anyone which most fully embodies our strongest VALUES.
All emotions are a signal connected to our values.
If we regard snakes as a deadly menace we will experience FEAR.
The stronger our positive valuations, the more effort we will expend toward acquiring any expression of it.
Note: Our sense of value can be totally corrupt, misguided, and distored, and this will result in the emotional
counterpart reflect such dysfunction.
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When our set of values come into conflict with each other, the ambilavent involuntary emotions can be felt
as overwhelming confusion. Passion vs. hatred, for example.
Religious values, insofar as those values do NOT reflect reality, compel a sometimes outrageously destructive emotional consequence.
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Any strong emotion we feel is a strong CLUE as to our actual value.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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When we start a sentence with "Art is . . . " we are in OPINIONLAND.
Van Gogh was NOT famous in his own time. He was known in his own social circle, and admired by his peers, but his work
brought him nothing to live on. He was a man tormented by his own mind.
His biggest supporter was his brother, Theo, who died shortly after him.
Just think of the irony! Brother Theo was an Art Dealer, but he could not get anybody to buy Vincent Van Gogh's paintings!
If it weren't for Vincent's sister-in-law, Johanna, neither you nor I would have ever heard of him or his work.
Johanna had a small baby to support as a widow.
This woman was forced by circumstance to turn things around. She endlessly promoted special showings, and used her family's social
contacts to network and promote Vincent Van Gogh's paintings and letters.
Johanna became a remarkable entrepreneur. This amazing woman gave to the world the story and the legend of Van Gogh.
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Without an audience; without appreciators, without collectors, ART IS NOTHING. It is simply self-expression which lives or dies like
anything else. For every Mozart there are ten thousand other genius composers nobody heard.
For every Van Gogh there are a hundred thousand others who lived and died in obscurity.
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To appreciate great writing you must--absolutely must--read great works.
To appreciate music too, you must immerse yourself in listening to the classics.
To appreciate great art you have to spend a thousand hours exposing your mind to all the known works, and
become conversant with where in the stream of time they emerged and what preceded and followed them.
Otherwise, you cheat yourself, and your personal taste is based on narrow whim.
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BEING FAMOUS is a separate talent.
BEING WEALTHY is a separate venue.
Above all, FINDING YOUR AUDIENCE is everything.
All the above is merely my opinion, your mileage may vary.
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Apostate with the HIGHEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE has to be this lady
by Terry inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgzcvh3rns&feature=youtu.be.
she is magnificent!
katie kitten.
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Terry
I think I'm going to spread the word. She only has about a thousand hits on her videos.
There needs to be 7 million. You know why? She is so REAL and doesn't mind speaking her mind--but--in a totally
acceptable way.
I'm going back and clicking LIKE on her videos and if she has a channel, I'm going to subscribe.
Spread the word. We need more like her telling it like it is.
She has 3 videos on the CHILD PROTECTION POLICY which are very, very well worth watching.
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IF YOU'VE NEVER READ THIS . . . WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK and do so . . .
by Terry inhttps://archive.org/stream/cihm_87677#page/n7/mode/2up.
this is a book.
it was written in 1912.. the title says it all:.
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https://archive.org/stream/cihm_87677#page/n7/mode/2up
This link (above) is a book. It was written in 1912.
The title says it all:
SOME FACTS and MORE FACTS ABOUT THE SELF-STYLES "PASTOR" CHARLES T. RUSSELL
Enjoy!
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