https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5agpjgzvoo.
Thank you, Simon, clarity, and shadow for your apt replies.
Depressing? Yes. In the brown-covered Kingdom Melodies, the new songs were beautiful and could be turned into virtuoso piano solos. The earlier, pink songbook was wonderful because all tunes were in four-part harmony. Obviously, that benefited trained
Sorry that in seeking to elevate Lord Byron I brought him down -- well, not too much:
"Of cloudless climes and starry nights skies."
CC
Welcome back, Mini!
It's taken a while for us to get reoriented here.
CoCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5agpjgzvoo.
"Orpheus could make the birds sing, but Wagner could make only one low hen grin."
Learned that at conservatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5agpjgzvoo.
Thanks, BluesBrother, for your reply. I only now found it.
I was being facetious to the extreme.
Lord Byron wrote the most deliciously sublime verse: "She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry nights . . ."
Orpheus' music charmed both bird and beast. Oh -- fish, too!
As a musician and composer, I see none of the two immortals' footprints in #136.
Sorry for the delay . . .
CoCo
BTW: the piano's tone and timbre are horrid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5agpjgzvoo.
The members of this forum love Kingdom Melodies.
Please share your expressions.
Thanks.
CC
edited to add: just got an error message; will try again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5agpjgzvoo.
Thanks, Simon and Angharad, for what you have done!
With much gratitude,
CoCo
on another thread rufus t. firefly made this interesting comment:.
my wife is a "zealous" regular pioneer who never talks about the bible or "the truth" and who has no interest in conducting a bible study with anyone.
this is how one remains a jw.. i decided to start a new thread to discuss this, since i didn't want to veer completely off the topic of the original thread.. i can relate to what rufus said - not concerning my wife, but other close jw family members.
Thank you, Magnum, for raising this question. I have observed the same thing here, but hadn't formulated the sense of it into words such as you have done.
As an inactive, occasional Sunday meeting attender, I regularly discuss something relative to the public talk or WT study with friend or stranger (speaker or JW of new acquaintance).
The thought never occurred to me that a Witness would be hesitant to discuss the Bible. Well, younger adults raised in the Truth seem disinclined. Yet I note, likewise, that amongst the friends in general -- even older ones -- there is nonstop talk about so-called worldly things: entertainment, trips, recreation, etc. We have lots of pioneers, and I am aware of their "spiritual" works AND extra-curricular activities mainly through Facebook.
Maybe the fire in my bones doesn't permit them an opportunity to broach Bible subjects of their own accord. To be fair, there are several I know personally whose lives truly focus on theocratic pursuits and discussions thereon.
CoCo
"and let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
" holman christian standard bible; galations 6:9.. i just now remembered an old wt article about the things that discourage us about our imperfect selves.
one such disappointment in ourselves is that we know we should continue doing good unto others, but we're simply worn out.
I agree, rebel8.
I used to feel that what you said was an expression of negativity, a result of either my own low spirits or the fleshly thinking of bad-attitude brothers. Well, I know better now, don't I?
I appreciate your contribution to the discussion.
CoCo, evading the lightning (gee, where are those apropos emoticons?!?!?)
"and let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
" holman christian standard bible; galations 6:9.. i just now remembered an old wt article about the things that discourage us about our imperfect selves.
one such disappointment in ourselves is that we know we should continue doing good unto others, but we're simply worn out.
Thank you, Just Kidding, for covering the bases so thoroughly.
It always amazes me how another -- in this case, YOU! -- can express so eloquently what we are thinking, but in a somewhat jumbled manner.
Gratefully,
CoCo
