[Fis] End of the NY Lecture / The Greater Sea

Thu Feb 2 12:35:38 CET 2023

Spero che tu abbia seguito il gioco dei nomi (John Barrow e John Barry.) ...

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I hope you got behind the play of names (John Barrow and John Barry.) ...

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 11:41 AM Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <
plamen.l.simeonov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Adoro questo riflesso, cara Francesco! John Barrow è uno dei miei
> compositori moderni preferiti, proprio come Ennio Morricone.
>
> Musica/Vibrazioni e matematica, ma anche l'arte visiva tocca i nostri
> sensi/menti da una dimensione più alta.
>
> Benedizioni a tutti voi, FIS cavalieri!
>
> Plamen
>
>
> ....................................................................................................
>
> I love this reflection, dear Francesco! John Barrow is one of my favourite
> modern composers, just as Ennio Morricone.
>
> Music/vibrations and mathematics, but also visual art touch our
> senses/minds from a higher dimension.
>
> Blessings to all of you, FIS knights!
>
> Plamen
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 6:13 PM Francesco Rizzo <
> 13francesco.rizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Pedro and dear all,
>> after reading the poem you suggested we meditate on, I am listening to a
>> beautiful musical concert and it occurs to me to tell you or tell you that
>> the best scientific paradigm is precisely that of music. The beauties and
>> "possible properties" or the "imponderable variables" of things or people
>> cannot be understood by any exclusively mathematical logic or formula. "No
>> non-poetic description of reality can be complete" (John D.Barrow).
>> Therefore, no more presumptions when we want to approach the understanding
>> of the natural and human universe. Love is a great virtue, and an equally
>> great scientific category. An affectionate and auspicious hug.
>> Francesco.
>> Caro Pedro e cari tutti,
>> dopo aver letto la poesia che ci hai suggerito di meditare, sto
>> ascoltando un bel concerto musicale e mi sovviene
>> di dirTi o dirVi che il miglior paradigma scientifico è proprio quello
>> della musica. Le bellezze e le "proprietà eventuali"
>> o le "variabili imponderabili" delle cose o delle persone non possono
>> essere comprese da alcuna logica  o formula
>> esclusivamente matematica. "Nessuna descrizione non poetica della realtà
>> può essere completa" (John D.Barrow).
>> Quindi, bando alle presunzioni  quando vogliamo accostarci alla
>> comprensione  dell'universo naturale e umano.
>> L'amore è  una grande virtù,  e un'altrettanto grande categoria
>> scientifica. Un abbraccio affettuoso e augurale.
>> Francesco.
>>
>>
>> Il giorno mer 1 feb 2023 alle ore 14:06 Pedro C. Marijuán <
>> pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> The New Year Lecture is over. We may continue the related exchanges, of
>>> course, but Plamen, our lecturer, has now lost his privilege of unlimited
>>> posts.
>>> Thanks are due to him for his great contribution!!
>>>
>>> As a "decompression" let me publish again the impressive poem by Kahlil
>>> Gibran. He pictures so well common intellectual troubles and attitudes...
>>>
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>>>
>>> Best wishes to all,
>>>
>>> --Pedro
>>> The Greater Sea
>>> My soul and I went to the great sea to bathe.  And when we reached the
>>> shore, we went about looking for a hidden and lonely place.
>>>
>>> But as we walked, we saw a man sitting on a grey rock taking pinches of
>>> salt from a bag and throwing them into the sea.
>>>
>>> “This is the pessimist,” said my soul, “Let us leave this place. We
>>> cannot bathe here.”
>>>
>>> We walked on until we reached an inlet.  There we saw, standing on a
>>> white rock, a man holding a bejeweled box,
>>> from which he took sugar and threw it into the sea.
>>>
>>> “And this is the optimist,” said my soul, “And he too must not see our
>>> naked bodies.”
>>>
>>> Further on we walked.  And on a beach we saw a man picking up dead fish
>>> and tenderly putting them back into the water.
>>>
>>> “And we cannot bathe before him,” said my soul.  “He is the humane
>>> philanthropist.”
>>>
>>> And we passed on.
>>>
>>> Then we came where we saw a man tracing his shadow on the sand. Great
>>> waves came and erased it.  But he went on tracing it again and again.
>>>
>>> “He is the mystic,” said my soul, “Let us leave him.”
>>>
>>> And we walked on, till in a quiet cover we saw a man scooping up the
>>> foam and putting it into an alabaster bowl.
>>>
>>> “He is the idealist,” said my soul, “Surely he must not see our nudity.”
>>>
>>> And on we walked.  Suddenly we heard a voice crying, “This is the sea.
>>> This is the deep sea.  This is the vast and mighty sea.”
>>> And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the
>>> sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
>>>
>>> And my soul said, “Let us pass on.  He is the realist, who turns his
>>> back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment.”
>>>
>>> So we passed on.  And in a weedy place among the rocks was a man with
>>> his head buried in the sand.  And I said to my soul, “We can bath here, for
>>> he cannot see us.”
>>>
>>> “Nay,” said my soul, “For he is the most deadly of them all.  He is the
>>> puritan.”
>>>
>>> Then a great sadness came over the face of my soul, and into her voice.
>>>
>>> “Let us go hence,” she said, “For there is no lonely, hidden place where
>>> we can bathe.  I would not have this wind lift my golden hair,
>>> or bare my white bosom in this air, or let the light disclose my sacred
>>> nakedness.”
>>>
>>> Then we left that sea to seek the Greater Sea.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>
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