Jonathan Varnell

I am a musician with a day job…

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Why Frank Zappa Thought Michael Jackson Would Be a Future Classical Comp... https://t.co/0ek2mVLXeZ via @YouTube

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@simar_nathan I read about one of his musicians claiming he would go the local ice cream shop & buy a whole gallon in little pints or quarts then eat all of them in one sitting…

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@robintrower @GuitarPlayerNow It’s one of my favorite albums—live or studio. I thought Robin played a lot looser & with inventiveness than a studio could capture. As a guitarist myself I learned improvisation didn’t necessarily mean the composition got lost…

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It’s almost disheartening that the message of unity keeps getting sidetracked by “causes” which, on the surface, sound like a fight for the good but end up getting the messenger killed. I guess all we can do is keep doing our best…

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Sammy Davis Jr. on why Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were assasinated.

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Truth scares people more than the lies made up around beliefs

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane destroying the drug talk parents gave their kids in an interview.

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Exactly

[Gareth Icke @garethicke]

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John Lennon

Seems appropriate.

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truth

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

A moving piece.

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Doing right is more important than the affiliation

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past — let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

—John F. Kennedy

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mantra

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”

— Albert Einstein

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Hmmm…

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Theory vs Reality

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This means ALL politicians

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

haven’t seen something more accurate than this.

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Truth

[CthulhuandCoffee @Cthulhu_Coffee]

Frank Herbert

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Easily one of the most essential truths ever…

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

- Simone de Beauvoir

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truth

[Camus @newstart_2024]

True knowledge begins when you stop naming and start observing.

Richard Feynman’s father taught him this lesson with one simple bird:

A brown-throated thrush lands.
His dad asks: “Do you know what that bird is?”

“It’s a brown-throated thrush,” young Richard answers.

Then his father lists the names in Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese…
“Now you know every name in every language.
But you still know absolutely nothing about the bird.”

All those words are just human labels.
They tell you what people in different places call it — nothing about its flight, its song, its feathers, its life.

“You only know about humans and what they call things,” his father said.

True understanding starts when you stop reciting names and start really looking — watching what the bird actually does.

Feynman learned this very early — and it shaped how he saw the entire world.

In an age obsessed with labels, credentials, and quick definitions, this 45-second story is a quiet revolution.

What’s something you’ve stopped truly observing because you already “know the name”?

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This sounds like good advice but it misses a truth: People everywhere are speaking, shouting, and fighting over what they believe to be true…so it isn’t the speaking that’s the problem it’s the fixation on either beliefs which may or may not be true or wishful thinking…

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth.”

―William Faulkner

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth.”

―William Faulkner

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

- Richard Feynman

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Bill Bramhall, The New York Daily News @BillBramhall