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Part 8 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠⁠Neither/Nor⁠⁠. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and I discuss:

Julian Jaynes
The Aphoristic style of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Jaynes, and others
The Axial Age and whether it changed human cognition ad experience
Obviousnesses and ideology, from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1975)
A review of Kuhn's Last Writings in the LRB.

Previous episodes:

Part 7 of this series: Jaynes, Tolstoy, Zhuangzi
Part 6 of this series: ⁠Mental Proliferation⁠
Part 5 of this series: ⁠⁠Crises and Revolutions⁠⁠
Part 4 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠Language and Experience⁠⁠⁠
Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠⁠⁠
Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠⁠⁠
Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠⁠⁠

Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Has the Human Experience Changed? with Isabela Granic

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

published год назад

MP3•Главная эпизода

Part 8 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠⁠Neither/Nor⁠⁠. In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and I discuss:

Julian Jaynes
The Aphoristic style of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Jaynes, and others
The Axial Age and whether it changed human cognition ad experience
Obviousnesses and ideology, from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1975)
A review of Kuhn's Last Writings in the LRB.

Previous episodes:

Part 7 of this series: Jaynes, Tolstoy, Zhuangzi
Part 6 of this series: ⁠Mental Proliferation⁠
Part 5 of this series: ⁠⁠Crises and Revolutions⁠⁠
Part 4 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠Language and Experience⁠⁠⁠
Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠⁠⁠
Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠⁠⁠
Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠⁠⁠

Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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My friend ⁠ Pen⁠ interviewed me about Type 1 Diabetes, which I've lived with for 38 years. This is the second episode, in which we focus on my current daily experience living with diabetes. We also discuss how the intensity of managing diabetes relates to the book I'm writing, Neither/Nor , which explores the nuances between conceptual understanding and lived experience. I emphasize the need for a balance between experiential and conceptual knowledge, drawing from my own life to illustrate how these realms relate. The first episode, in which we covered early diagnosis, is available here . Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Writing on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Support this podcast at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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At the end of 2023, I asked seven people I knew to join me in a WhatsApp group experiment. Read more ⁠here⁠ . We set up a schedule by which one of us, each Thursday, would record a (suggested) 5 minute question on a creative or existential quandary we were facing. The other seven members had committed to responding with a (suggested) 10 minute response, meaning that one person would ask a question, and receive over an hour of perspectives. Over two months this WhatsApp group supported each other through the trials and tribulations of the holiday period, finishing a documentary film, the meaning of intuition, seasonality, the struggle to re-engage with work, and more. This episode of Clerestory contains an audio call with seven of the eight participants. Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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At the end of 2023, I asked seven people I knew to join me in a WhatsApp group experiment. Read more here . We set up a schedule by which one of us, each Thursday, would record a (suggested) 5 minute question on a creative or existential quandary we were facing. The other seven members had committed to responding with a (suggested) 10 minute response, meaning that one person would ask a question, and receive over an hour of perspectives. Over two months this WhatsApp group supported each other through the trials and tribulations of the holiday period, finishing a documentary film, the meaning of intuition, seasonality, the struggle to re-engage with work, and more. This episode of Clerestory contains asynchronous voicenote reflections from seven of the eight participants on how the experience went. Stay tuned for an article describing how to set up such a group for yourself, and another synchronous conversation from the participants. Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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Part 8 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠⁠ Neither/Nor ⁠⁠ . In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and I discuss: Julian Jaynes The Aphoristic style of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Jaynes, and others The Axial Age and whether it changed human cognition ad experience Obviousnesses and ideology, from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1975) A review of Kuhn's Last Writings in the LRB . Previous episodes: Part 7 of this series: Jaynes, Tolstoy, Zhuangzi Part 6 of this series: ⁠Mental Proliferation⁠ Part 5 of this series: ⁠⁠Crises and Revolutions⁠⁠ Part 4 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠Language and Experience⁠⁠⁠ Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠⁠⁠ Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠⁠⁠ Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Show notes…

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Jaynes, Tolstoy, and Zhuangzi, with Isabela Granic 1:02:21

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Part 7 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, ⁠ Neither/Nor ⁠ . In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Isabela Granic⁠⁠⁠⁠ asks about three thinkers that have influenced my thinking: Julian Jaynes (1920–1997), Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), and Zhuangzi (369–286 BC) sometimes written Zhuang Zhou or Chuang-tzǔ). Previous episodes: Part 6 of this series: Mental Proliferation Part 5 of this series: ⁠Crises and Revolutions⁠ Part 4 of this series: ⁠⁠Language and Experience⁠⁠ Part 3 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠AI and Pyrrhonism⁠⁠⁠ Part 2 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠⁠A Philosophical Journey⁠⁠⁠ Part 1 of this series: ⁠⁠⁠Causality and Conditionality⁠⁠⁠ Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠ Show notes…

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How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the final four responses I received. Thanks to Peter, Olga Yakimenko, Rainbow, and Kevin Bowers . Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠…

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Principles of Neither/Nor : Every idea, concept, philosophy has a history The two opposed but complementary ways of knowing are intuition and reason Neither/Nor emphasizes dynamic movement across these two polarities and across all polarities, and opposes static positions Learning and perception involve experimentation, trial and error, variation and selection All philosophies and concepts are social Neither/Nor apprehends processes and relations rather than objects Everything worthwhile comes from perception or experience…

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How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to Shannon , Luiz , Matt Sterett , and Yulia Babanova . I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Clerestory by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Kam⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Infrequent updates at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ • All my work plus exclusive content at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠…

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How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next seven responses I've received. Thanks to ⁠Patricia⁠ , ⁠Liv⁠ , ⁠Ben⁠ , ⁠Nastasia⁠ ( ⁠@Gryphire⁠ ), ⁠Michael⁠ , ⁠Maggie⁠ ( ⁠@Mappletons⁠ ), and Gloria. I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠⁠⁠ . I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."…

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Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 2) 47:12

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How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life? Here are the next four responses I've received. Thanks to Adam , Isabela , ⁠Gareth , and Catherine . I'm still taking submissions. Please upload your audio response here: ⁠⁠https://bryankam.com/record⁠⁠ . I will release episodes from responses I receive, aiming for 30-45 minute episodes after the initial "pilot."…

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Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic 1:03:24

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AI and Pyrrhonism, with Isabela Granic 59:50

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Part 3 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor . In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to living textual traditions. We then move into Socrates vs Zhuangzi, and the Pyrrhonist "middle way" between dogmatism and nihilism. Topics discussed: Previous podcast episode: The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton The relationship of textual traditions to their oral traditions and central texts The Socratic method versus Zhuangzi 's "illumination" Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus Part 2 of this series: A Philosophical Journey, with Isabela Granic Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon Show notes https://bit.ly/3J50vEG…

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2 years назад2:12:57

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In this episode I speak to Rob Knight about approaches to meditation. We discuss the Buddhist traditions, how dependent origination relates to emptiness, cognitive science, and the problem of universals in philosophy. I speak about the ideas in Neither/Nor , the book I'm writing, and the two complimentary modes required to understand and interact with the world. My website . Occasional updates on my Substack . Frequent updates on my Patreon . See also the InterIntellect for events.…

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A philosophical journey, with Isabela Granic 1:15:55

2 years назад1:15:55

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Part 2 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor . Isabela Granic and I recap dependent origination and discuss how I encountered philosophy through Russian literature, Taoism, and eventually got interested in Western philosophy. My article: "Dependent Origination without any Pali" "The Disarticulation of the Self in Nietzsche" (1981) by J. Hillis Miller PDF Brian Magee article on philosophy: "Sense and nonsense" (2000) Our earlier episode: Experimental and Historical Sciences Article by Deborah Casewell: "Karl Jaspers: The forgotten father of existentialism" (2023) My website . Occasional updates on my Substack . Frequent updates on my Patreon . See also the InterIntellect for events.…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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InterIntellect Fellowship and What I'm Reading 31:52

2 years назад31:52

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I was awarded an InterIntellect fellowship! See the announcement here . In this episode, I speak in the Wood about what I'm interested in and why. This includes Pyrrhonism, Buddhism, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hume, Peirce, Kuhn, Jaynes, McGilchrist, and more. I will post the Rob Knight podcast soon! I mentioned my friend's podcast: Growing Up with Delia Burgess . Occasional updates on my Substack . Frequent updates on my Patreon . See also the InterIntellect for events.…

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History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti 1:33:13

2 years назад1:33:13

1:33:13

I'm joined by developmental psychologist Isabela Granic and historian Sam Biagetti to discuss the differences between how reasoning is used in experimental sciences versus historical sciences. How do we get certainty from physics experiments? How do we get certainty about what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? What do "nomothetic" and "idiographic" mean? We continue on from the discussion in Causality and Conditionality . We also make reference to an earlier discussion ("There's only two disciplines: history and physics") I had with Sam on this podcast. We rely on two papers by Carol Cleland: The long one: "Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science" (2002): PDF . The short one: "Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method" (2001): PDF .…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Dark Forest and Generative AI with Maggie Appleton 1:17:25

2 years назад1:17:25

1:17:25

We discuss Maggie's recent article The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI , and other issues related to generative models, machine learning, ChatGPT, and more! Also mentioned: AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off . Please consider supporting my ongoing work on Patreon .

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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein 1:52:29

2 years назад1:52:29

1:52:29

I loved having this conversation with Jake. In it, we discuss Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, Pyrrhonism, pragmatism, and different theories of truth. Stay tuned for more! Read Jake's thread on Darwin's new type of scientific theory . Follow @JakeOrthwein or @bryankam on Twitter, or follow me on Mastodon: @bryankam@writing.exchange . Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Causality and Conditionality with Isabela Granic 1:15:59

2 years назад1:15:59

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Part 1 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor . In this episode, Isabela Granic , professor of developmental psychology, interviews me on the question of causality. We discuss the difference between causality and the Buddhist understanding of conditionality, which I wrote about in my article "Dependent origination without any Pali." This is practical technique for ending suffering in every day life, but I will argue that it has consequences for scientific insights as well. In this episode we also cover mental proliferation, rumination, anxiety and depression, as well as the question of whether meditation leads to detachment. Please consider supporting this ongoing work on Patreon .…

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A Discussion of Metaphor 1:10:00

2 years назад1:10:00

1:10:00

A discussion of metaphor, compression, and perception, with my friend Olga. We recorded this on Twitter spaces, on 28 August 2022. People discussed: Marshall McLuhan, Julian Jaynes, Iain McGilchrist, Douglas Hofstadter, Heidegger, Barbara Ehrenreich, Freud, Nietzsche, Ivan Bilibin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Emile Durkheim, Thomas Kuhn, Lera Boroditsky, and of course Mark Johnson and George Lakoff.…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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A Conversation with David Valerio 1:54:14

2 years назад1:54:14

1:54:14

David and I spoke on Twitter Spaces in July 2022. We discussed Eastern Catholic theology and its parallels with Buddhism. We discuss the origin of the word physis (from which "physics"), as well as the history of geology and anthropology, the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity, catastrophism vs uniformitarianism, and other topics in complexity. Also mentioned: Darwin, Lyell, Spinoza, Geertz, Tolstoy, Orwell, Shakespeare, Tanya Luhrmann, David Graeber, Jacques Elull, Viktor Shklovsky, Draper & White, Thomas Kuhn, John McPhee, Andrea Wulf, Daniel Kehlmann, William Whewell, and Lev Shestov 😅 Learn more about David here . Please consider supporting this ongoing work on Patreon .…

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Film, beauty, and iridescence 1:01:37

2 years назад1:01:37

1:01:37

We discuss Powell & Pressburger films, Wings of Desire which I recorded an episode on , Tolstoy, beauty, iridescence, philosophy, and more.

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Meditation, Attention, and Intentionality with Malcolm Ocean 1:02:45

2 years назад1:02:45

1:02:45

I had a great conversation with Malcolm Ocean , founder of Complice , an intentionality app that I have used fruitfully since early 2018. Mentioned in this podcast: Malcolm's thread on "intentionality, not productivity" and this post on the same topic. My article " Dependent Origination without any Pali ." Also mentioned: Joanna Macy: Mutual Causality in Buddihism and General Systems Theory , Peter M. Senge: The Fifth Discipline , Donella Meadows: Thinking in Systems . Recorded 2022-11-17.…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Dichotomies and Taoism, with Isabela Granic 1:28:36

2 years назад1:28:36

1:28:36

This is a discussion from 3 July 2022, with Isabela Granic . We discuss GEMH Lab , dichotomies, Chinese brushpainting, uncertainty and Keats' negative capability, Per Bak, and theory versus practice. I'm @bryankam on Twitter. Click here to schedule a discussion with me.

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Interview with Sam Biagetti of Historiansplaining 2:09:30

3 years назад2:09:30

2:09:30

On 2 July 2022, I hosted this conversation with Sam Biagetti of the excellent Historiansplaining podcast . We discussed Sam's interest in geography and history, his process for his rapid pace of putting out podcasts, the tremendous demand for learning on the internet, the magic of film, Nietzsche, Judaism, and Orientalism. I have some audio issues at the start but they clear up as the podcast continues. I'm @bryankam on Twitter. Click here to schedule a discussion with me.…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Linking Knowledge, with Achim Rothe 1:00:22

3 years назад1:00:22

1:00:22

This is a conversation about personal knowledge management that I had with Achim Rothe on 22 June, 2022. We discuss tags, folders, and searching. Schedule a Twitter space with me!

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Why We Take Notes, with Achim Rothe 1:22:27

3 years назад1:22:27

1:22:27

This is a live conversation I recorded on Twitter Spaces on 16 June 2022, between me ( Bryan Kam ) and Achim Rothe . We discuss our history of note-taking, our usage of personal knowledge management, and tools for thought. Achim discusses how he came to build Trickle.app , and I discuss how David Allen's Getting Things Done and Sönke Ahrens' How to Take Smart Notes led me to build my own knowledge management system, an implementation of Zettelkasten . We also discuss how software development relates to knowledge usage, metasystems, pragmatism, the problem of never revisiting notes, and how to decide what to remember, Schopenhauer, how note-taking relates to photo-taking. Errata: I said that Schopenhauer is quoting "Owen Smith"; I'm thinking of Sir William Jones (1764–1794). Schedule a Twitter space with me!…

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Against Teleology and Abstraction 2:02:19

3 years назад2:02:19

2:02:19

This is a live conversation I recorded on Twitter Spaces on 11 January 2022, between me ( Bryan Kam ), Isabela Granic , Athenian Stranger , and others. We discuss abstraction and perfection, including Spinoza's Ethics , Charles Sanders Peirce, the medieval scholastics, as well as Ancient Chinese, and Greek philosophy. I edited out the very beginning, when we were getting set up, but otherwise it includes the entire conversation. If you would like to schedule a conversation with me like this, please click here .…

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Wings of Desire/Love Constant Beyond Death 29:23

3 years назад29:23