What the heck is the big deal with music?

All of our senses can have an effect on emotion.... smells, tastes, temperatures, the feel of the wind blowing against one's skin... they can all be associated with memories.

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Rock On!
Cam
"Raise up your mind....."

For some reason that last statement conjures images of Cam with his arms outstretched at the prow of a large boat...

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Cling to nothing, except your Lego...

yeah my point was the way you can use music to express yourself quite directly to someone in spite of differences which would otherwise be more difficult to overcome
and people can join together, feel the flow (tm) and really participate.. that's just some of the cool points of music

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Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

yeah if you wanna argue and stay in the titanic (tm) scenario you can say that kissing is THE universal language.. maybe i should have written "a universal..."

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Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

Methinks Unk is tone deaf...it's all noise to him.

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me thinks unk has never made love to music

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"...any theory that satisfies the facts demands assumptions which are completely absurd."

Aleister Crowley

err no hold on

me thinks unk has never made love

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"...any theory that satisfies the facts demands assumptions which are completely absurd."

Aleister Crowley

“	Originally Posted By: Pope_Wingnut me thinks unk has never made love to music	”

The best is to make love to Megadeath or Pantera music.

“	Originally Posted By: Pope_Wingnut err no hold on me thinks unk has never made love	”

Now thats funny.

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Mark
Liberalism is a mental disorder. -M. Savage

As a girl once said to me "you've never been laid till you've been laid to led zepplin"

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Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you
High mountains are a feeling
I don't need to sell my soul, he's already in me

“	Originally Posted By: Jade_Dragon_03 The best is to make love to Megadeath or Pantera music.	”

No, THAT's funny...
Your two minutes in heaven are up!

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Cling to nothing, except your Lego...

LMAO !!!!

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"...any theory that satisfies the facts demands assumptions which are completely absurd."

Aleister Crowley

“	Originally Posted By: SunWuKung No, THAT's funny... Your two minutes in heaven are up!	”

And what do you make love to......Bongo drums?

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Mark
Liberalism is a mental disorder. -M. Savage

yes i hear SWK likes to bash his bongos

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"...any theory that satisfies the facts demands assumptions which are completely absurd."

Aleister Crowley

Why have music? A fair question, and the question is even further reaching than first it seems. Music is tied very closely to art, and is considered one of the fine arts along with literature and visual art. Why have any of them? Why do we listen to music, view art, or read fiction? For the pleasure thereof. Would it be wrong to deny ourselves the pleasure we feel when enjoying the arts? Would it be wrong to deny ourselves pleasure period? You make jokes about making love to music, but is it really so strange that we do this? The kama sutra recommends not only using music but also visual stimulus while making love. Pleasure is central to being human, and so to deny ourselves the pleasures of music, art, literature, and love is to deny that which makes us human.

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"When you see a good move wait - look for a better one."
- Emanuel Lasker

Music makes use of natural rhythmns and flows. Structured sound. Drumming fingers on a cafe table. If there were no composers, there would still be music.
If you don't like certain kinds, or are disenchanted with the excess and/or mediocrity, which is perceived as noise, that is no reason to dump it altogether, imo.
When I listen to birds and to wind in trees and the ocean, street traffic, that is music to me as well. Different. One man's racket is another's music.

But to get back to my first sentence. Music is used in story telling and helps to pass down history. It provides a structure in which memories and feelings are kept and communicated, with and without words.

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"....if the mind stops with the sword with which a man is going to strike you, there will be an interval, and your own action will be lost." (Takuan Soho)
"I'm so proud, I've got tears flying out off my butt" (chief108)