The Logic Off Topic list

Thoughts from the mind of GAmoore@..., 12-11-2001:

>  >> Some people are moved by a great chess game, a witty comment, an
>>>  excellent soccer play, a great kung fu kick, a great novel, etc.
>>
>>I don't believe that movement to be the same way that music can speak
>>to ones emotions, music is way more powerful in that respect.

Your belief is precisely that: your belief.

>Music is not just better in that way - its music's only value. If it
>weren't for the emotions... music would just be noise.

IMO it all depends on how you're "sensitized" to certain stimuli. 
I've been able to feel "cold shivers" of excitment when dealing with 
certain pieces of mathematical logic for example.  Listening to 
certain types of music on the other hand I just find plain boring.  A 
good novel can make me weep, under certain conditions.  There are 
paintings that left me completely silent with awe.  Etc, etc.

It's pointless to try to give music some exclusive domain that 
supposedly can't be touched by other forms of human creativity.  If 
anything, the limitations are within oneself and not in the medium 
per se.


cheers,
HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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