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Old 12-27-2011, 06:26 AM   #202 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio View Post
I'm sorry, but I'm just completely irritated by the implication posed that music may have metaphysical qualities.

I feel that demeans individuality and the pursuit of expression, and don't think that metaphysical mumbo-jumbo comes into play.

Metaphysics is just a lazy (if not somewhat pseudo-intellectual) way of saying you don't understand something.
And why wouldn't it have metaphysical properties? How could that demean the individuality of it? If anything it Individuates music.

The world is full of mumbo jumbo, it's what you do with it that counts, it all comes down to our individual perceptions, paradigms, Winston Churchill said;
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"You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe."
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