Trollheart

Ok let me explain.

I've nothing against you personally, don't know you, but your attitude from the word go has been not only argumentative (which is fine; this is, after all, a place for debate) but combative and pushy. You're selling your opinion as the only one --- "we need to find a better word than depressing/melancholy" --- --- why? That word suits pefectly well, has for centuries or more. It seems from that comment that you're just trying to shape the perception of depression and/or melancholia to fit your argument. People responding here have pointed out that you're confusing depressing with being depressed, two totally different concepts, and you've either ignored or attacked them, desperate to defend your position.

You've suggested that anyone who gets depressed listening to music, or watching a sad movie, must be mentally unbalanced --- "If this is the case, then that person must be rather unstable - to have his or her entire frame of mind chanegd by a movie". How can you presume to make such a judgement? Lots of people get depressed through being exposed to various stimuli, doesn't make then mentally deficient or unstable.

You keep saying people shouldn't get depressed by listening to music, ignoring the fact that many do. Just because you don't doesn't mean others aren't affected that way. But your posts don't seem to accept that. You keep asking how can this happen, but it does. And instead of saying okay well maybe it does for them but it doesn't for me, and closing the thread, or moving on to other discussions born from it, you keep harping on as if you HAVE to be right, when it's been at first gently then more forcefully explained to you that your argument does not hold water.

And to cap it all, you then sniff about us not being friendly, when you yourself have come across as over-opinionated and somewhat too sure of yourself to accept that yours is just an opinion, not a fact you have to prove.

That's why I have a problem with your attitude. It's not that I'm sensitive: I really couldn't give a toss. But I prefer proper, informed, reasonably researched and backed-up and polite debate, which is what we usually engage in here. Someone just refusing to accept that they're wrong and therefore extending a premise that has been proven to be based on either inaccurate information or a false impression, yeah I have a problem with that.

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