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| Topic Started: Oct 1 2009, 08:33 PM (400 Views) | |
| Ànraich | Oct 1 2009, 08:33 PM Post #1 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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What is it about the human mind that makes music and stories so moving and emotional to us? Everyone loves a good story, and everyone has a favorite type of music, or at the very least a favorite song. But why do we like them? Why are we storytellers and song writers? What part of our biology, what aspect of our evolution, makes it so? |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| colddigger | Oct 1 2009, 11:31 PM Post #2 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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i like them because they're sexy |
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| lamna | Oct 2 2009, 01:36 AM Post #3 |
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Preußens Gloria make me feel happy in my pants. But I don't know. Being able to tell a story uses the same skills we use when accounting events. This was very important to our development so maybe we like it for the same reason we like badminton. It gives us a new outlet for things we used to do. Music? Well I have heard that some people think humans sang before we spoke. |
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| KayKay | Oct 2 2009, 09:22 AM Post #4 |
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I don't think it's entirely true. While people may like stories not everybody likes fiction. Also, there are some people who don't like to listen to any music at all nor do they have a favourite song. But I get what you mean, it's extremely prevalent. |
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| lamna | Oct 2 2009, 09:59 AM Post #5 |
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I never used to be a big fan of fiction or music and most of the music I listen too is either from an anime or a military march, but it is evidently prevalent. |
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| Holben | Oct 2 2009, 03:21 PM Post #6 |
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i listen to music whenever i can, and it just changes my mood or helps me think. In social events, eg. discos, it helps get the luuuurve in the air. For me. Yeah, and sexy songs are the best. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Oct 2 2009, 03:45 PM Post #7 |
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Sexy songs like Panzerlied? |
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| colddigger | Oct 2 2009, 04:58 PM Post #8 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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what is really being asked here, at least what it seems to me, is "why do people make and enjoy art?" story telling is an art, music making is an art... i think it has very little to do with biology. although i can understand the possibility of loud music being associated with anger, and if someone is frustrated or has a hatred of something in their life they might enjoy that kind of music, people who are sad might enjoy music who's instruments make slower, quieter sounds with a whiny singer because they may connect with that. of course happy people who love everything can enjoy hate songs and death metal just as much as the next metal head and people who are in depressions can enjoy happy bouncy music. story telling is enjoyable, at least for me, because if it is a good story it will make me think, or i can imagine myself in the story, or the character and i "connect" (as in i feel the personality or situation that the character was set up with are similar to my own). Of course i also love thoughtless fast paced stories that i cannot connect with the characters, often because i am able to be sucked into the action. Or there are those other stories that i again have no connection with and doesn't provoke much thought, but i simply enjoy watching. |
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