sadmanbarty
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So... it's about making her experience magical or yours?
Hers. If I wanted to enjoy myself I’d just go have a wank.
So... it's about making her experience magical or yours?
What I'm increasingly learning, but not finding it easy to really believe, is how different everybody is at a physiological, psychological, cultural level. I always "knew" this, but the idea that one person can look at a Mark Rothko painting and genuinely feel overawed and transported by it - while I look at it, feeling a dull thrum, a faint echo of what the true believer feels... Is strange.
I’ve got a terrible habit of thinking people who like things I don’t are being disingenuous or have sold into some marketing.
So sheakspear for example, I can’t help but feel is people being pseudo intellectuals and pretending to like it. I feel that humans are wired in such a way that makes liking sheaksoear impossible; it’s cognitively untenable.
Well yeah this is a famous problem in philosophy of language isn't it? How do any two people know that they are not speaking totally at cross-purposes in language that means (by complete coincidence) not nothing, but rather something completely different to the other person?/QUOTE]
And what we long for is communion and accord.
Most experienced are better shared, imo. Otherwise we wouldn't even bother talking about this stuff.
Most experienced are better shared, imo. Otherwise we wouldn't even bother talking about this stuff.
It's so dispiriting when you play a private anthem to a friend (a song that you absolutely love but isn't particularly famous or acclaimed) - and they don't even dislike it, they just say "yeah that's alright".
Or a person.I think you can be argued into appreciating a piece of music or a painting - but not sure you can be argued into loving one.
Sorry yeah, I didn't mean to sound as though I knew all about it... it's a genuine problem that has no real solution I guess. Same as the brain in a vat thing, there is no way to think yourself out of it, there are two possible situations (in this sense) - either it's that or it isn't. These two worlds are completely separate and we can't move from one to the other, we have to just hope we're in the good one and live according (I think).Yeah, exactly. It's obviously not a new idea, but it's something I struggle with more and more and something which feels increasingly 'real' to me.
Who is Barry? Manilow?Barry's love of contemporary dancehall
Yeah, loads of songs or experiences have been ruined, or at least had the shine taken off them in precisely in that way.It's so dispiriting when you play a private anthem to a friend (a song that you absolutely love but isn't particularly famous or acclaimed) - and they don't even dislike it, they just say "yeah that's alright".