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[lucedes]

So, I came to a weird realization today:

Everything is music.
Books are music, time is music, people are music.
The world, as it lives and breathes and moves, is music.

The great philosophers of the next millennium will be musicians.
Have they always been, in a way? I think so. Besides the point, though.
The main idea is that everything is music

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[silveryote]

It must really be a bummer for those that can't hear what we do.

i see your epiphany & raise you one ramble ten minutes to midnight.

[vazavati]

ah, I don't think so. I think musicians are great philosophers but not all great philosophers are musicians.

I think all of them would like to be, though.

I think most people would like to be actually. & most stuff, too. & thought & suchlike. but people can't be music & time certainly can't be, else you're stretching the definition of music so far that it becomes thin & vague & watered down. :/ perhaps. I think if I was music even my paltry attempts to make it would seem diminished.

but what an Idea.

Re: i see your epiphany & raise you one ramble ten minutes to midnight.

[lucedes]

well, basically, everything is the interpretation of notes and patterns in time

Re: i see your epiphany & raise you one ramble ten minutes to midnight.

[lucedes]

oh, also, while we're talking about time, Mircea Eliade and others have things to say about time. Birje tried to say these things, but failed

oh, must I?

[vazavati]

O, gosh. You're very smart. Eek. And you didn't say anything that wasn't correct exactly.

But, I'm going to reject your metaphor because I like music & I don't want to make it so big. or rather I want it to be big in and of itself, for its own sake--etc. etc.; broken record ol' me. don't want to make it into a structure. Music I mean. I'll inhabit it, but I won't look at it like it's a template for anything. & I guess inasmuch as "we store our memories and concepts of things as individual things" & "we function mythically" (both are true ♥) I think of music in songs, and occasionally instruments, and so any sentence á la "music is ____ " or " _____ is music" will be hard for me to swallow.

that's to say, I don't want my experience of the world stuck in my throat when I'm trying to sing unless I'm going for a very specific effect.

& even then it'd be hard to breathe...?

I can't say something's musical when it might not have sound, can I?