Sunday, March 13, 2005
The song of humanity
People often talk about evidence in the worlds that there is a divine creator. Things like sunsets, the beach, nature, literature....anything beautiful point to a greater creator. But one thing that honestly baffles me and fits into that catagory but often seems to lack acknowledgement is music.
What the heck. I love music, you love music, who doesnt love music? The weird thing about it is music is just noise; a combination of loud and soft, high and low, that somehow, in some way, affects us. Seriously, what other animal on this earth makes noise just to listen to it? What makes rythm so natural? Why can one thing be played on the piano and sound ridiculus and by adding time inbetween beats, it all of a sudden is a symphany?
The fact that all hearing humans and even the deaf can somehow enjoy or at least relate to music baffles me. There is something deep inside that screams and thumps in perfect synchronization with something in our hearts and in our minds that puts us at rest. Maybe it is manufactured by the rythm of the heart itself, true natural music. Or perhaps it is more of what i like to think; one thing that was put in every one of us to unify man under one beat...
Thank you that I am alive moment:
Being able to set loose all inhibitions and expectations, loose track of all normality, and return to primal in order to run free and naked along a beautiful, quiet, tranquil, dark, starry, endless beach.......freedom..... ¶ 5:28 PM
What the heck. I love music, you love music, who doesnt love music? The weird thing about it is music is just noise; a combination of loud and soft, high and low, that somehow, in some way, affects us. Seriously, what other animal on this earth makes noise just to listen to it? What makes rythm so natural? Why can one thing be played on the piano and sound ridiculus and by adding time inbetween beats, it all of a sudden is a symphany?
The fact that all hearing humans and even the deaf can somehow enjoy or at least relate to music baffles me. There is something deep inside that screams and thumps in perfect synchronization with something in our hearts and in our minds that puts us at rest. Maybe it is manufactured by the rythm of the heart itself, true natural music. Or perhaps it is more of what i like to think; one thing that was put in every one of us to unify man under one beat...
Thank you that I am alive moment:
Being able to set loose all inhibitions and expectations, loose track of all normality, and return to primal in order to run free and naked along a beautiful, quiet, tranquil, dark, starry, endless beach.......freedom..... ¶ 5:28 PM
Comments:
<< Home
I'm not trying to poke apart your idea, but there are animals that make music; grasshoppers and birds are the obvious ones. Howling wolves gather together to howl instead of howling alone. Some even classify the noises that whales make underwater as music. So, where do you think those fit in? Are they making music for themselves? Are they instruments of God making music for us?
I think they are all making noise for themselves, and i guess that does fit into my definition of music....but they have apurpose in their noises. Whales for communication, grasshopers when they are cold, birds to find mates.....humans why?
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home
