The thing about objectivists is...
Listening is the essence and central activity of music appreciation. Listening is purely a result of the essential reality of subjectivity, and not that of any "objective reality" which is assumed to exist "out there." The human mind tends to rigidly cling to measurements, pedestrian concepts, and elaborate abstractions in attempt to simplify, subdivide, define, and categorize within the immensity of the realm of the experiential/subjective.
Over-reliance on concrete definitions and ideas serves to attach oneself to a sense of stability and security. The mind secretly hopes this will sufficiently ward off the uneasiness of feeling unsure, or off-balance, about one’s actual degree of comprehension regarding a given topic.
But what is it that is capable of registering sounds, recognition of patterns, recalling memory, and awareness? It’s pure subjectivity. It’s not the brain. That’s only an idea which is based on an entire system of definitions which define other definitions. The mind fortifies the boundaries of its interconnected structure by using circuitously self-reifying definitions.
Consider this: A description of a thing, proposed by the human mind, is only of that which a thing is not. A thing’s reality is not the same as its description.
What is it that is present in the pure silence during the instant just prior to sound waves propagating into the air space of the listening room? What is it which listens?
It’s subjective awareness, devoid of mental content. Your ideas aren’t listening, your experiential awareness is listening.
The more one thinks the same boring ideas one’s been thinking for years, the less one can listen. Subjectivity is the self-existent authority prior to the discernment of any quality, measured quantity, or the detection of that which we term "music". The deeper we can relax and sink into pure, silent subjectivity, the more deeply and purely we can listen and behold. Our subjective awareness becomes purer and less colored, our mind becomes more open and flexible, and experiential reality is seen to be the ever-present continuum which is of the greatest value of all.
....I, for one, am alternately bummed and elated I'm not on @thynames' list... @theaudiomaniac, there's a lot of that going around....not just 'here'.... ;) I've no dogs in this either, and wouldn't throw any of our cats into it as well..... ....but I'm just on prat troll anyway...*L* |
@asvjerry : it is not a list. It’s just one dude. With multiple banned usernames. He has not posted@theaudiomaniac most recent username in a a day or two, so likely got banned again, but he will be back, with yet another username. He always does. |
It is like the second coming, but he is on time like german railway, and he also repeats. Or (he’ll) “Be back” like the terminator? |
@holmz : LOL!! Not sure he is terminating anything, although I can see what he is trying to do over the years and multiple usernames. Nothing to worry though, he will be back. As I said before, maybe four of his usernames ago, three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and this dude coming back to Audiogon forums. |
@thyname @holmz ....Thank you both for the 'moment of clarity' on that issue. *G* But that does 'splain the acidic inference, at least to this mortal; yet another ragged soul suffering from MI. Multiple Identities, 'The Waster'. Grew up and through that era of errors with my mind in hand or at least on a leash. ;) Understand in this era where keeping track of 'whom am I?' can lead to distortion, and I'm not talkin' THD...😏 Anywho....*pun intended*...it's Fried day, weakend pending and beckons, y'all keep your personal reality checked and chocked, and cu on these funny papers.... Ciao, J |
