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Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else?

I was dismayed by much of what was being said in a very recent, now deleted thread. Many of the statements made were not just pretty extreme, but also filled with visceral hatred. The Matthew 6:24 passage in the Bible came to mind: "No one can serve two masters." Can a heart so filled with hatred be open to the beauty of music?

This world can be a brutal, ugly place. My friends and I retreaded from the horrific events of 1968 (and the mentality which lead to them) by totally immersing ourselves in music, tuning out the outside world. Unfortunately, the U.S.A. seems far worse to me now than it did then.

I take refuge and find solace in the music contained in my LP and CD library, and am very thankful for living in a time when music may be heard via recordings at the touch of a button---a very recent development, in terms of man’s entire history. How fortunate are we?!

Isn’t it enough to share the love of music---and the equipment that allows us to hear it in our homes, enough for us all here? Why spoil that with talk of matters less satisfying to our souls? I was pleased to see that many of my favorite Audiogon members refrained from joining the referred to conversation.
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roxy54
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bdp24,
I agree with your sentiment. I come here to read about music and gear, and yes, that is a sort of escape. I don't participate in Facebook or any other non-audio forums because I have no interest in the fray.
You're right. We are truly fortunate to have this wonderful technology at our fingertips.
edcyn
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Yeah, as mean as this place sometimes gets, I still find it enjoyable as heck. The zeal of those who indulge in this hobby gives the joint infectious energy.  We really love the stuff.  More importantly, we love what the stuff does -- magically materializing talented artists into our homes. The size of some the posters' pocketbooks adds a decided loopiness to the site, but what the hey.  Indeed, some of us (not me, of course) have bags of money but we truly don't flaunt it...except perhaps on this site. After all, we're not driving our components around town or wearing them around our necks (call the chiropractor!). They're secreted within our residences.  Sure, sometimes the bass bleeds through the walls but so does the bass from a cheap boom box.
gregm
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I agree, we should be grateful for all the music available to us at the push of a button -- and I am. I love exploring my music collection and I also enjoy fiddling with the system from time to time -- a footer here, a slab under the speakers, etc, sharing tweaks can be fun. Takes the mind off other things and is eminently enjoyable.
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yuviarora
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Most intelligent and emotionally balanced people just want to be left alone, but that is near impossible in the world as it is today.
All these ism's....
Now even silence is violence :)
I am grateful for the music, kept me going throughout this last year. Learned quite a many things. 
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onhwy61
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I have always loved music, whether live or recorded.  It's a marvelous creation by the human species.  But music ain't everything.  We all live on a single large rock with limited resources and the competition for those resources can get very, very vicious.  For all its beauty music cannot change that.  It's can be hard not to despair.  As a species are we going to let the most greedy, most vicious, most power hungry and the most hate-filled amongst us triumph?  All over the world guitars are gently weeping.
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