The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147391   Message #3442942
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
27-Nov-12 - 05:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Alternative to Science??
Subject: RE: BS: Alternative to Science??
""Beethoven, Jesus and Tesla tapped into something free for all humanity to plug into and have the benefits from..and access is open....to those who..........(?)""

What a sneaky example of false juxtaposition.

Take two people whose life history is well known and sandwich between them a man who (if he existed) was reported to have preached certain very compelling ideals, which any moralist would have found quite obvious, by men who did their reporting many years after his death.

Voila, evidence for God...........NOT!

Music is basically a mathematical construct, and like so many of that ilk, can exhibit great beauty when manipulated by one who has a particular feel for its relationships, hence Beethoven and many other great composers. Beethoven may have ascribed his success to God, but that was the limit of his knowledge showing through, since he was unaware of the mathematical aspect and composed by instinct.

It can also exhibit horrendous degrees of ugliness when mishandled. e.g. 1960s "Quarter ear music" consisting of the most horrid discords.

Tesla, I won't bother with, irrelevant or some such animal.

Don T.