PeeWee1473
I just pretend to know
Arasmas: I think that the mistake that your original post makes is thinking that music is equally important to everyone in the world, or that music has the same personal meaning to everyone in the world. I don't need to tell you that it does not. Now, it's one thing to accept this and it's another thing to really understand what it means.
There are a vast quantity of interests a person can have in their lives. Just take your pick. Out of all of those interests, a person cannot be 100% informed on all of them; it's just impossible. Let's say a person is interested in music, cars, sci-fi, rock climbing, and programming. It would be nigh-impossible for that person to not sacrifice time with one of those interests in order to spend more time with another interest, most likely the one that brings the most joy to the person. So perhaps their interest in music never quite gets beyond metal or anything not mainstream, BUT the person does genuinely enjoy the music they listen to. They just prefer to learn more about cars, or programming.
Now, would it make much sense for that person to come up to you and say, "How many programming languages do you know?" and if you say, "None," or perhaps, "Only BASIC," and they then scoff and ask why you haven't devoted more time to learning more robust and powerful languages, wouldn't you think that person is being kind of an asshole for no real reason? Or maybe he berates your lack of knowledge on cars. It could be argued much easier that cars play a more important role in most peoples' lives than music does, because cars are practical, whereas music is not.
I've never responded directly to one of your posts, but I have read many of them, and you seem like a decent guy with the ability to form his own opinions, but you also seem like you expect everyone else to be on the same plane of interest as you at all times. This will never happen and you will constantly be disappointed. Not everyone has the same exact reasons for liking music. Some don't feel a need to understand every single thing about the composition but rather just enjoy the sonic soundscape for what it is. Why not just appreciate the fact that you obviously have some common ground with the other posters here or you wouldn't still be sticking around? NFU was kind of a prick at times but occasionally he managed to come out of his holier-than-thou self and get people genuinely excited about music that they hadn't heard before. Why don't you give that a shot instead of your current approach? It obviously hasn't worked very well.
There are a vast quantity of interests a person can have in their lives. Just take your pick. Out of all of those interests, a person cannot be 100% informed on all of them; it's just impossible. Let's say a person is interested in music, cars, sci-fi, rock climbing, and programming. It would be nigh-impossible for that person to not sacrifice time with one of those interests in order to spend more time with another interest, most likely the one that brings the most joy to the person. So perhaps their interest in music never quite gets beyond metal or anything not mainstream, BUT the person does genuinely enjoy the music they listen to. They just prefer to learn more about cars, or programming.
Now, would it make much sense for that person to come up to you and say, "How many programming languages do you know?" and if you say, "None," or perhaps, "Only BASIC," and they then scoff and ask why you haven't devoted more time to learning more robust and powerful languages, wouldn't you think that person is being kind of an asshole for no real reason? Or maybe he berates your lack of knowledge on cars. It could be argued much easier that cars play a more important role in most peoples' lives than music does, because cars are practical, whereas music is not.
I've never responded directly to one of your posts, but I have read many of them, and you seem like a decent guy with the ability to form his own opinions, but you also seem like you expect everyone else to be on the same plane of interest as you at all times. This will never happen and you will constantly be disappointed. Not everyone has the same exact reasons for liking music. Some don't feel a need to understand every single thing about the composition but rather just enjoy the sonic soundscape for what it is. Why not just appreciate the fact that you obviously have some common ground with the other posters here or you wouldn't still be sticking around? NFU was kind of a prick at times but occasionally he managed to come out of his holier-than-thou self and get people genuinely excited about music that they hadn't heard before. Why don't you give that a shot instead of your current approach? It obviously hasn't worked very well.
