"Music is but maths, beauty is just pattern recognition, and love just biochemistry"

no real need for the "but" and "just" there, is there? don't see a problem with seeing beauty in real terms rather than spiritual ones, what's wrong with a materialist approach in that sense?

I would wager that most of the people who have created beautiful music and art have done it through understanding of the maths and the patterns, rather than by a vague "spiritual" response, but I digress.

Just didn't understand your story is all, the tramp at the end didnt seem to relate to anything so thought I had missed something, and it seemed like it should be clear even to you taht your mate was behind the Latin quote.
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:04, 1 reply)

Seriously, lighten up.
You don't have a point to prove. It's only a bit of fun - it's not like I'm burning women at the stake for being witches.

If you didn't get the story, you didn't get the story - never mind - I'm used to writing and saying stuff that goes right over people's heads - it's a curse.

But pissing all over it just makes you look like a petulent teenager.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:10, closed)

No.
He doesn't sound petulant. He pointed out that there was a decent explanation for what you experienced, which doesn't involve invoking spirits. You then bizarrely extrapolated that he must be miserable and trying to suck the joy out of everything. I don't see how that follows.

If you need to invoke metaphysical bollocks to see beauty or meaning in anything I'd suggest that it's your problem. Not his. There's no need to get stroppy about it.
(flimflam_machine, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:22, closed)

See below.
"Creepy stories" is hardly a set up for sirrius scientific discussion of explainable phenomena, is it?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:27, closed)

No
But it would help if the story made some sort of sense (most of the replies have been along the "I don't get it" line) and didn't include in it the information that clearly showed why it wasn't really all that creepy.
(flimflam_machine, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:29, closed)

OK I'm very sorry for wasting your time and ruining your day.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 12:32, closed)

Well
One of you is certainly behaving like a petulant teenager.
The other is actually writing rather articulately and interestingly. If you prefer to think that you're the "other" rather than the "one", that's your privilege.
(snopesthetruth, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 16:59, closed)