Could You Train Yourself To Enjoy...

glassjester

glassjester

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Arthur Brain said:
Familiarity - as the proverb aptly goes in this case - bred contempt...
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Yeah, but you had no reason to want to get into that type of music.
I don't think it would happen involuntarily.

Maybe you even had reasons to not want to.

Maybe that type of music is "below" you.
Or you don't really care for the people that tend to listen to that stuff.
Or that music just doesn't fit the image you have of yourself.

We sort of create our own characters to live as, you know?


Anyway, the proverb is wrong.
 
Arthur Brain

Arthur Brain

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glassjester said:
Yeah, but you had no reason to want to get into that type of music.
I don't think it would happen involuntarily.

Maybe you even had reasons to not want to.
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It was boring, so obviously I had no reason to 'get into' it. True, I had reasons to not want to 'get into' it. It was boring...

Maybe that type of music is "below" you.
Or you don't really care for the people that tend to listen to that stuff.
Or that music just doesn't fit the image you have of yourself.
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No, just bores me. There's no 'elitism' with me where it comes to music. If anything catches my attention then I'll listen to it.

We sort of create our own characters to live as, you know?
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Sure, I'm the guy who makes reality TV illegal...

:devil:

Anyway, the proverb is wrong.
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Not for me it wasn't, not after I'd heard James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" for the 78th time...

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Arthur Brain

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ok doser said:
you keep telling acw he bores you but you appear to enjoy continuing your dialogue with him
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You seem to have some bizarre fascination with my exchanges with aCW for some reason. You kept referring to TH as a tiresome bore in turn and yet still kept on stalking him and getting banned so explain that one.

:idunno:
 
glassjester

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Arthur Brain said:
What kind of attitude, an honest one?

If something bores me I'm not gonna lie and pretend I can like it.
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I meant more of an "I can't" attitude.
And I was half joking.

Your reasoning seems to be that if you haven't had the experience we're discussing, then no one can.

Why believe that?
 
Arthur Brain

Arthur Brain

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glassjester said:
I meant more of an "I can't" attitude.
And I was half joking.

Your reasoning seems to be that if you haven't had the experience we're discussing, then no one can.

Why believe that?
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Well, no, that's not my reasoning. People obviously enjoy music that bores me to tears. Plenty people probably wouldn't have been mesmerized as I was by the sounds of a cement mixer going off in the distance some years ago in turn, and may well have found it incredibly boring, for which I wouldn't blame them.

My enjoyment of music is based solely on what appeals to the ear, that's it. If a popular song gets my attention then I'll listen to it as much as any contemporary classical piece if there's something about it that grabs me. "Pop" music in the main isn't gonna do that as what catches my ear has to be something that's generally outside of the formulaic.
 
Crucible

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Arthur Brain said:
Music you find boring?

Foodstuffs you recoil at?

Reality TV if you cringe at it?

This is an offshoot from a conversation with Glassjester where he proposes that people can train themselves to enjoy things they have an aversion to. I say it's bunk and there's no evidence to support it.

Thoughts?
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They are things one learns, and they are things that change.
There is nothing intrinsic in anything you've stated.

Homosexuals are attracted to the opposite sex, they simply have a more obsessive attraction to the same sex. They eventually learn to get on without giving the opposite sex much thought, which you all actually think is them not finding the assets of the opposite sex appealing.

That's what I'm talking about, right in that small little observation right there- you are all a bunch dishonest people defending fantasy. There is literally no one single thing true about what you have to say in defense to homosexuality, not one :rolleyes:
 
Arthur Brain

Arthur Brain

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Crucible said:
They are things one learns, and they are things that change.
There is nothing intrinsic in anything you've stated.

Homosexuals are attracted to the opposite sex, they simply have a more obsessive attraction to the same sex. They eventually learn to get on without giving the opposite sex much thought, which you all actually think is them not finding the assets of the opposite sex appealing.

That's what I'm talking about, right in that small little observation right there- you are all a bunch dishonest people defending fantasy. There is literally no one single thing true about what you have to say in defense to homosexuality, not one :rolleyes:
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Considering how much you denigrate women on here and are supposedly a bloke then I'm just surprised you're not gay yourself Cruc...

Feel free to buzz off and rant elsewhere either way dude.
 
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