Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!pb1p+ From: pb1p+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Peter Glen Berger) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: IED Message-ID: Date: 10 Dec 89 03:50:02 GMT Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu You are truly psychotic. Any and all evaluation of a given musical piece is based entirely on subjective values, as determined by the observer's location in space-time in relation to the vibrations forming the music being played. The listener's history (previous sensory input) and degree of ethnocentricity are also taken into account (ie, if the listener's "moral" background is similar to the author's, he is more likely to "agree" with what is being said). Your claims of Kate's music being "timeless" "perfect" and representative of something "eternal" in the human spirit, besides being a load of pseudo-religio-humanist tripe, are unfounded, irrational, and entirely subjective. IED - "Just make him go away, now...." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete Berger || ARPA: Pete.Berger@andrew.cmu.edu Professional Student || BITNET: R746PB1P@CMCCVB Carnegie-Mellon University || NEXUS@DRYCAS Do not attend this college. || UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!pb1p ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If only I could/make a deal with god/and get him to swap our places..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------