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Re: mousehop
This is true, and explains why we can still tell stories, because every telling will be a little different, even if the basic plot is the same.  But even how we sort stories is based on opinion, and leaves room for opinions.  But the weird thing about me is that I have always been good at the science stuff and scientific thought, but more interested in the artsy stuff.  Maybe because I still don't get it.

posted by mousehop on February 14, 2009 at 11:44 AM | link to this | reply

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Yeah, I get that.  And I like a lot of kinds of art.  But music and dance, I can't seem to find words to express what I feel about them, and I haven't learned the vocabulary to talk about them in terms dance people use.

posted by mousehop on February 14, 2009 at 11:40 AM | link to this | reply

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Two plus two is four. The earth revolves around the sun. Water freezes at thirty-two degrees. These proven concepts existed when men scrawled stick figures on cave walls, they exist today, and they will exist a million years in the future. It doesn't matter if we're standing in an Illinois cornfield, on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, or in a crater on the dark side of the moon. Two plus two is four. The earth revolves around the sun. Water freezes at thirty-two degrees. This is science. Science is absolute. Science is truth. If someone says two plus two is five, the earth is the center of the universe, and water freezes at fifty degrees, we can prove he is wrong. Even if he refuses to believe it, he's still wrong and the evidence is clear for the world to see. However, in literature, dance, in all of the arts, there are no absolutes. Two different people can read the same book, watch the same play, witness the same dance performance. One can be so moved he proclaims they are the best ever created. The other can state they are the worst. No matter how compelling each argues his points, we can't say with complete certainty that either is wrong. All we can do is agree or disagree. In the arts, there are interpretations, there are opinions, but there is no truth. The arts are the search for meaning

posted by Talion_ on February 13, 2009 at 8:37 PM | link to this | reply

   Different art speaks to people in different ways.  You just haven't found yours yet.

posted by ravenmarie on February 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM | link to this | reply