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Tapfret

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 13:49

Blacksword wrote:

I find my lack of talent quite depressing..

<<<<me my audience>>>>>>>> sleepy

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 15:22

Tapfret wrote:

Blacksword wrote:

I find my lack of talent quite depressing..

<<<<me my audience>>>>>>>> sleepy

>>>>>>>

Well, I'll give you a round of applause..

Feel better?

Edited by Blacksword - October 29 2007 at 15:23

Neil

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 17:13

Kid-A wrote:

I personally think intelligence is linked to depression. The more intelligent you are, the more you see what is wrong with the world, and that makes you depressed. Ignorance is bliss.

I think talent can be a result of depression. These guys can use their instruments as an outlet to express themselves. Expressing yourself is a very difficult thing to do with depression.

I do tend to agree with this; well part one anyway. People with a more creative imagination and agile mind are often more prone to depression as they tend to be able to run scenarios through to conclusion in their own heads. Since an awful lot of scenarios are far from ideal and lead to the conclusion that life is futile and pointless then depression can be the result. Musicians and artists often have a lot of time alone being creative or just thinking which can be a boon but can also, if coupled to my previous paragraph, be a curse.

Perhaps ignorance is truly bliss.

When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 17:29

electricsilence wrote:

There is a great Arthur C. Clarke novel called "Childhood's end", which inspired the lyrics for Watcher of the Skies and the album cover of Houses of the Holy. In it a race of superior aliens guides humanity into it's next stage; somewhere around the middle of the book Clarke hypothetises (does this word exist?) that art is just a way for ill humans to express their angst and disillusion, and that is why the superior race of aliens did not appreciate music or any other form of art, because with them being superior, their "soul" did not had the missing pieces the human soul has, so music was just a random variation of air pressure to them. I don't know how much I personally agree with this, but it is an interesting idea nonetheless.

I do agree with this, that is why I am not ashamed of the flaws that I have. It is our imperfections that provide inspiration to create and improve. As Freud theorized there would be no art without opression; the same goes for depression and our flaws.

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 00:14

Blacksword wrote:

Well, I'll give you a round of applause..

Feel better?

Not really. But then I didn't feel so bad anyway.

But full marks for the gesture.

Thanks.

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