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I got the impression that the pattern-breaking induced euphoria, but that for all that implied, other emotions could be expressed through music in some other way. Now a mandala isn't meant to invoke euphoria as much as serenity, I think, so the stability of the pattern might be exactly the thing for it.
But my original reference to the question of meaning in music as a comparison class was more abstract: not that the meaning was given by this or that particular fact, but just the meaning of the question itself was so given, that it was strange for music to evoke feelings when it did not seem to work quite like a denoting language should have to in order to be so evocative.
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No, I never pictured God as a mandala or a glorified dreamcatcher, but on same token, never pictured God looking like George Burns or Richard Pryor, either.
For that matter, I can''t even picture him looking like Charleton Heston. P.S. Most people more or less picture Jesus Christ looking like the DaVinci painting or the like (even lots of black people have prints in their house, including my best friend, of a black Jesus that looks like an Africanized-version of the DaVinci version, and some Native Americans I know picture him as looking like an Indian, but still somewhat like the DaVinci version, only more Indian looking). Myself, I have no idea what he looked like, didn't live then, but frankly I don't think he looked like European white man, Negro, Asian, or even some members of my family, Native American. I think he looked like other Jewish men of that time period did, only difference being he had a special and divine and regal countenance about him, but humble at the same time.
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moerunamida
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I have nothing to say about mandalas except I love coloring them in, and the one you posted is very beautiful!
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I've seen other forums where oversized images are automatically shrunk. Why cant we do that here?
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