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Actually, I like to listen "deeper" on each listen - picking out a particular line as it threads through the composition - and on relistening, that previous deepened listening gives a richer hearing.
(I like music)
I'm a big 70's rock fan. Zeppelin is awsome.
Very cool. It seems all the really good music was produced before I was old enough to appreciate it or before I was even born.
What I like is when a thread keeps going and going and going as everyone wants to get the last word in so the other cannot claim "victory".
What I like is when a thread keeps going and going and going as everyone wants to get the last word in so the other cannot claim "victory".
I mean, how many different ways can the same thing be said over and over again before one finally says "enough! I am outta here!"
I have noticed that the "You're not listening" excuse is used frequently by people on all sides of debate here at GT when someone doesn't change their mind on a point of view after all persuading points in their arsenal have been used.
That is an invalid argument. It assumes that you think that the only way someone could possibly disagree with you is if they simply weren't listening, that they just don't understand your point of view, but if they listened to you they certainly would because their is no way you could be wrong. What if the reason they disagree with you is because you don't have a compelling argument to support your position? Maybe after everything you can show them they still are not persuaded and have valid points against your position? Maybe they embraced and argued for your position at one point and were persuaded against it because they honestly found problems with it they couldn't honestly reconcile? Can you reconcile those same problems with a compelling conclusive case, or not?
I think it is best to give others the benefit of the doubt that they do in fact understand your position and have found compelling reasons not to embrace it. The you're not listening excuse doesn't cut it. There is no reason for anyone to even be here if they aren't reading posts and considering the statements made in them. So we should give others the benefit of the doubt that they are in fact listening and ask them specifically why they reject a point we would think is irrefutable, instead of calling them uneducated or think headed or tell them they are simply not listening.
excuse? Hon, it's no excuse.. when we say, we do not worship Mary and you come back and say, yes we do.. you are not listening.
Yup me too. We should get a thread going about music. I had a great conversation with the wife last night about Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin. Appears to me to capture a lot of the history from the Viking raids on Europe during the dark ages and the re-emergence of the Church in the aftermath.
I'm not just talking about that incident. In general people use that not listening excuse when their arguments have not persuaded the other person to change their mind.
We should stop that, and give others the benefit of the doubt. Or to be more precise we should make a better effort at real communication instead of assumption.
Were you going to start the misic thread or was someone else?
Anyway. I would like to apologize to benedictaoo for keeping her up until 2:30 yelling at me.
I didn't mean to offend you.
I was up until 2:30 becuase you weren't listening.
I was listening. I just wasn't agreeing.
It's my fault because I didn't stop and explain where we have a disconnect. Instead I kept going in circles with you.
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