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Well, what better place to discuss this than good old Piano World?

I've recently figured it out. Gonna tell my kid when he stops making farting noises and can fully understand and appreciate.

Let's hear it, if you care...
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Well I know what it ISNT- bills, bills, unemployment, greedy banks.

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hmmmm GREED (one of the beasts 7 heads?)

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Kurt Vonnegut: We're all here to fart around. Don't let anyone tell you any different!

Agent Smith: The purpose of life is to end.

Nihilist: there is no objective meaning of life

Taoist: the simple answer is here within ourselves

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And of course the music

opus: life is live


monty python: Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations


offspring: There's no right and wrong way




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Metallica: Nothing else matters

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I don't know, but my piano teacher said last week that music is the only thing in life that makes any sense. I was quite pleased with this statement, because it's true, only I've been a bit late realising it.


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To win, of course. Though even if you win Life, you're still just a person behind the times playing a board game.

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It is a possibility that there is no meaning to life except for the meaning that you personally ascribe to it, and, therefore everyones will differ albeit slightly in some cases.

As life is so fleeting and folk can and are taken away so suddenly and unexpectedly, it is of prime importance to treat not just loved ones but everyone as though this will be the last time you interact with them, as it could be, so be loving.

Warmth when it is cold ( you cant beat a woodburning stove) good food shared with folk, your fav tipple or other intoxicant, good music and a safe place to sleep are all you really need.

Possessions and material accuisitions dont count for anything in the final tally.

Ignore the media, dont buy newspapers or watch the tv, its much better to NOT be told what you should be doing, what you should be wearing, what you should be buying and what you should be desiring..... without the media propaganda you will feel free.

Keep your loved ones close.






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Originally Posted by Rostosky

Ignore the media, dont buy newspapers or watch the tv, its much better to NOT be told what you should be doing, what you should be wearing, what you should be buying and what you should be desiring..... without the media propaganda you will feel free.

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yes! Last year I quit watching the news, cancelled my newspapers and don't read it on the Internet. I watch weather and a couple of other 'no news' programs. Plus 2 internet forums.

It's amazing, I get along fine without it. My life seems SO much more serene now, I should have done it years ago.

Life's too short to get all worked up about things I can't control.

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To win, of course. Though even if you win Life, you're still just a person behind the times playing a board game.


Ugh... my kids love "Life" and always want me to play. It's basically "Candy Land" dressed up with more bells and whistles and the spectre of the kids potentially asking where babies really come from, hanging over the proceedings like the Sword of Damocles.

I'll miss it when they are teenagers... or not. smile


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hmmmm GREED (one of the beasts 7 heads?)



I'm not Biblical myself but greed is perhaps the biggest problem in this world. Not enough sharing so we have poverty.

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Originally Posted by Toastie
I don't know, but my piano teacher said last week that music is the only thing in life that makes any sense. I was quite pleased with this statement, because it's true, only I've been a bit late realising it.



Indeed yes! I couldn't live without music and my Piano.
The Master said of music:

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.




Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. It is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunk


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Originally Posted by Rostosky
It is a possibility that there is no meaning to life except for the meaning that you personally ascribe to it, and, therefore everyones will differ albeit slightly in some cases.

As life is so fleeting and folk can and are taken away so suddenly and unexpectedly, it is of prime importance to treat not just loved ones but everyone as though this will be the last time you interact with them, as it could be, so be loving.

Warmth when it is cold ( you cant beat a woodburning stove) good food shared with folk, your fav tipple or other intoxicant, good music and a safe place to sleep are all you really need.

Possessions and material accuisitions dont count for anything in the final tally.

Ignore the media, dont buy newspapers or watch the tv, its much better to NOT be told what you should be doing, what you should be wearing, what you should be buying and what you should be desiring..... without the media propaganda you will feel free.

Keep your loved ones close.





Good post Rossy! I'd love an open fire. Oh to live in a period house with an open fire!
Totally agree about media propaganda- one should ignore it!

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Originally Posted by Toastie
I don't know, but my piano teacher said last week that music is the only thing in life that makes any sense. I was quite pleased with this statement, because it's true, only I've been a bit late realising it.


But you shouldn't have been pleased - you should have questioned this - if the statement is true then that rules out the possibility of your piano teacher making sense (since your teacher is not music)...and so you can safely disregard anything he/she says about life and/or music... smile


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Originally Posted by EdwardianPiano



I'm not Biblical myself but greed is perhaps the biggest problem in this world. Not enough sharing so we have poverty.


Greed can be either bad or good - it depends.

If you get the things you desire, no matter how much, by earning them (which means deserving them) then that is good - but if you get them even though you didn't earn them (and thus did not deserve them) then that is bad...

And poverty is not caused by "not enough sharing" - it's caused by too much forced sharing, aka legalized theft...


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If you get the things you desire, no matter how much, by earning them (which means deserving them) then that is good


Not sure I'd call that greed.



Legalised theft- indeed yes. I've been using that term for years!

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