by Brodie » Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:55 pm
Jeez, man. Didn't you already do one of these posts? Well just incase I'm having a serious case of deja vu, I'll state my point once again.<P>Let me start off by firstly saying, I'm a huge fan of Classical, I love it. I absolutely love classical music. The movement, the speed, the notes, almost everything about it. Now that we know I do like Classical its time for what I think...<P>As far as making you smarter....It doesn't. It just doesn't. Here this is one way to prove that it doesn't. If a normal person (you know an average, normal person, with blanced chemical levels, no hormonal problems, perfectly sane in every sense, and we'll call him Billy) now lets say Billy listens to classical music, and is smart....yay.....<P>What would you say is the opposite of Classical is.....most of you would say Heavy Metal. Ok just bear with me this is going somewhere.......<P>Well let's there's another little boy named Charlie and he has some hormonal problems, and has some unbalanced chemicals in his brain, well he performs about the total opposite of a normal person like Billy (oh no)....<P>Well since Heavy Metal is the opposite of Classical and Charlie is the Opposite of Billy, would, by most the simplest form of deduction, Charlie get good grades as well if he listened to Heavy Metal? <P>And now you're common sense kicks in....NO!!! But why would you say that....by logical thinking it should work, but by common sense, it wouldn't. You can't just say that a certain music will make you a better, smarter, healthier, person. It just doesn't work that way.....and if it did, I wouldn't have written such a stupid example of my idiotic behavoral deduction now would I? But I did, and I can't take that back. <P>Some people are just smart by birth, some people learn to be smart, and some people are just dumb. Music has nothing to do with it. Its all about the human mind and how it works. If the human mind thinks 4 + 4 = Jello, but still enjoys the enjoyable sound of the Brandenberg Concertos, what are you going to blame next?<P>Admire beauty, don't rely on it.<P><BR>-Brodie