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Silence
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 22, 2012, 9:42 am
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[center]Absolute silence: How long would you last?
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Rl98sqz6o
Very interesting video segment.
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Re: Silence
By: Mac Date: May 22, 2012, 11:39 am
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Cool… another subject close to my heart… and mind. I’ve been
aware of silence for a very long time. I guess it’s the geeky
side of me. Now, for me, it is looking for less noise pollution.
I need those moments of time with little sound. I agree, I don’t
think people are comfortable with silence… and you really need
to learn to want it and find it.
But it’s hard. In bible class, this has come up a couple of
times. Once because of prayer. We were asked how long could we
do silence and pray. Two different things, but they go together.
It’s not the silence I worry about. It’s being silent, praying
and keeping focused. With silence, your mind is open and my mind
tends to drift all over the place. In prayer, that might become
self defeating, besides all the warped things I think about.
The other time was trying to find silence, just so we could get
in tune to ourselves. If you can get beyond the hippy sounding
perspective, quiet really does help the body out. But many of us
can’t find that silence, especially if you live in those
environments of crowds. With that I’ve suggested in past to
folks like they did in the video within the forest, focus on
particular sounds. For instance, go to those active places… like
a town square. Now start focusing on individual sounds. I think
very quickly you can isolate those things. You can start to hear
one conversation. Or one person talking. You can hear a door
open. Then you can hear a particular bird in the tree or a leave
rustle across the ground. I find it easy to do.
When you’re bombarded with ‘noise’, silence really can be
golden.
Gawd, I’m sounding Feng Shei. Anyway, I do appreciate silence as
much as I do a rocking song blaring from my sound system.
In one of our buildings in Seattle, the entrance/exit passes
through one of those quiet chambers. It’s not completely closed
in, but long enough, when you walk through it, it is absolutely
jarring on the lack of or absorption of sound.
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Re: Silence
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 22, 2012, 11:46 am
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You should try walking into the Hard Rock and C a s i n o in
Vegas. They hit you with a PA system that is jarring to say the
least, which I don't mind for the first 10 minutes as they blast
everyone from Aerosmith to ZZ Top. But the thing that takes it
to the next level is that it's on a loop, so if you are playing
blackjack or whatever for an extended period of time, you start
to notice the same songs over and over. Ugh!
And just when you think you can escape the music and noise and
hit the pool, thing again. When you go underwater in the
pool...there it is again. They have built in speakers on the
sides of the pool playing the same loop!
Arrggggh!!!
It's one of the reasons why I tend to stay away from the Hard
Rock and C a s i n o . As much as I love music, if I can't
concentrate on what I am playing....I lose money. Which is
EXACTLY why they have it set up that way.
Yes, this was a random post, but fitting.
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Re: Silence
By: Mac Date: May 22, 2012, 11:59 am
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I think constant noise, like constant silence, would drive me
literally nuts.
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