What Moves You?

[Duxwing]

Dear Forum,

Some experiences, whether they are religious, artistic, or some peculiar other sort, can cause us to be moved-- to tears, to goosebumps, or even to raucous joy. I'll post an example:

While playing Kerbal Space Program a few days ago, I had just docked an engine of an interplanetary ship with the hull of the vessel, and, resting from my labors, I switched my camera view to that of the cockpit. Just then, some music, which I can only describe as a transcendental combination of synthesizer and whale calls, slowly filtered in, and as I gazed down at my home planet's cerulean seas and rolling continents, green and brown, I paused to consider that I was, although only virtually, venturing to the stars. Noting the potential for aesthetic experience, I focused on the thought, and a whole flood of feeling hit me: The view, the ambience, and the song actually made me tear up a bit as I pondered the beauty around and below me. I'll treasure that moment until, as I suspect, another one comes along to top it.

-----Fin

So, what moves you?

-Duxwing

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Not much what so ever.

 

[Montresor]

Watching a very very young Sungha Jung play Hotel California on YouTube.

 

[Montresor]

I have many other examples Dux. You might be on to something with this thread.

 

[Proletar]

Jamming with people while smoking some secret stuff, surrounded by top notch studio-equipment, amplifiers, great instruments and talented musicians with a mind for improvisation. Playing instrumental music with other people just fits me so incredibly well. Understanding it, watching others, learning and most of all expressing myself through a secret yet well understood language.


If there is something better in life than that, let me know.

 

[Duxwing]

I have many other examples Dux. You might be on to something with this thread.

Post more of them! Let's see if we can delve into the Feeling-Sensing side of the INTP mind.

-Duxwing

 

[GodOfOrder]

a little bit of the old Ludwig Van.

 

[Duxwing]

a little bit of the old Ludwig Van.

Did you just step out of a Peanuts strip? You sound just like Schroeder.

-Duxwing

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Displays of valor, and some music gets to me but besides that, nothing.

For example:

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYlUe-SDqA0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Su1YXQYek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxlhajOolw

Braveheart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

 

[GodOfOrder]

Did you just step out of a Peanuts strip? You sound just like Schroeder.

-Duxwing

Ha, its from Clockwork Orange. But as far as feeling anything, I feel nothing with more intensity than when i listen to music. Especially classical music, and the orchestra in particular. It is my window into my soul.

I could see my self as a peanuts character, though.

 

[Duxwing]

Ha, its from Clockwork Orange. But as far as feeling anything, I feel nothing with more intensity than when i listen to music. Especially classical music, and the orchestra in particular. It is my window into my soul.

I could see my self as a peanuts character, though.

Wow, that's amazing! And which character do you envision yourself as?

-Duxwing

 

[GodOfOrder]

probably Snoopy or Woodstock

 

[Duxwing]

probably Snoopy or Woodstock

Interesting, care to elaborate on why?

-Duxwing

 

[GodOfOrder]

I am the eccentric introvert who sleeps on top of his dog house instead of inside, it because that is the way I like it. I often allow my imagination to take me to a far off world, and I am the only character in the show that is interesting.

though I may be as self absorbed as lucy

 

[snafupants]

Three things occurring simultaneously usually do it for me - 1) sincerity 2) dedication 3) adroitness, or doing something very well. For this reason, I'm touched by a skilled plumber, Kurt Cobain, Stephen King, and bin Laden's consistent passion.

 

[Montresor]

Displays of valor, and some music gets to me but besides that, nothing.

I like this answer.

Also Stephen King as above. Very much agree 100%

 

[MissQuote]

Well written words. Good literature.

I'm reading The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury right now, for example.

 

[Absurdity]

If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up.

- Albert Camus

So moved, I changed my avatar

 

[Felan]

Do these count: http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=3126

 

[MissQuote]

Things that make me laugh, like my kid coming out of his room to say

"So why is it I am in there yelling at the Johnny Test show on the TV that the physics are bad?"

(because the physics are superbly bad, of course. that is why)

 

[Montresor]

Do these count: http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=3126

yup.

 

[snafupants]

I like this answer.

Also Stephen King as above. Very much agree 100%

The contrast in King is touching. His stuff has so much hidden heart and compassion, but the stories are usually populated by ghouls and jerks. Take, for instance, The Stand. King very much sees the world as good versus evil, which is almost childlike in its simplicity, yet it is also something you can latch onto and get behind. The conflict speaks to an internal, perhaps unconscious, interior conflict in which misanthropic impulses are bubbling up to duel with the superego's diktats. But there's something even more powerful in an average person doing a good deed in a rotten world. That ingenuousness and stupid wisdom is what pervades David Foster Wallace's and Saul Bellow's stories as well. It's easy to write about superheros or success stories but writing about average folk being extraordinary is what inspires me. Life isn't always one success after another either. I find King to be like Dostoevsky in many ways - demotic and heartfelt. King writes of the heart, not the glands.

 

[kora]

The last chapter of Winnie-The-Pooh.

 

[MissQuote]

It's easy to write about superheros or success stories but writing about average folk being extraordinary is what inspires me.

truth

 

[Trebuchet]

An old-fashioned melodee
dee-dee-dee dee-dee-dee

Or, indeed, the rest of Hair.

 

[SpaceYeti]

What Moves You?

Energy.

Perhaps a serious answer after I get out of work?

 

[Montresor]

Perhaps a serious answer after I get out of work?

Yes that would be nice.

 

[snafupants]

I am moved...by a push.

 

[redbaron]

Muscles bro.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Yes that would be nice.

My children inspire me to keep on keepin on.

I'm too tired for much more than that.

 

[Solitaire U.]

Literally:
My feet
My aging Dodge Caravan

Spiritually:
Music
My kids' generalized unrestrained enthusiasm, waning now in the eldest.

My youngest kid's sensitivity towards and communicative abilities with weary, wounded, starving, neglected street dogs. But what moves me more than observing this lean in his intellect is the fact that this is not something he learned from I or his mother. It's just pure Vincent. Knowing the emerging personalities of my kids is enlightening, and very moving.

Witnessing my students employ their newly acquired communicative skills to speak English with me outside of the classroom, especially the younger ones. Their courageous surges move me.

Creativity
Courage
Sensitivity
Enthusiasm

In short, I'm moved by all of my deficiencies.

 

[Solitaire U.]

Yes that would be nice.

You're tripping my SJ alarm on a repetitive basis now. I should start charging you half of my electric bill.

 

[BigApplePi]

Unexpected good fits.

 

[Montresor]

You're tripping my SJ alarm on a repetitive basis now. I should start charging you half of my electric bill.

It's possible. Elaborate?

 

[Nezaros]

a little bit of the old Ludwig Van.

I'm siiingin' in the rain...



Few things seem capable of "moving" me lately. Maybe a few songs on occasion, but only slightly. I can't remember the last time I had a strong positive emotional response to anything. I enjoy seeing the snow covered hills from the cockpit of a Cessna 172, I enjoy listening to the aforementioned music, I enjoy hanging out with friends. They might even be said to cause me a degree of joy. But ecstatic emotion, to the degree you described? It's been a long, long time.

 

[GodOfOrder]

I'm siiingin' in the rain...



Few things seem capable of "moving" me lately. Maybe a few songs on occasion, but only slightly. I can't remember the last time I had a strong positive emotional response to anything. I enjoy seeing the snow covered hills from the cockpit of a Cessna 172, I enjoy listening to the aforementioned music, I enjoy hanging out with friends. They might even be said to cause me a degree of joy. But ecstatic emotion, to the degree you described? It's been a long, long time.

Well, our fe is weak, so emotion is not the principle actor. I revel in the sheer joy of recognizing genius. I would describe the "emotional" effects of music on me as a change between states in energy, from low to high and high to low, but not happy to sad or sad to happy. However, I can feel myself move with the swell of the orchestra.

So I don't even know if what I feel is emotion, or something else entirely. But I can assure you it is powerful, what ever it is.

 

[Duxwing]

Well, our fe is weak, so emotion is not the principle actor. I revel in the shear joy of recognizing genius. I would describe the "emotional" effects of music on me as a change between states in energy, from low to high and high to low, but not happy to sad or sad to happy. However, I can feel myself move with the swell of the orchestra.

So I don't even know if what I feel is emotion, or something else entirely. But I can assure you it is powerful, what ever it is.

That's amazing! I don't think that you mean "shear" though.

-Duxwing

 

[GodOfOrder]

That's amazing! I don't think that you mean "shear" though.

-Duxwing

Dux, it is called auto correct, fast typing, and laziness. Us loves u butt no1 loves a grammar nazi. Nevertheless, I shall edit my previous posting.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2712/

But back to topic... yes, I love music.

 

[Duxwing]

Dux, it is called auto correct, fast typing, and laziness. Us loves u butt no1 loves a grammar nazi. Nevertheless, I shall edit my previous posting.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2712/

But back to topic... yes, I love music.

I didn't mean to be a grammar nazi; rather, I meant to point out the possibility for humor in re-interpreting that sentence. I did a poor job, though, for now you are frustrated. *huge, overly dramatic sigh, putting back of hand on forehead and leaning way back* Oh, I'm so misunderstood!

-Duxwing

 

[Double_V]

Color, cast iron, rust, etc. Like intellectual pica.

 

[MissQuote]

Dux, it is called auto correct, fast typing, and laziness. Us loves u butt no1 loves a grammar nazi. Nevertheless, I shall edit my previous posting.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2712/

But back to topic... yes, I love music.

I have to say, some of us do appreciate grammar nazi's. maybe not love, and maybe just because it is amusing mostly to see someone else say out loud what one is thinking.

pointing out an amusing grammar error does not a grammar nazi make, anyhow. Refusing to have a reasonable conversation and acting aloof over your conversation partner even when they are correct in their ideas simply because one lacks the ability to form a real argument so resorts to nit picking the grammar, that is a much more in line with grammar nazi idiocy.

Edit- I am not saying that is what you have done! just defining the term as I see it.

 

[GodOfOrder]

I'm sorry @Duxwing I didn't mean to cause offense. Such are the hardships, trials, and tribulations, of dealing with human speech and writing.

pointing out an amusing grammar error does not a grammar nazi make, anyhow. Refusing to have a reasonable conversation and acting aloof over your conversation partner even when they are correct in their ideas simply because one lacks the ability to form a real argument so resorts to nit picking the grammar, that is a much more in line with grammar nazi idiocy.

@MissQuote I suppose this is true as well.

 

[Montresor]

I didn't mean to be a grammar nazi; rather, I meant to point out the possibility for humor in re-interpreting that sentence. I did a poor job, though, for now you are frustrated. *huge, overly dramatic sigh, putting back of hand on forehead and leaning way back* Oh, I'm so misunderstood!

-Duxwing

You were not misunderstood by me; it was clear as day that you were trying to get one to re-read the sentence with the word shear in proper context and laugh about it.

Note - I did not say it was funny.

 

[Duxwing]

You were not misunderstood by me; it was clear as day that you were trying to get one to re-read the sentence with the word shear in proper context and laugh about it.

Note - I did not say it was funny.

Ah, but if you re-read my post, you'll notice that I was replying to GodOfOrder.

-Duxwing

 

[GodOfOrder]

@Duxwing

Yes, that mistake, when read that way, is mildly funny. I see it now.

 

[PhoenixRising]

Discovering truth.. and seeing the wonder in another's eyes when they realize something new.

The vast, dark depths of the universe.

Watching videos of earth from outside the atmosphere (so wants to see that in real life someday!)

And.. this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2WBTi6xt_E

 

[redbaron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrHGO7ljR0

 

[Duxwing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrHGO7ljR0

Does the smilie imply sarcasm?

-Duxwing

 

[Cavallier]

Does the smilie imply sarcasm?

-Duxwing

Generally that smilie denotes "horror". At least, when I use it I am indicating either horror/disgust or that feeling you have that goes so far beyond facepalm that your face freezes up, your eyes go wide, and your chin drops to the floor.

 

[Duxwing]

Generally that smilie denotes "horror". At least, when I use it I am indicating either horror/disgust or that feeling you have that goes so far beyond facepalm that your face freezes up, your eyes go wide, and your chin drops to the floor.

Oh, OK. Thanks!

-Duxwing