by LyinEyes 17 Replies latest jw friends
I think one of the reasons the JW's are so strict regarding music is because they are aware of the influnce it can have on you. I am just suprised they haven't figured out how to use it more. Most churches have, they used music to move people and get them emotionally stirred up...
I love music...it can make everything you do in your day to day life a little bit better...a little more exciting....or a little more vivid...nothing can set a mood better than carefully chosen music.
If music has such an important part in your life....if it really enriches your life...take a step back and be thankful.
For me...it's one of the few things left that I have left in this life, that brings me some comfort and happiness.
Everyone has made such good point here. I feel like music is just a part of me. Xena you are right, maybe that is why they are so afraid to let us choose our own music, we might have an emotion we are not supposed to have.lol... Well, all my life, I had my radio, not much tv back in those days. I would lock my bedroom door when I lived at home and would fall asleep to what ever I wanted too.
I used to get to go rollerskating some , if I was darn near perfect for that week, Dad couldnt tell the other witness kids a good reason why I couldnt. Then once we were there, most of us lived out our dreams of being normal teens, skating and flirting with some boy , even if it was only a few hours , we lived for Friday night.
To this day, when I go to the dance club and see the wooden dance floor, and those lights all over the dance floor, and the disco ball glittering in the light,,,,,,,,, it takes me back. And now at this club I go to they play 70's music and it makes it even more like back then. I don't know how to explain it, but it was like that innocence I had back then, even thou I thought I was such a secret sinner, but I was just being a normal teenage girl. It makes me smile to know that I dared to rebel just a little , that I did something that made me feel alive. I can still hear KC and the sunshine band, the little river band, Journey,,,,,,,,omg,,,,,,,,,, open arms and faithfully....... meatloaf, ac/dc ,,,playing on the radio or at the club and feel like I am in a beautiful hypnotic place.
Right now I am listening to "Cool Change" by the Little River Band,,,,,,,,, God I love this stuff.
I used to wonder if there was anyone with musical talent in the whole org. The Kingdom Melodies were sooo bad! I never had a radio in my room, so I would come up with any excuse to stay home alone so I could listen to what I wanted to on the one downstairs. els
I couldn't imagine being without music. There is music on in my house most of the time. Music centers me. I can have a really bad day and play some music- and it really takes the edges off. One of the songs that does it for me is Tommy James and the Shondells "Crystal Blue Persuasion" For some reason, that song has a real calming affect on me.
One of the benefits of that is that my daughter is really into music as well. For a 14 year old, she knows more about music than most of her peers and really enjoys alot of the old stuff in addition to the normal stuff teens listen to now. She'll chose to listen to The Moody Blues or Pink Floyd in addition to some classical stuff she likes. Out of that she plays an instrument and is learning another.
Yes, music fills a need- I couldn't be without it.
XW
I love music! Especially singing.....but I wouldn't dare make anybody listen to me! My kids and I could sing up a storm when we're riding in the car.
With all of our technological progress, I think that music is far and away mankind's greatest creation. I think the second greatest creation is humor. I think that two of them, taken in large doses, does wonders for a person's mental health.
Ah, life without music........a somber image indeed, one that I care to not even entertain. Music for me has been a landmark leading me back to places and people I have loved. It has inspired me, made me laugh, brought forth tears and it has been as medicine when my soul was sick. To think of life without it is incomprehensible. For me, it has been an ethereal vehicle carrying me through lifes journeys and will continue to define future paths I choose to tread.
Does it fill a need, Lyin'? You betcha'!
mac, of the song in his heart class
