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HackettFan 
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 Posted: August 26 2012 at 11:25 |
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I'm intelligent. I think it's okay to be intelligent. Prog music provides something to be intelligent about. Intelligence matters as it does with humanities in general, I would simply have to hope.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: August 27 2012 at 20:30 |
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Not sure if it does or not. Maybe listening to prog makes you smarter. :)
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MatoSerbia
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Posted: August 28 2012 at 15:34 |
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Well, prog is generally more complicated than most other genres, because of rhythm, unusual time signatures and lyrics and so on, and so on, but I don't think it's listener's IQ that matters, but musician's :)
Edited by MatoSerbia - August 28 2012 at 15:34
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Knud Sandbęk
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Posted: November 19 2016 at 15:40 |
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Yes and no, depending on situation. I would always talt to a child who adresses me for help. We may, while waiting for the help I would call for on the childs behalf via my phone, perhaps have a very fruitful and friendly and funny conversation.
Perhaps I would normally prefer to converse with an adult. But since here is a child who has lost contact with the parents, and I may have been able to find them on the online phone registry, and now we're just waiting for a blue car to come for the resque. What do we talk about?
Music is no absolute. In dance halls you don't need some folk singer, and when in love you don't want explanations for there are none or too many, even contradicting, and you just need the right amount of idiocy and humanity - in relations with your own culture, mind you!
But when I really look for musical inspiration, and not the track underlying my own life lies... YES!
AS an amateur musician, definately! And I recommend the norwegian band from the seventies, Popol Vuh (not to be confued with the german band of the same name):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCe-CNCEQbc
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EddieRUKiddingVarese
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Posted: November 19 2016 at 16:19 |
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Dumb all Over works for me
Edited by EddieRUKiddingVarese - November 19 2016 at 16:19
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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes"
and I need the knits, the double knits!
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thepurplepiper
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Posted: November 21 2016 at 20:09 |
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No, of course not, and that's a hilariously condescending/pretentious idea, the sort of one that gives prog fans a bad name.
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Dean
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Posted: November 21 2016 at 23:52 |
 thepurplepiper wrote:
No, of course not, and that's a hilariously condescending/pretentious idea, the sort of one that gives prog fans a bad name. |
Apparently the OP was click-bait designed to demonstrate that Prog fans do not live up to the stereotype.
Phulax-Wolfgang wrote:
Thank-you all, I am now £10 richer  . I'm not half as bad as my posts. I just needed that last post, thanks chefrobb! Had a bet to see how many angry replies I could get against my original post. And that you would all carry on after my 'finisher', proving my friend wrong that Prog-rock is far beyond the upper-class, '6th form students in great coats' 'A-level standard kids' stereotypes. You've helped Prog-fans as much as you've helped me. Sorry if this has upset you at all! (I do study greek and latin, just helped the 'pomp' image) as for 'thick' people, not dependant on taste at all, mainly their overall common sense. I do believe in the 'progression' thing to an extent. One way to settle an argument or what! |
...and 2,093 days later we're still at it. 
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Mascodagama
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Posted: November 22 2016 at 12:51 |
Dean wrote:
...and 2,093 days later we're still at it.
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Thus proving that although we prog fans are not intelligent, we are certainly persistent. There's something quite prog about just not knowing when to stop 
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thepurplepiper
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Posted: November 22 2016 at 15:12 |
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Incredible. Had no idea the thread was that old, either.
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doompaul
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Posted: November 22 2016 at 15:25 |
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Only in that it makes us go wide-eyed and screaming into the void.
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SteveG
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Posted: November 23 2016 at 04:17 |
Apparently not. Trump is President Elect, after all. 
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Davesax1965
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 02:21 |
Whoops, replied to this and thought, that'll stir up a sh*t storm.
Post deleted. ;-)
Edited by Davesax1965 - December 09 2016 at 02:26
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SteveG
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 04:33 |
^Hey, micky says there's been no sh*t storms since the 2006. We're overdue for one.
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Dean
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 05:09 |
Micky doesn't know sh*t. 
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SteveG
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 06:52 |
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Davesax1965
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 06:52 |
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............................. naaaa. ;-)
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SteveG
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 06:59 |
No sweat. Dean or I can spark up firestorms in our sleep. We've just been taking it easy as of late.  And age, on my part, has slowed down the machinery.
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dr wu23
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Posted: December 09 2016 at 12:28 |
Well....when the matter of intelligence comes up I always quote RAWilson who said, "If you take the average person on the street; by definition 50% of the people are dumber than that."
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
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2dogs
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Posted: December 10 2016 at 09:10 |
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Thank you Knud for joining and going back through all the old threads for those of us that missed them the first time. I think curiosity and learning ability can lead one to investigating subjects deeply and prog is one of those with enough complex and varied material to last a while.
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"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten" - Marie Antoinette
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Niklas Sanger
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Posted: December 11 2016 at 22:58 |
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Music is more about feeling than thinking, maybe people who like prog are more predisposed towards music, but it doesn't indicate overall intelligence, theres plenty of intelligent people who aren't interested in music.
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