I sometimes find it a shame...

[syntheticadrenaline]

...that people compose so much classical music about an imaginary God. Why not write music about the real world? It's beautiful enough.

There's music about nature I admit but I want more. I composed a choral song about a towering oak tree once and I think I also have one about winter and snow. I also have quite a few about birds.

I just sometimes find it a shame that there's no songs about what a gift the eye and optic nerve are or how spectacular it is that flight evolved in so many species - yet we have umpteen songs about God.

[The Grand Nudger]

On a fundamental level songs about gods are songs about nature..nature being that which gods have borrowed their power and mystery and awe from since they were a twinkle in our eyes as well as the context in which we admire such things.

[Sheldon]

...that people compose so much classical music about an imaginary God. Why not write music about the real world? It's beautiful enough.

There's music about nature I admit but I want more. I composed a choral song about a towering oak tree once and I think I also have one about winter and snow. I also have quite a few about birds.

I just sometimes find it a shame that there's no songs about what a gift the eye and optic nerve are or how spectacular it is that flight evolved in so many species - yet we have umpteen songs about God.

I feel the same way about churches and cathedrals, I mean I am always awe struck at the engineering, the energy, resources and ingenuity committed to and executed in building them, but imagine what those could be have been dedicated to.

[arewethereyet]

I am not sure how popular the song "Optic Nerve" would be.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I am not sure how popular the song "Optic Nerve" would be.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!

Optic Doptic

I’m the second cranial nerve
And it’s vision that I serve,
Transmitting to the brain
The look of falling rain.

Not as simple as you guess -
I’m a complicated mess.
From the lateral geniculate nucleus
To the superior colliculus.

That’s all I’ve got so far, but it clearly has the makings of a hit.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

[zebo-the-fat]

I am not sure how popular the song "Optic Nerve" would be.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!

Optic Doptic

I’m the second cranial nerve
And it’s vision that I serve,
Transmitting to the brain
The look of falling rain.

Not as simple as you guess -
I’m a complicated mess.
From the lateral geniculate nucleus
To the superior colliculus.

That’s all I’ve got so far, but it clearly has the makings of a hit.

Boru

mmm... catchy!

[Mister Agenda]

I'll take great music where I can find it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I'll take great music where I can find it.

That’s how I am with all art. If it’s good, that’s enough. The religious motivation isn’t something I consider. I’ve always found this



to be one of the most exquisitely moving sculptures ever created. But for me, it doesn’t engender thoughts of sin, salvation, or any other religious gobbledegook. I see a grieving mother cradling her brutally murdered son. It’s heartbreakingly beautiful.

Boru

[Ravenshire]

I am not sure how popular the song "Optic Nerve" would be.

Sounds like a good name for a metal band, though.