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How is music not a tool of Satan?
- Thread starter sovietchild
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QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
It's so sad that you live your life in constant fear. You fear music, you fear celebrating birthdays, you fear statues, and all because you fear offending your God. Personally I can't imagine worshiping an entity that frowns on a joyful life and wants you to live in fear. That sounds far more like a devil than a god to me.
EtuMalku
Abn Iblis ابن إبليس
I was disagreeing with the entirety of Islam's take on music.
sovietchild
Well-Known Member
Some peoples world is upside down, what's good is evil, and what's evil is good. I personally confident enough to live without music. Are you confident to live without it?
Lorgar-Aurelian
Active Member
This music encourages thor worship... IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER! THIS IS WHY ALLAH HATES MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Akivah
Well-Known Member
Well Islam deals straightforwardly with every issue: If it isn't specifically allowed, then it is forbidden.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
And no music...problem solved.
I am confident to live with music. More than confident actually, joyous. I will not be bound by the strictures of fanatical Islam.
QuestioningMind
Well-Known Member
Some peoples world is upside down, what's good is evil, and what's evil is good.
I know, and it sounds like you live in such an upside down world, where you've been convinced that joyous music is evil and celebrating the birthdays of people you love is evil. You live in constant fear of offending what sounds like a very tyrannical god. I find that very sad.
The Kilted Heathen
Crow FreyjasmaðR
I always enjoyed this cover of that song:
And damn, that chick on the drum to the singer's left...
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Uh... why would anyone feel the need to prove anything to you?
illykitty
RF's pet cat
You're right, what you seem to believe and think sounds evil to me.
New Age Spiritual Leader
Member
If you have to ask, then clearly you haven't researched the entity "Satan".
Maybe a more pointed questions should be.....
"If there is an entity called "Satan", do you think he uses music as a tool?"
The reasons why.....
a. You have no proof of this entity existing.
b. You utilize a man-made belief to attack another man-made creation
c. Music can soothe a person's mind, give them enjoyment, makes them at ease, makes them dance, allows them to connect with the message being sung
Why would you even ask this question? Are you so confined by religion that it has caused you to think this way?
Tell the forum.....how does music cause hatred and violence to occur.
Please show the forum how Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places" has caused someone to be evil?
Maybe you can show me where Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" is nothing but an charade for evil thoughts and discourse.
You are definitely delusional in your religious belief, if you even think this.
Are you being restricted from listening to music? Why do you believe men can dictate a belief for you?.
You do realize Islam was created by a man, right?
How do you know what "God" even says? Oh that is right.....you don't realize that no man has ever seen "God", huh?
*sighs*
If this is what Islam is doing to its followers, then I would suggest you research Islam a little bit better - through non-biased sources, instead of being fed the same old bologna that so-called "Christians" have been given.
Sheez....really?
Do you realize that many people who create music, will help many people?
Do you realize that many people who create music, will sing about the injustices that the world has done to its people?
Do you realize that many people who create music, do it through the inspiration of others?
Probably not, your head is too wrapped up in a false belief created by men....and now those men want you and others to think "Satan is using music to control others."
WOW!!
Please don't mislead others with your unfounded questions. Take a few minutes to learn about what you say first.....or are you just too lazy to do even that?
*sighs*
sovietchild
Well-Known Member
If music breeds anxiety and depression, then how can anxiety and depression not cause hatred and violence to occur?
Segev Moran
Well-Known Member
Why would you say that?
What do you mean by "tool"?
Robert Vincelette
Member
Music is a tool that can be used for good or evil. An opera or symphony that teaches us lessons we ought to learn is an example of it doing good. So is bringing beauty into the world through form. But if music is used to indoctrinate people to buy more junk food or to promote a hate group such as the KKK singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," we might consider that demonic unlike the angelic former.
sovietchild
Well-Known Member
Something that one could use. For example, leading one astray by making one listen to music.
The Kilted Heathen
Crow FreyjasmaðR
So... like a book that you require people to read and revere and live by?
VioletVortex
Well-Known Member
The original version is superior though...
Akivah
Well-Known Member
Well it depends on what you believe. I see that you are basing your beliefs on the Quran. Most people in the world don't assign any authority to that book.
Authorities in Judaism have their own teachings regarding music.
Rabbi Schneur Zalman said "If words are the pen of the heart, then song is the pen of the soul.” While words carry meaning downwards from G‑d’s own primal consciousness into the minds of sages and the lips of prophets to inscribe them upon human hearts, song carries the soul upwards to be absorbed within the Infinite Light.
Rabbi Dovber, the second Rebbe of Chabad said that “Song lies at the core of life; its source is in the most supernal ecstasy.” He explains that “A river went out from Eden to water the garden . . .” (G e n 2:10) from the source of all delight, the river of life flows downward, branching outward to each world and every created being. Each thing thirsts to rejoin with its source above, and from that yearning comes its song, and with that song it comes alive. The heavens sing, the sun, the planets and the moon; each animal, each plant, each rock has its particular song, according to how it receives life. Until the entire cosmos pulsates with a symphony of countless angels and souls and animals and plants, and even every drop of water and molecule of air, singing the song that gives it life.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson taught that a song unites those who sing and hear it: When words are spoken, we each hear the words according to our understanding. But in song, we are all united in a single pulse and a single melody. That is why it is said, “All the world will sing a new song,” in the messianic era coming very soon upon us—a song of the essential oneness expressed throughout our world.