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Posted Jan 17, 2006 by alexofthatilk - The warrior, The scientist, The psycopath, The criminal, The person
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  | | Being a goth is a state of mind, rather than what music you listen to, though by that form, your state of mind dictates what you like in music, art etc.... though i do believe you must percieve what is "taboo" in a diferent light, death, destruction, and the like, all have a beauty to themselvs that is uncomparable, even in this day and age.
i only considerd myself to be a goth recently, though I still don't think I live up to all my own preconceptions and opinions of this group. I do not have suficient self esteem.
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| | | Subject: Gothic muses
Posted Jan 19, 2006 by Lord Job Boron. That's Lord Job Boron To You!
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| | "Being a goth is a state of mind, rather than what music you listen to"
I disagree, partially at any rate. If goth were soley a state of mind then there wouldn't be a perky/mopey polarisation. However, I do agree with the beauty, life, death etc statements. They are major parts of the trend, though it cannot be universally characterised by one of these instances. I think the literature and the architecture are the only sections which can be undeniably definate. And inspired by music, art, literature, philosophy, life and death, existentialism/ romantacism/ metaphysics you begin to think in a gothic way. So it kinda goes full circle.
But hey, you shouldn't be stereotyping anyway!
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Posted Jan 19, 2006 by alexofthatilk - The warrior, The scientist, The psycopath, The criminal, The person
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| | no i shouldn't it's true, but one cannot realy think about groups of people without stereo-typeing. But sill i apologise. and i do agree, to be a goth you do need the ability to think, and the love of thinking, coupled with an enjoyment of some of the darker sides of art/humanity. In my physics classes there are a number who are, at least to some extent goths, not all of them wear black, all of them think, and not all of them listen to the same music.
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| | | Subject: Gothic muses
Posted Aug 8, 2006 by belladonna_eyes
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| | Oh FFS... Goth is not "a state of mind", it's a genre of music...
I can see where the person who came up with this was coming from, I think they were trying to say that listening to goth music and wearing goth clothes does not make you a goth, but all to often people quote the phrase to say that "I don't like goth music, and I don't look like a goth, but I have the goth state of mind"
In other words, it's just an excuse for wannabes to call themselves goths when they obviously have no idea what they're on about.
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