Hello everyone, found this place and thought I might sign up and participate in some free thinking discussions!
A bit about myself:
My name is Eric, and I live in New York City.
I’m a reclaimed Atheist (just renounced my position as a Buddhist, which I was for the past three years), and want to be involved in discussions that encourage critical and free thinking. I am terribly prone to getting excited about conspiracy theories…and usually realize how silly they are by the end of the day
I’m also a musician (microtonal and fretless guitar player) and a science fiction/fantasy writer.
Welcome to the CFI Forum, Eric! I know we have several musicians here, as well as several who are interested in SF, and many who are interested in aspects of Buddhism (myself included). So you should find plenty to discuss. And of course, great to have another NYC resident on the boards!
Asanta is right to point out elsewhere that blue is reserved for Mod/Admin official comments. So please pick a different color for sentences in your sig.
I’m also a musician (microtonal and fretless guitar player)
Neat!
When I’m not doing my traditional gigging thing (jazz and classical, mostly) I’m into just intonation-based microtonal music. I had preferred Johnston notation, but I have just recently began to investigate Sagittal.
BTW, the Kepler Quartet recordings of Ben Johnston string quartets are awesome.
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
I went ahead and changed my color—sorry about that.
TromboneAndrew - 16 March 2012 07:33 AM
DimensionalSound - 15 March 2012 06:51 AM
I’m also a musician (microtonal and fretless guitar player)
Neat!
When I’m not doing my traditional gigging thing (jazz and classical, mostly) I’m into just intonation-based microtonal music. I had preferred Johnston notation, but I have just recently began to investigate Sagittal.
BTW, the Kepler Quartet recordings of Ben Johnston string quartets are awesome.
Wow! What are the odds? Good to see there’s some JI knowledge amongst this forum
Johnston’s music is amazing!
I never worked with his notation system. I primarily use Jon Catler’s methods, which are based on the 13th prime and uses very few new symbols to help make things easier to read and communicate.
Wow! What are the odds? Good to see there’s some JI knowledge amongst this forum
Johnston’s music is amazing!
Yup!
I never worked with his notation system. I primarily use Jon Catler’s methods, which are based on the 13th prime and uses very few new symbols to help make things easier to read and communicate.
I think I have seen Catler’s system but what exactly it is escapes me at the moment.
What instruments do you use for JI?
My own, of course. I have some tools on my computer - MIDI bending stuff - that I occasionally pull out to test stuff, but my strong preference is to use acoustic instruments, and to simply use them according to their abilities. Thus, trombones and violins can play pretty much any pitch in their range, but clarinets can only really handle stuff that is possible with specific fingerings because they can’t bend pitches that well. Honestly, I haven’t written that much JI stuff yet which I’m proud to record and distribute. But I’m working on it.
While I understand that some/many atheists believe “freethinking” means no God belief, I reject that claim in that “freethinking” means being able to set aside your prejudices in order to examine questions, ideas. As such I hope you’re up for some Theistic Freethinking.
While I understand that some/many atheists believe “freethinking” means no God belief, I reject that claim in that “freethinking” means being able to set aside your prejudices in order to examine questions, ideas. As such I hope you’re up for some Theistic Freethinking.
I’m a reclaimed Atheist (just renounced my position as a Buddhist, which I was for the past three years)
There is no external deity in Buddhism although it can be assumed to be the Buddha which explains why you reclaim yourself to be an atheist even though there is no god in that religion.
While I understand that some/many atheists believe “freethinking” means no God belief, I reject that claim in that “freethinking” means being able to set aside your prejudices in order to examine questions, ideas. As such I hope you’re up for some Theistic Freethinking.
To me, free thought or freethinking means the willingness to follow the evidence wherever it may lead, without the need to protect any sacred cows. IOW, the freethinker is free of constraints. The strong belief in any supernatural entities excludes one from being a freethinker.
I agree with FreeInKy. I can understand one being an agnostic and a freethinker, but if one really believes that a god exists, that has to, at least so some extent, limit one’s ability to think without pre-bias.
