RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 22, 2015 at 4:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 4:56 am by Alex K.)
(January 22, 2015 at 4:36 am)bennyboy Wrote: Ummm. . . I'm gonna go out on a limb and say much, if not most, of the best art (including music) that has ever been created has been done so either under the influence, or at least by someone who is often under the influence.
Possible, though some surely were ascetics.
In the times of J.S. Bach, drinking coffee was apparently controversial, as discussed in his coffee cantata. Apparently he himself annihilated a lot of the stuff.
Quote:The cantata's libretto (written by Christian Friedrich Henrici, known as Picander), features lines like "If I couldn't, three times a day, be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat".[1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC5KpmK6oOs
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
