RE: Where would you rather live?
August 30, 2010 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2010 at 7:57 pm by Scarface.)
Statistics is one thing, observing real life (for which one doesn't require letters after their name or a pat on the back from their "peers", just eyes) is another. From what I've seen, not once but so many times, atheists (again I'm generalizing and I must reemphasise that) often "miss the point" when it comes to creative matters. I'll give you an example...
When I was at school there was this kid who was a musical prodigy. He was a very good piano and violin player. I don't know what grade he was but he was good. Now I'm a musician myself, and when my friend and I once tried to jam with him, it was impossible. He could do absolutely nothing unless it was notated. He certainly couldn't improvise. We can both read music but we never feel the need to put that to any use, but we did notate something for him, at his request, but he isn't really a musician, merely a good technical player, so what he ended up playing was pretty useless. He couldn't understand us when we talked because nothing we said related to the musical terms which he was familiar with (I'm talking about the italian terms used in music). He was totally lost. His manner was so robotic, and he had no feeling to his playing. It was nice, but not spontaneous and completely reliant on instructions put in front of him. The poor guy was lost. It turned out that he was an atheist and I attribute that mindset to his style of playing.
What i'm saying is that people who are extremely logically orientated are good at following clear instructions, and knowing what's going on from beginning to end. But they lack spontanaeity, creative flair. It's not the atheism itself which is a hindrance to creativity, it's the mindset involved. Requiring everything to be backed up, filed, listed, categorised, etc, that is not the creative way. You can't be good at everything, and there's nothing wrong with that but it's just a fact.
When I was at school there was this kid who was a musical prodigy. He was a very good piano and violin player. I don't know what grade he was but he was good. Now I'm a musician myself, and when my friend and I once tried to jam with him, it was impossible. He could do absolutely nothing unless it was notated. He certainly couldn't improvise. We can both read music but we never feel the need to put that to any use, but we did notate something for him, at his request, but he isn't really a musician, merely a good technical player, so what he ended up playing was pretty useless. He couldn't understand us when we talked because nothing we said related to the musical terms which he was familiar with (I'm talking about the italian terms used in music). He was totally lost. His manner was so robotic, and he had no feeling to his playing. It was nice, but not spontaneous and completely reliant on instructions put in front of him. The poor guy was lost. It turned out that he was an atheist and I attribute that mindset to his style of playing.
What i'm saying is that people who are extremely logically orientated are good at following clear instructions, and knowing what's going on from beginning to end. But they lack spontanaeity, creative flair. It's not the atheism itself which is a hindrance to creativity, it's the mindset involved. Requiring everything to be backed up, filed, listed, categorised, etc, that is not the creative way. You can't be good at everything, and there's nothing wrong with that but it's just a fact.
