On another blog, FideCogitActio, some theists of a "classical" stripe (that's to say, like Brian Davies, Edward Feser) are criticisng the Evil God Challenge (or I suppose, trying to show how it can be met, or sidestepped). The main post includes this: In book I, chapter 39 , Aquinas argues that “there cannot be evil in God” (in Deo non potest esse malum). Atheists like Law must face the fact that, if the words are to retain any sense, “God” simply cannot be “evil”. As my comments in the thread at Feser’s blog aimed to show, despite how much he mocks “the privation theory of evil,” Law himself cannot escape its logic: his entire argument requires that the world ought to appear less evil if it is to be taken as evidence of a good God. Even though he spurns the idea that evil is a privation of good, his account of an evil world is parasitic on a good ideal; this is no surprise, though, since all evil is parasitic on good ( SCG I, 11 ). Based on the conclusions of se...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixow5LZh5rs
To tell the truth the total awesomeness of the drum wasn't entirely obvious to me! ("Eh? It's a drum. Sounds a lot like...er..a drum." etc. etc.)
Mat - thanks for link. I am trying to work the Purdie shuffle into set list (maybe Steely Dan's "Home At Last")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0VlzJeNvA
Billy Martins drums as part of Medeski Martin & Wood on John Scofields album “A Go Go”.
the word “wood” definitely comes to mind. SO i can well
understand why you should be excited about that snare.
Happy Birthday
Regards,
Dan
By the way Brady is a small Australian company that hand-builds drums out of native hardwoods. It's kind of cool they read noticed this post and sent me a happy birthday message.
A reviewer suggested an aquarian satin head and canopus vintage dry snare wires on this drum, so I tried and they improved the sound even more. But will any one else notice £50 worth of improvement? I am guessing not.
A Go Go is a great album.
But if the player ( you ) really does notice the sonic difference that is arguably going to positively effect how you play, and THAT the punter will hear.
On a related note - i’ve been noticing something of a correlation between atheism ( or to be precise atheist bloggers, personalities ) and “muso"-ness.
Many times i’ve heard of ex christians such as Dan Barker being heavily into the church music thing.
LukeProg at “CommonSenseAtheism” seems to have a very broad and cool taste in music ( dont know if he plays ).
Could there something about the brain of a musician that makes him more likely to be a sceptic ?
Just some thoughts,
Dan