Am curious how many people without a belief in god tend to lean to aspects of music/art and creativity in general
I'm both an artist and musician. Also an inventor.
What have you invented? Do you own any patents? Just curious.
@Wallace Over a hundred inventions. Patents can cost up to 20K apiece and are instantly obsolete if you change anything in the design later on, to improve the invention. I wrote many inexpensive provisional patents and even found companies willing to license the inventions.
I was going to license inventions under the provisional patents and after the designs were shaken down to everyone's satisfaction, get the companies to pay the patent costs in lieu of a down payment of licensing fees, as is usual.
But when I studied recent changes in patent law, I saw that companies no longer have to pay licensing fees for provisional patents. Hopefully, this has been corrected, but now that I have cancer, I've put it all off anyway.
I use my inventions daily, as do a few friends who begged some designs off me.
My favorite is the "gallopers" which give humans the 4-footed advantage..I can lope along at jogging speed, with six-foot strides, barely touching the ground, but never slipping, or tiring, even on the steepest trails.
I use them daily since they also keep my joints loose and cures nausea, raises the mood, causes euphoria, fixes about anything having to do with backs or joints, makes me so loose I can bend over and lay my palms flat on the floor and hold it..and I'm 66 years old and never stretch.
It also makes abs hard as rock in only a few seconds use..making them wildly popular with friends who borrow them for a few minutes. I now don't lend them to anyone, since they won't give them back and want to fight me over them.
@birdingnut Whew!! Thanks--and best wishes with it all.
Lots of good work on display in your profile pics.
@Sgt_Spanky Thank you!
I own several guitars, and sometimes pretend to play
Tsk, tsk...bad stinklizard! Dust those bad boys off and . Best stress relief! (Just givin ya a hard time )
@GrungeGirl90s I love using silk wound strings, and they just die so quickly. So little time, and I'm pretty sure I need to grow an additional finger to take the next evolutionary step in my playing.
@stinklizard No kidding. That's why I love open chords, Barr chords, and kapos! LOL!
I play piano. Check you my YouTube www.youtube.com/user/gokulsthev
Guitar, banjo, dulcimer, piano, flute, sax. Ex folksinger from late 1950s through '60s. Songwriter/composer/arranger. Author and playwright/screenwriter. Advertising copywriter. Tech writer.
Tech illustrator. Graphic artist/advertising. Yacht designer/builder. Fine arts. Model maker. Set designer.
I think you are on the wrong track if you are trying to find out if atheists are more artistic than believers. I can’t see how there could ever be a correlation between artistic talent/ability and a belief/non belief in god.
Illustrator, graphic designer, novelist and good at all three. Sounds like I should be a millionaire, don't it?
I'm not.
I am creative but would not classify myself either of the two choices. I personally believe those who dabble in the arts do so out of fulfilment of a need to either create something or fill a void. Never thought about it having to do with or without a belief system, something to think about.
I play bass in a band and I sometimes write poetry.
God doesn’t really have anything to do with creativity I don’t think!
I disagree. I think that creative people nowadays tend to not have a belief system. It’s judt something I personally have observed. But I’m sure it’s different from other people’s perspectives.
@drovertone that’s what I mean. One doesn’t need god to be creative
I'm a singer too but not professional..I do write lyrics though..I put more art out there as well as writing...compared to music..
I have a first in Fine and Applied art and was 'artist in residence' in my borough in the' year of the artist' I don't do so much these days but I rather think that the training involved sticks to everything within you. Without realising it, it juts gets internalised as part of the self and you don't even notice the art process. as someoen said 'L'art c'est moi!'
I dabble in a good bit of artistic stuff. I'm predominantly a musician but I draw from time to time as well.