Hi Everyone. I have just joined this group and I am not sure it is the right place for me. I seems a bit young and a bit American. I am interested in moral philosophy and baroque music. Should I go elsewhere?
Please give us a chance, after all, many Americans are from European descent. As far as age, I should be considered a fossil. It all depends on what you feel comfortable with.
I'll take that "a bit young and a bit American" as a compliment.
Well, I dabble In and enjoy baroque music. I was a church pipe organist and minister of music who eventually ate the apple from the tree of knowledge and discovered the all too many parallell deity myths throughout history. The cover was blown for me after 12
Years of parochial school. I’m new here too. I’ll give this site some time. There really is nobody with similar views to talk to in my circle of friends other than 1
Other lawyer who flies below the radar for
Political reasons.
I would love for you to explain the connection between moral philosophy and baroque music.
I don't have a particular love for baroque music, but I do enjoy classical and particularly opera. It's thrilling live and I go to every one I can in my area. So far I've seen: Madame Butterfly, Fidelio, Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, and Carmen.
Not young, but thanks for saying so . I enjoy Baroque Music, though am far from being one of the cognicenti. I'm Australian but have argued with people from most of the former British Empire on this site. I've only met one real arsehole and he was a Christian trying troll the atheists. My experience here has been that people usually argue politely and in good faith.
Hopefully you don't believe in religion as well. That's one really good reason to be here. If only we could have some background Vivaldi playing, it would be perfect here. Yes, the site is more American in membership than other, but the diversity of membership is growing.
Thank you for your kind responses. I shall certainly stay with you and hope to join in some interesting discussions. In answer to a few questions/remarks, I am 74, and a practising atheist. I come from a long line of atheists/freethinkers. I need to spend some time getting to know this site and finding out what has already been discussed so I shall come back soon and maybe put out a few feelers for discussion.
I love classical, especially the Baroque and Late-Romantic periods. Of Baroque I'm mainly into solo keyboard and guitar: Weiss, Losy, Visee, Bach, Handel, Sanz, Scarlatti. Here's a performance of a wonderful work by one one the lesser known Baroque composers, Jan Antonin Losy, of which, to my knowledge, there is not yet a commercial recording of.