source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:02:45 -0700 Subject: The Partch Religion ? From: "Enrique Moreno" Check it for yourself: + There is a Founder, who is the prophet for the Ultimate Truth + There is the Ultimate Truth and Ground of all things (namely, Just Intonation) + There are the Disciples and many would-be initiates + There is a corpus of Sacred Writings + There is a book containing The Teachings + There are the Sacred Relics made by the Founder himself + There are ritual meetings to celebrate the Mysteries + There are Orthodox, Liberal, and Puritan Theologians + There are rival sister religions, and ancient pagan cults + There are detractors and persecutions of the faithful + There are also heretics who deny either the approved liturgy or the validity of some crucial dogma + There are atheists who don't believe in the Ultimate Ground of all things (let alone in the Master) + Item plus, there are skeptics who think that both believers and unbelievers are right (or wrong) + There are converts and apostates, who have either found or lost their faith in both the Ultimate Truth or its Prophet + There are also sympathizers and curious, who would like to know more about the Master and the Ultimate Truth of all things + There are scientists who despise this religion and call it numerology + Item there are other scientists who uphold that this religion and science are not at odds + There are zealots and counter-revolutionaries whose main objective is the destruction of the hegemony of the 12-tone-equal-temperament, and who will pragmatically ally with the faithful just to undermine the 12-tone-equal-temperament status quo. + Then there is the great and indifferent World at large, who immerse in the darkness of 12-tone-equal -temperament doesn't even know about any of the above (or care to know) There are also real religions ... :) Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:07 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA30210; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:08:35 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA30230 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA24299; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:08:33 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:08:33 -0700 Message-Id: <009A74C7D7F1C120.3321@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu