While living in Maryland (USA) I developed an intricate system for both skipping stones and judging the quality of said skips, which I call Freestyle Stone Skipping (as opposed Conventional Stone Skipping, which limits itself to merely tracking the quantity of skips managed); a few years later, while living in Rajasthan (India), I further developed my practice to include a wide arching ethical system based on the rubric for judging skipped stones, and therefrom has arisen what I casually refer to as "The Philosophy of Stone Skipping." [I say "casually" only because I was and still am extremely hesitant to put this to any of my (former) colleagues in professional philosophy, though I'll talk about it for hours with anyone outside the ivory tower, mostly because I'm pre-emptively embarrassed by what they would say in response, which is more a reflection of the current state of professional philosophy than the quality of my ideas--or so I've convinced myself.]
*- There is absolutely no connection between this moniker and the Brazilian post-punk band of the same name, though some of their music is quite good and worth checking out if you're into that kind of stuff.
(More to come, especially if anyone leaves comments with suggestions/thoughts.)
In order to ensure that there are no misinterpretations of Freestyle Stone Skipping (F-SS), as differentiated from its conventional counterpart (C-SS*), I want to both refer to my previous post on the topic (found here) and reiterate the major differences:
- C-SS*:
- F-SS
*- There is absolutely no connection between this moniker and the Brazilian post-punk band of the same name, though some of their music is quite good and worth checking out if you're into that kind of stuff.
(More to come, especially if anyone leaves comments with suggestions/thoughts.)
