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Live-writing is a reader's new experience
In this age of the iPad, Kindle, the Tabs innovations, any kind of electronic reader or programs, it may well be time to change the way books are written, more precisely the way writers write books. Writing live is like being alive, furthermore, it feels as if you are watching a movie, or a TV series, or following the happenings as if you'd follow the news on TV.
Being in the process of writing means walking with the storyteller, the author. As it is with many books, movies, series, every now and then you see a sequel coming soon, a follow-up to a previous book, and so on. By following what the writer comes up with every time, you can definitely be sure that, both the captivating factor and the entertainment value is going to be an impressive part of your reading. As well, the sequels may disappear, because the plot goes on and on, and it will be so until the final chapter of the book has been written, thus the writing event shall be closed.
Just like following a sporting event, you could be following a book, and this certainly beats watching a scoreline being updated every few seconds or minutes. How about following a music band writing lyrics live from location, or from their bus tour? Anything is possible when it comes to writing, as everyone has something to write about.
This reminds of the time when the mp3's changed the way we listen or store our music as we know it, so it may be time for writers to change the way they write a book for the readers, even get some feedback from them, just as it may be time for the readers to change the way they have their interest picked when it comes to books.
I'm currently writing a book, updating it every few hours, a day, depending on my ideas or whenever life circumstances allow me to, and you can follow it at this specific location.
Just like following a sporting event, you could be following a book, and this certainly beats watching a scoreline being updated every few seconds or minutes. How about following a music band writing lyrics live from location, or from their bus tour? Anything is possible when it comes to writing, as everyone has something to write about.
This reminds of the time when the mp3's changed the way we listen or store our music as we know it, so it may be time for writers to change the way they write a book for the readers, even get some feedback from them, just as it may be time for the readers to change the way they have their interest picked when it comes to books.
I'm currently writing a book, updating it every few hours, a day, depending on my ideas or whenever life circumstances allow me to, and you can follow it at this specific location.
My Innovative Music Chart; Follow Up
There's one thing I'd like to add about the weekly music chart that I am compiling nowadays, and that is another innovative way that we can add to the dossier of our ever-interactive means:
- anyone of us could and should make their own charts,
not just have a countdown,
but truly place the song and the artist and the respective performance
in their deserved spots
according to our tastes -
This is exactly what Music Chart Esplanade (previous article link) hopes to inspire (deauspire, if you allow me), because, like the word "deaulivery" which I coined shows, meaning a delivery which comes from us, a spring which initiates from us and is ever flowing, this has the same outpouring of offers and deliberations which come from us, telling more about us, our tastes, our traits and our tendencies pertaining to music, mood and the likes at one given time (one given week).
Hope you are enjoying the charts. New one tomorrow.
Please visit http://deau.me for my latest deauliveries.
not just have a countdown,
but truly place the song and the artist and the respective performance
in their deserved spots
according to our tastes -
This is exactly what Music Chart Esplanade (previous article link) hopes to inspire (deauspire, if you allow me), because, like the word "deaulivery" which I coined shows, meaning a delivery which comes from us, a spring which initiates from us and is ever flowing, this has the same outpouring of offers and deliberations which come from us, telling more about us, our tastes, our traits and our tendencies pertaining to music, mood and the likes at one given time (one given week).
Hope you are enjoying the charts. New one tomorrow.
Please visit http://deau.me for my latest deauliveries.
Commercials are TV Networks' Addictions
Surely you have wondered, sometimes if not most of the times, why there's an ad suddenly running while a live transmission is currently in progress, thus making you miss a moment, or skip something important. As well, we may also get sick and tired of "there has to be a commercial" within half hour... no, wait... 3 of them within that half hour.
For years, decades, in fact, or since television was invented, the commercialized era has never stopped interrupting us, or offering us their products in exchange for a program. That's all good. However, if you would think about it, TV, and Radio for that matters, has to run some ads in order to pay for their programming which has to reach the masses, to us, that is, and to even have a means to pay for their place, business, people, equipment and so on... Well, that equals addiction, whether they admit it to themselves or not.
It's like a drink, it's like a cigarette, anything that is hard to give up for some, it is very hard for the television to change its habits, or for the businesses to change the way they "do business" in general when it comes to running ads or offering commercials to play them at any time, or run them at any time.
It would be an awesome thing if a commercial would run at a specific time, that way we, the people, would tune in, be interested, buy or share their products with friends or family.
For years, decades, in fact, or since television was invented, the commercialized era has never stopped interrupting us, or offering us their products in exchange for a program. That's all good. However, if you would think about it, TV, and Radio for that matters, has to run some ads in order to pay for their programming which has to reach the masses, to us, that is, and to even have a means to pay for their place, business, people, equipment and so on... Well, that equals addiction, whether they admit it to themselves or not.
It's like a drink, it's like a cigarette, anything that is hard to give up for some, it is very hard for the television to change its habits, or for the businesses to change the way they "do business" in general when it comes to running ads or offering commercials to play them at any time, or run them at any time.
It would be an awesome thing if a commercial would run at a specific time, that way we, the people, would tune in, be interested, buy or share their products with friends or family.
Timing partners action in business, but interruption equals addiction.
Placing a TV movie, or a live event, even the news ahead of a product which often repeats itself quite often, and it is not always a pleasant thing to hear or watch like it would be a music video for example which can be played 3 or 4 times a day, it'd definitely be a plus. We have to realize that when it comes to sponsorship, we have to be a team, one that has the same goal, and that is to interest the public in their products or tell them that they're there (special offers and what not) without boring them or disrupting them every so often.
We see a lot of commercialized places in life, everywhere we look, but it is looking rather addictive, having to place an ad somewhere or have it run on TV just because money talks.
Placing a TV movie, or a live event, even the news ahead of a product which often repeats itself quite often, and it is not always a pleasant thing to hear or watch like it would be a music video for example which can be played 3 or 4 times a day, it'd definitely be a plus. We have to realize that when it comes to sponsorship, we have to be a team, one that has the same goal, and that is to interest the public in their products or tell them that they're there (special offers and what not) without boring them or disrupting them every so often.
We see a lot of commercialized places in life, everywhere we look, but it is looking rather addictive, having to place an ad somewhere or have it run on TV just because money talks.
Money can talk, but placement, like timing, is mankind's best friend.
Now, I'm all for organized commercialism, and not for commercialized addiction!
What is your opinion on this?
What is your opinion on this?
My Innovative Music Chart
There are a lot of music charts around, and I started counting them down in the beginning as well, around 1990. However, with the times, I put my originality, my creative mind and the music itself (songs and singers) in a selective blend, all this resulting in a special, non-fangled and exclusive type of chart... Emphasizing the song, the melody, the singer, the quality of both singer and song, this is what it's ultimately all about.
After 506 editions (plz see old charts example right here), over 150 online editions, including other music and non music categories, as the charts evolved into compilations (as you can see right here, the last of the compilations, soon to be revived, though), time hasn't allowed me to continue making them. But now, thanks to an idea I came up with (the Maxute©, sort of a tweetable box, a banner-like, mapped image), the charts are going to look different, but the passion of promoting the artists, emphasizing the melody or the quality of the songs, plus the presentation of a singer on stage will go on.
After 506 editions (plz see old charts example right here), over 150 online editions, including other music and non music categories, as the charts evolved into compilations (as you can see right here, the last of the compilations, soon to be revived, though), time hasn't allowed me to continue making them. But now, thanks to an idea I came up with (the Maxute©, sort of a tweetable box, a banner-like, mapped image), the charts are going to look different, but the passion of promoting the artists, emphasizing the melody or the quality of the songs, plus the presentation of a singer on stage will go on.
This is how the first revived edition of my charts look... 
By clicking on the image,
you will be taken to the special site I set up for it,
and you'll be able to click on the links of this mapped pic.
Some interesting points and facts about this chart:
- many songs in the world are very much worthy of listening to, and some are good quality regardless of the language barriers.
- the ranges (as I call them), used to be Third Range, Second Range, First Range, you could think of them as the Top 40 or so places in a regular chart, with one exception... A song could enter the chart at that position and, either remain there for a longer period, or advance to a higher position, depending on how the song grows on you, or how the artist is interpreting at other live venues, etc.
- it doesn't matter if there is more than 1 song on the First Range or the First Place, because the value is what counts right from the first week. It's not as much about airplay, it is about the song.
- the Favorite Hit represents the fact that you can only listen to 1 song at a time. There have been a couple of times where a whole album was classified as the top Favorite Hit of the week.
- the song on the Favorite Hit charting position used to also be one of the songs in First Place. From now on, any song that reaches the Favorite Hit status will exit the charts as a Favorite Hit without going back to First Place, First Range and so on.
- usually, I follow the British, US, German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. charts, Latin, Country, Spiritual, Dance, Techno and other categories.
- there is no rule regarding the background of the singers, whether they are professional or not, new or old, etc.. However, the song itself has to be professionally recorded, or at least part of their repertoire, and not a one-off.
More about the charts at another time. For now, please follow it weekly and discover stars you otherwise would not in the mainstream ones.
By clicking on the image,
you will be taken to the special site I set up for it,
and you'll be able to click on the links of this mapped pic.
Some interesting points and facts about this chart:
- many songs in the world are very much worthy of listening to, and some are good quality regardless of the language barriers.
- the ranges (as I call them), used to be Third Range, Second Range, First Range, you could think of them as the Top 40 or so places in a regular chart, with one exception... A song could enter the chart at that position and, either remain there for a longer period, or advance to a higher position, depending on how the song grows on you, or how the artist is interpreting at other live venues, etc.
- it doesn't matter if there is more than 1 song on the First Range or the First Place, because the value is what counts right from the first week. It's not as much about airplay, it is about the song.
- the Favorite Hit represents the fact that you can only listen to 1 song at a time. There have been a couple of times where a whole album was classified as the top Favorite Hit of the week.
- the song on the Favorite Hit charting position used to also be one of the songs in First Place. From now on, any song that reaches the Favorite Hit status will exit the charts as a Favorite Hit without going back to First Place, First Range and so on.
- usually, I follow the British, US, German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. charts, Latin, Country, Spiritual, Dance, Techno and other categories.
- there is no rule regarding the background of the singers, whether they are professional or not, new or old, etc.. However, the song itself has to be professionally recorded, or at least part of their repertoire, and not a one-off.
More about the charts at another time. For now, please follow it weekly and discover stars you otherwise would not in the mainstream ones.
A couple of poetic news
First off, this week I wrote a poem, and it just happened that I got an idea about making an animation where I included, eventually, the poem.
Here's a fragment from the poem itself:
Secondly, on the weekend of July 22nd thru to the 24th, there will be a special event dedicated to the Lance Armstrong "Livestrong" foundation, which is helping with research for cancer patients, and reverberates a positive attitude that cancer patients must have in order to get past the disease.
I will contribute with 1 poem and 1 song to it. It is an event organized by Artists4Life on BlogTV. This will mark the 3rd year I contributed to the event. The following is an excerpt from the song:
Here's a fragment from the poem itself:
The sea on one end,
©DD, 2011
I always like to combine poetry with comedy, and this is the end result in animation, off my youtube:The ocean on the opposite,
Should we just swim until we drop
and find the bottom of our sinking flop?
Are we not
a twosome in perpetuance?
Can we not share,
Exchange a look,
Consult a book,
Create a nuance,
wherein two stories
with two different looks
become one verse
speared within one hook?
©DD, 2011
Secondly, on the weekend of July 22nd thru to the 24th, there will be a special event dedicated to the Lance Armstrong "Livestrong" foundation, which is helping with research for cancer patients, and reverberates a positive attitude that cancer patients must have in order to get past the disease.
I will contribute with 1 poem and 1 song to it. It is an event organized by Artists4Life on BlogTV. This will mark the 3rd year I contributed to the event. The following is an excerpt from the song:
Time just decided to run around
©DD, 2011
Hope you can make it, watch or give a gift of life, and live strong no matter what.
God bless you!
all of my memories,
Wrapping me up in a bouquet
made of a moment of love,
Believed you were here,
In fact, I just felt your tears
running down my spine.
It was as if you said:
You don't have enough time,
Don't you have something to say?
You may end up and be the prime thing,
Or you may end up tossed and turned
down in the dust...
What would, then, in turn,
time have to gain?!?
©DD, 2011
Hope you can make it, watch or give a gift of life, and live strong no matter what.
God bless you!
Why the sex; A follow-up
The notion of us not having sex is a non-existent issue - we need it in order to procreate. The act of having sex itself, this could be up for a debate, each to his and her own ways.
There had to be a follow-up post to the previous one just to clarify some things and emphasize others.
We were not meant to be alone in life, we were not made that way, yet sometimes, some circumstances lead us to be on our own, for a shorter or longer period of time. This doesn't mean that we should fornicate, nor should we try to make it with ourselves. While urges happen, it is natural, but if we force the issue, if we knowingly continue down this path, then the procreation law is taking a backseat in our lives, and our lives won't be continued.
Adam and Eve, in the beginning, they probably did it quite simply (just got on with it in order to create generations), but through time, the experience of sex got to be something of a chocolate bar, if you pardon the punt. And so it is that in our culture, nowadays, the oversexualization and overt sexualization that happens on the billboards and on the media, this is a temptation that, frankly, people could live without. What this does, is stimulate you rather than making you buy a product.
There had to be a follow-up post to the previous one just to clarify some things and emphasize others.
We were not meant to be alone in life, we were not made that way, yet sometimes, some circumstances lead us to be on our own, for a shorter or longer period of time. This doesn't mean that we should fornicate, nor should we try to make it with ourselves. While urges happen, it is natural, but if we force the issue, if we knowingly continue down this path, then the procreation law is taking a backseat in our lives, and our lives won't be continued.
Sex itself is a unification.
Adam and Eve, in the beginning, they probably did it quite simply (just got on with it in order to create generations), but through time, the experience of sex got to be something of a chocolate bar, if you pardon the punt. And so it is that in our culture, nowadays, the oversexualization and overt sexualization that happens on the billboards and on the media, this is a temptation that, frankly, people could live without. What this does, is stimulate you rather than making you buy a product.
There is a sweet way of promoting and there is a sensual way of doing it; there is a spectacular way of presenting something and there is an over the top way; there is a half empty glass (some clothes off) and there is a half full glass (some clothes on); there is a shock value way to go about saying something (in words or in pictures) and there is a friendly way...
On which side do you fall?
On which side do you fall?
So many big men have been brought down by sex scandals, and so many women have been called into question, whether they lied about it or not, just like men, whether they had an innocent affair or a serious one which caused divorces.
If we use sex in order to procreate, with our personal added sweetener, innocent methods, then we have a clear head, but if we use it to undermine the notion of life, thus use it for other purposes, it is not an ideal way to go about in this lifetime.
One last important point: sex brings together two people in order to create "the oneness". This is not just a saying... 2 become 1... This is something beyond comprehension, something beyond philosophical, it is of a spiritual nature, a heavenly way which we might not be able to fully understand nowadays.
If we use sex in order to procreate, with our personal added sweetener, innocent methods, then we have a clear head, but if we use it to undermine the notion of life, thus use it for other purposes, it is not an ideal way to go about in this lifetime.
Can we say...
Men are the key, while women are the door?
Men are the key, while women are the door?
One last important point: sex brings together two people in order to create "the oneness". This is not just a saying... 2 become 1... This is something beyond comprehension, something beyond philosophical, it is of a spiritual nature, a heavenly way which we might not be able to fully understand nowadays.
We do it in order to become one,
and one holds us together.
and one holds us together.
Why the sex?
(( Please note: with this post I am not saying that sex is wrong or
evil, nor am I stating it is of the devil. What I am emphasizing, or
bringing forth is how it is sometimes considered a manipulator, or a
briefcase for adultery acts in case of a divorce. I am also calling to
your attention, the fact, according to the Bible (and not only), that
Satan will use any means possible, and sexual or sensual ones are at his
root, in order to enter your life unlawfully and con you into doing
things (perhaps like sex addiction, porn, rape, etc.). Note the
"entering of your life" is different than God's entrance into this world
through Jesus who had to be born first, lawfully, in order to live. If
something or someone doesn't enter properly into this world, its ways
and means are not according to the laws of this world. If something or
someone was to enter through this world properly, its acts will be done
on Earth as they are done in Heaven. ))
People are as beautiful as they come.
This post has an ecclesiastic tone to it, a philosophical tone; it poses a question we cannot fully answer.
People are as beautiful as they come.
To the eye of the beholder we are a charm, we are sexy!
The shape of our bodies scream out for special regards, compliments, seductive attention.
So why the sex?
If we look at it from a biblical perspective, the beginning of mankind had seductive innuendos at the helm of deceit. The rebel, Satan was allowed by the serpent to enter its life and take its life-form in order to use it against Adam and Eve. Rebelling against God is one thing, but praying on the innocent human-beings and playing with their mind (not to speak of the blameless animals who do not have a mind) is a line which the devil crossed at that time. Sure, the woman could have argued with the snake, but she was swayed, moreover conned into demonstrating a foolish act, the result of which brought shame into the life of the humans, and, so, sexual motions were advanced.
Analyzing the UFO discoveries during the past couple of centuries, (and, indeed, if there have been ones prior to that) none of them showed anything other than a humanoid, and no encounter was a happy one, either people got taken away, left in the middle of the roads, got examined from head to toe leaving moral scars for life that sometimes makes you think of rape without any trace or marks. The look and the acting of these humanoids, do they resemble anything good-looking, good-mannered, good... period? Have you asked yourself that?
To me, they resemble little demons, small in stature, big in telepathic, hypnotizing skills similar to a beast, but of course, without the horns so that people would think they are superior beings, when in fact they look simple, ordinary and want to conquer the mind of us, and tear through our soul lest we have a spiritual connection with God, Himself. They have often appeared to tormented souls, agnostic ones, atheistic ones, to anyone who they appeal to have a connection with. And if you ever saw that they were real in a picture in a magazine or a video, then they'd like to plant doubt in anyone's mind that they are real and God is not or has forsaken you. We know better that the devil is actually defeated in the end, but that doesn't stop him because he has it with God real bad that he would hurt a human-being, a thinking person made in the image of God, and that would be enough for his mischievous agenda.
Now, the good part of sex is when the end result (after 9 months) is a wonderful new baby that's being brought onto our world. We need sex to multiply, but does it do anything to our health? It doesn't cure a headache, it may loosen a muscle that's strained around the obvious areas, but so does rest, it doesn't help with the research for a cure for a sexual disease etc. With the technology that exists today, a baby can be created from what the male brings to the table and what the woman takes from it
As well, making love, to us it sounds like a beautiful thing, and it feels so, but it is not a hunger or a thirst issue, it is a lust issue. Again, I wonder...
People are as beautiful as they come.
Everyone is familiar with the culture of oversexualization, as in, sex sells, they say. If you don't add this ingredient into a commercial, it won't make any appeal. Really? I'm still going to buy the ice cream I want or the jeans I want or the glasses I want without telling me it's sexy wearing or eating something.
We have read about the lack of shame that existed in the biblical days in the Garden of Eden, so how did God intend for us to multiply, or how did He see the matter of us having sex the way we do in order to procreate? We are also aware of the addition of pain during a woman's pregnancy after the incident with the Tree of Knowledge.
You see, what if God knew that we would have to sin eventually, like a prophecy, and the day it happened, our days were numbered. Once birth was to be a part of our human world, death had to be a part of it as well.
Well, lots of what if's, and some of them we are not entitled to know right now, as it is one of the mystery of life, or a secret regarding the birth of a baby which was not made known to us yet this side of Heaven.
Come to think of it, lots of women, even men, have gone through life remaining virgins.
Perhaps God intended for us, with the means of the current technology of allowing us to have a baby through various, alternative, conceiving ways to go full circle, i.e. to return to the days of the Garden of Eden, then when looking at one another was innocent, not knowing about the sexual context actually felt pure, and that added an essence of purity to one's life. It is said that a period of purity (or a life of purity), especially when in prayer with God is important, and it is known that Catholic priests choose to serve the Lord and not marry during their lifetime.
Is sex a manipulation tool, a blackmail one? Many often than not, it is, or it is the precursor to more serious sexual offenses.
Look, but do not touch.
Love, but do not lust.
Admire, but do not cheat.
Think, but think with your head and not with your sexual parts.
These are some common sayings, or famous quotes which you may have heard once during your lifetime.
What do you think about them? Have any others that you would add?
What do you think of the overuse of "foul language"? Do you think it's a derivation of being overly sexual in your conversation? Do you think it has any place in our culture? Is it a way of frustration, of letting of steam or just a joyful, dirty way of speaking to someone in a derogatory way?
If we look at it from a biblical perspective, the beginning of mankind had seductive innuendos at the helm of deceit. The rebel, Satan was allowed by the serpent to enter its life and take its life-form in order to use it against Adam and Eve. Rebelling against God is one thing, but praying on the innocent human-beings and playing with their mind (not to speak of the blameless animals who do not have a mind) is a line which the devil crossed at that time. Sure, the woman could have argued with the snake, but she was swayed, moreover conned into demonstrating a foolish act, the result of which brought shame into the life of the humans, and, so, sexual motions were advanced.
Analyzing the UFO discoveries during the past couple of centuries, (and, indeed, if there have been ones prior to that) none of them showed anything other than a humanoid, and no encounter was a happy one, either people got taken away, left in the middle of the roads, got examined from head to toe leaving moral scars for life that sometimes makes you think of rape without any trace or marks. The look and the acting of these humanoids, do they resemble anything good-looking, good-mannered, good... period? Have you asked yourself that?
To me, they resemble little demons, small in stature, big in telepathic, hypnotizing skills similar to a beast, but of course, without the horns so that people would think they are superior beings, when in fact they look simple, ordinary and want to conquer the mind of us, and tear through our soul lest we have a spiritual connection with God, Himself. They have often appeared to tormented souls, agnostic ones, atheistic ones, to anyone who they appeal to have a connection with. And if you ever saw that they were real in a picture in a magazine or a video, then they'd like to plant doubt in anyone's mind that they are real and God is not or has forsaken you. We know better that the devil is actually defeated in the end, but that doesn't stop him because he has it with God real bad that he would hurt a human-being, a thinking person made in the image of God, and that would be enough for his mischievous agenda.
Now, the good part of sex is when the end result (after 9 months) is a wonderful new baby that's being brought onto our world. We need sex to multiply, but does it do anything to our health? It doesn't cure a headache, it may loosen a muscle that's strained around the obvious areas, but so does rest, it doesn't help with the research for a cure for a sexual disease etc. With the technology that exists today, a baby can be created from what the male brings to the table and what the woman takes from it
As well, making love, to us it sounds like a beautiful thing, and it feels so, but it is not a hunger or a thirst issue, it is a lust issue. Again, I wonder...
People are as beautiful as they come.
To the eye of the beholder we are a charm, we are sexy!
The shape of our bodies scream out for special regards, compliments, seductive attention.
So why the sex?Everyone is familiar with the culture of oversexualization, as in, sex sells, they say. If you don't add this ingredient into a commercial, it won't make any appeal. Really? I'm still going to buy the ice cream I want or the jeans I want or the glasses I want without telling me it's sexy wearing or eating something.
Lust is not something which lasts, but love lasts and lasts and outlasts.
We have read about the lack of shame that existed in the biblical days in the Garden of Eden, so how did God intend for us to multiply, or how did He see the matter of us having sex the way we do in order to procreate? We are also aware of the addition of pain during a woman's pregnancy after the incident with the Tree of Knowledge.
You see, what if God knew that we would have to sin eventually, like a prophecy, and the day it happened, our days were numbered. Once birth was to be a part of our human world, death had to be a part of it as well.
Well, lots of what if's, and some of them we are not entitled to know right now, as it is one of the mystery of life, or a secret regarding the birth of a baby which was not made known to us yet this side of Heaven.
Come to think of it, lots of women, even men, have gone through life remaining virgins.
Perhaps God intended for us, with the means of the current technology of allowing us to have a baby through various, alternative, conceiving ways to go full circle, i.e. to return to the days of the Garden of Eden, then when looking at one another was innocent, not knowing about the sexual context actually felt pure, and that added an essence of purity to one's life. It is said that a period of purity (or a life of purity), especially when in prayer with God is important, and it is known that Catholic priests choose to serve the Lord and not marry during their lifetime.
Is sex a manipulation tool, a blackmail one? Many often than not, it is, or it is the precursor to more serious sexual offenses.
Look, but do not touch.
Love, but do not lust.
Admire, but do not cheat.
Think, but think with your head and not with your sexual parts.
These are some common sayings, or famous quotes which you may have heard once during your lifetime.
What do you think about them? Have any others that you would add?
What do you think of the overuse of "foul language"? Do you think it's a derivation of being overly sexual in your conversation? Do you think it has any place in our culture? Is it a way of frustration, of letting of steam or just a joyful, dirty way of speaking to someone in a derogatory way?
What do you think about this topic?
This post has an ecclesiastic tone to it, a philosophical tone; it poses a question we cannot fully answer.
Personification of God through Christ resembles Communicating through a Language
May you be blessed upon reading this entry!
Thinking about the personification of God through Christ is like us trying to learn a language in order to communicate with other people. So God communicated with us through His language, and His language had many wise parables, many sentences, culminating in one Word. This immense Word was, essentially, needed and is needed and will always be needed by us in order to communicate with God.
We can only give birth to words in order to talk with one another
(we cannot give birth to people in order to communicate nor bargain for someone,
that would be slavery and mistreating of people),
(we cannot give birth to people in order to communicate nor bargain for someone,
that would be slavery and mistreating of people),
whereas God gave birth to one Word, willed for one person, one personification
so that we may understand God's good intentions for us and for this World He gave us.
so that we may understand God's good intentions for us and for this World He gave us.
In a language you need many words in order to express something to someone, yet with God you only need one Word, because that Word leads you through many phrases, many segments, many fountains, if you will, (because from every fountain springs little rivers in our lives), as from every phrase, quite the same as those fountains, spring many expressions, many words, all forming various human-beings' stories culminating into and leading up to one word... The Word.
All roads lead to God.
All rivers lead to God.
All words come from one Word.
All languages mix into one Word.
Essentially, if you learn another language in order to convey your thoughts and make yourself understood by the person that stands in front of you, you personify your thoughts into words, or personify your language A into language B. Basically, this is all we do every day... put our thoughts into words just so that we could relay them to other people. Even through sign language, as well as through drawing, even writing, this is all we do... we convey our message so that it can be understood by the party opposite.
God is a language, is a universe, is a creation. A language is a source of communication, a nucleus, a matter inside a brain. God is a brain, more than a brain, in fact, a thought which cannot be processed by the human mind, a spirit which cannot be seen nor touched, not even communicated directly with because of its immense magnitude, immeasurable mercy and unassailable power of intercession through His Son, The Word. If sentences intercede between us with words, and if languages make it possible for us to understand one another even if from different countries, then this is a miracle within itself, it is a spirit which moves us, something that we cannot touch, but we can sure feel, something that we cannot see, yet we can sure sense.
The paragraph above illustrates just how God and people are alike, although from opposite horizons.
If you wonder more, let's speak about illustrations, photos, pictures, sculptures, and the likes. These carry the same personification level as the languages, for if we see something, we understand something, as they say, something visual carries more weight than something invisible. But this is where this situation stops. A picture can go so far, but a word is something definite, just like math, something precise. A picture, much like a sculpture, it could send its observer into different directions, it could make a person think, and a thought is like an interpretation, it goes left, right, wrong, etc.
A word is a word and that is it.
Yes, everyone who writes can make you think as well, but a word is a word that has a place in its sentence, in order for it to make sense within itself. You cannot have a proper sentence without a noun, a verb, an attribute, something! But again, a word is a word. Now, whether it makes you think or not, whether you agree with its subject or not, that is up to you, but just like you would add 1 and 1 together in order to equal 2, that is how a sentence works.
Words are pockets of a society, and a sentence moves every people.
We chose the right words that move ourselves, as we chose the right words to put on the brakes.
In God's language that He has for us, a wordship means a fellowship, a relation, much more than a communication, a closeness that He intended to have with us in the beginning and maintain it through the ages.
God placed us in this world in a precise manner, perhaps just like the science of mathematics. I don't think it is by chance someone is born to one family while another is born to a different one. You can travel from one country to another, but you cannot travel from one mother to another, or have a different father either.
God placed words inside a sentence in order to make it sound good in any language.
God placed us like words, if you will, inside a sentence called world. I don't think we could have been born and live in another planet either. Astronomy might grow in knowledge every now and then, but you cannot get closer to a law of impossibility, only to one of improbability, i.e. aliens, various planet lives, etc. And so, if we're on the subject of other planets, maybe the evolution, explosions, rearrangements and apparitions of other stars, galaxies and the likes every once in a while is just like the start of another universe... just like it was in the beginning when the universe was formed, and in that case billions of years would be needed for that... incidentally, in Heaven, God could conduct the orchestration of the planets, the sky, the earth, the stars, and so on, in just a couple of moments, a couple of days, if not instantly.
The whole instauration of a language in our lives serves the purpose of communication. To God, the inception of Christ was the most important development in our humanity. Again, much like the creation of a universe, and related to time, The Almighty thought all the process of inserting Jesus Christ, His Word, His Son from the beginning, and it probably took a couple of days, it just took longer in human years, say, a few thousand years.
A language is the movement of the words. The Word, the Lord, is a following of sentences, parables to an extent. God is the parable, is the sentence, is the movement, is the Word and all the words, is the love and the love-giver, is the light and the light granter, etc.... all of these through Christ who is the carrier, the intercessor between God and us.
Speaking all the worlds languages might not be enough to understand God, but knowing one language is enough for us to share the Word.
The Word has a place in every language, because it is a word for every people.
It should always be about the Song
The following blog post is one I just posted on my Eurovision.com
(At the end of it, a few thoughts about the winners of this year, 2011)
This year's competition in Dusseldorf was a super spectacle of fashion, much less about the songs themselves. It may have left some wondering about the winning song, but many wondering, yet again, about the votes. So it wasn't all about the songs themselves, as it should always be. This is what it leaves me thinking:
Eurovision has gotten too big for its own good, so much so that some don't give a hoot about it, while others give it too much attention, and that pops up the voting block issue from them once more. I think it's time to let this competition return to being all about the song, less about the voting procedures (they changing like every other year). And how is it going to be all about the song? Well, in the beginning of this competition, some 55 odd years ago, before our times, singers of one country were singing 2 or 3 songs on the night. Nowadays, with so many countries participating, I doubt there will be time to do that, but that is why we having semifinals and a final.
You could have a world cup format with, say, 5 in each group, neighbors going against each other, and have only 1 country coming through as the winner. 5 nations into 8 groups, say, 40 countries in total, plus the big 5 which qualify automatically, so, all in all 45 nations. On the Grand Finale night, have 13 singers (or bands) each performing 2 songs, probably 2 which they previously performed on the semifinals. And, voila, Le Grand Prix de la Chanson would gain some of its wonderful and marvelous aspect of caring about the song, the singer, the joy of participating, a whole spectacle of singing would spring from this.
Another great thing would be to give Europe, and all of the countries participating in the Contest, the opportunity to view and listen in to a countries preselection songs, and vote on which song they liked best, or which 2 songs they liked best from an artist. This would spark the interest more and eliminate or minimize the arguments of one song would have done better than the one actually going to the Eurovision proper, and the likes.
These two ideas would lift the heart enormously, because all that music does is lift up the atmosphere. So let us hear the music, and let's not dwell on other stuff besides the music sheets at the end of a contest year in and year out.
Oh, did I mention music sheets? My bad! There is no live orchestra so no music sheets on the stage! What can we do about that, Maestro-Fans of Europe?
...
Where there is a voice, there is a song.
Yes, they usually go hand in hand, if you have a great voice, people would listen to you, and some liked listening to French singer, even if the opera song choice wasn't up to everyone's tastes. There must have been something about Lithuania's singer, as her voice was superb, but the one I liked more was Austria's. Again there wasn't much to content with this year, although I have mixed feelings about the winning song.
As the winning song suggests, lyrics-wise, Running Scared because I adore you is not always the great message, all being metaphoric and all, I understand it since I'm a writer, however, it is too melodramatically inclined to match a great winning song. Not the greatest voices in the book of Eurovision 2011, but Azerbaijan's entry was a good winning choice by the jury. Yes, I don't think it was, in the end a choice of the public, although we shall see, if the EBU results, 50% jury in each country, 50% viewers in each country would be anything to go by.
The song itself sounded like a Eurovision song, no doubt, and that might be, perhaps, why it won, plus it was a first time nation that triumphed, so a double whammy! What do you think?
I liked Estonia's entry. Getter Jaani and the crew did themselves justice with a wonderfully entertaining performance and an upbeat, kind of different "groove". Yes, the playback was obvious in some parts to complement the singer, as no orchestra allowed, or maybe I'm wrong? Who sang the backing vocals? lol Anyhow, Nadine Beiler of Austria and Getter of Estonia, along with Denmark's anthem-like song were my favs (although Danish entry was something I heard before, one of those songs you can't exactly put your ear as to where and when, but nothing too new).
And what about Lena? She and Hotel FM's front singer were the most photogenic, no doubt, but a smile can only do so much. Lena must surely come out of this European fantasy and wake up in the modern era one day.
(At the end of it, a few thoughts about the winners of this year, 2011)
This year's competition in Dusseldorf was a super spectacle of fashion, much less about the songs themselves. It may have left some wondering about the winning song, but many wondering, yet again, about the votes. So it wasn't all about the songs themselves, as it should always be. This is what it leaves me thinking:
Eurovision has gotten too big for its own good, so much so that some don't give a hoot about it, while others give it too much attention, and that pops up the voting block issue from them once more. I think it's time to let this competition return to being all about the song, less about the voting procedures (they changing like every other year). And how is it going to be all about the song? Well, in the beginning of this competition, some 55 odd years ago, before our times, singers of one country were singing 2 or 3 songs on the night. Nowadays, with so many countries participating, I doubt there will be time to do that, but that is why we having semifinals and a final.
You could have a world cup format with, say, 5 in each group, neighbors going against each other, and have only 1 country coming through as the winner. 5 nations into 8 groups, say, 40 countries in total, plus the big 5 which qualify automatically, so, all in all 45 nations. On the Grand Finale night, have 13 singers (or bands) each performing 2 songs, probably 2 which they previously performed on the semifinals. And, voila, Le Grand Prix de la Chanson would gain some of its wonderful and marvelous aspect of caring about the song, the singer, the joy of participating, a whole spectacle of singing would spring from this.
Another great thing would be to give Europe, and all of the countries participating in the Contest, the opportunity to view and listen in to a countries preselection songs, and vote on which song they liked best, or which 2 songs they liked best from an artist. This would spark the interest more and eliminate or minimize the arguments of one song would have done better than the one actually going to the Eurovision proper, and the likes.
These two ideas would lift the heart enormously, because all that music does is lift up the atmosphere. So let us hear the music, and let's not dwell on other stuff besides the music sheets at the end of a contest year in and year out.
Oh, did I mention music sheets? My bad! There is no live orchestra so no music sheets on the stage! What can we do about that, Maestro-Fans of Europe?
...
And now, a word about the winners and the songs I liked this year.(not included in myEurovision)
Where there is a voice, there is a song.
Yes, they usually go hand in hand, if you have a great voice, people would listen to you, and some liked listening to French singer, even if the opera song choice wasn't up to everyone's tastes. There must have been something about Lithuania's singer, as her voice was superb, but the one I liked more was Austria's. Again there wasn't much to content with this year, although I have mixed feelings about the winning song.
As the winning song suggests, lyrics-wise, Running Scared because I adore you is not always the great message, all being metaphoric and all, I understand it since I'm a writer, however, it is too melodramatically inclined to match a great winning song. Not the greatest voices in the book of Eurovision 2011, but Azerbaijan's entry was a good winning choice by the jury. Yes, I don't think it was, in the end a choice of the public, although we shall see, if the EBU results, 50% jury in each country, 50% viewers in each country would be anything to go by.
The song itself sounded like a Eurovision song, no doubt, and that might be, perhaps, why it won, plus it was a first time nation that triumphed, so a double whammy! What do you think?
I liked Estonia's entry. Getter Jaani and the crew did themselves justice with a wonderfully entertaining performance and an upbeat, kind of different "groove". Yes, the playback was obvious in some parts to complement the singer, as no orchestra allowed, or maybe I'm wrong? Who sang the backing vocals? lol Anyhow, Nadine Beiler of Austria and Getter of Estonia, along with Denmark's anthem-like song were my favs (although Danish entry was something I heard before, one of those songs you can't exactly put your ear as to where and when, but nothing too new).
And what about Lena? She and Hotel FM's front singer were the most photogenic, no doubt, but a smile can only do so much. Lena must surely come out of this European fantasy and wake up in the modern era one day.
Eurovision - A renewed musical dawn
What hasn't been written about Eurovision Song Contest through the years, that it's a great party for one night, good to see so many cultures getting together in the name of sharing 1 song with the pan-European crowd, that its voting is rigged, that the acts are so unique, that some other countries don't stand a chance, etc.
Let's pick it off from the last part... "that some other countries don't stand a chance"... It is interesting to see that so many different musical cultures, so much so that the music tastes are not for everyone, or just not everyone's daily sound on the radio. I think it would be very positive to see a one-off, a one night only, some song which would identify the Eurovision Song Contest as a unique event where the song is not something repetitive, not a remix but a mix, a blend of a country's national sound with a modern, international one.
I think the best way to make a Eurovision song is to find common notes that everyone would like, not nationalizing it, but internationalizing its sound. (as I previously twittered, prior to writing this blog post).
I had also suggested once to have special voting blocks, like up to 4-5-6 neighboring countries within 1 group (much like the world cup) from which only 1 or 2 would progress to the final, depending on the number of countries participating in the Contest (in 2011 there are 43 countries competing). You can view my post on my Damsidereight Netvibes Universe (please select Eurovision tab once on the page).
However, from today onwards, I thought about this special way of composing this song, and, please, by all means, let me know what you think of the idea. This would eliminate the gaps between the countries when it comes to musical tastes, and it would get rid of the much discussed block voting diaspora.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but one thing is for sure, a change should include a change in music, or the way the song is made, because the Eurovision is a gettogether kind of event, it is not a separation night.
Uniqueness and originality has its special place in everyone's hearts and minds, it's what moves and drives a people, and this could be the start of a special music place in history.
Let's pick it off from the last part... "that some other countries don't stand a chance"... It is interesting to see that so many different musical cultures, so much so that the music tastes are not for everyone, or just not everyone's daily sound on the radio. I think it would be very positive to see a one-off, a one night only, some song which would identify the Eurovision Song Contest as a unique event where the song is not something repetitive, not a remix but a mix, a blend of a country's national sound with a modern, international one.
I think the best way to make a Eurovision song is to find common notes that everyone would like, not nationalizing it, but internationalizing its sound. (as I previously twittered, prior to writing this blog post).
I had also suggested once to have special voting blocks, like up to 4-5-6 neighboring countries within 1 group (much like the world cup) from which only 1 or 2 would progress to the final, depending on the number of countries participating in the Contest (in 2011 there are 43 countries competing). You can view my post on my Damsidereight Netvibes Universe (please select Eurovision tab once on the page).
However, from today onwards, I thought about this special way of composing this song, and, please, by all means, let me know what you think of the idea. This would eliminate the gaps between the countries when it comes to musical tastes, and it would get rid of the much discussed block voting diaspora.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but one thing is for sure, a change should include a change in music, or the way the song is made, because the Eurovision is a gettogether kind of event, it is not a separation night.
Uniqueness and originality has its special place in everyone's hearts and minds, it's what moves and drives a people, and this could be the start of a special music place in history.
