Zach Sobiech, farewell, and Sammy Brown, what a beautiful goodbye.
Thank our stars that YouTube allows a small window for real music to bleed through the cracks. What better way than the power of song to say goodbye to the world with "Star Hopping" and "Clouds"!
And yet that freedom is rapidly losing ground in the under the weight of Google ad-words where money is again determining what gets played. Money continues to perpetuate the quick buck marketing of generic commercial pop music records where clones of Britney Spears, boybands, 50 Cent rap and X-Factor are released in an endless loop.
Once upon a time there was folk music that was exactly as its name: music of us folks. From that we had the pop music of Buddy Holly, the Beatles, and the Stones, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen. (You can guess my ancient age from these choices.) These were songs of real people, some were light like Star Hopping, others serious, but most of all they were real. Country Music held on to that concept, but its styles of singing were too confining. Blues, of course, has had a great influence. Perhaps, real songs are still out there.
Zach, may the wave of real songs continue as your legacy and be of comfort to your friends and family and help the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund.
I offer my song: Venus and Mars
as a companion to "Star Hopping" and "Clouds".
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
End of the world December 21, 2012?
If that were only true, I think many would welcome the end of the world on Friday December 21. The real question is how would the Mayan's know this?
On November 8, 1519, the Aztec leader Montezuma met Cortés on the causeway leading into Tenochtitlan and the two leaders exchanged gifts. Montezuma gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. (Wikipedia)
Clearly, the Aztec Calendar, which was derived from the Mayan Calendar, was partly responsible for Montezuma's defeat because of the superstitions associated with it. At that time the Mayan Empire was merely a shadow of their once great empire. None of this decline was predicted from their calendar.
Christianity had its own prediction of the end of the world in 64 CE (AD) and Nero used it to his advantage after the great fire in Rome to kill Peter and Paul and ruthlessly kill and torture Christians. See my book: 'The Seven Sisters and the Apocalypse'.
Calendar predictions are dangerous because they prey on the masses, who want things to be better and yet they do not accept that they could get worse! The annoying characteristic of change is that it can possibly take lifetimes to manifest. Who wants to wait for the joining of all races into a global truly democratic peace?
Thus when the aliens land and offer us their help on Friday December 21, many will accept them with open arms. Yet, they may really have intentions to destroy us all. Our defeat will be due to the Mayan Calendar or as people are saying an Obama Apocalypse.
On November 8, 1519, the Aztec leader Montezuma met Cortés on the causeway leading into Tenochtitlan and the two leaders exchanged gifts. Montezuma gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. (Wikipedia)
Clearly, the Aztec Calendar, which was derived from the Mayan Calendar, was partly responsible for Montezuma's defeat because of the superstitions associated with it. At that time the Mayan Empire was merely a shadow of their once great empire. None of this decline was predicted from their calendar.
Christianity had its own prediction of the end of the world in 64 CE (AD) and Nero used it to his advantage after the great fire in Rome to kill Peter and Paul and ruthlessly kill and torture Christians. See my book: 'The Seven Sisters and the Apocalypse'.
Calendar predictions are dangerous because they prey on the masses, who want things to be better and yet they do not accept that they could get worse! The annoying characteristic of change is that it can possibly take lifetimes to manifest. Who wants to wait for the joining of all races into a global truly democratic peace?
Thus when the aliens land and offer us their help on Friday December 21, many will accept them with open arms. Yet, they may really have intentions to destroy us all. Our defeat will be due to the Mayan Calendar or as people are saying an Obama Apocalypse.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
King Arthur Flour
"Google has gone mad", I shout.
I type in King Arthur and there are pages and pages of King Arthur Flour. I see that the King Arthur Flour company has paid for placement at the top of the search, but clearly they are also paying a placement expert to load pages and pages of King Arthur Flour and Google is obviously favoring them, also, to make more money.
Now I ask you, King Arthur Flour Company, "How many people type in King Arthur and are overjoyed to find King Arthur Flour?" In all my research on King Arthur, I did not find one connection with King Arthur and flour.
How sad it is for the King Arthur legend to be reduced to flour! The commercializing of the internet has succeeded! People believe that they can get rich quick by collecting pennies in return for stuffing commercials down our throats. All information is fast becoming overlaid and surrounded and obscured by empty commercials.
So let us make some Gingerbread Cookies in the shape of King Arthur and set them out on a Round Table and say goodbye to King Arthur, buried by Google in a pile of white flour, to be eventually blown to the wind.
In case you were actually looking for information on King Arthur,
please go to my site: "http://www.kingarthur.justwizard.com"
or to my site on Celtic Christianity "http://www.celticchristianity.infinitesoulutions.com"
Sorry for my ads there, but at least it is not King Arthur Flour, but real information on King Arthur.
I type in King Arthur and there are pages and pages of King Arthur Flour. I see that the King Arthur Flour company has paid for placement at the top of the search, but clearly they are also paying a placement expert to load pages and pages of King Arthur Flour and Google is obviously favoring them, also, to make more money.
Now I ask you, King Arthur Flour Company, "How many people type in King Arthur and are overjoyed to find King Arthur Flour?" In all my research on King Arthur, I did not find one connection with King Arthur and flour.
How sad it is for the King Arthur legend to be reduced to flour! The commercializing of the internet has succeeded! People believe that they can get rich quick by collecting pennies in return for stuffing commercials down our throats. All information is fast becoming overlaid and surrounded and obscured by empty commercials.
So let us make some Gingerbread Cookies in the shape of King Arthur and set them out on a Round Table and say goodbye to King Arthur, buried by Google in a pile of white flour, to be eventually blown to the wind.
In case you were actually looking for information on King Arthur,
please go to my site: "http://www.kingarthur.justwizard.com"
or to my site on Celtic Christianity "http://www.celticchristianity.infinitesoulutions.com"
Sorry for my ads there, but at least it is not King Arthur Flour, but real information on King Arthur.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
VLC 2.03 does not get past country codes any more
Just a brief note to say that VideoLan must have had to fold to the big money grubbers that want to make us buy a DVD for every country code. I downloaded VLC 2.0.3 and to my horror A Series of Unfortunate Events became just that. It was my copy from the USA and it would not play on my UK computer. I was sure that it used to play on VideoLan so I backed out VLC 2.0.3 and installed VLC Media Player 1.11.1 from oldversion.com (thank you for being there!). Back in business: my old Videolan beats the money grubbers and plays all countries again.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Double entendre
Don't you hate it when every time you use a word, you have to avoid it for fear that it will offend someone or cause them to snicker because it has some sexual connotation.
When I was just an adolescent, my father explained to me that a bolt had a male screw and a female nut. It was almost more of a shock that the "birds and bees" talk. I have always thought this concept disgusting to devalue the sexual act by naming screw and nuts after it. Now, of course, there is the expression "to screw someone" so there is no hope of stopping the naming. Nuts and bolts could have just been defined as clockwise or counterclockwise then I suppose everyone could be "clockwising someone" or "counterclockwising" if gay. And there goes another lost word. When singing "Deck the Halls", "Here we don our gay apparel" is sure to cause a snicker.
This brings me to the word "double entendre": "a word or expression capable of two interpretations with one usually risqué." It was not always the only meaning as it used to mean: "ambiguity of meaning arising from language that lends itself to more than one interpretation. "Alas, as they say, even that word is "in the toilet." And so it goes that the four-letter curse word used to describe the sexual act is equally as popular as the four-letter word used to describe "going to the toilet." Since these words are interchangeable, we now have the beautiful sexual experience related to a toilet and perhaps this is what makes anal sex so popular for heterosexual partners on pornographic sites.
Aside from the actual sexual act which is satisfying and beautiful, sexual energy itself is an extremely powerful force that helps a person to reach a higher vibrational state. It is for this reason that celibacy became so important in monasteries. However, this policy of celibacy engenders a suppression of the sexual energy, which is even detrimental to a person. The correct method for celibacy should be the encouragement of sexual energy and the avoidance of the act itself. This, of course, was the spiritual ecstasy that used to be so common and the concept of "the bride of Christ".
Since living inside a monastery is not the typical environment, it is still important to practice the sustaining and encouragement of sexual energy outside of the sexual act itself. This is why flirting creates so much energy, but its scope is too narrow. It is also fun to be at a nude beach for the same reason provided one is not hounded by perverts.
The worst possible thing that can be done is to look for sexual connotation in all words and situations because this merely drains the sexual energy as the brain becomes unfocused. Incidentally, one can always spot a bad sex life by the amount of sexual innuendo that they use because by the time they do the sex act they are drained.
So let me end this tirade on double entendre to invite you to listen to the song I wrote and made into video called Double entendre that cherishes the positive meanings in our language.
When I was just an adolescent, my father explained to me that a bolt had a male screw and a female nut. It was almost more of a shock that the "birds and bees" talk. I have always thought this concept disgusting to devalue the sexual act by naming screw and nuts after it. Now, of course, there is the expression "to screw someone" so there is no hope of stopping the naming. Nuts and bolts could have just been defined as clockwise or counterclockwise then I suppose everyone could be "clockwising someone" or "counterclockwising" if gay. And there goes another lost word. When singing "Deck the Halls", "Here we don our gay apparel" is sure to cause a snicker.
This brings me to the word "double entendre": "a word or expression capable of two interpretations with one usually risqué." It was not always the only meaning as it used to mean: "ambiguity of meaning arising from language that lends itself to more than one interpretation. "Alas, as they say, even that word is "in the toilet." And so it goes that the four-letter curse word used to describe the sexual act is equally as popular as the four-letter word used to describe "going to the toilet." Since these words are interchangeable, we now have the beautiful sexual experience related to a toilet and perhaps this is what makes anal sex so popular for heterosexual partners on pornographic sites.
Aside from the actual sexual act which is satisfying and beautiful, sexual energy itself is an extremely powerful force that helps a person to reach a higher vibrational state. It is for this reason that celibacy became so important in monasteries. However, this policy of celibacy engenders a suppression of the sexual energy, which is even detrimental to a person. The correct method for celibacy should be the encouragement of sexual energy and the avoidance of the act itself. This, of course, was the spiritual ecstasy that used to be so common and the concept of "the bride of Christ".
Since living inside a monastery is not the typical environment, it is still important to practice the sustaining and encouragement of sexual energy outside of the sexual act itself. This is why flirting creates so much energy, but its scope is too narrow. It is also fun to be at a nude beach for the same reason provided one is not hounded by perverts.
The worst possible thing that can be done is to look for sexual connotation in all words and situations because this merely drains the sexual energy as the brain becomes unfocused. Incidentally, one can always spot a bad sex life by the amount of sexual innuendo that they use because by the time they do the sex act they are drained.
So let me end this tirade on double entendre to invite you to listen to the song I wrote and made into video called Double entendre that cherishes the positive meanings in our language.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Obama and Romney and the Apocalypse
In this year of the Apocalypse 2012, there is a significant Presidential election between the first black President (Baruch Obama) and a Mormon candidate for President (Mitt Romney). Although one might dismiss this election as merely the asserting of the democratic principle of the equality of 'race, color, and creed' or the recurring battle of poor versus rich, it has a greater significance because it is occurring in this year when the long count of the Mayan Calendar runs out on December 21, 2012.
Given that either side could characterize the other as the 'anti-Christ' who is prophesied to precede the Second Coming of Christ, it is extremely important to look at the religious beliefs of these two candidates in respect to how their Christian or Mormon views relate to the Resurrection of the Dead, the Rapture, the Tribulation, Millennialism, the Last Judgement, and the New Heaven and New Earth at the End of the World.
The official name for Mormonism is the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The term 'later day saints' distinguishes its members from the traditional Christian saints implying that all members are saints! This is an important factor because it gives all Mormons priority in the Resurrection of the Dead. Although Mormons do allow non-Mormons, who perform good works, to participate in the Resurrection; a fact, that is subtlety hidden, requires them to convert in the afterlife.
Some like to claim that Mormonism is a form of Christianity because it recognizes Jesus and the Prophets, but considering that Islam also recognizes Jesus and the Prophets, this cannot be enough. Actually, the origins Mormonism and Islam have striking similar parallels: the angel Moroni (who sits atop the LDS Churches) showed the Book of Mormon to John Smith Jr., the founder of Mormonism and, in a direct parallel, the angel Gabriel revealed the Qur'an to the prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. The Book of Mormon is the superior text to the Bible, just as the Koran is the superior text to the Old Testament.
If Mormonism is accepted as Christianity then John Smith must be accepted as a Prophet, and by the same logic, Mohammed might as well be accepted also. This would be a totally ecumenical event! Thus clearly, the Church of the Latter Day Saints is NOT Christian.
Ridiculously, some have called Baruch Obama a Muslim, especially from the confusion of his name with Osami (who he has now caught and killed), but he is clearly a professed Christian. Given the choice of first position at the Last Judgment, I will vote for Baruch Obama. Whether or not Christians will accept me is another issue, but it is preferable to a successor of John Smith, Jr.
The real Apocalypse is discussed in my book: 'The Seven Sisters and the Apocalypse.'
Given that either side could characterize the other as the 'anti-Christ' who is prophesied to precede the Second Coming of Christ, it is extremely important to look at the religious beliefs of these two candidates in respect to how their Christian or Mormon views relate to the Resurrection of the Dead, the Rapture, the Tribulation, Millennialism, the Last Judgement, and the New Heaven and New Earth at the End of the World.
The official name for Mormonism is the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The term 'later day saints' distinguishes its members from the traditional Christian saints implying that all members are saints! This is an important factor because it gives all Mormons priority in the Resurrection of the Dead. Although Mormons do allow non-Mormons, who perform good works, to participate in the Resurrection; a fact, that is subtlety hidden, requires them to convert in the afterlife.
Some like to claim that Mormonism is a form of Christianity because it recognizes Jesus and the Prophets, but considering that Islam also recognizes Jesus and the Prophets, this cannot be enough. Actually, the origins Mormonism and Islam have striking similar parallels: the angel Moroni (who sits atop the LDS Churches) showed the Book of Mormon to John Smith Jr., the founder of Mormonism and, in a direct parallel, the angel Gabriel revealed the Qur'an to the prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. The Book of Mormon is the superior text to the Bible, just as the Koran is the superior text to the Old Testament.
If Mormonism is accepted as Christianity then John Smith must be accepted as a Prophet, and by the same logic, Mohammed might as well be accepted also. This would be a totally ecumenical event! Thus clearly, the Church of the Latter Day Saints is NOT Christian.
Ridiculously, some have called Baruch Obama a Muslim, especially from the confusion of his name with Osami (who he has now caught and killed), but he is clearly a professed Christian. Given the choice of first position at the Last Judgment, I will vote for Baruch Obama. Whether or not Christians will accept me is another issue, but it is preferable to a successor of John Smith, Jr.
The real Apocalypse is discussed in my book: 'The Seven Sisters and the Apocalypse.'
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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