Friday, October 30, 2009
New Song
Its the simple investigations levied by a lovers chord
Please remember
All for dimpled conversations requisite for wanted things
splintered up by Marxist causes wed by wealth of wanted needs
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone
Oh for darning in the cold under privileged estate
walking fences all alone without advantages of grace
Please remember
waiting on the unwed proverbs of its never ending curse
wishing that the terms of progress would pay off this debtors purse
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone
Terms spent cures before me felt by privileged degrees
oh the cost of etiquette shared by all these pedigrees
Please remember
Work has paid itself in problems pent up in the pennies worth
Weathering the crux of causes paid verse after verse
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone
That These criticisms mounting as applied by my esteem
as I watch you improvise and act like you have everything you need
Please remember
That these versions of your victory have there own insightful death
That your sense of things has limits defined by Gods peculiar breath
Please remember
Please remember
Loss has its own regressive lines and she sleeps with me from time to time
No one has reason to know... but the losses are bigger alone
Please remember
Please remember
Please remember
Please remember
Saturday, October 10, 2009
This reciprocation cycles through informing on the one hand and restraining on the other. While on the one hand we are capable of doing things and learning things, capacity doesn't necessarily give way to activity. In other words just because you can do something doesn't mean you do it. The same can be said about learning or thinking in general. Our capacities are very rarely realized.
No matter, I am getting older, the world is getting smaller and bigger simultaneously, only to throw me into a whirlwind of colliding arguments, ideals, and problems. It is not that you cannot find self-help books that are laden with add-ons and pick-me-ups for these kind of problems or older “friends” and siblings with commercial responses conditionally different than your own struggles. Its that people are talking without good sense. The very prevalence of the self-help boom emancipates a real, genuine problem everyone has and for which everyone has a solution. Talk about Irony.
The strange contradictions run so deep that I find people answering questions they have never asked while dealing arbitrarily with the questions they have asked. Honestly, it is hard to find people who take their own questions seriously; consequently, it is harder to find people with helpful advise than it is to find people willing to talk.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Comments on Worship
It seems that on a very common level cognition has resonating symbols attached to particular significations and therefore a word may have implicit connotative and explicit denotative extensions, as well as anything in between. Commonly then, it would be difficult to restrain yourself to a repetitious activity prohibiting yourself to wonder into the connotative and denotative aspects; because, if the literal restriction is applied, any kind of definition offers new words to which you have resigned yourself. I suppose then these worship leaders mean something a bit more fluid like, “dwell on a word and allow the nuances of that ideal to consecrate worship to God.” This again would imply that other words are employed even in their pleas for simplistic mantras repeated exacting purpose-driven ignorance.
At the risk of sounding to harsh, why do resort to eloquence over substance, the seeming over the real, etc. Its not that these recommended verbal commendations eliminate worship altogether. It is that there are altogether more helpful things to say about what constitutes Biblical worship. Biblical worship has obvious grounding in the Scriptures having much to say about how to entreat the True God in a right way. Whatever the case may be, the trends popularized by worship leaders in our day tend to minimize cognitive functions and elevate sensual experience such that true worship is reduced and neutered.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Maturity
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And we believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
http://www.creeds.net/ancient/nicene.htm
Πιστεύομεν εις ΄ενα Θεον Πατερα παντοκράτορα, πάντων ορατων τε και αοράτων ποιητήν.
Πιστεύομεν εισ ΄ενα κύριον `Ιησουν Χριστον, τον υ΄ιον του θεου, γεννηζέντα εκ του πατρος μονογενη, τουτέστιν εκ της ουσίας του πατρός, θεον εκ θεου αληθινου, γεννηθέντα, ου ποιηθέντα, ΄ομοούσιον τωι πατρί δι οϋ τα πάντα εγένετο, τα τε εν τωι ουρανωι και τα επι της γης τον δι ΄ημας τους ανθρώπους και δα την ΄ημετέραν σωτηρίαν κατελθόντα και σαρκωθέντα και ενανθρωπήσαντα, παθόντα, και αναστάντα τηι τριτηι ΄ημέραι, και ανελθοντα εις τους οθρανούς, και ερχόμενον κριναι ζωντασ και νεκρούς.
Και εις το ΄Αγιον Πνευμα.
Τους δε λέγοντας, ΄οτι ΄ην ποτε ΄ότε οθκ ΄ην, και πριν γεννηθηναι ουκ ΄ην, και ΄οτι εξ ΄ετερας ΄υποστάσεως η ουσιας φάσκοντας ειναι, [η κτιστόν,] τρεπτον η αλλοιωτον τον υ΄ιον του θεου, [τούτους] αναθεματίζει ΄η καθολικη [και αποστολικη] εκκλησία.
Martin Luther - 16th century
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