I have learned a little Spanish but I know only a little.
El piensa que soy lindo! He thinks I'm cute!
Saturday, April 30, 2022
my Spanish so far
He aprendido un pokquito de Espanol. Pero, se solo un pokquito. Mi pronunciacion es bien, ci? Pero se solo un pokquito.
amas diablo?, do you love Satan?el infierno es para siempre-- hell is foreverFriday, April 29, 2022
studio rendition, Hendrix, fire
Check out Fire by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0030788YK?trackAsin=B003073CUK&ref=dm_sh_7T1DJwF7yECZUnqnFuzsZm7eo
Thursday, April 28, 2022
House Of The Rising Sun, Animals
https://youtu.be/4-43lLKaqBQ
Can you believe Hendrix did his first true hits signing on with the bassist of this ENGLISH band as his manager? His career turned hot in England!!!
Jimi Hendrix, blues on acoustic guitar
https://youtu.be/P701paKEMXs
Wikipedia says Hendrix was from Seattle! Moved to Tennessee to jam with music folk, ended up going to England where he actually became famous! He started playing guitar at 15, weird, bc so did I! Amazing to me, he did all this before we were even done with the civil rights movement, it was early to mid 1960s
Yet he sailed off to England, and there his legend began. He was so very progressive!! He was not a julliard graduate which would offend some. He didn't need school!
Discovering Jimi Hendrix
https://youtu.be/FE0986Ms1i4 Fire
Discovering him now, why? Bc his music was right in the middle of a drug/negative sex culture that was very threatening then. I didn't like music as intense, rock, then, but really like it now, but mostly to me it is raw male energy. And I never noticed how truly cool his style, his flair, how he pushed the limits, how he embodied freedom! His music is like other music of the era, reaching pinnacles of finding what is new. It has not been matched since then. This song is my favorite of his.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Margaret Rutherford quotes
"You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy."
"Not everyone can be young and handsome"
Rutherford starred as Miss Marple in the 1950s and 60s Agatha Christie films. Her appearance in my opinion is that of a human basset hound. But she was adorable.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Mel Gibson Maverick
https://images.app.goo.gl/CSdCranPwHFQy
https://www.moviestore.com/mel-gibson-254447/
Monday, April 25, 2022
chiropractor or quacktor?
Recently met a chiropractor, and bc of it have wondered what chiropractic s is exactly. Here's a comment found online:
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
wow to this
In the account of the song ah holy Jesus it says this song after the reformation was synchronous with the song "were you there when they crucified my Lord" and this was an African American song which reminds me that American blacks have had christian faith all that long ago. Even if the liars were pretending faith, many blacks could still see the truth through it. Sometimes I think blacks have had more chance at genuine faith in America than in Africa where there has been a lot of the fake. It's also amazing how rabbi Jacob Neusner could say so much positive about faith in Jesus when he was a contemporary of the generation of the Holocaust, but with the same ability to see truth through all of the lies.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
still trying to make sense
I don't know if you really can make sense of it. I think maybe Martin Luther and reformationists had influenced Jews more than we thought, and this is tragic, but the changes even rabbi Jacob Neusner talked about in his book A Rabbi Talks With Jesus. Jesus changed people in the west and brought civilization. So the tragedy is they, in their trusting, loving naivety didn't see the brewing hatred. Bc people can be horrible players, taking Divine things and pretending to believe in them, blaspheming God with no expectation of judgment, like FOOLS! And this is what the Jews encountered in Germany. But the hatred, all of it, was hidden behind evil pretense. It's hard to believe people would take divine things and trample them like this, if that is not what YOU are. They had not realized the evil that people are capable of. They had grown to feel secure where they were not. It worries me how our American Jews have grown so comfortable admitting they are Jews. It has been right out in the open. And this betrayal that occurred is never far away. Oh, may the lesson be learned, and never forgotten.
They didn't realize how conversely with the progress of the west after reformation times, there are regressive narcissistic souls who hate the good changes and progress. And the Germans fell prey to insecurity and low self esteem at this time looking over at the Jews who were doing well financially while the Germans were not. Where the Bible was first allowed to be translated into the common tongue, many read it without truly understanding it, and it opened them up to hearing the devil's lies. And Satan wanted revenge for the reformation, as he has wanted revenge for all the good brought into this world by the Jews. More important than anything, the Jews were about to go back to Israel. The enemy angel was furious that this prophecy was actually going to happen after so much time. It's the devil's narcissism reflected in humans who like him. In fact they don't mind Satan's angels wearing their own human flesh. Calvinism is also to blame. It has given people an excuse for their evil. God said "my people perish for lack of knowledge." Let this light not ever grow dim.
Female Supremacy
Not sure this is an original. Someone like Sowell or Peterson probably already coined it. But this is our nemesis. Female supremacy.
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Duh about Easter
My sister's Bible study brought up details about the crucifixion and last supper I had not thought of. All this time I hadn't figured this out. First know calling it Easter is originally pagan. And I know neo pagans still have their celebration but unfortunately it can mean mocking Christ. But the use of the word is not pagan, it's the attempt at producing a substitute holiday for Christians. But beyond that, I never knew it was always paralleling Passover. My sister explained this is bc the new moons and such that the Jews use have been used also by church people to determine when Easter should be, just as they determine when passover should be. So, the time of the original passover must have been at this time. Odd then that this pagan thing, due to the onset of spring is also at the time of the Exodus. But that the last supper also was a passover supper I had not realized. Jesus was honoring passover, and telling them, i.am the lamb that was protecting Israel then, and my body and blood are for your redemption. The reason it was not obvious is bc they never have said in church this was passover, and bc passover I know begins at sundown and the betrayal came next, then the crucifixion which we know was afternoon, so what is the timeline? First, is passover supper only Friday Eve at onset or are there other suppers through the week, or was this the Friday as passover began but good Friday was the following Friday where by sundown passover had ended? Do you see why I never saw it was actually passover though of course I know He is the lamb, and the Passover foreknew the lamb.
But may Jews emphatically know that the reverence in it's inception was there, for passover and for Jesus/Yeshiva as the hidden symbolic lamb now revealed. Then I thought, well lamb would be the correct food for this. My sister said they don't mention lamb as the food bc Jesus was talking about him metaphorically being the lamb that we should "eat" for our redemption. And why now do we shameless ly eat a non kosher food as our typical easter meal, ham? It hit me. Bc we also acknowledge what God said to Peter, that we now consider all meats to be "clean" as God considered all humans clean in His eyes, receptive to His grace and redemption.
Friday, April 15, 2022
had to laugh at this one...
Had to laugh. Free library had book by Thomas Kinkade. He was "painter of light" and I thought it innocuous enough. He had nice scenes and they made nice cards and there were faith things written with them. The book is him sharing wisdom He said he attended university of CA Berkeley studying art and discovered they only taught how to make self centered art. So he asked, how can I do art that's for other people?Now I read about him. He had questionable business dealings. He was a cheater, was caught copping a feel. He died in a drunken stupor with a barbiturate in him as well as alcohol. Here his book is all about a graceful way of living and applying wisdom. Beahahahaaaaa. He died at 54.
Quotes by people about him I found online:
"Painting.
Thomas Kinkade: the secret life and strange death of art’s king of twee"
"Drunken downfall of America's most loved evangelical artist whose works hung in twenty million homes: Thomas Kinkade was found dead after overdosing on valium and booze"
"In one instance, Kinkade urinated on a Disney character while yelling 'this one's for you, Walt''
"Kinkade also has struggled with a variety of issues -- some quite bizarre -- linked to alcohol abuse."
"Science Explains Why It's So Easy to Hate 'Painter of Light' Thomas Kinkade
Inside a team of researchers' quest to see what happens to people when they're exposed repeatedly to Kinkade's saccharine artworks."
"This story, as it should, mentions Kinkade's recent history of financial insecurity -- including a Chapter 11 filing on behalf of his company's Pacific Metro branch. Then, months later, there was a suspicion of DUI arrest. The Los Angeles Times reported that the FBI was investigating some of his investment practices."
"His life - and ultimately his death - was much less pious, and far-less glamorous."
"Published reports about the years leading up to the troubled artist's death paint a much different picture than the heavenly landscapes that earned Kinkade millions - it includes drugs, alcohol, 'territorial urination' and sexual harassment.""
Wikipedia:
"Kinkade was criticized for some of his behavior and business practices; art critics faulted his work for being "kitsch". Kinkade died of "acute intoxication" from alcohol and the drug diazepam at the age of 54."
"Kinkade has said the light that streams through his paintings is the light of Jesus. But some of his gallery owners have accused the artist of using shared Christian values to defraud them. They say he persuaded them to open galleries in areas that couldn't support them -- and then competitively undervalued his own paintings"
"Snow-Covered Lies: Thomas Kinkade Company Allegedly Sold Fake Art
Since "master of kitsch" Thomas Kinkade died, his company continues to sell new prints of snowy lawns and Disney characters. But a new lawsuit alleges they also advertised fraudulent paintings as Kinkade originals."
.".critics have called his work “unpleasantly artificial,” the “epitome of mediocre art” and something “normal people should recoil from.”
"A first glance reveals nothing inherently wrong with them; rather, they seem like the bland, inoffensive work you might find in three-star hotel lobbies or your grandmother’s dining room."
"Kinkade also used his Christianity to help explain his work; he likened the cheery glow ubiquitous in his works as the “light of Jesus.” On that note, bridges are a frequent subject, as are steps or grassy inclines leading through gated areas. Some of his paintings are visual depictions of Bible verses, such as “A Light in the Storm,” taken from John 8:12: “I am the light of the world.”"
But serious Christian artists didn’t want him either — they called his predictable, saccharine work “opium for the semi-spiritual Masses.” "
"Thomas Kinkade galleries, owned by his company. Part of its success was its calculated business model: selling as much as it could, in any way that it could. From holiday cards to mugs, it did it all. It even had a partnership with Lazyboy selling upholstered armchairs with the light-suffused illustrations."
Another article mentioned girlfriends outside his marriage and an instance of him groping a lady.
But the different critics don't seem to hit on the real problem, as I see it. He was a liar. He proclaimed faith as a ruse. One source says the kinkade co is worth a billion or more by now. He was an Elmer Gantry!!
One source said people claimed they got saved or healed by looking at his art. God could, would use his art I think. But these people only helped him to lie, and others to believe the lies.
One source says "kitsch" is a German word for what is tacky.
There is not, I believe, contrary to critics anything wrong with his paintings. They express peace, seeing a cottage in a wooded area, that is pleasant. But what is wrong with it is it didn't come from faith. Having scripture s with the paintings was all a ruse. He used that ruse to make money.
Two Hymns very old
Ah, holy Jesus and I Sacred Head Now Wounded go back centuries. Can you believe that ah, Holy Jesus' lyrics were first penned in the century of the 300s in Latin? I think of how dark the times, how little of what we have now, modern inventions, and light in our minds, things we've learned! But these hymns are so meaningful. They talk about what Christ did for us. I think it was Bach who later wrote the beautiful music for each. The basic tune carries that feeling of sadness and joy, reverence and worship. And a German lyricist later added to the lyrics as well, for both songs. It is also meaningful that the newer lyrics and the music came around the same time as the reformation.
https://youtube.com/shorts/mifgI6Sz-aI?feature=share
ah, holy Jesus
“Ah, Holy Jesus” [Jesu]
by Johann Heermann, trans. Robert Bridges
United Methodist Hymnal, 289
Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended,
that we to judge thee have in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.
STORY:
[Another source mentioned that the first lyrics were in Latin, from the 300s. Later they were added to by the Polish lyricist who wrote in German. And still later they were translated into English by Bridges. The music was written by a German Cruger but was made better by Bach. )
Rarely does a single hymn involve the confluence of so many held in such high regard in their respective eras: St. Augustine (North Africa, 4th–5th centuries), Johann Heermann (Poland, 17th century), Johann Crüger (Germany, 17th century), J.S. Bach (Germany, 18th century), and Robert Bridges (England, 19th–20th centuries).
In many ways, “Ah, holy Jesus” is a seventeenth-century companion to the African American Spiritual, “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” In both cases, the persistent use of the first-person perspective places the singer at the foot of the cross, pondering the meaning of Christ's suffering. “Were You There?” meditates on the crucifixion through a series of rhetorical questions. “Ah, Holy Jesus” meditates on the events leading to the crucifixion and asks who is personally responsible for the death of the Savior
THE MUSIC: HERZLIEBSTER JESU
The melody is inseparable from the tune HERZLIEBSTER JESU, first appearing in Neues volkömliches Gesangbuch: Augburgischer Confession. . . (Berlin, 1640) by Johann Crüger (1598–1662).
Herzliebster jesu 72px
The first phrase from Crüger’s collection is in four-part harmony—Cantus (melody), Altus, Tenor, Bassus. Crüger was one of the most significant proponents of Heermann’s texts. The melody appears to have adapted a tune set to Psalm 23 in the Genevan Psalter (1543). J. S. Bach (1685–1750) made the melody famous by incorporating it three times in the St. Matthew Passion and twice in the St. John Passion.
behind story of O Sacred Head Now Wounded
History of Hymns: "O sacred Head, now wounded"
"O sacred Head, now wounded"
Bernard of Clairvaux
The United Methodist Hymnal, No. 286
Paul Gerhardt
O sacred head! now wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down;
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, thy only crown;
O sacred Head! what glory,
What bliss till now was thine!
I read the wondrous story!
I joy to call thee mine!
The true origins of “O sacred head, now wounded” are still debated. Some sources suggest the 11th century, while others attribute the text to Arnulf of Louvain (1200-1251) in the 13th century. Still others believe that the source is later still because the poem first appeared in an anonymous Latin manuscript from the 14th century.
Prevailing thought attributes the text to Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), who was a spiritual leader held in the highest esteem by many, including Martin Luther.
The Latin text consisted of seven parts, identifying a different part of the body (feet, knees, hands, sides, breast, heart and head), intended to be sung each day of Holy Week.
(My note, this could have brought healing to bodies)
From here Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) used the final stanza of the Latin, “Christ’s head with sharp thorns crowned,” as a basis for his German translation, “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden,” (O head with blood and wounds) which was first published in its entirety in Johann Crüger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica (1656).
Gerhardt struggled through numerous unfortunate events including the death of his wife and children as well as his removal from the Lutheran church, though he was to return.
The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), which tested people’s belief in God and Christianity, had a profound impact on hymn writing, including Gerhardt’s. After the war, the reliance on an omnipotent God for comfort and consolation was written in the hymns of this period producing expressions of Christian devotion and individual self-consciousness, as noted by hymnologist William J. Reynolds.
Around 200 years later, James Waddell Alexander (1804-1859) translated Gerhardt’s German text into English. This text, originally in eight stanzas, was first published in Joshua Leavitt’s The Christian Lyre (1830).
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PASSION CHORALE, as this hymn tune is often called, was first found in Hans Leo Hassler’s (1564-1612) Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, Balletti, Galliarden und Intraden (1601). Originally this melody was set to a secular love song entitled “Mein gemüth ist mir verwirret” (My heart is distracted by a gentle maid). Hymnologist Linda Jo McKim notes that it first appeared with the Gerhardt text in Praxis Pietatis Melica (1656) and has been associated with the text ever since.
During the early 18th century, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) harmonized this hymn and used the tune in many of his works. Bach’s harmonization is the one that is most used in the North American hymnals. The setting used in The UM Hymnal was adapted from one of Bach’s settings of this tune found in his monumental Passion According to St. Matthew.
“O Sacred Head” is a hymn for Holy Week, a time of reflection on what Christ has done for us. Specifically, this hymn takes place at the time of the crucifixion on Good Friday.
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Traveling in our great US when in wilderness
https://youtu.be/1-zM6JtT6Yc interesting that the real culprit here was GPS failure that landed them in wilderness too formidable for their experience level. I love all the wilderness we have in our nation. I've traveled much in the last few years where the land is still raw. But like these people, you must realize the danger. In Arizona, I got my car stuck in mud. I also found I was on reservation territory. I also never knew res territory could be off limits for non-natives. I'm Minnesotan and never knew res territory to actually be off limits in MN. But this was Nevada. It's another state with wonderful raw wilderness. I was just there recently enjoying the wilderness. But these people, in an RV, got rerouted, found their RV stuck in mud, then could not find their way out by car. Boy I do know the frustration. Sadly, they were so wilderness bound they couldn't get help or even water and both adults had health issues, even one requiring a walker. This story could help others who are in a similar situation. One of the two passed away. The other required hospitalization. How sad. Two things failed in this situation. GPS and their phone to get help. They don't mention phone service. I called for help in AZ. We'd have to assume their phones were also cut off word to the wise.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Will Smith
I have a theory that the guy posing as Will.is a dead-ringer double playing Will Smith. I've never heard of an aging star having a double of himself take his place, but in this case, especially after hearing of the hitting incident, it surely caused me to wonder. I cannot imagine Smith behaving in this way, and I think it gave the double away. Having a double meant he'd have to teach him to talk like him etc. But I think he did! Several smith appearance s lately made me think it wasn't him.
Is this another star escaping public life, like some maybe didn't die, they pretended to?
Maybe it's because I draw portraits, but this photo does look like someone very close to looking like Will but I can tell it's not him. On that talk show he was very stilted and not seeming comfortable the way Smith normally is and the laugh is contrived.
Here's an even more wild thought-is the double living with his wife? Haha. Bc in recent pictures of her, she looks age appropriate, he just looks way way too young. Plastic surgery isn't that good.
Can u imagine? Smith takes off, has his new love, leaves his wife with his double, goes off to live his private life!!
Reasons why he might do this: he can afford to pay this guy good money, he wants to leave us remembering him as the young guy, not be seen now as the older one, and he wants people to believe the relationship still is a roaring success despite his wanting out.
Another clue was watching the preview of the movie about the tennis player where Smith plays the dad. I saw the preview, then was surprised to find out the guy playing the dad was Smith. I didn't recognize him as that. !!!!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oXA6gmRWS5Q3uvGf9
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