Wednesday, 12 October 2011

in a word, art pure and simple

Art is not what
is written it is
how it is written.
A work of art is a work, it is not art. Art is not the subject, it is the verb. It is not static, art is dynamic. Art is not everything that comes to mind or anything we want it to be. Art is not what is done, it is how it is done. How does anyone miss that?

 Even the song says it. It ain't whatcha do it's the way thatcha do it. If one is not going to define their terms then they can at least get it right. Or worse, if they are going to define their terms they should at least spare us a book on the subject. There is a scientific device for determining this, called the steam off excrement in a snow bank detector. 

If you ask anyone what something is of someone, and they use more than thirty words in their so called definition you can be very certain they do not know what they are talking about. Words piled upon words merely muddy the water, it does not make anything clearer. 

Now if you want to chew any subject around the edges then fine, but after 400 words it has to become something else, more than a mere elaboration on anything. You can call this my Eric Hoffer rule in which he pointed out that if you find a book with one idea in it then you have a real find.
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The title of this blog, God is the Spiritual Personification of Existence, is based on the first definition perception of ancient writers in the dawn of our known history.

Today's Supreme Being is not the original definition. First report accepted was God defined Himself as Existence. "I am that I am." He did not create existence, He is the fountainhead of Existence. Therefore, God is not only understood to be a Spirit, but also as the spiritual 'personification' of existence. This is a definition, not a theory.

There are both concrete and abstract forces, the seen and the unseen, such as gravity. There are spirits in bottles, spirits in words, spirits in us. The spirit animates everything, from gravity to emotion, as well as semantically. This blog is about defining the usually undefined term God, not religion, but what is meant by the term God.

There is one blog touching on religion, Church and Faith Pulpit Rock, about Christian atheism found in many churches, which themselves quite often have less to do with God or even religion for that matter, than they do with social entertainment.

The blog linked below, Specific Theory of Existence, takes us to essay attempts suggested by former atheists who are sensitive to atheist thought. They are exploring views relating to seen and unseen physics, the known unknown, with the unknown not yet known.

Other blogs, like Memory Stones about cemeteries, touch on other subjects of passing interest. That link and others can be found below. They are hosted by Spencer Corkum for the Sunset Strollers and the QuokeBlokes. They are not carved in 'stone' but may be continuously edited and updated. Davin Paralee, representing the Paraclete, is Editor in Charge.

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The man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with a theory, even if it is his own. The Spirit deep within speaks only to each one of us and does not tell us anything about others, or what they are to think or do. We each speak the words we are told by our spirit which cannot be held back, by this our witness is revealed. Words are the fruit of whatever spirit they describe. Words are powerful, they reveal the spirit that drives them. Passersby are welcome to comment in the same spirit as the content posted on this blog.
All things seen come from the unseen and will return there. Since we know so little of all that can be known, in order to make a decision now it must be made in faith because we are deciding without all the facts. There are those who wish to survive the falling away of the body and those who desire slipping into oblivion which is a destruction of that which existed. This too is a spirit and cannot die.
Generalities speak to generalities and specifics to specifics. To intertwine the two is jumping categories, and a fallacy in logic.

An example of what a man says is an illustration of his argument, but it is not proof.