Have any of you heard these guys before?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
MuseScore
I found this nice music writing software online called musescore. It's kind of slow to use at first, but is a lot of fun.
www.musescore.org
This is my first composition, enjoy. :D
www.musescore.org
This is my first composition, enjoy. :D
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Highlights of townhall meeting
BTW The Marine, David Hendrick is strongly considering running against Baird in 2010, his website is http://www.davidwhedrick.com/
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Chestertonian movies
Manalive (a book by Chesterton) is being made into a movie, here is the trailer.
Of course, at this stage I can't say whether or not the movie will be any good, but the trailer is quite funny.
Also there are rumors that "The man who was thursday" will be released sometime in 2010.
Of course, at this stage I can't say whether or not the movie will be any good, but the trailer is quite funny.
Also there are rumors that "The man who was thursday" will be released sometime in 2010.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Chesterton Reformed: A Protestant Interpretation, James Sauer
I found this essay about GK Chesterton as a Roman Catholic, it is very good.
I've also been interested in Chesterton as a revolutionary, and will hopefully write about that when I come to a conclusion.
In other news, while playing volleyball with our new ball I invented a new sport. Because this particular ball was made for beginners it is more bouncy than the common volleyball. This led me to invent volleypong, which is a cross between volleyball and ping pong. Official rules are being created because people got irritated at me writing rules on the fly.
Earlier that day, we had received intelligence that our "enemies" were going to set up an advanced outpost quite close to our territories. Unfortunately they set up their camp in the midst of civilians, so we could not use live rounds, so we armed up with water balloons and made the assault with non-lethal weapons.
I've also been interested in Chesterton as a revolutionary, and will hopefully write about that when I come to a conclusion.
In other news, while playing volleyball with our new ball I invented a new sport. Because this particular ball was made for beginners it is more bouncy than the common volleyball. This led me to invent volleypong, which is a cross between volleyball and ping pong. Official rules are being created because people got irritated at me writing rules on the fly.
Earlier that day, we had received intelligence that our "enemies" were going to set up an advanced outpost quite close to our territories. Unfortunately they set up their camp in the midst of civilians, so we could not use live rounds, so we armed up with water balloons and made the assault with non-lethal weapons.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Nazi's before hitler?
After reading "The Barbarism of Berlin, I decided that I should write a summary on it, to straighten out my thoughts on it. After Dr. Grant said that many American citizens wanted to join the war on Germany's side I started to wonder which side was the better of the two. This book was very enlightening, and I advise it to anyone who is interested in military history.
Chesterton first states why it is Britain's business to interfere with Prussia in the first place. He sets up a ficticious calender of events that would have happened if England had been silenced every time by Prussian diplomacy...
July 24: Germany invades Belgium.
July 25: England declares war.
July 26: Germany promises not to annex Belgium.
July 27: England withdraws from the war.
July 28: Germany annexes Belgium, England declares war.
July 29: Germany promises not to annex France, England withdraws from the
war.
July 30: Germany annexes France, England declares war.
July 31: Germany promises not to annex England.
Aug. 1: England withdraws from the war. Germany invades England.
Chesterton then states that there are two different types of barbarian, the negative barbarian, such as Russia, and the positive barbarian such as Prussia. The negative Barbarian is barbaric because of tradition, he simply goes on doing the same as his fathers before him. The positive barbarian on the other hand takes an old barbaric act, claims that it is a new scientific discovery, and then commits the act while proclaiming progress. In the end, Chesterton states that positive barbarism means purposeful militant hostility to certain necessary human ideas.
One Crucial "necessary (God given) human idea" is that of keeping one's word. Apparently the Prussians often broke the promises with one country while making a new agreement with another. While many of the most cruel traditional barbarians have a sense of honor about keeping one's word, the positive barbarian denies this crucial idea.
Another fundamental idea which the Prussian's denied was the "idea of reciprocity" or of "give and take." To the Prussian's nothing is mutual, they had no feeling of other's pain, this is obviously an outcrop of "survival of the fittest."
In the end, then, the Prussian mindset was based off of Nietzsche, who once said the following...
The "overman" is most likely referring to the Aryan race.
I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to overman: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.… The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth.… Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss … what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
Note that this book was first published in 1914, which is the year in which the war started.
I have also read, "The ball and the cross" by Chesterton, which was also a great book about a devout Catholic Irishman trying to fight a physical duel with an atheist.
I am currently reading "GK Chesterton, A Critisism" By his brother, Cecil Cheterton. So far, this also is a very good book. It is not on Gutenberg, but can be read here.
Chesterton first states why it is Britain's business to interfere with Prussia in the first place. He sets up a ficticious calender of events that would have happened if England had been silenced every time by Prussian diplomacy...
July 24: Germany invades Belgium.
July 25: England declares war.
July 26: Germany promises not to annex Belgium.
July 27: England withdraws from the war.
July 28: Germany annexes Belgium, England declares war.
July 29: Germany promises not to annex France, England withdraws from the
war.
July 30: Germany annexes France, England declares war.
July 31: Germany promises not to annex England.
Aug. 1: England withdraws from the war. Germany invades England.
Chesterton then states that there are two different types of barbarian, the negative barbarian, such as Russia, and the positive barbarian such as Prussia. The negative Barbarian is barbaric because of tradition, he simply goes on doing the same as his fathers before him. The positive barbarian on the other hand takes an old barbaric act, claims that it is a new scientific discovery, and then commits the act while proclaiming progress. In the end, Chesterton states that positive barbarism means purposeful militant hostility to certain necessary human ideas.
One Crucial "necessary (God given) human idea" is that of keeping one's word. Apparently the Prussians often broke the promises with one country while making a new agreement with another. While many of the most cruel traditional barbarians have a sense of honor about keeping one's word, the positive barbarian denies this crucial idea.
Another fundamental idea which the Prussian's denied was the "idea of reciprocity" or of "give and take." To the Prussian's nothing is mutual, they had no feeling of other's pain, this is obviously an outcrop of "survival of the fittest."
In the end, then, the Prussian mindset was based off of Nietzsche, who once said the following...
The "overman" is most likely referring to the Aryan race.
I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to overman: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.… The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth.… Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss … what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
Note that this book was first published in 1914, which is the year in which the war started.
I have also read, "The ball and the cross" by Chesterton, which was also a great book about a devout Catholic Irishman trying to fight a physical duel with an atheist.
I am currently reading "GK Chesterton, A Critisism" By his brother, Cecil Cheterton. So far, this also is a very good book. It is not on Gutenberg, but can be read here.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Eternal Father, strong to save!
No other branch of the military has as good a hymn as the Navy, in my opinion at least.
This video is one of the better recordings I have heard.
For about twenty excellent extra verses go here
(Note, this does have a slightly different harmony than what is in the trinity red hymnal, but the same melody.)
This video is one of the better recordings I have heard.
For about twenty excellent extra verses go here
(Note, this does have a slightly different harmony than what is in the trinity red hymnal, but the same melody.)
Second poem
British soldiers, side by side
In rows they march, in rows they die
They stand in lines for money,
and kill for country's pride.
German soldiers, in a trench
trained for years to do their best
Unaware of Nazi wrongs
They fight on with the rest.
To soldiers of the United States,
Are you as well to share their fate?
Do you blindly follow your flag?
And kill all those your country hate?
One day you may face the same
when your country chases fame
follow not their blackened name
When they the defenseless maim.
In rows they march, in rows they die
They stand in lines for money,
and kill for country's pride.
German soldiers, in a trench
trained for years to do their best
Unaware of Nazi wrongs
They fight on with the rest.
To soldiers of the United States,
Are you as well to share their fate?
Do you blindly follow your flag?
And kill all those your country hate?
One day you may face the same
when your country chases fame
follow not their blackened name
When they the defenseless maim.
Monday, May 25, 2009
The story behind my poem
As many of you know, I have not been known as much of a poet,* and perhaps you have been wondering what inspired me to write a poem. It started while I was reading nineteenth century military documents when I was quite depressed by the utter uselessness of their style of combat. And then I had a dream...
The first dream wasn't bad, the whole airsoft group (including myself) was out on our lawn trading volleys of airsoft fire to see how warfare used to be waged. However, the night after than I dreamp't that the airsoft group was in a valley trading volleys with replica muskets while I was on top of a hill, to see what affect smoke had on the visibility of a general. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to tell them to not load with real bullets and they started shooting at each other. I didn't wake up until I dreampt that I was at Church and several airsofters were dead, and many more wounded.
Although this may sound silly, it was quite serious to me. It seemed that I had ordered my friends to shoot each other in my dream for just as poor a reason as they used to in real life.
That is why I wrote the poem about the utter uselessness and destruction of war, unless it is for reasons necessitated by God's word.
The first dream wasn't bad, the whole airsoft group (including myself) was out on our lawn trading volleys of airsoft fire to see how warfare used to be waged. However, the night after than I dreamp't that the airsoft group was in a valley trading volleys with replica muskets while I was on top of a hill, to see what affect smoke had on the visibility of a general. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to tell them to not load with real bullets and they started shooting at each other. I didn't wake up until I dreampt that I was at Church and several airsofters were dead, and many more wounded.
Although this may sound silly, it was quite serious to me. It seemed that I had ordered my friends to shoot each other in my dream for just as poor a reason as they used to in real life.
That is why I wrote the poem about the utter uselessness and destruction of war, unless it is for reasons necessitated by God's word.
Self Control and hospitality
He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Proverbs 25:28
Wow, I'm already a week behind. Last week's evening sermon was on Self control. Dr. Bordwine pointed out that Self control is not only an issue of anger, it is an issue of the heart that can affect countless things in many ways. Simply put, a lack of self control can cause us to not resist temptation. We can not get over this issue by ourselves, only God can give us self control.
Instead of the common practice of "tagging" I would like to ask my readers to pray for self control for both themselves and others, as it is a vital issue which needs much prayer.
Last night Dr. Bordwine spoke on hospitality, stating that sharing a meal is not the only way to be hospitable. Other ways include calling people, sharing work and other activities together, basically just sharing, whether it be encouragement, or physical goods.
Wow, I'm already a week behind. Last week's evening sermon was on Self control. Dr. Bordwine pointed out that Self control is not only an issue of anger, it is an issue of the heart that can affect countless things in many ways. Simply put, a lack of self control can cause us to not resist temptation. We can not get over this issue by ourselves, only God can give us self control.
Instead of the common practice of "tagging" I would like to ask my readers to pray for self control for both themselves and others, as it is a vital issue which needs much prayer.
Last night Dr. Bordwine spoke on hospitality, stating that sharing a meal is not the only way to be hospitable. Other ways include calling people, sharing work and other activities together, basically just sharing, whether it be encouragement, or physical goods.
G. K. Chesterton
In the past few months I've started reading Chesterton. So far I've read "Magic
A Fantastic Comedy," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare," "What I Saw in America" and "The Club of Queer Trades" And am now working on "The Barbarism of Berlin."
All of them are excellent, and they all have a way of making the reader think, I still don't have my head wrapped around "the man who was thursday," but that was the first one I read, so I will go back to it. All of them, and more may be found for free here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a80
I also have got the volleyball net up, no pictures yet as it is to dark out for good ones.
A Fantastic Comedy," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare," "What I Saw in America" and "The Club of Queer Trades" And am now working on "The Barbarism of Berlin."
All of them are excellent, and they all have a way of making the reader think, I still don't have my head wrapped around "the man who was thursday," but that was the first one I read, so I will go back to it. All of them, and more may be found for free here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/c#a80
I also have got the volleyball net up, no pictures yet as it is to dark out for good ones.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Last night's Church sevice
Dr. Bordwine's sermon last night was on the topic of reputation. I have heard sermons on this topic many times before, but I always learn something new. The specific new thing I learned last night was that because a good reputation is to be desired above great wealth, we should defend it. If someone spreads lies about our reputation, we must not hesitate to let the truth be known. Dr. Bordwine made the point that when you try to defend the truth, you will often be accused of being "defensive," to which we must reply, "yes I am, because it is the right thing to do."
I didn't take very good notes last night, but I am hoping to start summarizing the evening sermons on this blog, so that those who can't be there might still know what is being said.
I'm excited about choir, even if it is not at the most convenient time.
I didn't take very good notes last night, but I am hoping to start summarizing the evening sermons on this blog, so that those who can't be there might still know what is being said.
I'm excited about choir, even if it is not at the most convenient time.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Saw and Cello duet
The best saw music I have heard so far! The impressive cello performance greatly enhances it.
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