My good friend Dalfino has posted a song on Youtube (Sing a Song for You by Tim Buckley). This is the best musical work I've heard from Dalfino and I heavily suggest you give it a listen. I'd give this cover a 8/10 and I hope that he decides to post more songs online soon,
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The book Spencer's Mountain is the best book that I have ever read, I won't say that it's the best book ever written because I haven't read every book in existence, but it's definitely a possibility. Written by Earl Hamner Jr. the story is made up of several events that actually happened in his life but which have been fictionalised.
As you read, you find out about the adventures of young aspiring writer Clay-Boy, a member of the very large Spencer family. The overreaching arch of the novel is the story of Clay-Boy working hard so that he can go to college, and, throughout the story there are events that're really funny and events that're really sad, all them featuring highly likeable and relatable characters. It's a real testimony to how well he can write. I guess I should also write a little warning that there is one scene in the book that is somewhat sexually explicit, but it's done very well and isn't at all untasteful, but I just thought I should include a warning. Spencer's Mountain has been adapted twice, once as the film 'Spencer's Mountain' and then again a little later as the TV series 'The Waltons'. Unfortunately, I have never seen the original film adaptation, but I have seen the TV series, anyone who has seen the series will enjoy reading the book even more because you'll notice all the links to episodes in it. But I'm adding unnecessary adaptation information, so this last paragraph may be irrelevant, I only added it because otherwise I'd just be saying "This book is great" over and over again. Basically, I love this book, so I'll give it a nice 10/10 (buy it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spencers-Mountain-Earl-Hamner-Jr/dp/1568490224/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320709920&sr=1-1) For today's entry I'm making a shout out to the 'BabelColour' YouTube page. Basically, if you're a Doctor Who fan, you should definitely visit this page. The videos are made by a man named Stuart Humphryes and there are roughly three kinds of videos he makes: tributes (where he picks a character from the show or a theme and then shows clips of it to music), colourisations (where he colourises scenes from the black and white videos) and also his Ten Doctors videos (which are his attempt at making 'The Ten Doctors' into an episode, done by cleverly splicing together existing footage in new ways).
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/BabelColour?blend=1&ob=4 As I'm sure you know, there are some people who takes the Bible 100% literally, which, while not a bad thing on its own, can lead homophobic hate crime and other disagreeable things. So, for today’s entry. So to criticise this point of view, I am going to use The Bible (and no other sources) to create an argument that the word of God, should you believe it exists, cannot be found through the Bible.
Let me quickly explain the start of Genesis for those of you not wholly familiar with it: God makes the world, then he's kind enough to take one of Adam's ribs and turn it into a woman (Eve). Adam and Eve have fun in the Garden of Eden, but then an evil serpent (some say it was supposed to be the devil... I think that that is a bit unlikely) persuades Eve to eat from the one tree God told her not to eat from and then she persuades Adam to do the same. God feels sad about this so he banishes them from the garden and puts them out into an imperfect world. God also makes Adam and Eve imperfect, they don't like being naked and will one day die. One crucial thing, though, is that Adam and Eve still speak the perfect Original Language. A couple of years down the line some humans decide to build a tower so tall that it goes all the way to the heavens. God gets upset about this, so he decides to curse humanity so that different groups people have different languages. With the creation of the different languages the Original Language was lost forever, and that would have been the only perfect language, and therefore the only way that facts and information can be truly and properly conveyed. Now, if the only way to properly convey things infallibly is with the Original Language and the Bible is NOT written in that perfect language then surely The Bible is fallible? So maybe the Ancient Hebrews, when the time came to write The Bible, found that they had no way to explain what actually happened in their own language and so, instead of writing divine truth, filled it with all kinds of violence and injustices that were common in that historical context? I hope this argument hasn't offended anybody, I have tried to argue using only The Bible as a source in the hope that I will not stray in my argument. |
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