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Post #1This is for members to post their creative works; literary, visual or others.
Last edited by Corvus on Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
<i>'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'</i>
-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'</i>
-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Post #101
My great disappointment with the book of Job comes when Job cowers before the Whirlwind. It is hard to see how the Almighty comforts, uplifts, and at the same time regards Job and the rest of the human race as a mere speck of sand. More than that, the Creation has a right to respond to the affections and afflictions that the gift of life makes possible. The gift of life is a complex stream of emotions that need expression. God seems cast in the mold of a CEO who welcomes creativity and disagreement---until creativity and disagreement appear.
Job has a right and responsibility to respond. He is not merely an individual named Job, but he is JOB---the people’s representative---licensed to speak directly to the Creator. Because that license is not equally distributed, Job is obligated to bring the plight of the human race to the Being who has placed the sky on four pillars, but who has never swept floors for a living. Job needed to speak directly into the Whirlwind. This is the human community’s unique opportunity to share its pain with the Creator.
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Job responds to the Whirlwind:
“Where were you when the cables that hold the firmament to the earth were first used to tie the common people to the poles of surrender? When were you ever yoked to a plow, bent over a dying field---saw a dead end as the only end---when wholeness dissolved, resolve melted and hope disappeared? How can the blueprint of the universe contain the disadvantage that chains the weak to the strong? Did you draw a map to Heaven that travels the road of dysfunction?�
“Where were you when obligations became greater than resources and every decision a difficult dilemma? When were you ever born into slavery, and nursed into helpless disadvantage, a mere pawn in a scheme of economic exploitation? How can a lofty perfection create the entirely human frustration of imperfection? Did you intend that the promise and expectation of equality dissolve into the shards of ignominy?�
“Where were you when the weeds of pain overran the garden of promise---when thistles grew in the pathway of the righteous and boulders blocked the progress of the Prophets? When were you ever restricted by fences of human limitation; hardened by objection, overcome by compromise, wearied by delay, smothered by incompetence, crushed by the gears of oppressive disadvantage and buried under expressions of doubt? How can the mountain peaks ignore the groans of their weight upon the earth? Did you create the cave of neglect, dig the well of despair, and carry misery into the human community from the deep recesses of the mines of misfortune?�
“Where were you when power became the bridegroom of disenfranchisement and privilege became the handmaiden of disrespect---when the word equality was drowned in a flood of selfish betrayal? When did you tell a hungry child that there was nothing more to eat, receive a notice that help would not arrive, and whisper to the frightened that there was nothing more that doctors were able to do? How did the words, disrespect, disappoint, and disregard come to be forged by the community of advantage to be used as weapons against the community of disadvantage? Did you ordain that the message proclaimed from the seats of authority contradict that which was practiced at the center of human endeavor?�
Where were you:
When the rich danced and the poor stumbled?
When the loud sang and the quiet mumbled?
Why did you turn your back:
On the affluent emboldened and the vulnerable restrained?
The fraudulent unleashed and the ethical contained?
On the bold lifted and the gentle kneeling?
The intolerable hardened and the fragile reeling?
On the complex welcomed and the simple refused?
The bogus honored and the legitimate excused?�
Why did you make a world that grinds the common class into the raw materials of consumption, unleash the monster of competition, and build inequity into human interaction?�
The voice from the Whirlwind responds:
“Those whom I have created to join together into a community of support, drifted into competition. A competition that dissolved the bonds of unity and tangled the cords of compassion. I have not lost a child; I have lost all of my children. I have not tended a grave; I have tended all of the graves. The expectation that the human community could overcome the human condition was overly ambitious. I have lost everything, but I am not willing to lose hope. Take my hand.�
Job has a right and responsibility to respond. He is not merely an individual named Job, but he is JOB---the people’s representative---licensed to speak directly to the Creator. Because that license is not equally distributed, Job is obligated to bring the plight of the human race to the Being who has placed the sky on four pillars, but who has never swept floors for a living. Job needed to speak directly into the Whirlwind. This is the human community’s unique opportunity to share its pain with the Creator.
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Job responds to the Whirlwind:
“Where were you when the cables that hold the firmament to the earth were first used to tie the common people to the poles of surrender? When were you ever yoked to a plow, bent over a dying field---saw a dead end as the only end---when wholeness dissolved, resolve melted and hope disappeared? How can the blueprint of the universe contain the disadvantage that chains the weak to the strong? Did you draw a map to Heaven that travels the road of dysfunction?�
“Where were you when obligations became greater than resources and every decision a difficult dilemma? When were you ever born into slavery, and nursed into helpless disadvantage, a mere pawn in a scheme of economic exploitation? How can a lofty perfection create the entirely human frustration of imperfection? Did you intend that the promise and expectation of equality dissolve into the shards of ignominy?�
“Where were you when the weeds of pain overran the garden of promise---when thistles grew in the pathway of the righteous and boulders blocked the progress of the Prophets? When were you ever restricted by fences of human limitation; hardened by objection, overcome by compromise, wearied by delay, smothered by incompetence, crushed by the gears of oppressive disadvantage and buried under expressions of doubt? How can the mountain peaks ignore the groans of their weight upon the earth? Did you create the cave of neglect, dig the well of despair, and carry misery into the human community from the deep recesses of the mines of misfortune?�
“Where were you when power became the bridegroom of disenfranchisement and privilege became the handmaiden of disrespect---when the word equality was drowned in a flood of selfish betrayal? When did you tell a hungry child that there was nothing more to eat, receive a notice that help would not arrive, and whisper to the frightened that there was nothing more that doctors were able to do? How did the words, disrespect, disappoint, and disregard come to be forged by the community of advantage to be used as weapons against the community of disadvantage? Did you ordain that the message proclaimed from the seats of authority contradict that which was practiced at the center of human endeavor?�
Where were you:
When the rich danced and the poor stumbled?
When the loud sang and the quiet mumbled?
Why did you turn your back:
On the affluent emboldened and the vulnerable restrained?
The fraudulent unleashed and the ethical contained?
On the bold lifted and the gentle kneeling?
The intolerable hardened and the fragile reeling?
On the complex welcomed and the simple refused?
The bogus honored and the legitimate excused?�
Why did you make a world that grinds the common class into the raw materials of consumption, unleash the monster of competition, and build inequity into human interaction?�
The voice from the Whirlwind responds:
“Those whom I have created to join together into a community of support, drifted into competition. A competition that dissolved the bonds of unity and tangled the cords of compassion. I have not lost a child; I have lost all of my children. I have not tended a grave; I have tended all of the graves. The expectation that the human community could overcome the human condition was overly ambitious. I have lost everything, but I am not willing to lose hope. Take my hand.�
Post #102
Yesterday, my wife came whining to me about a project that she was working on for Father’s Day that wasn’t working out for her. She has forty years of sewing/quilting experience and a ten thousand dollar machine---one would think that she could do whatever she wanted. But the problem is that she keeps pushing the envelope --- technology wise---and she is a perfectionist besides.
She was attempting to put a fabric photograph and a corresponding quilted image onto a small wall hanging---it looked great to me---and besides, as I told her, her son is not her father anyway. (it is a new grandma thing and I am not 100% behind it yet)
Anyway, in our house the old saying is true---When Momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy---and so I set to work to ‘make things right’.
A couple of months ago, I had added ‘Photo V Carve’ to my CAD program (Vectric Aspire) for no particular purpose except that I didn’t have it, so I wanted it. It has the capacity to make lithophanes. I told her that I would take the photo that she was working on and make a lithophane for her. Then, went through the five minute tutorial---loaded up the picture---produced the G-code and ran the pin drive out to the shop. I had on hand some ¼� Corian and clamped it down, and pressed “start�.
The pictures below are the result. I buy and sell guitar tone wood and so having a little quilted maple around wasn’t much of a problem. The first few pictures are of the machine cutting the image. You can get better images by going to YouTube and looking around for lithophane. The box and the image on the box really don’t look like much until the light is turned on behind it. That is the point---it is supposed to be a surprise.
Note: if you comment on this, be sure to mush up the baby. If you don’t mush up the grandbaby, my wife will be inclined to join the forum just to give everyone the ‘what for’. That just isn’t going to be good for anyone.
http://imageshack.us/g/846/frameartandlithophane00.jpg/
She was attempting to put a fabric photograph and a corresponding quilted image onto a small wall hanging---it looked great to me---and besides, as I told her, her son is not her father anyway. (it is a new grandma thing and I am not 100% behind it yet)
Anyway, in our house the old saying is true---When Momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy---and so I set to work to ‘make things right’.
A couple of months ago, I had added ‘Photo V Carve’ to my CAD program (Vectric Aspire) for no particular purpose except that I didn’t have it, so I wanted it. It has the capacity to make lithophanes. I told her that I would take the photo that she was working on and make a lithophane for her. Then, went through the five minute tutorial---loaded up the picture---produced the G-code and ran the pin drive out to the shop. I had on hand some ¼� Corian and clamped it down, and pressed “start�.
The pictures below are the result. I buy and sell guitar tone wood and so having a little quilted maple around wasn’t much of a problem. The first few pictures are of the machine cutting the image. You can get better images by going to YouTube and looking around for lithophane. The box and the image on the box really don’t look like much until the light is turned on behind it. That is the point---it is supposed to be a surprise.
Note: if you comment on this, be sure to mush up the baby. If you don’t mush up the grandbaby, my wife will be inclined to join the forum just to give everyone the ‘what for’. That just isn’t going to be good for anyone.
http://imageshack.us/g/846/frameartandlithophane00.jpg/
Why posit intention when ignorance will suffice?
Post #103
And so…when I was rummaging around yesterday to find a little piece of Corian for a lithophane (previous post) I happened into the motorcycle gas tank that I picked up at a garage sale last year. I had also picked up something for legs and a thorax at a local steel yard remnant stack, and a ten gallon propane tank at another garage sale for the abdomen. By the time I had collected everything, it was late in the year and the whole thing got put aside. So, while the CNC was humming along yesterday, I gathered together all of the parts and put my ant together. It is HUGE. I suppose that you can determine the scale by knowing what the parts are---a ten gallon propane tank and motorcycle gas tank. It is almost eleven feet across and six feet from front to back.
It has the neighborhood in stitches and has been dubbed the ‘neighborhood guard ant’
http://imageshack.us/g/861/frameartandlithophane00.jpg/
It has the neighborhood in stitches and has been dubbed the ‘neighborhood guard ant’
http://imageshack.us/g/861/frameartandlithophane00.jpg/
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Post #104
Some of my apple cider presses. One is my own design and the others show signs of restoration.
http://imageshack.us/g/825/antiqueapplepress004.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/g/825/antiqueapplepress004.jpg/
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Post #105
[center]WHO IS THE ONE ?
WHO IS THE ONE,
THAT HAS THE CHOICE,
EACH WORD BEGUN,
WITH LOVE IN THE VOICE ?
WHO IS THE ONE,
THAT DOES GIVE,
EACH ACTION DONE,
WITH A MESSAGE TO LIVE ?
WHO IS THE ONE,
WHO’S CHOICE DOES ALLOW,
EACH THOUGHT BEGUN,
WITH LOVE FOREVER NOW ?
WHO IS THE ONE THAT HAS DECIDED,
WHO IS THE ONE THAT IS FREE ?
WHO IS THE ONE THAT HAS DECIDED,
WHO IS THE ONE THAT IS ME ?[/center]
WHO IS THE ONE,
THAT HAS THE CHOICE,
EACH WORD BEGUN,
WITH LOVE IN THE VOICE ?
WHO IS THE ONE,
THAT DOES GIVE,
EACH ACTION DONE,
WITH A MESSAGE TO LIVE ?
WHO IS THE ONE,
WHO’S CHOICE DOES ALLOW,
EACH THOUGHT BEGUN,
WITH LOVE FOREVER NOW ?
WHO IS THE ONE THAT HAS DECIDED,
WHO IS THE ONE THAT IS FREE ?
WHO IS THE ONE THAT HAS DECIDED,
WHO IS THE ONE THAT IS ME ?[/center]
WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS,
YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
Author Unknown
''God''/''Jesus'' - Invisible/Imaginary Friends For Adults
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YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
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Post #106
[center]WITHIN SOCIETY
WHO MADE ALL THE LAWS ?
TO CONTROL A WILL THAT'S FREE,
WHO BUILT ALL THE FLAWS ?
WITHIN SOCIETY.
WHO GIVES FORTH THE CHOICES ?
TO LIMIT WHAT YOU SEE,
WHO ARE THE MORAL VOICES ?
WITHIN SOCIETY.
WHO IS PAYING THE PAYROLL ?
TO CREATE CHILD SLAVERY,
WHO IS IT THAT HAS CONTROL ?
WITHIN SOCIETY.
WHO I AM IS SOUL,
TO YOU FAMILY,
SPREADING LOVE IS MY GOAL,
WITHIN SOCIETY.[/center]
WHO MADE ALL THE LAWS ?
TO CONTROL A WILL THAT'S FREE,
WHO BUILT ALL THE FLAWS ?
WITHIN SOCIETY.
WHO GIVES FORTH THE CHOICES ?
TO LIMIT WHAT YOU SEE,
WHO ARE THE MORAL VOICES ?
WITHIN SOCIETY.
WHO IS PAYING THE PAYROLL ?
TO CREATE CHILD SLAVERY,
WHO IS IT THAT HAS CONTROL ?
WITHIN SOCIETY.
WHO I AM IS SOUL,
TO YOU FAMILY,
SPREADING LOVE IS MY GOAL,
WITHIN SOCIETY.[/center]
WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS,
YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
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YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
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Post #107
[center]MY WORDS
MY WORDS ARE EXPRESSED,
WITH REASON AND RHYME,
A LOVE THAT'S CONFESSED,
THROUGH RHYTHM AND TIME.
MY WORDS ARE A GIFT,
A TRUTH THAT IS ME,
WITH A MESSAGE TO UPLIFT,
FOR ALL ETERNALLY.
MY WORDS ARE ALWAYS CLEAR,
WHETHER YOU LISTEN OR NOT,
THEY SHOW MY MIND HERE,
THE ONE THAT LOVE BEGOT.
MY WORDS I CONFIDE,
ARE ALL WRITTEN FOR ME,
FOR THE JOY I FOUND INSIDE,
HAS SET MY LOVE FREE.[/center]
MY WORDS ARE EXPRESSED,
WITH REASON AND RHYME,
A LOVE THAT'S CONFESSED,
THROUGH RHYTHM AND TIME.
MY WORDS ARE A GIFT,
A TRUTH THAT IS ME,
WITH A MESSAGE TO UPLIFT,
FOR ALL ETERNALLY.
MY WORDS ARE ALWAYS CLEAR,
WHETHER YOU LISTEN OR NOT,
THEY SHOW MY MIND HERE,
THE ONE THAT LOVE BEGOT.
MY WORDS I CONFIDE,
ARE ALL WRITTEN FOR ME,
FOR THE JOY I FOUND INSIDE,
HAS SET MY LOVE FREE.[/center]
WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS,
YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
Author Unknown
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http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 426#398426
YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
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Post #108
The link below leads to an article with pictures of a toolbox I built for my shop in 2001. I spent about 6 months one winter working on it in my spare time. It's not really a wok of art but it is unique.
http://woodcentral.com/shots/shot550.shtml
http://woodcentral.com/shots/shot550.shtml
Matthew 16:26
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26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
New King James Version (NKJV)
26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Post #109
Pretty neat!Moses Yoder wrote:The link below leads to an article with pictures of a toolbox I built for my shop in 2001. I spent about 6 months one winter working on it in my spare time. It's not really a wok of art but it is unique.
http://woodcentral.com/shots/shot550.shtml
Post #110
Ahhh...another woodworker. I am impressed.
Based on the tools that you have, I assume that you are old school and hand tools. That is a skill that I never acquired. I determine what it is that I want to do---then buy the tool that does that. No skill required.
At any rate, I have a friend who has spent a lifetime building a shop. He has never built anything in his shop, but he has a world-class shop.
So...tell me that you are not a tool collector, but these tools get used for 'stuff'. And if that is the case, let's see some of your 'stuff'.
I have never attempted anything as complex as your toolbox---I am much impressed. Thanks for posting.
Based on the tools that you have, I assume that you are old school and hand tools. That is a skill that I never acquired. I determine what it is that I want to do---then buy the tool that does that. No skill required.
At any rate, I have a friend who has spent a lifetime building a shop. He has never built anything in his shop, but he has a world-class shop.
So...tell me that you are not a tool collector, but these tools get used for 'stuff'. And if that is the case, let's see some of your 'stuff'.
I have never attempted anything as complex as your toolbox---I am much impressed. Thanks for posting.
Why posit intention when ignorance will suffice?
