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tabular_rasaThis is the last time I try to inspire little children.
It was my seventh and last String Festival concert, ever, and so I was all sentimental and playing for the sixth graders, you know, who watch up with their big eyes and smile and get all inspired to continue on with Orchestra until they're our level, you know . . . so that was nice. I quite enjoyed it. I felt all special and fluffy.
Yet because of that stupid rule about taking off our uniforms before going out to eat the food, I didn't get to get a cookie. All the parents and siblings and things eat them all first-- and also the younger students, because they get out there, because they don't have to change.
I saw one sixth grade girl with no less than FIVE cookies-- perhaps even more, hidden until that napkin, that I couldn't see. I would have asked her for one if I had known the table was going to be empty when I got there.
So then I totally got pissed off and started acting like a bitter old woman. I swear, I am going to have so much fun when I'm old; I already act like the stereotypical old lady already: I reminisce and complain, and am bitter about everything. "Dern young 'uns, stealin' all the damn cookies! I'll say damn! If they're going to take my damn cookies, I'll make them listen to my damn foul mouth!"
Anyway ^_^
I talked with Liz today in one of the practice rooms before the show. I do like tete-a-tete talks.
There should be an accent circumflex over the first es in tete.
There's some guy singing on TV. Apparently the Yankees are getting beat.
Oh, it's God Bless America. Go figure. Dang, that man has a very operettic voice.
A man wrote an editorial about extremism in the newspaper today. Funny thing is, he was for it. He was all like, "If you think homosexuality is perverted and wrong, you're an extremist" and then, "So let's all be extremists and be proud of it!"
Sure. We'll all be proud of it.
Extremism certainly is in the eyes of the beholder. In the popular children's series Harry Potter, the recently introduced villain Bellatrix Lestrange, female minion to Lord Voldemort, the main villain, is certainly an extremist, yet it is universally agreed she is bad. Post fifth book, she is probably one of the most popularly hated villains of the series, perhaps even more so than Voldemort himself. She tortures, murders, and has devoted herself to the evil cause of the novel with a passion. Yet she has some very redeeming qualities. They are best illustrated when shone in a different light.
Say, for instance, that Bellatrix were a Christian extremist, such as a Crusader, Joan of Arc, or Isabel of Spain who led the Reconquista in Spain (notice, ironically, the fact that many of types, like Bellatrix, are women). After all, she takes direct order from an inhuman power (or man turned supernatural power . . . not entirely unlike Jesus, no?). She follows her leader with a blind passion, never questioning, always trusting. She destroys all that stand against her cause, torturing them into compliance or murdering them should they stand to her. After all, they are wrong, and it's for their own good; she is giving them the light of (what she sees as salvation), or destroying them for their "heresy." When caught and tried, she is defiant, strong before the court so that she makes the appearance of a martyr. She spends fourteen years locked up, proudly suffering for her cause, always faithful her master will come and release-- which he does. Then she continues to serve him, murdering, torturing-- horrific things, but certainly not uncommon in crusading wars; after all, it does not matter when heretics or nonbelievers die-- forgetting all else but the cause which she serves. She has a husband but no children, and even her passion for him seems less to that of the cause of Lord Voldemort; she is "piously" for the purification of wizard blood. Her devotion to the cause is so great she will even sever the ties of blood family, killing without the slightest reserve-- and perhaps with relish, even-- her own (SPOILER ALERT!) cousin for his heretic ways. Certainly that is proof of a pious, devoted extremist.
She parallels many martyrs and saints glorified in Christianity-- and Islam and Judaism, too. Yet Bellatrix is "evil." Why not the others?
Is extremism, is murder and torture and punishment of those that believe differently from us evil-- or only in the case of storybook villains? It is seen on both sides of the front. Certainly it is agreed the extremism in the Middle East is evil alongside Bellatrix-- yet are we not often guilty of the glofication of the same thing?
I need to finish it somehow, but it's late.
I should so send that in, lol . . . too bad the people whom I would most like to target probably haven't read Harry Potter. I mean, it's that crazy witch stuff . . .
Actually, it's already so easy to retaliate. All you have to do is point out that those people those troops he claims he supports are extremists, too. It's a war of relgious extremists of two different religions. Those of us that aren't extreme . . . well, we're just condemned to the Muslim AND Christian Hell, aren't we? Whichever one, you know, wins this war. Lol . . . I sound so cynical.
Though I refuse to get involved with political editorials. It would be deja vu Hiroshima chat room all the way . .. *shudder.* I would like to so much, though. My parents would throw a fit, lol . . . especially Dad. Plus I could never make it long enough to get my point across.
It was my seventh and last String Festival concert, ever, and so I was all sentimental and playing for the sixth graders, you know, who watch up with their big eyes and smile and get all inspired to continue on with Orchestra until they're our level, you know . . . so that was nice. I quite enjoyed it. I felt all special and fluffy.
Yet because of that stupid rule about taking off our uniforms before going out to eat the food, I didn't get to get a cookie. All the parents and siblings and things eat them all first-- and also the younger students, because they get out there, because they don't have to change.
I saw one sixth grade girl with no less than FIVE cookies-- perhaps even more, hidden until that napkin, that I couldn't see. I would have asked her for one if I had known the table was going to be empty when I got there.
So then I totally got pissed off and started acting like a bitter old woman. I swear, I am going to have so much fun when I'm old; I already act like the stereotypical old lady already: I reminisce and complain, and am bitter about everything. "Dern young 'uns, stealin' all the damn cookies! I'll say damn! If they're going to take my damn cookies, I'll make them listen to my damn foul mouth!"
Anyway ^_^
I talked with Liz today in one of the practice rooms before the show. I do like tete-a-tete talks.
There should be an accent circumflex over the first es in tete.
There's some guy singing on TV. Apparently the Yankees are getting beat.
Oh, it's God Bless America. Go figure. Dang, that man has a very operettic voice.
A man wrote an editorial about extremism in the newspaper today. Funny thing is, he was for it. He was all like, "If you think homosexuality is perverted and wrong, you're an extremist" and then, "So let's all be extremists and be proud of it!"
Sure. We'll all be proud of it.
Extremism certainly is in the eyes of the beholder. In the popular children's series Harry Potter, the recently introduced villain Bellatrix Lestrange, female minion to Lord Voldemort, the main villain, is certainly an extremist, yet it is universally agreed she is bad. Post fifth book, she is probably one of the most popularly hated villains of the series, perhaps even more so than Voldemort himself. She tortures, murders, and has devoted herself to the evil cause of the novel with a passion. Yet she has some very redeeming qualities. They are best illustrated when shone in a different light.
Say, for instance, that Bellatrix were a Christian extremist, such as a Crusader, Joan of Arc, or Isabel of Spain who led the Reconquista in Spain (notice, ironically, the fact that many of types, like Bellatrix, are women). After all, she takes direct order from an inhuman power (or man turned supernatural power . . . not entirely unlike Jesus, no?). She follows her leader with a blind passion, never questioning, always trusting. She destroys all that stand against her cause, torturing them into compliance or murdering them should they stand to her. After all, they are wrong, and it's for their own good; she is giving them the light of (what she sees as salvation), or destroying them for their "heresy." When caught and tried, she is defiant, strong before the court so that she makes the appearance of a martyr. She spends fourteen years locked up, proudly suffering for her cause, always faithful her master will come and release-- which he does. Then she continues to serve him, murdering, torturing-- horrific things, but certainly not uncommon in crusading wars; after all, it does not matter when heretics or nonbelievers die-- forgetting all else but the cause which she serves. She has a husband but no children, and even her passion for him seems less to that of the cause of Lord Voldemort; she is "piously" for the purification of wizard blood. Her devotion to the cause is so great she will even sever the ties of blood family, killing without the slightest reserve-- and perhaps with relish, even-- her own (SPOILER ALERT!) cousin for his heretic ways. Certainly that is proof of a pious, devoted extremist.
She parallels many martyrs and saints glorified in Christianity-- and Islam and Judaism, too. Yet Bellatrix is "evil." Why not the others?
Is extremism, is murder and torture and punishment of those that believe differently from us evil-- or only in the case of storybook villains? It is seen on both sides of the front. Certainly it is agreed the extremism in the Middle East is evil alongside Bellatrix-- yet are we not often guilty of the glofication of the same thing?
I need to finish it somehow, but it's late.
I should so send that in, lol . . . too bad the people whom I would most like to target probably haven't read Harry Potter. I mean, it's that crazy witch stuff . . .
Actually, it's already so easy to retaliate. All you have to do is point out that those people those troops he claims he supports are extremists, too. It's a war of relgious extremists of two different religions. Those of us that aren't extreme . . . well, we're just condemned to the Muslim AND Christian Hell, aren't we? Whichever one, you know, wins this war. Lol . . . I sound so cynical.
Though I refuse to get involved with political editorials. It would be deja vu Hiroshima chat room all the way . .. *shudder.* I would like to so much, though. My parents would throw a fit, lol . . . especially Dad. Plus I could never make it long enough to get my point across.
