11 August 2007
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The wages of neglect
One of the characteristics or recurrent themes of repentance is that when the subject decides to make up for the things they had till then shirked , the means to do so are removed as though held back.
Sometimes a subject (a person with a sense of self) neglects reneges or shirks a certain duty be it an act of piety or one of sacrament or ritual. The subject does so even though the opportunity requisite for carrying the act is present. It may occur that when the subject decides to perform the neglected duty, the opportunity for doing so is removed. Be it mobility, health, money, food, water, the presence or access to a person or an object, whatever the means or opportunity are, they are removed and the sujbect is no longer capable of 'making amends' as they had intended.
To give an (imaginary) example the case of someone who neglects acts of charity while they can afford them and who once they resolve to fork out the requisite charity find they are no longer able to afford it. Or someone who is not good to their parents, but only realizes it or resolves to treat them well , after their death; a resolution that of course comes too late, and becomes more remorse than compensatory / action.
one way to verify whether this indeed is a recurrent theme (or case) would be the presence of popular or canonical proverbs that refer to such a situation. Such proverbs would be loosely along the line of "if you don't use you lose it."
Finally, this pattern is not necessarily true for every subject, but only in certain cases. ... Read more
Sometimes a subject (a person with a sense of self) neglects reneges or shirks a certain duty be it an act of piety or one of sacrament or ritual. The subject does so even though the opportunity requisite for carrying the act is present. It may occur that when the subject decides to perform the neglected duty, the opportunity for doing so is removed. Be it mobility, health, money, food, water, the presence or access to a person or an object, whatever the means or opportunity are, they are removed and the sujbect is no longer capable of 'making amends' as they had intended.
To give an (imaginary) example the case of someone who neglects acts of charity while they can afford them and who once they resolve to fork out the requisite charity find they are no longer able to afford it. Or someone who is not good to their parents, but only realizes it or resolves to treat them well , after their death; a resolution that of course comes too late, and becomes more remorse than compensatory / action.
one way to verify whether this indeed is a recurrent theme (or case) would be the presence of popular or canonical proverbs that refer to such a situation. Such proverbs would be loosely along the line of "if you don't use you lose it."
Finally, this pattern is not necessarily true for every subject, but only in certain cases. ... Read more
a reference on musical scales from usenet
the following is excerpted from this post from a very laborious and contentious thread on the rec.music.makers.piano newsgroup. I do not know what his source is, but for my reference:
"Greek music theory derives from Egyptian and Mesopotamian predecessors, which were developed to account for heptatonic music.
We know what the instruments of the time were like. Flutes, auloi and lyres were all designed for 7-note scales. We have a Sumerian description of a tuning algorithm for a heptatonic harp and we know of some subtle refinements of design like auloi that came in two pieces so you could mix and match upper and lower tetrachords from different modes (exactly the way makams are conceptualized in the Middle Eastern music theory of the present day). There is not one surviving physical artifact or description of an instrument that suggests the ancient world used pentatonic scales.
> and the Japanese took a different direction
They didn't. They borrowed the Chinese pentatonic scale from China,
as a late development. "
D'ailleurs la théorie traitant de la construction de gammes diatonique et pentatonique me dépasse. Je n'en sais qu'on y distingue une construction historique, voire une évolution de pratiques, et d'autres basées sur des modèlizations conceptuelles de la génération de notes (tons) de musique, dont le cercle de quintes la série harmonique, et les systèmes de tempérament à intervales mesurées sont les exemples les plus connus auprè les non-spécialistes. ... Read more
"Greek music theory derives from Egyptian and Mesopotamian predecessors, which were developed to account for heptatonic music.
We know what the instruments of the time were like. Flutes, auloi and lyres were all designed for 7-note scales. We have a Sumerian description of a tuning algorithm for a heptatonic harp and we know of some subtle refinements of design like auloi that came in two pieces so you could mix and match upper and lower tetrachords from different modes (exactly the way makams are conceptualized in the Middle Eastern music theory of the present day). There is not one surviving physical artifact or description of an instrument that suggests the ancient world used pentatonic scales.
> and the Japanese took a different direction
They didn't. They borrowed the Chinese pentatonic scale from China,
as a late development. "
D'ailleurs la théorie traitant de la construction de gammes diatonique et pentatonique me dépasse. Je n'en sais qu'on y distingue une construction historique, voire une évolution de pratiques, et d'autres basées sur des modèlizations conceptuelles de la génération de notes (tons) de musique, dont le cercle de quintes la série harmonique, et les systèmes de tempérament à intervales mesurées sont les exemples les plus connus auprè les non-spécialistes. ... Read more
etymology note: Sherry
Sherry's spanish name is , el Xérès, sometimes also written el Jeres, after the name of its city of origin, Jerez de la frontera. These three variations on the same name comprise the brandname of the region's product Jeres-Xérès,-Sherry. Its land of origin is a trianglur region in the southernmost province of spain, cadiz, comprised of Jerez, the river guadalquivir (الجدول الكبير) and the city or town of sanlucar in the west, which is a producer of another wine made with the same process but whose brandname is Manzanilla-Sanlucar de Barrameda registered as the former in 1933, and puerto de santamaria in the south. Jerez is also known for its Jerez vinegars, made from the same wines of Jerez.
The region also produces vinegar out of the same wine. Of the three types of soil, the lightest and the best for the palomino grapes used in the production of the fino and orroso wines of Xérès , is called albariza (meaning standing out, en relief). In the step of the vinification process of Sherry wines, known as the solera system, three rows of barrels are arrayed atop each other, each containing the same wine but of a different age ordered youngest to oldest, from the top to the bottom row. Periodically, a third is removed (soutiré) from the bottom barrel, and replaced with a volume from the barrel above it, containing the younger batch. The removal of the liquor from the oak barrels is known as saka, which i only speculate may have derived from the verb saqa , ar. سقا.
The time of its adoption by its biggest fans, the brits, dates sometime between the 16th century and the 19th century.
The amount of stuff that interests the british in Spain, or in the Iberian peninsula in general, is bemusing. Some Brits apparently are also very fond of porto, which is another wine, originating from Portugal this time, whose production there is regulated since at least the seventeenth century.
Finally, and since all those etymology notes are largely conjecture, I'll venture tha t the namesake of the muted wine, el Xérès, may actually also come from the arabic word for beads, Kharaz , خرز . ... Read more
The region also produces vinegar out of the same wine. Of the three types of soil, the lightest and the best for the palomino grapes used in the production of the fino and orroso wines of Xérès , is called albariza (meaning standing out, en relief). In the step of the vinification process of Sherry wines, known as the solera system, three rows of barrels are arrayed atop each other, each containing the same wine but of a different age ordered youngest to oldest, from the top to the bottom row. Periodically, a third is removed (soutiré) from the bottom barrel, and replaced with a volume from the barrel above it, containing the younger batch. The removal of the liquor from the oak barrels is known as saka, which i only speculate may have derived from the verb saqa , ar. سقا.
The time of its adoption by its biggest fans, the brits, dates sometime between the 16th century and the 19th century.
The amount of stuff that interests the british in Spain, or in the Iberian peninsula in general, is bemusing. Some Brits apparently are also very fond of porto, which is another wine, originating from Portugal this time, whose production there is regulated since at least the seventeenth century.
Finally, and since all those etymology notes are largely conjecture, I'll venture tha t the namesake of the muted wine, el Xérès, may actually also come from the arabic word for beads, Kharaz , خرز . ... Read more
