I did not have a bad day so much as a bad night. I was babysitting my younger cousin, and we decided to go to the movies. I went there and we had a great time until we got back to the car and I realized I couldnt find my phone. So we search the entire mall parking lot, the movie theatre and even my car...no luck. I call my mother freaking out...lets face it im a poor college student with little to no money...and tell her what my problems are. About three minutes later I find my phone under my cousin's seat in the car (for the record he had searched it previously).
We head back to the house and we need to get sleep because we are going skiing the next day. I get my cousin to bed pretty early, but I stay up to do some homework. I head to bed about 11:30 and am in bed for about an hour or so when I receive a phone call from one of my friends. She is hysterical because one of her best friends has lied to her about sleeping with some guy(real nail bitter i know). So I stay up talking with her and helping her work through it for about an hour or so. She hangs up and I try to get back to sleep but just when I'm starting to fall asleep I hear this faint beeping noise. It becomes so annoying that I have to get out of bed and find the noise. Turns out it was the dying battery of a book that makes noise when you open it. I head back to bed and try to get some more sleep, however, there is a cat that feels my head is the perfect place to sleep. I have to fight this cat off continually through out the night. At 5:38am my younger cousin comes in to tell me that he is awake and is ready to go skiing. The best I can reply is "go read a book".
About seven it is blatantly obvious I can get no more sleep so I get up and make breakfast for him and get ready to head out, however the suburban has almost no gas so I have to use my own money to fill up the vehicle.
That's about where it ends, but ironically this happened the Friday that Professor Sexton told us to have a bad day....coincidence, i think not.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
February 9 Class Notes
When people say they wish we could go back to the days when entertainment did not have farting jokes, they have no idea what they are talking about. Hermes farts in Apollos face and something similar also happens in The Miller's Tale by Chaucer.
Nothing is original new or fresh, this inclues our language, ideas and politics.
Antigone
Father Killed his father and married his mother and had relations with her. He also solved the sythinx's rhyme and consequently became king. While trying to find the killer of the old king (his father, whom he killed) he finds out the truth and claws his eyes out. He himself does not realize that he is harboring a murderer. He is like Nixon "I will find the one who is responsible for the Watergate" and outs himself.
It is inevitable that something bad will happen, in the book, and in our lives. You cannot blame others and at times you cannot blame yourself. We must move on and continue laughing "we laugh to keep ourselves from crying" Freud. This is a great site for all things Freudian.
Enthusiastic- entheos- theo= possessed by God,
Like Cassandra, whom the god Apollo wanted to be with, in payment she wanted to be able to tell the future. She runs away but not before she gets her gift as well as the added bonus of not having anyone believe her. She predicts that Agamemnon will die and noone listens.
This is related to Antigone because she says that noone can judge her but the gods....just think about it....
Nothing is original new or fresh, this inclues our language, ideas and politics.
Antigone
Father Killed his father and married his mother and had relations with her. He also solved the sythinx's rhyme and consequently became king. While trying to find the killer of the old king (his father, whom he killed) he finds out the truth and claws his eyes out. He himself does not realize that he is harboring a murderer. He is like Nixon "I will find the one who is responsible for the Watergate" and outs himself.
It is inevitable that something bad will happen, in the book, and in our lives. You cannot blame others and at times you cannot blame yourself. We must move on and continue laughing "we laugh to keep ourselves from crying" Freud. This is a great site for all things Freudian.
Enthusiastic- entheos- theo= possessed by God,
Like Cassandra, whom the god Apollo wanted to be with, in payment she wanted to be able to tell the future. She runs away but not before she gets her gift as well as the added bonus of not having anyone believe her. She predicts that Agamemnon will die and noone listens.
This is related to Antigone because she says that noone can judge her but the gods....just think about it....
Sunday, February 8, 2009
February 6 Class Notes
Hermes has always been associated with Eros (Cupid, son of Aphrodite) because both are mischevious and have the power of manipulation.
With Valentine's Day fast approaching Eros is on most everyones mind. He has "the power to bring mere mortals to there knees" so how are we humans supposed to stand up against him?
Lewis Hyde
states that Apollos bands could not hold Hermes. Now we associate the snake wrapped around the staff with Hermes. Called Caduceus. Here is a really neat web site with all things Hermes and Caduceus.
Once Apollo heard the music created by Hermes he was seized with longing for the music. He was so infatuated with it that he eventually became the god of music. It was that type of music that reordered his being, the song was about the Gods and their immortality, he dedicated the the song to the mother of the muses(memory).
Idea of Order at Key West
Wallace Stevens
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.The water never formed to mind or voice,Like a body wholly body, flutteringIts empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motionMade constant cry, caused constantly a cry,That was not ours although we understood,Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
The sea was not a mask. No more was she.The song and water were not medleyed soundEven if what she sang was what she heard,Since what she sang was uttered word by word.It may be that in all her phrases stirredThe grinding water and the gasping wind;But it was she and not the sea we heard.
For she was the maker of the song she sang.The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured seaWas merely a place by which she walked to sing.Whose spirit is this? we said, because we knewIt was the spirit that we sought and knewThat we should ask this often as she sang.If it was only the dark voice of the seaThat rose, or even colored by many waves;If it was only the outer voice of skyAnd cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled,However clear, it would have been deep air,The heaving speech of air, a summer soundRepeated in a summer without endAnd sound alone. But it was more than that,More even than her voice, and ours, amongThe meaningless plungings of water and the wind,Theatrical distances, bronze shadows heapedOn high horizons, mountainous atmospheresOf sky and sea.
It was her voice that madeThe sky acutest at its vanishing.She measured to the hour its solitude.She was the single artificer of the worldIn which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,Whatever self it had, became the selfThat was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,As we beheld her striding there alone,Knew that there never was a world for herExcept the one she sang and, singing, made.
Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know,Why, when the singing ended and we turnedToward the town, tell why the glassy lights,The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there,As the night descended, tilting in the air,Mastered the night and portioned out the sea,Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles,Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,The maker's rage to order words of the sea,Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,And of ourselves and of our origins,In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
It also inspired THIS painting.
Hermes gets everything he wants, and this is because he understands the concept of gift giving. He makes a shell into a lyre and gives it to Apollo etc.
He is also the guide to the underworld.
"Guide of Souls" and Interfaces
The Three Bee Maidens
In the Greek Homeric Hymn to Hermes written down in the eighth century BC, the god Apollo speaks of three female seers as three bees or bee-maidens, who like himself, practiced divination:
There are some Fates sisters born,
maidens hree of them, adorned with swift wings.
Their heads are sprinkled over ith white barley meal,
wind they make their homes under the cliffs of Parnassus.
They taught divination far off from me, the art I used to practise
round my cattle while still a boy.
These sacred bee-maidens with their gift of prophecy, were to be Apollo’s gift to Hermes, the god who alone could lead the souls of the dead out of life and sometimes back again. The etymology of the word ‘fate’ in Greek offers a fascinating example of how the genius of the Minoan vision entered the Greek language, often visibly, as well as informing its stories of goddesses and gods. The Greek word for ‘fate’, ‘death’ and ‘goddess of death’ is e ker (feminine); the word for’heart’ and ‘breast’ is to ker (neuter); while the word for ‘honeycomb’ is to kerion (neuter). The common root ker links the ideas fo the honeycomb, goddess, death, fate and the human heart, a nexus of meanings that is illumined if we know that the goddess was once imagined as a bee. (thebeegoddesses.com)
Antigone:
The Three Tragedians:
With Valentine's Day fast approaching Eros is on most everyones mind. He has "the power to bring mere mortals to there knees" so how are we humans supposed to stand up against him?
Lewis Hyde
states that Apollos bands could not hold Hermes. Now we associate the snake wrapped around the staff with Hermes. Called Caduceus. Here is a really neat web site with all things Hermes and Caduceus.
Once Apollo heard the music created by Hermes he was seized with longing for the music. He was so infatuated with it that he eventually became the god of music. It was that type of music that reordered his being, the song was about the Gods and their immortality, he dedicated the the song to the mother of the muses(memory).
Idea of Order at Key West
Wallace Stevens
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.The water never formed to mind or voice,Like a body wholly body, flutteringIts empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motionMade constant cry, caused constantly a cry,That was not ours although we understood,Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
The sea was not a mask. No more was she.The song and water were not medleyed soundEven if what she sang was what she heard,Since what she sang was uttered word by word.It may be that in all her phrases stirredThe grinding water and the gasping wind;But it was she and not the sea we heard.
For she was the maker of the song she sang.The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured seaWas merely a place by which she walked to sing.Whose spirit is this? we said, because we knewIt was the spirit that we sought and knewThat we should ask this often as she sang.If it was only the dark voice of the seaThat rose, or even colored by many waves;If it was only the outer voice of skyAnd cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled,However clear, it would have been deep air,The heaving speech of air, a summer soundRepeated in a summer without endAnd sound alone. But it was more than that,More even than her voice, and ours, amongThe meaningless plungings of water and the wind,Theatrical distances, bronze shadows heapedOn high horizons, mountainous atmospheresOf sky and sea.
It was her voice that madeThe sky acutest at its vanishing.She measured to the hour its solitude.She was the single artificer of the worldIn which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,Whatever self it had, became the selfThat was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,As we beheld her striding there alone,Knew that there never was a world for herExcept the one she sang and, singing, made.
Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know,Why, when the singing ended and we turnedToward the town, tell why the glassy lights,The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there,As the night descended, tilting in the air,Mastered the night and portioned out the sea,Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles,Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,The maker's rage to order words of the sea,Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,And of ourselves and of our origins,In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
It also inspired THIS painting.
Hermes gets everything he wants, and this is because he understands the concept of gift giving. He makes a shell into a lyre and gives it to Apollo etc.
He is also the guide to the underworld.
"Guide of Souls" and Interfaces
The Three Bee Maidens
In the Greek Homeric Hymn to Hermes written down in the eighth century BC, the god Apollo speaks of three female seers as three bees or bee-maidens, who like himself, practiced divination:
There are some Fates sisters born,
maidens hree of them, adorned with swift wings.
Their heads are sprinkled over ith white barley meal,
wind they make their homes under the cliffs of Parnassus.
They taught divination far off from me, the art I used to practise
round my cattle while still a boy.
These sacred bee-maidens with their gift of prophecy, were to be Apollo’s gift to Hermes, the god who alone could lead the souls of the dead out of life and sometimes back again. The etymology of the word ‘fate’ in Greek offers a fascinating example of how the genius of the Minoan vision entered the Greek language, often visibly, as well as informing its stories of goddesses and gods. The Greek word for ‘fate’, ‘death’ and ‘goddess of death’ is e ker (feminine); the word for’heart’ and ‘breast’ is to ker (neuter); while the word for ‘honeycomb’ is to kerion (neuter). The common root ker links the ideas fo the honeycomb, goddess, death, fate and the human heart, a nexus of meanings that is illumined if we know that the goddess was once imagined as a bee. (thebeegoddesses.com)
Antigone:
The Three Tragedians:
- Aeschyleus
- Sophocles
- Euripides
Aeschyleus
- cosmic
- positive
- wrote the trilogy about Orestes
- wrote Prometius bound and unbound
Sophocles
- formal
- precise
- has been studeis for 2000 yrs
- wrote the Theban plays: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides
- chrolicle
- horrifying notion with complete decimation of humans
- at the end of these play writes eras
Thursday, February 5, 2009
February 4 Class Notes
Answer the Question:
Have you ever stolen something and then lied about it?
Just think of Hermes in this type of situation. He does what he needs to in order to get away Scot free.
The Myth of The Eternal Return
The diary entry by David Boyer
secular modern humanity
the modern idea lof time: time is linear : more complex than an unrepeatable event
Imagination
Like a Geography, one that is meant to be explored. Take advantage of every opportunity to do so once we know our imagination there are no bounds.
Plutocracy: ruling on the basis of death aka Hades Rules!!!
Groundhog's day and Hermes and Demeter and Persephone are all the same and each is related however the exist on different worlds. Which is why there are so many paralells between them. Hermes and Bill Murray pushing the limits to see what they can get away with. Demeter and Persephone and the observation of rituals just like the oberservation of the theme of Groundhogs day.
Time:
It is linear,
You already know things, but you just forgot, and therefore must recolect what you forgot
Lewis Hyde:
Tricksters make this world go around.
Best architype for Hermes(Mercurial is his Roman name)
been there forever and we are the latest versions
Polytropic- one of many turns...two faced
Odysseus
Hermes
Alcibiades
Epithet- a nick name or a handle
"slim-ankled" Persephone
"swift-footed" Achilles
"wily" Odysseus
Hermes in modern times is Stewie
both are:
Coniving
Cynical
Enjoy Song and Dance
and enjoy being the baby with the blanket(innocent)
Have you ever stolen something and then lied about it?
Just think of Hermes in this type of situation. He does what he needs to in order to get away Scot free.
The Myth of The Eternal Return
The diary entry by David Boyer
secular modern humanity
the modern idea lof time: time is linear : more complex than an unrepeatable event
Imagination
Like a Geography, one that is meant to be explored. Take advantage of every opportunity to do so once we know our imagination there are no bounds.
Plutocracy: ruling on the basis of death aka Hades Rules!!!
Groundhog's day and Hermes and Demeter and Persephone are all the same and each is related however the exist on different worlds. Which is why there are so many paralells between them. Hermes and Bill Murray pushing the limits to see what they can get away with. Demeter and Persephone and the observation of rituals just like the oberservation of the theme of Groundhogs day.
Time:
It is linear,
You already know things, but you just forgot, and therefore must recolect what you forgot
Lewis Hyde:
Tricksters make this world go around.
Best architype for Hermes(Mercurial is his Roman name)
been there forever and we are the latest versions
Polytropic- one of many turns...two faced
Odysseus
Hermes
Alcibiades
Epithet- a nick name or a handle
"slim-ankled" Persephone
"swift-footed" Achilles
"wily" Odysseus
Hermes in modern times is Stewie
both are:
Coniving
Cynical
Enjoy Song and Dance
and enjoy being the baby with the blanket(innocent)
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Music is Divine
I am addicted to music. Anyway you want it that's the way I need it. I have been involved in music for what seems like my entire life. I take every opportunity to sing (but not in class) and enjoy what I do very much. When Professor Sexton mentioned that music was divine in class the other day, I was extremely excited. Music is the way in which we express ourselves, sometimes music says and explains things in ways that we ourselves do not even understand.
Music for me is a balm, it cures any sickness and can right any wrong. The power it holds over me is hypnotic. Just like Hermes lyre's power holds Apollo. Apollo is seduced by its power and makes everything that Hermes has done seem inconsequential. This music is a type of healing.
When music exists on this level for someone it holds a power that is indescribable. By just existing the music makes you feel better. It will never desert you, it will never stab you in the back, it will be your true friend always.
Perhaps this is what Apollo gains from the music. He gains the peace the serenity and the indescribable something that completes us within music. For music is truly divine, for it is what completes us and makes us last beyond death, because music never dies.
Music for me is a balm, it cures any sickness and can right any wrong. The power it holds over me is hypnotic. Just like Hermes lyre's power holds Apollo. Apollo is seduced by its power and makes everything that Hermes has done seem inconsequential. This music is a type of healing.
When music exists on this level for someone it holds a power that is indescribable. By just existing the music makes you feel better. It will never desert you, it will never stab you in the back, it will be your true friend always.
Perhaps this is what Apollo gains from the music. He gains the peace the serenity and the indescribable something that completes us within music. For music is truly divine, for it is what completes us and makes us last beyond death, because music never dies.
February 2 Class Notes
The Power of Groundhogs Day
It is believed to be one of the top 10 movies in existence.
It helps us to reach an understanding that there are no consequences for your actions. Everything is permitted and you will never be in trouble.
The present is all Bill Murray has, each day becomes part of his past and he understands patterns and rituals, now understands it and the quality of consciousness.
Shows the theories of Fredrick Niche.
will the eternal living of the same day...
with this belief there is an understanding that there are sacred rituals and it is a type of religious experience.
Willing your self to treat everyday as sacred makes you treat your life with the reverence due to the E. Mysteries. In a sense we must all become Bill Murray and as such we must know that the power of the imagination is important.
We must bring to one ordinary day the quality of imagination that we are truly capable of.
The ordinary is the extroirdinary if you have the eyes to see it and the ears to hear it.
Hermes
It is believed to be one of the top 10 movies in existence.
It helps us to reach an understanding that there are no consequences for your actions. Everything is permitted and you will never be in trouble.
The present is all Bill Murray has, each day becomes part of his past and he understands patterns and rituals, now understands it and the quality of consciousness.
Shows the theories of Fredrick Niche.
will the eternal living of the same day...
with this belief there is an understanding that there are sacred rituals and it is a type of religious experience.
Willing your self to treat everyday as sacred makes you treat your life with the reverence due to the E. Mysteries. In a sense we must all become Bill Murray and as such we must know that the power of the imagination is important.
We must bring to one ordinary day the quality of imagination that we are truly capable of.
The ordinary is the extroirdinary if you have the eyes to see it and the ears to hear it.
Hermes
- is a badass
- exhibits the place in our lfie for mischief and mischief makers
- live fast, love hard, and have a good looking corpse is his motto
- brings humans messages from the Gods
- coined the phrase "I was just born yesterday"
Sunday, February 1, 2009
January 30 Class Notes
Metis was a woman who it was said would bear a child stronger than its father so Zeus ate Metis (which means wisdom) and nine months later had a horrendous headache. He had the foraging god open his head and out came Athena. This girl was a daddy's girl.
The difference between Zeus and his predicessors is his ability to think through problems and he uses his brain to solve problems.
Prometis was an immortal who was able to see into the future. Zeus did not want to be overthrown by his offspring so he went to Prometis to ask him what woman he needed to avoid (because he couldnt remain faithful to Hera obviously) Prometis refused to tell him so Zeus chained him to a rock and everyday an eagle would come and peck at his skin and eat out his liver, and every night he would regenerate. Finally he broke down and told him that he had to stay away from Thesis. Zeus then married her off to Peleous and so Achilles was conceived....
You Just Had to Be There
Eleucinian Mysteries. The inducties were awestruck by what the had seen done, heard, shown. It was one of those life changing experiences. One that cannot be explained one that....you just had to be there. The cutting of the grain...a symbol of Demeter....is something that would be considered crazy to them.
Finally on Persephone and Demeter
the level of anagog or the "woo-woo" which means beyond the earthly into the heavenly realm which describes their mother/daughter relationship.
Life and Death and the interdependency on life and death. which is like Persephone's story. For Persephone to live her life
she must face death.
Read Mark 14 and
John 12:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
So though crops die when they are cut they still give life to us in return.
Music Anywhere
The first musical concert was Hermes and basically was the birth of music.
Music is a divine thing one that is the essence of our being.
Music almost makes us immortal.
Hermes wanted to be a God gives lyre all music is sacred. which transitions to all music is sacred.
touches chords of divinity in you.
Homework:
find the song that you sang when you were little and drove your family crazy
The difference between Zeus and his predicessors is his ability to think through problems and he uses his brain to solve problems.
Prometis was an immortal who was able to see into the future. Zeus did not want to be overthrown by his offspring so he went to Prometis to ask him what woman he needed to avoid (because he couldnt remain faithful to Hera obviously) Prometis refused to tell him so Zeus chained him to a rock and everyday an eagle would come and peck at his skin and eat out his liver, and every night he would regenerate. Finally he broke down and told him that he had to stay away from Thesis. Zeus then married her off to Peleous and so Achilles was conceived....
You Just Had to Be There
Eleucinian Mysteries. The inducties were awestruck by what the had seen done, heard, shown. It was one of those life changing experiences. One that cannot be explained one that....you just had to be there. The cutting of the grain...a symbol of Demeter....is something that would be considered crazy to them.
Finally on Persephone and Demeter
the level of anagog or the "woo-woo" which means beyond the earthly into the heavenly realm which describes their mother/daughter relationship.
Life and Death and the interdependency on life and death. which is like Persephone's story. For Persephone to live her life
she must face death.
Read Mark 14 and
John 12:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
So though crops die when they are cut they still give life to us in return.
Music Anywhere
The first musical concert was Hermes and basically was the birth of music.
Music is a divine thing one that is the essence of our being.
Music almost makes us immortal.
Hermes wanted to be a God gives lyre all music is sacred. which transitions to all music is sacred.
touches chords of divinity in you.
Homework:
find the song that you sang when you were little and drove your family crazy
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