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6-27-12 IS LOVE A FEELING? (continued)

June 27, 2012
There is a popular song called "Feelings".

There are songs which speak of "feeling --- and being in love".

Or "that loving feeling".

Or "the thrill is gone".

And who could ever forget "Gloria": G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria.
Coming to KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, on my door.

Or "you give me fever".

Etc. etc. etc. - the list could go on and on for months;  maybe even years.

So, what does this tell us?

That there is some kind of common conception which links love and feelings and sexuality, all into one very unhealthy lump.

It is easy to see the feeling and sexuality going together.

But,  WHERE IS THE LOVE?

Look at what has happened here.

FEELINGS have been substituted for LOVE, in the sense of self-sacrifice.

Doesn't sound like too bad of thing at first glance, yes?

That is, until we start looking at the physio/chemical basis of the "feelings" which are being called "love", with sexuality replacing self-sacrifice, in a very twisted and bizarre way.

As I told yesterday, it is really all about RESPECT!

Respect can grow over the years, each and every year that you live.

"Feelings" cannot.

Neither can "sex".

Don't believe me?

Then run a query on Viagra, and hope that you don't get linked to all of the weird sites which I did, inadvertently, several years ago.

Need I say more?

They are simply trying to maintain their waning sexuality in some strange attempt at staying young forever while aging faster and faster (exponentially) by the second.

Do I sense some sort of a disconnect from reality here, or what?

Sexuality does not grow with age.

It diminishes.

Oh, but what about those "feelings".

Surely they will be there still?  Yes?

Uhhh, hmmmm, NO!

Let's step back for just a moment and look at a highly oversimplified picture of just what is going on here.

Most people are familiar with the concept of "fight/flight".

Your body is fully adrenalized and pumped up and ready to either tear your attacker to shreds, if at all possible, or to run as fast as possible in order to effect an escape.

The same system which causes this all to take place can also create and control what we call "emotions".

For example, everything is going just fine.

The telephone rings.

You just somehow know that it is going to be VERY BAD news!

You shudder, visibly, as you suddenly realize that your stomach is full of "butterflies" and you are quickly going from feeling really good to feeling, first, a liitle bit sick, and then upon answering and hearing the voice on the other end, and just beginning to realize the gravity of the situation, you now find your stomach full of knots as you suddenly feel like you had either better sit down or fall down.

This has all happened in a matter of seconds.

How is that even possible?  one should be asking oneself, rather than simply taking the matter for granted because it has happened to so many of us so many times.

Chemistry, is the answer you are looking for.

Specifically, the chemistry of fight/flight, or of emotions and emotional (i.e. physio/chemical) responses.

As any woman who is in menopause, or who is about to be, or has just finished, knows, hormones can cause the wildest of mood swings (oh, did I forget those who have to live with this?).

From happy one moment to crying and screaming the next.

We all begin to wonder about their sanity as well as ours, just as a matter of course, it being so plain that this is what is at issue here.

That is the power of chemistry.

Imagine when the body wants to make babies.

Do you suppose there could be a chemistry related to this?

Pheromenes, and all?

This is why the feelings are, quite simply put, completely unsustainable.

It is like the second law of thermodynamics (from higher order to lower order to entropy) has come into play at high speed.

So, if a relationship (read, MOST relationships) is based upon feelings, what is going to happen either when the feeling is gone, or when it has been replaced by something more mature or growth-oriented?

Now what will happen is one of the saddest things which I have ever seen (and that would make it VERY SAD!, indeed).

The rest of the entirely unsustainable relationship (complete with expensive wedding, expensive children, and now expensive divorce = OUCH! = that's getting way too expensive for my blood) is now spent trying to resurrect that "feeling", which has long since vanished, along with the chemicals which actually caused it in the first place, in some kind of grand cosmic joke, which is NOT funny.

So, now the house will be filled with the saddest sounds ever heard.

O.K., choir, let's hear just one more refrain---

FEEEEEEEEEELINGS.   OH, I'VE GOT THOSE FEEEEELINGS.

I can't even begin to tell you just how much my skin bristles and how angry I get at the sound of that thing.

So, where is the mutual respect?

It went out the window within a year, or two at the most.

Everything after that is and has been make-believe.

And there just went your life, like a vapor, or like the morning dew which we are told that it is so similar to.


gotta go.

plenty more to say, I am sure.


1:03 p.m. (dst, actually)

6-27-12

Ventura, California, USA
 

6-26-12 IS LOVE A FEELING?

June 26, 2012
The foundation upon which all else sits is RESPECT.

MUTUAL RESPECT is what sustains any long term relationship between couples.

If you doubt for even one second what I am saying, then take away the repsect and let's see just how long this state of affairs is going to continue with contempt and well deserved mutual contempt and disrespect for one another.

This is when they come to me.

And I am supposed to fix this?

Yea, sure ---

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6-25-12 WHAT IS THIS THING ---? (cont)

June 25, 2012
O.K, so let's see how this plays out in the real world.

TEENAGE SEX
and YOUNG PREMARITAL SEX
 
Let's start with the fact that the frontal lobe of the cranium does not become fully functioning before 18 years of age.

This means just what it looks like.

A lack of higher reasoning power until about 20 years old.

Cannot see the consequences of the actions, at all!

The symphysis pubis on women does not become fully developed, such that it is able to open and let the baby out, until the woman is 18 years o...

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6-25-12 SO WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?

June 25, 2012
When most people think of love they think of emotions and emotional responses.

They do not think about cleaning dirty diapers all day and all night long, or calming little children who are teething and thus screaming all day and all night long.

No, instead, they think of boy and girl somewhere that they will soon be having sex if at all possible.

This is the sex=love=sex nexus.

In the prior post we established, for purposes of this writing, that underneath all love, properly defined, there is a h...

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6-22-12 ON THE ROAD AGAIN

June 22, 2012
Northbound 101.

To Highway 1.

To where the forests meet the sea.

All business.

Note that I am posting the texts to the various plainchants which I have posted so far.

I hope to give translations of them soon.

It is all a matter of having the time and the willingness to deal with the unbelievable tedium.

Those don't always go together simultaneously.

As a matter of fact ---

Now, now, I guess I had better not go there.

Just for the record we are preparing artwork this next week for several album covers a...

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6-22-12 - PLAINCHANT TEXT - DIES IRAE

June 22, 2012
DIES IRAE

Dies irae

dies illa

solvet saeclum infanvilla

teste David cum Sibylla


Quantus tremorest futurus

quando judex est venturus

cuncta stricte

discussurus


Tuba mirum spargens sonum

per sepulchra regionum

coget omnes ante thronum


Mors stupebit et natura

cum resurget creatura

judicanti responsura


Liber scriptus proferetur

in quo totum continetur

unde mundus judicetur


Judex ergo cum sedebit

quid quid latet apparebit

nil inultum remanebit


Quid sum miser tunc dictu rus?

Que...


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6-12-21 PLAINCHANT TEXT - SALVE REGINA

June 21, 2012
SALVE REGINA

Salve Regina

mater miserericordiae

vita

dulcedo

et spes nostra

salve


Ad te clammus

exsules

filii Hevae


Ad te suspiramus

gementes et flentes in hac lacrimareum valle


Eia ergo

Advocata nostra

illos tuos misericordes occulos

ad nos converte


Ed Jesum

benedictum fructum ventris

tui nobis post hoc exsilium ostende


O clemens

O pia

O dulcis Virgo Maria


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6-21-12 PLAINCHANT TEXT - O Virgo Pulcherrima

June 21, 2012

O VIRGO PULCHERRIMA

O Virgo Pulcherrima

O mater melliflua

O Dei filia


O stella clarissima

O rosa purissima

O pascens lilia!


O lumen lumunam

O flos convallium

O labis nescia


O decvus virginum

O spes fidelium

O plenna gratia


Facnos tuum Filium amare in perpetuum

Mater pia


Ac perduc in gaudium Olympi suavissimum

O Maria


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6-20-12 EVENING POST

June 21, 2012

It is 9:40 p.m., Wednesday night.

I am as sleepy right now as I was at 1:30 a.m. last night.

No explaining these things.

So, if I fall asleep in the middle of a sentence, don't worry.

It's only insomnia which has finally played out into a full blown comatose state.

Not to worry ---

Or, as my Hispanic brothers and sisters would say, "da nada", i.e. "it is nothing".

While I need to continue my little dissertation on "mastering", this is definitely not the time for that.

So, what instead?, I am wonder...


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6-20-12 LYRICS to plainchants

June 20, 2012

SUBVENITE SANCTI DEI

Subvenite Sancti Dei
Occurrite Angeli Domini
suspcipientes animame jus
offerentes eam inconspectu Altissimi

Suscipiatte Christus
qui vocavitte et in sinum
Abrahae Angeli deducante

Suscipientes animame jus
offerentes eam inconspectu Altissimi

Requiem aeternam donna ei Domine
et lux perpetua luceat ei

Offerentes eam inconspectu Altissimi


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