Featured Is creating rhythm with phrases witchcraft?

Guido, you communicate well. No need to apologize.

My opinion (and it's only my opinion), is that if you are concerned about it, stay away from it.

I wouldn't have even considered reading a book that I thought might be concerned with witchcraft.
Some things you just need to stay away from. They are designed to deceive and lead people astray.

The Hebrew Scriptures use metering, rhythm, rhyming, and other various forms of poetry.
Rhythm, metering and phrasing is part of poetry.
Poetry can communicate beauty and truth in ways that plain, simple sentences cannot.

That being said, some forms of writing can be abused and be misleading.
If you are troubled by something you see, set it aside, throw it way, or delete it from your computer.

Rob

 

If you are hearing voices, there may be a problem.

Some preachers, like John Hagee’s son, do use a “singsong” manner of rapid-fire talking meant to stir emotions, which I see as subtle manipulation, not necessarily witchcraft, and no, I won’t watch nor listen to him. A couple of times was enough.

 

Brevity is the soul of wit.

"that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (A. Lincoln)

"The integrity of the upright will guide them,
But the perversity of the treacherous will destroy them."

 

I gotta ask, why tune into anything Hagee related?

 

Yea, without Christ I would agree

 

All three quotations are applicable to humanity, whether lost or saved.

 

He coined and makes reference to the pretend rock group,
"Hormone Hairy and The Urge to Merge".

Don't ask me how or why I saw him say that...

Or why it's the only thing I ever remember hearing him say...

Or why I would ever post it or such a thing like it...

I don't know.

Pray for me Pray for me Pray for me.

I'm so sorry.

For everything I've ever done or said that wasn't Right.

And he ain't right.

 

I don’t. Randomly channel clicking with the up or down arrow, the channel will eventually connect.

 

"Point of Contact", man.

Don't put your hands up on the screen!

You might wind up going to one of his meetings!!!!

 

Cool. Very cool. Go Gangbusters, man!! Godspeed!!

You're all good. You are where you are.
Probably a lot better than you think you are!

I think Shakespeare said,
"We Know What We Are, But We Know Not What We Can Be!!"

That has always been a great encouragement to me.

Examples of talented people 'setting out', as they were commencing
to share with the world their expressions of music, or art,
or writings have oftentimes been really great in and of themselves.

(Although other very fractionalized life values differ between us and them,
Elton John and his writing partner's big first hit was "Your Song",
which had the power to arouse deep compassion, in gratitude for the fellow human being that it was sung to and about, produced a noted emotional contribution to pop music, by itself, right off Jump Street; then he said,
"They never looked back".....

Your Song.

"If I was a sculptor, heh
But then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelin' show, oh
I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you.

"And you can tell everybody
This is your song
It may be quite simple, but
Now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is
While you're in the world.

"I sat on the roof
And kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses
Well, they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind
While I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on.")

Then, there's this boss I had who'd viewed some originals
of van Gogh's first sketches that were being shown in town
and said that he wasn't all that impressed with them. Well, big deal.

I wonder what van Gogh would have said about him
and all the great accomplishments he'd made in art,
or anything else, I thought!!

So, some people have more enrapturing, endearing, and captivating
things to offer more than others, to mention only three aspects of the
innumerable qualities that can be vividly expressed
in a stirring communication.

"For who hath despised the day of small things?" Zechariah 4:10.
No need to concern yourself with your efforts at this stage, in other words.
Praise the Lord, YOU'RE WRITING!!!

You're ON IT! We know you are, just by you saying:
"I am simply experimenting
on whether I am skilled enough with certain basic principles of clarity
and composition in part to attend to the rhythm without loss of accuracy"!!!
Yeah. You go, man!!

SOMEBODY TURN THIS GUY LOOSE!!

Miles Davis had some other musicians ask him what note he'd thrown
into a certain part of the sessions they'd just played and he said,
"Oh, I was just jammin', man". Well, that didn't sit well with the other guys.

He said that they told him,
"If you don't know what you were doing there, you ain't doin' nothing".

In other words, they wanted to know where he was at
within the score and composition
and what he was thinking about as far as the very structure
and design of that musical piece,
for him to have chosen to play those notes he did.

And he'd had no clue. Even though, 'it had worked' and sounded great.
He couldn't articulate it for himself or the benefit of others.

Thus, Miles Davis was introduced to "Music Theory",
and the rest is history...

Now, he could 'make it work on purpose' and repeat what he'd done
and improve on or even improvise with, what he had as a foundation.

On a personal note, I have not got the slightest idea
on how a sermon should be composed, at all.

And it is ridiculous of me and terrifying to have the Holy Spirit bear
the responsibility for what I'm saying to come across and make sense,
but He certainly has and does.

(I need to find somebody to ask something, EVERYTHING, about it,
like you're doing).

And ask me Who gets ALL the credit, when He knows that I'm saying to Him, as I'm walking up to the pulpit, "I can't do this" and "I don't know what I'm going to talk about for sure" and then He draws from what I've studied here on the BB
and elsewhere, that He may have given me some scratchings of some notes and ideas on,
AND THEN IT WORKS OUT AND IT DOES WELL.

IT'S ALL HIM.

So, be sure to pray and give it to Him, having your audience in mind,
praying for them, and asking God what it is He wants you to say.

Yeah, that's right. (Wait a minute!) Your structure, discipline, and theory
just flew over my head!!! I'll have to Google all that and get back to you!!!

While considering all the technical stuff, be sure to attempt
not to get too hung up about what other 'judges'
are going to make of your work.

I let 'theory' just about paralyze my fine artwork.
I'd find myself looking at an unfinished work that I'd thought was all but lost
and see a better-finished painting in them, than what I thought
that I was seeking to accomplish in the first place.

Just write.

God knows every artist's studio has preliminary sketches
and 'color studies' that will rival many more accomplished efforts,
as being true, beautiful, and expressive: "ART".

So, just write and enjoy all of it, every bit of it, beginning to end,
and PREACH, too!

"Writing"/"Preaching" might be "WHO YOU ARE"!

If so, you won't be Happy Unless YOU DO!!

 

Everyone is multifunction… expand yourself, dream big and don’t pay attention to critics and you @Guido.com will do fine.

 

Why would ambition make one neglect the Lord?

 

I gotta say MrW that at first you had me concerned with your opinions on my PB beliefs but since I’ve interacted with you I’ve noted that you are sincere in your beliefs … and I particularly like the no nonsense approach… flat and right between the eyes.