Thursday, October 31, 2013

153Culture: Rosenstock's 'Objective' for New Era

153Culture: Rosenstock's 'Objective' for New Era

Background:  Rosenstock-Huessy, Universal History 1954.  He says the challenge of our Neo-Tribal era is to glorify the tribal social order by keeping the small, enthusiastic groups, and by getting rid of the perpetual warfare. (Israel was glorified in the Church after He Who Reversed The Trend by getting rid of exclusiveness, and the Empire social order was glorified, he said, by getting rid of slavery)

Also, Clint Gardner's summary of the Revolutions of the West in 'Beyond Belief'. Each revolution has an Imperative, a Subjective, a Narrative, and an Objective that is taken out for Planetary Service.  Rhyming other covenant sequences, we get: Me, I, We, They.  Law, Lyric, Evaluation, Fact, New Torah (Instruction). Etc.

My proposals are: The Symphony of (Comprehensive) History (Interactive) [TSOH]for Imperative.  Pella Square/How To Make Your Communities Better for Subjective.  Calendar Of Peace Priming/House Of Singing Times [HOST] for Narrative. 153Culture for Objectve, toward something similar to Planetary Service.

153Culture has 49 new 'tribes'/social orders, may be nations, universities, etc. one for each book of the Jordan literarily-organized Bible.  49 from systematic theology like unto the Heidelberg Catechism (52 Lord's Days, some combined, some added?). 49 from Maturationally Given, organizations/social orders to mature us.  And TheBigSix--to make 153 we need 6 more than 49x3=147.

So far I'm thinking the Sexual Thing, given that Japan's young are not having sex, per a recent report, and the whole LGBT thing, with sex robots to be, etc.  A second is Wealth, how to handle the best time in history to make money (and new types of money, Bitcoin, Hour, Digital from metal, accounting entries, printed paper...). A third is Longevity (Kurzweil, Cryonics...) Isaiah 65:20.  A fourth might be discipling something such as The Red Sox Nation.

Blundering along.

Love in King Jesus,

Chuck


Friday, October 25, 2013

Use Imperative Stem Rightly: Reform Music in Liturgy


Use Imperative Stems Rightly
1--Somewhere in Magna Carta Latina, Rosenstock-Huessy makes a statement that Latin (verbs are?)is built up from the imperative stem.

This resounds. WHAT OTHER IMPERATIVE STEMS ARE THERE, AND WHAT IS BUILT UP FROM THEM?

This short paper proposes that music is one, that Revelation, written in Symbol, the Language, is another.  So too is liturgy, worship, and life (as seen in holidays celebrating the whole life of one now dead unto life, this one thing observed by the whole people, together at the same time). The Lord’s Day (the worship hour—it takes about an hour to read Revelation out loud) is the stem of the week. The week is a stem. Etc.

2—He also says that when men first cried out to God, they chanted.  This is best seen today in the Roman Mass and Jewish Synagogue.

3—Let us build the musical part of Lord’s Day liturgy to encompass all times and places of music, so that we may be commanded unto one man in all times and places, using imperative stems rightly.

We will build it from beginning to end, and from end to beginning. Thus--

We enter, we come in to the end, a great and magnificent symphony orchestra, including rhythmic movement dance, and including each playing an instrument—with even contemporary technology this can be shown, if not representatively done.  This is the stem of time beyond the End.

Respond with chant.

The remainder of the liturgy until--

Just before we leave, after being commissioned and blessed, we reverse the above, and ‘a great and magnificent symphony orchestra, including rhythmic movement, and including each playing an instrument—with even contemporary technology this can be shown, if not representatively done.’  This is the time beyond the End.

Respond with chant.

Q:What’s in the center?
A:From beginning to end,
from end to beginning,
the various songs of the Bible
and of the post-Bible times, our response.

Songs of the Bible are imperative stems,
from which other songs come,
and to which we return,
as we see in the above chant positions.

With the song sung by the morning stars (Job 38:7, and look up the Hebrew for ‘shouted’) in the background, the first half—before He WhoReversed The Trend, Jesus-- might look like this:

Example:Song of Red Sea responded to with
Example:Psalms (and wouldn’t Psalm 150 be nike (sic, conquering) were we to use the instruments
     Listed?)

Example: Tune of The Twelve* responded to with
Example:Retuning of the Universe at Ascension**

[There is not enough time in the Worship Hour/Lord’s Day, so
we might consider extending this over a number of (5?, 7?) weeks?]

In the second half, the singing after the Bible is complete, we would add a succession of songs (see Six Songs, the book?) showing the development that has happened, and that will happen, something that might look like this:

Example: Something such as the great orchestrated event thus described as ‘a great and magnificent symphony orchestra, including rhythmic movement, and including each playing an instrument—with even contemporary technology this can be shown, if not representatively done.’
Example: Responded to with chant.  ‘O Come O Come Emmanuel’ is plainsong. More could be done.

Example: Something with the pianoforte, invented circa1700.
Example: Something with strumming a smartphone, invented circa 2000.

These two pages above are an imperative stem, to which the flowering of the rest of language*** should return, in order to comprehend (grasp with?) all.  In other words, better musicians and liturgists can play/incubate this to the full, Lord willing.

‘The prophet is one who is taken beyond the end, in order to come back to say that words that bring that end about.’: Rosenstock, somewhere in Dartmouth lectures.

‘Audience absorbs, does not act. Artist acts’.: Summary of Rapoport appropriate to this kairos.

*Tune of The Twelve.  Put the 12 Minor Prophets in their chronological order over the 12 keys of an octave (if I understand it), 7 white and 5 black, on a piano of today.  Then stroke them in their theological order, as in the Bible of today.  Make rests and lengths of notes dependent on such things as length of the respective books, time between books being uttered, etc.  Maybe 4 chords, each with 3 notes. 
**Jordan maintains that as the Ascension is shown in Revelation 5:12 to Revelation 7:12, the universe is retuned.  From 1234567 to 4152(3)63(2)7. [Hartman maintains there’s another retuning: http://chuckhartmanhistoryconductor.blogspot.com/2012/06/retuned-7x7-pergamoscoram861-calendar.html] IN ADDITION, there is movement from saying to singing, to instruments, and there’s a change to ‘the’ in front of each attribute of the seven of Christ (or could it be ‘from’? I don’t remember).
***I haven’t finished this, but The Shadow and Night is an explicitly post-millennial science fiction work by Chris Walley, part of the Lame Among the Stars series, written under the inspiration of ‘The Puritan Hope’.
--
Herovolution
I believe Herovolution. God lovingly drags us into His future, changing us.
As we are chosen to be torn in the present between the future and the past, between in and out, our howl becomes music, and we the singing song.
(Faintly: Rests—absences—are as important as notes—presences.)
A hero is the man between times, the First Sufferer, the Protagonist. He Explicitly Reconciles Opposites.
--
Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up (Hos. 6:1), and John 6: 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
--
Both not both the one
And the other and both T.H.E.
One and the other


Submitted October 25, AnnoDomini 2013 (EphesusCORAM861) by Charles Howard Hartman, Strawbridge Conference on Reforming Church and Home at Christ the Redeemer, Pella, Iowa
Host16077UseImperativeStemsRightly


Leithart/First Things:In the early church, the heretics were the ones mouthing dusty truisms. The orthodox were the philosophically adventurous. - See more at: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2013/10/25/adventure-of-orthodoxy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.UFJmdWPJ.dpuf

Use Imperative Stems Rightly: Reform Music in Liturgy


Use Imperative Stems Rightly
1--Somewhere in Magna Carta Latina, Rosenstock-Huessy makes a statement that Latin (verbs are?)is built up from the imperative stem.

This resounds. WHAT OTHER IMPERATIVE STEMS ARE THERE, AND WHAT IS BUILT UP FROM THEM?

This short paper proposes that music is one, that Revelation, written in Symbol, the Language, is another.  So too is liturgy, worship, and life (as seen in holidays celebrating the whole life of one now dead unto life, this one thing observed by the whole people, together at the same time). The Lord’s Day (the worship hour—it takes about an hour to read Revelation out loud) is the stem of the week. The week is a stem. Etc.

2—He also says that when men first cried out to God, they chanted.  This is best seen today in the Roman Mass and Jewish Synagogue.

3—Let us build the musical part of Lord’s Day liturgy to encompass all times and places of music, so that we may be commanded unto one man in all times and places, using imperative stems rightly.

We will build it from beginning to end, and from end to beginning. Thus--

We enter, we come in to the end, a great and magnificent symphony orchestra, including rhythmic movement dance, and including each playing an instrument—with even contemporary technology this can be shown, if not representatively done.  This is the stem of time beyond the End.

Respond with chant.

The remainder of the liturgy until--

Just before we leave, after being commissioned and blessed, we reverse the above, and ‘a great and magnificent symphony orchestra, including rhythmic movement, and including each playing an instrument—with even contemporary technology this can be shown, if not representatively done.’  This is the time beyond the End.

Respond with chant.


Q:What’s in the center?
A:From beginning to end,
from end to beginning,
the various songs of the Bible
and of the post-Bible times, our response.

Songs of the Bible are imperative stems,
from which other songs come,
and to which we return,
as we see in the above chant positions.

With the song sung by the morning stars (Job 38:7, and look up the Hebrew for ‘shouted’) in the background, the first half—before He WhoReversed The Trend, Jesus-- might look like this:

Example:Song of Red Sea responded to with
Example:Psalms (and wouldn’t Psalm 150 be nike (sic, conquering) were we to use the instruments
     Listed?)

Example: Tune of The Twelve* responded to with
Example:Retuning of the Universe at Ascension**

[There is not enough time in the Worship Hour/Lord’s Day, so
we might consider extending this over a number of (5?, 7?) weeks?]

In the second half, the singing after the Bible is complete, we would add a succession of songs (see Six Songs, the book?) showing the development that has happened, and that will happen, something that might look like this:

Example: Something such as the great orchestrated event thus described as ‘a great and magnificent symphony orchestra, including rhythmic movement, and including each playing an instrument—with even contemporary technology this can be shown, if not representatively done.’
Example: Responded to with chant.  ‘O Come O Come Emmanuel’ is plainsong. More could be done.

Example: Something with the pianoforte, invented circa1700.
Example: Something with strumming a smartphone, invented circa 2000.


These two pages above are an imperative stem, to which the flowering of the rest of language*** should return, in order to comprehend (grasp with?) all.  In other words, better musicians and liturgists can play/incubate this to the full, Lord willing.

‘The prophet is one who is taken beyond the end, in order to come back to say that words that bring that end about.’: Rosenstock, somewhere in Dartmouth lectures.

‘Audience absorbs, does not act. Artist acts’.: Summary of Rapoport appropriate to this kairos.

*Tune of The Twelve.  Put the 12 Minor Prophets in their chronological order over the 12 keys of an octave (if I understand it), 7 white and 5 black, on a piano of today.  Then stroke them in their theological order, as in the Bible of today.  Make rests and lengths of notes dependent on such things as length of the respective books, time between books being uttered, etc.  Maybe 4 chords, each with 3 notes. 
**Jordan maintains that as the Ascension is shown in Revelation 5:12 to Revelation 7:12, the universe is retuned.  From 1234567 to 4152(3)63(2)7. [Hartman maintains there’s another retuning: http://chuckhartmanhistoryconductor.blogspot.com/2012/06/retuned-7x7-pergamoscoram861-calendar.html] IN ADDITION, there is movement from saying to singing, to instruments, and there’s a change to ‘the’ in front of each attribute of the seven of Christ (or could it be ‘from’? I don’t remember).
***I haven’t finished this, but The Shadow and Night is an explicitly post-millennial science fiction work by Chris Walley, part of the Lame Among the Stars series, written under the inspiration of ‘The Puritan Hope’.
--
Herovolution
I believe Herovolution. God lovingly drags us into His future, changing us.
As we are chosen to be torn in the present between the future and the past, between in and out, our howl becomes music, and we the singing song.
(Faintly: Rests—absences—are as important as notes—presences.)
A hero is the man between times, the First Sufferer, the Protagonist. He Explicitly Reconciles Opposites.
--
Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up (Hos. 6:1), and John 6: 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

--
Both not both the one
And the other and both T.H.E.
One and the other


Submitted October 25, AnnoDomini 2013 (EphesusCORAM861) by Charles Howard Hartman, Strawbridge Conference on Reforming Church and Home at Christ the Redeemer, Pella, Iowa
Host16077UseImperativeStemsRightly
Leithart/First Things:In the early church, the heretics were the ones mouthing dusty truisms. The orthodox were the philosophically adventurous. - See more at: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2013/10/25/adventure-of-orthodoxy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.UFJmdWPJ.dpuf

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The Situation: A Solution

THE SITUATION:  There will be disruptions. And the church seems monetarily weak. Debts/defaults, job losses, increased poverty, moral crises…and to do things costs.
[This could be stated MUCH more radically]
Disruptions where? 1—From increased technology. It increases the space over which one can operate, decreases the time it takes to do something, and destroys old groups.*
And 2—From changes in governing. [This could also be stated MUCH more radically]

But this is the best time in history to make money.

A SOLUTION: Everyone needs another source of income, preferably internet-based. (Gary ‘2 hours a day’ North) He’s written 40+ books in 2 hours a day since 1973.
--
I’ll help.**

What seem to be some of the best options?
1—You Talk. I Write. Your Book. (If businessmen with money are approached in the right way by showing them how to use a book (electronic) to gain new customers, and what the lifetime value of a new customer is, namely, the number of years a customer/client stays with a business, times the amount of business done, times the profit margin.  [5 years x $1000 per year @ 10% margin equals $500, for example].
Use talk to text or Naturally Speaking. The 5 Most Dangerous Threats to Your _____ Busimess in the Year Ahead.
2—Grow Food Not Lawns (Covault Gardening). Customer has lawn, customer pays gardener, gardener tills (if necessary), plants, weeds (or uses straw or hay, etc.), and customer harvests, eats, enjoys. Many additional services can be offered. Examples:  Year One, do gardens and write a book as you go. Year Two, sell book and do consulting, and expand services. Year Three, do a membership site. @ $5 a month x 500 people this would provide good income.
3—Community Supported Artist. This is good, but almost impossible.
4—There may be some way to become a teacher in various niche curricula, such as the Ron Paul Curriculum.  In that one (RPC) the teachers get half the course fee, and teach only by video lecture.
6--If 50% of the food is wasted, there’s something of value to be done. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/10/half-world-food-waste
7--There are many other opportunities.  Here’s a client of mine who has published ebooks. He’ll help in that area for a fee. One of his books:http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-reason-season-ebook/dp/B00AKXVB6E
He consults on ebook writing and publishing.
Dan Spencer: dds344@hotmail.com  :: Half-hour phone consultation, $25

When you have another source of income,
you are more stable
during disruptions, economic and political.
--



What does my help cost? 5% of gross profit, plus 5% of stock. 10% of gross until stock.
PLUS
the same to the church. I do this latter for two reasons. 1—It’s good business, every one will help everyone else. 2—It’s temporary. We don’t want to be like the Roman Catholics who for a temporary purpose, church discipline *Rosenstock-Huessy says, forbade priests to marry, and wrongly said this was the way it always was and always had to be OR the Wesleyans, who did something similar with drinking and Sunday activities.
You don’t have to retain me.
Free wisdom from Jay Abraham is at http://www.abraham.com/profitresources/
Jay’s the highest-paid marketing consultant.
Here’s a distillation of important Jay principles:
REBUILTNNEEWW.
Risk Reversal, Endorsements, Back-end, Unique Service Proposition, direct response not Indirect, Love your client/customer, Test, address Needs, market to the decision-maker and No one else, Educate your way out of a problem, make it Easy to do business, when something Works keep doing it, give a reason Why.
--
What I’d do if I were unemployed, and am doing before I need to do it.
The story is that Henry Ford was asked during the Great Depression what HE would do if HE were unemployed.  Here’s what he is reported to have said:
If I were unemployed, I'd do something like this. Go down the street asking at houses if there were anything they wanted done, free. Do one thing, go to the next house. Keep going. After a while, people might hear of me and ask if I could help them. I'd have a longer and longer list of chores, and eventually someone would offer to pay me something to get to the top of the list, maybe? Were I good at selling, or helping businesses, etc., I'd do the same for businesses. Moral: Do something, get noticed. There's lots to be done.

--

Call to action: Tell me a little about what business you might want to do, and OK the monetary arrangements, so we can talk. After we talk, you can OK them again and we can get started—the monetary arrangements aren’t final until we both agree after we’ve talked.

A little about what business you might want to do: (Please also write on the back of this sheet, if needed). Start with 25 words, your ‘elevator pitch’.


OK:  _____  Name ____________________________________________________
PS: Per the 80/20 rule, 16 possible entrepreneurs could mean 3 or so businesses.

I’ll be doing this too (my calling): http://chuckhartmanhistoryconductor.blogspot.com/2013/03/revolutions-of-west-gardner-summarizes.html Host15078TheSituationASolutionBusinessesForCongregationMembers