Fascinating stuff

It had been so close to coming out in a question anytime a class discussed how the sins of a parent could be passed on to a child, this troubles me as a Mormon because" We believe that man must be punished for his own sins... " but, clearly, we all are inheriting more than our physical bodies from Adam and Eve.

Then, there was always the whole "Nature vs. Nurture" debate, which I solved within myself by allowing them to "agree to disagree" or inderstanding them both to play a part on development. And as a member of the LDS religious organizatiom, I accepted responsibility for the things I inherited, by birth. Huh?

Ok, yesterday, I was talking to a very wise woman who agreed that our conversations naturally carry alot of "back story" that makes external conversation difficult. So, here is a bit of backstory to aide in understanding my otherwise cryptic speech, a cipher maybe, ok...

We believe that we existed before we were ever born. In this existence, we were much as we are now, only we had spiritual bodies, and noticed that not everyone did, and so we wanted a body, too, but, more than that, we wanted to continue progressing. A plan was devised to help us reach this goal, and that lead to birth, redemption.

Altight, so now you are suredly on the same page, and realize what I mean by expressing a responsibility for the situations I inherited as a babe. Because, in order to accept a physical body, which takes a top priority, I agreed to the justice of inheriting more than genes.

I also believe in justice and this is the foundationsl assertion for so many things considered faith. In this case, it explains how it could in any way be fair to be born into situations that seem hopeless in comparison, or as in a Barbie movie two seeming indentical girls and one is born to debt and poverty while the other is a princess, this demonstrates that an apparent cruelty to an undeserving baby is actually an evidence that there must,be a God, and all spirits inherit more than just their body because they existed before their birth, so this fancy footwork explains how a person could appear to inherit the sins of their fathers, and how any blameless one could inherit any sin through birth, which is necessary to understand for any Christian.

This is one of the beautiful this Latter-day Saints believe, ", believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind can be saved.... "

I feel like the C.S.Lewis of Mormonism giving hard earned ( but easy) answers/conclusions to difficult questions, but I stop here and refer you to Mormon.Org if you have any further questions about transgenerational inhereitance and it's place in Mormonism. Suffice it to say, it does despite first impressions fit nicely if you are inclined to consider what look like initial contradictions.

Strange to be glad

I am glad, and it is strange, and sort of unearthly, but I am gappy to never be noticed. It is almost like it defies explination that I go unnoticed, but I am so glad for it, honestly. I saw a video about 10 years ago where two people left a building in an empty lot. They were twins. The first went unnoticed, the seccond had a desire to be flamboyant and as he exited the building a huge flock of sea gulls descended on him in his outlandish fruit hat. A conclusion of the video was this message: be careful in drawing attention, it does not always work out well for us.

Good songs

After reviewing many of my own songs written so long ago as to not be instantly recognizeable as to what I was thinking, I realized something.

Maybe I was a good song writer because I could not express myself. Because, I was not able to follow the thought I had, I applied what I said to what I was currently thinking and thought, brilliant! Although, at the time I "meant" no such thing, It feels like I wrote about what I got out of it. So, maybe good songs and poetry are the ones that capture a relationship's dynamics and yet remain vague enough to apply to anything the audience thinks up. Thus, each reader independantly thinks the words were  written precisely for their situation, and appeal can reach greater numbers.

Everything I write is like that, and I was working on fixing it.I was working on trying to say exactly what *I* was thinking. Instead of being "cryptic" I could be "concise". Usually, I just am writing as I think only my fingers cannot keep up so I have to see what I was saying and that generates a new thought, sort of a tangent from the original until the original is forgotten in written words and a new meaning takes shape in my songs, peobably entirely unlike what I started to write in the first place.

I remember in English class in high school (Elkhart Central) a teacher sort of disected a song as a piece of literature. It was by the walking dead I believe all I remember is that it made no sense at first, but that was the charm. It called out for instrumental help and we had to actually study it out, for surely the writer had something worth saying. This was quite influencial to me cause I thought, "hmm. This is what the kids like? Well, anyone can say things without making sense." As we delved into it one peer asked, " how we knew that was what it was about, maybe it just said something backwards. Another answered and said, "Yeah, It doesn't seem any different than those poems that you tell us means something, but how do we know? The teacher explained that was precisely her point. I thought it was that songs are nothing without music, but she taught us that poetry and lyrics have meanings and they are worth our time to figure out.