Bible Stories: Universal Themes

The Bible is the best place to read about the human condition and existence.

Example: Jonah, a guy who refused to accept his life situation and circumstances.

Character arc: The thing he needs grace and mercy he has to find in himself before he can give it away.

The STORY: We all want to run away from life from the people and places we hate.
Is that a realistic option? NO!

If we won't willingly confront or meet lifes challenges situations and circumstances, it will force us to do so, willingly or not.

WHAT is the SOLUTION? Jonah, tries to run away, LIFE turns AGAINST HIM, the ANTAGONIST that LIFE will OPPOSE and thwart every attempt to escape the people and places we hate and the destiny LIFE has. 

THE MACRO: The other that Jonah hates is a larger picture of The MICRO: Jonah's life, himself.

Reflect your characters INNER STORY with their OUTER STORY and JOURNEY!

What small problem becomes the bigger problem externally if they can not solve it internally?

THAT is CHARACTER GROWTH the development and ARC!

WHAT is the lesson or POINT? Jonah, has to learn to LOVE the people and places he hates.
He can't do that without first loving himself. Accepting where he is at, and with whom he has to deal with in life. When he can accept his own fate, and himself, can he accept others who are different and love them exactly as they are, as God created them to be? How does he learn to do that? By learning God created him for a special purpose, and he needs to accept that fate.

Question:
If he can help himself , he can help others. Will he be able to do so?

SEE the CLASSIC STORY CHARACTER ARC?

It is the development of the human being. THAT is what STORY is all about!

If you get writers block, go back to the bible and read the stories, and LEARN from them, the CHARACTER ARC and GROWTH, both INNER and OUTER, that is the EXACT, SAME THINGS you have to do, and present in YOUR SCREENPLAYS, with YOUR CHARACTERS!

Where are they at? 

What challenges are they facing?

Why is it so hard to deal with?

What is their weakness?

Where do the start out? 

Where do they need to be when they finish?

WHAT INNER and OUTER GROWTH will they SHOW?

HOW are they going to show that?

Like in Jonah, he shows the macro and the microcosm of life.

The man needs to accept himself and his situation and circumstances first and love himself before he can succeed and learn to love the others that he claims are different in every way.
The Ninevah people. Different colour, creed, culture,religion, and nation.

If Jonah is going to succeed and learn anything in LIFE, he has to accept himself before he can accept others. 

If he wants grace and mercy himself he has to show it to others.

LIFE, GOD the antagonist thwarts him when he runs away through the allegory of the whale, the situation and circumstance that is the catalyst for FORCING HIM to confront life and gives him NO OTHER WAY OUT he HAS TO JOURNEY TO HIS DESTINY.

His choice is whether he succeeds and learns or is doomed to repeat and go in circles until he does?

Bible Stories : What are they about?

Here is a quick version of Sodom and Gommorah:


Logline: Man and his addiction ruin his life; he needs to change before life as he knows it is ruined,for himself and everyone around him.

Synopsis:

Abraham has a drinking problem his sin, he grabs the liquor and not his wife. When running from the city in the fire and brimstone storm hitting everyone.

We know this as after he has fermented wine later and that takes awhile to ferment so he was busy; not getting his wife out and not warning the neighbourhood, he was gathering up his alcohol to take, worldly things is what he focused on not people.

His choice destroyed his family life. It gets way more tragic later how he abuses the kids because he is drunk and is not in his right mind.He does not have the wife he needs because he focused on his drinking and not her it destroys his family and his city as he was supposed to be the influence the leader. He did not have his priorities straight.

Now most say it was the "others sins" but it was the religious ones sins, because the "others" are watching the religious, and how did Abraham deal with things, he tries to stop the "other" men and their homosexual behaviour , by devaluing his daughter throwing them up for use and abuse them sexually. Was this going to encourage the homosexuals to be like him? No.

They do not want to do that devalue the girls. What example was he? A bad one, he did not present the picture of what family life was he was a mess his whole family needed to be redeemed.

He should have been valuing his wife and daughter and presenting an example of what a life was to look like. He did not he just said here have at my daughter maybe that will distract you, was it an answer NO!It lead to the tragedy.

The whole question he argued with God about earlier was, can anyone be saved? Answer if there are even a few righteous ones to live and set an example to guide and direct others, but if not then if they lead them astray to ruin then all is lost. Theme of the whole story.

They seen he did not have his priorities right.

When he should have been listening to God, to guide him to do the right thing.

But did he? No, he did not take the warning the storm is coming serious, he did not let go of his sins, he did not focus on his family, being a leader, and example to others,he did not grab his wife , grab the kids, get the neighbours warn them, get them to safety in time.

NO! He did not.

What did he do, grabbed wine and liquor tried to take his sin with him, he focused on his sin and not the others not his family kids or wife, just his sins and clinging to them.

As a result the wife was lost , the kids suffered abuse, with him intoxicated trying to escape reality rather than dealing with life or his situation and circumstances, he tried to escape it using the wrong thing drugs and wine.

His wife, kids and neighbours were lost because of this sin.

Moral of the story, men need to face life, focus on family be a leader be an example to others. Let go of their sins before it destroys themselves or others all around them. The micro and the macrocosm of life.

So theme of the story, clinging to sins destroys yourself and your family and everyone else around you. They won't listen, and they won't respect you if you can not respect yourself and let go of your sins and focus on the right things.

As Jesus would say later: "Remove the plank from your own eye before trying to point out others sins!"

See the universal themes? STORY OF LIFE!

We all need God to redeem us as the need for mercy and grace due to each human having sin. Not one is without it. That is why these stories resonate with everyone all over the globe.

The whole world needs stories like these because as humans we need to see that even in these peoples lives God never gave up on them, He was going to save them and redeem them in the end. We all need that to know there is HOPE in the end!

That is why writing the story of redemption , that out of the worst tragic mess there is still hope in the end and it is never to late to change or be redeemed.

As in the story above eventually Abraham gave up the drink and redeemed his life got back on track but it took God playing the antagonist in his life to say this drinking and mess you got yourself in has to stop what do I have to do to interrupt you and change life until you suffer the consequence and pain of not changing becomes more pain than the pain of changing will be?

Happy Holy Day! God Bless You! I pray Jesus Blesses You. Amen

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Hanukkah 2017 will begin in the evening of Tuesday, December 12 and ends in the evening of Wednesday, December 20

How to use the colon, ( : ) in a sentence properly, a short video, from Kingsbridge College, on youtube.

How to avoid, misusing modifiers.

How misused modifiers, can hurt your writing.



How to correct the sentence, to give it accurate semantic meaning. Insert commas! Divide up each segment of syntax.

Robbers who steal chocolate bunnies rapidly attract  the outrage of onlookers

Robbers, who steal chocolate bunnies,rapidly attract, the outrage of onlookers.

The relevant right position always gives the semantic meaning, unless the segment of syntax is then rhemed, and moved to the relevant left to highlight, and topicalize it, through  hyperbatten, (each segment of grammar, syntax can be topicalized), and so you just need to start with, dividing the sentence up into its segments of syntax, and put a comma in between each, and the relevant right position, that is modifying it, and giving it, its semantic interpretation, insert a comma.

 You do not have to topicalize it to the front, relevant left, passivizing it, unless, you want to highlight or feature, the focus, of the sentence, as to who or what is causing the action to happen.

That, is what should be topicalized, to the relevant left, through using hyperbatten, and rheming it.

The Oxford Comma, why it must be used for semantic meaning, and correct grammar use of syntax, and why it is not optional.

It, (the oxford comma) is not optional, there is a correct way to write, and an incorrect way to write.

 Notice, how I used a comma to separate each segment of syntax, (It is not optional) it is there to designate it as a complete thought, a segment of grammar, a finished statement within the sentence structure, yet I did not end it with a period. Why? I continued to use a comma to designate it as being part of the next segment of structure and therefore needed for semantic understanding, interpretation, and clarity.

It shows you, that you, must, interpret it all as a whole, and not separate.

It continues, that sentence, and designates it as part of the semantic interpretation of that structure, needed for clarity.

If it really was separate, as a structure or clause, and could be removed or separated, then it is not needed for understanding of the relevant, right or left of the segment.

Those, the relevant right, and if highlighted and rhemed, or moved to important focus, it goes to the left.

If there is a comma, then interpret anything to the relevant right, or relevant left, if topicalized, rhemed, focused upon ,highlighted for important consideration, as being connected, and anything separated with conjunctions (fanboys) the word and, and  no comma as being a part of a completely different independent sentence, and its semantic understanding. If it has and , and no comma, then it as a sentence could be removed entirely without affecting the whole semantic meaning and understanding.

It topicalizes, the segment of grammar,syntax, to the relevant left, and moves the rheme and focus to it, as being more important, as an element in the overall structure. The relevant right is used as the primary semantic meaning and understanding of any part of syntax, when it is moved to the relevant left, therefore it is rhemed, focus is put upon it as the most important thing to understand, then it is found on the left of the segment of grammar.

So it (the oxford comma)  is not optional, it is required for interpretation and semantic clarity, to designate that the prior part of syntax is relevant to the interpretation of the rest of the sentence or what follows, to leave it out, and not add it means it is a completely different sentence, and clause, and can be removed without affecting semantic interpretation or meaning.

When punctuation is used to (end-stop) any phrase or clause it means that unless it is a period, a full stop, then the preceding segment is needed, and can not be separated from the understanding and interpretation. It is necessary and required.

If you were taught correctly, you would understand that concept of how, and in what way the punctuation is used correctly for semantic understanding, and communication.

 Note I kept using commas as each part added to the rest and helped you understand it is needed to be connected, to be understood as a whole.

I did not write: When punctuation is used to (end-stop) any phrase or clause it means that unless it is a period, a full stop, then the preceding segment, is, needed { and can not be separated from the understanding and interpretation. It is necessary and required.}

Why didn't I NOT leave out the comma? It is because you NEEDED the second sentence for clarification, without it, then it does not make full clear semantic sense.

Also, as it is equal to it I could have used a semi colon (;) but didn't, why? That is because it was not a separate sentence that could be completely removed without the meaning altered or changed. It required it as part of the sentence for semantic meaning. To interpret it properly.

If it was a completely separate sentence independent clause I would just use a semi colon to separate, and designate it of equal importance in value and consideration.

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Poetry

2017 - 12 -08
~Krista Kaufman~

As John Milton would say, Lucifer and his fall are like the autumnal leaves,
and in Christ we stand, have victory, and trample satan and his hordes under our feet!

Paradise only be lost, to those who fail to pray, in Jesus name,
for it is the true and living God, our Father, Holy Lord, Jesus upon the cross;
He died that none be lost!

Pray now, ask and you shall receive;
His anointing Holy Spirit, Salvation be!

Poetry

2017-12-08

I am not conceited; I am convinced.

I am certain, I do exist.

~Krista Kaufman

Syllogisms

Philosophy and Logic


Drawing Conclusions



Syllogisms

Aristotle's law of non-contradiction states that:

"One cannot say of something, that it is, and that it is not, in the same respect, and at the same time."

It either is, or it isn't, true or false,yes or no.

There are usually four (4) logical answers to every proposition,all are, or none are, some are or some are not,so it can be:

All A are B
No A are B
Some A are B
Some A are not B

All, none, some are one thing, and some are the other thing that is being compared and contrasted in propositional logic.

Predicate Logic

Compares the Quality and Quantity and its Affect and Effect.

Modal Logic

Compares : What it, (a thing) really is, in its substance, in its means, method, system, its way and manner of being.

                  Aristotle

                   ~Krista Kaufman

If A is this, and B is that, then C is what syllogism, and D questions the facts, makes the proposition, does the elements of A and B agree or contradict in reality?