Loco In Parentheses

This entry is an attempt to understand Hubpages. I will go on to analyse the entry piece by piece. It is in the category "Creative Writing".

Preamble: As a word of explanation you will observe two styles that of "ordinary speech and that of text enclosed in brackets. It is a point counterpoint type dialogue, it is a literary device. The ordinary text is from the Artist/Poet the text in brackets represents the Voice of Reason. Both have their place. The former has largesse and fancy the latter Scientific method. They become friends through the use of satire. Hubpages does not seem to like this. I will attempt to analyse the entry. One critiscim that appears to be often voiced is the fact that an entry is too short. I would like to take exception to that. For example these three characters (∞) three characters yet they epitomise the human condition and the majority of religions. We have infinity enclosed by brackets, an impossibility, a nonsense it cannot be done. Yet it is done. In religion we are constantly trying to quantify that which cannot be quantified. There is a basic flaw in Logic, "if p then q" but "p" is assumed. It does not exist as a discrete entity only as a function of "q". The Tao Te Ching begins with "The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao". How many libraries could be devoted to books that have tried to express the Tao?

In the Buddhist tradition so many make the fundamental error of looking at the finger that is pointing to the moon and worshiping the finger. They miss the moon entirely. So what can we be left with? We live in a duality, mistakenly perhaps but duality is accepted. I will jump as I spent many years studying the Vedas. What I gleaned is that there is continual creation and destruction. But the key feature is The Dance. It is all we have. I do not dance alone. I have a partner.

Shall we dance? (Sure, why not)

Genesis

Using the term Genesis is emotive, it is the first book in the bible, it describes the creation as received by the holy men from God. It is controversial because it has no scientific foundation therefore

(In The Beginning Was...?) Scientific theory gave us the Big Bang, a systole / dystole of expansion and contraction. Doubt has been cast on the logic, what caused the explosion? Is it an infinite cycle? So our voice of reason is left with a question mark.

Well, its been 7 hours so I thought I better Hubagain (you love the old neologisms dont you, to coin a phrase) Two ponts are made here. firstly Neologisms (itself one). We love them, we create them especially since the rise of technology. I need only give you one : Google. To "coin a phrase" Hubpages Raison D'Etre, making money out of phrases.

sshhh Im waxing lyrical. Its been 7 hours, no fans, no stats "we need 2 days to gather information" a direct quote from hubpages: I have no feedback is anybody listening? Therefore O I am a voice crying in the wilderness: This is an ancient phrase. It has the connotation of an cry that is not heard because of an intellectual wilderness but it is so much more: Read the quote from whence it came:

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

-- Isaiah 40: 1-3 (KJV)

It epitomises the Israeli- Arab conflict from their bible, The Old Testament. If you read it it is still relevant "make straight in the desert a highway for our God" is what Israel is trying to do. But "her iniquity is pardoned" Israel is always innocent.
Now I'm Stuck over here This text is right justified (like a right- aligned Politically) voice crying in the wilderness. Anyway 29.1 billion web pages, thats some wilderness) We all have a voice on the Internet. This is one now (it sure is)

Ok fixed it. Yes. Anyway I was going to tell the story of how you were born. (Who me? I thought I was always here) Well thats true. Your reference >

The following explains the use of brackets, The Tone of the voice of reason BUT Guernica = Reason? Theexamples, I feel are excellent, the idea is to explain the use of brackets but to repeat my self ad nauseum IT IS THE CONTENT NOT THE FORM THAT IS IMPORTANT. Do Not Look At The Finger! We have the anomoly of (∞). Oh dear Hubpages are not for me. Having to explain my self..well itjustleavesabloodlesscorpse....anyway :

Parentheses (( )), also called round brackets, always occur in pairs. They have one major use and one or two minor uses.

Most commonly, a pair of parentheses is used to set off a strong or weak interruption, rather like a pair of dashes or a pair of bracketing commas. In the case of a strong interruption, very often it is possible to use either dashes or parentheses:

The destruction of Guernica ‹ and there is no doubt that the destruction was deliberate ‹ horrified the world. The destruction of Guernica (and there is no doubt that the destruction was deliberate) horrified the world. As a rule, however, we prefer parentheses, rather than dashes or bracketing commas, when the interruption is best regarded as a kind of "aside" from the writer to the reader: On the (rare!) occasion when you use a Latin abbreviation, be sure to punctuate it correctly. The battle of Jutland (as you may recall from your school days) put an end to Germany's naval threat. The Basque language is not (as the old legend has it) exceedingly difficult to learn. We also use parentheses to set off an interruption which merely provides additional information or a brief explanation of an unfamiliar term: The number of living languages (currently about 6000, by most estimates) is decreasing rapidly. The bodegas (wine cellars) of the Rioja are an essential stop on any visit to northern Spain. The royal portraits of Velázquez (or Velásquez) are justly renowned. The German philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848­-1925) laid the foundations of formal logic and of semantics.

Im sorry I can't go on explaing myself. I give up.
Hubpages: 1 The Wannabe Poet /Scribe / Wordsmith: 0
Reason (0).
Good bye, I'll leave you with the ramblings of Loco Parentheses

(Wow. Im pretty cool, people use me a lot and I've been around, like, for ever. So what do you mean you created me?) Well I gave you a voice. (a voice?) Yes. You see I thought that in order to remember things like web addresses, just writing .com was a bit minimalist so I created (dot) com. (Go on). Well I realised two things

1. People sub-vocalise (sotto voce)
2. People actually say dot com
3. A web address thats a sentence is really cool

(Ok so you actually wrote Irish Secure (dot) com, o wow I nested, is that ok? To nest?) Yes, but don't get carried away. (Ok (echo(echo(echo)))). Stop it, this is serious (Yes sir, scribe sir) So I also started creating sentences as domain names because they were easy to remember. (por example?) WeddingsOnTheInternet (dot) com and I realised as it was something that was said I could actually write it properly hence Weddings On The Internet (dot) com, Look What I Found In The Attic (dot) com, Its Bigger On The Inside (dot) com. And my all time favourite : Inside Im Dancing (dot) com. But it was Sekani (your daughter) yes Sekani my 16 year old daughter who really showed me the way. I said I would buy her a domain for her 16th birthday. She was a bit unsure and thinking of a good name that hadn't been used was not easy. I told her about registering a sentence so she thought about it and came up with : http://theonlyplacetobeifyoureallywanttobesomewhere.com/ (OMG she is so cool, wow chip off the old block a?) yep The Only Place To Be If You Really Want To Be Somewhere (dot) com. I am her parent, a bit loco perhaps but her real dad. But, with you, I am In Loco Parentis (O, I get it you punny fellow, In Loco Parentheses, ha ha ha ha ). Yea. Hey, We are friends right? (Sure, well I feel Im like (gulp) part of you, a sorta inner voice of reason while you are free to wax lyrical) O Noble Bracket. Verily Thou Doth Giveth Me The Freedom To Be. (To be? To be ...what?) No, no no. Its The Existential "Be" The "Be"ing and Nothingness Be The Be or Not To Be Be (wot? u r daft. But, I like you) Thanks, you're not so bad your self.

(Ok so you actually wrote Irish Secure (dot) com, o wow I nested, is that ok? To nest?) Yes, but don't get carried away. (Ok (echo(echo(echo)))). Stop it, this is serious (Yes sir, scribe sir) So I also started creating sentences as domain names because they were easy to remember. (por example?) WeddingsOnTheInternet (dot) com and I realised as it was something that was said I could actually write it properly hence Weddings On The Internet (dot) com, Look What I Found In The Attic (dot) com, Its Bigger On The Inside (dot) com. And my all time favourite : Inside Im Dancing (dot) com. But it was Sekani (your daughter) yes Sekani my 16 year old daughter who really showed me the way. I said I would buy her a domain for her 16th birthday. She was a bit unsure and thinking of a good name that hadn't been used was not easy. I told her about registering a sentence so she thought about it and came up with : http://theonlyplacetobeifyoureallywanttobesomewhere.com/ (OMG she is so cool, wow chip off the old block a?) yep The Only Place To Be If You Really Want To Be Somewhere (dot) com. I am her parent, a bit loco perhaps but her real dad. But, with you, I am In Loco Parentis (O, I get it you punny fellow, In Loco Parentheses, ha ha ha ha ). Yea. Hey, We are friends right? (Sure, well I feel Im like (gulp) part of you, a sorta inner voice of reason while you are free to wax lyrical) O Noble Bracket. Verily Thou Doth Giveth Me The Freedom To Be. (To be? To be ...what?) No, no no. Its The Existential "Be" The "Be"ing and Nothingness Be The Be or Not To Be Be (wot? u r daft. But, I like you) Thanks, you're not so bad your self.