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Kuma
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26 Nov 2010, 8:43 am

We, the parents, are part of The Great Generation...
We have the power to alter the course of humanity through the correct teachings of our children.

By teaching...
we alter the next generation.

By teaching how to teach the teachings...
to all our children...and they, to all their children...ad infinitum...

We alter all those who follow...through eternity.


This is how progress is to be made...
How good conquers evil...
expotentially.
Shiroi Tora


To all the good parents out there....I salute you.

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26 Nov 2010, 12:08 pm

Kuma wrote:
We, the parents, are part of The Great Generation...
We have the power to alter the course of humanity through the correct teachings of our children.

By teaching...
we alter the next generation.

By teaching how to teach the teachings...
to all our children...and they, to all their children...ad infinitum...

We alter all those who follow...through eternity.


This is how progress is to be made...
How good conquers evil...
expotentially.
Shiroi Tora


To all the good parents out there....I salute you.


hmmmm, i do not know, whether the lyrics of "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" quite express the sense of hope for influence and change of future generations that you would have liked to convey, :wink: .

O Fortune,
like the moon
The state constantly changing,
always growing
or decreasing;
Detestable life
now difficult
and then easy
Deceptive sharp mind;
poverty
power
it melts them like ice.

Fate—monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
stand malevolent,
vain is the help
and always likely to fade to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game,
my bare back
I bring to your villainy.

Fate, in health
and in virtue,
is now against me,
driven on
and weighted down,
always in the vale of tears (Angaria).
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating string;
since Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!

Carl Orff's music is striking, though the time ( the 1930s in Germany) it was composed in and the style of the music cannot fail to create an uncomfortable feeling in me, which was very much increased by the footage of this mass concert with illumination.
And I simply refuse to comment on Andre Rieu, lest i might forget myself, :lol: .

but i do very much relate to your feeling, trying to make parents aware of the fact that they do not only make a change in the lives of their children ( and as hard as it sometimes gets should never give up, :D ), but consequently also in all of the lives of people touched by them.

in my pre-atheist days i very much liked this chapter by Khalil Gibran:

On Children

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

now i sadly got a problem with the third verse, but i still like it, :D.



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Kuma
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26 Nov 2010, 2:08 pm

I knew someone would call me on the lyrics. I took the magnificent music and used it for a different meaning. As it is in Latin...It has no meaning to we English speakers only. Please just take it for the music of grandeur that I had meant it to be. Good call though.


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