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 11 Sep 2007 @ 12:16, by swanny
HARMONIOUS DIVERSITY
HARMONY
har·mo·ny (har'ma-ne)
n., pl. -nies.
1. Agreement in feeling or opinion; accord: live in harmony.
2. A pleasing combination of elements in a whole: color harmony; the order and harmony of the universe. See synonyms at proportion.
3. Music.
1. The study of the structure, progression, and relation of chords.
2. Simultaneous combination of notes in a chord.
3. The structure of a work or passage as considered from the point of view of its chordal characteristics and relationships.
4. A combination of sounds considered pleasing to the ear.
4. A collation of parallel passages, especially from the Gospels, with a commentary demonstrating their consonance and explaining their discrepancies.
[Middle English armonie, from Old French, from Latin harmonia, from Greek harmoniā, articulation, agreement, harmony, from harmos, joint.]
DIVERSITY
di·ver·si·ty (di-vur' si-te, di-)
n., pl. -ties.
1.
1. The fact or quality of being diverse; difference.
2. A point or respect in which things differ.
2. Variety or multiformity: “Charles Darwin saw in the diversity of species the principles of evolution that operated to generate the species: variation, competition and selection” (Scientific American).
and to me this is what it would look like:
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15 Sep 2007 @ 12:13 by swanny : Remember Love...
Remember Love
"Remember Love... the way we all used to dance..."
from Poetry in time by A. Jonas 1983
In Christianity, the true test of a connection with divinity is the manifestation of love (agape: Greek) in the context of care, concern, compassion and benevolence. The significance of this character trait is found in the bible, I Corinthians 13: 1-3:
1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity (love: agape), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophesy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity (love:agape), I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity (love: agape), it profiteth me nothing.
To comprehend the significance of love (agape), we need only to refer to the scripture that explains the substance of God, I John 4:8: "God is Love." It is in this divine conception that the importance of every human being is expressed, Matthew 25:40: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
sir ed
