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Music Notes

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff is Gru in #2343485

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

This is the poem which earned my blog its first ribbon, courtesy Brian K Compton

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Kåre เลียม Enga

about 10 hours ago
In response to "Of Extraterrestrials"

I don't worry about ETs or UFOs. I wish them well.

I use to have a garden to tend.

I only have houseplants now.

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LightinMind

about 13 hours ago
In response to "Of Extraterrestrials"

Personally speaking, I do not believe in the popular conception of alien life. Though angels, cherubim and seraphim seem like a different kind of alien.No one saw a flying saucer before the age of Sci Fi, before that it was all about angels, demons and ghosts... Scientifically speaking you mentioned a whole bunch of God incidences which make a possible context for life on this planet but then so also the Drake equation ( counting alien civilisations) assumes that the spontaneous emergence of life ( abiogenesis) occurs in nature and without Divine assistance. There is zero evidence for that making the discussion of alien life a theological one. But the bible is silent on this one and our travels so far into space have revealed only magnificent desolation.

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JACE

Sep 7, 2025 at 3:13pm
In response to "My WdC Experience in 25 Sentences"

A very impressive journey! These kind of prompts are the best way to learn about fellow members.

I love the way you set each bullet in a very visual way. I'm extremely impressed with your 10th bullet. I don't know anyone else with that level of commitment to those contests. Congrats on your successes.

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Spiritwriter 💟s HB!WDC 🥳

Sep 7, 2025 at 10:00am
In response to "Wake Me Up, by Simply Three"

I love how you frame this whole experience 😻! I'm eager to listen to this,as one who has enjoyed most genres. You pulled me into your world and saw and heard through your eyes and ears. Very awesome Angel as usual 😉🦋💖💐🎹🎻🎶🎵.
Write ✍️ on!

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Kit

Sep 6, 2025 at 11:37pm
In response to "My Thoughts on AI Generated Writing"

This is a very good post. And I agree with you.

It is getting more difficult to know if what someone wrote was really theirs - like with so many things these days there is too often that question of 'true' or 'not true' and that is such a shame - and kind of unnerving. It does cause distrust. I have seen pieces on this site where I wondered, but it can be impossible to prove. I don't know why anyone would want to post AI items here or place them in contests because any success they'd have they'd know is fake, but people can be strange. I'll just stick to my own words, for better or worse.

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iKïyå§ama-Happy 25th!

Sep 6, 2025 at 5:20pm
In response to "Nonsense Words"

Excellent!
I can vouch for having a severe case of Wonderlanditis.

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Dawn Embers

Sep 4, 2025 at 9:28pm
In response to "Of Poetry and Cheese"

So many great discussions about cheese. Just a hint from personal experience: don't microwave the individual Mac and cheese cups without water and with the cheese packet still in the cup. It will light on fire. Yeah. Oops. hehe

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Marvelous Friend

Sep 4, 2025 at 9:04pm
In response to "Of Poetry and Cheese"

I wrote a cheesy poem in my response too. lol

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🌖 HuntersMoon

Sep 4, 2025 at 4:43pm
In response to "Friends I'd Like to Meet IRL"

Amethyst Angel h✟k ♡ and Kåre เลียม Enga - Packing's not an issue. Shorts/T-shirts/flip-flops.

Haven't had a day below 89 (102 wet-bulb) in two months. Sunscreen is highly recommended. I have a spare room with a private bath, 15 feet from the pool. Let me know well in advance (at least 24 hours

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 4, 2025 at 3:55pm
In response to "Friends I'd Like to Meet IRL"

I reposted to your post... in the wrong place.

Norma Jean has visited me here but we could meet up in Cebu and visit Naomi and GERVIC.

Also, I went to England in 2011; but, I'd love to start in Scotland and go down to Wales. Lots of folks to visit in the UK... pack for two weeks or better — a month!

I have 4 friends I would like to visit in Australia. That's at least two weeks or more... long trip.

Mexico... hmm...

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September 8, 2025 at 7:17am

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Of Extraterrestrials

Prompt 7:
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson

Today's prompt made me chuckle at first… it's sad, though, that humanity has made such a mess of the world that extraterrestrials wouldn't dream of approaching us. Although, there are weighty implications to that statement.

For starters, how can we assume that if there is extraterrestrial life, the creatures automatically have a higher moral system than we do? If there's anything pop culture can teach us, it's that aliens can easily be far more monstrous than us. In some cases, we're nothing more than a light snack to them, or bodies to lay eggs in

Of course there's no use, really, in overanalyzing a joke. My opinions on the existence of extraterrestrial life are a bit muddled. When I was a kid, Mom used to enjoy watching episodes of UFO Hunters (starring William J. Birnes et al) on YouTube. So I'm familiar with a lot of the sightings and analysis and whatnot.

Logically and secularly speaking, the chances of other forms of life evolving on distant planets in other galaxies are… I don't know

I'm not a scientist. Judging by what the Intelligent Design people say, I doubt that miracles like the precise placement of Earth in relation to the Sun and Moon, and the complexities of cell structure, would happen by random chance more than once. On the other hand, considering the sheer vastness of the universe, and everything we don't know about it, it could be entirely possible that somewhere out there, life exists, even if only in a primitive bacterial form.

But what about UFO sightings, close encounters, and other strange phenomena? Now we're getting into what I believe is different territory. As a spiritual person who believes in God and believes there is evil in the world, I have developed the idea of physically unexplainable events being caused by supernatural forces rather than extraterrestrial ones. Ok, now all you thoroughly secular people probably think I'm off my rocker. Bad enough to take UFO sightings seriously – even worse to attribute them to the supernatural!

It's something I find difficult to explain rationally on short notice… I've always found Paul's words in Ephesians 6:12 to be peculiarly chilling: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms..." Perhaps our Christian friend LightinMind

would have some useful input on this subject.

On further consideration, I think I have this belief because of the general overlap between the types of things reported as UFOs, and the sort of things that happen in haunted houses and such: flashing lights, moving objects, the manipulation of human energies to create alarm and confusion, the disruption of electrical items. This points to something dangerous, something bigger than we can understand, and I believe such things should be avoided as useless distractions from the real world.

I've never been much of a fan of space exploration, partly due to a solipsistic perspective that if I can't see it or experience it, it doesn't really exist. The idea of people going to “colonize” Mars (as if we didn't already know what a bad idea colonization is) seems as silly as if someone asked me if I would like to live in Antarctica. Some things are never meant to be done. When God made Adam and Eve, He did not commission them to take over the known universe and litter it with abandoned, outdated space gadgets that are now threatening to collide with each other. He wanted them to grow and tend a garden.

My head may be in the clouds, but my feet are squarely on Terra Firma. I don't see that changing anytime soon. Maybe if I meet a friendly E.T. we can take a ride together in the stars. Until then, I'll keep weeding my yard.

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