A Definition Of A Stretched Syllable:

An Objective Definition Of A Stretched Syllable:
Any syllable that has sufficient duration to permit audible speed (or pitch) and loudness changes to occur in it is stretched (never by itself because effort and energy is always needed for it to stretch but it is stretched unconsciously by rote by the actor) and because all the syllables ordinary people utter have discernible speed and loudness changes that vary from subtle (musical) to gross (stabbing or explosive) they are all classified as stretched.
I do not need a working definition as a guide because I can perceive with no difficulty even subtle stretches of syllables and minute speed and loudness changes. It is relatively easy for me to provide a working definition of what a stretched syllable is but it is another far more difficult thing for people to use this working definition to pay attention to their syllables in order to detect stretching and even when they do, they may still fail to perceive fairly gross stretching of syllables and changes in speed and loudness in themselves and others.
The stretching of syllables is not something subjective arbitrarily determined by me to deprecate others but it is real and can be objectively and indisputably defined.
SYLLABLES MAY BE DEFINED AS PACKETS OF SOUND WITH NARROW SPECTRA OF FREQUENCIES THAT WHEN STRUNG TOGETHER OR ALONE PRODUCE WORDS WITH ASSIGNED MEANING FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMUNICATING A VERBAL MESSAGE.
ANY SYLLABLE THAT HAS ENOUGH DURATION TO PERMIT AUDIBLE LOUDNESS OR SPEED CHANGES TO OCCUR WITHIN IT IS TO BE CONSIDERED STRETCHED. ONLY A SYLLABLE THAT IS OF A DURATION THAT LEAVES NO ROOM FOR SPEED AND LOUDNESS CHANGES IS PRISTINE OR UNSTRETCHED. NO MATTER HOW BRIEF A SYLLABLE UTTERED HAS BEEN UTTERED, IF IT HAS SUFFICIENT DURATION TO PERMIT LOUDNESS AND SPEED CHANGES (INCREASE OR DECREASE), IF THERE ARE AUDIBLE SPEED AND LOUDNESS CHANGES, IT HAS BEEN STRETCHED. SPEED CHANGES WITHIN A SYLLABLE IS HEARD AS A CHANGE IN PITCH OR FREQUENCY, INCREASED SPEED INCREASES THE PITCH (SHRILLNESS) WHILST DECREASING SPEED LOWERS THE PITCH (MORE BASSY).
(It is possible to say ‘q’ without stretching or changing speed or loudness but people have never heard it and they all say ‘q’ thus “cueee” with a musical/gradual or stabbing/rapid acceleration of speed and loudness from start to finish that is only possible because the syllable has been stretched. Similarly people never say ‘p’ but they always say ‘pee’, they never say ‘t’ but they always say ‘tee’ mindlessly that are not only stretched but there are audible speed or pitch and loudness changes to those who are discerning)
Because I am able to speak without stretching syllables or changing speed I know with certainty that whenever I consciously stretch my syllables, change speed and loudness in imitation of the way all ordinary people speak, I have to apply appreciable mental force on my mind and almost immediately I begin to experience mental pain or stress, restlessness and distraction building up and if I did not desist, I would soon be seized by stress, restlessness and distraction that I cannot shake off and thus seized I am forced to continue helplessly speaking with constantly stretched syllables, constant changes in speed and loudness. Once this state has been reached, the only way to extricate myself is to isolate myself, meditate until calm clarity returns.
Only Three Variables In Speech:
There are only three variables possible in speech and they are the length of syllables, its speed and loudness. Apart from these three variables there are no other variables that can be manipulated by actors to be presented as the style of the speech.
Syllables can only be stretched to variable extents.
Speed and loudness can be varied within a stretched syllable, between syllables and between words. Speed change within a syllable is heard as a pitch or frequency change that can be perceived by those who understand what is meant by pitch or frequency change.
The audible style of speech is nothing more than how these three variables (length of syllables, its speed and loudness) are manipulated in an individually characteristic way that can only come about because it is from memory or rote.
The visual style of speech is the sum of all the constantly changing in speed and force facial, bodily and hand movements that accompany jukebox speech never in a haphazard but in a predictable manner. If you are familiar with a rote actor, you can predict how he will regularly jerk his head, grimace, raise or lower his eyebrows etc as he emphasizes what he says.
All style in speech or motion is false, for show and unnecessary stress and issues by rote from one’s mental jukebox. Because style is false, only for show, why bother to freshly fake each time but instead it is more efficient and consistent to commit your style to memory and render it each time automatically mindlessly without need for attention.
Two Dangers Of Robotic Behavior:
Although acting from one’s mental jukebox may be so appropriate and realistic it fools everyone including the actor himself that they are dealing with a live person when they are dealing with a very resourceful and cunning biological robot, actors have no direct only indirect control over all playback from their mental jukeboxes. Once they have initiated playback from their jukeboxes, blind force of varying strength takes over to render the desired stylish speech or motion. At any time the actor can intervene to order a sequence of rote speech or motion stopped to be replaced by a different rote sequence but the jukebox may not respond or respond with a lag that can prove dangerous even fatal in some situations.
Actors are only responsible for recording tracks that they would like to be played in the future, they may edit their recorded tracks by regular practice in the modified ways but once recorded, the speech and behavior will be played back as recorded inflexibly.
Because rote behavior from a jukebox is blindly driven by force, it may be hard or impossible to stop especially if on that occasion it is powered by excessive force. Behavior that is truly attentively live is not forced and can be stopped instantly. For instance, if one saw a nail one can instantly knowingly not put one’s foot forward or change its path in midair to avoid the nail. On the other hand if one was walking too forcefully by rote, even though one has seen the nail, it may be too late to order the jukebox to stop or after an order to evade has been issued, there may be a lag in response from the jukebox that makes it too late to stop one’s foot from stepping on the nail.
Because rote speech and behavior are driven by blind force once they have been activated, with frequent practice there develops a strong urge to activate them for no or silly reasons. All longstanding actors have mad urges to do or say certain things they know are inappropriate, may make a fool of themselves but they cannot help it. They have this dread that they may say or do certain socially inappropriate things they have strong irresistible urge to activate. By contrast, a person who always performs live has no recorded forceful sequences that they must struggle to control its expression.
ACTORS ONLY HAVE INDIRECT CONTROL OF JUKEBOX BEHAVIOR ONCE TRIGGERED AND IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS THIS INDIRECT CONTROL MAY PROVE DISASTROUS. BECAUSE JUKEBOX BEHAVIOR AND SPEECH IS DRIVEN BY FORCE AND ONCE INITIATED THERE IS FORCEFUL URGE TO COMPLETE THE COURSE AS RECORDED, WITH REPEATED PRACTICE THERE DEVELOP DIFFICULT TO RESIST URGE TO RENDER THEM INAPPROPRIATELY & EXPLOSIVELY. THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH POWERFUL URGES TO DO OR SAY THINGS INAPPROPRIATELY DISTRESSES ACTORS AND UNDERMINES THEIR CONFIDENCE IN THEMSELVES.
False In More Than One Way:
Quote: We all like to believe that there is an all knowing, all powerful force looking after us. No, I am not talking about organized religion and God. I’m talking about the widespread belief the Federal Reserve Board controls interest rates and inflation and is looking after each and everyone of us.
Comment: The fact that he corrected himself (that he was not talking about God or organized religion) indicates he knows his statement is (intentionally) misleading. You think (and he likes you to think) that he is talking about God but he is referring to something else and that is mischief. You might think it is funny to mislead others but when you are roasting in a furnace it will not be so funny (but it may be funny to fellow goats from the sidelines). A person who lets his yes be yes only, anything more comes from evil does not intentionally mislead others but he goes straight to the point.
Whether he is referring to God or the Federal Reserve, the statement that we all like to believe there is an all knowing, all powerful force looking after us is false because not everyone likes to believe so.
If all forces are blind and harmful, humans and creatures in this world are all forceful but God is not and God is not a force then by referring to God as a force he is in danger of misrepresenting God so that others may come to believe like him that God is a force for good.
Just as he might think he speaks the truth when he is trampling the truth, even so ordinary people like to think they are very genuine alive people when they are little more than robots, voyeurs acting no more than disk jockeys operating jukeboxes.
Not only is the way people speak and move always stereotyped by rote but the substance or what they speak and do can be ascertained to be also a rote rehash eg they like to make sweeping statements like everybody likes to believe blah blah blah or they habitually make statements that intentionally falsely suggest one thing when they mean another because they enjoy misleading others.
It is not that truth is hard or need effort to see or understand but because truth is un-deceptive it is plain and needs no effort to see and understand but instead actors forcefully have no eye for the truth and this force must be extinguished before they can see truth. It is not that falsehood can be seen and understood but because falsehood is deceptive and false it is not truly possible and mad to see and understand and effort must always be made and force used to see and understand falsehood but because people have forced themselves so long so well to fake as if they can see and understand falsehood that they are now forced to see falsehood as true. Similarly it is not that rote jukebox behavior is hard or impossible to tell or see but actors have no eyes to see. They have acted so well so often from their jukeboxes, accepted what is jukebox behavior from themselves and others as true so well so often that now they cannot tell what jukebox or rote behavior is when it cannot be mistaken for live behavior.
What I say above is in line with what Jesus said: This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: 'You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.' But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Crossing The Pond:
Quote: American cars don’t cross the pond well.
Comment: The statement is referring to the notion that American cars are usually not well received in Europe on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean disrespectfully referred to as a pond.
By no stretch of the imagination is the Atlantic Ocean anything closely resembling a pond and to call it a pond is false to reflect an arrogant or cavalier approach towards reality, encouraging others to follow suit. Far from harmless fun, it may have deadly karmic consequences.
Investment Is Suffering:
No matter how anyone might deny investment is gambling, because investment is greed for (unrighteous) gain (without need for productive work) with fear for loss that can come very suddenly and unexpectedly, few investors are indifferent but they tend to anxiously look over, checking their investments frequently and each time they do so they are conditioning themselves, reinforcing themselves to emotionally worry, to entertain doubt and uncertainty that is never static but grow stronger, easier to arose and hard to shake off and spill over to other areas of their lives.
However fabulous the material rewards from investing, they are scant ephemeral rewards for the worry, doubts and uncertainty that can reach agonizing levels and will accompany his mind when he departs this world to future states of woe.
In order for everyone to invest in several houses in the name of asset appreciation and rental collection instead of buying only one for each to live in, more unnecessary environment damage must occur than otherwise and you have karmic debts for pushing the earth to ecological disaster.
Yoga Is Practicing Concern For The Body:
Quote: Yoga allows energy to flow through the body, letting the organs function fully and at optimal capacity.
Comment: Such a statement encourages others to be concerned with their bodies contrary to what Jesus said not to be concerned for your body, champions yoga & makes it appear impressive and this will entice those who are anxious, attached to their bodies to embrace it.
Such statements usually have vested interest, but the person espousing them must forcefully believe what he says to a substantial degree and if it is false or imagined, yoga does not let energy flow throughout the body letting organs function fully then it is make believe so real the person imagines it does, it is courting future insanity and by misleading others you have karmic debt.
The Buddha never spoke of how wonderful yoga or meditation is that it let energy flow and organs to function fully and to say so may be fanciful that is never harmless but courting future madness. Further it is fostering attachment to one’s bodies, to the preservation of one’s organs that is against Jesus’ advice not to be concerned about your body.
It is the height of delusion that people should tout a concept that they must stretch their imagination to visualize that yoga allows energy to flow through the body letting organs function fully when they fail to see what needs no stretching of their imagination that they are constantly forcefully stretching their syllables, constantly changing speed and loudness and this is the only inalienable totally avoidable cause of the stress, restlessness and distraction that beset them that they seek to keep at bay by practicing yoga.
Anyone who acts cannot obey Jesus’ advice that they should not care about their bodies because their forcefulness, their speech with unnecessary constant stretching of syllables, changes of speed and loudness are creating insoluble stress, restlessness and distraction that is harming and killing them. It is impossible that anyone who is constantly stressing himself should be truly without concern for his body but he should be inconsolably alarmed and to force himself not to be concerned is a form of denial bringing further stress. Only a person who does not forcefully act, does not induce insoluble stress and restlessness in himself have no reason to be concerned about his body because he never knowingly harms it.
IF YOU WERE TO DENY YOURSELF, CARRY YOUR CROSS AND GO WITH JESUS YOU WOULD NOT PREOCCUPY WITH YOGA ALLOWING ENERGY TO FLOW FREELY THROUGH YOUR BODY LETTING YOUR ORGANS TO FUNCTION FULLY AND AT OPTIMAL CAPACITY.
DO NOT CONFUSE YOGA WITH MEDITATION THAT THE BUDDHA DESCRIBED WHICH IS DIRECTED AT SETTING ASIDE GREED AND DISTRESS WITH REGARD TO THE WORLD, BRINGING MINDFULNESS TO THE FORE, REPLACING DISTRESS WITH BLISS THAT IS NOT OF THE FLESH AND PASSIVELY PUTTING A STOP TO ALL DISCURSIVE THINKING.
Silliness & Foolishness:
Silliness is not to be mistaken for foolishness.
When you do or say something that is illogical or irrational, you are being silly and because people (forcefully, emotionally) believe the silly things they say or do are meaningful they are reinforcing forceful silliness in them that will culminate in mad logic.
When you say or do things that harm yourself and others or causes suffering (eg become angry) you are being foolish because you are creating suffering not only for the moment but you are creating karmic burdens for future suffering.
A Substance Competition:
Just as there are style competitions, there can be substance competitions that are infinitely more beneficial compared to style competitions.
For instance there can be substance competitions where contestants compete to interpret the meaning of what is said in the scriptures with the interpretation that is most illuminating winning.
A Mad Or Involuntary Lie:
According to BBC, when praise was lavished recently on the suit he wore, Bush quipped that God told him to wear his suit. Later he added that he was merely joking.
This suggests he is aware of the furor he created by saying God told him to invade Iraq. This suggests that rather than hallucinating or hearing voices, he may be deliberately lying when he said God told him to invade Iraq.
Because telling lies is forceful and reinforcing, a person who has repeatedly told lies in time develop an urge that may become hard to resist, to tell lies just for the sake of telling lies. He possibly think God doesn’t mind if he told others God told him to invade Iraq and this lie may benefit him because it would exonerate him from the subsequent debacle if some people can be convinced it was not him but God who has responsible for his decisions.
BUSH MAY NOT HAVE BEEN HALLUCINATING BUT HE MAY HAVE TOLD A BLATANT LIE THAT GOD TOLD HIM TO INVADE IRAQ BECAUSE AFTER FORCEFULLY TELLING SO MANY LIES ALL HIS LIFE, HE HAS A DIFFICULT TO RESIST A MAD URGE TO DO SO. FURTHER IT MAY BENEFIT HIM TO SAY SO AND HE MAY THINK GOD PROBABLY WOULD NOT MIND BECAUSE THE INVASION WAS IN A GOOD CAUSE.
All people who are actors are already owners of significant troubling mad stress, mad restlessness, mad distraction, mad logic, mad perception (hallucination), mad rote speech and behavior, mad emotions and mad violence and they are only frequently struggling to suppress them to enable them to function with a semblance of normality not realizing that what is forcibly controlled is subject to intermittent loss of control that culminates in final total loss of control or florid madness.
Why Practice?
All athletes practice regularly, even when they become expert in their fields.
In the same way musicians, actors, doctors and surgeons practice even when they are expert musicians and actors too refresh and improve their inherently contrived unstable substance and style skills.
The reason they practice is not because they are mad but they are desirous of recording even more perfectly for easier consistent recall their already slick jukebox recordings. If they did not practice, the complex amalgam of substance and style will be less sharp and slick. This is an indication that all rote speech and motions are unstable, contrived and must be held together by force and forceful memorization.
Whenever actors practice what they want to say or do eg recite a complex passage or hit a golf ball, they are practicing to say or do them automatically without need for thinking, without needing to be conscious or doing or saying them blindly.
How To Get To Heaven:
Puggala Sutta: Persons (excerpt)
The Buddha: "Here, bhikkhus, a certain person abides with his heart imbued with loving-kindness extending over one quarter, likewise the second quarter, likewise the third quarter, likewise the fourth quarter, and so above, below, around, and everywhere, and to all as to himself; he abides with his heart abundant, exalted, measureless in loving-kindness, without hostility or ill-will, extending over the all-encompassing world.
"He finds gratification in that, finds it desirable and looks to it for his well-being; steady and resolute thereon, he abides much in it, and if he dies without losing it (Jesus said he who endures till the end will be saved), he reappears among the gods of a High Divinity's retinue.
"Now the gods of a High Divinity's retinue have a life-span of one aeon. An ordinary person [who has not attained the Noble Eightfold Path] stays there for his life-span; but after he has used up the whole life-span enjoyed by those gods, he leaves it all, and [according to what his past deeds may have been] he may go down even to hell or to an animal womb or to the ghost realm. But one who has given ear to the Perfect One stays there [in that heaven] for his life-span and after that he has used up the whole life span enjoyed by those gods, he eventually attains complete extinction of lust, hate and delusion in that same kind of heavenly existence.
"It is this that distinguishes, that differentiates, the wise hearer who is ennobled [by attainment of the Noble Path] from the unwise ordinary man, when, that is to say, there is a destination for reappearance [after death, but an Arahant has made an end of birth].
A Heap of Bones
This was said by the Lord....
"Bhikkhus, the skeletons of a single person, running on and wandering in samsara for an aeon (or Age, Jesus spoke of this Age, the close of the Age and the Age to come), would make a heap of bones, a quantity of bones as large as this Mount Vepulla, if there were someone to collect them and if the collection were not destroyed."
The bones of a single personAccumulated in a single aeonWould make a heap like a mountain -- So said the Great Sage.
He declared it to beAs great as Mount VepullaTo the north of Vulture's PeakIn the hill-fort of Magadha.
But when one sees with perfect wisdomThe four noble truths as they are -- Suffering, the origin of suffering,The overcoming of suffering,And the noble eightfold pathLeading to relief from suffering --
Having merely run onSeven times at the most,By destroying all fettersOne makes an end of suffering.