Friday 22 January 2010

Gift of God Song Lyrics

This is a set of song lyrics that I have already written, for a song 'Gift of God'. God here is the Muslim God, or Allah. This is something that actually happened, so not a fictional song.
The meaning is that while local Pakistani people opened their homes and hearts to their guests, regarding them as gifts from their God, there seems to be a discrepancy between how they relate to their guests and how a sociopathic guest related to everyone around him.
Because this song is plain and simple, it is more engaging than a piece of work that talks about superego deficiency etc.

A couple of months down the line, I will be commissioning the production of this song, I've got a voice already, so I need:
  • a composer of music melody as I have no compositional ability whatsoever. Get in touch if you have a composition portfolio.
  • an accompanist- guitar/ piano/ anything feasible
  • a recording studio to use.

Perhaps one person can come with all of these things!! Get in touch if you are able to help.

Copyright of the written lyrics belongs to ME!!!!!!

Gift of God

There was a man with fine black hair
Dwelling in the lands of Pakistan

A guest he was
To the Muslim hosts
A guest he was
Received by hearts of joy
A guest he was
Seen as the gift of God

So he was given
Unto joyful hosts
So he was given
he was given
from land to land…

Things were given up
For this guest from God

All things changed-
The eating, the sleeping space
Mostly given up for him
And sincerely offered

All were different-
Food for the energetic guest,
Bedding that embraced his body and soul

Little did they know
Of his personality disorder

Chronic and lifelong
Chronic and lifelong

Did his heart feel joy
Or did his brain matter overrule?

Chronic and lifelong
Chronic and lifelong

Chronic and lifelong
Chronic and lifelong

Back to the days of Pakistan,
So he was given
So he was given
From host to host
From heart to heart

So he was given
So he was received
A gift from God
From land to land

Will he ever know this?
Will he ever know?
So he was given
So he was received

Will he ever show
What they have shown to him?
All this in a disordered life
Chronic and lifelong

So tell me, Doctor Dobbert
Will his brain mature?
Tell me doctor,
What was wrong with him?

Shower of lies
Replaces shower of love

Tell me doctor, will his brain mature?
Perhaps it will, perhaps not
Maybe it never will!

So scientists, do me a favour,
do all of us a favour
take the Nobel Prize,
Tell me doctor, will his brain mature?

Crocodiles, vampires etc.

Right......... so the experts have described sociopaths as all sorts of things. Animals, mainly. They have called sociopaths scorpions, vampires, crocodiles, wolves, snakes, what else!?? Not very nice, are they?

They way that things are, people are still being greatly harmed and not realising it until everything is far too late.

It is time for me to start writing engaging, entertaining songs about crocodiles etc., to try and do some prevention- prevention is better than cure, and teenagers can't complain when they have fun songs to listen to for free...... I think the world is over-saturated with love songs anyway. Some are awesome and many are lame. It's time to make some songs about crocodiles, vampires and photocopiers...

Academic disciplines

And of course, from my ridiculously, exceedingly eventful life, all of the following academic disciplines have become highly relevant:

  • philosophy and ethics
  • philosophy of law
  • history of the legal system from the past 125 years
  • criminal law
  • civil law- media law/ publishing law
  • Company law- oh the bloody Articles of Association... and instead of a Justice of the Peace I had a solicitor...
  • Regulatory bodies, the third sector
  • Human Resources and management
  • Business development, corporate affairs, commerce and ASPD-induced crises
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • biochemistry and physiology
  • English literature, poetry and song lyrics
  • mathematical calculation of British taxes...
  • psychiatry
  • British politics
  • medicine
  • history of medicine
  • healthcare policy
  • policy reform
  • legal reform
  • Christian theology and 88 prayers in a month

Thursday 21 January 2010

music and science

What I propose to do is to use music (singing) and artty illustrations to convey information on healthcare policy and neuroscience. There seems to be no other way of getting information out particularly, since traditional means are frought with too many difficulties and psychologists have already tried everything for the past 15 years but have not yielded the awareness that they really want.
Essentially, I want to arm ordinary people with the protective knowledge that they can use to prevent themselves from getting harmed by people with anti-social personality disorder, or give them enough information for them to recover effectively should they become harmed. ASPD is completely different from anti-social behaviour, the latter is a great deal less risky, yes, it is.
As 4% of the population is sociopathic with anti-social personality disorder, disasters are waiting to happen, which was why I ate s*** big time.
I am capable of both the music and the art. Lots of hard work though. I need to make the stuff as entertaining as possible and therefore as attention-grabbing as possible. Key facts need to be communicated- sociopathy is set by the age of 15. There is no cure for it and it is hopeless or next to hopeless. It is a chronic and lifelong condition, it does not get better but occasionally symtoms fade with age over a very long time. Even psychologists cannot change the way they are, and little is known about the cause of it.
As for how there is no pharmaceutical cure, I suppose awareness would have to be generated first so that funding can be directed towards research.
There is no point in giving people the Diagnostic Statistical Manual Fourth Edition DSM-IV to read out of the blue- it means nothing to them and is boring to them. I had to read it out of necessity. It is best if people out there don't get to the stage where they are fundamentally desperate to read the DSM-IV in order to identify problems correctly.

Amanda Knox, will you console me?

I have taken some interest in the Amanda Knox murder trial, before that I was only very vaguely aware of it from the newspapers, thinking, 'oh wow, what a stunning girl, but this is a court trial for murder- not in the context of modelling'.
I do not know whether she killed Meredith or not. I suppose she is just a girl like me in many ways. There seems to be some strong arguments to say she is innocent, like the 'blade' did not fit the fatal wounds, there is no forensic evidence of her being in the room, she did not seem to change her stories in the interrogation processes, non-violent people don't just become violent (the experts will have things to say about this). On the other hand, the details of the case in Perugia were highly complex and intricate, there seemed to be all sorts of practical indications that more than one person was involved in the murder, and obviously Amanda Knox has been found guilty at this stage.
If Amanda is innocent then this imprisonment would be really awful. If she is guilty then I suppose there is no point in her and her family protesting her innocence- it would be better to accept the punishment and one would probably find that punishment is better for the conscience than the lack of it. I hope that Amanda can somehow be a consolation to me, because if she is innocent, it means she is a terrible victim of over-zealousness in the justice system. Just as someone can suffer on this side of the justice system, I regard myself as someone who suffers at quite the other side from gross under-zealousness in the justice system, outside of Italy. I have to talk to my Member of Parliament more often than I talk to my own friends about any slim chances of pro bono legal representation to prosecute someone for crimes that have been outlawed since the year of 1885 anyway. The state should take care of it but it doesn't. I know the court system is not perfect and sometimes convictions aren't laid down following a crime. It is a very intricate and delicate system, fair enough, but the victim's anguish at non-action is notable, just as the anguish of an imprisoned non-murderor is beyond words.

I might as well write to Amanda and mail it to her prison, it's paper so I don't seem to have anything to lose there. Just a stamp. As she effectively believes herself to be the victim of over-zealous legal action, she may or may not have something to say about the anguish caused by under-zealousness. As far as I am concerned it's best if she has something to say, and I don't quite know what to think about what happened in her case. I have listened to her aunt saying that because she knows the case from back to front and inside out, she believes Amanda is innocent. Over here, my case takes 600 hours to explain and study it makes me feel sick. Possibly one day I will have the time to read any books relevant to her trial.

First entry! Mission-manifesto

Hello!!! Wow, it's quite crazy of me to start a blog when my life is so busy right now, but I have been meaning to start it so everything probably makes more sense as I get writing.

I am such a blog virgin! 10 years or so ago the internet sounded like it had so many freaks, weirdoes and perverts on it preying, but these days blogging is the way forward and it is well-regarded. I haven't felt like I am the sort of person who wants to share my private thoughts and feelings with all sorts of people, but it will be sensible for me to write a blog on a whole load of matters that are relevant to something of great concern to me. Everything else about my life will be left out of my blog and left for my friends...

Just to brain-storm, these are the topics that my blog will be about:
  • the history of medicine
  • healthcare policy and vicious cycles
  • history of the legal system since 125 years ago
  • neuroscience
  • military affairs, warfare
  • what bravery means- the anatomy of heroism
  • history of state infrastructure, pioneers
  • the sociology of love
  • the social science of romance
  • the sociology of deception
  • British tax
  • Parliamentary assistance
  • pathological narcissists
  • sociopaths
  • anti-social personality disorder
  • consequences of crossing life's path with a sociopath
  • protection from sociopaths: how to discern the subtle signs
  • private prosecutions, public prosecutions and insolvency law
  • rape
  • subcategory: rape by fraud/ procuring women by false pretenses
  • maturation retardation hypothesis
  • superego deficiency...
  • legal reform
  • discrimination: in areas of the criminal law concerning deception, persons who aren't mentally disabled are being discriminated against
  • Department of Health
  • Department of Education- education proposals for sixteen-year-olds
  • physiology

I will need to have a think about what I write, and what I don't write.... I will be able to write censored versions of blogs and articles.