Oh Holy Night!

December 24, 2011 by The Alternate Economy

This is me singing Oh Holy Night. I changed one or two words. See if you can spot them.

All my love,

Tristan

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34 thoughts on “Oh Holy Night!”

LediaR on January 1, 2012 at 1:20 pm said:

Nice! Thank you for sharing.

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Jena Cribari on January 2, 2012 at 2:25 pm said:

Hello! I could have sworn I’ve been to this blog before but after browsing through some of the post I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m definitely happy I found it and I’ll be book-marking and checking back frequently!

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Merit K on January 9, 2012 at 9:14 am said:

Very creative and a great message of love and peace!

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The Alternate Economy on January 9, 2012 at 11:00 am said:

thanks for the encouragement!

carolisle on January 13, 2012 at 12:32 pm said:

Love, love love it. Thanks I go to A Unitarian Church and we are always changing the words of songs. I’m going to pass yours to our choir director if that’s ok with you.

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The Alternate Economy on January 13, 2012 at 1:18 pm said:

Absolutely! Thanks for the encouragement…

ninure on January 13, 2012 at 1:34 pm said:

Interesting change in the words….

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The Alternate Economy on January 13, 2012 at 2:01 pm said:

It is really only three or four words… but the meaning surely changes…

richardhustonart on January 17, 2012 at 6:42 am said:

Thanks for liking Winter Berries 011312…you have a good voice and a great message…I’ll return often

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howtoclasses on January 22, 2012 at 12:40 am said:

Awesome, Tristan! You made my day. Such a deep and encouraging voice – just right for “Oh Holy Night”.

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The Alternate Economy on January 22, 2012 at 1:06 am said:

thank you! now you have made my day!

fowocare on January 30, 2012 at 1:26 pm said:

i love…

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the island traveler on January 30, 2012 at 4:11 pm said:

Inspiring… Moving…. Just love overflowing.

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The Alternate Economy on January 31, 2012 at 10:36 am said:

It is funny how judgmental we are of ourselves. Sometimes when I listen to this I just hear the mistakes I made… then I remember that love is putting yourself out there, mistakes and all, for everyone to see!

hardrock45 on February 1, 2012 at 9:58 am said:

Thanks for following my blog. Glad to have you. Yours is truly the voice of positive change.

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cutlass2010 on February 14, 2012 at 2:26 am said:

Thanks for this very appropriate share, very talented work. actually 3 or 4 new words.

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jennysserendipity on February 15, 2012 at 8:42 pm said:

Thank you for liking my post @ http://jennysserendipity.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/must-read-a-pixar-animators-inspirational-letter-about-persistence/

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2gadabout on February 16, 2012 at 7:31 am said:

If only there were more people like you!

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The Alternate Economy on February 16, 2012 at 8:22 am said:

There are… you are one.

OpProf on February 16, 2012 at 6:33 pm said:

Thanks for liking my post “Dang thats good!” TheOpportunityProfessor.wordpress.com

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Sharon - 4ever Photos on February 17, 2012 at 11:23 pm said:

Hi Tristan. Thanks for liking my post “A whole year in one book in just minutes each week!!” I’m glad you enjoyed it.

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Gardens at Waters East on February 18, 2012 at 6:02 pm said:

Tristan, I sang that song many times as a solo. Like what you did on this posting. Thought provoking. Jack

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John on February 20, 2012 at 6:51 am said:

Very Nicely Done. Lovely Voice. Thanks for the drop by on my blog. Cheers.

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stavr0s on February 21, 2012 at 5:44 pm said:

Hey Tristan – what a surprise to hear a blogger singing. Great voice. Thanks for liking my posts in my blog.

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chosenrebel on February 22, 2012 at 11:08 am said:

Sorry Tristan, got to go with the birth of Christ (who is love) on this one.

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The Alternate Economy on February 22, 2012 at 1:33 pm said:

We all have our own path to follow.

garylijie on February 25, 2012 at 12:20 pm said:

Beautiful voice! Nice!

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fgassette on February 26, 2012 at 9:05 am said:

The answer to everything is AGAPE’ ( UNCONDITIONAL LOVE). Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing this video. Your voice is very soothing.

BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!

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bryanmchristman on March 6, 2012 at 10:20 am said:

Hello Tristan,
I am new to your blog, so I cannot say that I fully understand what your main “idea” is. But I wanted to let you know that your substitution of the word “idea” for “savior,” when the word “savior” obviously refers to Jesus, does not sit comfortably with me. Please let me explain by first saying that I believe that it would be wrong of me to reduce the complexity of your unique personality expressing itself through your teaching and actions to a single idea that would be my own summary of “You.” Likewise, to do so to Jesus would also be to reduce him to our understanding. in essence we can make Jesus subservient to what becomes our “ideology.” This danger is especially problematic if we believe that God is “immanent” within ourselves and our actions. This only leads to the problems of “manifest destiny” which is what America has done, the Church has done, and the Nazi party has done. The better Christian theologians have stressed the fact that there is a balance between God as “immanent” and God as “transcendent.” Many of the errors in theology have been due to an imbalance in one direction or the other. Karl Barth stresses that God is “wholly other” to counter the imbalance in liberal theology that offered no critique of the Nazi “theology.” Barth stressed that God is transcendent (wholly other) and thus a constant critique on us, especially when we claim to be manifesting his will. So to return to Jesus, I believe, and most theologians that believe in God as immanent and transcendent, cannot be reduced to our “idea” because that would be to collapse the transcendent under our supposed manifestation of immanence. I admit that what we have a strange paradox where the personality and expression of the transcendent Jesus (the Word become flesh) is communicated to us through a book! But I believe that the Gospels contain an amazing mosaic of the actual person of Jesus that must be taken in whole to be accurate. It is also worth noting that theologians, for good reasons that derive from Jesus in the gospels, believe that the entire Bible is revelatory of Jesus Christ, although this is much to big of a topic to discuss in my reply. I hope I have made sense and that you can see why I don’t think that what the entire Bible says about the transcendent God who was revealed historically in Jesus of Nazareth, can be reduced to any singular “idea” whether yours or mine. I do appreciate what it seems that you are trying to do, given your concern to find a more justice in our economic practices. I don’t know if you realize it but the Bible and therefore Jesus has an amazing wealth of content relating to economics and justice. I also believe that we are entering an era where economics is becoming one of the main areas of reformation, which is long overdue. I only hope that Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris don’t have their way and prevent the difficult but needed assimilation of the transcendent economics of God by our human politics. I would like to ask them, is the golden rule really that bad? My apologies for the length of this reply! Thanks Tristan for not following the old song “I’d love to change the world…”
Bryan

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The Alternate Economy on March 6, 2012 at 11:21 am said:

You assume that I am proposing “We” had the idea. An idea was born, but not by man. We are trying to learn what that idea was, and it was “Love”.

bryanmchristman on March 6, 2012 at 2:52 pm said:

Thanks for your reply – My assumption is that if the idea was born through immanence it may in actuality be “We”. The only way to know is if it can be critiqued by transcendence. If there is no way transcendence can critique it, it is free to manifest itself without restraint as it becomes self-justifying. Therefore my main purpose was to try to let you know of this theoretical critique that could be brought to bear on the process of an “idea” coming to fruition. In the back of my mind are all the utopian movements of the past that started with some “idea” and ended up with something tragic. You mention “Animal Farm” and I can’t remember the details but I’m sure it all started mainly with some naked “Idea.” (I am not assuming that your idea would necessarily have such consequences- I don’t know enough about it to make any judgment.) You have probably heard of the saying regarding history and those that don’t know about it are doomed to repeat it. I was merely hoping to communicate to you that some people have studied how “ideas” come to manifestation in history, and what presuppositions or philosophies are part of that manifestation process for good or for ill. My daughter sometimes makes fun of me because I am always talking about concepts and ideas that seem to her to have no relation to life. So the other day I told her that millions of people have lived or died because of ideas. The pen is mightier than the sword, because it transmits the idea, but often the idea/pen has brought the sword. In relation to the idea being “Love” it is a great idea per se, as is “All You Need is Love”, and “God is Love”. The problem is defining it and living it, especially when it comes to a whole society or civilization doing so.
Thanks again, Bryan

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The Alternate Economy on March 6, 2012 at 7:02 pm said:

I think you and I will get along just fine. If I may recommend looking at my about page for a few essays on my main philosophy. These other posts are mostly supporting the main thesis of living in Love.

bryanmchristman on March 6, 2012 at 2:56 pm said:

Tristan, just a clarification – you mentioned “Animal Farm” elsewhere as I was doing some browsing on your blog earlier. By the way i’m hoping to read Hitchens book about Orwell sometime. It should undoubtedly be interesting to say the least!

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