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Preview: Next Saturday June 28, songs about numbered streets
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>>>This diary is about songs with ‘devil’ in the title, with a few words about ‘the devil’ itself.
Words gleaned from this link: The Devil
A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. The different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil independent from God, 2) an aspect of God, 3) a living being turned evil (a fallen angel) or 4) a symbol of human evil.
Each tradition, culture, and religion with a devil in its mythos offers a different lens on manifestations of evil. The history of these perspectives intertwines with theology, mythology, psychiatry, art, and literature, developing independently within each of the traditions. It occurs historically in many contexts and cultures, it is portrayed as blue, black, or red; it is portrayed as having horns on its head, and without horns, and so on.
The Oxford English Dictionary has a variety of definitions for the meaning of “devil”, supported by a range of citations: “Devil” may refer to Satan, the supreme spirit of evil, or one of Satan’s emissaries or demons that populate Hell, or to one of the spirits that possess a demoniac person; “devil” may refer to one of the “malignant deities” feared and worshiped by “heathen people”, a demon, a malignant being of superhuman powers; figuratively “devil” may be applied to a wicked person, or playfully to a rogue or rascal, or in empathy often accompanied by the word “poor” to a person—”poor devil”.
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off to the geeky side a bit, related to the words ‘demon’ and ‘daemon’:
In computer programming, a ‘daemon’ is a term for a process that runs in the background of some other process. Here’s a link for geek reading: daemon
The term was coined by the programmers at MIT’s Project MAC, around 1963, the team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell’s demon, an imaginary agent in physics that helped to sort molecules, stating, “We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked tirelessly to perform system chores”. UNIX systems inherited this terminology. Maxwell’s demon is consistent with Greek mythology’s interpretation of a daemon as a supernatural being working in the background.
The team leader said: Many people equate the word “daemon” with the word “demon”, implying some kind of satanic connection between UNIX and the underworld. This is an egregious misunderstanding. “Daemon” is actually a much older form of “demon”; daemons have no particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a person’s character or personality. The ancient Greeks’ concept of a “personal daemon” was similar to the modern concept of a “guardian angel”—eudaemonia is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons.
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This diary author’s note: UNIX is an Operating System, in a similar role as ‘Windows’ and many other OS’s. Enough geek says the readership, play some music!
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Author’s’ note: this version of ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ is a collab with Phil from France, Clint from Canada, Martin from England, and myself (stage name Johnny Doxx) from Missouri, USA. I played drum kit, bongos, and (along with Clint) sang hoo-hoo hoo-hoo hoo-hoo ….. When Phil asked me to participate, I actually had never known the name of the song, I thought it was ‘Pleased To Meet You’.
Devil Woman, by Marty Robbins
Devil With The Blue Dress, by Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels
Sympathy For The Devil, performed by a collab of myself and other musicians
