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YOUR VOICE – DARREN REDMOND

Darren Redmond presents "Your Voice."

“Your Voice” is written as an exclusive article from the heart of Darren Redmond.

YOUR VOICE

When I bring up a question about your voice and its origins do you know from which I ask? I can assure you I do not mean the name of a TV show. This does not mean the voice you have when you sing in your car, or the shower, or in your room when you are alone. I mean where is the voice that is YOU. My opinion is that we all have our own voice, as we all have a unique finger print. but it seems many of us wear “community gloves” that cover our unique finger print, or in this case, our voice.

Finding your own voice is not easy, their is no 2 minute YouTube video that can make that happen. How may one find something they may not know what it looks like or truly is? Your voice also changes so what you may pursue at 18, as your voice may be different at 40. But are you chasing your voice? Or, rather a imprinted voice that is not truly yours, but a sound you have chased for a variety of reasons.

THERE IS NO CRISIS

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What is your voice? Is it produced as some form of “community gloves” or is it really you?

It is not a mid-life crisis, nor is it a perplexing question facing students as they move from school to the working world. It is not anything else but finding ones self. But, how do you find something that you see and feel and talk to every day? (yes, my friends, we do talk to ourselves every day). Yet, sometimes, it feels like a suit we are wearing and nothing more.

PUTTING ON APPEARANCES?

Are we here to get by or to pursue the best we can be? That voice inside you, many times gets silenced by the noise around you. How to vote, how to think, how to react, may be some reasons. And, what you should be happy with, what you should share, what you should keep are other reasons. Of all of these decisions, do you make them from the voice in you, or rather a voice that comes to you from elsewhere? The beliefs that you grew up with, learned and believed in; did an outside voice tell you not to listen to things you grew up with? Or, was it to question everything, but then tell you to only listen to them?

LISTENING TO OTHERS INSTEAD OF YOUR VOICE

Are you listening to a millionaire singer tell you to be there for the every man and having enough and share the rest, who lives in a huge home, but, will not allow you to down load his or her music? And has armed guards all around them while singing this? If your voice tells you to listen, then that is great indeed; however, are you listening to some one else, while not hearing YOUR VOICE? The musician metaphor works, but many will do this. Who made the rule that you are too old to learn to dance? Or, go back to school? Maybe, dress a certain way, or to build a business ? That is their voice; it is not yours. Free will and freedom allows you to make a choice listen to them, or ignore them.

ARE YOU HEARING YOURSELF?

Your voice may not scream. But, rather, sitting silently, your voice may allow you to start hearing it. I am of the opinion that many times for what ever social reasons, we often do not allow ourselves to hear our wants and desires for fulfillment in who we are. Family, friends and commitments are all important and variables to listening to your voice are valid. But, your voice is helping you become the best person you can be, as any one who has gone through a 12 step program has conveyed to me. Your voice allows all those who rely on you to benefit, as well.

IT DOES NOT TAKE A VILLAGE

It takes a village to raise a child is not something I have ever agreed with. Rather, to me, it takes a village to look after each other. But, it takes a parent or guardian to set the best examples they can along with the child who becomes an adult, understanding who they are and where that voice brings them. To me, Screw-tape and the example given to us by C.S Lewis of him is alive and well. Your voice steers you away from Screw-tape. Anyone who tells you you are not unique and special has started to muffle the voice with in you.

We may be based on variables and scenarios around us. To settle to be one of the many box cars on the train which we all belong to, but, if it is your choice, based on your decision, that is YOUR VOICE. No one has the right to limit you based on any factor. If your voice tells you to sing..SING.. IF you want to own property, do so. If your voice tells you to help the homeless, do so and do it with passion. Your voice is who you are. It is not who others tell you to be.

BE YOUR VOICE

Following your voice does not make you selfish. Rather, it is selfish of society, to tell YOU how to act or be. as long as you are not breaking any law. You have the right to pursue happiness, but, there is no guarantee to actually achieve it. Nowhere is it written that your happiness needs to be mandated by the collective. Because, your voice is yours and belongs to just you.

Written By: Darren Redmond

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DERINKUYU: AN UNDERGROUND CITY

DERINKUYU: AN UNDERGROUND CITY

In 1963, a simple home renovation in the town of Derinkuyu, Turkey led to an extraordinary discovery when a cave wall was opened, revealing a passageway to an underground city thousands of years old and more than 280 feet deep.

It is said that Derinkuyu could house as many as 20,000 people as well as special areas for their livestock and supplies. It also has several wells drilled that could deliver fresh drinking water to many levels of the city. Derinkuyu would have been a massive undertaking to build for anyone, even in modern times with modern equipment.

A project of this magnitude would have required specific equipment, planning, and knowledge of the terrain’s geological composition. At Derinkuyu, because of the softness of the stone, one would have had to been very careful that was enough pillar strength to support the floors above otherwise there would have been catastrophic cave-ins. What is very interesting is that there is absolutely no evidence of any catastrophic events. So, obviously the builders were extremely clever and knew their material. Even by today’s standards it is an impressive masterpiece of construction. Please click on pictures to activate carousel. To exit, just press the ESC key or click on the X in the upper left corner of carousel.

The question here is why would anyone want to live underground? Why was this underground city built in the first place? The Cappadocia region where Derinkuyu is located was part of the Zoroastrian Empire, which was Persian. The Zoroastrian religion, based on opposing forces of good and evil is widely believed to have influenced both Hinduism and Judeo-Christianity. Scholars say it was founded sometime before the sixth century BC. Its chief God is the creator Ahura Mazda. In the second chapter of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves mankind from a worldwide environmental disaster. The great prophet, Yima was instructed to build an underground refuge similar to Derinkuyu by the sky God Ahura Mazda.

According to the sacred texts, Yima built a multilevel underground city to protect a select group of people and animals from a global ice age. The Vendidad called this event “the evil winters.” The underground city at Derinkuyu also has an unusual security system: 1,000-pound doors on rollers that allow them to be moved by a single person, but only from the inside. This was a very complex security measure and obviously the inhabitants of the underground city wanted to hide something from the outside.

According to the ancient Zoroastrian texts, Ahura Mazda flew through the sky in a divine chariot and waged war against his eternal enemy Angra Mainyu, the demon of destruction. So, there we have a description of possible “extraterrestrials” with the capability of flight. Is it possible that people searched for shelter in an underground city because of a war?

Was Derinkuyu built to hide from terribly freezing winters or out of fear of an aerial enemy?

Consider this, if you will: Something flies over the underground city at high speed it would not be possible to spot the ventilation shafts. If it were an enemy that was on foot or on horseback it would be easy for them to just close all the ventilation shafts and everyone inside would have to come out for lack of air. During recorded history we know that many different people did, in fact, hide in the underground city of Derinkuyu to escape everything from desert raiders to Roman legions. But, some experts wonder whether such conventional attacks can really explain why Derinkuyu was built in the first place.

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