I loved Arby 'n' the Chief, Deus ex Machina and It's a wonderful Live, but I recently watched Playin' with the chief and laughed so hard at it and at the end, the credits, I realized that it was written by Digital Ph33r. The only problem is that 'he works for' or makes videos for 'Machinima', because of this all his videos are listed under Machinima. I love his videos and was just wondering if anyone knew of all the other 'hard to find' videos that he has made. ThanksCan someone List all of Digital Ph33r's videos please?
If you search jons videos under digitalph33r on youtube and look at his favorites it will list all his videos he put since the contract between him and machinima things like road to voi,ect.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Trying to ID young adult book from mid 80s, any help?
It's a long shot, but this book - at least parts of it - have stuck with me for years, but I can't remember the title or author, and I've never been able to successfully search for it using plot keywords. I read it in 1986 and I believe it was a fairly recent release at that time.
The story revolves around a girl who believes her mother is dead, spending the summer with her grandmother. The girl ends up being convinced to sneak into what turns out to be an AA meeting where she discovers that her mother is actually alive.
2 things I particularly remember: one scene where the girl is pretending to be asleep while g-ma is trying to talk to her. The g-ma offers her her favorite ice cream - peanut butter and chocolate - but the girl still tries not to move - the g-ma says something like about seeing her jump. The other is at the end when the girl %26amp; g-ma are talking about seeing the mother and the g-ma refers to the friend who showed her the meeting as the "deus ex machina."
Any idea?Trying to ID young adult book from mid 80s, any help?
I have been looking for your book, but unable to locate it as yet. Let me suggest the new Google Book search engine, if you haven't tried it already. As keywords pop into your memory, you can play with it. On the advanced search you can limit it to dates. You also might go to the library and take a look in some of the children's fiction annual dictionaries. You would think that with a phrase like deus ex machina it would have been easy to find. It wasn't.Trying to ID young adult book from mid 80s, any help?
Should anyone else stumble upon this question looking for the same book, I finally found it (it wasn't the one I mentioned above, but a month later I finally found it using Google Books search! Woohoo!) "Now is Not Too Late" by Isabelle Holland.
The story revolves around a girl who believes her mother is dead, spending the summer with her grandmother. The girl ends up being convinced to sneak into what turns out to be an AA meeting where she discovers that her mother is actually alive.
2 things I particularly remember: one scene where the girl is pretending to be asleep while g-ma is trying to talk to her. The g-ma offers her her favorite ice cream - peanut butter and chocolate - but the girl still tries not to move - the g-ma says something like about seeing her jump. The other is at the end when the girl %26amp; g-ma are talking about seeing the mother and the g-ma refers to the friend who showed her the meeting as the "deus ex machina."
Any idea?Trying to ID young adult book from mid 80s, any help?
I have been looking for your book, but unable to locate it as yet. Let me suggest the new Google Book search engine, if you haven't tried it already. As keywords pop into your memory, you can play with it. On the advanced search you can limit it to dates. You also might go to the library and take a look in some of the children's fiction annual dictionaries. You would think that with a phrase like deus ex machina it would have been easy to find. It wasn't.Trying to ID young adult book from mid 80s, any help?
Should anyone else stumble upon this question looking for the same book, I finally found it (it wasn't the one I mentioned above, but a month later I finally found it using Google Books search! Woohoo!) "Now is Not Too Late" by Isabelle Holland.
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How would one pronounce this French phrase?
Deus ex machina. Make it idiot-friendly, please. ^_^
~The Otaku Twins~How would one pronounce this French phrase?
"duzex mesyina"
idiot-friendly??
idiot = yes...
friendly = maybe, haha....
Deus? I don't really know about that, unless you mean Deux. then this would be pronounced "duh X ma-kee-nah" Some people will say ma-chee-nah or something like that but i looked it up just to be sure...How would one pronounce this French phrase?
Darius as got it. It's Latin, but you will find it occasionally in French text. I once used it in high school ;)
Another way to show you : dé-ous èks makina
this is not really french, but you could pronounce it this way:
duhs eks muh-shee-nuh
almost like english. try to think french accent, though.How would one pronounce this French phrase?
lt's Latin and supposed to be pronounced :
dayooss eks mahkinah.
Dayoos eks makina ^_^
~The Otaku Twins~How would one pronounce this French phrase?
"duzex mesyina"
idiot-friendly??
idiot = yes...
friendly = maybe, haha....
Deus? I don't really know about that, unless you mean Deux. then this would be pronounced "duh X ma-kee-nah" Some people will say ma-chee-nah or something like that but i looked it up just to be sure...How would one pronounce this French phrase?
Darius as got it. It's Latin, but you will find it occasionally in French text. I once used it in high school ;)
Another way to show you : dé-ous èks makina
this is not really french, but you could pronounce it this way:
duhs eks muh-shee-nuh
almost like english. try to think french accent, though.How would one pronounce this French phrase?
lt's Latin and supposed to be pronounced :
dayooss eks mahkinah.
Dayoos eks makina ^_^
Ok I'm having trouble finding the answers 2 these ?'s online?
3 examples of modern day Greek theatre? 3 examples that use "deus ex machina"? And name this play "the perfect greek tragedy" if u could help out I would really appreciate itOk I'm having trouble finding the answers 2 these ?'s online?
The perfect tragedy = Oedipus the King
The perfect tragedy = Oedipus the King
Can someone translate this into Latin accurately?
I need to know how to say "Gods from men" in Latin. I know "God from a machine" is "Deus Ex Machina." I need someone who actually knows latin fluently and not just translated with a free online translator because they are innacurate. Help? thanks!Can someone translate this into Latin accurately?
Men can be a lot of different things.....umm let me see. ...
Dei ex hominibus. that's "Gods from mankind." if you want it to be singular it would be Deus ex hominibus.
there you go.
not sure try
translation.comCan someone translate this into Latin accurately?
tu mama tambien
Deus ex viris and Deus ex hominibus would both be correct, but the latter one is more acceptableCan someone translate this into Latin accurately?
deus ex viri
My daughter agrees with merideth and she's 2nd year latin
i'd say deus ex homo, but believe me: this sentence means nothing!
romans used to say deus ex machina when in a play the god came "from a machine" , for example flyng with ropes , in order to solve the situation.. i really can-t understand what do you mean for god from men.. anyway.. ciao ciao from an italian latin studentxbox xbox batman arkham city xbox
Men can be a lot of different things.....umm let me see. ...
Dei ex hominibus. that's "Gods from mankind." if you want it to be singular it would be Deus ex hominibus.
there you go.
not sure try
translation.comCan someone translate this into Latin accurately?
tu mama tambien
Deus ex viris and Deus ex hominibus would both be correct, but the latter one is more acceptableCan someone translate this into Latin accurately?
deus ex viri
My daughter agrees with merideth and she's 2nd year latin
i'd say deus ex homo, but believe me: this sentence means nothing!
romans used to say deus ex machina when in a play the god came "from a machine" , for example flyng with ropes , in order to solve the situation.. i really can-t understand what do you mean for god from men.. anyway.. ciao ciao from an italian latin student
What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
1. Prophecies
2. deus ex machina artifacts/magics/etc from an "ancient civilization"What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
Hmm. You strike a hard bargain. How about The Summoning, by Kelley Armstrong? I also really love the Heir trilogy by Cinda Williams Chima, but it's been a while since I read those, and they might have a bit of "ancient artifact" in them.What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
Singer in the Snow, I think. Not sure who its by. There's no prophecy and I'm pretty sure no enchanted ancient objects.
It takes place on an ice planet called Neyva, where they have singers known as Cantors (male) and Cantrixes (female) who sing and play instruments in order to generate precious heat and light. It focuses on two girls, one who is very powerful in creating heat but is held back because she's mute and cant sing, and another one who has the ability to do so, but her voice always falters right before she reaches the point of creating heat.What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
Hm good point. I think I should now redefine the future progression of my own story.
You're right those are very cliche.
2. deus ex machina artifacts/magics/etc from an "ancient civilization"What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
Hmm. You strike a hard bargain. How about The Summoning, by Kelley Armstrong? I also really love the Heir trilogy by Cinda Williams Chima, but it's been a while since I read those, and they might have a bit of "ancient artifact" in them.What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
Singer in the Snow, I think. Not sure who its by. There's no prophecy and I'm pretty sure no enchanted ancient objects.
It takes place on an ice planet called Neyva, where they have singers known as Cantors (male) and Cantrixes (female) who sing and play instruments in order to generate precious heat and light. It focuses on two girls, one who is very powerful in creating heat but is held back because she's mute and cant sing, and another one who has the ability to do so, but her voice always falters right before she reaches the point of creating heat.What are some good fantasy novels that don't have?
Hm good point. I think I should now redefine the future progression of my own story.
You're right those are very cliche.
What are your bookish pet peeves?
To do with the actual story.
Mine is using deus ex machina in the end conflict (mostly in fantasies).What are your bookish pet peeves?
-When the character is a Mary-Sue
-When the plot is just shallow and boring
-When the characters have like, no personality (Bella Swan, for example.)
-When I finish a book, and the end is a cliffhanger, and I have to wait another year for the next book to come out
-When the main character is *always* the hero. I like it when every character gets to shine in the light
Similar to the above answer one of my biggest pet peeves is to do with characters who have no development throughout the story and then they miraculously change at the end to whoever they were trying to be. I like to see the journey of a character to see them not just succeed but fail and even lose something that is important to them, I believe it makes them more real and recognisable.What are your bookish pet peeves?
So my pet peeve isn't really what most people would have, but my main one is when they add characters in later on in the story. I don't mean characters who are going to help the story, I mean random characters that come from no where. Say you have a team set up in a book, and they're doing a great job. Then all of a sudden, this new girl comes and joins in, but doesn't really offer anything team or story-wise. I hate when they do that!
Also, I hate girls who think they can do it all. I don't mean stubborn characters, or even Mary Sue (although I don't like Mary Sues either). All I mean is a character ( who is normally a girl) who thinks that they can do EVERYTHING, from saving the world, to getting the guy, to handing in all their homework on time. Seriously? No one could do all of that. Maybe a few things, but not all.
Sorry for the mini rant I just went off into! =)
Teen paranormal romances, especially ones where the girl either has "endearing" qualities like clumsiness or helplessness and a rotten attitude but everyone loves her and thinks she's the greatest thing since sliced bread (hello, Twilight), or she's the bestest most powerful and amazing vampire/ghost/werewolf/witch/etc ever and singlehandedly defeats the bad guy while everyone else stands on the sidelines and twiddles their thumbs. ENOUGH ALREADY!What are your bookish pet peeves?
Characters having "feelings" that something is wrong. (And these feelings being right every single time.)
Characters who are said to be strong, but need to get their *** saved every ten pages by someone/something or other.
Characters reacting unrealistically/out of character in scenarios.
Mine is using deus ex machina in the end conflict (mostly in fantasies).What are your bookish pet peeves?
-When the character is a Mary-Sue
-When the plot is just shallow and boring
-When the characters have like, no personality (Bella Swan, for example.)
-When I finish a book, and the end is a cliffhanger, and I have to wait another year for the next book to come out
-When the main character is *always* the hero. I like it when every character gets to shine in the light
Similar to the above answer one of my biggest pet peeves is to do with characters who have no development throughout the story and then they miraculously change at the end to whoever they were trying to be. I like to see the journey of a character to see them not just succeed but fail and even lose something that is important to them, I believe it makes them more real and recognisable.What are your bookish pet peeves?
So my pet peeve isn't really what most people would have, but my main one is when they add characters in later on in the story. I don't mean characters who are going to help the story, I mean random characters that come from no where. Say you have a team set up in a book, and they're doing a great job. Then all of a sudden, this new girl comes and joins in, but doesn't really offer anything team or story-wise. I hate when they do that!
Also, I hate girls who think they can do it all. I don't mean stubborn characters, or even Mary Sue (although I don't like Mary Sues either). All I mean is a character ( who is normally a girl) who thinks that they can do EVERYTHING, from saving the world, to getting the guy, to handing in all their homework on time. Seriously? No one could do all of that. Maybe a few things, but not all.
Sorry for the mini rant I just went off into! =)
Teen paranormal romances, especially ones where the girl either has "endearing" qualities like clumsiness or helplessness and a rotten attitude but everyone loves her and thinks she's the greatest thing since sliced bread (hello, Twilight), or she's the bestest most powerful and amazing vampire/ghost/werewolf/witch/etc ever and singlehandedly defeats the bad guy while everyone else stands on the sidelines and twiddles their thumbs. ENOUGH ALREADY!What are your bookish pet peeves?
Characters having "feelings" that something is wrong. (And these feelings being right every single time.)
Characters who are said to be strong, but need to get their *** saved every ten pages by someone/something or other.
Characters reacting unrealistically/out of character in scenarios.
Who would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
It's Holy Fight Club night!
Rules: 1. Don't talk about Holy Fight Club
2. Do NOT talk about Holy Fight Club
3. No miracles
4. No weapons
5. It's a fight to the death
6. No Deus Ex Machina is allowed
7. If you read this question, you have to make up a fight of your ownWho would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
Flying Spaghetti Monster, he's a dirty little bastard. I can't physically imagine the logistics of the fight though. I suppose he could whip his noodles around until the unicorn got tangled up and then it would go down like that scene from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea where the squid got a hold of the submarine.
Okay, here's my idea for a fight
Mormon Jesus Vs. Snuffleuppagus
Death match,
I summon the FSM.Who would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
I think they would rather enjoy each other's company, personally.
The invisible pink unicorn is very much a pacifist. I can't claim much knowledge of the FSM.
IPU would have the tactical advantage - she's I, and being a U she has the horn with which to impale...Who would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
Never happen. They're the best of friends, both being members of the exclusive One True God club.
How do you know if the unicorn is pink if its invisible?
They would be equally matched and a fight may well end the world unless they could reach a stalemate.
They beat the crap out of each other and, exhausted, sit down for some tea from Russell's Teapot.
u weirdo
Sorry, but Russel's celestial tea pot win.
Is this your religion ?? I thought you did not believe in anything.
the invisible unicorn would eat the FSM but he would have the last laugh when he comes exploding out of its stomach with pasta power
Rules: 1. Don't talk about Holy Fight Club
2. Do NOT talk about Holy Fight Club
3. No miracles
4. No weapons
5. It's a fight to the death
6. No Deus Ex Machina is allowed
7. If you read this question, you have to make up a fight of your ownWho would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
Flying Spaghetti Monster, he's a dirty little bastard. I can't physically imagine the logistics of the fight though. I suppose he could whip his noodles around until the unicorn got tangled up and then it would go down like that scene from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea where the squid got a hold of the submarine.
Okay, here's my idea for a fight
Mormon Jesus Vs. Snuffleuppagus
Death match,
I summon the FSM.Who would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
I think they would rather enjoy each other's company, personally.
The invisible pink unicorn is very much a pacifist. I can't claim much knowledge of the FSM.
IPU would have the tactical advantage - she's I, and being a U she has the horn with which to impale...Who would win in a fight? The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) or an invisible pink unicorn?
Never happen. They're the best of friends, both being members of the exclusive One True God club.
How do you know if the unicorn is pink if its invisible?
They would be equally matched and a fight may well end the world unless they could reach a stalemate.
They beat the crap out of each other and, exhausted, sit down for some tea from Russell's Teapot.
u weirdo
Sorry, but Russel's celestial tea pot win.
Is this your religion ?? I thought you did not believe in anything.
the invisible unicorn would eat the FSM but he would have the last laugh when he comes exploding out of its stomach with pasta power
Could someone translate this into latin?
'' I have finally experienced my own personal Deus Ex Machina. Uhm. Isn't that great? ''
haha.. I know it's silly, I just like some words in Latin. It's a pretty ''mystic'' language.Could someone translate this into latin?
Denique expertus Deum ex Machina meum proprium sum. Nonne magnum?
I can't find a Latin interjection that corresponds to "uhm," but maybe someone else on this site can.Could someone translate this into latin?
EGO have denique expertus meus own alio Deus E Apparatus. Uhm. Isn't ut valde?
haha.. I know it's silly, I just like some words in Latin. It's a pretty ''mystic'' language.Could someone translate this into latin?
Denique expertus Deum ex Machina meum proprium sum. Nonne magnum?
I can't find a Latin interjection that corresponds to "uhm," but maybe someone else on this site can.Could someone translate this into latin?
EGO have denique expertus meus own alio Deus E Apparatus. Uhm. Isn't ut valde?
What do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
The Acesulfame K IN930 (the sweetner) together with the entos-and its flavour make Ta9V4.It makes so much gas which may lead to an explosion inside your body.I couldn't find any English web site about that.I have only in my language.
The Czech web site is http://splat.cz/2007/03/05/deus-ex-machina-aneb-myslet-boli-3/
I would like know if it is possible.
Thank you for answers.What do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
It won't kill you, you'll either fart or burp the gas out (more room outside than in!) But, if you drop a Mentos in a bottle of Diet Coke, the mint will come shooting out the top. We tried this one day when we were bored at work.
I feel that it is not possible for a large explosion to take place in your stomach. Stomach acid nutralizes Ta9V4 and in return will most likely cause you to have a stomach ache or eating to many will plain out make you sick. Mythbusters has busted this myth and so do I. ToMWhat do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
Mythbusters did that on their show. Myth was busted. Not possible.
But you can feed Alka Seltzer to a seagull and it will explode.
I highly doubt that it would kill you however anything is possiable.What do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
Oh, that's cool, I'm Czech too! :) I think it can be true, because we tried putting mentos in a can of coke and it almost exploded! Foam EVERYwhere! So, to answer your question, I think it's possible....
Sounds like something for "Mythbusters"! Its right up there with eating Pop Rocks and Coke, or Aspirin and Coke. I'm thinking that, while anything is possible, this probably is an urban myth since there are no warnings on either the mentos labels or coke!mass effect 2 armors beef o bradys
The Czech web site is http://splat.cz/2007/03/05/deus-ex-machina-aneb-myslet-boli-3/
I would like know if it is possible.
Thank you for answers.What do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
It won't kill you, you'll either fart or burp the gas out (more room outside than in!) But, if you drop a Mentos in a bottle of Diet Coke, the mint will come shooting out the top. We tried this one day when we were bored at work.
I feel that it is not possible for a large explosion to take place in your stomach. Stomach acid nutralizes Ta9V4 and in return will most likely cause you to have a stomach ache or eating to many will plain out make you sick. Mythbusters has busted this myth and so do I. ToMWhat do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
Mythbusters did that on their show. Myth was busted. Not possible.
But you can feed Alka Seltzer to a seagull and it will explode.
I highly doubt that it would kill you however anything is possiable.What do you think about this:if you eat the MENTOS and then drink the LIGHT COCA-COLA you can die.?
Oh, that's cool, I'm Czech too! :) I think it can be true, because we tried putting mentos in a can of coke and it almost exploded! Foam EVERYwhere! So, to answer your question, I think it's possible....
Sounds like something for "Mythbusters"! Its right up there with eating Pop Rocks and Coke, or Aspirin and Coke. I'm thinking that, while anything is possible, this probably is an urban myth since there are no warnings on either the mentos labels or coke!
Could Batman beat Pre-Crisis Superman if he had Prep Time?
Okay, for those of you that don't know, Pre-Crisis Superman is nearly immortal. Let's go with that has nearly every power known to man.
Prep Time is Batman's Deus Ex Machina. He made Shark replant and could stop the world from being destroyed with time to prepare.
Mainly this question is aimed at the hardcore DC fanboys.Could Batman beat Pre-Crisis Superman if he had Prep Time?
SUPER MAN WOULD, HE JUST DESTROYS ALL OF BATMANS EQUIPMENTCould Batman beat Pre-Crisis Superman if he had Prep Time?
i know its sad
Jack is right, all superman has to do is destroy everything, before batman gets his machine ready
Prep Time is Batman's Deus Ex Machina. He made Shark replant and could stop the world from being destroyed with time to prepare.
Mainly this question is aimed at the hardcore DC fanboys.Could Batman beat Pre-Crisis Superman if he had Prep Time?
SUPER MAN WOULD, HE JUST DESTROYS ALL OF BATMANS EQUIPMENTCould Batman beat Pre-Crisis Superman if he had Prep Time?
i know its sad
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Could Batman beat Pre-Crisis Superman if he had Prep Time?Jack is right, all superman has to do is destroy everything, before batman gets his machine ready
Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
When this surely goes against Islam? Women in Islam have to cover themselves up as Muslim men cant control themselves (Allah loves it) --so are Muslim male doctors(and female) like children in a sweet shop ,when they see the naked bodies all day?
Or is it a test by Allah (yet again--the deus ex machina)Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
cause they are all men... didn't you know, there are 'exceptions' for the men in everything in islam.
Exceptions are made in the case of doctors.
Doctors are highly trained and highly educated people who are very professional about the human body. There's absolutely nothing sexual about examining a patient.
My surgeon for my tonsiloadenoidectomy and my ear tube operation is a Muslim.Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
Talking about non-muslims doctors.
I remember a programme where islam teacher said " I want muslim doctors, so these dirty non muslims don't have a look at muslims!"
I found this awful, and prfession isn't about caring what we have found from his speech...
Most doctors go into their profession because they want to HELP PEOPLE!!! It shouldn't matter if they are of different religions or cultures. Geez, people are people, thats it!!!Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
It stops them from dying, I have had a muslim doctor and 2 muslim dentists.
To save lives or cure sickness, or helping people, why not?
You sound jealous though, nobody is stopping you from being a doctor too. LOL!
open your mind 1st rather then ask questions which are openly rude and derogotory
Maybe they just have compassion for human life.........
Good question and some good answers
Or is it a test by Allah (yet again--the deus ex machina)Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
cause they are all men... didn't you know, there are 'exceptions' for the men in everything in islam.
Exceptions are made in the case of doctors.
Doctors are highly trained and highly educated people who are very professional about the human body. There's absolutely nothing sexual about examining a patient.
My surgeon for my tonsiloadenoidectomy and my ear tube operation is a Muslim.Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
Talking about non-muslims doctors.
I remember a programme where islam teacher said " I want muslim doctors, so these dirty non muslims don't have a look at muslims!"
I found this awful, and prfession isn't about caring what we have found from his speech...
Most doctors go into their profession because they want to HELP PEOPLE!!! It shouldn't matter if they are of different religions or cultures. Geez, people are people, thats it!!!Why are Muslim doctors allowed to examine non-Muslim patients?
It stops them from dying, I have had a muslim doctor and 2 muslim dentists.
To save lives or cure sickness, or helping people, why not?
You sound jealous though, nobody is stopping you from being a doctor too. LOL!
open your mind 1st rather then ask questions which are openly rude and derogotory
Maybe they just have compassion for human life.........
Good question and some good answers
What are some writing terms/phrases, example...?
I have just recently found a few writing terms, such as deus ex machina and medias res. This made me think about other posibilities. Are there any other ones out there?
Thanks a lot.What are some writing terms/phrases, example...?
You may already know these, but...
A MacGuffin is a plot device that serves to advance the plot and motivate the Dramatis Person忙 [collective characters in a work], while having little actual significance. This is generally applied to film but is evident in literature as well.
A d茅nouement is the series of events that follow the climax and serve as the resolution of a story. Plot complexities are unraveled and loose ends are tied up. Some novels do not have a denouement due to an abrupt or surprising ending.
Caveat lector: let the reader beware [similar to 'caveat emptor']
You can check out Category:Latin literary phrases or Category: Literary terms on Wikipedia. [can't post a hyperlink until level 2]What are some writing terms/phrases, example...?
- inconsistencies
- purple prose
Answer mine?
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Thanks a lot.What are some writing terms/phrases, example...?
You may already know these, but...
A MacGuffin is a plot device that serves to advance the plot and motivate the Dramatis Person忙 [collective characters in a work], while having little actual significance. This is generally applied to film but is evident in literature as well.
A d茅nouement is the series of events that follow the climax and serve as the resolution of a story. Plot complexities are unraveled and loose ends are tied up. Some novels do not have a denouement due to an abrupt or surprising ending.
Caveat lector: let the reader beware [similar to 'caveat emptor']
You can check out Category:Latin literary phrases or Category: Literary terms on Wikipedia. [can't post a hyperlink until level 2]What are some writing terms/phrases, example...?
- inconsistencies
- purple prose
Answer mine?
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Did the globe theater has a raked stage?
Did it also have an upstage, a downstage and deus ex machina? Did the globe theater has a raked stage?
Any stage has an upstage and downstage, which are just the general areas of the stage (and "upstage" came from a raked stage, where you literally walked up to the rear).
The Globe did not have a raked stage. The audience--except the groundlings--was seated in steeply raked seating above the stage, so a rake was not necessary.
Any stage has an upstage and downstage, which are just the general areas of the stage (and "upstage" came from a raked stage, where you literally walked up to the rear).
The Globe did not have a raked stage. The audience--except the groundlings--was seated in steeply raked seating above the stage, so a rake was not necessary.
Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
My wife is an English major and I'm a literary buff, and she's due with twins in less than three months! We're excited! They're fraternal twins; one boy and one girl.
We were thinking of "Deus Ex Machina" for the boy and "Anastrophe Onomatopoeia" for the girl. What do you think? Our surname is Christenson, thank you.
CONSTRUCTIVE comments welcome :)
.Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
Omg! Edit....... No name them
Boy: Comma Quotes
Girl: Nouna Illiteration
I like the idea of having a similar name, that doesn't necesarily scream "literary term," but is kind of like a puzzel.
Deus Xavier Michael Christenson
(Deus X Michael)
I guess.
Or you could have his name be
Deus Xavier Christenson
(Deus X)
And have the literary allusion implied. That way, he can go about life either embrasing his funky name, or not really mentioning it, and it can be a family thing.
As a name alone, I actually really like Deus. I think it's latin enough that people wouldn't necesarily freak out over the "God" thing.
As for Anastrophe Onomatopoeia Christenson
Onomatapoeia is cruel, I think, for a girl. On-o Mot 0 Pee-a. I just think its ugly and a little too silly for her name. Its like you're making a joke out of your child.
With this name she'll constantly be correcting people on pronunciation and spelling, and constantly being asked why her name is so weird. Besides, her name would be 13 syllables. That's a lot, especially for a little kid just learning to speak. There are plenty of other options. Maybe ones that would go along the lines of Deus Ex Machina.
And also, don't forget the names meanings. Deus Ex Machina has a cool meaning, both literally and its literary meanting. Anastrophe Onomotopoeia doesn't.
Good luck.Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
definiton constructive:relating to construction; carefully considered and meant to be helpful
With that being said I think that both names are long and that it would take the children forever to learn to spell their names. They would also have to constantly correcting people for misspellings. There are many literary names that are cute and practical..trust me your children will thank you later.
Well, they are definitely unique names, but theres nothing wrong with that! The only problem with the names is that your children with have a very hard time spelling them, not to mention that they will probably get teased about them too. I would either make the names easier to spell, make up some nice sounding nicknames, or change the names all together. Anyway, good luck with your twins! God Bless!Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
They are your children, but I guarantee you those poor kids will be laughed at no matter what school they attend. Take it from me, the girl who had a "funny name" all during school ...
They're going to hate you for it in a way. Not hate you, but resent the fact that you gave them that name. I don't let my mother have input with my baby's name now that I'm pregnant because I was teased all throughout my childhood because she failed to just think of how other people would react.
Good luck.
Edit: Also, Ashley is not the funny part of my name. It's my middle/last names that are horrible.
I am thinking those names are a mouthful and bound to be pronounced wrong and spelt wrong.
but they are your kids not mine.
Deus reminds me of Dueces.
Anastrophe can at least use Ana for short.
I mean I want to name my sons Helix %26amp; Gauge because their dad is an inspiring piercer and tattoo artist and I love piercings.
He also wants to have his Helix pierced the day our son is born.
So who am I to judge your name choices.
Constructive only - Dues Ex Machina sounds like two machines, he is going to be targeted for life. And Anastrophe Onomatopoeia is going to be and Apostrophe for life. They are bad bad name. I do like the unusual but familiarity of the names however, just not the right choice.
If you're from America that's a big no-no. Your kids will get made fun of. If you're from another country it might be okay, but I don't know.
I say no. That's a bad idea. Go with someone more modern. If you want to name them after authors or someone influential... how about Charles or Mark after Charles Dickens or Mark Twain?
For a girl: Jane after Jane Austen or Emily after Emily Dickenson.
It would be cool if you did Emily and Charles after Dickenson and Dickens!
Your poor kids aren't going to be able to spell their names until they are in high school. You might want to show them a little pity and give them a monacor they can use the rest of their lives. Why not give them a nice sensible first name and go a little crazy with the middle name.
Thats a little extreme...
I'm going to be an English major next year as well, but that's just going over the top and really is not fair to your children.
What about choosing names from your favourite novels? Or the names of your favourite authors?
I normally say call your kids what you want but in this case I have to ask, do you want your children to be bullied and ridiculed in the playground or not? If the answer's no then dont do it. They are truly awful names.
My daughter loves pride %26amp; prejudice, and is naming her daughter Jane after the author.
Do you live somewhere else, not in the US? If you lived in France, that might be okay. But in the US, I'd recommend a name in English.
TX Mom
Maybe the Anastrophe part.
and Ana for short.
But to be honest, i dont really know about those names.
They might be too complicated for the children.
and why would you want to name your child after a poem?
Personally I don't think you should name your kids names that you will have to explain to EVERYBODY. But they are your kids so you should name them what you want.
I think the girl's middle name is more than a bit silly. Every cool-sounding word does not make a good name. (Although it would be sort of the same thing if you used 'Middle Name' as her middle name, wouldn't it?!)
constructive only: Your kids will probably be made fun of for their entire like with those names. Why not something like these
Deus Micheal and Anna Olivia
or
Daniel Thomas and Arabelle Ophelia
I really don't like those names and I think your kids will be teased.
Isn't Deus wat you call going to the bathroom?
Like "I'm gonna take a Deus" or do you pronounce it Day-us?
Lol
id say no, really no, not that they sound horrible, but my friend has a 'different name' similiar to the girls name and she gets a hell of a lot of stick from it
i dont like to criticize but those names along with your surname sound like quite a mouthful. maybe something in the same category but a little shorter.
I sure hope you are joking!
To be constructive:-
Deus Micheal and Anabelle Olivia!!!!
I'm sorry I don't like the names. But it's your child, you need to think of what the children will go through when they start school. Good luck
i think these names are a little too wild. the girl name is too long too. i think kids would get made fun of with these names.
would you like Deus Ex Machina to be YOUR name?
uhuh.
but i like Alex and Anna :)
ya those kids will be made fun of, those are the most ugliest names give them names like Lillian and Ryan those are cute
No.I am sorry.i do not care for those names.
well, they are your babies.. i think the name are too long and confusing, i hope you have nick names picked out for them.. good luck and Congrats...
I'm sorry, but no.
I hope you're kidding.
Way to guarantee your kids a butt kicking every school day.
Umm, no.
*click*
http://www.behindthename.com/
You have got to be joking. Your kids will hate you for this.
Please o please do not torchure your children with those names that is horrible! Ahh.....edelbrock spore key
We were thinking of "Deus Ex Machina" for the boy and "Anastrophe Onomatopoeia" for the girl. What do you think? Our surname is Christenson, thank you.
CONSTRUCTIVE comments welcome :)
.Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
Omg! Edit....... No name them
Boy: Comma Quotes
Girl: Nouna Illiteration
I like the idea of having a similar name, that doesn't necesarily scream "literary term," but is kind of like a puzzel.
Deus Xavier Michael Christenson
(Deus X Michael)
I guess.
Or you could have his name be
Deus Xavier Christenson
(Deus X)
And have the literary allusion implied. That way, he can go about life either embrasing his funky name, or not really mentioning it, and it can be a family thing.
As a name alone, I actually really like Deus. I think it's latin enough that people wouldn't necesarily freak out over the "God" thing.
As for Anastrophe Onomatopoeia Christenson
Onomatapoeia is cruel, I think, for a girl. On-o Mot 0 Pee-a. I just think its ugly and a little too silly for her name. Its like you're making a joke out of your child.
With this name she'll constantly be correcting people on pronunciation and spelling, and constantly being asked why her name is so weird. Besides, her name would be 13 syllables. That's a lot, especially for a little kid just learning to speak. There are plenty of other options. Maybe ones that would go along the lines of Deus Ex Machina.
And also, don't forget the names meanings. Deus Ex Machina has a cool meaning, both literally and its literary meanting. Anastrophe Onomotopoeia doesn't.
Good luck.Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
definiton constructive:relating to construction; carefully considered and meant to be helpful
With that being said I think that both names are long and that it would take the children forever to learn to spell their names. They would also have to constantly correcting people for misspellings. There are many literary names that are cute and practical..trust me your children will thank you later.
Well, they are definitely unique names, but theres nothing wrong with that! The only problem with the names is that your children with have a very hard time spelling them, not to mention that they will probably get teased about them too. I would either make the names easier to spell, make up some nice sounding nicknames, or change the names all together. Anyway, good luck with your twins! God Bless!Is this set of names appropriate for twins?
They are your children, but I guarantee you those poor kids will be laughed at no matter what school they attend. Take it from me, the girl who had a "funny name" all during school ...
They're going to hate you for it in a way. Not hate you, but resent the fact that you gave them that name. I don't let my mother have input with my baby's name now that I'm pregnant because I was teased all throughout my childhood because she failed to just think of how other people would react.
Good luck.
Edit: Also, Ashley is not the funny part of my name. It's my middle/last names that are horrible.
I am thinking those names are a mouthful and bound to be pronounced wrong and spelt wrong.
but they are your kids not mine.
Deus reminds me of Dueces.
Anastrophe can at least use Ana for short.
I mean I want to name my sons Helix %26amp; Gauge because their dad is an inspiring piercer and tattoo artist and I love piercings.
He also wants to have his Helix pierced the day our son is born.
So who am I to judge your name choices.
Constructive only - Dues Ex Machina sounds like two machines, he is going to be targeted for life. And Anastrophe Onomatopoeia is going to be and Apostrophe for life. They are bad bad name. I do like the unusual but familiarity of the names however, just not the right choice.
If you're from America that's a big no-no. Your kids will get made fun of. If you're from another country it might be okay, but I don't know.
I say no. That's a bad idea. Go with someone more modern. If you want to name them after authors or someone influential... how about Charles or Mark after Charles Dickens or Mark Twain?
For a girl: Jane after Jane Austen or Emily after Emily Dickenson.
It would be cool if you did Emily and Charles after Dickenson and Dickens!
Your poor kids aren't going to be able to spell their names until they are in high school. You might want to show them a little pity and give them a monacor they can use the rest of their lives. Why not give them a nice sensible first name and go a little crazy with the middle name.
Thats a little extreme...
I'm going to be an English major next year as well, but that's just going over the top and really is not fair to your children.
What about choosing names from your favourite novels? Or the names of your favourite authors?
I normally say call your kids what you want but in this case I have to ask, do you want your children to be bullied and ridiculed in the playground or not? If the answer's no then dont do it. They are truly awful names.
My daughter loves pride %26amp; prejudice, and is naming her daughter Jane after the author.
Do you live somewhere else, not in the US? If you lived in France, that might be okay. But in the US, I'd recommend a name in English.
TX Mom
Maybe the Anastrophe part.
and Ana for short.
But to be honest, i dont really know about those names.
They might be too complicated for the children.
and why would you want to name your child after a poem?
Personally I don't think you should name your kids names that you will have to explain to EVERYBODY. But they are your kids so you should name them what you want.
I think the girl's middle name is more than a bit silly. Every cool-sounding word does not make a good name. (Although it would be sort of the same thing if you used 'Middle Name' as her middle name, wouldn't it?!)
constructive only: Your kids will probably be made fun of for their entire like with those names. Why not something like these
Deus Micheal and Anna Olivia
or
Daniel Thomas and Arabelle Ophelia
I really don't like those names and I think your kids will be teased.
Isn't Deus wat you call going to the bathroom?
Like "I'm gonna take a Deus" or do you pronounce it Day-us?
Lol
id say no, really no, not that they sound horrible, but my friend has a 'different name' similiar to the girls name and she gets a hell of a lot of stick from it
i dont like to criticize but those names along with your surname sound like quite a mouthful. maybe something in the same category but a little shorter.
I sure hope you are joking!
To be constructive:-
Deus Micheal and Anabelle Olivia!!!!
I'm sorry I don't like the names. But it's your child, you need to think of what the children will go through when they start school. Good luck
i think these names are a little too wild. the girl name is too long too. i think kids would get made fun of with these names.
would you like Deus Ex Machina to be YOUR name?
uhuh.
but i like Alex and Anna :)
ya those kids will be made fun of, those are the most ugliest names give them names like Lillian and Ryan those are cute
No.I am sorry.i do not care for those names.
well, they are your babies.. i think the name are too long and confusing, i hope you have nick names picked out for them.. good luck and Congrats...
I'm sorry, but no.
I hope you're kidding.
Way to guarantee your kids a butt kicking every school day.
Umm, no.
*click*
http://www.behindthename.com/
You have got to be joking. Your kids will hate you for this.
Please o please do not torchure your children with those names that is horrible! Ahh.....
What are some words from other languages used in English?
Can I find a book, list, or just examples anywhere?
(Example: Deus ex machina, etc)What are some words from other languages used in English?
English was not a written language until Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales was the 1st book in vernacular English. From the 14th century.
English is a Germanic Language, And came from this wonderful combination of French, German, Old Norse, Dutch, Gaelic, Latin and Greek and anything else that wandered by.
So, do you mean words like Pizza, Taco, Enchilada, resume, scenario, telephone?
There are many, most coming from german and french. Have a look in your dictionary.What are some words from other languages used in English?
You need to narrow your criteria a little: every single word in the English language originally came from other languages.
shanghai (Chinese) - meaning to take someone against his will, as a result of this happening very often there many years ago.
deja vu (French) - meaning the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously, now used all the time in EnglishWhat are some words from other languages used in English?
Here's a list of Arabic loanwords in English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ara…
(Example: Deus ex machina, etc)What are some words from other languages used in English?
English was not a written language until Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales was the 1st book in vernacular English. From the 14th century.
English is a Germanic Language, And came from this wonderful combination of French, German, Old Norse, Dutch, Gaelic, Latin and Greek and anything else that wandered by.
So, do you mean words like Pizza, Taco, Enchilada, resume, scenario, telephone?
There are many, most coming from german and french. Have a look in your dictionary.What are some words from other languages used in English?
You need to narrow your criteria a little: every single word in the English language originally came from other languages.
shanghai (Chinese) - meaning to take someone against his will, as a result of this happening very often there many years ago.
deja vu (French) - meaning the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously, now used all the time in EnglishWhat are some words from other languages used in English?
Here's a list of Arabic loanwords in English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ara…
Need help completing 3 quest in the game Dead Island?
On Act 3 and have to do some side quests, Insect Repellent, Deus Ex Machina and Where is my Pineapple. All 3 require me to go back and talk to 3 different scientists in the Lab. Lachance, Monroe and Nquyen. I go to where the marker tells me but all three scientists are MIA. Their room are empty, how do I get them to appear.Need help completing 3 quest in the game Dead Island?
press start quit with Y and then cut off your xbox and try it againNeed help completing 3 quest in the game Dead Island?
I've had the almost identical problem on some of my side quests, people not appearing door not opening so on and so on........Just try reloading and trying again till it loads properly. This game need some serious patching.....
press start quit with Y and then cut off your xbox and try it againNeed help completing 3 quest in the game Dead Island?
I've had the almost identical problem on some of my side quests, people not appearing door not opening so on and so on........Just try reloading and trying again till it loads properly. This game need some serious patching.....
Do you where I can find a bunch of Harry Potter fan fictions?
They were a commentary of other fan fictions by harry, ron, Hermione, ginny and so on and so forth. I think the author's name was deus ex machina.Do you where I can find a bunch of Harry Potter fan fictions?
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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1953438/1/An鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5493674/1/bW鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1315086/1/Tr鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1575337/1/Be鈥?/a>
You can find most things on fanfiction.netDo you where I can find a bunch of Harry Potter fan fictions?
Harry Potter fanfics are all over the internet
Try Fanfiction or Unknowable roomDo you where I can find a bunch of Harry Potter fan fictions?
Try fanfiction.net.
My first choice would be fanfiction.net; my second is deviantart.com, though this is more likely to give you fan art, not fiction.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4129739/1/bH鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1953438/1/An鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5493674/1/bW鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1315086/1/Tr鈥?/a>
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1575337/1/Be鈥?/a>
You can find most things on fanfiction.netDo you where I can find a bunch of Harry Potter fan fictions?
Harry Potter fanfics are all over the internet
Try Fanfiction or Unknowable roomDo you where I can find a bunch of Harry Potter fan fictions?
Try fanfiction.net.
My first choice would be fanfiction.net; my second is deviantart.com, though this is more likely to give you fan art, not fiction.
Does anyone know who the foil is in sherlock holmes?
According to Aristotle's character classifications can anyone tell me who the foil is in the movie sherlock holmes? If you can tell me who the deus ex machina is too, that would be great!Does anyone know who the foil is in sherlock holmes?
Professor James Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty
What female health problems could cause a false positive on an otc pregnancy test?
I'm not having a scare - it's for deus ex machina in a story I'm writing.What female health problems could cause a false positive on an otc pregnancy test?
Some tumors in women will express hCG, which is the hormone pregnancy tests look for. Also, a woman with a hydatiform mole will have loads of hCG in her blood stream. A hydatiform mole forms from an implanted zygote with incorrect DNA, due to a number of possible errors that could have occured in the fertilization process and the final meiotic division of the ovum. The zygote will go on to form the trophoblastic cells that make hCG, but not the embryo. There may be other conditions, but those are the only two I'm aware of.What female health problems could cause a false positive on an otc pregnancy test?
there are no problems in women taht would cause that, only testicular cancer in men will cause a positive pregnancy test...new album releases restaurant week nyc
Some tumors in women will express hCG, which is the hormone pregnancy tests look for. Also, a woman with a hydatiform mole will have loads of hCG in her blood stream. A hydatiform mole forms from an implanted zygote with incorrect DNA, due to a number of possible errors that could have occured in the fertilization process and the final meiotic division of the ovum. The zygote will go on to form the trophoblastic cells that make hCG, but not the embryo. There may be other conditions, but those are the only two I'm aware of.What female health problems could cause a false positive on an otc pregnancy test?
there are no problems in women taht would cause that, only testicular cancer in men will cause a positive pregnancy test...
What are some good names for an Alternative Rock Band?
I have these in mind:
Where鈥檚 Fluffy? (Tribute to Nick %26amp; Norah's Infinite Playlist. There is no actual band named that, so I thought I'd use it.)
Willfully Insane
Paralyzed
Sahara 6
Deus Ex Machina
Any other ideas?What are some good names for an Alternative Rock Band?
deux ex machina is pretty badass
heres some to suggest:
The Cellophane Mirror
Paper Padestrians
dammit Theres none of the questions that you can answer still!!!!!!! I think open heart surgery is a good band name
The Unemployed Power Rangers.
The Last Living
The Pogos
Running RiotWhat are some good names for an Alternative Rock Band?
Fork in the road
1000 miles
Idk I just said what came to mind.
shallow sandsea
slow quicksand
season 5
the 13th month
thursday the 12th
Vaginasaurus Rex
Where鈥檚 Fluffy? (Tribute to Nick %26amp; Norah's Infinite Playlist. There is no actual band named that, so I thought I'd use it.)
Willfully Insane
Paralyzed
Sahara 6
Deus Ex Machina
Any other ideas?What are some good names for an Alternative Rock Band?
deux ex machina is pretty badass
heres some to suggest:
The Cellophane Mirror
Paper Padestrians
dammit Theres none of the questions that you can answer still!!!!!!! I think open heart surgery is a good band name
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What are some good names for an Alternative Rock Band?The Unemployed Power Rangers.
The Last Living
The Pogos
Running RiotWhat are some good names for an Alternative Rock Band?
Fork in the road
1000 miles
Idk I just said what came to mind.
shallow sandsea
slow quicksand
season 5
the 13th month
thursday the 12th
Vaginasaurus Rex
How do Christians think of God?
In the Bible, most specifically book of Job, God is described as a sentient being, with emotion, haning a bady, living in a fixed place. This limits God to A physical time and place, wich is tantamount to saying, God is limited. How do Christians explain this? Does God have a "special" body? Or does Christian dogma provide something other than a deus ex machina?How do Christians think of God?
omnipotent, he can do ANYTHING.How do Christians think of God?
god had a body when he was born, the only limits is what you put on your self but you have to remember the spritie is free in side the soul you have choices of how you want to live, pray, teach, learn. or to find fault .How do Christians think of God?
The christian source of info is the new testament with referance to the hebrew scriptures (old testament). God manafests himself in many ways. The burning bush for moses. He mostly is a voice.
The catholics use a holy trinity aspect which makes god into three forms, the father, the son (that would be Jesus) and The holy Spirit. Other christian sects pretty much go along with this aspect although they may not define it the same.
God consists of three parts, the Trinity.
God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. All three lived interdependently of one another since before time began, yet Jesus took on a flesh and bone body so that He could fulfill His purpose of atoning for sins on earth. This is the only fleshly body God possesses. This is not to say God does not possess a spiritual body. God the Father is a spiritual body, and the Holy Spirit is obviously one as well. The Holy Spirit provides guidance, a conscience, comfort, discernment and the ability to exercise spiritual gifts such as pastoring, apostleship, and the like. God's spiritual body has parts just like the physical, so it is not an inconsistency in the Bible for his parts to be referred to before Jesus' time on earth. They were always present, just not always visible.
God is not limited at all, except God as Jesus on earth chose to limit Himself in order to be fully human, yet without the sin nature, so that he could fully sympathize with us in our weakness.
If anything, this choice to be limited proves His omnipotence even further because His power is not something to be grasped at, but something that is part of His nature. God cannot be considered limited just as humans cannot be considered omnipotent. It is simply not in our respective natures.
Hope this helped :-)
omnipotent, he can do ANYTHING.How do Christians think of God?
god had a body when he was born, the only limits is what you put on your self but you have to remember the spritie is free in side the soul you have choices of how you want to live, pray, teach, learn. or to find fault .How do Christians think of God?
The christian source of info is the new testament with referance to the hebrew scriptures (old testament). God manafests himself in many ways. The burning bush for moses. He mostly is a voice.
The catholics use a holy trinity aspect which makes god into three forms, the father, the son (that would be Jesus) and The holy Spirit. Other christian sects pretty much go along with this aspect although they may not define it the same.
God consists of three parts, the Trinity.
God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. All three lived interdependently of one another since before time began, yet Jesus took on a flesh and bone body so that He could fulfill His purpose of atoning for sins on earth. This is the only fleshly body God possesses. This is not to say God does not possess a spiritual body. God the Father is a spiritual body, and the Holy Spirit is obviously one as well. The Holy Spirit provides guidance, a conscience, comfort, discernment and the ability to exercise spiritual gifts such as pastoring, apostleship, and the like. God's spiritual body has parts just like the physical, so it is not an inconsistency in the Bible for his parts to be referred to before Jesus' time on earth. They were always present, just not always visible.
God is not limited at all, except God as Jesus on earth chose to limit Himself in order to be fully human, yet without the sin nature, so that he could fully sympathize with us in our weakness.
If anything, this choice to be limited proves His omnipotence even further because His power is not something to be grasped at, but something that is part of His nature. God cannot be considered limited just as humans cannot be considered omnipotent. It is simply not in our respective natures.
Hope this helped :-)
Why do Christians say that any time God steps in to fix stuff interferes with free will?
I mean sure, if he changed people's minds for them that would violate free will, but he could at least give us a little deus ex machina once and a while.Why do Christians say that any time God steps in to fix stuff interferes with free will?
Free will must be the reason that god doesn't step in to help the 15,000 children that die from starvation EVERY DAY, or the 25,000 poverty related daily deaths.
You mean apart from come down and living as one of us? Allowing himself to be killed and then rising from the dead? Setting literally billions of people free from their bondage to sin and fear of death?
Yeah, I suppose he should get of the pot and actually do something.Why do Christians say that any time God steps in to fix stuff interferes with free will?
I've never heard this but I can see people saying it. First off, they can't prove that He did step in. I'm a JW and how would they know He changed their minds?
Because most of the time the things that need fixing are of our own doing.Why do Christians say that any time God steps in to fix stuff interferes with free will?
They don't
You think God is your "dope dealer"? Read the bible for sections on free stuff.
Free will must be the reason that god doesn't step in to help the 15,000 children that die from starvation EVERY DAY, or the 25,000 poverty related daily deaths.
You mean apart from come down and living as one of us? Allowing himself to be killed and then rising from the dead? Setting literally billions of people free from their bondage to sin and fear of death?
Yeah, I suppose he should get of the pot and actually do something.Why do Christians say that any time God steps in to fix stuff interferes with free will?
I've never heard this but I can see people saying it. First off, they can't prove that He did step in. I'm a JW and how would they know He changed their minds?
Because most of the time the things that need fixing are of our own doing.Why do Christians say that any time God steps in to fix stuff interferes with free will?
They don't
You think God is your "dope dealer"? Read the bible for sections on free stuff.
What is your most overrated anime of last season?
Just like the question asks. For me it was Guilty Crown. It was hyped up to be very good, but I found the story and characters to be weak. Very generic characters and story lines (lots of deus ex machina type of endings), but cool music and great animation. Too bad they didn't spend enough money on the story and characters to make it worth my while.What is your most overrated anime of last season?
For me it would probably be guilty crown as well, everybody was so excited about it then when it actually aired it wasn't as good as everybody said it was i was like "so this is it". It was getting good around episode 5 and 6 but then it became boring. I have no idea what they are going to do with the rest of 22 episodes i mean one of the main characters has already died. I also think that the Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon was a bit of a let down (none of it made any sense) everybody said that it would get good at episode 10, it did a bit but then it just ended at 12 and the rest of it comes out later this year, hopefully it will be good.What is your most overrated anime of last season?
probably the anime called death note
For me it would probably be guilty crown as well, everybody was so excited about it then when it actually aired it wasn't as good as everybody said it was i was like "so this is it". It was getting good around episode 5 and 6 but then it became boring. I have no idea what they are going to do with the rest of 22 episodes i mean one of the main characters has already died. I also think that the Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon was a bit of a let down (none of it made any sense) everybody said that it would get good at episode 10, it did a bit but then it just ended at 12 and the rest of it comes out later this year, hopefully it will be good.What is your most overrated anime of last season?
probably the anime called death note
Why is the bible the best selling fantasy novel in history?
I think the plot is kind of overly contrived. And the deus ex machina at the end of the story is unimaginative in my opinion. Sure, it's a nice feel-good story, but it's pretty badly written overall.Why is the bible the best selling fantasy novel in history?
Nah, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings or Harry Potter is, The Bible is the best selling work of truth..
Sorry if you didn't like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I sure did. I'd like to see you write anything better. If you did, I would read it and be very glad for you.Why is the bible the best selling fantasy novel in history?
because its an old story
because it promises stuff to its followers
because people fail to refute something they grew up with
...
i cant think of anything else
you need to stay off the drugs when you read this book because man its messing your mind up.
Praise GOD!!! we have clear eyes.Why is the bible the best selling fantasy novel in history?
It's like twilight, except for adults.
I see you have a problem with truth.
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Nah, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings or Harry Potter is, The Bible is the best selling work of truth..
Sorry if you didn't like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I sure did. I'd like to see you write anything better. If you did, I would read it and be very glad for you.Why is the bible the best selling fantasy novel in history?
because its an old story
because it promises stuff to its followers
because people fail to refute something they grew up with
...
i cant think of anything else
you need to stay off the drugs when you read this book because man its messing your mind up.
Praise GOD!!! we have clear eyes.Why is the bible the best selling fantasy novel in history?
It's like twilight, except for adults.
I see you have a problem with truth.
lol
In the comic series Fables, would it possible for the Seven Deadly Sin to be characters?
There are the Literals, who are like Writer's Block and Deus Ex Machina, and the Genres such as Horror, Mystery, etc.
So, does this mean there could be characters that are the embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins?In the comic series Fables, would it possible for the Seven Deadly Sin to be characters?
* Yes, of course that is possible.
* No, of course that isn't possible.
* Perhaps that is possible.
* I am not sure whether it is possible.
Choose your answer! ; )
So, does this mean there could be characters that are the embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins?In the comic series Fables, would it possible for the Seven Deadly Sin to be characters?
* Yes, of course that is possible.
* No, of course that isn't possible.
* Perhaps that is possible.
* I am not sure whether it is possible.
Choose your answer! ; )
How do I say 'From God' in Latin?
Would it be Ex Deus or Deus ex?
Can't find too much help as search engine results continuously bring up the Latin phrase 'Deus ex machina'; 'God from the machine'.
Also don't trust online translators.
So please someone who fluently speaks Latin only.
It is for a tattoo. Therefore I'd like it to be accurate haha.How do I say 'From God' in Latin?
I would use "Adeodatus" which means "given by God".
Latin is funny, in that for common prepositions, often the declension form is sufficient for translation.
"de Deo", is literally "from God" . . . but more often than not, the translation would simply amount to "Deo".
It depends on the entire translation.
For instance, if you were trying to translate the phrase "Gift from God", you would say "Donum Deo".
The preposition "de", meaning "from", would be superfluous, seeing as the word "Deo" (the ablative form of "Deus") already designates "God" as a prepositional object in the phrase.
Now, if, instead of saying "Gift from God", you meant to say "God's Gift" (as in "of God" or "belonging to God"), then you want the genitive form of "Deus", which is "Dei".
It really depends on the translation.How do I say 'From God' in Latin?
If you're waiting for someone fluent in Latin to reply, you're going to be waiting a long time. "From" depends on the sense. Usually "a Deo" or "ex Deo" but maybe "Dei". It would never just be "Deo" though.
a/ab - away from/by
e/ex - out from
de - down from/about
Ex Deo
( ex + the ablative form )
if you tattoo only this... otherwise it depends on the context
gift from god = Donum DeiHow do I say 'From God' in Latin?
De Deo
Can't find too much help as search engine results continuously bring up the Latin phrase 'Deus ex machina'; 'God from the machine'.
Also don't trust online translators.
So please someone who fluently speaks Latin only.
It is for a tattoo. Therefore I'd like it to be accurate haha.How do I say 'From God' in Latin?
I would use "Adeodatus" which means "given by God".
Latin is funny, in that for common prepositions, often the declension form is sufficient for translation.
"de Deo", is literally "from God" . . . but more often than not, the translation would simply amount to "Deo".
It depends on the entire translation.
For instance, if you were trying to translate the phrase "Gift from God", you would say "Donum Deo".
The preposition "de", meaning "from", would be superfluous, seeing as the word "Deo" (the ablative form of "Deus") already designates "God" as a prepositional object in the phrase.
Now, if, instead of saying "Gift from God", you meant to say "God's Gift" (as in "of God" or "belonging to God"), then you want the genitive form of "Deus", which is "Dei".
It really depends on the translation.How do I say 'From God' in Latin?
If you're waiting for someone fluent in Latin to reply, you're going to be waiting a long time. "From" depends on the sense. Usually "a Deo" or "ex Deo" but maybe "Dei". It would never just be "Deo" though.
a/ab - away from/by
e/ex - out from
de - down from/about
Ex Deo
( ex + the ablative form )
if you tattoo only this... otherwise it depends on the context
gift from god = Donum DeiHow do I say 'From God' in Latin?
De Deo
What does Deus Ex mean?
And I mean DEUS EX not deus ex machina.
There's a huge difference.What does Deus Ex mean?
"Deus ex" directly translates to "god out of." I don't know what you're asking, exactly.
There's a huge difference.What does Deus Ex mean?
"Deus ex" directly translates to "god out of." I don't know what you're asking, exactly.
10points if you can come up with the best explanation why Breaking Dawn isn't the biggest Deus Ex Machina...?
In the history of literature.10points if you can come up with the best explanation why Breaking Dawn isn't the biggest Deus Ex Machina...?
Yeah, I feel that Meyer was really pushing her luck with this book. If it wasnt for Twilight and Eclipse for being so good (and sold well) she wouldnt have written a crappy plot/story like this one.
I was so annoyed that she had bella become pregnant and turn into a vampire. Like a part of me (ha ha..) wanted her to become one, but it completely changes the whole entire plot. It would have been cuter and more romantic if it just fast-forwarded to the future where she dies of old and and how Edward is just happy she lived a long and happy life with him.
There were many strings that Meyer could have used.
A perfect baby? Turns into a vampire who can easily and quickly control her thirst?..That is just really, really pushing it. The whole thing about finishing Jacob's story with him imprinting on Renesmee (im on team edward btw-but even so, i wanted him to have a satisfying ending)
The whole book was just a complete disappointment. Stephenie could have done much better. She tried to satisfy so many people, she shouldnt have done that. She should have killed off some characters (sorry, but even JK Rowling did that, it's for the sake of interesting reading and more realistic--even for the book's universe that it was written in). Meyer spent so many chapters prepping for this whole Volturi meet. And we just leave off with a "Oh well I suppose there is no trouble here since there is this boy that Alice magically found and brought over here on time.."
Oh please..
At least Midnight Sun is good so far :]
I don't understand the whole Deus Ex Machina stuff.
Well no wonder the twilighters haven't responeded! Thanx for clearing that up for me by the way.10points if you can come up with the best explanation why Breaking Dawn isn't the biggest Deus Ex Machina...?
I don't think anyone can....I bet Meyer couldn't.
:) it should be!! %26lt;310points if you can come up with the best explanation why Breaking Dawn isn't the biggest Deus Ex Machina...?
Because in a way the conflicts in BD were solvable. One way or another it would have had a happy ending as it would have been a bad career choice to end the series with a major fight/death, and that there was never any danger in the underlying story. It was only ever a mental fight, nothing more than a little internal conflict with bella involved.
It doesn't matter.
Stephenie wrote it for herself, how she wanted it to end.
And yes it was solved, the whole 'Alice saves the day' thing remember?!
Everything is solved, just not in the most conventional way.
HUMANS can have babies. Renesmee is a cross breed, so naturally she would be perfect.
Alice uses her brain and gives evidence, similar to a court case. The Volturi leave because appropriate evidence has been given and they see no need for any more conflict.
Bella was the 'perfect' new vampire, because the traits that she had when she was human eg hated the smell of blood, private mind, just magnified and became part of her powers. Became part of her being as a vampire.
So stop trying to sound smart.
xxx GG
Yeah, I feel that Meyer was really pushing her luck with this book. If it wasnt for Twilight and Eclipse for being so good (and sold well) she wouldnt have written a crappy plot/story like this one.
I was so annoyed that she had bella become pregnant and turn into a vampire. Like a part of me (ha ha..) wanted her to become one, but it completely changes the whole entire plot. It would have been cuter and more romantic if it just fast-forwarded to the future where she dies of old and and how Edward is just happy she lived a long and happy life with him.
There were many strings that Meyer could have used.
A perfect baby? Turns into a vampire who can easily and quickly control her thirst?..That is just really, really pushing it. The whole thing about finishing Jacob's story with him imprinting on Renesmee (im on team edward btw-but even so, i wanted him to have a satisfying ending)
The whole book was just a complete disappointment. Stephenie could have done much better. She tried to satisfy so many people, she shouldnt have done that. She should have killed off some characters (sorry, but even JK Rowling did that, it's for the sake of interesting reading and more realistic--even for the book's universe that it was written in). Meyer spent so many chapters prepping for this whole Volturi meet. And we just leave off with a "Oh well I suppose there is no trouble here since there is this boy that Alice magically found and brought over here on time.."
Oh please..
At least Midnight Sun is good so far :]
I don't understand the whole Deus Ex Machina stuff.
Well no wonder the twilighters haven't responeded! Thanx for clearing that up for me by the way.10points if you can come up with the best explanation why Breaking Dawn isn't the biggest Deus Ex Machina...?
I don't think anyone can....I bet Meyer couldn't.
:) it should be!! %26lt;310points if you can come up with the best explanation why Breaking Dawn isn't the biggest Deus Ex Machina...?
Because in a way the conflicts in BD were solvable. One way or another it would have had a happy ending as it would have been a bad career choice to end the series with a major fight/death, and that there was never any danger in the underlying story. It was only ever a mental fight, nothing more than a little internal conflict with bella involved.
It doesn't matter.
Stephenie wrote it for herself, how she wanted it to end.
And yes it was solved, the whole 'Alice saves the day' thing remember?!
Everything is solved, just not in the most conventional way.
HUMANS can have babies. Renesmee is a cross breed, so naturally she would be perfect.
Alice uses her brain and gives evidence, similar to a court case. The Volturi leave because appropriate evidence has been given and they see no need for any more conflict.
Bella was the 'perfect' new vampire, because the traits that she had when she was human eg hated the smell of blood, private mind, just magnified and became part of her powers. Became part of her being as a vampire.
So stop trying to sound smart.
xxx GG
Is this to much of a Deus ex machina in my story (not all of the story is here)?
Drifted slowly bobbying up and down in his surivial swimming posistion, he was face down in the water. Only moements ago was he on his own ship the Rosemary. He was taking the daughter of filthy rich mayer of Boca Roton. He had married her and was transportng her and there 3 year old child to a farther away estate, which he had just bought. Risqué, the merchant, was a traveling merchant who would sell things and make importnants of spices and other things of that sort. He would typically drop by Boca Raton to sell his small stock, common day herbs and wines, sometimes to children things like chocolate and toys. Everyday he went there he stayed there four days. Maybe it was true love at first sight or maybe she just met his standards, but in every other town he only stayed two days. He hardly got to talk to her because she always had a couple of the mayers men watching her. One day she got fed up and ran away and found him by the docks, so she had noticed him too, she requested to leave with him, but he knew he would be wanted if he did that. So he dragged her back to the Mayer and took in the insults from her. The Mayer thanked him and invited him over for dinner.
And so now he was married with her. She relized she did want to escape her father but did not relize Risqué knew this and knew he would get on the good side of the mayer and be able to be forgiven by her. So things worked out well.
If someone did not know better they might think Rique was drift wood if he did not sometimes lift his head and took a big breath from his deep sleep. Only a momments ago was he with Maria his son aboard the Rosemary. Only a moment ago was he on a pirate ship, witnessing the death of his son, and destruction of Rosemary. Everything he owned was on that ship and when the knife was unsealthed all the love given to that boy was spilt. He had men with him on Rosemary but they died too. His wife was not killed, for he knew that she would be used for a ransom. The Mayer would do anything to get her back. Aparently he was worth nothing, the slick Pirate captain missing half of his teeth and dark of face figured, so he was thown over boar for the sharks.
He was starting to get his energy back, but was not srong enough to get back on the hunk of Rosemary that was left, that he rode as far out as he did. He was also not the least bit angry at the Pirate, how could he? He was too tired. He thought he saw the pirate in a wanted add, Wanted Dead: Stede Smith (They did not bother to write “Or alive” as they mostly don’t do)
Nearly given up all hope he wasgoing to let go a dn drown to the depts below. As he sunk further down away from the wicked sun he saw something, somehow, thorugh the water that stung his eyes. His hand grabed for it, and it held steady. He slowly was drifting vertically rather than falling down. Slowly he picked up speed on whatever he held and than he broke from the top of the water. He could not believe it, as he drew his breath as he did when he was floating. He was riding a Dolphin!
Being carried by that dolphin which was picking up speed he slowly was losing his tiredness and picking up anger. Occasualy his fingers would strain to hold on to the dolphin but he understood as his fingers did that this creature of god was his only way out of here. Strangely he questioned whether this Porpoise was of Gods work, it was traveling way to fast for him to hold on, its head rocked left and right trying to shake him free, it seemed, and it traveled towards the sunlight which blinded Risqué. He had been bought to an island.
The shore was extremely white and led to the lush forest that he believed could have been paradise if he had not seen the pile of corpses burning in the camp fire of the beach. There were crates filled with rum and grog, spices and seasoning and bananas all smashed on the rocks washing on shore. There was nothing to say for the ship except of what remained of it torn apart across the white sand like crumbs on a noble’s silver plate. The ship had crashed on rocks and than had been killed off and burned by someone, most lily Stede.
The Dolphin was still coming to shore at full speed. It than did what no other dolphin Risqué heard ever did, came out of the water. Risqué used to see his dad catch small fish and sometimes they would fall out of the line of the hook and onto the floor. When they would do that they would move up and down, left and right in unconrtolabl spasms like a person, who could not swim, struggle in water, the dolphin was no different.
Reaching out to led a hand to roll it back ino the water, the dolphin snapped at it and almost bit it too. Its black body was still slick and wet, its eyes were blazing, Risqué thought he saw red. He desided to leave the poor beast to its fate and check out the crash sight when he remembered whee he would be right now, rotting down in the depths of the ocean along with the dead whales. So he rIs this to much of a Deus ex machina in my story (not all of the story is here)?
Yes, the dolphin is truly implausible, if that's the one to which you are referring. Most of the other events seem unlikely as well though, so unfortunately, with all due respect, that particular deus ex machina is the least of your problems.
In addition to the plotting issues you also have many spelling and grammar errors and your sentence structure, while apparently deliberate, is contrived and awkward, not to mention inconsistent.Is this to much of a Deus ex machina in my story (not all of the story is here)?
too hard to read, use paragraphs %26amp; don't use run on sentences.
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And so now he was married with her. She relized she did want to escape her father but did not relize Risqué knew this and knew he would get on the good side of the mayer and be able to be forgiven by her. So things worked out well.
If someone did not know better they might think Rique was drift wood if he did not sometimes lift his head and took a big breath from his deep sleep. Only a momments ago was he with Maria his son aboard the Rosemary. Only a moment ago was he on a pirate ship, witnessing the death of his son, and destruction of Rosemary. Everything he owned was on that ship and when the knife was unsealthed all the love given to that boy was spilt. He had men with him on Rosemary but they died too. His wife was not killed, for he knew that she would be used for a ransom. The Mayer would do anything to get her back. Aparently he was worth nothing, the slick Pirate captain missing half of his teeth and dark of face figured, so he was thown over boar for the sharks.
He was starting to get his energy back, but was not srong enough to get back on the hunk of Rosemary that was left, that he rode as far out as he did. He was also not the least bit angry at the Pirate, how could he? He was too tired. He thought he saw the pirate in a wanted add, Wanted Dead: Stede Smith (They did not bother to write “Or alive” as they mostly don’t do)
Nearly given up all hope he wasgoing to let go a dn drown to the depts below. As he sunk further down away from the wicked sun he saw something, somehow, thorugh the water that stung his eyes. His hand grabed for it, and it held steady. He slowly was drifting vertically rather than falling down. Slowly he picked up speed on whatever he held and than he broke from the top of the water. He could not believe it, as he drew his breath as he did when he was floating. He was riding a Dolphin!
Being carried by that dolphin which was picking up speed he slowly was losing his tiredness and picking up anger. Occasualy his fingers would strain to hold on to the dolphin but he understood as his fingers did that this creature of god was his only way out of here. Strangely he questioned whether this Porpoise was of Gods work, it was traveling way to fast for him to hold on, its head rocked left and right trying to shake him free, it seemed, and it traveled towards the sunlight which blinded Risqué. He had been bought to an island.
The shore was extremely white and led to the lush forest that he believed could have been paradise if he had not seen the pile of corpses burning in the camp fire of the beach. There were crates filled with rum and grog, spices and seasoning and bananas all smashed on the rocks washing on shore. There was nothing to say for the ship except of what remained of it torn apart across the white sand like crumbs on a noble’s silver plate. The ship had crashed on rocks and than had been killed off and burned by someone, most lily Stede.
The Dolphin was still coming to shore at full speed. It than did what no other dolphin Risqué heard ever did, came out of the water. Risqué used to see his dad catch small fish and sometimes they would fall out of the line of the hook and onto the floor. When they would do that they would move up and down, left and right in unconrtolabl spasms like a person, who could not swim, struggle in water, the dolphin was no different.
Reaching out to led a hand to roll it back ino the water, the dolphin snapped at it and almost bit it too. Its black body was still slick and wet, its eyes were blazing, Risqué thought he saw red. He desided to leave the poor beast to its fate and check out the crash sight when he remembered whee he would be right now, rotting down in the depths of the ocean along with the dead whales. So he rIs this to much of a Deus ex machina in my story (not all of the story is here)?
Yes, the dolphin is truly implausible, if that's the one to which you are referring. Most of the other events seem unlikely as well though, so unfortunately, with all due respect, that particular deus ex machina is the least of your problems.
In addition to the plotting issues you also have many spelling and grammar errors and your sentence structure, while apparently deliberate, is contrived and awkward, not to mention inconsistent.Is this to much of a Deus ex machina in my story (not all of the story is here)?
too hard to read, use paragraphs %26amp; don't use run on sentences.
are you entering the bad Hemingway contest or something similar ?
Border Patrol Duty Station Choice. ATTN: Deus Ex Machina?
Sorry to throw your name out there man but was hoping you catch this one. My friend just got picked up and was givin the choice between Douglas and Casa Grande. I read on CBP.gov that Casa Grande sometimes patrols in Pheonix which sounds good. Douglas looks kinda cruddy on the google earth map.
Assuming I get the same choice by the time my background is finished in the summer, (Just had the Oral board which went extremely well) which one would be best to work in? I'm just looking for a balance between good busy work and a decent place to live. Not sure which one is which. Thanks for your time.
-ChairborneBorder Patrol Duty Station Choice. ATTN: Deus Ex Machina?
Don't count on getting the same two choices just because your friend did. Don't even count on getting two choices period. Some do and some don't. I hope you realize there are many stations in Arizona that can be offered such as Tucson, Sonoita, Wilcox, Douglas, Casa Grande, Nogales, Ajo, Naco, Yuma, and Wellton. Do your research on all possible duty stations because there is no way to predict which one you will be offered. Personally out of those two choices I would pick Casa Grande.
Assuming I get the same choice by the time my background is finished in the summer, (Just had the Oral board which went extremely well) which one would be best to work in? I'm just looking for a balance between good busy work and a decent place to live. Not sure which one is which. Thanks for your time.
-ChairborneBorder Patrol Duty Station Choice. ATTN: Deus Ex Machina?
Don't count on getting the same two choices just because your friend did. Don't even count on getting two choices period. Some do and some don't. I hope you realize there are many stations in Arizona that can be offered such as Tucson, Sonoita, Wilcox, Douglas, Casa Grande, Nogales, Ajo, Naco, Yuma, and Wellton. Do your research on all possible duty stations because there is no way to predict which one you will be offered. Personally out of those two choices I would pick Casa Grande.
Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
So, since high school, I haven't understood the universe. And lately, this is all I can think about. Why do we play by society's rules, why are most content to sit idly by and watch as rich, self-serving people dominate the world? Why am I forced to live or die by this enormous mass of spaghetti strings and puppets puppeting each other? Just because I was born? Why am I forced to be a peasant working? Why are people content to work and suffer without doing anything about it?
But ultimately, I need a god out of the machine to explain to me what I'm here for. I feel like I've thought so far out of the box that I can never be content with earthly desires...****. This probably makes no sense but that's all there is in my brain: lot of ideas, very little connections.
I'm not sure what I'm asking here, maybe you are.Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
You're searching for meaning in what seems to be a meaningless universe. The Absurdist viewpoint would be that your options are either suicide, get religion, or accept the absurd nature of existence and continue to live. There are other ways of thinking about it of course.
I chose to become an atheist simply because I was tired of questioning. I suspect many people convert to religions for the same reason. It sounds silly, but you'd be surprised how easy it is to just pick an answer and go with it.
If you aren't content with the world and being a working peasant do something about. Go and make some changes. Wake up those that sit idly.
If you can't content yourself with the earthly seek out the heavenly.
I think you should read the book of Ecclesiastes. Its short and contains themes similar to what to have expounded on.Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
think Disco . . . . .
You're looking for a reason for why all this exists.
There isn't any. It just is.
You roll the dice. Why do any of those dice fall on any given number? Because it had to fall on SOMETHING.
Same with the universe. We're here. This we know, even if we don't really know or understand where "here" is. We have physicists and astronomers and other really smart people trying to figure it out. Maybe they will, maybe they never will. Unless you're planning on being one of those people, there's no point in asking why the universe is the way it is, because there's nothing you can do about it anyway.
Why do you have to accept all this? Because it's all there is. There is nothing else to do. You can live or die. If you choose to live, you have to accept this universe, this society, this reality, because it's all you have. Wishing it was different, or better, is a waste of time and energy. If you want it to be different, or better, you have to act, not just sit there and complain that everything isn't to your liking.
You asked why people are content to work and suffer without doing anything about it? I have NEVER met anyone who is perfectly content. Everyone wants a better life. You're not alone in that. But people do something about it every day. They get up, they go to work, and they try to improve their circumstances and the circumstances of those they love. Even millionaires buy lottery tickets.
It's quite possible you don't get any of this. That's okay too. Everybody has to figure out what the meaning of THEIR life is. YOU have to invent your own machine.Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
One must create desiderata to satisfy ones desires.
That is the object - One must have total freedom to do so. The do not come from the earth. It is decadent to think that there is truth and real value within life that is not dependent upon our agreeing to that. It undermines our free will.
Our free will is never absolute but as I have stated one must 'invent' desiderata. That is also the existentialist way of dealing with life - forming attachments, creating value.
It is nihilistic to say that there is no value and worth within life. That is a good sign, it means that we are now forced to create that value. Logically if one states there 'is no true value', there is no 'real good' in life, one must have something to understand what is true by comparison. A point from which one draws that (nihilistic) conclusion. One needs that measure by which such opinion is formed.
In life there is time and space. There is no value to time and space. Their absolute annihilation has value, it indeed has worth.
How dare time and space proceed their way in such an insolent manner? They do so only through my consent. They suffer the punishment of obliteration - Through freedom. Through truth and value that I dictate absolutely.
Does life have value? It has whatever value I choose to decern - It is utterly irrelevant, futile, insignificant and petty. It is totally alien to me. It is nothing like me and I recent any similarities being drawn between myself and life.
I am not living my life - it is a pest and an annoyance. A bane, something which is equivalent to nothing. I am not that. I am the sole condition on which this fabrication, this lie, this farce, this 'life', this 'existence' is founded. Without me - it is nothing. Life is a parasite which feeds on the soul of every true man.
In lucid dreams; I am the dream and I am the dreamer.
Just go outside, get your nose out books for a while and stop thinking about why... Go out in Nature and FEEL.. that is the only truth there is. Money controls us, school controls us, work controls us, governments control us.. but nothing controls Nature.. and we are as much a part of Nature as anything else. Mankind can try to beat Nature down, harm it, try to control it.. but all for naught. Nature ADAPTS, under pressure Nature thrives... and before Nature all society, and government and money is meaningless, futile, and ultimately impermanent.
Change is the only constant, suffering is the spice of life, and Nature is the force of simple truth that sets us free.. It is clean and pure and visceral and we can go back to it any time we choose... to escape the drudgery of society one needs only step out into the woods.
But ultimately, I need a god out of the machine to explain to me what I'm here for. I feel like I've thought so far out of the box that I can never be content with earthly desires...****. This probably makes no sense but that's all there is in my brain: lot of ideas, very little connections.
I'm not sure what I'm asking here, maybe you are.Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
You're searching for meaning in what seems to be a meaningless universe. The Absurdist viewpoint would be that your options are either suicide, get religion, or accept the absurd nature of existence and continue to live. There are other ways of thinking about it of course.
I chose to become an atheist simply because I was tired of questioning. I suspect many people convert to religions for the same reason. It sounds silly, but you'd be surprised how easy it is to just pick an answer and go with it.
If you aren't content with the world and being a working peasant do something about. Go and make some changes. Wake up those that sit idly.
If you can't content yourself with the earthly seek out the heavenly.
I think you should read the book of Ecclesiastes. Its short and contains themes similar to what to have expounded on.Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
think Disco . . . . .
You're looking for a reason for why all this exists.
There isn't any. It just is.
You roll the dice. Why do any of those dice fall on any given number? Because it had to fall on SOMETHING.
Same with the universe. We're here. This we know, even if we don't really know or understand where "here" is. We have physicists and astronomers and other really smart people trying to figure it out. Maybe they will, maybe they never will. Unless you're planning on being one of those people, there's no point in asking why the universe is the way it is, because there's nothing you can do about it anyway.
Why do you have to accept all this? Because it's all there is. There is nothing else to do. You can live or die. If you choose to live, you have to accept this universe, this society, this reality, because it's all you have. Wishing it was different, or better, is a waste of time and energy. If you want it to be different, or better, you have to act, not just sit there and complain that everything isn't to your liking.
You asked why people are content to work and suffer without doing anything about it? I have NEVER met anyone who is perfectly content. Everyone wants a better life. You're not alone in that. But people do something about it every day. They get up, they go to work, and they try to improve their circumstances and the circumstances of those they love. Even millionaires buy lottery tickets.
It's quite possible you don't get any of this. That's okay too. Everybody has to figure out what the meaning of THEIR life is. YOU have to invent your own machine.Meaning of life/ give me a deus ex machina?
One must create desiderata to satisfy ones desires.
That is the object - One must have total freedom to do so. The do not come from the earth. It is decadent to think that there is truth and real value within life that is not dependent upon our agreeing to that. It undermines our free will.
Our free will is never absolute but as I have stated one must 'invent' desiderata. That is also the existentialist way of dealing with life - forming attachments, creating value.
It is nihilistic to say that there is no value and worth within life. That is a good sign, it means that we are now forced to create that value. Logically if one states there 'is no true value', there is no 'real good' in life, one must have something to understand what is true by comparison. A point from which one draws that (nihilistic) conclusion. One needs that measure by which such opinion is formed.
In life there is time and space. There is no value to time and space. Their absolute annihilation has value, it indeed has worth.
How dare time and space proceed their way in such an insolent manner? They do so only through my consent. They suffer the punishment of obliteration - Through freedom. Through truth and value that I dictate absolutely.
Does life have value? It has whatever value I choose to decern - It is utterly irrelevant, futile, insignificant and petty. It is totally alien to me. It is nothing like me and I recent any similarities being drawn between myself and life.
I am not living my life - it is a pest and an annoyance. A bane, something which is equivalent to nothing. I am not that. I am the sole condition on which this fabrication, this lie, this farce, this 'life', this 'existence' is founded. Without me - it is nothing. Life is a parasite which feeds on the soul of every true man.
In lucid dreams; I am the dream and I am the dreamer.
Just go outside, get your nose out books for a while and stop thinking about why... Go out in Nature and FEEL.. that is the only truth there is. Money controls us, school controls us, work controls us, governments control us.. but nothing controls Nature.. and we are as much a part of Nature as anything else. Mankind can try to beat Nature down, harm it, try to control it.. but all for naught. Nature ADAPTS, under pressure Nature thrives... and before Nature all society, and government and money is meaningless, futile, and ultimately impermanent.
Change is the only constant, suffering is the spice of life, and Nature is the force of simple truth that sets us free.. It is clean and pure and visceral and we can go back to it any time we choose... to escape the drudgery of society one needs only step out into the woods.
Did The Odyssey ever use any Deus Ex machina plot elements?
Well I would have used the word "feature" in the place of "use" and there is no need for using "ever".
And the answer is yes.
And the answer is yes.
Deus ex machina.............?
Well, for english, we got assigned allusions, and we have to use them in a sentence and I got this. I know that it means god from a machine, and its used to solve a problem, but you could help me use it in a sentence? It has to be like a normal sentence like if you were doing once and a blue moon- "I only get sick once in a blue moon" but for deus ex machina, I am having a lot of trouble with this! Thanks!
:)Deus ex machina.............?
Let me see if I can help you here........
The man was about to lose his home through foreclosure when, all of a sudden, and like Deus ex machina, a wealthy relative came forward to pay off his mortgage.
:)Deus ex machina.............?
Let me see if I can help you here........
The man was about to lose his home through foreclosure when, all of a sudden, and like Deus ex machina, a wealthy relative came forward to pay off his mortgage.
Who would make a better deus ex machina in a story that otherwise has nothing to do with the DC Comics?
Superman or Batman?Who would make a better deus ex machina in a story that otherwise has nothing to do with the DC Comics?
Batman, literally, as his gear is his power.romance novels dominoes online
Batman, literally, as his gear is his power.
Distasteful deus ex machina?
I'm writing a book, and I'm afraid the ending may be a bit contrived.
The story is about a dragon named Nogard. He flies around and saves children from closet monsters. Then the closet monsters team up and lock Nogard in the back of the deepest, darkest closet in all the land.
It turns out that there's a female dragon named Ella who also saves children from closet monsters. She opens the closet and first thinks Nogard is one of the closet monsters, but after some convincing, she breaks his shackles, and they go off to fight closet monsters and live happily ever after...
I don't want my readers offended by this horribly contrived turn of events, does anyone have any advice?Distasteful deus ex machina?
Yes, that is deus ex machina. Norgard needs to do something to save himself or at least contribute to saving himself. Perhaps he tricks a closet monster into contacting Ella and saying there's a really bad monster where Norgard is.Distasteful deus ex machina?
Yes, your plot does exhibit a deus ex machina ending in a sense, but it could be avoided if you mentioned Ella at the beginning and had her work with Nogard or at least know him.
The story is about a dragon named Nogard. He flies around and saves children from closet monsters. Then the closet monsters team up and lock Nogard in the back of the deepest, darkest closet in all the land.
It turns out that there's a female dragon named Ella who also saves children from closet monsters. She opens the closet and first thinks Nogard is one of the closet monsters, but after some convincing, she breaks his shackles, and they go off to fight closet monsters and live happily ever after...
I don't want my readers offended by this horribly contrived turn of events, does anyone have any advice?Distasteful deus ex machina?
Yes, that is deus ex machina. Norgard needs to do something to save himself or at least contribute to saving himself. Perhaps he tricks a closet monster into contacting Ella and saying there's a really bad monster where Norgard is.Distasteful deus ex machina?
Yes, your plot does exhibit a deus ex machina ending in a sense, but it could be avoided if you mentioned Ella at the beginning and had her work with Nogard or at least know him.
Rather odd Dict.com word of the day.... deus ex machina......... could you be this?
Definitely. I am always on the lookout for challenges and boy do I love a challenge! Anything difficult will whet my appetites!Rather odd Dict.com word of the day.... deus ex machina......... could you be this?
I think it happens in the movies all the time - esp thrillers.
No.
I couldn't be God, on the grounds that you'd need to be a complete and utter egotistical prat to qualify.Rather odd Dict.com word of the day.... deus ex machina......... could you be this?
Sure, as long as you make sure Bob's away ;-)
xx
A palatable twist in the tale...yes...that could be me!Rather odd Dict.com word of the day.... deus ex machina......... could you be this?
Possibly.
Isn't that 3 words?
I think it happens in the movies all the time - esp thrillers.
No.
I couldn't be God, on the grounds that you'd need to be a complete and utter egotistical prat to qualify.Rather odd Dict.com word of the day.... deus ex machina......... could you be this?
Sure, as long as you make sure Bob's away ;-)
xx
A palatable twist in the tale...yes...that could be me!Rather odd Dict.com word of the day.... deus ex machina......... could you be this?
Possibly.
Isn't that 3 words?
Wat is the deus ex machina of carrie by stephen king??
gracias...Wat is the deus ex machina of carrie by stephen king??
Carrie ends with the main protagonist dying, having first killed her mother and many of her school mates. Deus ex machina means an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e.g., having the protagonist wake up and realize it was all a dream or an angel suddenly appear to solve all the plot problems of a story that won't resolve itself by the characters). The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely it challenges suspension of disbelief; allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though more palatable, ending.
From this description we can see that the book Carrie can't treally be classified as having a deus ex machina, as the ending is not really a happy ending coined by the author, but a gruesome and sad ending.
Hope this helps.Wat is the deus ex machina of carrie by stephen king??
Jigga's answer is perfect.
Carrie ends with the main protagonist dying, having first killed her mother and many of her school mates. Deus ex machina means an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e.g., having the protagonist wake up and realize it was all a dream or an angel suddenly appear to solve all the plot problems of a story that won't resolve itself by the characters). The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely it challenges suspension of disbelief; allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though more palatable, ending.
From this description we can see that the book Carrie can't treally be classified as having a deus ex machina, as the ending is not really a happy ending coined by the author, but a gruesome and sad ending.
Hope this helps.Wat is the deus ex machina of carrie by stephen king??
Jigga's answer is perfect.
What is "Deus ex Machina"?
It's a progressive rock band from Italy. Check them out.
http://www.gepr.net/da.html#DEUSEXMACHIN…What is "Deus ex Machina"?
In Greek drama Deus ex Machina was a way to tie up a play. Everything would be going to hell in a hand basket and suddenly a god would interfere and tie everything up. Today it refers to a sudden event that does the same thing. Its a cheesy devise and not looked upon kindly by critics.
God out of the machine. Refers to something that happens in a play or movie where you think the main character has no hope in the end, but something comes up to solve the situation at the last second.What is "Deus ex Machina"?
Literally, "The machinery of God". Meaning an event that saves the day but does so with all the force of a miracle.
Considered a cop-out with suspense writers.
in ancient greek plays when an incompetent playwright had got his characters into so hopeless a mess that there was no way they would ever get out of it, a favourite technique was to let an actor playing zeus (the father of the gods) down onto the stage on wires (the 'machine': an early form of theatrical crane) and have him say: 'hang on a minute: i will sort it all out for you'.
so 'deus ex machina' (god from the machine) came to mean any ridiculous made-up story to explain something that could not be explained any other way.
in several of anne rice' vampire novels absolutely ridiculous things happen. then at the end of the novel we are told that 'it all happened in a dream'. this is a literary deus ex machina.
the bible says that outer space is full of water (genesis 1, 6-10). christians explain that it used to be full of water, but this all fell as rain during noah's flood. this is a religious deus ex machina.
president bush invaded iraq (illegally) because the country had weapons of mass destruction ready to destroy major american cities. no trace of these weapons has ever been found. so they must have been really well hidden. this is a political deus ex machina.What is "Deus ex Machina"?
It means "God Out of A Machine". It's a fictional invention of a super-being that can unravel, explain a plot or solve a mystery. It's a Latin phrase but has its origins in Greek theatre where a "mechane" (crane) was used to lower actors representing a God on to the stage.
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In writing it is an easy way out for the author to solve problems with the plot. Usually a new character introduced to tie characters and events together that don't really fit.
Hope that helps.
Its literally translation is a pair of machines, referred to the machines of evil and good, struggling for supremacy in the universe, where only the love of Jesus Christ can redeem us all from a fiery death.
http://www.gepr.net/da.html#DEUSEXMACHIN…What is "Deus ex Machina"?
In Greek drama Deus ex Machina was a way to tie up a play. Everything would be going to hell in a hand basket and suddenly a god would interfere and tie everything up. Today it refers to a sudden event that does the same thing. Its a cheesy devise and not looked upon kindly by critics.
God out of the machine. Refers to something that happens in a play or movie where you think the main character has no hope in the end, but something comes up to solve the situation at the last second.What is "Deus ex Machina"?
Literally, "The machinery of God". Meaning an event that saves the day but does so with all the force of a miracle.
Considered a cop-out with suspense writers.
in ancient greek plays when an incompetent playwright had got his characters into so hopeless a mess that there was no way they would ever get out of it, a favourite technique was to let an actor playing zeus (the father of the gods) down onto the stage on wires (the 'machine': an early form of theatrical crane) and have him say: 'hang on a minute: i will sort it all out for you'.
so 'deus ex machina' (god from the machine) came to mean any ridiculous made-up story to explain something that could not be explained any other way.
in several of anne rice' vampire novels absolutely ridiculous things happen. then at the end of the novel we are told that 'it all happened in a dream'. this is a literary deus ex machina.
the bible says that outer space is full of water (genesis 1, 6-10). christians explain that it used to be full of water, but this all fell as rain during noah's flood. this is a religious deus ex machina.
president bush invaded iraq (illegally) because the country had weapons of mass destruction ready to destroy major american cities. no trace of these weapons has ever been found. so they must have been really well hidden. this is a political deus ex machina.What is "Deus ex Machina"?
It means "God Out of A Machine". It's a fictional invention of a super-being that can unravel, explain a plot or solve a mystery. It's a Latin phrase but has its origins in Greek theatre where a "mechane" (crane) was used to lower actors representing a God on to the stage.
http://google.com
In writing it is an easy way out for the author to solve problems with the plot. Usually a new character introduced to tie characters and events together that don't really fit.
Hope that helps.
Its literally translation is a pair of machines, referred to the machines of evil and good, struggling for supremacy in the universe, where only the love of Jesus Christ can redeem us all from a fiery death.
What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
Hello,
it's not french, it's latin. You can translate it like "A God out of the machine". It comes from the theatre where you could have someone coming with ropes from the sky down to the scene and solving the whole situation in one move. It was a shortcut for scenarist when they were stuck n a tricky situation. The God came out and saved everybody.
You can still use it nowadays when you feel that the situation ended happily while it was almost impossible 2 minutes before. Like when in a movie everything is desperate and all of a suden, someone arrives and all the heroes are saved. ^^ This person would be called the Deus ex Machina.
Another situation is a like in a roleplaying game when the GM decides to solve a situation when he feels the players are stuck and about to be killed. He brings an external element out of the blue.What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
God from the machine
It describes the use of a suddenly introduced device or character (such as a God) to resolve a seemingly impossible situation.
It's Latin, and it means "God from the Machine"What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
God of from the machine. It's Latin. It refers to theatrical performances (typically Greek and Roman) like the Odyssey where a god or other super human being descends and basically tells everyone to stop fighting/ arguing and then the play ends. the machine part comes in because when these plays were preformed the person playing the god was lowered by a mechanical device.
The first 2 people who answered your question are of course right. It is Latin and means "A God out of a Machine". However, they did not explain the figurative meaning.
The phrase is used to refer to a method in a book or a story, where the writer/narrator invents some improbable plot at the last minute to rescue his hero from a hopeless situation. And "deus ex machina" solutions are generally frowned upon in literature.What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
It's a Latin expression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_mac鈥?/a>
God from the machine. It means that it is a covering form of everything. It is a blanket reason. For instance, if you believe in a god, you will see that god keeps us alive. So he acts a machine that enables your existence.
It's Latin - a device used in a plot to explain something introduced - God in machine, I think.virtual villagers 5 pizza coupons
it's not french, it's latin. You can translate it like "A God out of the machine". It comes from the theatre where you could have someone coming with ropes from the sky down to the scene and solving the whole situation in one move. It was a shortcut for scenarist when they were stuck n a tricky situation. The God came out and saved everybody.
You can still use it nowadays when you feel that the situation ended happily while it was almost impossible 2 minutes before. Like when in a movie everything is desperate and all of a suden, someone arrives and all the heroes are saved. ^^ This person would be called the Deus ex Machina.
Another situation is a like in a roleplaying game when the GM decides to solve a situation when he feels the players are stuck and about to be killed. He brings an external element out of the blue.What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
God from the machine
It describes the use of a suddenly introduced device or character (such as a God) to resolve a seemingly impossible situation.
It's Latin, and it means "God from the Machine"What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
God of from the machine. It's Latin. It refers to theatrical performances (typically Greek and Roman) like the Odyssey where a god or other super human being descends and basically tells everyone to stop fighting/ arguing and then the play ends. the machine part comes in because when these plays were preformed the person playing the god was lowered by a mechanical device.
The first 2 people who answered your question are of course right. It is Latin and means "A God out of a Machine". However, they did not explain the figurative meaning.
The phrase is used to refer to a method in a book or a story, where the writer/narrator invents some improbable plot at the last minute to rescue his hero from a hopeless situation. And "deus ex machina" solutions are generally frowned upon in literature.What does "deus ex machina" mean ? is it french ?
It's a Latin expression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_mac鈥?/a>
God from the machine. It means that it is a covering form of everything. It is a blanket reason. For instance, if you believe in a god, you will see that god keeps us alive. So he acts a machine that enables your existence.
It's Latin - a device used in a plot to explain something introduced - God in machine, I think.
IS god belief just a deus ex machina for the addle minded?
Surely, it all depends on the extent of the belief. If God becomes a "God of the gaps" like it does for Creationists and IDers, then yes. Otherwise, possibly no.IS god belief just a deus ex machina for the addle minded?
God is an ipso facto hemorrhoid for AmericaIS god belief just a deus ex machina for the addle minded?
No but Atheism is.
God is an ipso facto hemorrhoid for AmericaIS god belief just a deus ex machina for the addle minded?
No but Atheism is.
Have you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
several times, i had the impression of being saved here and now and to not have to wait until i'm dead. God saved me, loved me, watched me. i apologize for my bad english i'm just on yahoo uk because of technical problems but in fact i'm french
goodnight to you all UKHave you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
I don't know what deus ex machina means, but it sound really, really cool.
I'm afraid the god in my machine is dead...nothing much has happened lately.Have you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
Not really. Not that I can think of off top.
Well that guy summed it up didn't he? LOLHave you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
No, I've only read about it in faerie tales :)
no, no time or money for that
I am in the process of it now and waiting patiently for the finale.
not that I can recall.
Not really. I imagined flying monkies a few days ago. That wasn't me that was Dorothy. Sorry guess not.
Everyday I get in my car and go to work...LOL God has to be in the machina with me! LOL
not that I know of..let me read that definition up there first
The most interesting and unexpected things I've experienced in my life have been very consistent with my unfolding story. In fact, the more consistent I am with my own story, the more likely I am to experience significant but unexpected reinforcement for that story. The way I see it, the narrative that defines my story begins with the content of my heart. The more I give expression to that content, the more magic there is.
Or more directly, no, I don't think I've experienced that very much.
Deus ex machina
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see Deus ex machina (disambiguation).
Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase that is used to describe an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e.g., having the protagonist wake up and realize it was all a dream, or an angel suddenly appearing to solve all the plot problems of a story that the characters can't or won't resolve on their own). The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though more palatable, ending. In modern terms the deus ex machina has also come to describe a being, object or event that suddenly appears and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty (e. g. the cavalry arriving). A classic example of this type of deus ex machina is Homer's Odyssey; a more contemporary example is Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. While in storytelling this might seem unfulfilling, in real life this type of figure might be welcome and heroic, due to the low probability of such an event occurring. It sometimes also can mean, usually in an episode of a sitcom, an event or plot device which does not necessarily solve the conflict of the plot, but demotes the character(s) into the financial, emotional, mental, or geographical state they were in when the episode began, restoring the series' status quo in order to more easily allow another situation in the next episode.
The notion of deus ex machina can also be applied to a revelation within a story experienced by a character which involves the individual realizing that the complicated, sometimes perilous or mundane and perhaps seemingly unrelated sequence of events leading up to this point in the story are joined together by some profound concept. Thus the unexpected and timely intervention is aimed at the meaning of the story rather than a physical event in the plot. This may more accurately be described as a plot twist.
The Greek tragedian Euripides is notorious for using this plot device. The first person known to have criticized the device was Aristotle in his Poetics, where he argues that a good tragedy must remain plausible.
[edit] Linguistic considerations
The Latin phrase (deus ex māchinā, plural deī ex māchinīs) is a calque from the Greek '?π? μηχαν?? θε??' ápo mēchanēs theós, (pronounced in Ancient Greek [a po' m?:k?a'n?:s t?e'os]). It originated with Greek and Roman theater, when a mechane would lower actors playing a god or gods on stage to resolve a hopeless situation. The phrase is often translated as "god from the machine", where the machine referred to is the crane device employed in the task.
The pronunciation of the phrase may be a problem in English. The Latin phrase would originally have been pronounced something like ['de.?s eks 'ma?k??.na?], in other words with machina stressed on the first syllable, and with the ch pronounced as in the word "Mach" — similar to k — but people may be influenced by the modern English machine ([m?'?i?n]), resulting in a mixed pronunciation. Some English speakers face further difficulties in pronouncing the e in Deus [e], which is only approximately rendered as [AY] and is much closer to the ay in day. See also Latin spelling and pronunciation.
[edit] See also
List of deus ex machina examples
MacGuffin
List of Latin phrases
Character shield
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goodnight to you all UKHave you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
I don't know what deus ex machina means, but it sound really, really cool.
I'm afraid the god in my machine is dead...nothing much has happened lately.Have you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
Not really. Not that I can think of off top.
Well that guy summed it up didn't he? LOLHave you ever experienced 'Deus ex machina' in your life?
No, I've only read about it in faerie tales :)
no, no time or money for that
I am in the process of it now and waiting patiently for the finale.
not that I can recall.
Not really. I imagined flying monkies a few days ago. That wasn't me that was Dorothy. Sorry guess not.
Everyday I get in my car and go to work...LOL God has to be in the machina with me! LOL
not that I know of..let me read that definition up there first
The most interesting and unexpected things I've experienced in my life have been very consistent with my unfolding story. In fact, the more consistent I am with my own story, the more likely I am to experience significant but unexpected reinforcement for that story. The way I see it, the narrative that defines my story begins with the content of my heart. The more I give expression to that content, the more magic there is.
Or more directly, no, I don't think I've experienced that very much.
Deus ex machina
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
For other uses, see Deus ex machina (disambiguation).
Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase that is used to describe an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e.g., having the protagonist wake up and realize it was all a dream, or an angel suddenly appearing to solve all the plot problems of a story that the characters can't or won't resolve on their own). The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though more palatable, ending. In modern terms the deus ex machina has also come to describe a being, object or event that suddenly appears and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty (e. g. the cavalry arriving). A classic example of this type of deus ex machina is Homer's Odyssey; a more contemporary example is Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. While in storytelling this might seem unfulfilling, in real life this type of figure might be welcome and heroic, due to the low probability of such an event occurring. It sometimes also can mean, usually in an episode of a sitcom, an event or plot device which does not necessarily solve the conflict of the plot, but demotes the character(s) into the financial, emotional, mental, or geographical state they were in when the episode began, restoring the series' status quo in order to more easily allow another situation in the next episode.
The notion of deus ex machina can also be applied to a revelation within a story experienced by a character which involves the individual realizing that the complicated, sometimes perilous or mundane and perhaps seemingly unrelated sequence of events leading up to this point in the story are joined together by some profound concept. Thus the unexpected and timely intervention is aimed at the meaning of the story rather than a physical event in the plot. This may more accurately be described as a plot twist.
The Greek tragedian Euripides is notorious for using this plot device. The first person known to have criticized the device was Aristotle in his Poetics, where he argues that a good tragedy must remain plausible.
[edit] Linguistic considerations
The Latin phrase (deus ex māchinā, plural deī ex māchinīs) is a calque from the Greek '?π? μηχαν?? θε??' ápo mēchanēs theós, (pronounced in Ancient Greek [a po' m?:k?a'n?:s t?e'os]). It originated with Greek and Roman theater, when a mechane would lower actors playing a god or gods on stage to resolve a hopeless situation. The phrase is often translated as "god from the machine", where the machine referred to is the crane device employed in the task.
The pronunciation of the phrase may be a problem in English. The Latin phrase would originally have been pronounced something like ['de.?s eks 'ma?k??.na?], in other words with machina stressed on the first syllable, and with the ch pronounced as in the word "Mach" — similar to k — but people may be influenced by the modern English machine ([m?'?i?n]), resulting in a mixed pronunciation. Some English speakers face further difficulties in pronouncing the e in Deus [e], which is only approximately rendered as [AY] and is much closer to the ay in day. See also Latin spelling and pronunciation.
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Did Apocalypto liberally use the deus ex machina?
I can think of at least three strong ones, the penultimate one a machine and the ultimate one darn near "gods from the machine"... (if a boat is a machine and stinky Spanish conquistadors are gods).Did Apocalypto liberally use the deus ex machina?
It's a chase movie, and in the chase movies there'll always be "dem"s. Otherwise, they would always end at the beginning after facing first obstacle
It's a chase movie, and in the chase movies there'll always be "dem"s. Otherwise, they would always end at the beginning after facing first obstacle
What is deus ex machina?
1. What does it mean?
2. How do I use it in a sentence
3. ExamplesWhat is deus ex machina?
Deus ex machina -- "DAY-oose ex MAH-kee-na"
It's a theatrical or literary device whereby a person or thing is abruptly introduced to the drama and solves a complex or previously unsolvable problem.What is deus ex machina?
It literally means "god from the machine" - it's a plot device where the author of a book, play, film etc. solves an apparently insoluble problem by pulling something totally arbitrary out of his...er, hat. This article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_mac… is very good and will tell you a lot about it - where it comes from, how it's used, why it detracts from the work, ways and places it's been used recently and so on. I highly recommend it. It's quite interesting and you'll understand a lot better than if I simply give you some example sentences. You'll find things you can use as examples in the article.What is deus ex machina?
de·us ex ma·chi·na
noun
\?dā-?s-?eks-?m?-ki-n?, -?ma-, -?n?; -m?-?shē-n?\
Definition of DEUS EX MACHINA
1
: a god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama to decide the final outcome
2
: a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
The writer of the story used deus ex machina to save the heroine from dying in the coffin.
2. How do I use it in a sentence
3. ExamplesWhat is deus ex machina?
Deus ex machina -- "DAY-oose ex MAH-kee-na"
It's a theatrical or literary device whereby a person or thing is abruptly introduced to the drama and solves a complex or previously unsolvable problem.What is deus ex machina?
It literally means "god from the machine" - it's a plot device where the author of a book, play, film etc. solves an apparently insoluble problem by pulling something totally arbitrary out of his...er, hat. This article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_mac… is very good and will tell you a lot about it - where it comes from, how it's used, why it detracts from the work, ways and places it's been used recently and so on. I highly recommend it. It's quite interesting and you'll understand a lot better than if I simply give you some example sentences. You'll find things you can use as examples in the article.What is deus ex machina?
de·us ex ma·chi·na
noun
\?dā-?s-?eks-?m?-ki-n?, -?ma-, -?n?; -m?-?shē-n?\
Definition of DEUS EX MACHINA
1
: a god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama to decide the final outcome
2
: a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
The writer of the story used deus ex machina to save the heroine from dying in the coffin.
What is the climax, denouement effect, and the deus ex machina of carrie by stephen king..?
thanks...What is the climax, denouement effect, and the deus ex machina of carrie by stephen king..?
The self destruction of Carrie and her "beloved" mothertranslate japanese to english word translator
The self destruction of Carrie and her "beloved" mother
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
What does "deus ex machina" mean?
NO wikipedia, pleaseWhat does "deus ex machina" mean?
The term deus ex machina is used for cases where an author uses some improbable (and often clumsy) plot device to work his or her way out of a difficult situation.
When the cavalry comes charging over the hill or when the impoverished hero is relieved by an unexpected inheritance, it's often called a deus ex machina.What does "deus ex machina" mean?
The most important thing left out above is that the phrase originated from the use of a machine to bring actors, usually representing gods, onto the stage in ancient Greek plays.
Wikipedia explains it well. Just because you don't want Wikipedia doesn't mean that I don't.What does "deus ex machina" mean?
Literally, it means "god from a machine". In ancient greek drama, the plot was often resolved by means of a god intervening in the lives of men. More generally, it now refers to any miraculous occurrence that wraps up a plot.
From the dictionary:
a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
The term deus ex machina is used for cases where an author uses some improbable (and often clumsy) plot device to work his or her way out of a difficult situation.
When the cavalry comes charging over the hill or when the impoverished hero is relieved by an unexpected inheritance, it's often called a deus ex machina.What does "deus ex machina" mean?
The most important thing left out above is that the phrase originated from the use of a machine to bring actors, usually representing gods, onto the stage in ancient Greek plays.
Wikipedia explains it well. Just because you don't want Wikipedia doesn't mean that I don't.What does "deus ex machina" mean?
Literally, it means "god from a machine". In ancient greek drama, the plot was often resolved by means of a god intervening in the lives of men. More generally, it now refers to any miraculous occurrence that wraps up a plot.
From the dictionary:
a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
Has the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R&S?
I came home from work to find five questions posted to my account that I had not asked - it must be that GODDIDIT. deus ex machina indeed.
If God is a thirteen year old emo girl. I guess I'd better change my password. Damn kids these days.Has the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R%26amp;S?
My, what a spiritual devil you are.Has the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R%26amp;S?
huhHas the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R%26amp;S?
Oh, don't use Latin... you'll confuse the Catholics.
I'm yet to see any evidence of God emanate from any of the machines my fellow correspondents use.
I don't think we need to start worrying, just yet.
Yes, I know my Latin's lousy. Sorry.
:)
If God is a thirteen year old emo girl. I guess I'd better change my password. Damn kids these days.Has the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R%26amp;S?
My, what a spiritual devil you are.Has the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R%26amp;S?
huhHas the use of deus ex machina gotten completely out of hand in R%26amp;S?
Oh, don't use Latin... you'll confuse the Catholics.
I'm yet to see any evidence of God emanate from any of the machines my fellow correspondents use.
I don't think we need to start worrying, just yet.
Yes, I know my Latin's lousy. Sorry.
:)
Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
"A deus ex machina (IPA: [藞de瑟蕦s 蓻ks 藞mak拾瑟na], literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a surprising or unexpected event occurs in a story's plot, often to resolve flaws or tie up loose ends in the narrative."Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
God of the machine.
God as machine. It's latin, but it is the name of a literary technique.Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
it means "god from the machine"
heres a page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
hope this helps.
鈥搉oun 1. (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
2. any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
It means "God From the Machine"
It means "God of the Machine".
It's a literary device in which something out of the blue happens to aid the protagonist.
Kind of like the germs in War of the Worlds. It also happens in almost every Harry Potter book.
A deus ex machina (IPA: [藞de瑟蕦s 蓻ks 藞mak拾瑟na], literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a surprising or unexpected event occurs in a story's plot, often to resolve flaws or tie up loose ends in the narrative.[1] Neoclassical literary criticism, from Corneille and John Dennis on, took it as a given that one mark of a bad play was the sudden invocation of extraordinary circumstance. Thus, the term "deus ex machina" has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative
I would have said God in the machine, a black box, the answer to everything or something, but without explanation. Like gravity is just a word to explain what we don't really know what it is. Gravity is God in the machine that makes everything work. The magic that holds things together. God is the explanation of how all was made, without an explanation of how it was done. Webster's says a god from a machine, therefore any person or thing artificially introduced, as in a story, to solve a difficulty.
"God of the machine" it's a literary device that a writer would use to take a sort of 'divine intervention' to "fix" the plot to the desired ending.
Person A sacrifices themselves to save the life of person B; but the God intervenes and ressurects person A so that there will be a happy ending.
It means god of the machine - and it references the timely (and often unlikely) resolution of conflict by a powerful outside agent.
The name comes from the theater - in old plays, the complications of the plot would be resolved by the arrival of a god character - typically Greek or Roman - to set things straight at a strategic moment just before the end of the play. The god character was transported onto the stage by a machine or mechanical device that allowed him to appear to descend from the heavens - making him the god of the machine.
It means a god out of a machine.
It really designates an actor getting out of a device in a theater, at the end of the play. This actor plays a god who is going to save the situation (or the plot) at the end of the play.
This god accomplishes a miracle for the plot to come to a denouement.
so the expression is not equal to a miracle.
We all wish for a god ex machina when we are in a hard situation.
condoms
God of the machine.
God as machine. It's latin, but it is the name of a literary technique.Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
it means "god from the machine"
heres a page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
hope this helps.
鈥搉oun 1. (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
2. any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
It means "God From the Machine"
It means "God of the Machine".
It's a literary device in which something out of the blue happens to aid the protagonist.
Kind of like the germs in War of the Worlds. It also happens in almost every Harry Potter book.
A deus ex machina (IPA: [藞de瑟蕦s 蓻ks 藞mak拾瑟na], literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a surprising or unexpected event occurs in a story's plot, often to resolve flaws or tie up loose ends in the narrative.[1] Neoclassical literary criticism, from Corneille and John Dennis on, took it as a given that one mark of a bad play was the sudden invocation of extraordinary circumstance. Thus, the term "deus ex machina" has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative
I would have said God in the machine, a black box, the answer to everything or something, but without explanation. Like gravity is just a word to explain what we don't really know what it is. Gravity is God in the machine that makes everything work. The magic that holds things together. God is the explanation of how all was made, without an explanation of how it was done. Webster's says a god from a machine, therefore any person or thing artificially introduced, as in a story, to solve a difficulty.
"God of the machine" it's a literary device that a writer would use to take a sort of 'divine intervention' to "fix" the plot to the desired ending.
Person A sacrifices themselves to save the life of person B; but the God intervenes and ressurects person A so that there will be a happy ending.
It means god of the machine - and it references the timely (and often unlikely) resolution of conflict by a powerful outside agent.
The name comes from the theater - in old plays, the complications of the plot would be resolved by the arrival of a god character - typically Greek or Roman - to set things straight at a strategic moment just before the end of the play. The god character was transported onto the stage by a machine or mechanical device that allowed him to appear to descend from the heavens - making him the god of the machine.
It means a god out of a machine.
It really designates an actor getting out of a device in a theater, at the end of the play. This actor plays a god who is going to save the situation (or the plot) at the end of the play.
This god accomplishes a miracle for the plot to come to a denouement.
so the expression is not equal to a miracle.
We all wish for a god ex machina when we are in a hard situation.
condoms
Where does deus ex machina come from?
all of the above, true its fro the ancient roman theater (also because "deus ex machina" is latin not greek) and it symbolises an unexpected, seemingly "divine" intervention in a situation of difficoulty.Where does deus ex machina come from?
The second answer is correct. It's Latin, not Greek.Where does deus ex machina come from?
It means a God Out of the Machine... I think it might have been said about the industrial revolution first.. don't quote me.Where does deus ex machina come from?
It is a concept from ancient Greek theatre. If a actor was playing a 'god', they would be suspended from a crane or similar structure. Literally, 'god from the machine'.
From Roman theater where the part of the gods was played by a person in a basket above the theater stage floor.
Google is your friend.
The second answer is correct. It's Latin, not Greek.Where does deus ex machina come from?
It means a God Out of the Machine... I think it might have been said about the industrial revolution first.. don't quote me.Where does deus ex machina come from?
It is a concept from ancient Greek theatre. If a actor was playing a 'god', they would be suspended from a crane or similar structure. Literally, 'god from the machine'.
From Roman theater where the part of the gods was played by a person in a basket above the theater stage floor.
Google is your friend.
Does anyone knows where to find the lyrics of the italian prog-rock band DEUS EX MACHINA?
the lyrics are sing in Latin, I cannot find a website with the transcriptions, do you know where to find the lyrics other than buy the CD???? than you.Does anyone knows where to find the lyrics of the italian prog-rock band DEUS EX MACHINA?
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Deus-Ex鈥?/a>
Hope that helps. Nice music choice :).minicar pro comp
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Deus-Ex鈥?/a>
Hope that helps. Nice music choice :).
What does deus ex machina mean?
1.(in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
2.any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.What does deus ex machina mean?
it means the god machine..... they refer to it in "Donny Darko"
2.any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.What does deus ex machina mean?
it means the god machine..... they refer to it in "Donny Darko"
What does Deus ex machina mean?
Beautiful question i say. The term Deus ex machina literally means "the god comes from a crane or machine" and refers to an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot. The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely it challenges suspension of disbelief; allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, but more palatable ending. In modern terms the Deus ex machina has also come to describe a person or thing that suddenly arrives and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty. While in storytelling this might seem unfulfilling, in real life this type of figure might be welcome and heroic.
The notion of Deus ex machina can also be applied to a revelation within a story experienced by a character which involves the individual realizing that the complicated, sometimes perilous or mundane and perhaps seemingly unrelated sequence of events leading up to this point in the story are joined together by some profound concept. Thus the unexpected and timely intervention is aimed at the meaning of the story rather than a physical event in the plot.|||This video shows you how to say deus ex machina:
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Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase that refers to an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot. The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely it challenges suspension of disbelief; allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, but more palatable ending. In modern terms the Deus ex machina has also come to describe a person or thing that suddenly arrives and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty. While in storytelling this might seem unfulfilling, in real life this type of figure might be welcome and heroic.
The notion of Deus ex machina can also be applied to a revelation within a story experienced by a character which involves the individual realizing that the complicated, sometimes perilous or mundane and perhaps seemingly unrelated sequence of events leading up to this point in the story are joined together by some profound concept. Thus the unexpected and timely intervention is aimed at the meaning of the story rather than a physical event in the plot.
The Greek tragedian Euripides is notorious for using this plot device.
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1 Linguistic considerations
2 Examples
2.1 Literature and comics
2.1.1 Examples in plot
2.1.2 References to the phrase
2.2 Cinema and television
2.2.1 Examples in plot
2.2.2 Examples for comic effect in plot
2.2.3 References to the phrase
2.3 Video Games
2.3.1 Examples in plot
2.3.2 References to the phrase
2.4 Music
3 See also
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Linguistic considerations
The Latin phrase (deus ex māchinā, plural deī ex māchinīs) is a calque from the Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός ápo mēchanēs theós, (pronounced in Ancient Greek [a po' mɛ:kʰa'nɛ:s tʰe'os]). It originated with Greek and Roman theater, when a mechane would lower actors playing a god or gods on stage to resolve a hopeless situation. The phrase is often translated as "god comes from the machine", where the machine referred to is the crane device employed in the task.
The pronunciation of the phrase may be a problem in English. The Latin phrase would originally have been pronounced something like ['de.ʊs eks 'ma:kʰɪ.na:], in other words with machina stressed on the first syllable, and with the ch similar to an English k, but English-speaking people may be influenced by the modern English machine ([mə'ʃi:n]), resulting in a mixed pronunciation. Some English speakers face further difficulties in pronouncing the e in Deus [e], which is only approximately rendered as [AY] and is much closer to the e in bed. See also Latin spelling and pronunciation.
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Examples
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Literature and comics
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Examples in plot
In William Golding's novel The Lord of the Flies, just as the protagonist Ralph is about to be killed by the band of "hunters" at the end of the story, a naval ship appears from nowhere onto the island. One of the ship's officers rescues Ralph, he and the rest of the boys are then taken away from the island.
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the kidnapping of Hamlet by pirates allows him to escape his orchestrated death in England.
In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Hymenaios comes to the mass wedding to sort out the problems of Rosalind's stay and disguise in the Forest of Arden.
In the Edgar Allan Poe story The Pit and the Pendulum, the unnamed narrator has just been pushed over the edge of the bottomless pit when he reaches up and grabs the arm of the French general who has seized the fortress where the narrator has been imprisoned.
Many comic book characters can be seen as walking dei ex machinis. Wolverine is viewed by many fans of the X-Men comics as such. His mutant powers include an incredibly fast healing ability (making him nearly invincible), enhanced senses, and a skeleton of adamantium, a fictional indestructible metal. Lifeguard, also from the X-Men, is widely considered by her detractors to be the ultimate deus ex. Her mutant ability is to manifest any necessary ability to save lives, which makes her a quick fix for the writers if any characters are stuck in a tight spot.
Perhaps the most famous superhero to be labelled a deus ex is Superman himself, as his writers had a tendency to inflate his powers over the years to constantly trump his previous successes. Kryptonite, Superman's only weakness, then became a sort of reverse deus ex machina, which would be called in whenever the writer wanted to explore a conflict which he didn't want Superman to resolve in one punch.
In Molière's The School for Wives, Agnès is suddenly found out to have been betrothed all along to another man, which spares her from having to marry Arnolphe.
Tintin's encounters in The Adventures of Tintin involve coincidences that spare his life: heavy weights replaced by wood, a solar eclipse, explosive mines not working, etc.
In Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, scientists race to find a way to contain an extremely dangerous extraterrestrial virus. In the end, they fail and the virus escapes into the atmosphere, but conveniently for mankind the virus mutates into a completely harmless form.
In Richard Adams' Watership Down, after freeing the local farm dog to attack the Efrafans, Hazel is pinned by the farm cat and about to be killed until a young girl from the farm intervenes by ordering the cat to back away. She then takes Hazel into the country to a location which is coinicidentally near his warren. The chapter in which the buildup for this event occurs is indeed titled Dea ex Machina (goddess, in this case).
In Sharon Shinn's Novels of Samaria, God really is in the machine when it is revealed that the sender of the rain, medicine and seeds from the sky is in fact a highly advanced spaceship named Jehovah that has been instructed to answer the 'prayers' of the genetically engineered Angels.
In Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, the location of the antimatter is seemingly revealed by a vision from God, however it is later revealed to be a deception by the novel's villain.
Clive Cussler, the author of the Dirk Pitt adventure novels, has introduced himself into the plot of a number of his stories so that he may rescue his characters from hopeless situations.
In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio's entire life rests on whether or not his ships come to port. It is heard throughout the story that they have all crashed. Yet in the end Portia tells him all his ships have come home, with no explanation as to how they survived the storms or why people believed them all to have crashed.
In Hajime Kanzaka's novel Shirogane no Majū (白銀の魔獣, which form the basis for the anime series Slayers), Lina Inverse uses a powerful spell known as "Ragna Blade" to defeat Zanaffar. The reader is never informed of the existence of this spell until she casts it, whereupon Lina reveals that she created the spell herself several days beforehand, which places it within the timeline of the rest of the book and therefore could have been mentioned.
In the Japanese manga-drama Kashimashi, the main protagonist is told out of the blue by an alien lifeform that "you will die in 30 days." Previous to this statement there had been no indication that the main protagonist would have such a sudden death, thus effectively becoming a plot device.
In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the convict who Pip owed his gentleman's life to, was Pip's crush's father.
In the Batman TV series, Batman's utility belt usually contains something unexpected which extricates him from a seemingly inescapable situation.
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References to the phrase
In the Lance Tooks graphic novel The Devil on Fever Street, Satan falls in love with a mortal woman; order is restored when the saintly Black Lily Baptiste is mortally struck by a driverless truck bearing the words "Dusek's Machines" printed on its side.
In Bored of the Rings, Frito and Spam are rescued by Deus Ex Machina Airlines (parodying Frodo and Sam being rescued by eagles at Mount Doom, in the original Lord of the Rings stories).
In Isaac Asimov's I, Robot it is used as a part of the description of the relationship between humans and robots.
In the webcomic, Metroid: Third Derivative, Samus called the degenerated space pirate Joey "Deus ex Machina" after saving her from a near-fatal encounter with Dark Samus.
In the American Television series Lost, an episode is named "Deus ex Machina." This appears to be an ironic use of the term. In the episode, the survivors of a plane crash on a tropical island discover a man-made hatch embedded into the ground; When eventually opened, however, the hatch confuses the plot further rather than resolving any plot lines.
At the end of "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," the words "Deus Ex Machina" are written on the side of the treasure chest at the end of the movie.
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Cinema and television
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Examples in plot
Possibly the least satisfactory deus ex machina to the audience is the revelation that all or large parts of what has gone before were "all a dream". This was perhaps most notoriously used in Dallas, where an entire season was "unwritten" to allow the resurrection of the character Bobby Ewing who had been killed off.
In The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) acts as a deus ex machina, in that his timely arrival provides a means for the machines and the humans to unite after they have been fighting for centuries, and a truce to be called. With intentional irony, the machine figurehead is named the Deus Ex Machina.
In The Wizard of Oz, just before Dorothy and her companions reach the Emerald City, the Wicked Witch of the West produces a giant field of poppies that puts Dorothy, Toto and the Cowardly Lion to sleep. The Scarecrow and the Tin Man cry for help, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, produces a snow shower that wakes everyone up. Also, in the scene where Dorothy misses the Wizard's balloon, Glinda appears and tells Dorothy she had the power to return home the entire time, meaning the Ruby Slippers. When the Scarecrow asks in disbelief why didn't Glinda tell Dorothy about the Slippers, Glinda casually responds that Dorothy "would not have believed her and had to learn it for herself".
In the film Adaptation., Charlie Kaufman is cautioned explicitly by screenwriting guru Robert McKee not to use a deus ex machina as a plot device, which he then later does, twice. First, McKee himself gives the character of Kaufman the final hint to escape from his screenwriting misery, which means McKee himself is used as a "Deus ex Machina". Ironically "McKee" could be suspected a "telling name" (McKee =%26gt; "machina") but he is an actual writing instructor. Second, the alligator that dives into the swamp to attack John Laroche prevents him from shooting and killing Charlie.
In the film Jurassic Park 3, when the main characters are fleeing and at the end of the film, as soon as they arrive at the beach, the US Navy arrives to stablize the situation and kill the dinosaurs.
In the episode "Operation: Annihilate!" from the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock is infected by an alien parasite which has overwhelmed a Federation colony world. Discovering that intense light will kill the parasites, Spock volunteers to be exposed to this light. He is cured, but also blinded. In the end, he miraculously recovers his sight, explaining that as a Vulcan he has nictitating membranes that protect his eyes from the intense solar radiation on his homeworld.
The seventh (and final) season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer concludes with a series of unlikely events to save the world from the near-impossible to stop evil. Buffy receives an amulet from Angel which Spike uses conveniently to destroy the Hellmouth and the scythe used to activate every slayer is introduced by having the villains dig it up for no real reason.
In V: The Final Battle mini-series, when the mothership is about to destroy Earth, a young half-alien/half-human girl suddenly reveals her powers by taking the controls of the ship and piloting it out of the atmosphere.
At the end of the anime Mai-HiME the previously "dead" characters are brought back to life in order to fight the final battle by Mashiro, whose powers were supposedly sealed and under the control of the Dark Lord.
In the series 5 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "The Game", the crew of the Enterprise are influenced to do the bidding of an alien race as a result of a psychotropic reaction caused by an addictive game introduced to the ship. They are rescued at the end of the episode when Data, who had until this point been deactivated by members of the crew already under the aliens' influence, enters and uses a flashing light to remove the addictive psychtropic effects of the game, and thus cure the entire crew.
In Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey God literally provides the deus ex machina by giving Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan access to Station, who in turn build the "good robot uses". This allows everything to be resolved.
In the movie Ocean's 12, director Steven Soderburg introduces the FBI official to be Matt Damon's character's mother. She signs their release forms and allows them to escape custody.
Near the end of Ice Age, Diego shows up alive and well, after a previous scene where he had implicably died and been left behind. Diego explains his sudden miraculous recovery as "nine lives."
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Examples for comic effect in plot
This is not specifically the use of the device in comedy, but the specific comedic use of a deus ex machina that at least some of the audience is expected to appreciate as such.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail employs the device, in combination with "breaking the fourth wall" in several places. While attempting to enter a cave, the knights of the Round Table are attacked by a bloodthirsty rabbit which they can't overcome, but they manage to kill it with the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch, which has been heretofore unmentioned. Having entered the cave the knights are then attacked by the Ravenous Black Beast of Argh, with no apparent hope of survival. At this point, it is revealed by the narrator that the film's animator suffered a fatal heart attack, obliterating the animated monster. Later, the film's final battle sequence is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of the police, who immediately arrest the entire on-screen principal cast of medieval characters, allegedly for murder.
Monty Python's Life of Brian also utilises the deus ex machina for comedic effect. In one scene Brian falls from the top of a high tower, only to be saved by an alien spaceship that happened to be passing. He is taken on a joy ride through the solar system before the space ship is shot down and crashes at the foot of the very tower he had just fallen from. A bystander who witnesses all this remarks, "Ooh, you lucky bastard!"
In the cartoon The Angry Beavers, at the end of the episode "Moby Dopes", during which the two main characters are terrorised by a Killer Whale in their pond, it is suddenly eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex. The character Norbert then exclaims "Where in the name of deus ex machina did that T-Rex come from?"
In the Futurama episode Godfellas, Bender is returned to Earth by God after being stranded in space with no hope of rescue. He crashes to Earth a few feet in front of Fry and Leela, provoking the response "This is by a wide margin the least likely thing that has ever happened" from Leela.
In the British sitcom Bottom, Ritchie and Eddie are trapped atop a crumbling ferris wheel. Facing certain death they pray for their lives - literally. God's hand promptly appears and Ritchie and Eddie, looking stunned climb aboard. Normality is restored when they announce to the audience they don't believe in God; the hand dissappears and they fall to their doom.
In the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove, a chase occurs where the Emperor Kuzco (who has been turned into a llama) and his friend Pacha are being pursued back to the palace by Kuzco's evil advisor Yzma and her assistant Kronk. During the chase, Yzma and Kronk are struck by lightning, and fall into a gorge, leaving Kuzco and Pacha seemingly free to return to the palace. Upon their return, they discover that Yzma and Kronk are already there, and when Kuzco asks Yzma how they got back before they did, she looks confused and asks Kronk. Kronk pulls out a map of the chase and says "Beats me. By all accounts it doesn't make sense.", showing the characters' awareness of the deus ex machina that has just been perpetrated.
In Dodgeball the chest of money Peter wins at the end of the tournament has the words "deus ex machina" on it.
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References to the phrase
At the end of the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, the treasure chest containing the main character's gambling winnings has the phrase "Deus ex Machina" written on it.
Deus Ex Machina is the name of the ship Joel Robinson uses to escape from the Satellite of Love on the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.
An episode of Stargate SG-1 is called "Ex Deus Machina". This is a play on words to mean "former god".
In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Deus Ex Machina is the name of one of the flying ships that Gargoiles from the Neo-Atlantides used to attack the Neo-Nautilus.
The 19th episode of the TV show Lost is called "Deus Ex Machina". In the episode Locke dreams about a crashed plane, located somewhere on the island. He believes that if he finds the plane, the answer to his problems will present themselves, specifically how to open a mysterious hatch buried under the ground. The plane is found, but does not directly reveal any answers, and instead leads to the death of Boone; however, at the end of the episode a bright light shines from the hatch. The suggestion is that Boone has been "sacrificed" to the island, in the fashion of an angry god.
In The Simpsons episode "Thank God It's Doomsday", after the rapture occurs and Homer Simpson is taken to heaven, he asks God to reverse what has happened. God agrees, then proclaims "Deus ex Machina" and normality is restored magically.
In Olive, the Other Reindeer, a movie by Matt Groening, Olive finds a package marked, "To: Olive, From: Deus ex Machina". It contains a metal file which she uses to free herself from captivity in the back of the evil postman's truck.
In The Daily Show segment, "This Week in God", Stephen Colbert uses "The God Machine" (also called the Machina Ex Deus) as a physical, floating button to introduce the topics.
In Donnie Darko, Donnie gasps 'Deus ex Machina' near the end of the movie when a knife is being held to his throat. This occurs shortly after Karen Pomeroy mentions the term 'Deus ex Machina' to him.
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Video Games
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Examples in plot
In Deus Ex, part of the story concerns an artificial intelligence (known as Helios) that believes its destiny is to rule mankind as an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent being. Thus it is truly the titular god from a machine. Another interpretation is that the main character JC Denton by changing the world (i.e. curing the plague) is the 'god from the machine' that changed the world for the better. Also since he is cybernetically enhanced and genetically engineered, he is literally a god from a machine.
In the Tekken series of video games, several members of the Mishima family have been the victims of acts of violence that would kill almost any human being, and very often that would be the resolution of the conflict which the game was based around. For the character Kazuya in Tekken 4, the Deus Ex Machina is the G Corporation, had "brought him back to life" after being thrown into an active volcano. The other example is the so-called Devil Gene, that apparently renders the bearer immortal.
In Metal Gear Solid, the ending finds Solid Snake and a companion trapped under a crashed Jeep after attempting to escape Liquid Snake and the bombing of the island. Liquid, armed with an assault rifle, staggers forward, about to kill the two. A virus known as "FOX-DIE", unknowingly injected into Solid Snake to spread throughout the base, activates, causing Liquid to suffer a fatal heart attack. It is later revealed in a special section of the sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, that Naomi Hunter, the woman who programmed FOX-DIE to kill Solid Snake because he killed her brother, Gray Fox, set FOX-DIE to randomly activate at no predictable time after it came into contact with Snake's DNA. Liquid and Solid were both clones of the same man, and therefore genetic twins.
The ending to Conker's Bad Fur Day is a deus ex machina. While Conker is battling the "alien," he gets help from an imaginary game programmer who gives him weapons.
Throughout the Resident Evil series, a recurring theme is that the character receives a rocket launcher or a similarly powerful weapon from an ally while fighting against an otherwise indestructible creature (usually the game's final boss). In the original Resident Evil, the player receives a rocket launcher from a helicopter pilot (Brad Vickers) while fighting against the final boss, the Tyrant. Likewise, in Resident Evil 2, during either of the "2nd scenarios", the player receives a rocket launcher from Ada while fighting the Tyrant 003 (a homage to this scene was featured in Resident Evil 4). Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and Resident Evil Code: Veronica featured similar situations, in which a weapon needed by the player was conveniently located nearby during the final battle (a railcannon and linear launcher respectively). During the events of Resident Evil 4, Leon and Ashley are implanted with the "Las Plagas" parasites by the main villain, Saddler, and it isn't until the very end of the game that the existence of a machine which destroys the parasites internally is revealed.
At the end of Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman is saved by the mysterious G-Man who freezes time, seconds after Gordon destroyed the Combine citadel with him and his allies still in the building.
In Mega Man Zero, Zero is seemingly unable to defeat a boss, but an unknown spirit gives him a sword that can.
In Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, The Prince, after killing Kaileena for the first time, seems desperate and angsty. Suddenly, while wandering the caverns beneath the Island of Time he finds a mural that shows he can go back and time and change his fate using an artifact called the Mask of the Wraith.
In Star Fox Assault, Peppy Hare crashes the Great Fox into the aparoid homeworld's shield, in order for the Star Fox team to get through. The Great Fox is shown exploding, seemingly with no way out for Peppy, but in the epligoue, it was revealed that Peppy miraculously escaped through some sort of escape pod.
In Freespace:The Great War, a Shivan superdestroyer, the Lucifer, is equipped with an energy shield that renders it impervious to all Terran and Vasudan weapons. As the Lucifer closes on Earth, survivors from a destroyed Vasudan science station land on a planet where they discover technology that will enable them to track the Lucifer into subspace where its shields will not work.
In Fire Emblem, three Fire Dragons are summoned near the end. When all seems hopeless, Brammimond appears and revives Ninian, whom Eliwood manslaughered earlier in the story. She then summons an ice storm which kills two Fire Dragons and severely weakens the other.
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References to the phrase
A strange and in some ways groundbreaking game called Deus Ex Machina, created by a company called Automata was released for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in October 1984, and ported to other platforms (ex., Commodore 64) later.
In Maken X, on the opening screen the words "deus ex machina" are heard, and the premise is a sword with the ability to control people and take any form, everyone it "brain jacks" is left in a sort of purgatory within the sword itself.
In Star Wars: Republic Commando, the final level aboard the Acclamator-class assault transport Prosecutor is called Deux Ex Machina. The player's commando team is required to defend itself against incoming droid squads, while slicing several computer terminals. Slicing the terminals turns on the Prosecutor's automated turbolaser turrets, enabling the Republic ship to defend herself against a Trade Federation Droid Control Ship.
In Armored Core 2, Deus Ex Machina is the name of an enemy 'AC' that you fight in arena mode.
In Mega Man X: Command Mission, the enemy boss Great Redips possesses an attack called Deus Ex Machina, which hurls several meteors on the player's party.
In World of Warcraft, the Paladin class of characters possesses an ability termed Divine Intervention, which both nominally and functionally references deus ex machina. The ability sacrifices the paladin to protect the targeted player from harm and remove the targeted player from combat. This ability represents the interference of an external force to effectively save a player from otherwise certain death.
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Music
Deus ex Machina is an Italian avant-progressive rock group formed in the late 1980s who sing in Latin.
Norwegian singer Liv Kristine (from Theatre of Tragedy) named her first solo album, released in 1998, "Deus Ex Machina".
The Smashing Pumpkins album MACHINA/The Machines of God (followed by an internet-only release MACHINA II/The Friends %26amp; Enemies of Modern Music) took its title from an abbreviation of the phrase. Frontman Billy Corgan wrote the concept album based on the media's exaggerated characterization of the band members. "La deux Machina" is also the name of an unreleased instrumental track recorded in the "MACHINA" studio sessions.
Deus ex Machina is the title of a track from the German metal band Schmerz's self-titled album.
Deus Ex Machinae is also the name of the first album released by the SID metal band Machinae Supremacy.
Electric Skychurch has an EP entitled Together in which the first song is entitled Deus and the last Deus ex Machina.
Deus ex Machina is the title of a track from William Orbit's classic 1993 album Strange Cargo III.
Deus Ex Machina is the title of a track from Mars Volta's guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez solo project called A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume 1 released in 2004.
La Muy Bestia Pop a venezuelan industrial/experimental-rock band has an album entitled Deus Ex Machina
Moi dix Mois's album Beyond the Gate includes a song titled Deus ex Machina.
Deus ex Machina is the title of a track from the Brighton-based artist Backini's second album Re:Creation.
Also a song by the band Laibach, on their album Jesus Christ Superstar.
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See also
MacGuffin
List of Latin phrases
The Deus Ex Machina Cycle is the title of an opera by Elodie Lauten (1996).
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Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase that refers to an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot. The phrase has been extended to refer to any resolution to a story which does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and is so unlikely it challenges suspension of disbelief; allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, but more palatable ending. In modern terms the Deus ex machina has also come to describe a person or thing that suddenly arrives and solves a seemingly insoluble difficulty. While in storytelling this might seem unfulfilling, in real life this type of figure might be welcome and heroic.
The notion of Deus ex machina can also be applied to a revelation within a story experienced by a character which involves the individual realizing that the complicated, sometimes perilous or mundane and perhaps seemingly unrelated sequence of events leading up to this point in the story are joined together by some profound concept. Thus the unexpected and timely intervention is aimed at the meaning of the story rather than a physical event in the plot.
The Greek tragedian Euripides is notorious for using this plot device.
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1 Linguistic considerations
2 Examples
2.1 Literature and comics
2.1.1 Examples in plot
2.1.2 References to the phrase
2.2 Cinema and television
2.2.1 Examples in plot
2.2.2 Examples for comic effect in plot
2.2.3 References to the phrase
2.3 Video Games
2.3.1 Examples in plot
2.3.2 References to the phrase
2.4 Music
3 See also
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Linguistic considerations
The Latin phrase (deus ex māchinā, plural deī ex māchinīs) is a calque from the Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός ápo mēchanēs theós, (pronounced in Ancient Greek [a po' mɛ:kʰa'nɛ:s tʰe'os]). It originated with Greek and Roman theater, when a mechane would lower actors playing a god or gods on stage to resolve a hopeless situation. The phrase is often translated as "god comes from the machine", where the machine referred to is the crane device employed in the task.
The pronunciation of the phrase may be a problem in English. The Latin phrase would originally have been pronounced something like ['de.ʊs eks 'ma:kʰɪ.na:], in other words with machina stressed on the first syllable, and with the ch similar to an English k, but English-speaking people may be influenced by the modern English machine ([mə'ʃi:n]), resulting in a mixed pronunciation. Some English speakers face further difficulties in pronouncing the e in Deus [e], which is only approximately rendered as [AY] and is much closer to the e in bed. See also Latin spelling and pronunciation.
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Examples
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Literature and comics
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Examples in plot
In William Golding's novel The Lord of the Flies, just as the protagonist Ralph is about to be killed by the band of "hunters" at the end of the story, a naval ship appears from nowhere onto the island. One of the ship's officers rescues Ralph, he and the rest of the boys are then taken away from the island.
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the kidnapping of Hamlet by pirates allows him to escape his orchestrated death in England.
In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Hymenaios comes to the mass wedding to sort out the problems of Rosalind's stay and disguise in the Forest of Arden.
In the Edgar Allan Poe story The Pit and the Pendulum, the unnamed narrator has just been pushed over the edge of the bottomless pit when he reaches up and grabs the arm of the French general who has seized the fortress where the narrator has been imprisoned.
Many comic book characters can be seen as walking dei ex machinis. Wolverine is viewed by many fans of the X-Men comics as such. His mutant powers include an incredibly fast healing ability (making him nearly invincible), enhanced senses, and a skeleton of adamantium, a fictional indestructible metal. Lifeguard, also from the X-Men, is widely considered by her detractors to be the ultimate deus ex. Her mutant ability is to manifest any necessary ability to save lives, which makes her a quick fix for the writers if any characters are stuck in a tight spot.
Perhaps the most famous superhero to be labelled a deus ex is Superman himself, as his writers had a tendency to inflate his powers over the years to constantly trump his previous successes. Kryptonite, Superman's only weakness, then became a sort of reverse deus ex machina, which would be called in whenever the writer wanted to explore a conflict which he didn't want Superman to resolve in one punch.
In Molière's The School for Wives, Agnès is suddenly found out to have been betrothed all along to another man, which spares her from having to marry Arnolphe.
Tintin's encounters in The Adventures of Tintin involve coincidences that spare his life: heavy weights replaced by wood, a solar eclipse, explosive mines not working, etc.
In Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, scientists race to find a way to contain an extremely dangerous extraterrestrial virus. In the end, they fail and the virus escapes into the atmosphere, but conveniently for mankind the virus mutates into a completely harmless form.
In Richard Adams' Watership Down, after freeing the local farm dog to attack the Efrafans, Hazel is pinned by the farm cat and about to be killed until a young girl from the farm intervenes by ordering the cat to back away. She then takes Hazel into the country to a location which is coinicidentally near his warren. The chapter in which the buildup for this event occurs is indeed titled Dea ex Machina (goddess, in this case).
In Sharon Shinn's Novels of Samaria, God really is in the machine when it is revealed that the sender of the rain, medicine and seeds from the sky is in fact a highly advanced spaceship named Jehovah that has been instructed to answer the 'prayers' of the genetically engineered Angels.
In Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, the location of the antimatter is seemingly revealed by a vision from God, however it is later revealed to be a deception by the novel's villain.
Clive Cussler, the author of the Dirk Pitt adventure novels, has introduced himself into the plot of a number of his stories so that he may rescue his characters from hopeless situations.
In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio's entire life rests on whether or not his ships come to port. It is heard throughout the story that they have all crashed. Yet in the end Portia tells him all his ships have come home, with no explanation as to how they survived the storms or why people believed them all to have crashed.
In Hajime Kanzaka's novel Shirogane no Majū (白銀の魔獣, which form the basis for the anime series Slayers), Lina Inverse uses a powerful spell known as "Ragna Blade" to defeat Zanaffar. The reader is never informed of the existence of this spell until she casts it, whereupon Lina reveals that she created the spell herself several days beforehand, which places it within the timeline of the rest of the book and therefore could have been mentioned.
In the Japanese manga-drama Kashimashi, the main protagonist is told out of the blue by an alien lifeform that "you will die in 30 days." Previous to this statement there had been no indication that the main protagonist would have such a sudden death, thus effectively becoming a plot device.
In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the convict who Pip owed his gentleman's life to, was Pip's crush's father.
In the Batman TV series, Batman's utility belt usually contains something unexpected which extricates him from a seemingly inescapable situation.
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References to the phrase
In the Lance Tooks graphic novel The Devil on Fever Street, Satan falls in love with a mortal woman; order is restored when the saintly Black Lily Baptiste is mortally struck by a driverless truck bearing the words "Dusek's Machines" printed on its side.
In Bored of the Rings, Frito and Spam are rescued by Deus Ex Machina Airlines (parodying Frodo and Sam being rescued by eagles at Mount Doom, in the original Lord of the Rings stories).
In Isaac Asimov's I, Robot it is used as a part of the description of the relationship between humans and robots.
In the webcomic, Metroid: Third Derivative, Samus called the degenerated space pirate Joey "Deus ex Machina" after saving her from a near-fatal encounter with Dark Samus.
In the American Television series Lost, an episode is named "Deus ex Machina." This appears to be an ironic use of the term. In the episode, the survivors of a plane crash on a tropical island discover a man-made hatch embedded into the ground; When eventually opened, however, the hatch confuses the plot further rather than resolving any plot lines.
At the end of "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," the words "Deus Ex Machina" are written on the side of the treasure chest at the end of the movie.
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Cinema and television
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Examples in plot
Possibly the least satisfactory deus ex machina to the audience is the revelation that all or large parts of what has gone before were "all a dream". This was perhaps most notoriously used in Dallas, where an entire season was "unwritten" to allow the resurrection of the character Bobby Ewing who had been killed off.
In The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) acts as a deus ex machina, in that his timely arrival provides a means for the machines and the humans to unite after they have been fighting for centuries, and a truce to be called. With intentional irony, the machine figurehead is named the Deus Ex Machina.
In The Wizard of Oz, just before Dorothy and her companions reach the Emerald City, the Wicked Witch of the West produces a giant field of poppies that puts Dorothy, Toto and the Cowardly Lion to sleep. The Scarecrow and the Tin Man cry for help, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, produces a snow shower that wakes everyone up. Also, in the scene where Dorothy misses the Wizard's balloon, Glinda appears and tells Dorothy she had the power to return home the entire time, meaning the Ruby Slippers. When the Scarecrow asks in disbelief why didn't Glinda tell Dorothy about the Slippers, Glinda casually responds that Dorothy "would not have believed her and had to learn it for herself".
In the film Adaptation., Charlie Kaufman is cautioned explicitly by screenwriting guru Robert McKee not to use a deus ex machina as a plot device, which he then later does, twice. First, McKee himself gives the character of Kaufman the final hint to escape from his screenwriting misery, which means McKee himself is used as a "Deus ex Machina". Ironically "McKee" could be suspected a "telling name" (McKee =%26gt; "machina") but he is an actual writing instructor. Second, the alligator that dives into the swamp to attack John Laroche prevents him from shooting and killing Charlie.
In the film Jurassic Park 3, when the main characters are fleeing and at the end of the film, as soon as they arrive at the beach, the US Navy arrives to stablize the situation and kill the dinosaurs.
In the episode "Operation: Annihilate!" from the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock is infected by an alien parasite which has overwhelmed a Federation colony world. Discovering that intense light will kill the parasites, Spock volunteers to be exposed to this light. He is cured, but also blinded. In the end, he miraculously recovers his sight, explaining that as a Vulcan he has nictitating membranes that protect his eyes from the intense solar radiation on his homeworld.
The seventh (and final) season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer concludes with a series of unlikely events to save the world from the near-impossible to stop evil. Buffy receives an amulet from Angel which Spike uses conveniently to destroy the Hellmouth and the scythe used to activate every slayer is introduced by having the villains dig it up for no real reason.
In V: The Final Battle mini-series, when the mothership is about to destroy Earth, a young half-alien/half-human girl suddenly reveals her powers by taking the controls of the ship and piloting it out of the atmosphere.
At the end of the anime Mai-HiME the previously "dead" characters are brought back to life in order to fight the final battle by Mashiro, whose powers were supposedly sealed and under the control of the Dark Lord.
In the series 5 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "The Game", the crew of the Enterprise are influenced to do the bidding of an alien race as a result of a psychotropic reaction caused by an addictive game introduced to the ship. They are rescued at the end of the episode when Data, who had until this point been deactivated by members of the crew already under the aliens' influence, enters and uses a flashing light to remove the addictive psychtropic effects of the game, and thus cure the entire crew.
In Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey God literally provides the deus ex machina by giving Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan access to Station, who in turn build the "good robot uses". This allows everything to be resolved.
In the movie Ocean's 12, director Steven Soderburg introduces the FBI official to be Matt Damon's character's mother. She signs their release forms and allows them to escape custody.
Near the end of Ice Age, Diego shows up alive and well, after a previous scene where he had implicably died and been left behind. Diego explains his sudden miraculous recovery as "nine lives."
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Examples for comic effect in plot
This is not specifically the use of the device in comedy, but the specific comedic use of a deus ex machina that at least some of the audience is expected to appreciate as such.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail employs the device, in combination with "breaking the fourth wall" in several places. While attempting to enter a cave, the knights of the Round Table are attacked by a bloodthirsty rabbit which they can't overcome, but they manage to kill it with the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch, which has been heretofore unmentioned. Having entered the cave the knights are then attacked by the Ravenous Black Beast of Argh, with no apparent hope of survival. At this point, it is revealed by the narrator that the film's animator suffered a fatal heart attack, obliterating the animated monster. Later, the film's final battle sequence is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of the police, who immediately arrest the entire on-screen principal cast of medieval characters, allegedly for murder.
Monty Python's Life of Brian also utilises the deus ex machina for comedic effect. In one scene Brian falls from the top of a high tower, only to be saved by an alien spaceship that happened to be passing. He is taken on a joy ride through the solar system before the space ship is shot down and crashes at the foot of the very tower he had just fallen from. A bystander who witnesses all this remarks, "Ooh, you lucky bastard!"
In the cartoon The Angry Beavers, at the end of the episode "Moby Dopes", during which the two main characters are terrorised by a Killer Whale in their pond, it is suddenly eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex. The character Norbert then exclaims "Where in the name of deus ex machina did that T-Rex come from?"
In the Futurama episode Godfellas, Bender is returned to Earth by God after being stranded in space with no hope of rescue. He crashes to Earth a few feet in front of Fry and Leela, provoking the response "This is by a wide margin the least likely thing that has ever happened" from Leela.
In the British sitcom Bottom, Ritchie and Eddie are trapped atop a crumbling ferris wheel. Facing certain death they pray for their lives - literally. God's hand promptly appears and Ritchie and Eddie, looking stunned climb aboard. Normality is restored when they announce to the audience they don't believe in God; the hand dissappears and they fall to their doom.
In the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove, a chase occurs where the Emperor Kuzco (who has been turned into a llama) and his friend Pacha are being pursued back to the palace by Kuzco's evil advisor Yzma and her assistant Kronk. During the chase, Yzma and Kronk are struck by lightning, and fall into a gorge, leaving Kuzco and Pacha seemingly free to return to the palace. Upon their return, they discover that Yzma and Kronk are already there, and when Kuzco asks Yzma how they got back before they did, she looks confused and asks Kronk. Kronk pulls out a map of the chase and says "Beats me. By all accounts it doesn't make sense.", showing the characters' awareness of the deus ex machina that has just been perpetrated.
In Dodgeball the chest of money Peter wins at the end of the tournament has the words "deus ex machina" on it.
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References to the phrase
At the end of the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, the treasure chest containing the main character's gambling winnings has the phrase "Deus ex Machina" written on it.
Deus Ex Machina is the name of the ship Joel Robinson uses to escape from the Satellite of Love on the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.
An episode of Stargate SG-1 is called "Ex Deus Machina". This is a play on words to mean "former god".
In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Deus Ex Machina is the name of one of the flying ships that Gargoiles from the Neo-Atlantides used to attack the Neo-Nautilus.
The 19th episode of the TV show Lost is called "Deus Ex Machina". In the episode Locke dreams about a crashed plane, located somewhere on the island. He believes that if he finds the plane, the answer to his problems will present themselves, specifically how to open a mysterious hatch buried under the ground. The plane is found, but does not directly reveal any answers, and instead leads to the death of Boone; however, at the end of the episode a bright light shines from the hatch. The suggestion is that Boone has been "sacrificed" to the island, in the fashion of an angry god.
In The Simpsons episode "Thank God It's Doomsday", after the rapture occurs and Homer Simpson is taken to heaven, he asks God to reverse what has happened. God agrees, then proclaims "Deus ex Machina" and normality is restored magically.
In Olive, the Other Reindeer, a movie by Matt Groening, Olive finds a package marked, "To: Olive, From: Deus ex Machina". It contains a metal file which she uses to free herself from captivity in the back of the evil postman's truck.
In The Daily Show segment, "This Week in God", Stephen Colbert uses "The God Machine" (also called the Machina Ex Deus) as a physical, floating button to introduce the topics.
In Donnie Darko, Donnie gasps 'Deus ex Machina' near the end of the movie when a knife is being held to his throat. This occurs shortly after Karen Pomeroy mentions the term 'Deus ex Machina' to him.
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Video Games
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Examples in plot
In Deus Ex, part of the story concerns an artificial intelligence (known as Helios) that believes its destiny is to rule mankind as an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent being. Thus it is truly the titular god from a machine. Another interpretation is that the main character JC Denton by changing the world (i.e. curing the plague) is the 'god from the machine' that changed the world for the better. Also since he is cybernetically enhanced and genetically engineered, he is literally a god from a machine.
In the Tekken series of video games, several members of the Mishima family have been the victims of acts of violence that would kill almost any human being, and very often that would be the resolution of the conflict which the game was based around. For the character Kazuya in Tekken 4, the Deus Ex Machina is the G Corporation, had "brought him back to life" after being thrown into an active volcano. The other example is the so-called Devil Gene, that apparently renders the bearer immortal.
In Metal Gear Solid, the ending finds Solid Snake and a companion trapped under a crashed Jeep after attempting to escape Liquid Snake and the bombing of the island. Liquid, armed with an assault rifle, staggers forward, about to kill the two. A virus known as "FOX-DIE", unknowingly injected into Solid Snake to spread throughout the base, activates, causing Liquid to suffer a fatal heart attack. It is later revealed in a special section of the sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, that Naomi Hunter, the woman who programmed FOX-DIE to kill Solid Snake because he killed her brother, Gray Fox, set FOX-DIE to randomly activate at no predictable time after it came into contact with Snake's DNA. Liquid and Solid were both clones of the same man, and therefore genetic twins.
The ending to Conker's Bad Fur Day is a deus ex machina. While Conker is battling the "alien," he gets help from an imaginary game programmer who gives him weapons.
Throughout the Resident Evil series, a recurring theme is that the character receives a rocket launcher or a similarly powerful weapon from an ally while fighting against an otherwise indestructible creature (usually the game's final boss). In the original Resident Evil, the player receives a rocket launcher from a helicopter pilot (Brad Vickers) while fighting against the final boss, the Tyrant. Likewise, in Resident Evil 2, during either of the "2nd scenarios", the player receives a rocket launcher from Ada while fighting the Tyrant 003 (a homage to this scene was featured in Resident Evil 4). Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and Resident Evil Code: Veronica featured similar situations, in which a weapon needed by the player was conveniently located nearby during the final battle (a railcannon and linear launcher respectively). During the events of Resident Evil 4, Leon and Ashley are implanted with the "Las Plagas" parasites by the main villain, Saddler, and it isn't until the very end of the game that the existence of a machine which destroys the parasites internally is revealed.
At the end of Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman is saved by the mysterious G-Man who freezes time, seconds after Gordon destroyed the Combine citadel with him and his allies still in the building.
In Mega Man Zero, Zero is seemingly unable to defeat a boss, but an unknown spirit gives him a sword that can.
In Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, The Prince, after killing Kaileena for the first time, seems desperate and angsty. Suddenly, while wandering the caverns beneath the Island of Time he finds a mural that shows he can go back and time and change his fate using an artifact called the Mask of the Wraith.
In Star Fox Assault, Peppy Hare crashes the Great Fox into the aparoid homeworld's shield, in order for the Star Fox team to get through. The Great Fox is shown exploding, seemingly with no way out for Peppy, but in the epligoue, it was revealed that Peppy miraculously escaped through some sort of escape pod.
In Freespace:The Great War, a Shivan superdestroyer, the Lucifer, is equipped with an energy shield that renders it impervious to all Terran and Vasudan weapons. As the Lucifer closes on Earth, survivors from a destroyed Vasudan science station land on a planet where they discover technology that will enable them to track the Lucifer into subspace where its shields will not work.
In Fire Emblem, three Fire Dragons are summoned near the end. When all seems hopeless, Brammimond appears and revives Ninian, whom Eliwood manslaughered earlier in the story. She then summons an ice storm which kills two Fire Dragons and severely weakens the other.
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References to the phrase
A strange and in some ways groundbreaking game called Deus Ex Machina, created by a company called Automata was released for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in October 1984, and ported to other platforms (ex., Commodore 64) later.
In Maken X, on the opening screen the words "deus ex machina" are heard, and the premise is a sword with the ability to control people and take any form, everyone it "brain jacks" is left in a sort of purgatory within the sword itself.
In Star Wars: Republic Commando, the final level aboard the Acclamator-class assault transport Prosecutor is called Deux Ex Machina. The player's commando team is required to defend itself against incoming droid squads, while slicing several computer terminals. Slicing the terminals turns on the Prosecutor's automated turbolaser turrets, enabling the Republic ship to defend herself against a Trade Federation Droid Control Ship.
In Armored Core 2, Deus Ex Machina is the name of an enemy 'AC' that you fight in arena mode.
In Mega Man X: Command Mission, the enemy boss Great Redips possesses an attack called Deus Ex Machina, which hurls several meteors on the player's party.
In World of Warcraft, the Paladin class of characters possesses an ability termed Divine Intervention, which both nominally and functionally references deus ex machina. The ability sacrifices the paladin to protect the targeted player from harm and remove the targeted player from combat. This ability represents the interference of an external force to effectively save a player from otherwise certain death.
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Music
Deus ex Machina is an Italian avant-progressive rock group formed in the late 1980s who sing in Latin.
Norwegian singer Liv Kristine (from Theatre of Tragedy) named her first solo album, released in 1998, "Deus Ex Machina".
The Smashing Pumpkins album MACHINA/The Machines of God (followed by an internet-only release MACHINA II/The Friends %26amp; Enemies of Modern Music) took its title from an abbreviation of the phrase. Frontman Billy Corgan wrote the concept album based on the media's exaggerated characterization of the band members. "La deux Machina" is also the name of an unreleased instrumental track recorded in the "MACHINA" studio sessions.
Deus ex Machina is the title of a track from the German metal band Schmerz's self-titled album.
Deus Ex Machinae is also the name of the first album released by the SID metal band Machinae Supremacy.
Electric Skychurch has an EP entitled Together in which the first song is entitled Deus and the last Deus ex Machina.
Deus ex Machina is the title of a track from William Orbit's classic 1993 album Strange Cargo III.
Deus Ex Machina is the title of a track from Mars Volta's guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez solo project called A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume 1 released in 2004.
La Muy Bestia Pop a venezuelan industrial/experimental-rock band has an album entitled Deus Ex Machina
Moi dix Mois's album Beyond the Gate includes a song titled Deus ex Machina.
Deus ex Machina is the title of a track from the Brighton-based artist Backini's second album Re:Creation.
Also a song by the band Laibach, on their album Jesus Christ Superstar.
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See also
MacGuffin
List of Latin phrases
The Deus Ex Machina Cycle is the title of an opera by Elodie Lauten (1996).
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The expression is Latin, but I seem to think it was the Greeks that tended to actually end their plays that way.|||God from Machine. In the old days, no one could play God in plays (for He is too great), so machines had to play God.|||WHY DON'T YOU ASK A FRENCH OR SPANISH TEACHER...I COULD'VE SWORN U WEREN'T SMART...
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