The Bible says that Open rebuke is better than secret love. And at 1 Samuel chapters 2 to 4 there is a relevant story about Eli an Israelite priest who appears to have loved his impious sons more than he loved God. It is time for us to call a spade a spade. There is no such thing as a l.g.b.t Christian. To be a Christian you have to be Christlike and these people do not meet the criteria of Christlikeness. No not by a long way. Their name is antithetical. It is like saying pious-reprobate or dwarf-size-giant. Mencius said : Words without reality are unfavourably omened. An appropriate name for these people is the acronym PCI or Perchrim. This stands for Perverted Christian Imitator. David Jeremiah told his congregation : Be what you is and not what you ain't. Cos if you ain't what you is you is what you ain't. I guess a smoother way to say it is : Be what you are and not what you're not. Cos if you're not what you are you are what you're not.
Aristotle said : We must start from what is known. But things are known in two senses : known to us and known absolutely. Presumably we must start from what is known to us. So if anyone wants to make a serious study of ethics, or of political science generally, he must have been well trained in his habits. For the starting point is the fact, and if this is sufficiently clear there will be no need to ascertain the reason why. Such a person can easily understand the first principles if he is not in possession of them already. But one who has neither of these qualifications had better take to heart what Hesiod says :
That man is best who sees the truth in himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
TEACH YOUNG KIDS TO SPEAK IN MUSICAL TONGUES. What is Musical Tongues ?
Musical Tongues is something I designed some years ago. It is a speaking process by which I substitute the original words or instrument notes of a tune with the corresponding fret numbers from a guitar string. Each string on my guitar has 25 notes on it which means there are enough notes on one string to play any tune on one string. By substituting the original word syllables of ABIDE WITH ME with the fret numbers of a guitar string you can sing the HYMN by putting the melody of it into the numbers as you voice them. It goes like this :
Four four two oh, Sev nine sev sev five four.
Four five sev nine sev, Five two four six sev.
Four four two oh, Sev sev five five four two.
Two four five four two oh, Five four two oh.
Oh represents Zero. Lev would represent eleven. These word-numbers illustrate how ABIDE WITH ME is played on a guitar. And memorizing a piece of music in this manner gives the user a kind of digital imprint of the music in their memory. Anyone that can already play a guitar will know how to spread the notes of one string across 2 or 3 strings to minimize hand shifting.
George Warner
