Tuesday, December 31, 2024

What is Love? My talk before the Oklahoma State Board of Education (2023)

You may have caught some of the news stories about the Oklahoma State Board of Education:

https://sde.ok.gov/press-release/2024-11-07/walters-notifies-oklahoma-parents-and-superintendents-preparations

 

On May 25th of 2023, I spoke before that board (yes, I was nervous).

Here is my written speech which was the basis for my remarks:

 

I'm Jay Hall from Oklahoma City [I now live in Tampa].

I'm a graduate of Oh-Trip-C where I had the privilege to interview Maya Angelou and I have two Math degrees from OU.


"Death and Destruction are never satisfied,

    and neither are the eyes of man." Pr. 27:20

 

Speaking of Math, I'd like to share an equation ...

   (y-√|x|)2 = 1 - x2

Graph it and you get a heart shape ♥

Is Love, Sex?  Is Sex, Love?

I love my wife, I work hard and sacrifice for my family - that's love.

Love is a positive giving between persons.

Porn is harmful, evil and destructive - our children should not be exposed to it.

 

King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived - bedsides Christ, of course, said this:

"Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.  Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.  Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun - all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.  Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom." (Eccl. 9:7-10)

 

Porn is the opposite of keeping fire in the fireplace, wearing clothes, marital fidelity and working harder and smarter! (@ this point I mentioned Mike Rowe)

 

Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, said, "If you love me, obey my commandments." (Jn. 14:15)  God wrote the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone with his own finger (Ex. 31:18) where it says, "You shall not commit adultery." (Ex. 20:14).  And Jesus clarified the command, "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’  But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Mt. 5:27,28)

 

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, that's M-O-R-S-E, of the Ruth Institute said this,

"The human person is meant for love, and the human body cries out to be fruitful." [1]  Porn provides neither.

 

Plato had no qualms regarding legal restrictions on sexual excess:

"I had an idea for reinforcing the law about the natural use of the intercourse which procreates children

... it has been made according to nature; also, it effects a debarment from erotic fury and insanity, all kinds of adultery and all excesses in drink and food, and it makes man truly affectionate to their own wives: other blessings also would ensue, in infinite number, if one could make sure of this law." (The Laws 838-839) [2]


Are you familiar with the mythical tale of King Pentheus of Thebes (Euripides and Ovid)?  Dionysus comes to Thebes with his group of women, known as the Maenads, who are devoted to Bacchus the god of wine.  These bare naked ladies participate in secret rituals of frenzied dancing.  Pentheus observes this spectacle from a distance and is curious.  He disguises himself as a woman to  get a closer look.  Outsiders are forbidden from their party, so the Maenads tear King Pentheus limb from limb.  Pentheus' mother Agave, who also follows Dionysus, carries the King's head around as a trophy, mistakenly thinking it was the head of a wild animal.  Uncontrolled Eros may lead to madness and even death. [3]                

 

I'm originally from Oklahoma and I'm a proud member of the Choctaw Nation.

However, I grew up in Northern Virginia.  Our youth group rode bikes from Mt. Vernon to DC.  Would George Washington allow porn in public schools?

 

Maybe we should organize a Humble Married People march?

Who wants to join me?!

Thank You.

 

Notes:

1) Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything by Robert R. Reilly (Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2014), p. 212.

2) Ibid., pp. 24,25.

3) Ibid., p. 25.

 

Do you know #RyanWalters (OK Sec. of Ed.)?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-walters-65b402178/

 

** kudos for graphic source (from The Oklahoman):

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ryan-walters-failure-land-education-165626087.html

 

Note: I was not able to complete my talk and ran out of time.  My colleague at the OCCC Pioneer, Paul Shell (d. 2019), later wrote for the Oklahoman and exposed  political corruption.

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

  >> be sure to check out the updated video link! (YET 2032)

 

Using Desmos, (y-√|x|)2 = 1 - x2 

breaks down to two equations (see graphic above):

y1=|x|+(1−x^2)^.5  

y2=|x|-(1−x^2)^.5  

https://www.desmos.com/calculator

 

** kudos: graphic sources

Astathica "Death, Ignorance & Destruction" Альбом (2008),

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/96/9c/a7/969ca72ec5a751f08f927445b2b16345.jpg

 

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#Robert_R_Reilly #not_OK #HumbleMarriedPeopleMarch #RU_withmii ??

#KingPentheus #Thebes #Bacchus #Plato #Gospel #JN316 ↑

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Alias Nick Beal and Bob Dylan ♫

 

Would sell your soul to the Devil to gain political power or become a rock star?

 

The gritty classic Alias Nick Beal (1949) is a cool film with a sobering moral:

https://youtu.be/MhNMR91vybY

 

Nick Beal vs. the Good (full movie):

https://archive.org/details/1949aliasnickbealjohnfarrow

 

Did you see the recent film tracking the early career of Bob Dylan aka Robert "Folk-Rock" Dylan aka Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Zushe ben Avraham (b. 1941)?  Dylan famously sang ...

 

You may be an ambassador to England or France

You may like to gamble, you might like to dance

You may be the heavyweight champion of the world

You might be a socialite with a long string of pearls

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed

You're gonna have to serve somebody

Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord

But you're gonna have to serve somebody

 

The Devil is a LIAR ! ! (Pressing On - Dylan):

 

You know the adversary never sleeps - he is a roaring beast.

He always comes at the time that you expect him least.

And you know that he's responsible for death and pain and loss,

But we know we'll overcome him by the victory at the cross.

https://youtu.be/9igU6XZ4Fdg?list=RDQMJPzXyGQTiIE

 

You see Johnny Cash (d. 2003) in the Dylan trailer (@ 1:55):

https://youtu.be/FdV-Cs5o8mc


That takes us to "Man in Black" - Christian stylee ...

Johnny Cash & #OneBadPig ╬ <><

https://youtu.be/s1gyTzN02vU


Dylan's Christian LP's ...

Slow Train Coming (1979)

Saved (1980)

Shot of Love (1981)

 

Dylan said the blessings in Hebrew at a Yom Kippur Service a number of years ago:

https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/573406/jewish/SingerSongwriter-Bob-Dylan-Joins-Yom-Kippur-Services-in-Atlanta.htm

 

Dylan confessed in The Wall Street Journal in 2022, "I read the Scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation as well as predestination [cf. Eph. 1:11].  The Five Books of Moses [תּוֹרָה],  Pauline Epistles, Invocation of the Saints, all of it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

 

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (Jn. 10:10)

 

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.  Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.  You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!  Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?" (Jn. 8:42-46)


... For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.  And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.  It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve. (2 Cor. 11:13-15)

 

Ages ROCK - Norton Hall Band ╬

https://youtu.be/KKRdhBK_fts

 

#Just4FUN ☺☺ ♪

https://youtu.be/khg3mcpZAcM

 

** kudos: graphic source >>

https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/hollywood/72498/poster/54120/

 

FYI: I saw 1 BAD pig ages ago, If memory serves, their roadie used to work with #BlackFlag ... also, me & my wife used the deliver the #WSJ

 

Alias Nick Beal - IMDb:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041107/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

 

Dylan movie - IMDb:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11563598/

 

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