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Many years since have sped,
And still the siege goes on:
Some fights won, some fights lost;
E'en so, we've yet to be undone.
But how long can it last?
How much more strain endure?
Age takes its silent toll,
And we no longer are as pure.
Even old friends we blame;
See fault where once we praised;
Wishing ill whom we loved;
Fretting with fear future days.
Doubt starts to cloud the mind.
Whatever was the prize?
Youths now are not so hale.
New waters of illusion rise.
Would shame were burnt away;
All cankers of assumption.
Would we were wise as grey;
Not weighted with past presumption.
"They've left! they're gone!," it's cried.
It seems we've won the war --
While from a turret's seen
A wooden steed left at the door.
Can such gift be trusted?
Yes, most seem to agree:
There is no foe in sight;
The enemy's put out to sea.
Some doubt, but they're ignored.
Who can reject relief?
Who succor can despise?
No more then of this woe and grief!
And yet tho' the citadel
Still yet fall,
Go let them tell it
Wide the world.
The body's but a shell.
Only if, please Heaven,
A soul may live,
That no man need tell.
["Giuseppe Torelli - Concerto in D maggiore - Silviu Albei (Piccolo Trumpet) - ROMANIA"]
["Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major - Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Robert Frear—trumpet"]
["Maurice Andre Vivaldi Concerto for Trumpet Violin and Strings B flat major"]
If there is real debate and real discussion they will lose. So what then do they say?
No debate, no discussion.
This, my friends and I submit, is sheer childishness. And if there is any out there who doubts the truth of what I state or what I claim, I invite you to debate me, and by doing take the opportunity of proving me wrong. So far, after over a decade of having this website, there are and have been no takers. Indeed, not a single one. Undoubtedly no small reason for this is that my email is regularly interfered with and there is and has been this continued effort to prohibit any and all serious discussion with me Among other things then, I am inclined to think that this implies I win the various arguments by default. Even so, and naturally, I prefer to win by actual debate. But alas and alack, and as we've said, no debate and discussion is allowed.
So often I go to YouTube to hear what people have to say, and among those who I find I have serious disagreement with none of them I find can or could seriously refute me. You might say that that is just a result of my stilted opinion and wishful thinking, but how can I prove to you otherwise if no serious discussion with me is attempted or allowed? It is violence that is being used to shut me up, not better arguments. And if this is not so try contacting me, including coming personally to my house (my address is given in practically all my writings.)
Meanwhile, and while I regret being prevented from participation, I can and do not live my life worrying about what other people think as such. Only I make these remarks when I see and hear others allowed to go on and on speaking from their various media pulpits who talk such nonsense, and yet whom such as myself am not permitted to answer or debate. The other day, to give you one example, I was listening to Clay Jenkinson's Thomas Jefferson hour, and really he often times talks such rubbish, or least speaks such things that require material correction, qualification, and amendment. I have, and politely, written his program two or thee times, but got no response. Is it because he doesn't get my mail or because he can't or won't respond?
I don't know, but in his and other cases, my only consolation can be that I tried, I tried, I tried.
Paul McCartney "Ebony and Ivory" from 54645645hgfg4565 on Vimeo.
3. Would you learn that to comprehend the nature of God is impossible? The Three Children in the furnace of fire, as they hymn the praises of God, say Blessed are you that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the Cherubim. Tell me what is the nature of the Cherubim, and then look upon Him who sits upon them. And yet Ezekiel the Prophet even made a description of them, as far as was possible, saying that every one has four faces, one of a man, another of a lion, another of an eagle, and another of a calf; and that each one had six wings , and they had eyes on all sides; and that under each one was a wheel of four sides. Nevertheless though the Prophet makes the explanation, we cannot yet understand it even as we read. But if we cannot understand the throne, which he has described, how shall we be able to comprehend Him who sits thereon, the Invisible and Ineffable God? To scrutinise then the nature of God is impossible: but it is in our power to send up praises of His glory for His works that are seen.
4. These things I say to you because of the following context of the Creed, and because we say, We Believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible; in order that we may remember that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the same as He that made the heaven and the earth , and that we may make ourselves safe against the wrong paths of the godless heretics, who have dared to speak evil of the All wise Artificer of all this world, men who see with eyes of flesh, but have the eyes of their understanding blinded.
~ Cyril of Jerusalem (c.313–386), Catechetical Lecture, no. 9