{...}Poetry involves a lot of nuance, and it involves a lot of attention to meaning. A good poem has multiplicity of meanings, that converge in many forms of communication. But, generally, poetry is an expression of the deepest thought.
There’s several layers of Poetic nuance.
Historical: What the Poem means at its Time Period.
Allegorical: What the Poem means by Metaphorical and Literary Language.
Logocentric: What the Poem means as a Universal Expression of Truth.
And finally:
Typological: What the Poem means in its context and application to Psychological and Sociological truth.
And of course those things overlap. But I’d say being able to both communicate and understand a poem in those layers of meaning, are what makes a good reader, writer and listener.
Forms of Intelligence
The forms of intelligence, goes:
Reactive: It reacts to things, based on sensory input.
Associative: It recognizes other organisms, and can socialize with them.
Supra-Association: It not only recognizes other organisms, but can communicate with them in albeit primitive ways.
Personal: It recognizes itself as a personal entity.
Existential: It recognizes its own mortality.
Humor: It can have a sense of humor.
It possesses Cathexis: It has creative capacity.
Reason: Only men have this, but it can do complex things like algebra, or read and write.
Communal: It recognizes the needs of others above itself, and it can understand the otherness of a community, and has sacrificial ability to serve others before its own need.
Logocentric: It can properly identify the reality and substance of nature, and rather than be a product of will, it can understand a thing as it actually is, or even as it ought, as opposed to merely willing it to be. As most people understand the world as they will it, not as it actually is.
Prophetic: The ability to reconcile events, and predict future outcomes by assessing their natures in reality, and then forming correct conclusions based on such.
Above that you’re dealing with Angels and Demons and supernatural creatures. But, that’s the form of animal and human intelligence, as a scale.
IQ doesn’t fit on that scale, as someone with a low IQ could possess higher forms of intelligence.
The Bible’s Origin is Not Sin, And On Apostolic Succession
{...}I now understand [Brandon Robertson's] argument. Yes, Canaan and sometimes Egypt--not always--had allowed homosexual sex. But, the God of the Bible isn't the God of the Hittites, and Egyptians.
The Bible's authority is not derived from its inerrancy. It's derived from God and God alone. To interpret the Bible, you need God's help and guidance. As with anything else. It's clear Homosexuality is censured by both Testaments. And even by Jesus, and it's clear through the apostolic succession that was the tradition handed down by Christ to His Saints.
Basically, Christ goes over that through most of the book of John, that the Spirit will interpret and help remind you of the Word entrusted to the saints. What God speaks to you, through the scripture, will be entrusted in your heart, and the Spirit will make a due diligence of reminder. Christians are to have a living God. The Bible is an idol to many Christians, but there is a clear interpretation, that only gets skewed the more you try to legalistically interpret it. Just like the Pharisees were doing.
With that said, Homosexuality is against nature, and is a corruption of the body of man, and that's explicitly taught by Paul, and Moses, and also Jesus Who affirmed Heterosexual Norms and also a Patriarchal structure. As the Lineage of Christ came through a Patriarchal line, not a Matriarchal, as did the line of Kings in succession.
Who did What
Karl Benz invented the Auto. But St. Augustine of Hippo was likely black. He's about 2500 years advanced in his thinking than his time. Even more than modern men. He's probably a 250IQ, and actually speculated on special relativity. And Ada Lovelace invented the first computer program--sort of. Henry Ford invented the first mass produced Auto, and that began the spread of the Industrial Revolution--which probably indirectly caused WWI. England was the first Industrialized nation in coal burning, the Steam Engine was a long line of pioneers and tinkerers, Leibniz and Newton first framed calculus, Edison invented the first lightbulb we could use practically, the Wright Brothers invented Aeroplanes, Arabs first framed Algebra, Indians first framed Zero and Negative numbers, Descarte framed the modern Quadratic equation, but that was ubiquitous for most of human history, Pythagoras brought Babylonian, Egyptian and Tyrish geometry to Europe via Greece, which was perfected by Euclid, Ben Franklin popularized electricity, Gutenberg popularized printing presses. And the United States Military invented the internet and Global Positioning Satellites. The first home computer by Apple and its founders; also the first smartphone. The Chinese invented the first rockets. Russians were the first in space. Americans actually landed a few voyages on the moon. Nikola Tesla invented Radio, Alternating Current and Filo Farnsworth--this I didn't know--invented the Tube which would allow TV to be invented. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and America invented the moving picture. Samuel Morse popularized the Telegraph. Indians invented the first guns. Just to set the record straight.
Rewarder of Faith
I know you are a rewarder of faith.
I know you reward those who diligently seek your face.
Wherefore, I am still poor; I am still alone?
Was it that I had not sought you?
I know without a doubt you are God...
Therefore, I know without a doubt I have sought you
With what I have, and with every moment of my life.
I have held onto you like Jacob had...
Abraham was buried in the grave, bought from Ephron the Hittite---
Abraham who lived from ~2023BC to 1848BC;
The Hittites in Anatolia at the beginning of the Second Millenium,---
Moses writing the book, and Joshua yet had conquered the land.
I Live By the New Testament, While My Adversaries Die By the Old.
The Compliment is Cheery
The compliment is cheery,
But then the thoughts grow dreary,
To think, "Ah I am this, so I will!"
Yet, the State of its being
Is what it is, regardless of thinking
So continue in the thing you once did.
For our world is full of liars
Who think, "Just because I will I'm wiser ,"
They will upon reality what they will.
Therefore, so you don't end up dead
Do the things according to what's real instead.
Noisy Gong
I have a heart, not a PhD's acumen---
I am a poet not a scholar,
For in my heart is the laude of Love.
I write an ode to every Prelude
That Desire and Philoi
Are the songs I sing...
Imbued in my tongue is the kiss of life.
It is apricot and apple; honey and tea,
I cannot write or constrain myself to reason
But must make my thoughts profound and lovely.
For I am not a noisy gong, trapped in passionless
Embers put out by the quenching of a spirit
Quaffed by Academic vacuums.
Quidditch
You think about Quidditch in human terms
It doesn't make much sense.
But you think of it in Wizard terms,
It puts Harry in the center of the game--
Where now Harry is the center of the plot.
It is a symbol, that Harry is the most important
Player out on the field, therefore the novels.
Not only that, in a Quidditch Game,
It's like Lacrosse, which can score 15 points
In 90 minutes. Scoring in Quidditch can be 10 points
So in 600 minutes--a short game of Quidditch--
An average score for a short game of Quidditch
Would be about 500 points.
Add to that, the Seeker doesn't always want to find the Snitch
As it could result in their team losing the match,
So there's the added obstacle of the other Seeker
As well as the crafty snitch.
And games can last about 80 hours
With Wizards in their supernatural long lives
And magical endurance.
All in all, it's a proper game for Wizards--near immortals--
To play.
What concerns me, is the average reader pooh poohing it
Because they don't think outside of the box.
You don't read a novel, to try and defeat its author;
You read it, and try to vindicate the author
As you might just find they thought about it more than you do.
Mr. Bonhoeffer
Mr. Bonhoeffer, what would you do,
If your fellow man were like Hitler?
If every person you met, were like him?
This is the current age I live in,
And while reading your words
I am angered over a heretic, but mistaking him as you.
You do not understand the domain of hell
And why it exists, until you see the depths of evil
Plummeted by the people around you.
However---you lived in an evil time, too.
How, my brother, am I to love the loveless?
How am I to have mercy on the merciless?
How am I to have amnity toward a people whose joy
It is, to suffer, and cause suffering for all by their hedonism?
To strangle with their cruelty all the good out of the world?
I do not exaggerate my calling...
This is how evil the people of my generation are.
So... while I respect your soft spoken word
This world needs discipline.
While I am a sinner too---
That is the gospel, that I can be saved.
And you preached repentance, did you not?
What of a world who hates the very word?
What of a world who hates me,
A Christian? Do not the Amalekites need to be destroyed?
Did not the Nazis need to be slaughtered?
I'm afraid I cannot be soft spoken,
For fear of these men's souls.
For if there is no fear of God in them,
They must have fear; for the heretic was wrong.
There is indeed a place of eternal torment
And rightfully, I understand the hearts who deserve it
And mine being one of them at a previous hour
Was transformed by Grace, so I know there is yet hope.
B. K. Neifert 