Name Day Rant about Latin - and Greek. Latin Is Bad? - How About Today's English Literacy?

 Today is the name day for every Gregory, which is Greek for
watchman, the verb meaning - stay awake, watch.

Revelation 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

2 γινου γρηγορων και στηριξον τα λοιπα α μελλει αποθανειν ου γαρ ευρηκα σου τα εργα πεπληρωμενα ενωπιον του θεου

Latin Is Bad? - How About Today's English Literacy?
Someone complained about studying Latin, which is itself a dead topic, unfortunately. Latin teachers and the Left conspired to get rid of Latin and replace it with something more relevant (it seems). Everyone in the following fields should have several years of Latin:

1. The liberal arts, since literature and music owe so much to Latin.
2. Law - most legal terms are Latin.
3. Medicine - medical terms are either Latin or Greek.

I learned Latin the bad, old way - vocabulary lists, grammar rules, painstaking translating, often using rather musty texts.

I taught Little Ichabod the good, Roland Bainton way, a method similar to federal efforts to train people for foreign assignments.

Immersion is how we learn best.

 Roland Bainton learned 20 languages using my method.
OK, I borrowed his method.

Latin and Greek

We read the Gospel of John in Latin, with a little bit of training in endings and grammar, but very little. No words were written near the text and an English version was only used to figure out some difficult passages. By the end of the Gospel we were reading a chapter at a time, and he was translating with ease. 

Emphasis - reading a lot of Latin, using a simple (but profound) text, which has a simple style of grammar and word usage. John 1-4, slowly, then repeat John 1-4 with some speed, then the rest of the Gospel

We repeated that exercise (home-schooling) with the Greek text of John, an even better experience, because there is nothing like the Greek text. The initial verses were difficult, just like Latin, but the final chapters were easily translated - sight-translated. 

Emphasis - The goal was to read text, pick up basic grammar and vocabulary daily, and repeat the first four chapters so that translating turned into reading it like a newspaper.

Why don't all Lutheran clergy do the same? WELS pastors are always telling people about having studied Greek and therefore being infallible. When children learn a foreign language early, it is easier, and the next foreign language is easier. If they have the same language in school, a year is easily skipped. 

LI tutored fellow students in Latin and Greek. NWC paid him to tutor students in Greek because they were not getting it from the old-fashioned pain-in-the-neck method (which only works on those who easily grasp languages). The Bainton-Jackson method works for everyone because that is how we learn our first language, from Mom and Dad. If someone is gifted in languages, it works even better and paves the way for enormous strides in those languages. 

Funny how I never got asked to repeat this experience in higher education. Many schools have overlooked the chance to make the classic languages come alive in Biblical languages. But - no worry - thanks to our congregation's attorney, Glen Kotten, I began the lessons for everyone.

Tis strange how a couple of messages can launch exciting and fulfilling courses in Biblical studies. We are studying Romans in Greek now.
Attorney Glen Kotten is on the left.

Woods Trial: Defendant dependent on Ecclesia College money, prosecutors say | NWADG

As Oren Paris III says, it's good to take money from Satan - the taxpayer - and use it for the Kingdom of God (the Paris Family) instead of wasting it on the Kingdom of Satan (Arkansas).

Woods Trial: Defendant dependent on Ecclesia College money, prosecutors say | NWADG:


"The kickbacks were from state General Improvement Fund grants to Ecclesia College, which received $550,000 in such grants from the two now-former lawmakers, according to prosecutors. Oren Paris III, former president of Ecclesia College in Springdale, paid Shelton fees, and Shelton passed some of the money back to Woods and Neal, according to the indictment.

Woods of Springdale; Paris; and Shelton, formerly of Alma, were indicted in March 2017. Paris pleaded guilty April 4 to one count of conspiracy and is expected to testify for the government. He resigned as Ecclesia’s president and from the college’s governing board the day before entering his guilty plea.

Total deposits to Paradigm Strategic Consulting’s accounts from 2013 through 2015 were $285,994, with Ecclesia providing $267,500, or 93.4 percent, of all deposits.

Woods’ financial records show he made cash deposits to various accounts of his totaling $82,488 from 2012 through 2015. That includes $24,877 in 2013 and $37,782 in 2014, bank records show. This compares to $3,700 in 2012 and $16,138.89 in 2015.

Paradigm accounts show cash withdrawals, transfers directly to Woods and one transfer to the Plaid Jackets, a band Woods managed, totaling $284,391.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Elser described Paradigm in his opening statement April 10 as a “bogus company” with the purpose of passing kickbacks from Paris to Woods and Neal. Neal pleaded guilty on Jan. 4 of last year for his role."


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Nothing changed during this massive influx of tax dollars, except a small addition was put on one building, apparently for more political meetins there. Paris was always hob-knobbing with politicians. The main catch-all building was repaired a bit, but the big half-built building was left to sway and rot in the open elements.

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GJ - I was at Ecclesia College during this time, and even went to meetings, but nothing was ever said about this windfall from the tax fund. Everyone was paid a pittance, except for Oren Paris III ($100,000 a year) and his mother ($60,000) and various family members. I told one non-family member, "Get a real job. Anything is better than this."

There is one exception to the low pay. A woman suddenly appeared as Oren's assistant, even though he was hardly present at the college. She drew something like $50,000 plus a cash bonus!!! - for answering the phone, etc. Her salary was part of a deal with one of the politicians.

Apparently the money came in and a large chunk was kicked back, all without the knowledge of the carefully chosen board, which included Oren's mother. And the actual net gain was blown on buying 50 acres of land the college did not need.

I was with Oren when he chuckled and said, "The board told me no more real estate buys." He wanted to get even more.

Motive? I think he longed to make a killing in real estate, with the Interstate bypass going past the college. The addition of the largest Walmart in the state made nearby land skyrocket.

I attended meetings where the leaders discussed fund-raising and even paid a fat fee for a sketch of the future campus.  I did not know that Oren Paris, BA, was becoming land-poor. But I knew enough to tell the entire mailing list that I did not approve of his handling of money.

I can recall three failed Oren Paris schemes from the news reports: 1) A fund for work-colleges in the state (one - Ecclesia); 2) Some connection with recycled shingles (Oren Paris and political buddies); 3) my favorite - sharing medical marijuana fees with Ecclesia College. 

Reader Speaks Out on Education's Corruption

 The youngest generation has no chance for a good education in the public system, so it is best to home-school them.

This should be very short or very long. I will choose short, for now.

One reader has dealt with higher education issues for many decades. The radicals own public education and most of higher education. Anyone can see how everyone in education marches to the same drummer once a trend starts - and the trend becomes settled law within months.

 ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS members have Mark and Avoid Jeske to do their thinking for them.

This corruption corrupts the Lutheran schools too, because they go along with those trends. Many see education as a union card for having an easy life, good income, and benefits. The go-along-get-along attitude has nothing to do with leadership or education - it is just greed, deception, and laziness. WELS was already promoting what they publicly deplored in ELCA - just ask Hochmuth and Schroeder, the Party in the MLC blokes, and the trannies. At one point, "We didn't know!" rings a bit hollow.

 Don't ask, either, cuz you don't want to know.

Social Media Overtaking the News Cycles

The most important news is not being reported in the big-bucks news outlets, which are far more involved in entertainment than they are in reporting the facts.

Instead, quite a few independent groups and individuals are pursuing the breaking news ignored by the networks and publishing families. This change was predicted when I was in journalism school - outsiders taking over the news, publishing their own research, photos, and videos.

The best way to keep up is to do Google etc. searches on these topics:

• Money-laundering in the DNC and Hillary campaign;
• Haiti and fraudulent charities;
• Crooked FBI executive agents;
• Q;
• Deep State, actors, staged crises.

The next topic is breaking world-wide news, especially because celebrities are involved. However, most people do not want to know the details, and would be physically sick over the known facts.

1. Celebrities - Allison Mack (Smallville), India Oxenberg,
2. Raniere, NXIVM - cult involved with celebrities
3. Bronfman sisters - $150 million given to Raniere's cult
4. Child trafficking, Child "charities", human organ sales
5. Epstein and his private island, Little St. John.

 This is satire, of course, but some are smiling.

American citizens need to know their own documents (Declaration of Independence, U. S. Constitution), their own history, and the actual news. It is up to each one of us to be well informed and vote.

 Managed news, grrr.

Text messages presented at Woods trial show alleged conspirators' successful efforts to grab GIF cash from multiple legislators | Arkansas Blog

Text messages presented at Woods trial show alleged conspirators' successful efforts to grab GIF cash from multiple legislators | Arkansas Blog:

"As Thompson takes some pains to point out, the other legislators have not been charged or implicated in the kickback scheme. But let me take pains to point something else out: These lawmakers, unnamed in Thompson's article when it first appeared yesterday, helped Ecclesia nab more than $700,000 in public GIF funds during a time when they were targeted by an alleged criminal conspiracy trying to influence them. The recipient of that money is an institution that operates as a church for tax purposes, raising constitutional questions to begin with.

 One scheme involved state money given for shingle recycling, and Team Paris had a shingle recycling business.

It is an obscure school with 200 students (around half of whom are enrolled in distance learning) that requested the money to make land purchases of no obvious need for educational purchases. Though most of the money was supposed to be for construction of student housing, there's no evidence of construction or structural renovation and the land was purchased at well over its appraised value. The stench on this was rank, and at least eight other legislators were happy to grease the wheels. Put it this way: Woods and Neal were able to nearly double their own contributions in the alleged kickback scheme through the help of at least eight of their colleagues.  "

Another scheme was to use state medical marijuana money for Ecclesia. 

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