HAVE FUN!--Enjoy Dancing & Sex!
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1. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DANCING & SOME GOOD CLASSIC DANCES, particularly the Latin dances which are basically Gypsy & more worldwide spread than any other type of dancing. Someone here was just saying, "Oh, that's like Greek music!" I said, "Sure! It's like Spanish music, Greek music, Baltic music, Russian music, nearly all Southern European music because it's all Gypsy music!" The Gypsies were great on music, thank the Lord!
2. THE BASIC RHYTHM OF THE LATIN DANCES IS THE SAME AS THE BEAUTIFUL WALTZ, only a little difference in speed usually. That 1-2-3, 1-2-3 is actually the basic rhythm but at sort of different angles in the Latin dancing, of which the rumba is the simplest, most basic one. You do your best rumba if you would draw about a one or two-foot square on the floor & never get out of it! You're just sort of rocking back & forth on your feet & gradually turning as you do etc. It's good for you to learn those dances & to learn how to sense & hear rhythm & dance in rhythm together.
3. AND OF COURSE THE BEST WAY--AS YOU SEE MARIA & I DANCING--IS THE TIGHTER YOU SQUEEZE EACH OTHER THE BETTER!--Even if you're dancing with an absolutely new girl. A girl I've never danced with before, the first thing I do is just grab her & hug her tight & then she has to stick with me! There's no other way! I just carry her along & even if she doesn't know how to dance, she's gotta go where I go! So if you're not accustomed to dancing with each other, it's good to stick together very close & hang on tight & the man should just more or less carry the woman along & she should just follow.
4. I BELIEVE IN MEN LEADING, BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Boy, I have danced with some women who wanted to lead me all over the floor, & I'll tell you, out in public or with strangers, I dropped'm like a hot potato, because I don't like women telling me what to do! That's alright, you women have your chance to tell us what you like, & you usually take it, but in dancing, somebody's got to be the leader & I don't like to see a woman leading a man.
5. SO TO BE ABLE TO DANCE TOGETHER IS A REAL ART & A REAL TALENT, & IT'S NOT HARD TO LEARN! You just stick together, that's all, & feel the music. That's my motto: Feel the music & feel the girl!--And I mean it! Stick so close you can feel her & she can feel your movements. She doesn't have to try to read your mind, all she has to do is feel your body. It's the truth! I'm not trying to be sexy, although dancing is sexy. Just like everything else in life, the best things in life are shared.
6. DANCING IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ACQUAINTED & TO GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO SOMEBODY ALONE, SO TO SPEAK. Haven't you found it so?--Especially for shy people. Do you know why both Arthur Murray & Fred Astaire became great dancers & finally the greatest dancers in America--that is classical ballroom dancing--& each one developed a dancing school? They started out by being shy wallflowers who didn't know how to dance & were afraid of girls & extremely bashful, but dancing gave them confidence & boldness, knowing that there was something they knew how to do, they learned to dance!
7. BUT I DON'T THINK VERY MUCH OF DISCO DANCING. There's not much fellowship in it. It's individualistic. You don't have to do the same thing, you don't have to stick together, you don't even have to know rhythm, you don't have to know how to dance, all you have to do is get up there & jig around, whether you know music or rhythm or dancing or steps or not. You don't have to know a thing! Nothing!--Just get up there & rock back & forth from one foot to the other or jiggity-jig! It's the easiest kind of dancing there is, really! Any stupid idiot can do it who can stand on two feet, even if he doesn't know rhythm or steps or dancing or music or anything!
8. NOW I REALISE THAT GOOD DISCO DANCERS REALLY KNOW HOW TO DANCE & KNOW RHYTHM & ALL KINDS OF STEPS. Boy, you ought to watch Maria, she's a terrific disco dancer! I like to just sit there & watch her dance. (Maria: It's good exercise!) It's excellent exercise, that's true, it's very vigorous dancing. But you can get some other vigorous classical dances like real Viennese waltzing & real Russian & German polka.
9. BUT FRANKLY I THINK THAT BALLROOM DANCING, AS IT'S COMMONLY KNOWN, IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL KIND OF SOCIAL DANCING--classical ballroom dancing such as the normal foxtrots, waltzes & Latin dances where you can dance in harmony & in rhythm & together. I'm not talking about classical dancing such as ballet & acrobatic & demonstration dancing, but I mean where you dance together. It's beautiful, amen? If anybody would hear us tonight they'd think I'm running a dancing school! Well, I am! I like to teach you how to dance like I like to teach you everything else.
10. BUT DON'T YOU THINK THIS TYPE OF CLASSICAL BALLROOM DANCING IS MUCH MORE ROMANTIC & MUCH MORE SOCIABLE & INTIMATE? You get better acquainted, you get to know them better, feel them better. I think it's a lot more exciting! I can't see any point in this business of dancing at all if you dance separately from the girl & you can't even hardly touch her, it's kind of ridiculous! I believe that dancing is very romantic & one of the initiating steps leading to the bed! If you dance enough you'll get to where you're excited enough to want to! That's why they do this last thing where they're laying her down on the floor, that's the aim, the goal, ultimately!
11. IN ANY KIND OF SOCIABLE ACTIVITY OR SOCIAL FUN OF SOME KIND, SEX HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. As they used to say & as the preacher used to preach against dancing: "If you'd take the sex out of dancing, nobody would dance!" Well, of course disco dancing hadn't come along then. As far as I'm concerned, with disco dancing they've virtually taken the sex out of dancing. They've taken the sociability out of dancing, they've taken the bodily contact out of dancing. You don't have to know how to dance, you don't have to know rhythm, you don't have to know anything, you just stand up there & jiggity-jig! Rock-&-Roll was more acrobatic dancing than almost anything else. It was fun & good exercise, but I certainly wouldn't say it was very romantic, would you?
12. TO ME IT'S A SIGN OF THE TIMES!--People becoming divorced from each other & isolated & insensitive to each other, not really caring about what the other guy's doing. You're just dancing on your own. You don't care about them, you're enjoying yourself. In disco dancing you frequently see stags or singles just get up & dance by themselves. Why not? I mean, they don't dance with anybody anyhow, so they just get up & dance alone. You see several girls dancing or several stags dancing near each other, & sometimes just one guy alone going all over the floor! He doesn't have to pay any attention to the girls, he's just completely absorbed in himself or herself. It's an extremely selfish form of dancing.
13. THERE'S ONLY ONE LATIN DANCE I DON'T LIKE, & IT'S WHAT I CALL THE LATIN STOMP DANCE, & I GUESS YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS--FLAMENCO! It's an angry dance, & nearly every one of them tells an angry story about a jealous husband or jealous woman, murder & everything! It's a terrible dance! Now some girls could dance flamenco rather beautifully & rhythmically & wave their arms around & clap their castanets etc., but most of it is stomping, & to me it is neither beautiful nor romantic, it's just a picture of anger, the whole thing.
14. EVEN THE SO-CALLED BULLFIGHT MUSIC KNOWN AS THE PASO DOBLE--WHICH IS ALMOST THEIR MOST FAMOUS MUSIC THAT THEY PLAY AT THE BULLFIGHTS--IS EXTREMELY CLASSICAL. It's where they really get into the big, almost like symphony orchestra & there's a lot of big booming & loud music, heralding of the trumpets etc. heralding the bullfight, but it's still beautiful! They sound almost like national anthems, but they can still be danced beautifully & in rhythm together. In fact, in Spain, whenever they go into the paso dobles, it's not just one on one, the whole floor gets together & dances! And they dance all together holding hands. It's a very sociable dance, everybody's dancing together in the paso doble!
15. SOME OF YOU WHO REALLY KNOW SOME OF THOSE DANCES SHOULD SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE & YOUR TALENT WITH OTHERS to teach some of those who are not so familiar so they'll feel more comfortable dancing & feel more like they know what they're doing.--Although I don't believe in getting too technical about dancing. Once you've learned the basic rhythm & a few little basic, simple beginner steps, that's about all you have to know to enjoy dancing, really, & you can go on from there.
16. I DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT DANCING, WE JUST DANCE TO ENJOY IT! But we keep time to the music, we keep rhythmic steps. If you can feel music, if you have rhythm in you & you really feel rhythm, it's not hard to dance, you'll just dance. Watch the little ones, they just get out there & they feel it! Nobody's really taught'm to dance, they've watched others, but it just comes natural to keep rhythm & beat time to the music with your feet.
17. GOD PUT IT IN YOU & THERE'S A WHOLE LOT IN THE BIBLE ABOUT DANCING! It's pitiful that we were restricted in those fundamental, narrow-minded, evangelical groups against dancing! Just think how much fun the kids could have had if they'd let'm dance! They'd always point to how wicked the Catholics were because their youth societies had dances on Saturday nights, even in the church basement!: "Oh, how wicked & sinful!" Isn't that pitiful?--When that was one chance for their young people to be sociable & get together & be a little romantic & get acquainted.
18. OF COURSE, ONLY PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT SEX IS WICKED & SINFUL THINK THAT DANCING IS WICKED & SINFUL, BECAUSE, OF COURSE, IT IS VERY SEXY!--Especially when you dance with your arms around each other hugging & kissing & tight up against each other, it's quite sexy. So it's the people & kinds of religions that think that sex is wicked & sinful & naughty & dirty & nasty who are the ones who think dancing is bad & wicked & sinful.
19. BUT THANK GOD FOR THE DANCE!--THERE'S A LOT ABOUT IT IN THE BIBLE. They "glorified God in the dance" in many ways, in religious celebrations & whenever there was something to really celebrate & be happy about. God was not against dancing, He even promoted it & exhorted them to dance & commanded you to dance in the Old Testament. Even Jesus talked a little bit about dancing & told stories about dancing. One of the classical examples is when the prodigal son came home. Here is the picture of God & His Family having a party & a dance & music & a celebration!
20. SO THANK GOD FOR OUR LIBERTY & OUR FREEDOM! We can enjoy all the wonderful pleasures & wonderful freedom that God created! God made it for you to enjoy & we are free to enjoy it without any condemnation or guilty conscience of any kind! TTL! Aren't you glad about that?
21. AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU BELONG TO A CHURCH LIKE THIS WHERE WE CAN HAVE A DANCE LIKE THIS & THEN GO RIGHT AHEAD & TALK ABOUT THE LORD, or praise the Lord while we're dancing, glorify God in the dance & have beautiful dance videos where gorgeous maidens are dancing for the glory of the Lord? PTL!--And the excitement of us men, too!
22. A SCRIPTURE CAME TO ME THE OTHER NIGHT THAT I'M SORT OF LIKE JOB & JOB'S FAMILY! You know, Job was actually a king, a very great man, & had a large family, probably something like mine!
23. HERE AT NIGHT WE CAN SIT DOWN TO EAT & RISE UP TO PLAY, & WE'RE IN THE TRADITION OF DEAR OLD JOB'S FAMILY WHEN WE DO! (Job 1:4) And the Lord didn't condemn it, right? Not at all. But He did let the Enemy test Job, poor Job. But he got through it & survived the test & he had two times as many flocks & more children & maybe more wives, I don't know, two times as much of everything, & that must have really been a ball then!
24. SO DON'T LET THE ENEMY CONDEMN YOU & DON'T YOU CONDEMN ME OR EACH OTHER FOR ENJOYING LIFE & ENJOYING GOD'S CREATION & enjoying the pleasures that He's given us to enjoy, that He expects us to enjoy! "Delight thyself in the Lord & He shall give thee the desires of thy heart!" (Psa.37:4)--And God certainly has given us every desire we have desired, amen? I think I must have dreamed of having a Family like this because He's given it to me, & I sure enjoy'm, I enjoy you! I love to watch my children enjoy life! So now you've sat down to eat, you've risen up to play, it's time to lie down to bed! Okay?
25. IF YOU WORK HARD ENOUGH, YOU WORK HARD ALL DAY, there's no reason why in the evening you shouldn't have some fun! PTL? The Lord's for it, He made it, He expects you to enjoy relaxation, recreation, free time & just to enjoy yourselves!--And you might as well enjoy it now because it may be later than you think! Only God knows how much longer we'll be able to enjoy it, so you'd better enjoy it while you can.
26. WE'RE HAVING A LITTLE HEAVEN ON EARTH RIGHT NOW! This is Heaven on Earth, Days of Heaven! What could be more Heavenly than this in this World? Sometimes I think things could hardly be any better or any more Heavenly with all this precious Family & all this good work to do & this beautiful home & all the blessings & pleasures we have. How could Heaven be better than this?--Well, it is!--A lot better!
27. (DAD SINGS:)
"HEAVEN IS BETTER THAN THIS!
Oh my, what joy, what bliss!
Walking down the streets of the purest gold,
Telling a story that never grows old!
Heaven is better than this!
Oh my, what joy, what bliss!
I love the people of our Family Home,
But Heaven is better than this!"
PTL? GBY! ILY!
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