"I am also a conductor of orchestras"

You love to cite your happy funtime with orchestras as evidence that you speak with authority on the subject of music.

This makes me grind my teeth. It is the same as your quoting your teaching of Torah as a symbol of your expertise on Torah.

Please, Dennis, any twit can teach the Torah, and any rhythmless boob can conduct an orchestra. I have been taught by the greatest fools on earth; some of them are called "college professors" and and they know a lot of nonsense. Some of them set themselves up as knowing a lot about Scripture and as you listen to their discourses in your Bible class, you realize very quickly that all they really know is a lot of iconoclastic hooey they learned from older hippies who decided to become teachers.

"The Bible has been copied and re-copied so many times we can't know what it originally said" is a favorite line among pseudo-intellectual fools. It makes you sound so brilliant when you pretend to know things the fifty generations that came before you never discovered. "They knew so little; the scholasticism was at such a pathetically low level; they were superstitious and believed miracles could actually happen! Now we understand so much better! We know so much! We're not bound by that crummy old Bible stuff!"

And the twaddle flows freely and abundantly from their lips.

As for conducting orchestras, I'm going to guess that you conduct with the same sense of rhythm and the same accuracy with which you sing along with your happy hour theme: you're usually on pitch, and rarely on the beat. I don't mind that and I hope you don't listen to the people who think you should quit; it actually is nice when you bop along, incompetently lagging a whole beat behind the music and blissfully unaware of it.

Beethoven had gone deaf yet continued conducting orchestras long after he could no longer hear what he was conducting. He kept beating away for his musicians, and they smiled for him, but in fact they were watching the konzertmeister nodding with head and his violin, conducting the orchestra from his chair. This had been the general practice half a century earlier, and was vastly preferable for them to follow the lead of the competent konzertmeister over that of the brilliant but now-incompetent composer. But Beethoven could also brag to his friends that "I conduct orchestras."