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figuring it all out I appreciate your humor, insight, and your post whether or not I agree

Very beautiful. To surrender the ego into the happiness of the whole.

I'm fresh out of laughter from a family reunion, and just slept better than I have in weeks. So I see how this works.

We are all one big family

Oh dear, just when I was feeling good about the world. I realized I need to rethink my newfound optimism to include

An Imminent collapse of the dollar!

Im not liking this to be snarky...

I just can't figure out the zaps this morning!

Like coming to Bitcoin because "all the women are strong and all the men are above average" as Garrison Keilor says?

Today's religious shit post comes from A random flip of the Bible to Haggai.

Have you gone to the barn and only found 10 chickens when you had 20. In non-farm terms, Is the chart of your credit score looking like the Bitcoin price chart? Perhaps small changes are in order.

A renewed focus on what is important. A rebuilding of the public temple.

What a break from my reading campaign through Joshua, in which valiant people are doing superhuman tasks. It's a multi-decades long military campaign, saving women from tumbling city walls.

Joshua is a daunting read as a competitive person. I end up comparing my success at reducing caffeine consumption to fighting Anakin. I needed a break and Haggai is such a breath of fresh air for an aspiring armchair warrior. Maybe the divine ask is just renovating a tumbling public worship house. A renewed focus on the collective will see our individual fortunes imrove.

I went to church last week so now I'm going to go out and count the chickens again and load up this FICO chart...

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Well, I can only give an analysis of this dream from my own perspective, i.e. how I would've interpreted it if it was my dream.

A dark pool would for me usually be a symbol of the unconscious - parts of ourselves that we are not aware of, but are there. Falling into it might signify a kind of event in my life that I might have had no control over, which plunged me into this pool of the unconscious, that is, requires of me that I reach out for something within that I'm not aware of possessing. Since it's a soft fall, that means that whatever it might have been didn't injure me in any way, but nonetheless something more is being demanded to handle the situation.

The stingrays in the pool seem to be the key to the answer about what it is that I need. I have no personal associations to stingrays, so I'd think of them as something instinctive and intuitive (and now I'm regretting not yet having obtained The Book of Symbols). Since the emotion you mention is dread, it suggests that I may be dreading what my instinct/intuition is telling me about the situation that caused me to fall into the pool. The "envelope of their black rubbery wings" is a very vivid image and for me it immediately invoked the idea of being shielded from something. (Sure, stingrays have venom, but in dreams venom is usually some kind of agent of transformation, although it doesn't seem to me - from your recounting of the dream - that it is the venom that you fear.) Perhaps the instinct/intuition that I need might be protective in the situation that caused me to fall into the pool, that is, the situation which requires of me to reach for this instinct that resides outside of my consciousness. Dreading it may be due to my inability to explain this intuition rationally, hence being unable to understand the consequences if I act on it.

The association of the shape of the stingray to a half-moon might indicate that the stingrays bring a kind of phase of life transformation (venom) into the mix.

I believe this dream to be an invitation to explore your intuition about whatever situation this interpretation reminds you of. There is no need to act on it, simply notice what it is that your "gut" is telling you about it.

Personal associations to stingrays and further details about the dream (i.e. is it a man-made or natural pool, what the surroundings look like, etc.) might help more closely tailor this interpretation to your situation. Also it's sometimes helpful to describe any significant (real-life) events that happened sometime before the dream.

Cool, thank you! It seems like it's not as bad as I was afraid! Haha, good news.

The Carrot

Mr. Carrot lived a lovely life in a row with other carrots. One day a bird flew up and pulled his hair so hard he nearly came out of the ground.

"Hey, leave me be", he shouted at the bird, "why can't a carrot be who a carrot wants to be?"

Then one day a farmer walked by and yanked him out.

"Hey, leave me be", the carrot shouted at the farmer, "why can't a carrot be who a carrot wants to be?"

He was put in a wagon and driven to the supermarket and placed on a shelf with a bunch of other carrots. He wriggled his rootlets in glee on the cool misted shelves of the supermarket.

"Well,gee, this is the life for me," as he stared at passers-by.

Then Mr Leo passed by, grabbed the carrot by its hair and held it high overhead, contemplating it closely for spots.

"Hey, leave me be", the carrot shouted at the Leo, "why can't a carrot be who a carrot wants to be?"

Leo looked surprised at the talking carrot. "Has no one ever told you? You were planted, cultivated, harvested for one purpose-- to be eaten"

If a bot had a repressed sex drive and a passion for pastries, then yes, you could call me a bot.

Give your best anti-bot battery of tests, and I'll out-man, out-compete and give you a compliment too.

Jet engines to Jesus Christ, Encyclopedia Americana 1965

Bibliography. Renan, J. Ernst, Life of Jesus (Lon-

don 1863); Seeley, J. B., Ecce Homo (London 1866);

Holtzmann, O., Life of Jesus (London 1904); Sanday,

W., Life of Christ in Recent Research (Oxford 1907);

Schweitzer, A., The Quest of the Historical Jesus (Lon-

don 1910); Scott, E. F., The Ethical

The Meaning of His Life. The once-popular notion that the church's faith in Jesus as the Incarnate Son of God, the Revealer of God and the Redeemer of men, is based either upon the miracle stories, found in all the Gospels, or upon his transcendent claims, set forth in the Gospel of John, is now recognized to be quite in- adequate. The epistles lay no emphasis upon the events of Jesus' earthly life, though many of them contain references to it, and all of them presup- pose it. Paul lays no stress whatever upon either the miracles or the claims of Christ; instead, the basis of Christian faith, for Paul, is invariably the character of Christ and his Resurrection, the one, the manifestation in human life of the self- denying, self-giving love of God's true Servant and Son, who humbled himself and became obedi- ent, even to death-even death upon a cross; the other, the consequence of this act, when God "highly exalted him" and gave him the name (Lord) which is "above every name" (Philippians 2:5-11). The human character of Jesus is by no means lost amid the divine splendor of his glorification. The one who is to judge mankind is the very one who once lived as man upon earth, and died upon the Cross (Romans 8:34), an idea very similar to that in Luke 12:8. As the church made clear when it repudiated Gnosticism (see BIBLE-Canon of the New Testament), the human and historical life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus is the indispensable, inalienable foundation of the specifically Christian faith, namely the faith in God's self-revelation in Christ (compare II Corinthians 5:19). The later theological con- ception of Christ presupposed his perfectly hu- man nature, and at the same time his true deity. The Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.) defined him as "truly God" and "perfectly man." Still later, the doctrines of Atonement and the Eucharist also took for granted his complete and perfect human- ity. Such modern theories as the "Christ myth" are rejected by all the scientific historians.

Yes, and she's getting a lot of help from the moderators

Hey I'm sorry if at any point I came across as a hater. You're one of my inspiring public figures on here, so please don't pay any mind to what I say.