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David posted:
David Dalton wrote:
National Rescue Dog Day [hound of the smith?])
Reminds me of a sign at a restaurant
where they served hot dogs which said:
Every dog has its day
but we have dogs every day!
... Goddess (the ruler of the region all/everything)
... Gaia (the someone who is The Earth)
... along with other collaborators
Taoism, Tao Chiao, the so-called religion
has its pantheon which does perhaps as much
if not more with plenty of details involved.
Note that I have said that some special abilities, including
green thumb, healer, animal husbandry, weatherworking,
peacemaker, and projective empath, work by willing,
At times, willing events to occur has worked for me
yet to say it's an ability would be saying too much.
Lots of golfers hit a hole in one shot
yet, as able as they are, they cannot
do the same thing every time.
So many variables are at play.
not by prayer. So what if I just try willing my material,
beginning with an initial twelve items as usual?
With a golfer, it's more than just luck.
It's more than practice. It could be called
being involved or Being or Existence, involved.
If
it works I will believe that Goddess and other collaborators
made it happen, but atheists and those in religions other
than my individual religion (and note that I am not
recruiting) may believe otherwise.
I'm reminded of Michael Shermer's wedding when
a transistor radio began to play. He wrote about it
in Scientific American and the click-bait was how
the phenomenon shook his skepticism to the core.
To say an event is phenomenal
can be said. Extra-ordinary. Para-normal.
Beyond mere coincidence. Synchronistic.
Full of meaning. Yet to be skeptical
is perhaps always possible. Even
when there is no doubt at the time.
For the time beings, well,
they are as a well-frog in the Zhuangzi.
The sea-turtle was well beyond the well-frog.
Yet the turtle could not enter Froggy's well either.
And if it works I hope to eventually explain it to atheists
in at least an arm-waving fashion (a possible though
probably not proven explanation).
Eternal beings, immortal beings, time beings.
For a time, an immortal may take shape and form
what is within time naturally. Eventually returning
to the now, the present, as naturally as a well-frog.
As a start, note that
as described on my web page, during my sun stare
I got a peek into higher dimension(s), and then
just after the sun stare there was a wraparound effect
with near-invisible spokes in the sky folding in on
me and I think augmenting my higher dimensional
body.
I've been experience ocular auras recently.
Brain activity, so an atheist may say. A physicist
might correlate events, phenomena, and have a theory.
Differentiating meaning from pattern,
people are able to read squiggles on a screen.
Sounds in the brain aren't sounds, a neurologist
might insist. There's no air in there, in a cranium.
So I obtained higher dimensional butterfly
wings, and by flapping them in the last thirty years
perhaps I will initiate a nonlinear chaos/catastrophe
theory global new age unfolding.
To extrapolate the flap of a wing of a flying insect
and suggest that was a cause or the cause of a huge
amount of air circulating in an ocean is a notion.
And my thousands
of repeated attempts in the last thirty years could
be looked at as a form of programming, with a
final run hopefully tonight.
Hope Springs.
There is a spring of water bouncing.
From the side of a mountain within the rock.
Eternally flowing and without knowing, going.
Of course of it doesn|o-C-Ot work then no explanation is needed.
Maps are, generally speaking, not the territory mapped.
At times, as with many if not most if not all dao, ways,
they actually may be the Territory, and then again, knot.
...
The upcoming May 21 is World Day for Cultural Diversity for
Dialogue and Development, Global Accessibility Awareness
Day, and End of the World Day/Rapture Party Day.
Aye is happy to here t'hat.
11:52 p.m. : no hits, no P+, P-, 2nd+ => ABORT
I will revert to a prayer model,
To pray is an activity employed by me.
As an employee, prayer may or might not agree.
Not my will, as an employer, aye can say.
And yet, whether the world called Earth
or the Universe or any deity cares or exists
continues to be a quest with ions. Questions remain.
though if it works others
may still believe different interpretations than mine, and
I would still plan to try and explain it to atheists in an
least an arm-waving fashion (possible but not proven
explanation).
After praying, when a prayer does work,
a so-called individual who prays may give credit
to the deity or what ever-power they prayed to.
Ming ke ming fei chang ming
can be a saying found in the Tao Te Ching.
May 21, 2026 (Rapture Party Day, ha)
I began a new attempt at 12 a.m. (Cinderella hour
or witching hour, though Sarah McLachlan in her
song Only Human says that witching hour is later).
The moon is still shaped like a waxing salmon, and
will be for a while.
Life a fish out of a form of water.
The moon called the Moon rises, sets
and whether it appears to sew dew from
a given perspective is able to vary.
For a man on that moon, what appears
differs naturally and from above the plane
of the ecliptic, an other story mite emerges.
- thanks! aye. Cheers!
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