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Maybe we are in some kind of "cosmic time out" where we need to learn how not to expect or assume too much.. heh. 

I did not read very many comments here..  I see the big banners, why rejection hurts.. need connection.. disappointment of said connection.. rejection again, and again, and again.

Sounds like the story of my life- at least personally.

TWI seemed to attract DEEPLY damaged individuals ("nutcases", including myself).

I lost both parents before high school graduation.  Invitation to any kind of family context or friendship is absolutely irresistible.  I have only refused the invitation

in the few times that the promise was obviously logically ridiculous.  I've learned to ask a few critical questions.

Yep.  I'll come.. but can you really deliver on the promise..

No, they will not be family.  Even family has a poor record of really being family.

I still hold out hope.. that somehow, someday, I will find real family.  If they want to believe that the Moon is made of Green Cheese.. maybe I could live with that or not argue too much about it. 

Still looking for family.. pretty pathetic at 67 years old.

Why don't we talk more.. spend more time.. I've learned quite a few of your languages, english, spanish, music, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, morse code, and probably a few more..

might more belong to Doctrinal- Genesis 11:6, 7 and 8.

Hmm.  Why am I here..

OH.  wishing you were here.. if only I could go back to 1974, on a Thursday night.  I would take you with me.

In 500,000 years my wealth will mean pretty much zero to any given future historian..

Now this will be the same opinion.. to the married dentists who accumulated about 5 million bucks.  Even in the current scheme of things that is really small potatoes.

Yep.  "they managed to make money".. along with a few million other creatures.. God only knows who or what they were.. heh

My particular offshoot would spend entire weekends looking at cryptic scribblings, equations, interesting properties of numbers.

Of course you will not find any of that in PFAL.  I won't say none.. there are a few numbers there..

The interesting thing.. I have a lot of non PFAL grads signing up for this very thing with substantial amount of money..

unfortunately I do not get much of a cut of the profits.  But then I am not exactly complaining.

Money?  who frigging cares..

it is so temporal.  Necessary, but temporal.

Nice to have friends in this life.  It is (or would be) treasure more than gold..

well.. different.  Only if it wants to be.. heh

Absolutely.  Unlike my fellow firesign afraid to walk into the open jaws of disaster.. 

Oh, what did you want by the way?

Friggin morons.. we don't go up into the hills cowards..  heh

sheesh.  You only live this life once.  Only the next one can be different..

Personally, things are not good here, but things are getting better.  I get larger problems to deal with day by day.

The funniest thing this week.  I show up to the "job".  God, it is more than a Job.. heh

Due to Craziness.  What in the Hell am I supposed to be doing this morning.. heh

I ask a fellow victim:  where the hell are we.. only section 3.3?  "yep.  that's it.."  

"OK"

I'll do it..

 heh

No real complaints here.  Things could be worse.

OK.

How about you? 

Powerful gasoline, a shoe shine.. heh

Over.

It's a kind of Firesign Theatre thing.  I know that Mike would appreciate it.. heh.

but how are you all, dear Friends?  How are you this evening.. how is life..

Maybe this is a wellness check..

what's up.

I regard you all as friends.

My life vs yours.. mine is a very small thing.

On 10/25/2023 at 6:40 AM, oldiesman said:

the catholic mass has been described as "being there" at that very moment of the crucifixion... time travel...     still trying to wrap my head around that one!

I think that we all are there.. and the question presented to me.  Would I allow another human (or super-human depending upon your point of view) to endure this kind of

punishment on my behalf to gain eternal salvation.. 

I personally.. would not want my present stupidity to cause another being in this universe to experience unnecessary pain

At least in regards to my small reality here..

Just give it all to Jesus..  I don't exactly deny redemption.  I think that it is a higher state that one must live up to.

How are we going to live it.. live a redemptive life.

Walk in His Steps.

The choice might require walking into the worst that is to come.

On 10/25/2023 at 7:07 AM, chockfull said:

Yes I see.  

I laugh immensely.. sometimes I see, sometimes I do not..

heh

Oh.  good evening dear friend.. I hope that all is well with you and your family.  Hopes are all that I have.  God bless you friend.

God Bless you Skyrider Dear Friend.. I hope that you really can ride the sky.  I will ride some day..

Dear, dear Friend..  I lost another two this year.  My older brother, and an "adopted" brother from my x's side of the family.  I will attend his memorial, I am invited in November.

My brother brought me home in his last wishes.

I really can't ask for anything better here.

Dear Friend Skyrider, I only wish that I had the pleasure of your company in this life.  That is my only regret.

I will turn the same regret to those living here as well.  I wish that I knew you better than that I do.

The greatest secret in the world.. lets not just limit it to our small existence.

Intelligence is present in every corner of the cosmos.

Maybe "they" know the will of the Living God.. I dunno.

Intelligence seems to be innate in various species.  Only human arrogance assigins intelligence to itself.

Math helps.  At least is partially predictable.

People think that Math is hard.. it is far easier than working with people.  For any given day..

True intelligence..  god you're so smart.. no.

knowledge is good.. all of it.

It all leads us to the Creator..

True intelligence.. can you actually communicate with or understand the living being just next to you..

Heh.  I've tried this a couple times.. can I bend reality..  sometimes yes, sometimes no.. heh

One has to read.  The Electric Kool Aide Acid Test..

Look at Owsley's trip..

Cursed Kesey every step of the way..

at the end.. the atoms, molecules and trees came back to reality before Owsley and  the moving vehicle could stop.. heh

so what does one do.. or believe.

Doesn't bother me much anymore.

I'm glad to be part of the experience..  heh

Too bad that he was taken up among the Christian (?) Nationalists.  Look at his further work..

It depends on how you read the history or how to interpret the film.

The film- both of them.. Luther is released from his vows to the church..

both of them seem to indicate he was released else they would have to abandon him to the Authorities of the Times..

It would seem that they abandoned him for matters of mutual interest..

Or preservation.  You know, human instinct..

Tuesday, Afternoon..

I won't (or refuse) to post another song here.. I'll let someone else.  If they wish.. heh.   And I like that song as well..

So why do offshoot or splinter work HAVE to be Wierwille Legacy..

I suggest that they don't.. HAVE to be, that is..

they could choose to go another way..  too many absolutes here.

If one adheres to the original TWI axioms, one might reach an entirely different conclusion..  not saying that I do.  But just saying..

Math is easier.  Choose your axioms wisely..  I like the idea that I wake up each day and can count to ten on ten fingers..

And don't agree with me unless that you accept the consequences.

Well, free will allows us to modify axioms at any given time...

In a weird sense I might be considered an offshoot..

Twinky, tweezers also work on flies if one is fast enough.  Just sayin..