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Lanolin

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I got to thinking how its hard to talk or interact with someone who is actually afraid of you

Its like animals they instinctively run away when you approach because they think that a human being is out to kill them. So they dont trust you.

is this fear normal though or abnormal. And does it apply to God. Are we afraid of Him? We shouldnt be if we place our trust in Him and know that Jesus died for us. So why do people doubt, or dont believe? I dont get that.

So I wasnt really getting why someone would say they have doubts about God and then in the same breath say they believe and are saved. Isnt that jut being doubleminded and if they are, they cant expect to resceive anything from the Lord. They are on the fence.

It is like alcoholics who dont want to admit they have a problem, its just a drink, everyone drinks! ..or workaholics that think there is nothig wrong with working all the time. hmm

hard to help these kinds of people.
 
Lynx

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Thoughts from working at a fast food place for a few years:

Everything is temporary at some level... including the things that bug me.

When I find a coworker especially annoying, I don't really worry about it any more. I've been there since 2009, long before this twerp came along. When he inevitably gets upset about something a manager says and quits or gets fired, I'll still be there. Life has gone on and will go on.

The same applies on one level or another to everything in life that annoys me. None of it is permanent. In fact none of it lasts very long at all. Certainly none of it has ever lasted long enough to be worth the high blood pressure I have given myself over some of it.
 
notmyown

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sorry to barge in to this forum, but i'm wondering if anyone has news of James (Addison)?

he was quite ill last time i spoke to him. i think of him so often, and pray he's okay, wherever he is.
 
Magenta

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notmyown said:
sorry to barge in to this forum, but i'm wondering if anyone has news of James (Addison)?

he was quite ill last time i spoke to him. i think of him so often, and pray he's okay, wherever he is.
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Hello lovely lady :) Long time no see!

I just did a search with his name in the search field :unsure:

He last posted October 31, 2017... so four years ago!

I wonder the same about Joidevivre :unsure:

She has not been seen since June 6, 2018 :oops:

I have asked about her a number of times also, and never gotten a response :cry:



Another one dedicated to Joi.
(The little red bird is a clue :))
 
Magenta

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Here is the first one I did for Joi :)

They are dated from February and March of 2018...

Back when horses always figured prominently in my designs :giggle:
 
Lanolin

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@Magenta
my random thought is you live in a magenta house where everything you touch turns magenta! And I am imagining your wardrobe must be...quite magentic.

My school has purple uniforms. Some days I try to blend in by wearing purple too. But so far havent been able to find a natural purple hair dye. I just want to have some fun with it. lol
 
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Why is there such a draw to things you know aren’t good for you, wether it be emotionally, spiritually or physically?

Part of me knows the answer, but I feel like it should be different.
 
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love_comes_softly said:
Why is there such a draw to things you know aren’t good for you, wether it be emotionally, spiritually or physically?

Part of me knows the answer, but I feel like it should be different.
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We suffer from the need for instant gratification.
 
GaryA

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love_comes_softly said:
Why is there such a draw to things you know aren’t good for you, wether it be emotionally, spiritually or physically?

Part of me knows the answer, but I feel like it should be different.
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What is your answer, and how/why should it be different?
 
Lynx

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love_comes_softly said:
Why is there such a draw to things you know aren’t good for you, wether it be emotionally, spiritually or physically?

Part of me knows the answer, but I feel like it should be different.
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We are inherently selfish... even against our own future selves. I know this will cause trouble for future-me, but now-me wants it. Of course later future-me will want to cuss past-me out, but that's not MY problem... at least not right now, which is when I want what I want!
 
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When people sing Happy Birthday, please don't add "cha cha cha." That's not how the song goes and it's infuriating!
 
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Lynx said:
We are inherently selfish... even against our own future selves. I know this will cause trouble for future-me, but now-me wants it. Of course later future-me will want to cuss past-me out, but that's not MY problem... at least not right now, which is when I want what I want!
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Reminds me of a Jerry Seinfeld skit.

“I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, because I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. ‘What about getting up after five hours sleep?’ Oh, that’s Morning Guy’s problem. That’s not my problem, I’m Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, the alarm [rings], you’re exhausted, groggy… Oh, I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There’s nothing Morning Guy can do.”
 
Lynx

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Storm came through here, played "Big Noise From Winnetka" on everything and blew right out again. No damage I know of.

I hear Mayfield, KY got hit hard.
 
Lynx

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Say what you want about social media... but bathroom wall graffiti has gone WAY down the last few years. :cool:
 
tourist

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Lynx said:
Storm came through here, played "Big Noise From Winnetka" on everything and blew right out again. No damage I know of.

I hear Mayfield, KY got hit hard.
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No damage where we live in Tennessee either although I read that there were 3 deaths in Tennessee attributed to the tornado and 50+ altogether. Yes, Kentucky got hit hard.
 
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I'm thinking it would be a good time to go home and be with the Lord, even though I'm happy and healthy and have a good wife. We know that heaven will be even better than this place! Taking a cloud ride to Heaven seems like fun.

Jesus has a mystery and is saying "the seven lampstands are the seven churches"

Rev 1:20 “As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches

Jesus says He "walks among the seven golden lamp stands"

Rev 2:1“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

Now Jesus is saying He "has the Seven Spirits of God". We see where they come from and where they go.

Rev 3:1 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

There is a door open in heaven and a Voice like a trumpet "Says Come Up Here"
"After These Things"

Rev 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.

After a reception of lightning and thunder Seven Lamps of Fire appear in front of the throne; and look what it says they are. Now the lamps that were on earth are before the throne, and do you remember what Jesus said the lamps were: that's right He said they were the churches; But now they are being called the Seven Spirits of God. And it just keeps getting better.

Rev 4:5 Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God

Let's do a little review: Jesus said that the seven golden lamps on earth are the churches. Then after a voice like the sound of trumpet says come up here, and after a reception of lightning and thunder coming out from the throne: now the seven lamps are in heaven, but now they are being called the Seven Spirit of God. So you can look at the previous verse to see that it's all true. But move forward is the greatest thing we could ever see. So now we know the Seven Spirits of God are the Seven Churches.

Rev 5:6 And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, that were sent out into all the earth.

So there we have it. The greatest thing one could ever imagine: Right there in the Head of the Lamb is Seven Eyes that are said to be the Seven Spirits of God that were sent out into ALL THE EARTH. So We are on The Throne Just As Jesus Promised We would be. Therefore, We are Raptured off of the Earth and seated on Our throne, Immediately before all the Murder and Mayhem begins.

Below is the Promise.

Rev 3:21-22 ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to Him to sit down with Me on My throne, just as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Dan 7:13“I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, One like a Son of Man was coming on the clouds of heaven. And He came up to be presented before the Ancient of Days.

People ask where the Rapture is in the old Testament. It's in the Little Book/Daniel where we see many aspects of Revelations.

Rev 3:22 ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’” ​
 
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