The only fruit I refuse to eat.

[honey badger]

Just for fun, what color is the sky in your world?

that would depend upon the weather and the hour ... the only common thing to all is that it is up, of which no one cares about other than those who think it will fall on their head ...

 

[honey badger]

For perspective, I think it might be fair to suggest that @honey badger is something of a mystic.

Mystic: a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

A mystics journey begins when they love God down to the forsaking of the last thought.

 

[Xavier363]

that would depend upon the weather and the hour ... the only common thing to all is that it is up, of which no one cares about other than those who think it will fall on their head ...

Sigh. You seem utterly unable to answer a simple question without pretending to by profound. Ok, I'll dumb it down again. Here goes: What is the sum of the integers 4 and 5? Go ahead, what answer would Deepak Chopra give for this question?

 

[Tom 1]

Wait is this a joke?

Nah man appleism is real.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Sigh. You seem utterly unable to answer a simple question without pretending to by profound. Ok, I'll dumb it down again. Here goes: What is the sum of the integers 4 and 5? Go ahead, what answer would Deepak Chopra give for this question?

Purple?

 

[Xavier363]

Purple?

Sigh. So you are just trying to be stupid? Please try to give a reason why you would respond to a question purposed to see if someone was capable of answering the simplest of questions with the non-sequitur: purple? Your point in replying was?

 

[Tinker Grey]

Sigh. So you are just trying to be stupid? Please try to give a reason why you would respond to a question purposed to see if someone was capable of answering the simplest of questions with the non-sequitur: purple? Your point in replying was?

Lighten up, Francis. It was a joke.

 

[Xavier363]

Lighten up, Francis. It was a joke.

Ok. Ha. Got milk?

 

[Xavier363]

Lighten up, Francis. It was a joke.

And, who is Francis? Sorry, don't get it.

 

[Tinker Grey]

And, who is Francis? Sorry, don't get it.

It's a reference to a scene from the movie Stripes.

 

[Xavier363]

It's a reference to a scene from the movie Stripes.

Ok, I remember the character now that could not wait to kill someone. Enlighten me, how does that character relate?

 

[Tinker Grey]

Ok, I remember the character now that could not wait to kill someone. Enlighten me, how does that character relate?

That's not quite right.

Francis: My name is Francis, but everyone calls me pyscho. Any one calls me Francis, I'll kill 'em.
Drill Sargeant: Lighten up, Francis.

I think it works when one is taking things too seriously.

 

[Xavier363]

That's not quite right.

Francis: My name is Francis, but everyone calls me pyscho. Any one calls me Francis, I'll kill 'em.
Drill Sargeant: Lighten up, Francis.

I think it works when one is taking things too seriously.

So, trying to get someone who pretends to have some sage wisdom of the ages to answer a simple, direct question puts me in the category of a psychopath? Would not exposing this person as a fraud to help others see past the nonsense be a positive thing?

 

[Tinker Grey]

So, trying to get someone who pretends to have some sage wisdom of the ages to answer a simple, direct question puts me in the category of a psychopath? Would not exposing this person as a fraud to help others see past the nonsense be a positive thing?

I thought purple is a funny answer to a math problem.

I'm sorry you don't get it. The too serious thing wasn't about your interaction with your interlocutor; it was about your reaction to my joke.

We don't need to discuss this anymore.

 

[Xavier363]

I thought purple is a funny answer to a math problem.

I'm sorry you don't get it. The too serious thing wasn't about your interaction with your interlocutor; it was about your reaction to my joke.

We don't need to discuss this anymore.

Thanks for contributing nothing to the discussion. I agree, we do not need to discuss this further.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Thanks for contributing nothing to the discussion. I agree, we do not need to discuss this further.

Lighten up, Francis.

 

[Xavier363]

Lighten up, Francis.

And yet you persist.

 

[coffee4u]

The humble apple.

Why, you might ask?
Why the biblical apple of Eden?
Science dictates an average apple contains fiber and antioxidants, and may help with such physical ailments such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
But does it though?

They say an apple a day keeps the Doctor away. This may be true. But does it keep 'you know who' away? SATAN?
The answer is no.

The 'humble' apple was the fruit that Adam stole to impress Eve. Point being, it was the first fruit, the cursed fruit.
A poem always stuck with me.
'Red, green or anywhere between, trust not of this fruit. Baked in a pie or picked from a tree, the lie grows larger if you share the apple with me. The pie is a lie and so is the apple, but a bite of this fruit and you'll be crying in the chapel.'
It's a poem as old as time, but one that continues to provide wisdom.
Some men lay orchards and groves. Some wives use them for pies.
Those people are weak.

Some may consider my apple-aversion as a bit extreme, but I think it's healthy to avoid such temptations. There's plenty of other fruit we can be growing or eating and at the end of the day it's a deliberate aversion rather than an allergy.

In this day and age it becomes tougher by the day to avoid the consumption of apples, especially with the likes of commercial temples like so called 'supermarkets' and 'mega-malls' selling applies in bulk, or juice companies pulping such juice into cartons and selling them off to ignorant consumers. Apples can be found in fruit salads or mixed in with other refreshing fruit juices microscopically. Apples can be found in flavored 'smoking' vapes and crumbles and strudels and football and television. It might be legal, but it's frustrating.

Check the label. I guess that's what I'm getting at. Or ask whoever it is that's serving you and don't take no for an answer..
'Does this contain apple? If so, get rid of it, I don't want to look at it'.
That's all you need to say.

Now back to the bible.

The apple stole paradise from man. Or more precisely, it was the greed of man that wanted more than paradise (perhaps on the whims of his woman [Eve]) and his bite of the apple took paradise away, or the snake deceived him - knowing that the tempation of man with paradise up his sleeve lacked the one fruit, dangling the forbidden fruit above man, like a carrot above a donkey. Only to be banished.
It's a convuloted story with blame being placed all over the place, but the ultimate lesson is:
Apples are a no go.
Sorry, but no.

These are the first lessons.
And lessons I am sure to never repeat.

The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the 'fruit of the knowledge of good and evil'. It was not an apple, apples come from apple trees.
Luke 6:44
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers.
Likewise an apple never came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil just as grapes do not come from briers. Apples come only from apple trees.
The only people to have seen and tasted the 'fruit of the knowledge of good and evil' were Adam and Eve. That tree is not here for us to know what it looked like or how it tasted but it was certainly not an apple.

I have no idea where the notion that the forbidden fruit was an apple came from but it is not Biblical.

 

[Monowhite]

A recent telephone call froma very good and trusted friend of mine has recently informed me of something called the The Gergarian pear which is apparently one the rarest fruits on this planet and it stems from a place called Ger-Ger in Armania.
Does this mean anything to you?

Ger-Ger.
A place actually known as Hayk in the bible.

Could this be the fruit of sin? Could Armenia be Eden?

I'm genuinely not saying it is. But I'd like to rule out all the same, I'm also thinking it might be a good idea to to do a little digging into the Armanian ecosystems of yesteryear.
So think about it for a moment.


As we all know, Armenia was/is the world's first Christian nation. Evangelized by not one but TWO of the Apostles. You can thank Bartholomew and Thaddeus for that!

Does it not then, stand to right that the original sinful fruit may come from such a place originally?

Later cast out by the Apostles, into surrounding sub-biomes and slowly becoming extinct?
Maybe that's why it's so rare these days and nobody has ever heard of it?

 

[Robban]

A recent telephone call froma very good and trusted friend of mine has recently informed me of something called the The Gergarian pear which is apparently one the rarest fruits on this planet and it stems from a place called Ger-Ger in Armania.
Does this mean anything to you?

Ger-Ger.
A place actually known as Hayk in the bible.

Could this be the fruit of sin? Could Armenia be Eden?

I'm genuinely not saying it is. But I'd like to rule out all the same, I'm also thinking it might be a good idea to to do a little digging into the Armanian ecosystems of yesteryear.
So think about it for a moment.


As we all know, Armenia was/is the world's first Christian nation. Evangelized by not one but TWO of the Apostles. You can thank Bartholomew and Thaddeus for that!

Does it not then, stand to right that the original sinful fruit may come from such a place originally?

Later cast out by the Apostles, into surrounding sub-biomes and slowly becoming extinct?
Maybe that's why it's so rare these days and nobody has ever heard of it?

If one starts off on the wrong foot,

it follows that one will be out of takt the whole way.
There is only One who knows the secrets of
the heart.
The Lord of hosts,
Genesis 3:22

But, chin up, He has provided an escape hatch,

It is called Teshuvah/repentace/return.
1, Reclaiming your personal connection with
the maker of heaven and earth.

2, Regretting wasting life in the past and
resolving to take on the divine mission for which you came here from now on.

3, Being the Neshama/soul you really are,
every day.

Apple or no apple.