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hahahaaaaa never did much like alarm clocks.....that's priceless flea. By the way, there are some out here who already know what they are on the inside. That's why there are some of us who runnnnnnnnnn to the One Who can change our sorry selves, cuz it ain't pretty in there. Besides, that ol' heart o' stone was burdensome and weighing me down, mon.

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("...well said brinny..." replied the goblin agreeing in his way and then adding "...yet where there is no inwards there will only be outwards then, and where the more you write the more the elephant in the room becomes apparent, where if I am wrong then I'll still have some great posts out of it, and where if I am right I'll get trampled under foot perhaps but at least I'll know for sure what I vaguely know already...")

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And I wonder what is the true meaning of the numbers below your images...
"...well now, the frist number below the page relates to thread page, followed by the postcount and hitcount..." replied the again, asking in return "...so what is this site about then, I am not much of a brawler, for example I am not going to post against anyone here, no, I only post against myself now but you'd be amazed at the number of excuses myself can come up with for my not posting here, but the path of least resistance is also the path of least reflection is it not, so here I am again each time..."

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(and the goblin laughed remembering that line if you don't find that which is within then that which is without will destroy you, saying "...does rather sound like if you don't find your internal your external will ruin you, btw should I fear that elephant in the room brinny, I think their vegetarian but he's so huge that I don't know what I know but I know I have to come to terms with it all the same...")

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the goblin thanked the village idiot for his unwavering support, saying "...never forget that your role here is to show others a fine example of how not to post then, and how with that understanding I've turned the other cheek towards you each time, perhaps understanding too that if I ever turn both cheeks towards you that it wouldn't be a good idea at all..."

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the goblin really had no answers beyond the truth that he was here because he felt the others members were smart, though more importantly for him, they all seemed to have talent, so for him it wasn't an ordinary thread/stage on an ordinary forum/venue, no, it was feeding upon itself, "...ah but this thread will end some day, yes they all end you know, so what, one might ask, is the whole point then of one's effort here..." the goblin stopped a second as if remembering that with his own life too, the same parallel could be drawn, and then continued, saying "...well, if this thread gets me to think about my posts vis a vis your replies showing us who we are by what we post, then isn't that's reason enough to continue regardless of where and when it ends...", in fact, the goblin felt that most people didn't actually know nor really even care about who they were on the inside for all that daylylife that clearly owned them on their outside, saying "...just utterly owned by the moneygod until that moment when something within one wakes up, whereupon one sees one's dailylife for only a part of oneself, perhaps that is when one starts one's journey to self here..."

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Yes just expressing ourselves and for the sometimes rush like feeling of being inspired and being creative. Like an alarm clock which isn't a nusance. The one that wakes up a certain facet of our being or medium of expression. And in seeing through such eyes being on the threshold of 'seeing'. For instance seeing God in an image of stained glass window realizing the light flowing through is closer to the real resemblance.
 
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depends on what that elephant in the room is, doesn't it flea? By the way, you've developed some rather brilliant strategic weaponry for trollism's, my friend.

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Yes just expressing ourselves and for the sometimes rush like feeling of being inspired and being creative. Like an alarm clock which isn't a nusance. The one that wakes up a certain facet of our being or medium of expression. And in seeing through such eyes being on the threshold of 'seeing'. Albeit seeing God in an image of stained glass window realizing the light flowing through is closer to the real resemblance.

That's quite insightful, my friend.
 
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Thanks Brin. It is something that is just coming to me. It is like seeing beautiful flowers and realizing the same thing. Everything created bares the mark of the creator in some way. The flowers with all their beauty are upheld by a most splendid and awesome light of being. They pale in comparison as do all things created.
 
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Thanks Brin. It is something that is just coming to me. It is like seeing beautiful flowers and realizing the same thing. Everything created bares the mark of the creator in some way. The flowers with all their beauty are upheld by a most splendid and awesome light of being. They pale in comparison as do all things created.

Reminds me of this verse:

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." ~Psalm 19:1

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"...you are vary patient with me I must say..." mentioned the goblin amazed and appreciating the tolerance shown towards him to date, saying "...the elephant has a different name in each religion, where in the end it's the same elephant...", but the goblin stopped there then, remembering the last time he tried to word it describing god as like a headache that one knows for hurting one's head and not something one merely declares as one's belief by doing externals, didn't really go down too well, saying "...in another age and you would have burned me at the stake perhaps, but my head hurts with god, where anyone whose head doesn't hurt with doubt and questions is simply not doing their homework, that elephant then, big elephant too..."

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"...you are vary patient with me I must say..." mentioned the goblin amazed and appreciating the tolerance shown towards him to date, saying "...the elephant has a different name in each religion, where in the end it's the same elephant...", but the goblin stopped there then, remembering the last time he tried to word it describing god as like a headache that one knows for hurting one's head and not something one merely declares as one's belief by doing externals, didn't really go down too well, saying "...in another age and you would have burned me at the stake perhaps, but my hurts with god, where anyone whose head doesn't hurt with doubt and questions is simply not doing their homework, that elephant then, big elephant too..."

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Aah, well there it is. To each his own journey then. You have a right to your own my friend, as i do mine. Though they be diff'rent perhaps, still, it be a gift, of sorts to share them, each in their own way. We grapple, struggle, wrestle alone then, mine however with an element of grace that i had never known or fathomed, where even my stumbles are beloved by the Granter of this grace.

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("...you asked me before if I had done something on thanksgiving, where I came across this one today that I had misplaced..." replied the goblin hoping it would please, showing how on-line goes down hill slowly)

from the goblin's dear all diary 25th November 1996

Dear all,
Rain beyond reason, mind clutches straws and sinks under a reality of this "rain by day, snow by night" where the glum city of Geneva hugs its shoreline and sleeps between a gray sky and an even grayer expanse of windswept wet water, who knows, perhaps it too dreams of faraway Summer I wonder, anyway someone, in the middle of this climatic besiegement and the eventual capitulation to an all too white Christmas thought it would be a jolly good idea if we all celebrated Thanksgiving to coincide with the French season of industrial unrest, some of Oliver Cromwell's puritans perhaps, those English boat people.
Sinfully.,
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("...you asked me before if I had done something on thanksgiving, where I came across this one today that I had misplaced..." replied the goblin hoping it would please, showing how on-line goes down hill slowly)

from the goblin's dear all diary 25th November 1996

Dear all,
Rain beyond reason, mind clutches straws and sinks under a reality of this "rain by day, snow by night" where the glum city of Geneva hugs its shoreline and sleeps between a gray sky and an even grayer expanse of windswept wet water, who knows, perhaps it too dreams of faraway Summer I wonder, anyway someone, in the middle of this climatic besiegement and the eventual capitulation to an all too white Christmas thought it would be a jolly good idea if we all celebrated Thanksgiving to coincide with the French season of industrial unrest, some of Oliver Cromwell's puritans perhaps, those English boat people.
Sinfully.,
flea

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my friend flea is quite Shakespearean. Elegant flow there. Powerful insights. Just wonderin' why flea signs off with "Sinfully".
 
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Just wonderin' why flea signs off with "Sinfully".
"...well yes, it's just that yours sinfully sounded better than yours ret*arded but at that age I didn't know the difference then...." replied the goblin, adding "...whereas today I know better, yes I have seen the error of my ways indeed, and understand clearly that every misdeed has it's consequence now, so I'm more into procrastination instead, where I imagine too, that heaven is paved with bad intentions..."

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"...well yes, yours sinfully sounded better than yours ret*arded but at that age I didn't know the difference then...." replied the goblin, adding "...whereas today I know better, having seen the error of my ways and understanding that every misdeed has it's consequence, so I'm more into procrastination instead, where I imagine heaven is paved with bad intentions..."

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Unfortunately what you posted got blasted LOL, but thanks for the response. We're all just continually learning, yes? *wonders where flea got his notion of what heaven is*

And whoa, that highway be a skeeery thing, mon, although there be bad intentions a'plenty for all of us throughout our lives, which is perhaps that elephant planted squarely in the middle of the room, which we are so prone to be oblivious to.

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The monkey, who had been listening intently, finally gave up his inner vow of silence on this issue... "hhhhmmmmmmmmmmm...... a mystery elephant in the room, then. Well, there are so many of them that we all ignore, I don't even bother identifying which one is which anymore."
 
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The monkey spoke up again on a post the goblin might have thought long past, but a word used had raised some warning gongs in his mind... "Call me puritan, perhaps, but one should be careful about using the word gnostic to describe oneself here, as the word has so many bad connotations regarding extreme 1st and 2nd century heretics that reduced christianity to a mystery religion with stoic and epicurian extremes..." The monkey paused for a second, hoping to get his thoughts right before expressing them...

"Not accusing you of that or anything, goblin... just saying you might want to express your knowledge of God by another word here lest one be misunderstood. Ahhhhh.... yes, nothing more frustrating than having an entire post derailed in another's mind because of a simple misunderstanding of one word. It's only a word, after all, but the meanings we imply and intend from such things often go awry in another's mind."
 
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The monkey, who had been listening intently, finally gave up his inner vow of silence on this issue... "hhhhmmmmmmmmmmm...... a mystery elephant in the room, then. Well, there are so many of them that we all ignore, I don't even bother identifying which one is which anymore."

*brinny contemplates multiple elephants that thrive by a very human trait that is used as a coping mechanism of sorts.* Reality can be a raw and mercilessly blinding light where grace is called upon of the kind not humanly possible to give but must come from the Source of Grace Himself. Denial, on the other hand, stays the raw realization of what is. Only thing is, its body count is mounting.

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("...all religions have their mystic fringe that depend upon what one's goals are, where I have no qualms about gnosticism, its heresy, and going it alone too..." replied the goblin, adding "...for example the muslims firmly believe in the return of the son of mary on the last day, mohamed was married to christian, the old testament is shared between the three religions, and yet endlessly we fight over structure, not only with the other religions but even within each religion, as if god is some external, the triumph of state religion, war for god, etc., ..." continuing "...so, now if the gospel according to thomas is ever proved to be a fake, god will have shown me clearly the error of my way, but till then my mind remains open, feeling the time is ripe for turning inwards once more, that's me here, hence I weigh my words and try not to box myself into some sect...")

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something within the goblin always feared all that they call organized religion for the fact that it was organized, and thus trying to organize one too, saying "...how often do I feel that religion is an excuse not to find out for oneself then, and that one's connection to within, to that which has always been there too, is just ignored because of this compliant towing of the given external line each time, and no, I won't believe in, nor go somewhere closer, nor pay something towards , anything outside of me now, when you and I know it to be just there within one and without those preconditions too..."

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("...all religions have their mystic fringe that depend upon what one's goals are, where I have no qualms about gnosticism, its heresy, and going it alone too..." replied the goblin, adding "...for example the muslims firmly believe in the return of the son of mary on the last day, mohamed was married to christian, the old testament is shared between the three religions, and yet endlessly we fight over structure, not only with the other religions but even within each religion, as if god is some external, the triumph of state religion, war for god, etc., ..." continuing "...so, now if the gospel according to thomas is ever proved to be a fake, god will have shown me clearly the error of my way, but till then my mind remains open, feeling the time is ripe for turning inwards once more, that's me here, hence I weigh my words and try not to box myself into some sect...")

Gospel of Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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something within the goblin always feared all that they call organized religion for the fact that it was organized, and thus trying to organize one too, saying "...how often do I feel that religion is an excuse not to find out for oneself then, and that one's connection to within, to that which has always been there too, is just ignored because of this compliant towing of the given external line each time, and no, I won't believe in, nor go somewhere closer, nor pay something towards , anything outside of me now, when you and I know it to be just there within one and without those preconditions too..."

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My friend, nothing about Jesus the Christ was or is secret or mysterious, for that is the antithesis of Who He was here on earth and ultimately Who He is.
 
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