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Psionics and even thinking are energy based. Leftists and environmentalists demand less energy usage.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Proverbs 26:2 AMP
Why do Christians pray before meals, and (usually, hopefully) as for the Lord’s blessing on the food they’re about to eat? It ain’t just gratitude. It’s also because, especially going back to Roman times, you never know who was doing what with / over / for your food. It may have come from a pagan temple, it may have come with a curse directed your way.
At last! An area where they practice what they preach.
That’s right. No thinking for leftists. It uses fossil fuels, like their fat.
No, they don’t. They want a monopoly on it. Or just to deny it to us, their enemies. All else is just propaganda.
The only biblical justification I know of is somewhere in the Torah, and mentions praying after eating.
Notice Skip mentioned the Romans. Hold-over from the Pagan Poisoners?
Great post!
Thanks for the shout-out. Love your summation in the last sentence; think that puts it about as succinctly as it’s possible to do.
Oh, and gagara yasin.
Someone has to ask: An African or a European swallow?
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Mirror of Protection? Is that anything like a Hedge of Protection?
Not quite. It’s a little more powerful than a mere hedge, or even a concrete wall with razor wire.
The problem with a long post is that important things do get lost. Visualizing the mirror is probably the most important thing in this post.
This was the spur for this conversation.
How many of us would be ok with praying imprecatory Psalms against our political opponents? Under what circumstances would we think this is ok?
I’m thinking few of us, and few circumstances. But maybe some and some.
Those of us who are Christians are under the New Covenant and under such commands as “Turn the other cheek” and “Pray for your enemies.” I am happy to pray for their enlightenment and spiritual growth. That is all.
On the other hand, I have no problem with praying for a form of protection for our leaders that would cause evil thoughts, etc. to rebound upon the sender. The energy has to go somewhere.
Well, we have massive theological disagreements I’m too tired and busy even to point out just now, but . . . yes, that would seem to be the correct default New Testament answer.
You probably aren’t even close to knowing what half of them are. 😜 And it’s really not necessary to rehash the ones we do know. Suffice it to say there are some things we agree on, and that is enough.
We are way overdue for a long theology fight, debate, discussion, or at least talk.
Just not now.
I have 170 students this week. Last week I had 235, and I’ve only graded a third of their 65 research papers.
Magic can be extremely effective for psychological reasons if “the audience” believes in it. I used it when I lived in Cameroun and it worked there because people there believed in it.
I kept having break ins and people were stealing stuff and I was running out of stuff. I asked what I could do and the suggestion came immediately: “You need a magic spear.” So I bought a magic spear. I also bought some food and some beer and had the local guys invited over and told there was now a magic spear hanging over the entrance and would stab anyone who came to rob me. So for the cost of about $25 a year (it had to be “reblessed” by a witch doctor every year), I didn’t have any more break ins. Very cheap insurance policy. We just have a different magic.
On another occasion, a road was going through a group of rock outcroppings, and was told that was where the local village’s ancestors dwelled. If we went through the rocks, the people of the village would come down and throw stones at vehicles passing through there to avenge the disturbance of their ancestors. So what to do? Re-routing the road would be expensive. But, as it turned out, spirits are very mobile. For the price of a party (beer and food), the spirits were moved and the road was built.
@She has told the story of a man being brought to prison and knew he was going to die before he ever got there. and he did die. I find this totally plausible because of my experiences. I was proposing to bring electricity into outlying villages and a man I had known for some time was completely against this. I asked him why and he told me electricity would drive out the magic from the villages. He said he liked to go back to his home village and for relaxation he would be turned into an elephant and spend the weekend as an elephant wandering around over the grasslands. (The project never went through.)
Magic, yes, it works, if you have a sufficient amount of people who believe it will work.
I think I stand in awe of your magical ability to make students disappear. But if you’re down 65, why are you still grading their papers? ;^)
Arahant, ‘fess up.
It was little Brett Kavanaugh who helped you make that voodoo doll, wasn’t it. Inquiring Senators want to know.
And the little girl you two nasty boys victimized was named Sally Quinn — who, years later, hexed Christine Blasey Ford into fabulating false memories about Kavanaugh.
Just wait till you see what Sally has planned for you!
Nope. We grew up about 700 miles apart. I’ve never met him, probably never even been in the same state at the same time until at least 2007 when I was consulting in DC and VA and visited Maryland.
Theology cage match!
This is actually a struggle for me sometimes. I reach for Psalm 109 just a bit too reflexively.
That’s Deuteronomy 8:10. We offer prayers of thanksgiving before and after meals. The before is because it’s natural to be grateful for what we receive, especially when we’re hungry and are presented with food. It not so natural to be grateful after being sated. Then it’s easy to lose sight of from Whom we receive the bounty. So, we are commanded also to give thanks after we have eaten and become satisfied. Incidentally, that prayer is “for the land and for the food.” Hmmm…what land might that be??? (Total digression, but just sayin….)
Look, as a Christianized heathen with Germanic Neo-paganism tendencies I would like to point out that the last time we discussed theology these guys showed up:
And nobody expected them.
I expected them. In fact, I texted them when the theology discussion broke out.