EPTSurvivor II: The Amazon - Page 66
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Chezinu
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Chezinu
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 . My distant past has shown me that just as quickly as despair can fall upon a man, yes, truly a blessing can come just as fast and then consolidate at the new amplitude as it has done so at this lower state. I shall wait. I shall patiently wait. Til then, I shall enjoy what is here on this island as I numb out the yearnings of my heart for a social companion, but if I can no longer bare to ignore, I shall focus on what can be. The day where someone else speaks and stays. For my being will light up knowing this life's precious presence is just a reflection of the Great True Light in whom all that is was created and in one future we may rest in His holy state. | ||
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Alakaslam
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Hey what denomination are y'all? I want to compare notes & practices & see who worships better  | ||
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Alakaslam
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"God will not be pleased!" | ||
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Chezinu
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On June 01 2022 23:51 Alakaslam wrote: Blazinghand IS religious! He goes to Chezinu's church! Hey what denomination are y'all? I want to compare notes & practices & see who worships better Non-non denominational, but not interdenominational. | ||
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Chezinu
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On June 03 2022 09:27 Chezinu wrote: Non-non denominational, but not interdenominational. To elaborate, I've been to Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Assembly of God, Church of Christ, Non-denominational, Messianic Jewish Church, Methodist, Hebraic Roots Movement, Lutheran. Haven't been to Orthodox yet, would like to one day. LDS has an open house in this week in their DC temple. I have spoken to Greek Orthrodoxs, Jews, Muslims (Sunni and Shiites), Hindus, members of the church of Latter-day Saints, agonists, and atheists (I just realizes no one capitalizes agonists or atheists). I spoken to people who seem to partially believe in Word of Faith movement, but not sure if I spoke to one or not. I haven't spoken to the Amish or Mennonites yet... nor have I met any yet. Note, I've attended churches and spoken with people with many beliefs different than myself. I would consider myself a believer in Jesus and the Bible. I'm constantly amazed by the wisdom and knowledge of the Bible that grows more and more obviously true to me throughout the years. There are so many layers to the parables and it has guided me alot in life, which is crazy how stories long ago can give you so much wisdom. I don't get such wisdom from other stories I have heard in life either from friends, movies, or other religious text I have read. It seems to me many churches tend to "organize God right out of it" as my dad use to say. So, who do I have fellowship with? I go by what Jesus said. Judge people by their fruit (aka spiritual fruit- love, kindness, self-lessness...etc). Basically, if someone is spiritually alive and healthy, they will be loving people and not envious or hateful. If someone claims to love God, but is not loving, they are liars. Now, of course I know that no one is perfect just as the Bible proclaims no one is righteous, except for God. Only God is good. My brother likes to say, the hardest thing to do in this life is to be a good person. Christianity addresses the evil in the world and understands that people can't make themselves righteous (at least the version in the bible - many churches teach otherwise). Which brings me to Ghandi's famous quote, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ". What I noticed in my life and my friends lives is that the more we read the Bible and focus on how amazing God is, the more we become like him. Some may say believers are brainwashed, but as my other brother has said in the past, "Maybe our brains need to be washed". The Word of God has helped me see the world clearly and has brought me alot of peace. Do I still suffer? Yes. In fact, Jesus promises his followers will experience trouble in this world. To me, following God is more than just having guidance and good morals. It is about knowing God. Jesus said that knowing God is eternal life - a message that I never heard preached, but have read many times in the Bible from prophets of old such as Isaiah (~700 BC) to the Gospel of John (some suspect ~60 AD). So, how do I worship you asked? From my heart, singing psalms and hymn, mediating on God's Word, living it out by loving God and loving people. Knowing I can only be in the presence of God because of Jesus's sacrifice to pay for my wrong doing. To the world, this is foolish as Paul of Taurus wrote, but to the believer it is powerful. I believe you can only come to God through God bringing you to Him. I believe in the Holy Spirit that convicts the believer of thier sins and guides them to the Truth, which is Jesus. I have had so many encounters with God when alone, with others, with music playing, when no music playing, when I was hungry, and when I was full. One day, I had to tell myself to accept the reality when trying to think of other explanations for what I was experiencing. I have had others who have been witnesses to what I have perceived as miraculous events. I have had experiences where others had experience similar spiritual experiences both friends in my life and in books written hundreds of years ago. We are not just biological beings. We have a spirit. To neglect the spirit is ignorant. | ||
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Chezinu
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ReD.eMPSHuN
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On June 01 2022 23:51 Alakaslam wrote: Blazinghand IS religious! He goes to Chezinu's church! Hey what denomination are y'all? I want to compare notes & practices & see who worships better How could you tell without proof? On June 03 2022 10:22 Chezinu wrote: To elaborate, I've been to Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Assembly of God, Church of Christ, Non-denominational, Messianic Jewish Church, Methodist, Hebraic Roots Movement, Lutheran. Haven't been to Orthodox yet, would like to one day. LDS has an open house in this week in their DC temple. I have spoken to Greek Orthrodoxs, Jews, Muslims (Sunni and Shiites), Hindus, members of the church of Latter-day Saints, agonists, and atheists (I just realizes no one capitalizes agonists or atheists). I spoken to people who seem to partially believe in Word of Faith movement, but not sure if I spoke to one or not. I haven't spoken to the Amish or Mennonites yet... nor have I met any yet. Note, I've attended churches and spoken with people with many beliefs different than myself. On June 03 2022 10:22 Chezinu wrote: How much can you prove? In the hypothetical scenario that you can't muster any relatively irrefutable proof, would you be happier reading fellow forumites respond as if you had provided an overwhelming amount thereof, would you lose respect for them for them displaying what would seems to be naivite or would it not affect your perception of their worth as subjects to interact with. I have had so many encounters with God when alone, with others, with music playing, when no music playing, when I was hungry, and when I was full. One day, I had to tell myself to accept the reality when trying to think of other explanations for what I was experiencing. I have had others who have been witnesses to what I have perceived as miraculous events. I have had experiences where others had experience similar spiritual experiences both friends in my life and in books written hundreds of years ago. We are not just biological beings. We have a spirit. To neglect the spirit is ignorant. If any miracle-tier developments were to translate into or even manifest as posts on TL's forums, that one can simply point to them via a quote or link and full-blown investigate, for the conclusions to lay bare for all to bestow upon. Do you see the wisdom in taking any argument as to what is genuinely divine --furthermore demonstration, competition in delivering it-- to the forum, insofar as can be arranged, then? Lastly, would you recommend the Amazon for a TL+-advertised mafia-player get-together / ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/0fKB9Ps.png) or what? | ||
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Alakaslam
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That being said, that was in all likelihood a tongue-in-cheek remark. I'm confident BH has little or no religious leanings. Either pro or anti. If any, probably anti- but I doubt even that quite a bit. | ||
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Easedrop Whylong
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Didn't matter what the subject matter was, nor how I couldn't get the English keyboard layout set-up. Time and time again I'd open my eyes to see if I typed a mistake, and then I'd have to swim back to the entrancing comfort of not having to fall asleep nor get lost in instigations of distracting fatigue. I was listening more proficiently to the whispers here & loud talks beyond the door--only to be made hyperaware of the faculties of the psychopathic and notoriously useless to sadness-continuum-bind me. If the rain started falling I'd be fucked disappointed, as I was gonna have to get my ass to the stadium and a-duennscheissen sans umbrella. I arrived past the stage where keeping my eyes closed provided the least amount of respite from discomfort when olfactory perception of my failures to keep the gas from passing augmenting exponentially. Third paragraph in had me yearning for rhyme to magically and effortlessly manifest, just subtlely and stealthily creep up on and ambush and sabotage non-rhyming phrases, hijack and turn them inside out and upside down until they can be shaken poetry-awake. Anything other than maintaining the chill wasn't that important. Aesthetics and dodging threats to its consistency was paramount. Nuisances had to be silenced unfelt, and something substantial's way needed paving as an inviting gesture. Investing into transition into a long shelf life aptitude ridden future, all that had to be kept in mind bullied the rest shitless. Snickering bitches to my six, my own stink zero-ed in on me as I was fresh back from having been cyberdistracted. Things that finally crystaliqualified as worthwhile thoughts proved mercurial, refusing to stay saved in short-term memory availability--without I knew they were doomed to decay in recall limbo. Who knows how hard I'd need to train my mind to be able to maintain an actively-feeding-on-a-continuous-supply-of-mentalgymnastogimmicksrawmaterialintomemorytranslation process. I was even straining to remember the salvation that this was, for get-out-of-sekundeneinschlafen-free was *off-dosing* .[spoiler=.]Every secret distribution network of subversive economic, social, political, philosophical and perhaps even linguo-morphic movement propagation has its own initiation rites and persistence guarantees. In this case, a flatfoot is a clear indication of not having been involved with the muling. >Codename #24/7 Shady merchants are called Zigarots, or The Noose--collectively. Managers keep them around depending on their level of heat, i.e. the suspicion on them / probability of rousing it. Strange magazines are being showcased here, and non-playable characters inexplicably linger on in close proximity to the products in this virtual sub-domain of congregation, visited quite frequently by roleplayers until recently. The manager cut the Zigarot's pay in half, and instructed him not to tolerate loitering. It seems to me this conveniently came as a consequence to a twitch user making a ruckus in said Zigarot's streams' chat. I could be wrong but I believe the demeanor was so loud and reckless that the way in which e delivered the message which e was carrying was blurred imperceptible to an intelligent person; it rendered it blurred out to a mere subtle whisper: "This Zigarot's heat level is rising". What did the chatty user say? E suggested a modification to the game, in order for every product on display here to have a backstory, basically anchoring to an ongoing interesting social phenomenon or something of relevance instead of just, for example ref. to the name of a beverage sounding similar to one: Bonjwa .. is a term used by the Starcraft e-sports community to denote the dominance of an individual professional gamer. A noteworthy fact is that Team Liquid started out as a Starcraft clan, and built all its early infrastructure on facilitating the congregation of those enthused to either train themselves to become e-gladiators or simply follow the developments and interaction that gravitates around what might have burned out of significance otherwise, were it not for the portal. Also noteworthy is the formatting bbcode known as [hamchor][/hamchor]. It lets the user create a link within the forum post that permits the jumping-to a precise point. But first, a name has to be declared in order to use that name as the equivalent of an url. While this may not rouse suspicion by itself, what I called name earlier doesn't have to be a single word, a couple of words or a paragraph, no. Not only is it unlimited with regard to the content withing the [hamchor] tags, one can include links or quotes or spoilers, basically any kind of formatting. This is unusual, since the apparent use of the feature was just to teleport the reader to a particular passage of text, and why would one use additional formatting codes when all that is needed to achieve said purpose is a name, apparently the shorter the better, right? You might be familiar with [hamchor]ing on other sites, where the declaration and deployment are not two separate actions, resulting in a visible declaration-link amalgamation exactly where the teleporting reader arrives at. Not so on teamliquid.net. The declaration of the "name" (quoted to refer back to its unlimited scope and content intricacy's potential) is rendered invisible! One can only see it if one quotes the message, and previews it in its entirety if the anchor magic is left without its sustaining [hamchor]peek-a-boo[/hamchor] pillars cloak-intact. What a marvelous, apparent playground's plot twist. Mods can apparently modify a message in the same way a player can, for when a person is warned, temp-banned or banned a message appears on the bottom of the post indicating as such. Any message can be modified and the anchor thing works in PMs too. Furthermore, the only people who can influence the display of a TL.net forumite's profile page, other than that very user is probably everyone with the privilege to do so.. mods, admins, the owners.. etc., while nobody else can quote the profile message to check it for hidden shenanigans. As I've said before, one could bet on e-sports games, the statistics for proficiency being public information.. whether reflecting reality or not--we do not know if mods, admins etc. can mess with that as well. But, with the novel addition of the possibility to bet on football.. as I said.. red alert. Now, what I'm trying to wrap my brain around is how these secret meaning passages and signals effect the carriers and executors of the response to the messages they receive from people they probably don't know they know even in the unlikely scenario of having gotten acquainted with them. But who knows, maybe it's all a big and happy family. I.e., I'm not sure how aware the cogs (the sentinel, the messenger, supervisor, the merchant, the chat person, the devs etc.) in the network's clandestine communication machine are, how deep their conscious awareness, intelligence and anti-conscience enables them to do good/bad or just have fun exploring the hidden working of a world USNAmericans keep insisting is best approached nonchalantly with regards to meaning reach and precision of words which make them inherent within.[/spoiler]. *sleep-jilted awake*.. yep: had to be kept handy. | ||
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Alakaslam
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I mean this kind, that I am sorry. | ||
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