Silly Putty

2021-12-28 - Tuesday - 12:20 PM - - Marilyn Morehead Life Outline

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Mom was looking by my door at things I hung up like a USB video game computer controller. She started trying to imagine what kind of things from her childhood she would have. She said she had her own silly putty which is like soft moldable clay or Play-Doh! She mentioned a space man like spon thing for cereal. I am not exactly sure what that is. I forget now what she called it. There was a third item she mentioned that I forget at the moment. Mom was born in 1951 and she didn't say how old she was when she had some of these items. Some of these items were not hers exclusively. Third item might have been a sling slot. No. Not that.

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12:46 PM
Kimberly Teague, and the words around your avatar reminds me of Captain Planet who was a girl on Rick and Morty.

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08:35 PM
Your point has been that people should not link them. My point would simply be that people link them. I'm not saying they should or should not. I'm simply putting it out there. People are affected by perception even if it's faulty. Those perceptions has impact on culture which influences how people choose to live within their take, right or wrong, on morality, be it subjective or objective or variations therein, or lack thereof to various degrees. So, it goes back to the debate of what paganism means or what it may not mean.

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09:16 PM
I'm not going to say I know how old the earth is. With that, I'm also not going to say that I know how many thousands of years the Egyptian empire of kings or Pharaohs lasted. Some people believe in a gap theory between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 that the earth became void, empty, that it was chaotic. They say fallen angels were living on earth for millions of years. In order to prove a crazy theory like that, we would need to dig up a bunch of evidence. I like to be insanely open minded about everything. There is so much I don't know about Egypt.

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Adam and Eve were probably the first humans on earth back eight thousand years ago or probably less than that. King David was probably around 1,000 BC. The space between Adam and David is probably less than 4,000 years. I'm being extremely generous with the time allotment I'm giving to these things. Some people believe the earth and the universe are billions of years old. I'm not going to say they're wrong. But then again, a long time ago, the sun what have been a lot larger. So, that could cause problems. But maybe if there were no humans at first, I guess it wouldn't be a problem. But too much of that is excessive speculation.

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I believe Christ was born around 4 BC. It's not because H.G. Wells said it. He is not the only person to say it. And the reasoning is based on translating from our current calendar system to the ones they had at that time. To assume Christ was born on 1 B.C. or 1 A.D. or whatever the case might be, you would have to assume they were able to correctly count backwards to the exact date he was born. And it is possible to do so but it depends on whether anything was lost in translation. It depends on when they started dating things based on when Christ was born. It depends on a number of things.

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The relevance of which year Christ was born is in pinpointing which month he was born. People who study stars have developed star calendars that goes backwards and forward in time. So, you would simply need to look at their star maps or calendars to see which years had a bunch planets coming together in the sky. These things are pretty predictable.

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They have a new series based on The Da Vinci Code. So, I was watching that show. I do find those things interesting.

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Yeah, Zeitguiest sounds like a lousy excuse to draw people away from Christ. It reminds me of the documentaries and such that try to emphasize on how Jesus was just a man.

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I agree with you in regards to how people can have limited perspective when looking through the lens of the English literature over the centuries. Well, that reminds me of some of the books not included in the Bible and it makes me wonder why Enoch and other books were excluded from the 66-book canon.

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If Catholicism is not pagan, then does that mean they believe in the doctrine of once saved then always saved as seen in Ephesians 2:8-9?

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Well, it depends on what Pagan means.

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Paganism can have many different meanings.

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I'm not sure if you've specifically defined Paganism.

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The Ancient City.

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Here is a free version of it. Looks like it was printed in 1916.

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Do you believe in giants?

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09:49 PM
In the Old Testament, God would tell Israel not to do some of the things other nations were doing including shaving heads. God was telling them not to look or act like them.

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Some people may believe that Christians shouldn't do things that Pagans did or that non-Christians did or fill in the blank. My personal belief is that it depends. I'm not going to say you can't drink coffee because Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Satan, Darth Vader, the cookie monster, vampires, Bill Gates, Fauci, Obama, Biden, etc, drank coffee.

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But some people believe in trying not to wear what bad people wear. Well, not sure if bad is the right word. But whether we call it paganism or Hedonism or simply the Gentiles or whatever the case might be, people believe in not associating themselves with it. I understand where they are coming from.

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The Bible may say things like don't get tattoos, earrings, piercings, etc. And I'm not going to tell people they can't get tattoos. I would agree the Bible probably told them not to do it. Now, does that mean we should not? Well, that is a good question. But I only bring that up to say that may be what is in the mind of some people. I'm not going to say they're right but I am going to say that is where they are coming from. They believe evergreen trees were used in pagan worship, rituals, etc.

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An analogy might be a simple cup. So, if Hitler drank from a cup, does that mean I should not drink from a cup? Likewise, perhaps some trees were used in the past for paganism. Does that mean we can never use trees?

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But some people believe, oddly enough, that they should keep trees from living inside their homes because of that.

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I'm not saying they're right. I'm just saying that is where they're coming from.

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The Bible also talks about meat offered up to idols. It says if you don't like that, then don't eat meat which was offered up to those gods. But if you don't care, then it's not a sin.

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Perhaps the trees were offered up to Odin or Zeus or Ra or other gods. But perhaps it is not bad to have trees in houses.

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I personally don't mind having trees in houses.

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Like, I don't care. I celebrate Christmas. I don't personally think it's pagan.

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But for the sake of argument, it depends.

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Does that mean you are Catholic? It seems you don't believe in Eternal Security. Do you believe you have to work very hard to earn your salvation?

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I like consumerism.

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You mentioned a few things about the history of different religions and cults. On top of that, denominations, sects, etc. I used to study world religions and church history in Bible colleges going back to 2004. I can tell you that Catholicism came up later on. I can talk all day about this. They try to say they were always around. On top of that, the Pope, the Vatican City, their legion of thugs, for many centuries, these guys would run around the world burning books and other things. They would also confiscate millions of books, etc, over the years and hide them underneath the Vatican City. It's insane how much history they've been suppressing.

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11:22 PM
How can you help me with REP?

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I know I can do a few tags, hashtags, which helps like informationwar and deepdives and I forget the one with the word peach in it. But those are usually the communities or tags I would use. So, I know how to use those tags.

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And it might be that the upvotes might overcome the downvotes. I was just not always using those tags because I wanted to branch out and use other tags. I also didn't want to be the kind of person who is only using a certain set of tags.

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But since I know I get downvotes, I think I'm going to try to use more tags which might help compensate for the downvotes.

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My home is on Hive Blog but I still post to Steemit and I still believe Steem still has some value in it.

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11:29 PM
I thought REP was based on SP. That is why I had it powered up 100%.

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11:31 PM
I agree with the increasing value of the material found in coins.

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