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Post by jcurio on Jun 19, 2018 21:43:54 GMT -6
I like the show “what on Earth”. Any of you watch it?
Tonight, the first part is about two lakes in Haiti where the water is rising: driving people from their homes, and American croc infested waters.
The show just mentioned “voudoun”. 🙂 ~ sigh ~ Religion everywhere.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 19, 2018 21:45:17 GMT -6
Anyway, this show uses a lot of satalitte imaging. Cool.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 21, 2018 12:02:15 GMT -6
After that, was a show on the “rapa nui” (Easter Island).
Okaaay, me and my questions.... and I TRIED looking this up...
Why isn’t this question asked??? Doesn’t anyone else ask the internet questions like these?? (Baffled; again).
At one time, the “theory” (among many) was that the “moai” were in tribute to ANCESTORS.
This “telling” went to great lengths to explain how there were different tribes all around the island, and the people had to get permission from each other to move the moai across land.
Okaaay. My question: why does everyone’s ancestor look exactly the same? Seriously. If we are really using the “ancestor” question.
Did all my “ancestors” look the same? Seriously. If I was to “draw” every man looking like Moses... longish gray hair, bearded and mustached, a long flowing “gown” tied at the waist with a cord, sandals, and a walking stick.... maybe I could picture that..... facial features hidden by hair (including bushy eyebrows) ??
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Post by jojustjo on Jun 21, 2018 23:55:09 GMT -6
I'm sure other's have asked that question...only thing I can think of is that some 'visitor' appeared to them and a legend was born. That visitor might have called himself their ancestor and so they took it literally to mean one ancestor to them all. We see things so much differently than any early man would have...we're used to our technology...all the discoveries...space flight...lasers...rockets and airplanes and high rises and tv's and refrigerators and supermarkets and on and on. They could only grasp these things as the work of gods..and put it in terms they were familiar with...Ezekiel's Wheel...or gods floating on clouds because they couldn't give words to gravity defying machinery. In the vernacular of the day, the miracle of Christ's rising from the dead could be explained too...a drug to make it appear he died...then beam me up Scotty. Now I prefer to believe in the miracle..but just sayin. Questions can be so very frustrating.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 22, 2018 1:44:15 GMT -6
Thank you, Jo.
I’m finding that the “answers” can feel that way, too.
Have you (you, Jo) ever read the G. Hunt Williamson book “other tongues, other flesh”?
I can’t believe that I’m just getting “round to it” 😉. And I haven’t gotten very deep - WITHOUT having to look something up.
Why I suddenly have this patience? I surely don’t know. But I hope it lasts!
Tonight I was looking at the man W.L. Bragg and his invention. Then suddenly I found myself studying “hot wires” and how they were used to determine how far away enemy artillery was.... huh? Next was “geodetic computers” before I truly realized what I was doing!?
Thinking about “spatials and sound”. Why of course! I just never thought of it “scientifically”. 😁
I remember you once talking about “who you could have been”, and I guess I’m realizing that we still have some options? !!
And I’m taking notes.... we’ll see if I’m still interested tomorrow. 😊
But it was also something you just said tonight... all along the lines of mans developing technology.
Like I said, I haven’t gotten very far in this book (and never thought about reading it) but..... the guy makes it easy to understand how we suddenly made leaps and bounds into the present age.....
I realize today that I have finally quit a month of coughing. 😲😄. I almost feel shiny and new.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 22, 2018 10:36:46 GMT -6
Okaaaay! Next question. (Everyday things that make you go hmmmmm. ? ).
Suddenly, I kid you not, 4 of my “neighbors” have gotten a white suv. Compact, like a “bronco” from the 90’s.
The type that just 2 years ago, I noticed as unmarked police vehicles in my city. Is the “turnover” for police cars that quick these days?
Wednesday night I parked my van on the street. At midnight I took the poodle out for one more time. Directly behind my van was parked one of these very white, brand new, little trim, white suv’s. There are other places to park (of course). Not to be daunted, I got my keys and moved my van into the driveway. I don’t know if someone was sitting in the suv..... but possibly. (I’ve talked before about people using my street as a turn around, or parking late at night for teenagers hanging out. It is summer 🙄).
These vehicles are attractive. You can’t “miss ‘em”.
Today, our home health nurse pulled into the driveway with one she bought last night. 🙂
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Post by jcurio on Jun 22, 2018 10:43:39 GMT -6
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Post by jojustjo on Jun 22, 2018 23:42:28 GMT -6
I know I'd be a tad creeped out by the influx of white mini suv's. Too...stepford wife for me..(ever read that book?) I haven't read other tongues other flesh but I checked it out and I like the way it starts...usually my go to for reading a book..I don't want to have to fight to read it...I want some 'connection'. I know what you mean though about (what I call field trips). I'll start out reading about one thing and it says something I want to know about then that one etc. I love that..LOL and sometimes I never get back to the original article. At the moment my life has settled into some uneasy truce with myself...I think. I kind of sorta feel like my inner person is wiggling around ready to do something...I just don't know what...I feel un-tethered...or un-grounded..un-rooted?? I've been up-rooted? Don't like it.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 24, 2018 11:53:05 GMT -6
I haven’t read stepford wives. I saw the move (both of them... Katherine Ross, 1st movie/ Nicole Kidman, 2nd one). Horrifying. Just the idea of it.... and I imagine the book had lots more detail. Yes. The fact that people SEEM to be buying mostly white cars in my area; “stepford” is a reference. Good call to why it bothers me so. 😊
A seemingly simple irritant in my life made wise. ********* I still pray for you often. Trials of life refine us. But they are still trials.
I think you mentioned (in the last 6 mo.) an Idea of moving. You like the area you live in, but maybe need a “fresh start”.
I met my new neighbors this week, and they moved from less than a mile away. So did the “new neighbors” that moved in across the street from me! (About 2 yrs ago now- and they totally redid the house-inside and out).
The new -est neighbors simply said (without me asking) that they had always planned to move to a “bigger house”. So...
And the people that moved out? They had built a home in another subdivision in the next town over....
I can’t imagine having the “freedom of money” to do such things. But both were stated as a “PLAN”. People still do that??! ******** Speaking of which, my “job” right now is doing some interior painting for a relative. Something my son used to do, and is too busy now. I’m thankful for it. 😊
This relative ALSO moved within the same burg. She’s also doing a total rehab of a nice home that is 35 years old. It’s really cute! Has 2 small “courtyards”. One as a front to the house, and one as the back patio. The two bedrooms open up to the back patio. Small basement under a ranch style. Not a gated community, but does provide lawn care and such.
By the way, our lawns are already brown here! Even in “nice” communities. 😲😳
Anyway, back to my “constant trepidation”. 😲🤪
I still have “fears”. Sorry.
I was just reading my Bible and came across Jesus saying “Wise as serpents and ___________. That did make me feel better.
There are other workers at my relatives house. They drive nice cars (white, of course!), do good work, are friendly, and also speak a foreign language with each other.
Young. “Hungry” look in their eyes. Can’t explain that, as we all know that I am over 50.
One of them, came twice into my area. (I’m painting closets adjacent to the master bedroom/bathroom.). First time, just looking around. Second time, asking to use the bathroom (and there is a second bathroom and he has been coming for several days- this was on my 1st day). The first intrusion, I simply said, “if you are looking for something, I have only moved things OUT of the closets” (and pointed to where I laid them). He gave me a curt nod and left.
Another guy stopped me outside on his smoke break. We talked for awhile, and I told him about my church. 😊. I also told him about my 3 kids (he feigned being shocked - he is 22 years old and in the Army).
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Post by jcurio on Jun 24, 2018 12:13:23 GMT -6
I’m ABLE to keep from visibly acting like a “scared rabbit”. But always. On my guard.
When I left last night, asking my relative if she wanted me to go around checking windows and doors (no- she would do that). Patio doors off of bedrooms? Neat, but I wouldn’t like that.
Didn’t express any “fears” to my aunt. As far as I know, didn’t display “fears” to the men (one benefit of getting older 😉). But it’s there. The current advice when talking with someone, is to look them in the eye. I don’t think that means casual comments with “hungry-looking” men. I’m not saying they “looked me up and down” and this IS NOT stereotypical. In a friend, I would say this “look” in a mans eyes is interest in the conversation you are having. Kind of imploring on a stranger.
And they do have brand new, shiny cars. The guy smoking, going to college curtesy of the Army. Maybe the cars are just leased? The Army guy tells me he also drives a Mustang....
So, stereotypical, for sure, I’m thinking (after I go home), these guys “deal” on the side? Seriously.
The guy that smoked, talked well enough with me OUTSIDE about Jesus. Once inside, He shortly after told my uncle that “he had to go”. Don’t get me wrong; he looked “clean”.
Reminding myself that I have no clue how the Holy Spirit works on particular people. 🙂
I wish that I wasn’t so “cynical”....
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Post by jojustjo on Jun 25, 2018 0:18:58 GMT -6
Cynical isn't a bad thing..it's a defensive skill. Gives you a pause to analyze instead of jumping right in with both feet You are more accepting of the paranormal and supernatural because you've 'existed' with it somewhat?? What other people would be put off by or terrified of...we don't quite see the same way. Can't explain it. I know there exists so much just outside of our field of vision...I'm not afraid of it..rather I need to know and understand it. Maybe you're in that boat too. Your nature is so questioning..and I think that is wonderful. If we could just learn something new every day...something wonderful and mind blowing...but sometimes I feel like I'm actually held back or apart from the very things I'm trying to know...
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Post by jcurio on Jun 27, 2018 16:33:01 GMT -6
amp.kansascity.com/weather/article213889079.htmlI HEARD this yesterday. I had no idea until a few minutes ago that a tornado hit. I just knew I heard something “terribly loud” for a brief amount of time (it seemed very brief). I was home alone and the “noise” was a steady sound that I turned off my air conditioner to make sure what I was hearing 😊. Sounds funny doesn’t it? Because to me, it sounded like something “blowing”. I’ve always heard that a tornado sounds like a train? I can tell you now, that what is meant by that, is you hear almost the “clack, clack” a train makes on the track..... that heavy, steady sound, but to me, with the whooshing wind mixed in, it was more like the sound of a wooden roller coaster? It’s a steady rumble.... and I could recognize a thunder sound as different..... Weird. It is a sound that is hard to describe, but I don’t think I will ever forget it. (The damage was within 10 miles of me).
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Post by jcurio on Jun 27, 2018 16:44:29 GMT -6
And yes, this “sound” happened very quickly after the sirens went off. I wondered if people had time to take cover.
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Post by jojustjo on Jun 27, 2018 22:40:26 GMT -6
Wow I'm so glad you're ok!!
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Post by jcurio on Jun 27, 2018 23:33:30 GMT -6
😊
You know what I was doing.
Girlfriend, I was on my knees praying for a friend a few miles away that doesn’t have a basement 😉
It was so quick, I wouldn’t have had time to go to my own.... with collecting the pets....
No fear here. On this.
I knew the internet was out where she was (most likely) because my tv was out, and I could tell the “sound” was SE of me... which she is . I knew the storm was traveling a certain way because of radar on my phone, so I just kept texting her updates. 😊
Really cool how it worked out. She got to a neighbors’ basement with her kids. Funny thing is, she told me later that several people were trying to contact her and her neighbor, and only my texts came through. 😳😄
The power of prayer. Not me. I told her I would keep texting until the storm was thru, just in case she could get them. She never texted back that I knew of.... I just saw her at church last night.
I fully trust Him again. 😊 It’s an awesome feeling.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 28, 2018 0:14:15 GMT -6
You are more accepting of the paranormal and supernatural because you've 'existed' with it somewhat?? Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/1418/who-simplistic-solutions-jc?page=89#ixzz5JhHU5On1******* I have experienced a lot of paranormal. There are times that I have talked about these experiences as “frightening”. Now, I have to say that I have NEVER experienced in real, awake, life, what I have experienced in dreams. I do think that some of my dreams are relevant. I’m just trying to say, that my “bad dreams” are always worse than the real thing? It’s like I subconsciously ALWAYS “make a mountain out of a molehill”? 😩🤪 So what is all this about? Why do I feel this need to analyze everything!? To go deeper..... I do enjoy that “learn something new every day”. 😊 But CAN I truly help people by “talking” so much? I still read, but not near as much as I used to...
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Post by jcurio on Jul 4, 2018 14:15:35 GMT -6
4th of July 2018.
I’m looking at 3 other adults here sleeping. 😊
Expecting an uneventful day. 😉
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Post by jojustjo on Jul 5, 2018 0:50:46 GMT -6
Talking things out isn't just a good thing for us..it is...but I find that when I'm talking things out it's helping me to someway see other dimensions of whatever I'm wrangling with. In the process of explaining..sometimes I'm explaining to me. Yeah sounds weird but I do get something out of it and in turn you are making us think...approach things we might have missed or are curious about. You are what you are...God is seeing to that and it can't be wrong or it would change...I believe that. There is so much of the spiritual influence in your life...that I think you were just meant to walk this road..to experience and question. Wish I knew why I have such a lack of dreams or am so unable to remember them. I'm a tad afraid it's a defense..that my dreams were 'that kind' of dream..the aftermath of the abduction..and I have a feeling I couldn't deal with them so I shut down dream land memories. Now and then a very silly but innocuous dream will be remembered...and it's never ever a bad dream, I just don't seem to allow them. Everyone must have them...it's natural for the brain to decompress at night....but never do I have one to tip my even keel...not even about my son and both my other son and daughter have had those. I really have to believe I did it or God did..to protect. Still...I feel kind of short changed.
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Post by jcurio on Jul 6, 2018 9:13:53 GMT -6
And I feel like I dream too much..... 😑
It is a relief that I rarely dream of worldwide catastrophes. Maybe other people are still doing that.
I watch the News more these days. Just sitting with my folks. I would like to say the “current events” feel “surreal”, but...
(Laughing) The show “price is right” has all the employees dressed up as super hero’s. Right now. My dad has his head phones on, so the tv volume is turned way down. IMO, this “extra entertainment” is so unnecessary. The show is always so upbeat! IDK, maybe it was the staffs idea- just to have a little fun for themselves.
So..... along those lines.... my “dreams”- are some of them for my own entertainment?
I can say that honestly. Since MOST of my dreams are not “alien-related”. THAT type of dream stands out .... and seeing that “disclosure” is more recognized these days, they (this type of dream) tends to feel “precog”. 😯
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Post by jcurio on Jul 6, 2018 9:27:24 GMT -6
I keep trying to say something..... but I know that every time I say it to myself, it sounds so silly.
I have spoken so much of my fears. And maybe my “fears” don’t allow me to see “them” (the typical grey depiction) at all. And this “registers” as the reason why I look at EVERYBODY with such distrust. Because I know that things are not what they seem.
I’m NOT saying that I see “aliens” or “reptile faces” behind human faces. OK?
I went to a carnival type setting the evening of July 4. Large crowd; I knew a total of 8 people. I had no trepidation. Saw nothing “weird” during the festivities, or afterwards when just watching the sky for the display. Closest thing to “normal” that I know. 😉
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Post by jcurio on Jul 6, 2018 9:45:25 GMT -6
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Friended_MeHa ha ha. THIS was just advertised on a commercial. It openly states that it is a fantasy. Any one else waiting expectantly for a show like this to come out? 🤪 After all, the show “Lucifer” is playing.... Of course it’s a fantasy. But, God can appear ANYWHERE in our lives. Of THIS I am sure. 😊 And THIS is where my conversation is headed. It’s like it’s a gut feeling. And it comes out creepily like “a denial”. ☹️ Just the simple fact that each of my friends here, distinctly remember a “face to face” confrontation with “them”. Hey! Not that I want that!! And, Oh my goodness! I have felt such acceptance here! We all know that “my events” have other similarities.
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Post by jcurio on Jul 6, 2018 9:59:59 GMT -6
There. I kinda said it.
And how ever I say it, it is going to sound like a “denial”.
Me claiming that maybe I am just “an observer” of what happens to others? Huh? Open for field day on that one.
I will admit openly that “I am back” to seeing everything, through a spiritual filter. To some people, that already sounds like I am biased. I understand that. I will deal with this as it comes. I can sit in a church service and nod my head to things I’ve heard before, and know. I’m still very aware that I CAN’T sit and LISTEN to people and nod my head; that would be rude.
Observing. Listening. That’s my “job” right now. I’m not an “expert” on anything. Somehow, this is important. 😉
Steady as she goes......
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Post by jcurio on Jul 6, 2018 10:11:46 GMT -6
One night after some drinking with my friends I had what you would call some “liquid courage”. As I laid in bed I spoke to whatever it was saying in my mind “come on, touch me again, I’m not afraid”. I made a huge mistake that night I believe I invited it in somehow. Ever since and to this day I have periodic thoughts to hurt people, my friends and family. They are not my thoughts. I’m not a violent person! It’s like something tells me to do that. When I feel this I say a prayer to myself and have never actually went though with it, but it’s there...always haunting my thoughts and it’s been decades now since this has started. ***********
(Where are the letters telling where I got this from, on our forum??)
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Post by jcurio on Jul 6, 2018 10:16:46 GMT -6
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Post by jojustjo on Jul 8, 2018 1:50:05 GMT -6
Ok..this has happened to me twice now and I admit it has me bugged. Mine is a small-ish town...grown a lot lately because people who work in San Diego would rather live in the country and commute. Wish they wanted to live where they work..but. Anyway...the first time even my daughter noticed..I was walking with her and we passed a man..swear he looked like some old sea mariner..but he turned around to follow me with this very intense stare almost a belligerent stare. He turned his whole body to keep me in that focus. Daughter said..do you know that guy and what did you do to make him look at you like that. I didn't know him from Adam..had never seen him and it WAS a creepy intense stare. Then about a week ago..driving home a kid (maybe 15) at a traffic light..same stare watched me as we drove through the intersection.
Truly like they knew me...and didn't have any love for me at all. These were almost ferocious looks. I have never ever had anyone stare at me like that before. It was disturbing.
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Post by jcurio on Jul 9, 2018 10:35:07 GMT -6
It IS disturbing.
(Especially since we all know that you have a great heart).
So..... I’m not going to try and reassure you (yet) past the fact that your daughter has observed this (you are not just being “paranoid”).
I can tell you that I have been through this (not exactly reassuring).
I just want you to know I am here listening. I will be praying about this. God knows that I expect a “quick resolution” on these type of things..... whether it be answers or it coming to a halt. Life is hard enough without unwanted attention....
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Post by jojustjo on Jul 9, 2018 15:44:43 GMT -6
It does worry me that they made the same kind of face..and reacted like they knew me but they don't. It also didn't feel 'evil' ...so..until I see more of them...I won't be worried I do appreciate the prayers...I still feel so off balance...curious.
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Post by jcurio on Jul 10, 2018 10:06:38 GMT -6
It does worry me that they made the same kind of face..and reacted like they knew me but they don't. It also didn't feel 'evil' ...so..until I see more of them...I won't be worried I do appreciate the prayers...I still feel so off balance...curious. **************** I am sorry that you feel “off balance”. 🤗. I would think that this is an “odd” (NOT weird. 😉) feeling for You. When I say “steady as she goes”....... You automatically come to mind. 😊 _______________ If I don’t copy and paste a Bible verse, we are in danger of hearing a mis-quote. 😲😩. So..... One of my faves, is kinda like finding the “silver lining” in everything; but BETTER. God makes all things good, FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM. !! I want to say this is Romans 8:28. But I gotta check myself! 🤪
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Post by jcurio on Jul 10, 2018 10:09:28 GMT -6
Aaaaaack! It is Romans 8:28.
And man, did I chew it up. 🙄😂😩
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Post by jojustjo on Jul 10, 2018 13:31:12 GMT -6
Well...I'm not sure about making all things good. There is a lot in this crazy world that isn't anywhere near good..but I do think we're always led to things that improve our souls..enrich them in some way or educate them or balance them..I think that is the purpose of being here...to improve the soul...and maybe every single life experience..bad or good adds to that. If you look hard enough, yes..you find silver linings but sometimes you have to be able to set aside your natural abhorrence and grief. My son who died, had impending health issues. He was only 50 but he did have high blood pressure and fought with arthritis (serious swelling of his hands) and some other things cropping up that maybe were no part of the soul experience. Maybe he didn't need to deal with all of that pain and so...was released from it. I have to find justifications you see..but those were all true.
Maybe that was a case for God making things good..because he definitely did love God
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