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Me114 User ID: 596184 United States 05/05/2009 08:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | listen baby, i'm going through that right now! and i wana fly when i'm done! :rolleyes: :ura: Sweet Thoughts! I Unknown Depths of Love, You. What Happens Next Loves me. Help me Jesus, Life will let me know. Living is Effortless Normal God Inside, Outside, Everywhere, Forever! Executive Order 13603 means slavery in the usa Thread: The End of All Things Is Upon Us - An Urgent Message from Father God Thread: Nothing is Something and Non-Existence must Exist Thread: Not Knowing is Essential to Eternal Life! Thread: Let's talk about the Evil-Mind-Beings (EMB) Thread: ALERT! Father God says, now, " I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it" Thread: WE CAN DEFEAT THE ANTICHRIST !!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66745 Germany 05/05/2009 08:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Once a little boy was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it. Quoting: Michael Lee HillThe little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants to eat, and a stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the caterpillar and brought it new plants to eat. One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was going to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly. The little boy was thrilled to hear about the changes his caterpillar would go through. He watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out. At first the boy was excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn’t break free! It looked desperate! It looked like it was making no progress! The boy was so concerned he decided to help. He ran to get scissors, and then walked back (because he had learned not to run with scissors…). He snipped the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged! As the butterfly came out the boy was surprised. It had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. He knew that in time the body would shrink and the butterfly’s wings would expand. But neither happened! The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly… As the boy tried to figure out what had gone wrong his mother took him to talk to a scientist from a local college. He learned that the butterfly was SUPPOSED to struggle. In fact, the butterfly’s struggle to push its way through the tiny opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings. Without the struggle, the butterfly would never, ever fly. The boy’s good intentions in reality hurt the butterfly. As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important part of any growth experience. In fact, it is the struggle that causes you to develop your ability to fly. Read this before, was worth reading again.. |
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GracefullyGrowing User ID: 670307 United States 05/05/2009 08:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have always enjoyed reading that story. Thanks for posting it. ~Grace~ “The person who wishes to be enlightened, who falls upon hard times will not turn to that friend or thing that offers him refuge and comfort and encourages their old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the difficulty and pass courageously through it. Only to the extent that a person exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible be found within them. In this daring lies dignity and the spirit of true awakening.” – Zen teacher Kalfried von Durkheim |
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Michael Lee Hill (OP) User ID: 677224 United States 05/13/2009 02:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was amazing! Thanks for sharing Michael. This is the 2nd time I saw that painting and I don't know why but really speaks to me. Love the wingmakers! I am glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I love the Wingmakers Artwork as well, I have some of it hanging in my home, You should see the actual prints from the Wingmakers, These really do not do them justice. anyhow, God bless you! Peace, Michael |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 62109 Spain 05/13/2009 03:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Once a little boy was playing outdoors and found a fascinating caterpillar. He carefully picked it up and took it home to show his mother. He asked his mother if he could keep it, and she said he could if he would take good care of it. Quoting: Michael Lee HillThe little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants to eat, and a stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the caterpillar and brought it new plants to eat. One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was going to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly. The little boy was thrilled to hear about the changes his caterpillar would go through. He watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day it happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out. At first the boy was excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn’t break free! It looked desperate! It looked like it was making no progress! The boy was so concerned he decided to help. He ran to get scissors, and then walked back (because he had learned not to run with scissors…). He snipped the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged! As the butterfly came out the boy was surprised. It had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. He knew that in time the body would shrink and the butterfly’s wings would expand. But neither happened! The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly… As the boy tried to figure out what had gone wrong his mother took him to talk to a scientist from a local college. He learned that the butterfly was SUPPOSED to struggle. In fact, the butterfly’s struggle to push its way through the tiny opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings. Without the struggle, the butterfly would never, ever fly. The boy’s good intentions in reality hurt the butterfly. As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important part of any growth experience. In fact, it is the struggle that causes you to develop your ability to fly. Beautiful |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 678326 United States 05/13/2009 03:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | :Bill Hicks: Quoting: Michael Lee HillWait a minute... what happened to the butterfly story??? Doesn't it count if it's humans? Where I would agree that consciously screwing up the food as in GM seeds that do not reproduce, etc., doesn't count in this discussion, still the struggle is teaching them something... or is there no belief there... |
Michael Lee Hill (OP) User ID: 677224 United States 05/13/2009 03:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wait a minute... what happened to the butterfly story??? Doesn't it count if it's humans? Where I would agree that consciously screwing up the food as in GM seeds that do not reproduce, etc., doesn't count in this discussion, still the struggle is teaching them something... or is there no belief there... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 678326I believe that's the whole point of this story and how this relates to humans and our daily struggles. Peace, Michael |
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Michael Lee Hill (OP) User ID: 677224 United States 05/13/2009 03:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | isn't this kinda what the annunaki supposedly did to humanity..... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 678252tamper with their natural process? Hmmm, Interesting. I think the result was the opposite of this story though, It is as if the Anunnaki super charged our evolution by tinckering with our Genetics and mixing their own DNA in with ours, even though that might not have been anticipated but the result is that we are evolving in Concsiousness at a rate unheard of in the whole of the Universe. Perhaps this was the Creators wish and design all along and inspired the Anunnaki to mingle with our evolution? Peace, Michael |