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« Last post by SunflowerP on Yesterday at 09:52:33 pm »
what do you say.
I have no idea what you're asking about here - I can see it's a poll, but I don't know what you're referring to by 'moses'/'mose'. Can you please add some additional information/context to clarify? Sunflower
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« Last post by SunflowerP on Yesterday at 09:48:58 pm »
what do you say.
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« Last post by Larix on Yesterday at 08:24:25 pm »
what do you say.
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« Last post by Jenett on March 15, 2024, 03:18:25 pm »
I need the word for actually perceiving spirits through touch. Sometimes, especially with weaker run-of-the-mill ghosts, this might be pretty amorphous, like just an energy ball of a given size that feels like resistance and/or tingling in a particular space, but other times includes things like professionally relevant calluses, hair texture, or favorite clothing items, or the way particular Beings I work with signal their presence by patting my head or shoulder in a specific way. Is this really that unusual, and regardless, what would you call it? Or am I just running into People Being Wrong On The Internet?
I suspect that a chunk of it is that English as a language is way worse with tactile language than with sight or sound. (In terms of how people talk about it). And it's a lexical gap a lot of people don't notice. I've usually heard psychometry for the 'getting impressions of an object' aspect, I hadn't come across clairtangency before. (I've trained myself to be pretty good at age of books, for probably obvious reasons, as well as other impressions.)
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« Last post by Ashmire on March 15, 2024, 03:12:58 pm »
Just an annoying thing that kept me wake too much last night...A lot of people like to make a very clear distinction amongst the various "Clair" senses, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience etc. My first instinct is admittedly to question the need for that, since I would assume like most people I get a little of all of them, but I can see some utility in some cases to specify. But my strongest spirit sense is touch. And when I went to look up the word for that, I did come across the word "clairtangency"....Bu-utt...this has the problem in that in the sources I could find, this is defined specifically as "receiving psychic impressions by touching a physical object'. And that's not what I'm referring to. I need the word for actually perceiving spirits through touch. Sometimes, especially with weaker run-of-the-mill ghosts, this might be pretty amorphous, like just an energy ball of a given size that feels like resistance and/or tingling in a particular space, but other times includes things like professionally relevant calluses, hair texture, or favorite clothing items, or the way particular Beings I work with signal their presence by patting my head or shoulder in a specific way. Is this really that unusual, and regardless, what would you call it? Or am I just running into People Being Wrong On The Internet?
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« Last post by Ashmire on March 14, 2024, 01:21:17 am »
I remember a few years back there was one in California. Lots of hype initially and then everyone just forgot about it.
My money is on "rich persons pet art project".
https://www.vox.com/culture/22062796/monoliths-utah-california-romania Here's an article on the previous ones. If it's one person, they definitely have the funds to travel. Might be a group of pranksters also, though.
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« Last post by atr on March 14, 2024, 01:15:08 am »
A ‘Perfect Monolith’ Appears in Wales
"A resident said he discovered the shiny, silver object on a prominent hill during his daily walk."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/world/europe/monolith-wales-uk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cU0.7zJT.zAJhVMGYoOAl&smid=url-share
I remember a few years back there was one in California. Lots of hype initially and then everyone just forgot about it. My money is on "rich persons pet art project".
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« Last post by Altair on March 13, 2024, 09:01:52 pm »
How're you liking this lovely left-coast, btw? L.A. is an odd town; equal parts electric and shabby, yet with its own peculiar appeal. Much like everything else. Any chance of you becoming a permanent denizen?
Not yet, though the plan is to retire in SoCal, and that's not that far off. I can't say I like L.A. (Probably doesn't help that I'm a non-driver!) I haven't spent much time there so I don't have much of a sense of it, but it doesn't feel like a coherent city to me. But I'm loving winter in Palm Springs!
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« Last post by MadZealot on March 13, 2024, 05:39:47 pm »
If so, am I being unreasonable to expect that such thanks can be given privately, rather than proclaimed to the rest of us? Well, if you are being unreasonable, then so was Christ when He said the same damn thing. See Matthew 6:5-6. Why *shouldn't* it be spoken publicly? See above. How're you liking this lovely left-coast, btw? L.A. is an odd town; equal parts electric and shabby, yet with its own peculiar appeal. Much like everything else. Any chance of you becoming a permanent denizen?
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« Last post by SunflowerP on March 13, 2024, 04:26:27 pm »
And just Monday, I attended an awards ceremony in Los Angeles where 2 out of every 3 recipients felt compelled to thank the Lord for their win. I was about to squirm out of my skin, I find that so distasteful...and I'm wrestling with my own allergic reaction to it. If one is a sincere believer who thinks the Christian god controls everything, isn't this just a natural thing to do? If so, am I being unreasonable to expect that such thanks can be given privately, rather than proclaimed to the rest of us? Why *shouldn't* it be spoken publicly? OR is the proclamation an attempt at making sure the rest of us know that Christianity is what it's all about?
The aspect of that which makes me squirm with distaste is the implication that the award winners didn't win on their own merits (not even their own God-given merits, sheesh), but because their god wanted to give them head-pats. It wouldn't bother me nearly as much if they were showing appreciation for, say, how their faith, and their god, helped them get through some part of it where the going was tough, or thanked God for blessing them with the qualities that enabled them to achieve the award (though if it's 2/3 of them, I'm gonna be uncomfortable with all that godding-about, just by sheer volume - but that's just surfeit, not revulsion). But the theology implied by thanking God for the win is... the more I unpack it in my head, the more repellent it gets, ugh. (I might possibly be reading details in, that you didn't report for concision's sake.) Sunflower
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