Hi Singularity,
It is Monday, but I have not awoken, rather, I haven't yet slept.
The greatest joy of retirement is having no set schedule.
I responded to your post on Saturday (the Sabbath), just as I always greet family and friends on that day, Shabbat Shalom (Sabbath Peace).
Sabbath literally means "to rest," it is a wish for a day of peaceful rest, or restful peace, as you will.
Internet "memes" ...just recently looked up the word after seeing it consistently in online conversations... unless it's labeled a "meme," it's a graphic like any other.
Because I have celiac disease, I don't do ramen, but whatever one sees in that calamari/octopus/arachne resembling creature, it's a cartoon, and a leering pasta on the Sistine chapel may be humorous to some, but definitely mockery to others.
Those who now claim to be mere atheists, having appropriated Satan's name only for the attention it engendered, without any affiliation with him may well have deficient imaginations, as well as vocabularies, and be lying.
Unless Satan has acquired a sense of humor, appropriating his name, without giving him the worship he believes due him, is a game changer, for they have voluntarily entered into his ballpark.
They had best be seeking the Lord of Creation while He may be found for there is neither salvation nor spiritual protection in any other. (Isaiah 55:6)
In the flesh, we here below are all fully equal in our humanity.
Seriousness and humor both have their place, and on rare occasion, are almost interchangeable.
Singularity wrote:
Felicitations, it is Monday, and we both woke up!
Do you mock me with your greeting? I'm sure you don't intend that. It seems sometimes folks are just too dedicated to seriousness.
This symbol is used to invoke the blessings of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, for those who have been touched by its noodly appendage, ramen.
It has been a long standing internet meme used to demonstrate the futility of outside interpretation of another's inner deeply held (traditional or not) convictions and beliefs.
Are you aware that modern day "Satanists" are godless, atheists, having chosen the term for their specific religious philosophy expressly so that they may initiate the conversation regarding godless religious philosophies at the forefront of most discussions of such particulars?
Bahmer and I have conversed cordially from time to time. I have not found him humorless. However, if he should be somewhat unusually sensitive today, sincerely felt apologies regarding this, are offered.
Felicitations, it is Monday, and we both woke up! ... (
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