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01-13-2016, 06:25 AM
Thank you all to your reactions to this thread. I especially appreciate Eagle1's contribution, knowing how busy he is these days. And, of course, I must thank Nanny for her very verbose, but also insightful criticism. As most who come here, I have very little time myself to read each and every thread, each and every response, each and every contribution. I feel the loss of that, but there simply are so many hours in any given day.
I would predict that if any lottery winner came out and said, they got their numbers from such and such psychic, that psychic would have to go into hiding immediately! The rest of the world would insist, why did you tell him, her, and not us?
And so, while this forum is one big grand experiment, it also has a purpose, and goals. If it is a free for all, we would have anarchy. No, I cannot control what other people post, or not. I have to leave it to them to have the discernment of when to contribute, and when not to contribute. Many members on this forum come and go, some take weeks or months off, and that can be all well and good, to allow other members to percolate up. None of us has a 100%, perfect and complete claim on the Truth. There is a God, and there is absolute Truth, but this life is one of constant growth, trial and tribulation, and of overcoming.
What I would never want this forum to exclusively become is a fortune telling machine. A few fortunes, okay, but an emphasis on fortunes ... as we have learned all too well in our lives, only those "who lose their lives, will find them." All these threads here, as a whole, do go beyond mere materialism, and we are all the better for it.
I would predict that if any lottery winner came out and said, they got their numbers from such and such psychic, that psychic would have to go into hiding immediately! The rest of the world would insist, why did you tell him, her, and not us?
And so, while this forum is one big grand experiment, it also has a purpose, and goals. If it is a free for all, we would have anarchy. No, I cannot control what other people post, or not. I have to leave it to them to have the discernment of when to contribute, and when not to contribute. Many members on this forum come and go, some take weeks or months off, and that can be all well and good, to allow other members to percolate up. None of us has a 100%, perfect and complete claim on the Truth. There is a God, and there is absolute Truth, but this life is one of constant growth, trial and tribulation, and of overcoming.
What I would never want this forum to exclusively become is a fortune telling machine. A few fortunes, okay, but an emphasis on fortunes ... as we have learned all too well in our lives, only those "who lose their lives, will find them." All these threads here, as a whole, do go beyond mere materialism, and we are all the better for it.