abaddon
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I ran a perfect binder sometimes while working at a printers. So, I saw mistakes in EVERY run. It doesn't make me the expert to turn to, and it doesn't take an expert to figure this out anyway. Anyone can explain the petty little coincidences that have your mind in thrall. Including you if you'll try to get "I want" out of the way.abaddon....Your bible was not misprinted or printed upside down. I used to work in printing. Upside down covers happen now and again because it's largely an automated process and if a cover runs through the machines upside down then it's going to get "bound" ("glued") to the text upside down. What'd be unusual is if this didn't happen to some books. It's not uncommon. It merely got past the quality control.
Hi I'd really like to hear what you say about this....
it seems my Bible was actually misprinted: (see post #205)
some pages with red that is too light:
https://sky-walker.net/temp/test2/red2.jpg
https://sky-walker.net/temp/test2/red3.jpg
a page where the black is too light:
https://sky-walker.net/temp/test2/black1.jpg
Also today I went to a second-hand book shop. They had a tiny Gideon's Bible which said "this book not to be sold" (sic) so I got it for free.
There are 10 double pages spread through out that Bible that have a different font to the main font to the rest of the Bible.
https://sky-walker.net/temp/test2/gideons1.jpg
I was wondering if you could explain why that font is only involving double pages - not single pages
The world is like a big Rorschach blot to the pattern-seeking mind. The more petty and silly the patterns, the more certain it's a human creation. From signs to portents to miracles... it's most likely these are the mind's projections. Because as 'wondrous' as they seem to some folk, they're actually extremely petty for answering too handily to personal desires.
If there were an intelligent force then the way it's communicating is so petty and silly that that's what makes the most likely answer very clear: The intelligent force talking to you is you. Our brains are like this -- petty, silly, trivial. That's why studying the world is always more interesting than getting self-absorbed.
Consider that the meaningfulness of your life isn't dependent on things like this. Surely there's something less petty (less inward-oriented) you could do for meaning. Paint landscapes or do meetups with other folk or read what science has found about nature -- something that involves the senses more and imagination less. Seeking signs from an alien mind will pretty much inevitably be your own mind getting stuck in a loop. Your control against this was apparently to ask a pastor... a person dedicated to treating the Bible and the world like a Rorschach blot.
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