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[Roy]

[webenda]

Our relatives are looking good!

Murph, you really don't understand evolution, do you?
I am convinced you descended from a potato.

Why do I say that?

The potato is the symbol for Image Magic, Healing. < Reference: https://healthfoodsoul.com/spiritual-meaning-of-plants/ >
The 4D* images you created on your model railroad are magic, taking us back in time. Healing because we leave our present-day concerns behind while looking at your layout.

And, you share over 99% of your DNA in common with a potato. < http://www.saps.org.uk/saps-associates/ ... ns-over-99 >

* Time, the fourth dimension. The trains move in real time and our imaginations travel back in time.

[Roy]

It's something to think about.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

….And, you share over 99% of your DNA in common with a potato. < http://www.saps.org.uk/saps-associates/ ... ns-over-99 >….

Well, I am starting to get shaped like one, more and more. But I'm workin' on reversing that.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...* Time, the fourth dimension. The trains move in real time and our imaginations travel back in time.

I live life in the present. But we understand life by looking at the past.

[rogruth]

...* Time, the fourth dimension. The trains move in real time and our imaginations travel back in time.

I live life in the present. But we understand life by looking at the past.

Murph,
IMHO not enough people understand that. Too bad for us.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It's very nice top have your concurrence on that, Roger.

[webenda]

...* Time, the fourth dimension. The trains move in real time and our imaginations travel back in time.

I live life in the present. But we understand life by looking at the past.

Murph,
IMHO not enough people understand that. Too bad for us.

"I live life in the present."
--Murph

Did you figure that out for yourself or did you read it somewhere?

Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18

So never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Each day has enough of its own troubles.
--Mathew 6:34

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18..

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense. Forget about Jesus, His example, and the examples of all the saints and what they learned and demonstrated? Nonsense. Forget about what I learned from family and parents? That would be a waste. And frankly, I am surprised you would state that. And Isaiah would have been wrong, then, or at the very least, narrow in his vision and teaching. I reject those notions as quoted by you here . Don't learn from history either? Just keep repeating the same types of mistakes. Silly.

Maybe not "dwell," but visit, at least, look, listen, and hope to see and learn (be granted some insight?) Yes. Hopefully.

And how do you imagine all of Judaism would react to your missive from Isaiah? Forget about the past?!
Think: Torah. Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur: Day of Remembrance.
Murph

[webenda]

...Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18..

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense. Forget about Jesus, His example, and the examples of all the saints and what they learned and demonstrated? Nonsense. Forget about what I learned from family and parents? That would be a waste. And frankly, I am surprised you would state that. And Isaiah would have been wrong, then, or at the very least, narrow in his vision and teaching. I reject those notions as quoted by you here . Don't learn from history either? Just keep repeating the same types of mistakes. Silly.

Maybe not "dwell," but visit, at least, look, listen, and hope to see and learn (be granted some insight?) Yes. Hopefully.

And how do you imagine all of Judaism would react to your missive from Isaiah? Forget about the past?!
Think: Torah. Rosh Hashanah. Yom Kippur: Day of Remembrance.
Murph

Those are God's words, not my words, not Isaiah's words. You are rejecting God when you make statements like you just did.

Isaiah 43:1 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Restoration and Protection Promised
43 But now thus says the Lord,

Isaiah 43:18 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
18 Do not remember the former things,
or consider the things of old.

And it is in the Jewish Bible:

Yeshayah 43:18 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)
18 Remember ye not the rishonot (former things) neither consider kadmoniyyot (the things of old).

Take your case to God, not to me or Isaiah.

Isaiah 43:26 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 Remind me; let us bring our case against each other;
Tell your side of it to prove you are in the right.

THE MEANING OF THE VERSE
(v. 18): "Remember not the former things, from them to take occasion, as some do, to undervalue the present things, as if the former days were better than these; no, you may, if you will, comparatively forget them, and yet know enough by the events of your own day to convince you that the Lord is God alone; for, behold, the Lord will do a new thing, no way inferior, both for the wonder and the worth of the mercy, to the things of old.’’
--Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

God was about to set his people free again, this time from Babylon captivity. Things were not going to be easy for them, the Babylonians had destroyed Jerusalem and God's temple. They were going to have to rebuild it while surrounded by warring neighbors. Just as they had said when freed from captivity in Egypt, "We were better off as slaves in Egypt than out here in the wilderness," when they were freed from Babylon, many would complain, "We were better off in Babylon."

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I still think we learn a lot about life from the past. No retraction or contrition here from me.

When I celebrate Christmas, for example of what I am saying, I am honoring the memory of something in the past, though still alive inside me. Part of the joy of remembering and celebrating is adding a few temporary decorations to our home, letting the community know part of who I am. Also, I give gifts to others to look back and honor and recall events very significant to me from the distant past, yet alive and present every time I receive the Eucharist in the present.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18..

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense. ...

Those are God's words, not my words, not Isaiah's words. You are rejecting God when you make statements like you just did.

Specious reasoning, on your part. Why do I say so? How many stories from and about the past are in the Bible and the Torah, and that are used for instruction and example, with Jews and Christians instructed to read and learn from them?

[webenda]

Murph, you clearly do not understand the message given. God is telling us that when you gain an understanding of the message in Isaiah 43:18, do not go back to your old understanding.

Remember the wife of Lot. She longed for the things she was leaving behind and looked back. Same lesson in Isaiah 43:18. What you think it means now is not better than what it really means.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18..

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense.
........
Forget about the past?!

This is what happens when the selective interpretation of fables and mythology intersects with religion.

[webenda]

...Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18..

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense.
........
Forget about the past?!

This is what happens when the selective interpretation of fables and mythology intersects with religion.

Same as when the truth about physical phenomena intersects with academics. This afternoon I will use the "Moon Illusion" as an example. Right now I have to for leave for Sunday bible study.