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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 9:57 pm

That sounds very high tech luxe!

Not sure metaphorically what it means, but I passed through the very clean and modern airport in your region once about ten years ago and the view of the mountains in the distance was lovely.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 10:06 pm

Air travel is a common dream motif for me. I've even got chimeric amalgam of airports that re-appears with enough consistency that I now know my way around it.

I just wish I'd stop forgetting my bags on the airplane, somewhere on the street, etc. as I rush to find the right gate in the dream hub from hell.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 10:17 pm

You can retrain your mind to some extent to change the path of such dreams.

Before you fall asleep, tell yourself that you will remember your bags, you will catch the next flight for sure, and in fact you will have a delicious lunch and find an excellent book in the airport bookstore for example. :)

Whatever you want and you do not have to be consistent with the exact details - just shape the direction away from anxiety-producing scenarios and towards enjoyment.

I taught myself how to do this in high school and it worked. 

It is weird how dreams create places for us to return to over and over again. I like architecture, so the houses are always intriguing.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 10:48 pm

Most of my dreams are about planes and boats and trains. And becoming a lion tamer

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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 10:56 pm

Very good. 

Working with more numbers (and strange creatures), this came to mind:

Daniel 7:1-7 KJV

7 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
More likely the poor fellow ate some ergot-infested grain and hallucinated everything.  Food quality was not the best back then especially if the grain was from the bottom of a damp granary.
Maybe space cake.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 10:57 pm

Do the lions talk to you in your dreams?  :D
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 11:11 pm

More like being in a den of Daniels.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 11:29 pm

Which brings us back to this:

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Good night to the lion's dens of Europe!
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 2nd, 2018, 11:31 pm

good night! tomorrow begins 6 nations rugby.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 3rd, 2018, 1:56 pm

One for the road: 

Last night I dreamed I had to fight a large alligator to save a small horse.

Ferocious battle - but I won and the horse was safe!  :D

(Makes sense after our discussion yesterday.)

Enjoy your rugby!  Brains and Brawn!

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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 7th, 2018, 1:33 am

Perfect for this thread:

No need for flu shots

Actually, I never get a flu shot, but I don't expect divine assistance.

I am just tough and I stay away from children! :D
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 7th, 2018, 2:50 am

Normally I'm pretty harsh on anti-vaxxers, but in cases like her and her followers I'll give them a pass and hope for nature to take its course.
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 7th, 2018, 8:05 am

Perfect for this thread:

No need for flu shots

Actually, I never get a flu shot, but I don't expect divine assistance.

I am just tough and I stay away from children! :D
vaccines have public health benefits but can also have side effects, so the optimal solution is to not have a shot yourself but make sure that everyone else does
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 7th, 2018, 2:24 pm

Perfect for this thread:

No need for flu shots

Actually, I never get a flu shot, but I don't expect divine assistance.

I am just tough and I stay away from children! :D
vaccines have public health benefits but can also have side effects, so the optimal solution is to not have a shot yourself but make sure that everyone else does
So you're saying religious people are selfish bastards?
 
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Re: Apocalypse (Revelation) Biblical explanation.

February 7th, 2018, 4:58 pm

Perfect for this thread:

No need for flu shots

Actually, I never get a flu shot, but I don't expect divine assistance.

I am just tough and I stay away from children! :D
vaccines have public health benefits but can also have side effects, so the optimal solution is to not have a shot yourself but make sure that everyone else does
So you're say religious people are selfish bastards?
I wasn't describing anyone, but physicians tend to be the only ones exempting themselves from rules they apply to others
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