More interesting phenomenon to think about. One thought that came to me today was Living Scriptures. Our very lives our very beings are living scriptures. What does this mean?

Well, take for example the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible. There is this one scene where this guy Paul runs around killin folks under the guidance of the Law of Moses (see Old Testament). As I write this I suddenly realize why why when I prayed for the right church so many years ago – Mormons showed up on my door step the next morning bright and early. The Mormons had mentioned the “Levitical” priesthood. I was 20 years old at the time and had not a clue what they were talking about. I now realize that was actually a question that got planted in my head to begin the search. What the heck is the Levitical priesthood and why am I just now hearing about this? Back to Paul. So Paul seems to represent something that I have observed in “new” Christians who have decided they are “saved”. They can sometimes run around with the hammer of rebuke, rebuking anything in sight not conforming to their vision of Christianity. Rebuke. Rebuke. They must save folks from hell. Rebuke. Rebuke. Rabblerousing.  That could be one example of a Living Scripture. I’m not suggesting complaceny either.

Some time ago I had gotten in trouble with the authorities for a small bit. It was serious business. I don’t want to go into the details, but suffice it to say I was a bit worried. It wasn’t the first time in my life. I recall daring one of my teachers in high-school to send me to the principal. Sort of reminds me of this good intentioned rabblerouser:

I recall putting up a prayer and vowing against not doing something in particular anymore if God, the Lord, or whatever, would just get me out of this particular pickle. The pickle evaporated like it was magic. I still have no idea how. I’ve been trying to understand and recreate the results ever since on a more consistent basis – to get into the “flow”. The scripture of my life when written would become… and then Shohn was slated for enslavement at the hands of the authorities; however, the Lord delivered him from a prison of his own making. We all make prisons of our own that we need to escape from.

I am learning that there seem to be certain rules that govern how this place works. I’ve tested some of these and others I have just read about. It is as though we are the characters in some giant video game or dream even. On some levels it seems that we have free will, yet on other levels we are carried by the river that is life. Perhaps we were placed into a river and are likely to arrive at a destination or two; however, we can paddle to and fro or even hit a few rocks along the way and crack our head open and drown if we don’t pay attention.

One area I have tested this is in “manifestation” exercises. I’ll lose something or ask for parking place or whatever. So I’ll send up a little prayer and then “release” it. Like a sidewinder missile, I fire and forget. As I do this, I’ve had some crazy things delivered just as I had asked for them. Other things seem to take longer. For example, with my wife I’ve asked for baby step miracles and they seem to occur, but asking for the big miracle no longer seems to happen (going on 17 months now). Other times, there have been instances where I was merely thinking about something – not actively praying for it for a number of reasons and then then it happened anyway. Some of these things weirded me out they were so real. It was as though my thoughts were on many levels leading up to what was occurring in “reality” next. It was scary on some levels.

We do the same when we forget a name…it seems that the harder we try to remember it .the farther we push it away. Sooner or later we give up on it and then it flashes across our mind. It’s amazing how fast you can remember a name when you don’t spend time trying to remember. I recall this happening to me on a password I had forgotten. I forgot a password for about 9 months once and it came to me out of the clear blue sky one day.

I’ve included the illustration below as an example from college that registered with my memory. It is a problem where you have a brine solution entering into a mixing tank with a given amount of salt already in the water. As the brine enters the amount of salt in the mixture changes. At the same time, there is an outlet allowing water to flow out. The problem involves using calculus to determine when the salt solution will be at a given percentage. I suspect that our thoughts and prayers are much the same in that there are constant inputs and outputs and the system may even have a feedback loop.

As I am thinking about the marriage restoration I have noted that there are times that bring about change quickly in almost every case. It the case of guys, it is often when they have “accepted” that they are getting a divorce. I suspect that this acceptance limits the number of opposing thoughts that are put out into the universe that can then limit that aspect of “reality” selection. Either that or somehow women can feel when us men are no longer feeling lonely and needy and then that is when they come around. All the marriage restoration and relationship restore books say the same thing. Getting to that point though…. that is another story.

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 So this is something I dreamed up the other day. I’m not quite sure how to put it, but I’ll do my best.

I have a suspicion that persons that were the eldest sibling MAY be able to more easily relate to persons older than them on certain maturity levels when the persons whom they are relating to were not the eldest sibling. Making this up as I’m going along, but it was just a passing thought. It is just a hypothesis, and obviously there would be exceptions even if this were some sort of general rule.  

A friend of mine coined the term, the Primagenitor Effect, if this actually exists as a viable relationship force.

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