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Anyone Want To Hazard A Stab At Symbolic Meaning Of This Eclipse?
Self ^ | 8/21/17 | Jim Newell

Posted on 08/21/2017 12:12:27 PM PDT by Jim W N

Whaddyathink? Any insights?


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To: shibumi

Well, that casts a bit of a pall upon the evening, doesn’t it?

/I didn’t have the salmon


81 posted on 08/21/2017 1:32:01 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: mason-dixon

I see two possible interpretations:

1) change into a new direction and then a change back. So 7/8 years of conservative directional change followed by a return to swap critters / business as usual

2) two consecutive changes in the same direction. So from Obama’s liberalism to a moderate conservatism under President Trump. Then people see that conservatism is not so bad and want an even greater shift to conservationism.

Just speculating here.


82 posted on 08/21/2017 1:34:10 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: mason-dixon

Of the double conservative change option, that would be very possible considering VP Pence taking over and implementing a social conservative agenda. VP Pence is 58 so that would make him 64 and still a viable candidate for President.

To make that happen though, I am of the opinion that President Trump will have to do a lot of work to clean up the voter rolls and make sure that we get a clean election.


83 posted on 08/21/2017 1:38:28 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: Salamander

If I stretch just a bit I think I can get my pain meds to last till September 23rd.

In the meantime, I’m going to order pizza.


84 posted on 08/21/2017 1:38:58 PM PDT by shibumi (Bee Neeth the Mambo Sun, I *GOT* to be The One)
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To: shibumi

Uh...okay.


85 posted on 08/21/2017 1:41:56 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: BuffaloJack

Not according to Genesis 1:14, it is a sign.


86 posted on 08/21/2017 1:42:16 PM PDT by Bob Celeste
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To: knarf

Wow!! YOU SAID IT perfectly!!!!!! Thx..
couldn’t agree more!!


87 posted on 08/21/2017 1:43:27 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Jim 0216

Mark Twain should use the idea in one of his books ???


88 posted on 08/21/2017 1:47:28 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: neverevergiveup

I hollered, “Don’t look, Ethel!” But it was too
late. She’d already been mooned.


89 posted on 08/21/2017 1:47:46 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Jim 0216
Anyone Want To Hazard A Stab At Symbolic Meaning Of This Eclipse?

God is Great, coffee is good and people are crazy.

90 posted on 08/21/2017 1:47:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Hotlanta Mike

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven’t laughed that hard in months!!


91 posted on 08/21/2017 1:51:32 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: lurk

......one of my favorite anthems.
We sang that in our choir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaQ8qoCUaA


92 posted on 08/21/2017 2:11:20 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: FamiliarFace

By 2018?


93 posted on 08/21/2017 2:15:28 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: posterchild

Moon blocked my view of the sun too. It went completlely over the sun in SC, Just my rotten luck.


94 posted on 08/21/2017 2:52:12 PM PDT by Codeflier (Thank you for speaking truth to power President Trump)
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To: Jim 0216

Symbolic meaning? The moon passed in front of the sun for a brief moment today. It’s simple celestial mechanics - nothing more.


95 posted on 08/21/2017 2:53:03 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Jim 0216
Has a lot to do with the L.A. Clippers....

Just my thoughts.....

96 posted on 08/21/2017 2:53:59 PM PDT by Osage Orange (You have brains in your head...and feet in your shoes..............)
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To: Jim 0216
One of my daughters is a hair stylist....

I think she should change her professional name to Eclipse....

97 posted on 08/21/2017 2:58:02 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the armadillo it could be done.)
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To: knarf; edh; a fool in paradise; posterchild; tbw2; AppyPappy; BuffaloJack; Hotlanta Mike; Leep; ...
Well, I thought some answers were thoughtful and interesting, and some were funny. And many were like this one...

There is no meaning with an eclipse. It’s just another astral event.

Maybe, but Jesus said of the end times (which I think there is good reason to believe we are in),

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring
Luke 21:25.

Since I don't think Jesus is a lair, then maybe there might be something symbolic to all of this (it doesn't have to be unpredictable to be symbolic).

For anyone that is interested (the rest, just take a pass), here's what I thought of this morning while all this was going on...

In Genesis 37:9-10, Joseph tells a dream to his father, Jacob, who immediately understood the sun and the moon in the dream to mean Joseph's father and mother. (Would that we were as quick-witted as Jacob.) (I think there are other references in the Bible as well that allude to the woman being like the moon.

So one way (not the only way) to look at this eclipse could be the idea that the woman is getting in front of and usurping the man which is happening in America and all over the world these days. A la "feminism, the women's movement, and "equal rights", women are supplanting men in the home and the workplace not because of ability but because of gender and I think the results we're seeing is broken homes and less intelligence in the workplace - more darkness.

98 posted on 08/21/2017 3:08:45 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Where I’m currently located I’ve seen big dark clouds blot out the sun more effectively than today’s partial eclipse. Didn’t even get dark here. To my way of thinking I experience a solar eclipse on a regular basis. It’s called nighttime. When the Earth turns its back to the Sun. The Earth rotating on its axis while orbiting the Sun while the Moon orbits the Earth is, in and of itself, simply incredible. How it all works is truly beyond my comprehension.


99 posted on 08/21/2017 3:08:55 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: robroys woman

:-)

Stolen.


100 posted on 08/21/2017 3:10:01 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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