Houseplants in Heaven?

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jaybird88

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did you guys ever hear funny stories about crazy ladies that talked to their plants, everyone would laugh at the idea but most would agree that the crazy lady always had the best garden and flower garden around.
another interesting thing, the plant experiment has been done many times in university labs, take 2 plants in different rooms, talk to one, dont talk to the other. the talked to plant always grows better.
another experiment, 2 plants in different rooms and talk to both, one plant say i love you (nice loving things but love is the main theme) every day, the other plant "i hate you" or hateful things. the "i love you plant will always grow better. further more, the "i hate you" plant many times grows stunted, less lush or even dies. this is proven many times in universities around the world yet no one can explain it.
so maybe plants are more connected to us than we think.
 
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atwhatcost

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Sirk said:
My daughter has s massive stuffed animal collection....and if you've ever seen toy story you know they have a soul.
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The premise to the novel I'm writing is, by law, all stuffed animals (and all other "luxury items" had to be thrown away. The story is about how the stuffies adapted. So, yeah, part of me knows it's more than just a soul. lol
 
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atwhatcost

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Viligant_Warrior said:
To overcome the hyperbole I've set in motion, I have to say that my seat and the guy in the left seat both had shock absorbers that cushioned part of the blow from a hard landing. But they weren't completely effect. It isn't exactly a miracle I walked away from that event -- with difficulty. But any landing you walk away from is a good landing. :D

What childhood trauma and abuse causes in the child's adult life is just now beginning to be understood. I think I posted on this board not long ago the results of the Kaiser-Permanente Adverse Childhoo Experience Study that catalogued the illnesses of over 17.000 of their patients who reported ACEs during their formative years.

The results were astounding. One traumatic childhood experience can result in lower SAT/ACT scores, the development of addiction, and diagnoses of severe health issues such as cancer, diabetes, heart and liver disease, and others. Count yourself fortunate that the pain is mostly all that you have to deal with as an adult, even though it is difficult to see that, I'm sure, as "fortune" or blessing.
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"And we KNOW ALL THINGS" Romans 8:28. Not fortune. God's graciousness. :D
 
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atwhatcost

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Reborn said:
All of them except that T-Rex toy.

Everyone knows that dinosaurs don't have souls, come on, thats just silly.
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And I questioned the Slinky dachshund. (No one is noticing I'm a big fan of those movies, right? :confused:​)
 
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atwhatcost

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jaybird88 said:
did you guys ever hear funny stories about crazy ladies that talked to their plants, everyone would laugh at the idea but most would agree that the crazy lady always had the best garden and flower garden around.
another interesting thing, the plant experiment has been done many times in university labs, take 2 plants in different rooms, talk to one, dont talk to the other. the talked to plant always grows better.
another experiment, 2 plants in different rooms and talk to both, one plant say i love you (nice loving things but love is the main theme) every day, the other plant "i hate you" or hateful things. the "i love you plant will always grow better. further more, the "i hate you" plant many times grows stunted, less lush or even dies. this is proven many times in universities around the world yet no one can explain it.
so maybe plants are more connected to us than we think.
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I garden. Most of my perennials have names. None of my annuals because I learned my lesson when we bought lobsters for dinner and I named mine. (Never name your food. lol) I accidentally grew a pumpkin vine one year. One of the flowers landed in the crux of a chain linked fence. What were the chances that flower would grow a pumpkin? It did. His name was Quasimodo, because 3/5ths was on one side of the fence and the other 2/5ths was on the other side. He got too heavy so he broke apart. The birds and squirrels liked it, but I felt bad.

What crazy plant lady? :confused:
 
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Sirk

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atwhatcost said:
The premise to the novel I'm writing is, by law, all stuffed animals (and all other "luxury items" had to be thrown away. The story is about how the stuffies adapted. So, yeah, part of me knows it's more than just a soul. lol
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You wanna know something funny that's totally unrelated to this thread? It's that Toy Story and The Walking Dead have the same plot and characters.

[video=youtube;4Dg-KC9xjcE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dg-KC9xjcE[/video]
 
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Sirk

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Viligant_Warrior said:
To overcome the hyperbole I've set in motion, I have to say that my seat and the guy in the left seat both had shock absorbers that cushioned part of the blow from a hard landing. But they weren't completely effect. It isn't exactly a miracle I walked away from that event -- with difficulty. But any landing you walk away from is a good landing. :D

What childhood trauma and abuse causes in the child's adult life is just now beginning to be understood. I think I posted on this board not long ago the results of the Kaiser-Permanente Adverse Childhoo Experience Study that catalogued the illnesses of over 17.000 of their patients who reported ACEs during their formative years.

The results were astounding. One traumatic childhood experience can result in lower SAT/ACT scores, the development of addiction, and diagnoses of severe health issues such as cancer, diabetes, heart and liver disease, and others. Count yourself fortunate that the pain is mostly all that you have to deal with as an adult, even though it is difficult to see that, I'm sure, as "fortune" or blessing.
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There is good, bad and ugly in childhood. The good is the normal stuff we do in relationship....the bad is the disconnection that happens in normal everyday life, but it gets back to the good....the ugly is when the child has no chance to get back to the good because there is no reparation. The ugly is what damages the childs psyche for a lifetime.
 
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jaybird88

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atwhatcost said:
I garden. Most of my perennials have names. None of my annuals because I learned my lesson when we bought lobsters for dinner and I named mine. (Never name your food. lol) I accidentally grew a pumpkin vine one year. One of the flowers landed in the crux of a chain linked fence. What were the chances that flower would grow a pumpkin? It did. His name was Quasimodo, because 3/5ths was on one side of the fence and the other 2/5ths was on the other side. He got too heavy so he broke apart. The birds and squirrels liked it, but I felt bad.

What crazy plant lady? :confused:
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i dont think your crazy, i think our Lord gave you a perspective that few have. enjoy it.
 
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Kaycie

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Sorry, heaven is not a physical place and has nothing physical in it.
 
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Kaycie said:
Sorry, heaven is not a physical place and has nothing physical in it.
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God is magnificent enough to have His entire creation in Heaven, even if its in a non-physical state.
 
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Why is so much focus always put on heaven? Rhetorical question, sort of. But really, why all the fuss about heaven when Jesus told us to live for today? And not only that, but we will be inhabiting the new earth, not heaven.
 
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Kaycie

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Magenta said:
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Why is so much focus always put on heaven? Rhetorical question, sort of. But really, why all the fuss about heaven when Jesus told us to live for today? And not only that, but we will be inhabiting the new earth, not heaven.
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The new earth is hell, and it is also not a physical place, God will get rid of all physicality.
 
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Kaycie said:
The new earth is hell, and it is also not a physical place, God will get rid of all physicality.
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Do you have Scripture for this? I vote for no.
 
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Kaycie

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Magenta said:
Do you have Scripture for this? I vote for no.
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Read Revelation 21:1. If you take Christians out of the earth, and you take away water which supports all life, what have you left?
 
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jaybird88

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Utah said:
God is magnificent enough to have His entire creation in Heaven, even if its in a non-physical state.
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we have no proof that the world we know here is physical. its based on theory.
 
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Kaycie said:
Read Revelation 21:1. If you take Christians out of the earth, and you take away water which supports all life, what have you left?
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There is to be a new earth. Is that the one you are saying we will be taken out of. No, the new earth is where we are to live. The New Jerusalem comes down from heaven: prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Who is the bride? We are. Who is the Groom? Jesus is. On the new earth. Not in heaven.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
 
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Kaycie said:
Read Revelation 21:1. If you take Christians out of the earth, and you take away water which supports all life, what have you left?
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Revelation 21:1-4New International Version (NIV)A New Heaven and a New Earth

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[SUP][a][/SUP] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. [SUP]2 [/SUP]I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. [SUP]3 [/SUP]And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. [SUP]4 [/SUP]‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[SUP][b][/SUP] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”





You must do your Bible studies with Roger and Frank Gehry.
 
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Sirk

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jaybird88 said:
we have no proof that the world we know here is physical. its based on theory.
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I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that....yes we do. The bible says that God created all flesh. We are flesh and blood according to scripture and that seems pretty tangible.
 
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didymos

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Magenta said:
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Why is so much focus always put on heaven? Rhetorical question, sort of. But really, why all the fuss about heaven when Jesus told us to live for today? And not only that, but we will be inhabiting the new earth, not heaven.
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Depends what He meant by:

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

(Matthew 6: 33 / NIV)

 
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