I note that no one has responded to last night’s challenges.
Interesting.
They’ve only so much energy to spend per thread.
They’ll be back in a new one...
“Interesting”
Normal too.
You cannot give, what you do not possess.
You can’t possess, unless you “study to show yourself approved, rightly handling the word of truth.”
You can’t find, unless you seek.
You won’t seek truth, if you don’t want to know what is true.
And like the story of the monkey trap, as long as you hold on to the nut in the hole, you are never free and will die.
The bait of false works and pagan religious rituals has killed many monkeys.
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The Monkey Trap
By George A. Ricker
In parts of Asia, and other places in the world as well, indigenous people use a method for trapping monkeys that is simplicity itself.
To make the trap, you must first hollow out a gourd, leaving an opening just large enough for a monkey’s open paw to go through. Place a sweet treat—or some other food monkeys are partial to—inside the gourd, then attach a vine to the gourd and stake the other end of the vine to the ground somewhere out of sight.
An unsuspecting monkey smells the treat inside the gourd and reaches in to collect it. However, the opening, which was just large enough for the critter’s open paw to go in, is too small to allow its clenched paw to pass back through. No matter how much the monkey yanks, he cannot escape as long as he tries to hang on to the treat.
Meanwhile, the hunter who set the trap comes along, collects the monkey, and, presumably, heads back home in search of a cooking pot and a fire. There will be monkey meat tonight.