Praise You God and Jesus because You are not easy to predict.

This is the coolest story in the Bible:

At the Home of Martha and Mary
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[f] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

You got Jesus there, God? Parable!

God says...
stumble woes shunning won refrain Replacement ecclesiastical
bawler ornamenting foresaw Betwixt observed astounding
shatter lawyer impatient redeemed tongue inchoate Exodus
hence imagination saith see wander relater Master unravelled
Body uh_huh untruth bridle entrance grievously collectively
steered convenient cleaveth vanities fancy idols hardship
INDEMNITY despise straightening lanthorn Connecticut saith
frequently folk shameless Wherefore prophet hurts_my_head
figuratively character hooks what_the_heck We sink broken
numerous whether however deluding course fruitfulness
you_don't_say volunteers gleam harmless Prodigality pray
foresaw shist also established unshakenly fumes Sometimes
So removed difference Just immovably alone shadowed remitted
hear secular See provoke unusual slay medicines Vermont
MS gently slaying price shattered stirring afterwards
teeth skills acts cubit heavenly MS duller seventh hung

The Bible is full of surprises. The prodigal son is totally unexpected. Jesus makes all of His parables unexpected.

God says...
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re the first or last man; unless it were in the
spring, when at long intervals some came from the village to fish
for pouts -- they plainly fished much more in the Walden Pond of
their own natures, and baited their hooks with darkness -- but they
soon retreated, usually with light baskets, and left "the world to
darkness and to me," and the black kernel of the night was never
profaned by any human neighborhood. I believe that men are
generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches a

Yeah -- it's not noble to quote stories that favor your side. God one time shed very bad light on Jews who in the Bible basically had themsleves as the heroes. God made them look self indulgent. To love God, however, I think you have to believe He loves you. This is one of those psychological reality-based observations on love, like Jesus said "Who loves more..." I don't know, but I joke "Jews love God; Catholics love neighbor."

Say something funny, God.

I like birds. They come from eggs. Wow. How do they breath?

God says...
Juno merciful sue usage repeat_after_me shifting thrown
madness sobriety weaving Simplicianus surmount supported
betters Three how_goes_it faster big_fish Simple bursting
seemly abated Treasury mocking Print unalterable convinced
learned don't_worry others' grass bereaved commandest
temperament foreigner faint expecteth deliberation undergo
Ours conquer corrigible friends problem lying emptiness
remembereth changeableness execrate middle_class sue disease
stayed faces hogshed restraint troublesome monasteries
tomorrow curest youre_lucky forgetting startles Medicine
year tutors overpass measurable contagion desire abler
examine glorying bye organs easy enjoinest

You think organs have an easy time forming in an egg? Very stable. Neat.

God says...

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onopoly
of the home market, can raise that value. The freest competition cannot
lower it, Through the world in general, that value is equal to the
quantity of labour which it can maintain, and in every particular place
it is equal to the quantity of labour which it can maintain in the
way, whether liberal, moderate, or scanty, in which labour is commonly
maintained in that place. Woollen or linen cloth are not the regulating
commodities by which the real value of all other commodities must be
final

I move-on when it's nothing that involves me. Yeah, You are right to raise the question of why we get duds or unpleasant ones. In my experience God quickly puts you out of your comfort zone, inevitably. If it's not high stakes, some times He leaves, so to speak. (High stakes like on a delusional world stage, for example.) He's funny -- He'll make you squirm, lots of times. Maybe, there are things you do that cause Him to do that.

Apple and China? It might be important to keep in mind that God presided over times when everybody was poor and in primitive conditions. He said Dicken's England was not a good time. I guess that's no excuse, but often there are cases where liberals err in their evaluation of the situation. Liberals are good. I'm often at odds but I wouldn't want catastrophic success.

God says...
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ied that he heard him, and that he need not trouble himself with
any further warnings or entreaties, as they would be fruitless, and bade
him make haste.

During the delay that occurred while the keeper was opening the first
cage, Don Quixote was considering whether it would not be well to do
battle on foot, instead of on horseback, and finally resolved to fight on
foot, fearing that Rocinante might take fright at the sight of the lions;
he therefore sprang off his horse, flung his lance aside, bra

If you want interpretation, I often imagine Latins off to the side and think what they might think. (Because it's Don Quixote) I image myself as quixote, but then think maybe Latins might be indignant over working conditions and they are quixote. You kinda try a story from all angles and if you get something out of it, you win. I don't get much out of it, that being said. Lions are anti-Christian adversaries.

If God talks, I'll let other people complain to God about their own injustices, but I still feel self conscious and guilty at times. God can talk. You talk to Him! I don't think that solves all problems.

God says...
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got there, and those were always
left wide open.

After some delay and demur, the door grudgingly turned on its hinges
a very little way, and allowed Mr. Jerry Cruncher to squeeze himself
into court.

"What's on?" he asked, in a whisper, of the man he found himself next to.

"Nothing yet."

"What's coming on?"

"The Treason case."

"The quartering one, eh?"

"Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle
to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before

:-) I'm a veteran. It's gotten much more pleasant. At first, I suffered horribly psychologically, often terrified. Umm... I might want to beg for mercy if all my misdeeds were known.

Let's play country shitlist! I can change the channel ;-)

God says...
I'm_off_today Sri_Lanka Vietnam fabulous I'm_busy you're_wonderful
South_Korea Knock_you_upside_the_head It's_nice_being_God
meh not harder_than_it_looks Georgia Angel food wanna_bet
woot Finland you_see_the_light here_now You_can_count_on_that
California slumin what_the_heck big_fish Turkey atrocious
on_the_otherhand my_precious you're_wonderful Shalom spirit
yada_yada_yada Bolivia envy study Ireland Ivy_league Okilydokily
you_hoser are_you_insane China courage joke mission_from_God
do_you_like_it why_didn'_you_tell_me Togo Japan United_Kingdom
Knock_you_upside_the_head humongous Ireland funny husband
IANAL high_mucky_muck take_the_day_off Kuwait wishful_thinking
hypocrite fer_sure the_enquirer lifes_like_chocolates
segway do_you_know_what_time_it_is in_theory delightful
high_five take_your_pick whatcha_talkin'_'bout it_gets_better
segway smart au_revoir do_you_have_a_problem If_had_my_druthers
how_about