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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry. Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered. Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither all at once?” And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

— Matthew 21:18-22 NASB1995

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daiva's avatar

🗨 Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape [...]. You need to believe in things that aren't true... how else can they become? ~~Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I’m not the smartest kid on the block, but I have no idea what that means. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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daiva's avatar

Good to know. Ty for bothering to inform us 🙂

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Dr Linda's avatar

What’s up with this response? Anger? Frustration? Disagreement?

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daiva's avatar

Gratitude, quite obviously 🙂

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CStone's avatar

What are you saying?

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SusanMc's avatar

Unpleasant narcissists can easily be blocked;

I’ve done so a few times. Not productive to continue humoring them.

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Sounds like he could be a bit of an AH. Why destroy a tree over that?

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