JIM WATKINS CRYPTIC MESSAGE
No oldfag here should not understand this. Jim's association of the threat of deplatforming (and other threats) with the parable from Luke 11:5 is no mystery to the best-informed. It's all about bringing out the big guns we need for the present and future.
Keep in mind Jim not only professes to be a liberal and a Christian, but he is also one of the best informed and enlightened mental giants to frequent this board. And as such, he should also have rather keen insight into how we could and should equip ourselves to reach these two more removed audiences (liberals and Christians) with what we have to offer. He has also gone to great lengths and personal sacrifice to defend and to keep this board - the heart and lifeblood of our movement.
He also quite apparently understands some of the writings of sacred writ are the most cryptic and yet, at times, the most meaningful ever recorded. I say this because of the way unusually valuable, hidden meanings so often appear in certain, timely contexts of scripture to which future audiences are later drawn. Here, for instance, the parable that follows the record of Jesus teaching his disciples to pray - which is something we are all exhorted to do these days - is about exactly what we also need to recognize as meaningful to us now.
We have more than we know
Admittedly, few here have been ready in the past for what we are addressing here. The main focus has long been in the political, and Q can only reckon with that. But there is a whole other half to the needs of the world for social well-being that can only come from more of an "inspirational" angle. Anons here however, have long been preparing for this, even unknowingly - because its all about coding.
Learn to code, anon
It only takes some knowledge of the history of this movement and recognizing a few key terms of this parable to understand what it all means to us now (and what Jim is saying). One of these, as we all know, is the metaphoric meaning of bread. It is that of life-sustaining, interactive information, such as a forum thread, or even an intelligence report on some important, current activity.
Another important term used here is stone. The OT repeatedly associates stones with "witness," and even explicitly mentions stones being used to "bear witness." This is further explained by the fact writings were often engraved into stones. So metaphorically, stones represent historical information.
Turning stones to bread
Turning a stone to bread, therefore, means making historical information useful and valuable in the present.
The Pharisees once tempted Jesus to turn a stone to bread, which he refused. But the reason they did this is extremely important for us to understand today. It was because they knew Moses and the prophets had encrypted very valuable information into their works which they had never been able to decipher. But they also felt threatened by it, particularly because John the Baptist had just recently threatened them, saying God could raise from stones the children of Abraham. That is to say, this sacred information would identify the true heirs of the eternal rule as being other than whom they had intended (themselves). And that meant they would be out of business.
Such sacred revelations have, in fact, throughout all of time, never been deciphered - that is until our day and age now. And what has been learned from it all is immense. But you will not hear anything (expectedly) about this in a church. It is only valuable (and promising) to real truth seekers and do-gooders. The 4c, CBTS, Storm and Qr boards have, in fact, been the best outlet for the study on this (for the few that could brave it), and that largely due to the unusual ability of anons to search out, consider and reckon with such illusive thought and inspiration. Many however, have not yet arisen to the great personal challenge such work also poses. It requires virtually throwing out all religious dogma of the past and recognizing the inter-relations of concepts, codes and ideals throughout Scripture - as if the same mind was behind it all (We eventually realize they just all knew the same codes - the knowledge of which common dogma refers to as "the spirit"). Just doing this enables the reader to recognize many hidden teachings encoded consistently throughout sacred texts, and puts him on a level of understanding "of all things" to which most modern preachers will never attain.
No reference to the material on this has appeared prior to this pasta on 8kun - hence the appeal for the three breads.
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