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There is justifiable doubt about whether there are a lot of people who view the Gospel of Thomas as a somethingness that can be used as an oracle. My reason for making this daring statement is based on my personal observation that there doesn't appear to be a lot of people in my neck of the woods who even know what an oracle of any kind is.
Moreover, it's my opinion that very few humans spend the amount of time that it takes to bring even famous oracles like the Oracle of Delphi into being, and using graven images that employ the statement, "Jesus said..." might appear sacrilegious to them. No blame.
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9 Jesus said, Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure.
http://users.misericordia.edu//davies/thomas/Trans.htm
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This saying is almost word for word how I've redundantly, repetitively, boringly, and tediously described how these very small (thus, anachronistically mystical?) mustard seeds/pearls/black holes/cornucopias were scattered upon the Earth like a cloud of neutrinos in my remembering vision.
These docetic entities were/are only spiritual in the sense that they're practically invisible to the naked eye. Like the no-see-ums out on the Outer Banks when the wind changes and blows them in contrarily from the ocean to the shore. Just because the sporting surf fishermen can't see them doesn't mean those pesky critters are not going to "go to town" on any exposed skin.
My favorite metaphor for the comportment of these unseen pesky creatures (pearls of great price) is the story of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, and how he suffered to become a real little boy instead of a wooden dummy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio
This fairy tale wasn't wasted on the likes of George Bernard Shaw who transformed it into the novel Pygmalion, which itself served as the basis for the highly successful musical stage play and the film movie, My Fair Lady.
These pearly no-see-ums (teeny tiny black holes) recreate ala imitation and mimicry intricate mechanisms that are a quantum leap beyond a wooden dummy, and yet they too still can't be-co-me a real human being any better than Pinocchio could.
To me this saying is stating that to truly avoid worshiping graven images of any sort, one must abandon the futile effort to keep one's body alive in order to become immortal.
Seeking professional caretakers as a pathway toward living forever in one's physical body can be seen as blasphemy of the spirit because it indicates an unwillingness to follow the imperceptible docetic spirit's will in order to preserve one's body as a relic to be prayed to and victory is being carved in stone as a graven image.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
