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Offline Matto

On Squirrels
« on: August 07, 2019, 10:41:22 PM »
This is an old thought I had that makes sense to me now:

"Here is a strange thing I noticed about squirrels and the kinds of squirrels that live in different places. In most places that I have been to, the squirrels are the normal grey (or red) kind and they run around finding nuts and climbing trees like regular squirrels do. But then there is a different kind of squirrel that lives in the places where evil reigns. There is a neighborhood I know that is seeped in sin and in this neighborhood the squirrels are not grey (or red). It is as if the normal squirrels have been chased out by a horror of sin and have been replaced by ugly squirrels who are black and slothful and sit around on the ground and have much less energy than the normal squirrels as if they are sick and tired of the world. In places where grace abounds, there is another kind of squirrel I have noticed. These are wonderful squirrels and are snow-white in color and very beautiful. They are very fast and never stop moving. When they climb the trees and jump from branch to branch it is a marvel to look at them as it looks as if they are flying. The difference between these kinds of squirrels is like the difference between saints, and normal sinners, and the unrepentantly wicked. I wonder if God sends these different kinds of squirrels to be among different kinds of people as a reminder of the state of their souls. (My grandmother had these snow-white squirrels in her backyard. That is a hopeful sign)."

After I first thought of it years ago I thought I was mad.
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Offline Nadir

Re: On Squirrels
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2019, 12:04:53 AM »
It is like that with dogs, not so much the appearance, but the behaviour. If the owner is changed, the nature of the dog is changed.

Once there was a neighbouring dog, and the owners sold the property together with the dog.

Jay Jay had a reputation for being very fierce, and none of the neighbours would go there without fear. 

The new owners came and, lo and behold, Jay Jay, a German shepherd became, well not quite a lamb but approachable. One day I watched him gently edging between a small child and the edge of a pool. He watched continuously like a hawk, and repeated the action as needed.
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Offline 1st Mansion Tenant

Re: On Squirrels
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2019, 12:22:04 AM »
Thanks, Matto. It's a relief to know I'm not the only one who ponders stuff like that.   
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Offline Seraphina

Re: On Squirrels
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2019, 01:38:38 AM »
If the three of you are strange, I’m probably stranger.  🕷🕸🦟

On an Ignatian Retreat in Ridgefield, CT, July of 2005, I discovered a friendly and intelligent Brown house spider, a female who made her silken home in the overhead light at the top of the stairs to the chapel.  On the first night I couldn’t sleep and decided to get a breath of fresh air outside.  Upon re-entering, I saw movement in the lamp cover through a place where it was cracked and broken off. I named her Claudette.  She was busy wrapping up a small moth, all the while staring at me, probably wondering what kind of spider I was, having only two eyes.  Every night for the entire retreat, I captured an insect and fed it to Claudette.  Mostly I half killed moths or mosquitoes that swarmed around the outside light at night.  By the last day of the retreat, Claudette was very plump, indeed.  I don’t know if she made an egg sac.  I never saw a husband, but that’s not unusual because spiders often capture and eat their husbands if they don’t run fast enough after performing their duty.  If Claudette did have spiderlings in the lamp, approximately 800 little ones were released in the building.  Her descendants may very well live there to this day.

“The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.”  ~Proverbs xxx; xxviii
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Offline Matto

Re: On Squirrels
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2019, 06:21:34 AM »
My intuition tells me that moths are symbols of dead souls and butterflies are symbols of living souls, so whenever a spider is eating a moth it is a sign of salvation, and if you ever see a spider eating a butterfly, it would be time to repent (or perhaps time for a crusade)!

A Children's Crusade: Fairy tales and songs and stories are true. We teach them to children so that they will find their way home when they are lost. IF they were baptized but lived with bad parents who never taught them how to be good, they will get lost in the woods, with only their guardian angels to help them. We have to drop them bread crumbs so that they may find their way home.

One thing Jordan Peterson is right about is that a young man has got to go into the belly of the whale (like Jonah) to save his father and only after he conquers his fears will he become a real boy (by the intercession of the Blue Fairy). We men do have to kill our dragons, and always fear the horn of the unicorn, may you never be gored by him. There is a reason the biography of Archbishop Lefebvre by DR. David Allen White is titled Horn of the Unicorn. DAW's book.

Hansel and Gretel is first, then Sleeping Beauty? And Pinocchio. Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and of course Little Red Riding Hood. My muse has a tattoo of Little Red Riding Hood on her body.

Everything that exists is true and good, and all the rest are imaginary numbers.
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