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Contents
Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:Some lessons of Solomon
"You're gods," said Jesus. And gods can fly." We'll look into it more or less according to "seeing is believing".
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There are ants and there are ants. Some can fly, and some can not. Higher than the ants are the woodpeckers. They can fly, and some eat ants.
Old king Solomon says that ants aren't lorded over, but that is one more stupid Bible error, and not fit for the wisest man on earth today. Why? Because it is wrong.
There are flying ants, and at least four sorts of woodpeckers eat ants. And this is to lead us right into the Solomon-unattainable: "Go to the woodpecker, strong-necked plotter, study its ways and learn to rise above those that take to the ways of mere crawling ants."
There's reason to assert that man is no overgrown rat, although some laboratory research on rats has led to dubious comparisons of the kind. The lower the animal that we draw information from, the baser our comparison has to be. "YOU'RE GODS," says Jesus [John 10:34]. And gods can fly - reputedly. And most birds and many insects can, fairly often to their harm.
God said, "Let's make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air ... over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."Let us study the deft and jolly woodpecker to derive benefit. It may be ranked far higher than the feeble ant it feeds on, for it has a heart. So the lessons we learn may be even more fit for us - even though the common pig might feel offended - for he's much like us - and hence more like God. The evidence is here: a pig may be taught how to use a computer, even - and medical engineers may soon implant a pig's heart in man. But a woodpecker's heart and tail feathers seem out of place in such drastic endeavours. What do you say?
So God created man in his own image ... male and female he created them. [Genesis 1:26-7] God's angels can fly - fly like God? Not just like the wind?"What is man that you're mindful of him ... that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels [In Psalm 8 that's cited in Hebrews, there are two alternatives instead of angels: (a) "than God"; and (2) "than the heavenly beings" - Pick a choice according to boldness, but study the context]; you crowned him with glory and honour and put everything under his feet." In putting everything under him - even clouds - God left nothing that isn't subject to him. [Hebr 2:6-8]
Still, there are many beautiful lessons to draw on from the woodpecker. How can we say it matters if this approach looks silly at first glance?
God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise ... [1 Cor 1:27 - see also 1 Cor 1:20]Thus there's a lot of hope. Let's have a go and see what we come up with.
God's batterer, the ardent woodpecker
You may never find out who's the woodpecker in the following series of joking abstracts unless you get some keys. (1) It could be the surgeon at the nearest state hospital. (2) Jesus uses both "tree" and "vine" as tokens of heaven and divine life. (3) It may help to visualise a jolly surgeon and his predominant strivings through each little essay here, for sound and meticulous visualisation training can be good for man. It helps memory, asserts Tony Buzan:1
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To discourage insensible drumming, don't try to change the woodpecker, instead try to modify the surface of the favourite site (address). For there are very good reasons for the woodpecker's behaviour, just as God had intended. They had better be carefully gauged and assessed before taking action against that mighty bird.
As lover of other game or fowl, be forewarned: In the spring or summer, assume the round hole you find on your way, could be an active woodpecker nest with eggs or hatchlings inside it. You might still look for such round, deep openings, where both male and female woodpeckers take turns incubating two to eight eggs, and then immediately cement the openings. That could turn nice folks very much against you, for there's a plastic charm over some of these birds. And some could feel a calling to become a sort of surgeon - you know.
And did you know that many of them prefer to drill in dying trees or snags? And then, woodpeckers may cause damage to the outside of buildings (facades of oneself) for much the same reasons - and all along these birds are likely to be drilling for food - It should be a welcome sign it could pay to improve the buildings a whole lot.
As it is, woodpeckers may drill cavities for nesting, roosting, or caching food. [2.1]
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Then it could be needed and useful to make necessary repairs which might entail replacing affected timbers, siding, or roofing. These things may all be understood figuratively, like other nature warnings that we humans love to group as omen-bringers.
Woodpeckers are deft. They also use their beaks to drum or tap out messages during breeding season. Yet, if woodpecker activity is not restricted to one site on a building, the birds are likely to be drilling for food.
Woodpeckers can be very charming, sort of, even if they live in hiding. But while they go for food and shelter and mating, resident woodpeckers drum strongly, hard and often, and may not be counted to be so polite that it matters.
The fact is they sift things out much and often, and go about utterly discreet till they starts chiseling, pecking and boring in their way of ways - one that give sure concussions, aches and bruises to most others. In feeding, most woodpeckers start at the base of a tree, searching for insects and spiders. ¤
The sound of their drumming against a wall may be annoying to occupants inside. And the rattling in the trees nearby can often annoy a feeble individual. All the same, there is a deep reason for their stay, and care should be taken not to scare birds away from an active nest. [3.2]
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Furthermore, woodpeckers are equipped with sharp claws that enable them to cling upright on the bark of trunks and branches. At times they probe small holes in wood to catch insects. That's the warning, especially if that woodpecker among us is en employee at the near-by hospital. These things matter to tell.
To get well-adapted to living in trees can become a problem when the site is a metal or brick wall, or wooden siding of a house, and when the woodpecker pecks on it in the early morning. Bad and uncivic neighbours can make a lot of difference to these jolly creatures.
When they bore and gain the ardently desired nest, woodpeckers like jolly surgeons tunnel down six to eighteen inches deep, making the excavation wider at the bottom for the egg chamber. A minority among woodpeckers excavate holes in live trees, not rotten and smug ones, and are aided by long, flexible, bristled and sticky tongues in their great and hoary art-work. [3.1]
Woody Woodpecker's delight on top of the great Tao Te Ching
The red-shafted kind of woodpecker that has adapted to urban and suburban environments, may be no victim of Laotse-resembling main doctrine: The value of the house depends on many holes. See below.It's on the space where there's nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what Heaven's kingdom is like."
It's on the space where there's nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce and cut out doors and windows to make a house; and it's on these spaces where there's nothing that the usefulness of the house depends. [From psalm 11]
He said to them, It's like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky. [Gospel of Thomas, logion 20]
Tip-toe through the figurative parts
ARDENT, COMMON language can teem with figurative expressions. They include such as idioms (fixed phrases); rich and vivid images; similes; metaphors; and maybe even higher figurative expressions like those of allegory and insignia (emblems and great signs).That art of building meanings through comparisons that tend to halt, show how we like to compare and understand by artful juxtapostions involved in it. By a little extension we have a proverbial sayings, and the bet is you can't see any difference between them and many American proverbs.
The jolly
woodpecker isn't a boring pain
Let
every little woodpecker carry his own song around.The jolly woodpecker wants to hurt no man.
The jolly woodpecker needs neither paint nor clothes - it's the same with a really good-looking woman in the sweetest of climates. ¤
A mad woodpecker is not to be tied up by minor birds.
If the pecking is a boring pain, there isn't enough good gain.
Many can
pretend they're woodpeckers, but make-up betrays them
Many can pretend they're woodpeckers, but not if they're put to the pecking
test.You can never tell a woodpecker's boring capacity by the make-up (or beaks) of other birds.¤
What the woodpecker is after, is known to himself (it's to live well, is the bet)
There can't
be very many that thrive by pecking in a neighbourhood
Peck your own nest (i.e. home) - the woodpecker lives it at its best.There can't be many painful gains if the woodpecker is to live well.
If you can't thrive by pecking, you shouldn't do it.
At times the woodpecker is the man of God
The prophets stood up and hammered their messages over and over. Look up in Isaiah to see the woodpecker at work. Even the modern guru can mean teacher, instructor, mentor, and golden is figurative for handy at times.A mad guru
claims he's neither man nor woman - and at times both
Let every man of God (or golden guru) carry his own song around. Jesus quoted little
and asked to be surpassed, yet here's a field fit for a lot freedom. [John
14:12]The man of God (or golden guru) wants to hurt no man. He is that kind.
The man of God (or golden guru) needs neither paint nor clothes - it's the same with a really good-looking woman. And in Hinduism there were naked swami-monks strolling about as late as in the last century, the story of Ramakrishna shows us. He was initiated in Vedanta by such a naked stroller. "Look at the lilies," said Jesus. ¤
A mad golden guru is not to be tied up by minors. And this happens to be a possible or very likely sect problem all over the United States -
If the golden guru's (or man of God's) pecking is a boring pain, there isn't enough good gain. Prophets risked their lives that way - yes, there is a good reason to improve that "design" a whole lot. [See John 14:12 etc.]
Although
many can feign to be gurus, not all are told of
Many can pretend they're golden gurus, but not if they're put to the acid (or pecking)
test. To be asked to cast mountains into the sea should make none sulky here. That request
often happens to be more considerate than a request to drink deadly acid to show the
standards of a genuine follower of Jesus. For the lack of favourable miracles the Sahara
is still a desert. Uha.You can never tell a golden guru's boring capacity by the make-up (or beaks) of small birds. ¤
What the golden guru is after, is known to himself (it's to live well, is the bet)
There are
many pain-in-the-ass gurus also, and wicked Narada is their prototype
Peck your own nest (i.e. home) - a man of God (or even a little hailed guru) lives it at
its best.There can't be many painful gains if the man of God (or fully functioning teacher) is to live well.
If you can't thrive by guru-pecking and harping, you shouldn't do it.
WE SHOULD study such sayings, and hold your breath if you need to. Maybe things like these are what you should learn from woodpeckers that come out of the woods. "Go to the woodpeckers, lazybones, see their fare and get wise. Now someone greater than Solomon is here."
That's a solid and all right message on top of what Jesus concluded, and his statement of being surpassed. [John 14:12] Of course you can be faithful and live on milk till you wake up and find you really can assert it. And note the woodpecker is not so stupid that it tells untruth in your face. Solomon did in an ascribed proverb. They really didn't know a lot about ants in ancient Israel.
"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler ...The working ant has indeed a ruling queen and a lot of rulers under her. If you assert it, you're a lot "wiser than Solomon" here. And if you study Encyclopedia Britannica on how proverbs in the Bible came about, you'll probably guess that many of them were merely ascribed to him, not by him at all. And then you're wiser still - Think that. Let it sink in. You have to assert yourself better by fairly common knowledge today - that's all right for a Christian, according to such as John 14:12. There are many other passages in that line. And besides there are many gates - not all gates have to lead you into crucifixion and flaunted miracles. We have to see that. The point is that you're allowed to do incredibly well.
How long will you lie ...?" [Proverbs 6:6-9
It's normally presupposed or between the lines that in fields of artful comparison we seldom arrive at one hundred percent congruence - but that "every little helps" fairly often. In Christianity you shouldn't compare yourself to Jesus. He is more of a role model, an example from different times and a very different climate that what we have under the Arctic circle. Most comparisons halts - some a little, others more than that, and so on, away from a good and fit symbolic utterance. That's often how idioms and good sayings come about in the first place.
If you add telling facets of the typical behaviour of woodpeckers and learn to apply such items to describe or verify the conduct of men, you have arrived. But at what? It could be the expressivity of Jesus Christ, in part.
Observations in proverbs and fairy tales
FOLKLORE can be teeming with keen and silly observations that have been polished and chiselled to make statements. There are tens of thousands of such proverbs around, maybe a million of them. They may seem to talk too tall, many of them. A lot of them may not hold much water - but that's not the point for now. The point is that many observations from days past have been handed over, and modern science also tries to reach conclusions. They should be tenable. If they're good, they may even help common people. And if these conclusions are formed artfully, jovially or memorably in other ways, maybe they serve mankind in the future also.That's our whole outlook.
A too wet wall may rot, and rot may lead to insect attack. so if insect-eating birds start to fly about around your dwelling, it's a scientific sign at times.
So to look well is a part of what you have to do to live better: Don't chase windmills.
Insect-eating birds that bore in the walls are not a grave problem - it's what draws them that is. And maybe - just maybe - that is a picture for your understanding - one with metaphorical overtones. It may pay to look into that. And maybe not. It depends on understanding.
Modern science is like a huge mill in itself. It mills hypotheses -
The ocean inside the heart gives wisdom and understanding
The Bible tells it's God that gives understanding. St. Paul is much into that in ordaining letters to people in Corinth. He discerns between gifts and graces of the real spirit here.Garden birds too can have much discerning understanding in some fair keys. They may not be visible. And still folk tales from lot of countries speak on behalf of birds. In tale after tale they tell the hero or heroine what to choose in a tricky situation. That's their role - to express good choices in holy-looking ways. Birds can do something about a real wall problem they they happen to reveal in their kindness. Seemingly accidentally to some, but all the same with lots of sensible reasons at times. It often happens.
In such ways woodpeckers may be signs of insect attacks. If you didn't know about that, the sign (indication) of insect attacks can be wasted. Often signs talk to deaf ears.
A sign is seldom the real existential problem to tackle or handle - it’s rather a great help to see or figure (guesswork has to go into it) through several figurative channels.
Sensible reasons are agreed on as that, and may reflect old superstitions and prejudices in their blooming attitudes.
"Chirp, chirp" comes close to "yes, yes" and "no, no"
You don't believe giant wisdom is mysterious and that those that dowse into it may come up with a lot findings and get thanks for it? Look here: For ages gurus had the opinion that birds sang out of delight. On closer inspection they seem to sing fairly often to mark their territory and scare off others. "Grrr!" is a message we seldom hear in the song of birds, but it's there all the same. I don't leave out the birds can be glad too, and note that. But love and delight isn't all there is in it, and often these sentiments seem to play a minor part.If you’re surrounded by lovely birds that chirp and sing all year long, what’s the meaning or message - the possible, secret significance for you? Indian source books speak of such sceneries as fit for sexual dalliance. So it could be nature’s way of invitation - to make you in the mood for love-making. "It happens every spring ... (Song)"
If you live in a place where lovely birds chirp and sing, maybe you should learn to become harder - punish well. Some hard decades ago this line of thinking could risk being called drivel and not so good. But never mind.
We listen to the man God called the wisest on earth - even if he got the ants all wrong in his days, fell into idolatry and ruined his dynasty - and see what we can learn from him and lots of fit creatures. Animals, happenings and all sorts of creatures - including ravens and humans - are at times to be studied as tokens that speak to us. It’s quite an art. And why is that? In part because they could have been brought into our awareness by God inside. He works in mysterious ways. And they may not seem to be the best a lot of times. Isn't it pitiable?
The songs that make the heart glad, are tall pieces of art, no matter who sing them.
Did you ever work on a Saturday and think it may end well?
While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. The Lord said to Moses,I'M REMINDED of "Everybody must be stoned" by Bob Dylan. Most people nowadays don't see any causal links (i.e. connections) between gathering wood or wool on a Saturday and being ruthlessly executed. They hardly think there is even a casual link - despite the fact that Jesus himself said that law is wholly valid one way or another. [Matthew 5:17-19]
"The man must die."
The assembly stoned him to death. [Numbers 15:32-36]
If that man had met with a desert woodpecker from God, what would it have lead to? This is a hypothetical question - a trick question, if you like. The man should have studied the unknown or wayward bird by doing very little so as to find out. That's how a lot observations have to be, in a nutshell. And in so doing he would have been saved - saved from non-prescribed Saturday activity. Then the woodpecker would have saved him. Meeting a woodpecker can made the hell of a difference.
Jolly woodpeckers as signs from God have not been divulged before, but Jesus uses sparrows to instruct his chosen few. It could even be time to live up to such as John 14:12 and other places that insist: Do better than Jesus who asserted himself as greater than Solomon - (the medley of sayings that bear his name). Even though God insisted none could compete with Solomon, he wasn’t that big. He lost his blessing and the dynasty fell asunder. Such signs are to be caught the sooner the better.
Jesus came and said he was greater than Solomon, even though God had said otherwise. And do you know what? Jesus also insists that the fair follower may surpass him in excellence. Study woodpeckers - when Jesus departed it appears he just rose slowly and maybe gravely into the air. You're allowed to excel even here. Some hundred Catholic saints have risen into the air somehow, and a few of them have flewn about like special birds - But the truth is that woodpeckers fly about in the air and are jolly too. They're less awkward in the air than most men. We have selected some dear evidence of levitating ones right here. You can learn to do it, for you're called to do greater works. [John 14:12]
Woodpeckers as signs indicate maybe nothing, maybe this and that - it may depend. To understand it better, we need to discern a lot, and be taught from inside. The Holy Spirit is given that appointment by Jesus. As a warming up we may study the teachings that have come down to us from the Bible and antiquity. They have a lot of information to give us, and most of it may be called crap.
Ask if it's your cross to study crap or divine to assist unmet others.
When strong persecution threatened Jesus, his parents fled to Egypt. Later, he stayed away from threatening assembleys. This play-safe-counsel presupposes you have something of value to live for. To get even can be a formidable reason.
Advance the sensible reason as a matter of courtesy. I think we should say that.
Two Stories Children May Love
Jesus, Moses, and the Thief
A THIEF broke into the respectable home of Ole's friend Gustav and had just started going through a jewelry box when he heard a voice saying, "Jesus is watching you!"The thief looked around but didn't see anybody, so he continued going through the jewel case. Then he heard the voice again, "Jesus is watching you!"
The thief decided to check out what it could be. He went into the living room and in the corner was a parrot who said, "Hello, I'm Moses."
The thief said, "Moses? What kind of people would name their parrot Moses?"
The parrot said, "The same people who name their rottweiller Jesus." [Check]
"Thank You, Little Jesus Woodpecker!"
A man recounts as in a mist:"Once in troubled times I was sitting all by myself on a hill in a wood. Then, all of a sudden I noticed a "tap-tap-tap" on a fir leg nearby. I took a closer look. It was a little woodpecker. It delighted me by tapping around for a long time. later I called him Jesus for saving me from a little boredom in the wood that time.
Some of the manners of Jesus Woodpecker were exactly like those of a gentleman, in other words some British lord: Very discreet, having markedly staccato utterances without getting concussions - Maybe a stiff neck and repeated tapping and flapping. There and then in the wood he appeared to be the only lord (gentleman) around."
I could use that years later, at a time I sought to save some children that had become the victims of dirty business. Thank you, Little Jesus Woodpecker! Whatever happened to you after I left the hill about a generation ago and moved to other countries, I don't know, and I am not interested in knowing it either, to be frank. You must be dead now - little woodpeckers don't live that long.
I thought "Jesus is dead." How true it is. I let it sink in. I started reflecting too:
"Little Jesus Woodpecker attacked hard surfaces, and Jesus in his day argued with the Pharisees in ways that may remind us of those of "the little lord of birds in the woods," the ardent, red-headed woodpecker. Also, in an old gospel he is also credited with some words that any woodpecker could think well of:
"Split a piece of wood; I am there. [The Gospel of Thomas, section 77]
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