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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2010 - 10:43pm PT
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The coveted 1777 post.
Klimmer, I'm beginning to get it. You start with good v. evil, extrapolate to god v. satan, and then under that rubric you pretty much have a place for everything including science, religion, ufo's, sasquatch, nessie, 9/11, secret societies, any conspiracy at all, shadow governments, unicorns, faeries, and santa claus - doesn't really matter what it is, you have a spot for it in your taxonomy.
I suppose that works for you, but I can't see any understanding of science, 'evidence', 'facts', or even much common sense in your amusing amalgamation of beliefs. Sort of a witches brew of the absurd.
HJ,
You are radically oversimplifying along with lots of false ridicule.
Science and religion as I have said many times before are two different human endeavors, but compatible. They are just 2 of many human endeavors that make-up the human experience. A good scientist can participate in both. Do I have to repeat the history of modern Astronomy and Physics to you starting with Aristotle,and continuing with Copernicus, Tycho Brahe/Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and even Einstein? Most were men of science and men of faith. Perhaps you are cutting off your full potential by dismissing the spiritual aspect of the World, the spiritual aspect of the Universe?
Science is about Nature and Cosmic Order. Answers What? and How? questions. Deals with the physical, the empirical. Science is a tool. Science is a powerful tool, but just as any tool it cannot work for all situations, science can not answer all questions.
Religion is about Nature and Cosmic Purpose. Answers Why? questions. Why questions denote Who did it? and Why did they do it? What does it all mean? Religion is a tool of knowledge and one would hope a personal relationship with the Creator, if one believes in such a religion. But just as Science can not answer all questions, it can't answer questions regarding the spiritual world and all the why questions. Religion can not answer those questions of What? and How? These are physical questions that science can answer.
Sometimes the physical is reflected in the spiritual, such as in The Holy Bible. And I would argue just as the Good Book argues that the spiritual world is reflected in the physical world. Even though The Good Book is not a Science Book, it does indeed make statements that are scientifically sound as we understand the Natural world today. And these statements were written thousands of years before they became a part of our modern knowledge.
The Holy Bible is like no other Book. It is a Book of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. A Book of the past, the present, and the future. It indeed knows all. You can scoff at Bible Code, but researchers are finding that the messages are going well beyond the short powerful messages that they have found, now they are finding elaborate sentences of deep profound meaning. The Bible seems to be a Book that is 3 dimensional, like a powerful and elaborate 3D Chess set. Not only that, it is a Book that is 4 dimensional through time also. Some speculate that it has all the history of time written within it.
No other Book on the face of the Earth that is like it. It is GOD's book. They are GOD's words. They are the words of life.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2010 - 11:57pm PT
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Now back to UFOs/ET.
I brought up Russ Dizdar, because in the course of his work he has had experiences working with ET abductees also. If you listen to the Youtube posts eventually you will find the one where he talks about working with an individual(s) who claimed to be an Alien Abductee(s), and this person(s) had all the classic psychological problems associated with such an actual experience.
After working with them, and demonstrating through the word of GOD what this person was experiencing and then leading them to Jesus Christ, almost always these people had been dabbling in the occult or had opened some other evil door due to immoral behavior, then their abduction experiences would stop, never to occur again.
If the person still struggled in their new spiritual life, not completely stopping the immoral behavior that would open the doors to this evil, and they continued to have "visitations," rather than seeing ETs as they had before, they were now seeing as how these entities truly actually are -- demonic creatures. They no longer could show up masquerading as benevolent ETs.
http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/11-14.htm
Barnes Notes on the Bible:
And no marvel - And it is not wonderful, 2 Corinthians 11:15. Since Satan himself is capable of appearing to be an angel of light, it is not to be deemed strange that those who are in his service also should resemble him.
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
I found this to be very interesting. Perhaps ET is truly as The Good Book suggests they are, Nephilim, or Fallen Angels, or Demons. Perhaps they are not Extraterrestrial after all, but instead Intraterrestrial. Perhaps they are dark and sinister spiritual entities that masquerade as benevolent ET (although they do not act benevolently) that exist on a spiritual plane or dimension. And these entities lie about who they truly are.
Russ Dizdar's experience seems to suggest that this is the truth of the matter.
http://www.alienresistance.org/
http://www.freestickers.net/
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bmacd
Trad climber
100% Canadian
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Article implying that my 2008 UFO footage taken on a camping trip inspired the August 2010 cover art for Vancouvers Georgia Straight August 2010 issue
http://www.unexplainable.net/UFO-Alien/Video-Timeline-shows-UFO-coverage-beat-local-headlines-says-Examiner.shtml
the Vancouver photographer (me) whose 2008 nightvision UFO video is the most likely candidate for the original footage upon which the Straight cover art was modelled. By August 24th both the Vancouver Sun and CFOX radio's Jeff O'Neil Show had teamed up to provide joint coverage of local UFO sightings with reporting that included photographs taken by witnesses. “How many times in your life have you seen a Georgia Straight whose cover art was all about UFO contact?”, Mr. Kelly enquired.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2010 - 09:15am PT
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bmacd,
Pretty cool.
Is your footage posted anywhere to see it all? I know we have seen images clipped from it.
Here is a really good article to help explain the UFO/ET phenom and what is happening and what it all means from a Christian point of view:
Aliens Among Us
By Andy Butcher Reprinted here by permission of Charisma Magazine
http://www.alienstranger.com/charismaapril2001.htm
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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I wonder if the ETs like to climb.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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that article is too long, klimmer. i guess christians just havta play catch-up with the aliens. jesus didn't quite clue you in on it. one thing for sure, you won't have a shortage of imaginative explanations to work whatever turns up into the system of keeping people in the pews on sunday.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2010 - 12:14pm PT
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GC,
By posting that Certified Insane tag graphic (and only that) . . .
Do you really want to admit that you are certified insane in a public forum?
That's kind of embarrassing isn't it?
On the bright-side, there is professional help available. Half the battle is admitting it. So you are nearly there. Seek some help now would be my advice.
GOD's speed. I'll be praying for you.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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um, klimsie, i think he meant you. probably me too. give up religion and you won't be wasting your time on prayers. if granite goes to church, he may be praying for you too, and god will really get confused.
if you were a catholic, you'd know that the way around it would be to pray to the proper patron saint. thanks to my italian heritage, i happen to have the lifelong patronage of st. anthony of padua, the patron saint of lost things. broken clocks get lucky twice a day.
klim, the best way to counter such inane criticism is to focus on the lack of talent. it takes some skill to post really witty art on ST. granite here is probably a young guy, just starting out with it. most of the guys who concoct art on here are pretty clumsy. even the masters like wade icey have a rather checkered performance. wade bats around .400, good in baseball, dunno about art. the truly inept, like HFCS, repeat themselves oafishly. granite, we could probably surmise, suffers from lack of imagination in more than one department, but, as i say, he's young and there is hope. it is the obama era, after all.
maybe it's misspelled? "certified inane"?
:-)
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2010 - 01:03pm PT
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Tony,
I'm pretty sure he meant himself ;-)
And now that the Vatican/Catholic Church has pretty much come out and said "it is OK to believe in Aliens," are they gonna come out with the patron saint of ET? Who could that be? Who even wants that title? I wouldn't if I were a Saint (working on it, but I got a long, long way to go).
My advice is do not trust ET. Do not believe in ET. Believe rather in GOD and Jesus. We already got ETs number. Take off the masquerade. Lucifer and his minions are indeed tricky, but we know who they really are. It is the 21st Century Fallen Angel/Nephilim/Demon version 2.0 .
that article is too long, klimmer. i guess christians just havta play catch-up with the aliens. jesus didn't quite clue you in on it. one thing for sure, you won't have a shortage of imaginative explanations to work whatever turns up into the system of keeping people in the pews on sunday.
Jesus did clue us in on it. In fact very clearly. He said, "As in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the son of Man." You have to know your Bible. You have to know what was going on just before the flood. Read Genesis. Read the Book of Enoch. Then you will know.
Like I said, it is the 21st Century Fallen Angel/Nephilim/Demon version 2.0 .
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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i read a pronouncement on off-earth life by the catholic church once, it may actually have been when i was a practicing catholic, before 1980 or so. they do like to cover their behinds and they're quite practiced at it.
as i recall, it went kinda like this: god may well have created intelligent life on other planets and we may some day have contact with it. in such a case, these beings may have 1) developed free from original sin, not having made adam and eve's mistake, in which case they will be saved creatures as we all hope to be some day, 2) failed the test, in which case we can introduce them to salvation through jesus.
the catholic church even covers its sacred behind in the evolution department. it's okay to believe in evolution, it's okay to believe in short-form creationism, it's okay to believe in some hybrid like yours, klim. whatever the deal is, they've got you covered!
the bible is full of little hints which moderns can spindoctor as they wish. so is every other shard of ancient literature. bottom line, old son, no plain speaking. know why? they really had no idea about what was ahead. it's basically flat earth mythology. there's a new mythology going on now. don't put the new wine in the old wineskins--they break. where did i hear that?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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But do the aliens like waffles, and what do they prefer on top of them? Enquiring minds wish to know.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2010 - 01:27am PT
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Didn't god make everything in the universe? So is it rational to say that all ETs are evil? Surely there are other god-worshiping beings out there, with all the inhabitable planets there are.
Yes, I would agree, he did make everything. And if we accept what the Good Book says, that GOD, The Trinity is without beginning and without end.
And as according to science has discovered, the Universe is 14+ Billion years old. There is a passage in the Bible that states that the "Heavenly Host" witnessed creation, so we are talking about "Heavenly Host" that are at least as old as the Universe, 14+ Billion years old. So, they have been here since the beginning of time, as defined by the Big Bang.
If you define ET to mean Extraterrestrial, meaning off-Earth, and not just little green men from another Star then we have all the following . . .
So what is the Hierarchy According to the Good Book? (As I understand it and as others have explained it):
GOD, "The Trinity": The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost
The Heavenly Host: the Holy Angels "aka Watchers", and other Heavenly Creatures (many different types are described that guard Heaven and worship GOD continuously as The Good Book says)
Fallen Angels: 33% turned against GOD and left with Lucifer, and now have "Power of the Air" surrounding Earth and near Earth. They have left their first abode and have turned from GOD and have come to Earth. No chance of Salvation from what I understand.
Nephilim: the off-spring between Fallen Angels and Earthly Women. Very powerful. Very intelligent. But also the worst of both; the worst of Fallen Angels and the worst of sinful Man. These were living beings that were never meant to be. GOD wiped almost all of them out with the flood. After the flood he had the nation of Isreal continue to eradicate them. The Nephilim have no chance of Salvation from what I understand, and when they die, they become disembodied demon spirits.
Demons: the disembodied demon spirits of Nephilim.
ETs: seems that the Fallen Angels/Nephilim/Demons have a new plan. Like Jesus said, "As in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be." Seems we now have Fallen Angels/Nephilim/Demons version 2.0, the last days. Seems they have a new agenda, but one revealed very accurately and prophetically in The Good Book. Seems the abductions are a way to have off-spring or hybrids again with man, but under the facade of ETs from a separate star system outside our own. Perhaps modern man is more willing to accept that story, that lie, rather than say who they really are.
The thing to remember is this:
The Heavenly Host from GOD, Holy Angels, Messengers, The Holy Watchers will interact with man for very specific purposes and reasons. They come in the name of GOD and they identify themselves as such. They will not accept to be worshipped. They identify the true GOD and The Lord and Savior, The Messiah, Jesus Christ. They come in peace. They do not ever come to harm or to trick or to fool. They always tell the ones they are communicating with not to be afraid. And those people visited don't ever feel dread, or evil, or anything but a Holy Peace and presence from these Heavenly Messengers. Also the message they come with will not ever contradict the message that the Bible has already spoken. Heavenly Host from GOD will always abide by the 2 Great Commandements from GOD. Always. Christians are to try the spirits to see whether they are of GOD. We are told to do this, since Lucifer can pretend to be who he is not. Likewise so can his minions.
Heavenly Host that are no longer of GOD or from GOD, or that have fallen away (Fallen Angels/Nephilim/Demons/Hybrid ET creatures etc.) will do the exact opposite of all the above. They are the ultimate in evil and do indeed have an dark and sinister agenda. These entities will not abide by the 2 Great Commandments of GOD. With every human they can convince to fall away from GOD and keep from coming to GOD, or from knowing GOD, I think they are trying to strike back at GOD and trying to punish GOD. I'm sure it does hurt him, he even says so in his Book that it hurts him. He doesn't want to see anyone lost. But some people truly hate GOD just as these Fallen away ET entities that have left GOD do.
Didn't god make everything in the universe? So is it rational to say that all ETs are evil? Surely there are other god-worshiping beings out there, with all the inhabitable planets there are.
So to answer. He did make everything. Are all ETs evil? Depends on how you define ETs. Those that are still with GOD and on GOD's side, no they wouldn't be evil. They are ET and they are not evil. There definitely are other GOD worshipping beings out there that he created. The Good Book says so. Heaven is filled with them. Where is Heaven? We don't know. Any believer who believes in GOD and his word has to come to the conclusion that yes, there is much more out there. Much more. The Good Book mentions that there are profound mysteries to be known and that we don't even really have but a glimmer of a peek about all that there is to know. We would probably be absolutely blown away to know all the mysteries and to know all that is out there. Our minds probably can't handle it, at least not right now.
You have to try the spirits to see whether they are of GOD. When asked about Jesus, who do they say Jesus is? They better get this right and worship Jesus, or they aren't who they say they are (see link below). All ET creation knows who Jesus is, except for Man on Earth who may not know him. That is why those who call on the name of Jesus can make the abductions stop. Those who come to GOD, the abductions will stop all together. If ET returns to those who have a relationship with GOD but perhaps haven't given themselves completely to GOD yet, ET doesn't show up as ET anymore, but as a demon, their true identity.
http://www.humblefishmall.com/trythespirits.html
David Flynn, a very devout Christian, and he is very knowledgeable regarding the Bible. He has a great deal to say regarding Mars, and what possibly happened on Mars. The Bible does seem to indicate something happened with another planet being destroyed, perhaps forming the Asteroid Belt, and pummeling Mars. Even in science that is a plausible theory altough most accept the theory that the Asteroid Belt is from a failed accretion process because of the gravity field from Jupiter stops it. There does seem to be an indication in The Good Book that Mars may have been an abode of The Sons of GOD, Angels, a very long, long time ago. Check out David Flynn's website and his book, Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars. Very interesting.
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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So once again, true Christians can not be members of Secret Societies that require Secret Oaths or Oaths of any kind.
Hi Klimmer, I would suggest that Christian baptism, as it is described in I Peter 3:21, constitutes an oath or pledge...."the pledge of a just conscience toward God."
New Testament writings basically described two
sacraments: the sacrament of baptism and the sacrament of communion, also known as the Eucharist, or the Lord' s Supper. The meaning of sacrament? The English is simply a transliteration of the Latin word "sacramentum" which means an oath. That is the intrinsic meaning of a sacrament. It translates as an oath, an obligation, a vow. Legally speaking it means a pledge.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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But do the aliens like waffles, and what do they prefer on top of them? Enquiring minds wish to know.
MH, strawberries and whipped cream of course!
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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LOL. Papillon beat me to it, but only by a few seconds. Look at the times of our posts. And she is right. They prefer NUTS (like Klimmer).
Edit: I stand corrected, Papillion! :-)
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2010 - 03:16am PT
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stzzo,
Read The Book of John in the Bible. Who is Jesus according to the Good Book?
Emmanuel, GOD with us. He came down and took on the form of a physical man to dwell among us and teach us his ways, and then he died on the cross to pay the price for our sins. He took our place. We deserved to hang on the cross, he didn't. He was blameless and without sin. He paid the price. He purchased our redemption with his Blood. That is how much he loves us.
All creation knows who Jesus is. He has always been. He is the Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the End. He is one with GOD our Creator.
The only ones who do not know who Jesus Christ is, are fallible and imperfect and physical Mankind. That is why we (believers and now Sons of GOD) have the Great Commission to go and tell the World, to let them know.
ETs already know all of this. They are incredibly smart. They are not dumb. But they are deceptive like their master. Lucifer knows the Word of GOD very well, and tries to manipulate it and change its true meaning to his advantage. Remember, he fell from Heaven. He once guarded the Throne of GOD, and then went rogue. See what he did in the Garden with Eve and with Jesus in the Wilderness for 40 days. Read and see how he quoted scripture out of context and tried to lie and deceive using the Word of GOD. He fooled Eve, but he wasn't about to fool Jesus even as a human being, as a Man.
The Word is Jesus Christ . . .
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."
John.1
[1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
[2] The same was in the beginning with God.
[3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
[4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
[5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
[6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
[7] The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
[8] He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
[9] That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
[10] He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
[11] He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
[12] But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
[13] Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
[14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
[15] John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
[16] And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
[17] For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
[18] No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
[19] And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
[20] And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
[21] And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
[22] Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
[23] He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
[24] And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
[25] And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
[26] John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
[27] He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
[28] These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
[29] The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
[30] This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
[31] And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
[32] And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
[33] And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
[34] And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
[35] Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
[36] And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
Jesus is GOD, he is one with the Father. The Trinity: The Father, The Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Ghost. GOD.
The Good Book is very clear on this, through the OT and the NT.
Good night all.
I think I'll have waffles in the morning, with strawberries and wipecream, and maple syrup. Yum. Love that stuff.
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