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so the guys in the cemetery, from whom Aziraphale borrows the phone: they’re wandering around the cemetery with their phones out because they’re playing Ingress, right? Right.
#statistically speaking they are more likely to be playing Pokémon GO but I choose to believe it’s Ingress instead#ingress#good omens#good omens season 2#the Gabriel statue is for sure a portal#probably called something like archangel himbo#if the portal names of cemetery angels in my neck of the woods are any indication
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#Elbert Parr Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals building#Carol M. Highsmith#architecture#architectural photography#architectural details#doorways#portals#ingress#egress#liminal#liminality#classic architecture#great architecture#great photography#classic photography#classic photograph
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#Ingress #CanchabaloncestoMagnolias #GmolasherL #Portal https://www.instagram.com/p/CooNMz4Or5x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Khan what is a door?
A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress into and egress from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the doorway
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Spiritual Light to Guide You On Your Path - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast
Hazur Baba Sawan Singh: "In the center behind and above the eyes there is an aperture; on this side of it is the material world, in which we are now living; and on the other side is the astral world." Baba Somanath: "Those who transcend the realm of mind and the senses and enter the regions of pure spirit come to know, as a living reality, that dwelling within all forms of life, human and otherwise, is one pure Light and Love... though encased in so many types of veils due to karmic impressions."
For many, the term "meditation" suggests merely a practice about attaining a more relaxed state and only represents a series of techniques about stress reduction. For the Initiate of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven however, meditation represents a Portal to the Divine, a Door in the Heavens leading to Realms Beyond, is a Bright Star in a Mystic Sky that turns into a Tunnel of Light or River of Divine Light that flows into the Eternal Ocean of God!
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"A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's unspeakable glory - that incomprehensible wonder - the tender caress between God and the soul... the unmingled joy of union, the Living Love of Eternity as it now is and evermore shall be." (The German Mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg, Flowing Light of the Godhead)
"Now has Divine Light delivered me from captivity, and joined me by gentility to the Divine will of Love" (The French Mystic, Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls)
"This 'Single' or 'Third Eye' provides an ingress into the spiritual worlds - the Kingdom of God - now a lost realm to most of us... Of this inlet or ingress little is known by the people at large." (Sant Kirpal Singh)
Swami SantSevi Ji Maharaj: "What is the glorious destination that we are striving for? When we close our eyes we see darkness within, it is the realm of ignorance. When the light dawns within you, then you see that you reside in noble regions. In darkness resides ignorance and in light resides knowledge.
"When we see darkness with our eyes closed we are in the realm of death and re-birth because we are not aware of our true nature. When we come out of the realm of darkness and enter into the realm of light, we will at the same time escape the web of death. If we remain in darkness it is not possible to be free from the cycle of birth and death. Only when we achieve the inner light—the divine light which represents the glory of the Divine—can we be liberated from the cycle of birth and death.
Baba Somanath: "Seek the refuge of the Satguru, O Dear One, for He will free you from your karmic debt. The entire world is consumed by forgetfulness and confusion. No one appreciates the unique message of the Saints. The unfortunate ones of this world are dominated by Maya [illusion], and they do not attain the Immaculate State. Those upon whom the Grace of the Primal Creator is showered, alone have the desire to drink the Nectar of Immortality."
Baba Ram Singh: "So, the point of telling you is that this Path, which has been sent by God Almighty Himself - the Surat Shabd Yoga [Inner Light and Sound Meditation Practice] - that can be attained only by initiation from a True Master... Therefore, all the Masters, at all times, have always talked and sung the praise of Surat Shabd. And that has been the message of the Masters in various yugas [epochs of time]... Therefore, when we are initiated by our Masters, it is necessary for us to get connected with the Shabd [the inner Light and Sound Current] every day - to do our meditation every day. And, by doing so, we are helping our Master to help us..."
Asks Kabir: "For Millions of Years You Have Slept, This Morning Will You Not Wake?"
In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami,
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Who says a Hell's Ingress portal can't be used like a chair.
#reaper manderville relic acquired!#ffxiv#ffxiv wol#ffxiv gpose#ffxiv reaper#aureia malathar#myreia screenshots
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The Meeting.
[ Cont. From ]
The tiny crystal sits in Agares' palm, her head scribe was reporting their findings to her- but his words fell of deaf ears. This little trinket said all that needed to be said.
A wave of the hand and his ramblings cease, and soon her study is left empty save for herself.
The moment he's gone, the moment she's sure she's alone, she hugs the crystal close to her chest.
|| 👑 ||: ❝ What has happened to you... ❞
Holding her closed hand in the other, she wanders across the study to a bookcase. Pulling out a tome, a soft click as the secret door slides away revealing not a room, but a portal. One that comes to life as she presses the tiny crystal she was given to the top of the doorway. The ancient magic flickering, as if on the verge of dying.
A different kind of ingress, one made of the magic of not just herself, but her oldest friend. Created back long before they called each other family, long before they'd began to share features, right after they'd fallen together, unwilling to leave the other behind. A gateway hidden from all eyes except the two of them.
Steeling herself, she steps through. A secret garden, buried deep below the surface of their mirrored planet. She takes a seat beneath the roots of an ancient tree, nurtured by pure magic to construct this secret place. Crystalized memories hanging in the air, alighting the room as muffled unintelligible voices echo out from them.
It's hours before the other doorway opens. She stands the moment the light of the magic flickers in the corner of her eyes, to witness her son step through the doorway with his cane. Calling out into the darkness,
|| 🔮 ||: ❝ Agares-? ❞
Before he can say any more she'd already ran up to him to pull him into an embrace.
|| 👑 ||: ❝ My son- ❞
It'd been centuries since she'd last seen him, he seemed frail, exhausted, saddened... To see her son in such a state broke her heart, to think he'd been hiding all of this from her, how she had failed him.
Soon his arms wrap around his mother, and she can feel teardrops stain the shoulder of her dress as he shakes slightly in the hug.
|| 🔮 ||: ❝ Mother I- ❞
|| 👑 ||: ❝ Hush now, child. ❞
She mutters, pulling back to hold him by his shoulders at arms length. Blind eyes staring through her, but full of tears all the same.
|| 👑 ||: ❝ Come, sit, we need to talk- ❞
|| 🔮 ||: ❝ Is she alive? ❞
He interrupts her, grabbing her wrists and pulling her hands off his shoulders, his brows furrowed, his voice horse as he continues,
|| 🔮 ||: ❝ Where is my daughter? ❞
#👑 || duchess agares#🔮 || dad#💚 || drabbles#{ don't mind me just writing drabbles b/c i want to write a bit with Eath's dad but can't normally soooooo }
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Portal Recharging Efficiency in the augmented reality mobile game Ingress
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Fun! I used to play a decent amount of pokemon go, and a lot more ingress before that. I wish I had more options closer by to go play. Its a bit too far of a drive to the sparce portals around.
the pokemon id wanna fuck is deoxys
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Find the Word Game XXIII
tagged by: @space-writes!! my words: trace, distant, remove, down tagging: @drabbleitout, @drippingmoon, and open tag as usual your words: gold, hang, ask, stay, blind, haste
trace (Eternal)—
Warren looked back at Guetry. "Do you know anything about this Ingress thing?" "A little bit." Guetry stuck a hand in a pocket of his duster coat and used the other one to trace idle lines along the lines of the tattoo on his throat. "It's big. They gave me a brief history while I was in prison, but they couldn't actually tell me what it is. Just that it's supposed to be the equivalent in scientific advancement for the galaxy that launching a rocket from Earth for the first time was for humanity." "Space travel," DeCosta said. "Instant space travel. We're unveiling the first portal this afternoon." A heavy, pregnant pause fell onto the room like a weighted blanket. The men glanced at each other with equal parts stupefaction and confusion. Warren shook his head to clear it of the fog that had cropped up and he addressed DeCosta. "I'm sorry? Did you just say you have a portal?"
distant (Eternal)—
"I suspect [Warren] may still be harboring resentment toward me." Thrive sounded strangely casual, as if he were merely relaying information pertinent to their route and destination. "Resentment for what?" a familiar voice chimed in. It took Warren a minute to realize it was Varussa's voice he'd heard. Thrive didn't answer at first. "I've been distant lately. He deserves a level of presence from me that I'm afraid I can't deliver at present." "Is it that you can't deliver it, or you won't?" Warren blinked, his blood running cold at Guetry's callousness. He could imagine Thrive's face, the venom in his glare as each second of silence ticked on. Warren shook off the chill that passed through him.
remove (Meridian)—
"I think your shift's over," Warren said, glancing at the guards. "Come have a nightcap with me." Thrive leaving his post on the throne was always a process. He had to wait until some of his attendants rushed to his side, removed his sharp crown, helped him off the dais as his cloak and cape were too heavy even for him, and removed the top layers of his ceremony. They handed them to him, bowing deeply, and he responded with a shallow, curt bow of his head. "It's all so gaudy," Warren said as they began the trek to their bedroom. He took the crown to carry for himself, nearly slicing his fingers open on the razor edges of the highly geometric gold piece. "I mean...I kinda love it, though." "Feel free," Thrive muttered. "One of us should."
down (Asylum)—
"Don't go down a road I can't follow, Thrive." [Warren's] throat burned, his eyes stinging due to the cold and his disappointment. His legs hurt worse, now, the ache traveling up his spine. "I can't…I won't let you collapse into yourself like this." "The time of sitting by patiently while injustices are forced on me, while I'm forced to watch them happen, is over." Though it was dark, Thrive's scowl was prominent and visible. Suddenly, though, a crash of emotion audibly stole his breath, and he spoke with unwavering desperation. "I know I've had too many chances. And I know I've lost you already." Warren inhaled sharply. "Damn it, Thrive," he hissed. "I can't walk away from this." Thrive moved even closer, trying to reclaim whatever was left of his composure. "Don't ask me to walk away from this." "I can't ask you to do anything anymore," Warren whispered. "...And I don't think I ever could."
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my wife just came downstairs and said she had a question for me that might cause me severe emotional distress, and asked: …who is John Galt? and my body transformed into a jpeg of tired ben affleck
#context was there’s an Ingress player named John Galt on the portal next to our house#wife was aware it was some kind of meme but not where it came from#I have not read atlas shrugged but somehow all my (otherwise cool) friends in high school did#so I do Know#against my will
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"Threshold to a New Chapter"
Everyone's on their path with firm finality
And are already striving for the promising tomorrow.
When would it knock, my own golden opportunity,
That would unclosed the portal so I could go?
Falling in despair but wanting to rise in desperation.
I need that insurmountable strength to rout diffidence.
Learn some fate-stirring things then move or end up to life's expiration,
Hoping experience could wean me enough out of dependence.
Hankering for lucent ingress to flee out of the pallid trap.
Fly, shine and face the society to augment this small-town life.
In this run of adversity, I'm sprinting from each mishap
I would rest but I won't balk instead I'd rev up the strife.
Is my destiny still amorphous and I'm the one who'd write it along the course?
Who or what would found me and how?
When would I be brought to the next stage?
Vestibules to fresh starts, chances to unlock thousands of doors,
Continue the pursuit a robust verve to begin another page.
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Ingression is due to test Linux players
Ingression mind-bending precision platformer game is coming to Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. All of this wild and crazy intensity comes straight from the minds at Espale Studios. Due to makes its way onto Steam. Imagine you're in control of an adventure that's just like one of your wild dreams, only far better. Espale Studios is brewing up a brand new experience, Ingression. This is not your ordinary run of the mill journey. It's the ultimate challenge for Linux players with quick fingers and lightning fast focus. Let me break this game down for you. First off, you'll step into the shoes of Rina, a thief who's cruising around in the Galactic Empire in space year 2442. It's as futuristic as it sounds. But there's a twist: she's not just stealing treasures, she's stealing time. Since she's on a mission to stop a crazy time paradox that could rearrange the past. So, you're not just jumping around platforms, you're making a difference in the entire timeline! So let's talk about the portals. Imagine speeding across whole Ingression levels in a blink. All while using that speed to pull off incredible moves. It's about being fast, but also smart about using that speed.
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Of course, Ingression is not a cakewalk. You'll have lasers aiming for your head, drones on your tail, spikes waiting to pop your space-bubble, and much more. It's like trying to walk through a room full of mousetraps, only more intense. The whole point is that everything focuses around these portals. Every problem you face, every tricky situation, has a portal solution. And the various ways you can combine them are endless, so it's up to you to discover the best strategies. Now, the Ingression levels are going to mess with you. Just when you think you've got it figured out, everything flips! Suddenly, up is down, left is right—it's complete mayhem. But you're also not expected to finish these tricky courses instantly. Precision is key, and with practice, you'll figure it out. Ingression is a mind-bending precision platformer about quick thinking, fast reactions, and mastering portals. You're not just playing, you're exploring, discovering, and experiencing the thrill of a time-traveling adventure in a futuristic world. Coming to Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. So be sure to Wishlist the game on Steam. The release date is still TBD.
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For Tuesday, December 20
At 6:32 am (PST) Jupiter goes into Aries - I made a whole post about it already! Anytime a long-transiting planet goes into a new sign there can be a shift felt; a shift in focus and an overall “vibe” change that may be difficult to explain. From sleepy and blind-faith oriented Pisces, which took us on a ride through some scary events, to brave and confident Aries, we may find ourselves feeling ready to “jump” starting on the 20th of December this year. The moon has a very busy day, and it starts out in a sextile with Pluto, which steadily strengthens and goes exact later in the evening. The moon sextile Pluto aspects opens us up to a deep well of inner strength, and can also heighten our intuition. We may feel somewhat more ready to take on what’s needed in order to ensure a sense of stability and “getting ahead”, especially with Pluto in Capricorn interacting with the Scorpio moon; Pluto is Scorpio’s modern ruler, and so there is a somewhat extra tinge of harmoniousness coming through this aspect on Tuesday. We may also be able to face certain aspects of our (and others’) inner darkness nearly unscathed, on this day.
At around 10:00 AM the moon forms a trine with Neptune in Pisces, which can open up portals to the ethereal, as well as give us an imaginative boost for the day. Things that are hidden may whisper to us, as the moon in Scorpio represents what we cannot see with our tiny human eyes. We may need to be reminded to not get lost in our emotions or be overstimulated by how things feel; Neptunian and lunar energy commingling can sweep us out of the 3D and cause us to feel distracted.
While the moon has us potentially inward and receptive to the slightest emotional movements and vibrations (Pisces and Scorpio) there will be an intense square with Saturn at around 10:00 AM (PST) . Saturn moon squares can bring depression, desire to withdraw from the world, or just an overall sense of heaviness. What Saturn likes to do is draw us away from anything that’s not “productive”, stabilizing or useful, and bring our attention to the things that are within our control and that contribute to success. Unfortunately Saturn does not have much sensitivity or tact with the tenderness and security-centered moon. With Saturn aspecting the moon harshly on Tuesday while it occupies Aquarius, we may have difficulty relating to others or feeling a certain sense of belonging. Combining this aspect alone with all the Neptunian and Pluto energy seems as though we may have a really difficult time facing the external on this day; the inner world and dreamy escapism may be much more tempting than anything else.
The sun will be squaring Jupiter in Aries, which is an important aspect as Jupiter performs its ingress. The sun represents our vitality and lifeforce, as well as what drives us within a sense of purpose. Jupiter is higher ideals and abstract concepts and knowledge, and so with the two squaring off there could be a disconnect in terms of how we feel about ourselves vs who we really are. We may want to act without the necessary knowledge and minus a necessary linear plan. We may also find that our motivation burns out more easily than it can be applied. The remedy to balancing this aspect will be to truly ground and recognize our practical limitations at any given time, and to understand that something rushed is likely not done correctly.
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Xenophon, Memorabilia of Socrates 19
A belief is current, in accordance with views maintained concerning Socrates in speech and writing, and in either case conjecturally, that, however powerful he may have been in stimulating men to virtue as a theorist, he was incapable of acting as their guide himself.
It would be well for those who adopt this view to weigh carefully not only what Socrates effected "by way of castigation" in cross-questioning whose who conceived themselves to be possessed of all knowledge, but also his everyday conversation with those who spent their time in close intercourse with himself. Having done this, let them decide whether he was incapable of making his companions better.
I will first state what I once heard fall from his lips in a discussion with Aristodemus, "the little," as he was called, on the topic of divinity. Socrates had observed that Aristodemus neither sacrificed nor gave heed to divination, but on the contrary was disposed to ridicule those who did.
Socrates: "So tell me, Aristodemus, are there any human beings who have won your admiration for their wisdom?
Aristodemus: "There are."
Socrates: "Would you mention to us their names?"
Aristodemus: "In the writings of epic poetry I have the greatest admiration for Homer. . . . And as a dithyrambic poet for Melanippides. I admire also Sophocles as a tragedian, Polycleitus as a sculptor, and Zeuxis as a painter."
Socrates: "Which would you consider the more worthy of admiration, a fashioner of senseless images devoid of motion or one who could fashion living creatures endowed with understanding and activity?"
Aristodemus: "Decidedly the latter, provided his living creatures owed their birth to design and were not the offspring of some chance."
Socrates: "But now if you had two sorts of things, the one of which presents no clue as to what it is for, and the other is obviously for some useful purpose—which would you judge to be the result of chance, which of design?"
Aristodemus: "Clearly that which is produced for some useful end is the work of design."
Socrates: "Does it not strike you then that he who made man from the beginning did for some useful end furnish him with his several senses—giving him eyes to behold the visible word, and ears to catch the intonations of sound?
"Or again, what good would there be in odours if nostrils had not been bestowed upon us? What perception of sweet things and pungent, and of all the pleasures of the palate, had not a tongue been fashioned in us as an interpreter of the same?
"And besides all this, do you not think this looks like a matter of foresight, this closing of the delicate orbs of sight with eyelids as with folding doors, which, when there is need to use them for any purpose, can be thrown wide open and firmly closed again in sleep? And, that even the winds of heaven may not visit them too roughly, this planting of the eyelashes as a protecting screen? this coping of the region above the eyes with cornice-work of eyebrow so that no drop of sweat fall from the head and injure them?
"Again this readiness of the ear to catch all sounds and yet not to be surcharged? This capacity of the front teeth of all animals to cut and of the "grinders" to receive the food and reduce it to pulp? The position of the mouth again, close to the eyes and nostrils as a portal of ingress for all the creature's supplies? And lastly, seeing that matter passing out of the body is unpleasant, this hindward direction of the passages, and their removal to a distance from the avenues of sense?
"I ask you, when you see all these things constructed with such show of foresight can you doubt whether they are products of chance or intelligence?"
Aristodemus: "To be sure not! Viewed in this light they would seem to be the handiwork of some wise artificer, full of love for all things living."
Socrates: "What shall we say of this passion implanted in man to beget offspring, this passion in the mother to rear her babe, and in the creature itself, once born, this deep desire of life and fear of death?"
Aristodemus: "No doubt these do look like the contrivances of some one deliberately planning the existence of living creatures."
Socrates: "Well, and doubtless you feel to have a spark of wisdom yourself?"
Aristodemus: "Put your questions, and I will answer."
Socrates: "And yet you imagine that elsewhere no spark of wisdom is to be found? And that, too, when you know that you have in your body a tiny fragment only of the mighty earth, a little drop of the great waters, and of the other elements, vast in their extent, you got, I presume, a particle of each towards the compacting of your bodily frame?
"Mind alone, it would seem, which is nowhere to be found, you had the lucky chance to snatch up and make off with, you cannot tell how. And these things around and about us, enormous in size, infinite in number, owe their orderly arrangement, as you suppose, to some vacuity of wit?"
Aristodemus: "It may be, for my eyes fail to see the master agents of these, as one sees the fabricators of things produced on earth."
Socrates: "No more do you see your own soul, which is the master agent of your body; so that, as far as that goes, you may maintain, if you like, that you do nothing with intelligence, but everything by chance."
Aristodemus: "I assure you, Socrates, that I do not disdain the Divine power. On the contrary, my belief is that the Divinity is too grand to need any service which I could render."
Socrates: "But the grander that power is, which deigns to tend and wait upon you, the more you are called upon to honor it."
Aristodemus: "Be well assured, if I could believe the gods take thought for all men, I would not neglect them."
Socrates: "How can you suppose that they do not so take thought? Who, in the first place, gave to man alone of living creatures his erect posture, enabling him to see farther in front of him and to contemplate more freely the height above, and to be less subject to distress than other creatures (endowed like himself with eyes and ears and mouth).
"Consider next how they gave to the beast of the field feet as a means of progression only, but to man they gave in addition hands—those hands which have achieved so much to raise us in the scale of happiness above all animals. Did they not make the tongue also? Which belongs indeed alike to man and beast, but in man they fashioned it so as to play on different parts of the mouth at different times, whereby we can produce articulate speech, and have a code of signals to express our every want to one another.
"Or consider the pleasures of the sexual appetite; limited in the rest of the animal kingdom to certain seasons, but in the case of man a series prolonged unbroken to old age.
"Nor did it content the Godhead merely to watch over the interests of man's body. What is of far higher import, he implanted in man the noblest and most excellent type of soul. For what other creature, to begin with, has a soul to appreciate the existence of the gods who have arranged this grand and beauteous Universe? What other tribe of animals save man can render service to the gods?
"How apt is the spirit of man to take precautions against hunger and thirst, cold and heat, to alleviate disease and foster strength! how suited to labour with a view to learning! How capable of garnering in the storehouse of his memory all that he has heard or seen or understood! Is it not most evident to you that by the side of other animals men live and move a race of gods—by nature excellent, in beauty of body and of soul supreme?
"For, mark you, had a creature of man's wit been encased in the body of an ox, he would have been powerless to carry out his wishes, just as the possession of hands divorced from human wit is profitless. And then you come, you who have obtained these two most precious attributes, and give it as your opinion, that the gods take no thought or care for you. Why, what will you have them to do, that you may believe and be persuaded that you too are in their thoughts?"
Aristodemus: "When they treat me as you tell us they treat you, and send me counsellors to warn me what I am to do and what abstain from doing, I will believe."
Socrates: "Send you counsellors! Come now, what when the people of Athens make inquiry by oracle, and the gods' answer comes? Are you not an Athenian? Think you not that to you also the answer is given? What when they send portents to forewarn the states of Hellas? or to all mankind? Are you not a man? a Hellene? Are not these intended for you also? Can it be that you alone are excepted as a signal instance of Divine neglect?
"Again, do you suppose that the gods could have implanted in the heart of man the belief in their capacity to work him weal or woe had they not the power? Would not men have discovered the imposture in all this lapse of time? Do you not perceive that the wisest and most perdurable of human institutions—be they cities or tribes of men—are ever the most God-fearing; and in the individual man the riper his age and judgment, the deeper his religousness?
"Ay, my good sir, lay to heart and understand that even as your own mind within you can turn and dispose of your body as it lists, so ought we to think that the wisdom which abides within the universal frame does so dispose of all things as it finds agreeable to itself; for hardly may it be that your eye is able to range over many a league, but that the eye of God is powerless to embrace all things at a glance; or that to your soul it is given to dwell in thought on matters here or far away in Egypt or in Sicily, but that the wisdom and thought of God is not sufficient to include all things at one instant under His care.
"If only you would copy your own behavior where human beings are concerned. It is by acts of service and of kindness that you discover which of your fellows are willing to requite you in kind. It is by taking another into your counsel that you arrive at the secret of his wisdom.
"If, on like principle, you will but make trial of the gods by acts of service, whether they will choose to give you counsel in matters obscure to mortal vision, you shall discover the nature and the greatness of Godhead to be such that they are able at once to see all things and to hear all things and to be present everywhere, nor does the least thing escape their watchful care."
To my mind the effect of words like these was to cause those about him to hold aloof from unholiness, baseness, and injustice, not only whilst they were seen of men, but even in the solitary place, since they must believe that no part of their conduct could escape the eye of Heaven.
—from Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4
IMAGE: Peter Paul Rubens, The Council of the Gods (1625)
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As an Ingress beta player, I can tell you this:
This could be due to attempts to manipulate Niantic's map of worldwide locations i.e. Wayfinder and you may be interacting with a Wayspot that was misplaced or otherwise introduced for sweet, sweet portal hacking.
Don't delete these.
We worked very hard to sneak them in.
pikmin bloom is going great
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