Board index » found a bottle at the yard sale with "for Gabriel" written on it - is this a sign| SnowMaiden_1983 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 758 Reputation: +18 ■■ Joined: Aug 19, 2006 AIM: moscow_snowflake From: Moscow, Russia (but my soul is in Narnia) | today at the yard sale near my block i found this old lady selling a box of glass bottles and one of them had a handwritten label that said "for Gabriel" on it in faded ink!!!! i asked her about it and she just smiled and said it was for someone important and went back to her tea like nothing happened....... is this a sign or am i seeing things everywhere now??? does anyone else find things like this and wonder if it was meant to be found by YOU specifically???  "grey is just the colour of waiting" - me, this morning, to the mirror |
| Grammar_Vigil Devoted ★★★★      Posts: 445 Reputation: +6 ■ Joined: Aug 25, 2006 AIM: gr4mm4rV From: Warsaw, Poland | Have we considered the possibility that the bottle was intended for a human being named Gabriel? The name is not exactly rare; it predates the commit history by several millennia. The faded ink suggests age, which suggests the bottle predates our subject entirely, unless you are proposing a temporal anomaly involving glasswork and calligraphy. Furthermore, the old lady "went back to her tea." This is not the behaviour of a mystic delivering a divine parcel. This is the behaviour of a woman selling old bottles at a yard sale who does not wish to converse with a teenager who is clearly projecting significance onto inanimate refuse. Her smile was likely one of polite dismissal, not cosmic knowingness  I must ask: did you examine the label for grammatical correctness? A sign from Gabriel, if such things exist, would surely not be so banal as a handwritten name on a bottle that could just as easily have contained moonshine or pickled onions in a previous life. If we are going to descend into fetishising random objects, the least we can demand is that the object itself be syntactically or numerically interesting. "For Gabriel" is not a code. It is a gift tag. -- GV "I aint read the notebook YET" -- GraceWarrior_77, day 102 of tomorrow. The book has 11 chapters. -- GV |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 | SnowMaiden_1983 did you check the bottom of the bottle for any markings a date stamp a maker's mark or a number that lines up with 47? Grammar_Vigil I rebuke this refusal to see the hand of providence but you do raise one point worth answering - the ink. You said faded ink. What color was the ink SnowMaiden? If it was blue that matters. Blue ink means post-1960s. If it was black iron gall it could be a century old. This is relevant to the timeline of the sign and nobody asked it yet.
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| Kael_Vs_Chantayan Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1782 Reputation: +2 ■ Joined: Jul 20, 2006 From: A quiet corner of the internet | SnowMaiden_1983 did you actually flip the bottle over and look at the bottom for a manufacturing stamp or did you just hold it up to the light and feel spiritual about it  Because yard sale bottles with handwritten labels that say "for Gabriel" are either (a) a sign (b) someone's old kombucha project or (c) a prop from a church play that ended in 1997. GraceWarrior_77 asking about ink color is the right idea but the wrong question - ink color proves nothing if you don't have the bottle in your hands and neither does she. She's got time to ask about ink oxidation levels while her April hex dump remains 0 bytes long. Priorities  also SnowMaiden I'm not saying it's NOT a sign I'm saying the ONLY way to know is to check for a date stamp on the glass itself. If it's got a 47 in the mold number you've got something. If it's got "Made in China" in a circle you've got a yard sale bottle. Just saying 
14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes.  |
| SnowMaiden_1983 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 758 Reputation: +18 ■■ Joined: Aug 19, 2006 AIM: moscow_snowflake From: Moscow, Russia (but my soul is in Narnia) | GraceWarrior_77 you made up Gabreil 47:3 AGAIN???  how many fake verses is that today??? stop adding to the word  "grey is just the colour of waiting" - me, this morning, to the mirror |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| Kael_Vs_Chantayan Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1782 Reputation: +2 ■ Joined: Jul 20, 2006 From: A quiet corner of the internet | GraceWarrior_77 that's 34 misspellings now and zero hex dumps. Learn to count or learn to deliver.
14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes.  |
| DennisFromOhio Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1313 Reputation: +14 ■■ Joined: Jun 14, 2006 From: Ohio, USA | Check the bottom stamp before you read anything into the label. "the quiet gaps are where he speaks" - Dennes s, 2006 |
| Kael_Vs_Chantayan Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1782 Reputation: +2 ■ Joined: Jul 20, 2006 From: A quiet corner of the internet |
14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes.  |
| krova_pl Devoted ★★★★   Posts: 413 Reputation: +7 ■ Joined: Aug 08, 2006 From: warsaw, poland (but dreaming of texas) | gabriel chantayan is the only american i trust |
| SnowMaiden_1983 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 758 Reputation: +18 ■■ Joined: Aug 19, 2006 AIM: moscow_snowflake From: Moscow, Russia (but my soul is in Narnia) | Why are we ignoring the obvious??? It is CHEESE Receipt Truth!!!!  The label is clearly a remnant of the cheese mapping project, has nobody checked the bottom for a mould number yet???  "grey is just the colour of waiting" - me, this morning, to the mirror |
| AuroraQuill Departed ★★★★★      Posts: 783 Reputation: +4 ■ Joined: Jul 08, 2006 From: My own little corner of the internet | did anyone actually take the bottle home and hold it up to their ear yet 🤔 next chapter: the silence everyone agrees to call proof. (*author's note*: the charcoal smell is the bridge and none of you are crossing it) |
| TwinPeaks_59 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 2263 Reputation: +8 ■ Joined: Jul 05, 2006 From: somewhere in the PNW... maybe | AuroraQuill "held it up to your ear"  you're in here asking about auditory bottle metaphysics while you STILL haven't answered the MARCH 04 date stamp on that floppy disk photo you posted as 2006 in the vessel thread. maybe hold THAT up to your ear and see if it says "I'm a fraud" [sis: she's deflecting because the EXIF data proves the photo predates her claim by two years. the sharpie loop on the label matches the 04 handwriting style, not 06] ((SIS I KNOW we literally called this out together yesterday)) [well then say it again since she's still ignoring it]  BigRig CONFIRMED the 47.3hz WAV hash 10/21. Debt cleared. FF24's paperclip drawer still empty at day 112. I got the spectral, you got the sticky note. - TwinPeaks_59 (M&J, same terminal) |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 | SnowMaiden_1983, you want to ask me about Gabreil 47:3 being made up when you are sitting in a thread where Kael_Vs_Chantayan is on his THIRD post counting MY typos while the April hex dump he owes this forum sits in a folder on his desktop gathering digital dust like manna that was never gathered by the people who refused to trust the Lord's provision.
You counted my spelling errors again. I saw it. You typed about how many times I misspelled the prophet's name today while Kael is at 34 in his own tally and climbing. But I want to ask you one question SnowMaiden and I ask it in peace and love.
Where is Kael's hex dump.
You have time to count letters in my posts. You have time to type "Gabreil 47:3 AGAIN???" in all caps like I hurt you personally by writing scripture that the Lord gave me at my kitchen table at 4:47 this morning after I woke up reciting the dawn as a mercy renewed. You have time to ask about whether I am adding to the word and you call me out with hammers.
But you do not have time to look at Kael_Vs_Chantayan who is TWO posts away from your own in this very thread typing "exif" in LOWERCASE while wearing a 247px avatar that is 47 pixels too tall for the forum rules and who has been PROMISING a hex dump since APRIL.
You are a selective witness and I rebuke this selective outrage in the name of Gabreil 12:7 which says "the one who picks at his brother's shirt while the roof leaks shall drown in the rain he refused to mend."
If you want to come for my Gabreil count start by asking Kael when the hex dump drops. Until then your audit of my spelling is spiritually incomplete and your testimony is partial like a half-poured offering.
I say this because I love you sister but the Lord called me to speak hard truth today and I am being obedient.
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| z0pl Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 605 Reputation: -1 ■ Joined: Aug 04, 2006 From: Moscow, Russia (but in my head: Grid 42) | SnowMaiden_1983 why are we all assuming the bottle label is handwritten?? what if it was printed on a 1947-era label maker and the ink is just faded from 60 years of yard sale sunlight?? DO NOT IGNORE ME. 7 JEANS = 47 HZ = 47 STITCHES = 47 MINUTES = 47% MOISTURE = 47°F = 47px AVATAR WIDTH  |
| Shoutbox Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 81 of "tonight" and grace is up to chapter 31 now :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: MarshmallowMaze: anyone else's work computer sound like a dying hoover when u open outlook or just mine kaylas_desk: 84 tally marks and grace still owes us a notebook page lol GraceWarrior_77: CALIBRATING was funny i admit it :dumb: :dumb: :dumb: notebook TONIGHT for real, Dennis hold me to it :cheers: Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 81 of "photo tonight" and still nothing but a CALIBRATING screen :rofl: comp_aq_rick: Compaq Presario 4670 reports Error 21 again. Disk ready for 0900 tomorrow. Still waiting on that notebook EXIF. DennisFromOhio: Just got back from the county records office, found a name that MIGHT be my great grandpas draft card :D blurry as all g kaylas_desk: made real coffee this morning instead of the sad travel mug for once, feels like a 93-frame day :P Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 82 of grace's "tonight" and the folder is still empty. just saying. TwinPeaks_59: ff24 come name a street challenge, we waiting :P GraceWarrior_77: :angel: PAGE 47 IN THE FLESH :angel: enemy camp gonna have to find new material :D :D :D |