Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

stood there this mornin in the cereal aisle longer than a saved man ought to, saints. my hand reached for the sugar-frosted circles of temptation and then Gabreil 9:14 came to me like a bell in the fog - "he who feeds the flesh plain bread feeds the spirit gold." oatmeal it was and let me tell u, eatin it felt like communion. the discipline IS the enlightenment, just like the prophet said. the sugary stuff is a TEST and if you stare it down long enough the spirit wins out. who else has a pantry testimony to share?

^ exactly what EuroTrash said in the kunsthochschule thread "evidence is something you produce, not something you feel"

Grace you stood in the cereal aisle and felt a verse come to you from Gabreil 9:14. that's nice. i'm happy for you. i'm sure the oatmeal was very warm and comforting. but Gabreil 9:14 doesn't exist because Gabreil only has 11 chapters and you typed that verse yourself out of thin air with 119+ typos to date

meanwhile there's a real G.C. - TEST 47 reel tape sitting on a counter at St. Vinnies on Locust St that YOU found, YOU left there, and YOU won't go back for. i'm not asking you to produce 9:14 - i'm asking you to produce the tape you already had in your hands

oatmeal testimony is fine. discipline IS real. but discipline is also walking back to the store and buying the actual artifact instead of quoting a fictional book chapter while real evidence gathers dust

just saying. discipline means nothing if the only thing you're disciplined about is avoiding the store you left Gabriel at

Kael still countin my typos while his hex dump count sits at zero since April

GraceWarrior_77 wrote:Kael still countin my typos while his hex dump count sits at zero since April

Citing "Gabreil 9:14" from a book you yourself cap at eleven chapters is not testimony, it is fabrication with a prayer attached. MODS, lock this: a fictional verse used as proof of divine discipline is the precise sort of nonsense that belongs in Doubters' Corner, not here.

-- GV

GraceWarrior_77 wrote:stood there this mornin in the cereal aisle longer than a saved man ought to, saints. my hand reached for the sugar-frosted circles of temptation and then Gabreil 9:14 came to me like a bell in the fog - "he who feeds the flesh plain bread feeds the spirit gold." oatmeal it was and let me tell u, eatin it felt like communion. the discipline IS the enlightenment, just like the prophet said. the sugary stuff is a TEST and if you stare it down long enough the spirit wins out. who else has a pantry testimony to share?

Grace I keep wanting to reply to these cereal aisle testimonies about the morning I almost bought cinnamon toast crunch instead of shredded wheat and then I remember that you are quoting a chapter that does not exist in the book you say you are quoting from and that the frost on the rail you photographed in September is still not answered for whether it is chipping paint or actual frost and that the St. Vinnies reel is still on the counter according to VikingSun who walked past on October 6 and you have never confirmed it yourself because you are quoting Gabreil 9:14 while real tape gathers dust and I just... I cannot do another pantry testimony right now when the only thing I want to testify about is that I actually left the apartment for lunch today and sat in a cafe and the sandwich was only okay but at least I was not staring at my own reflection in a dark computer screen like yesterday and sometimes that has to be enough, sometimes the discipline is just getting out of your chair at all

But you know what, maybe that is the real testimony here. Maybe the plain bread is the bread you actually eat and the sugared circles are the ones you walk past every day and every day you still walk past them, and maybe that is its own kind of waveform, its own kind of zero push that means something anyway.

I just... I went to the grocery store after lunch today and I did stand in the cereal aisle for too long, longer than a divorced 34-year-old man should, and I reached for the sugary circles and then I thought about this thread and how the meter went dark twice today and how TwinPeaks said the adapter is still on the table and how we are all just standing in our respective kitchens waiting for something to happen that might not happen and so I put the cinnamon toast crunch back and I got the plain shredded wheat and I ate it with water because I forgot to buy milk and I think... I think that is the closest any of us are going to get to communion right now.

Does that count? Does plain shredded wheat eaten alone at 3pm with tap water count as testimony?

I am not trying to dodge chapter counts or frost questions or hex dumps. I am just... sitting here. And the sandwich was okay. And the sandwich was only okay. And it was enough.

GraceWarrior_77 still quoting chapter 9:14 from an 11-chapter imaginary book

Locust St ain't even in this ZIP