Re: World Rat Day

marika <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> April 4 is World Rat Day.
>> 
>> That is significant to me since Rat is a SSOSOSS (species someone
>> of other species of significant sign) to me, so is a minor deity to me.
>> I received a sign from Rat early in the Year of the Rat in 1996
>> as described on https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html . In
>> case you don’t want to click on that, here is the relevant paragraph:
>> 
>> "Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my sister Anne
>> and her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to Lakeview
>> along the Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion
>> rapidly to the edge of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We
>> backed up to find it was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later
>> thought that it had committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated i
>> n higher form after hitting the `car of ma.’ “
>> 
>> Anyway, I plan to next try a mystic attempt beginning in the early
>> evening of April 4 and leading up to Easter Sunday morning,
>> and will report progress on alt.religion.druid .
>> 
> 
> Too stupid 
> Rats don’t need to commit suicide to make a point
> 
> Just give them a paintbrush 
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/lnTo7NjSaI
> 
> 
> 

I didn’t mean infallible, so much as I meant mortal Demi-gods whose every
spoken word and opinion is religious magic.

Btw, there was not a single person today who did NOT turn to me and ask
"What did the rat say? What did they mean? What's going on?"

So when someone tells you to ask your mother what is going on, you can tell
her that you will ask your mother what's going on when you want to know
what her chickens ate today.