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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 637513" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>I'll agree with many of the others here - it wasn't a curse, it was a test. And he passed that test.</p><p></p><p>I'll get a tiny bit philosophical here. The avatar I use is Set (or Seth, or Sutekh, depending on your historical sources) teaching archery to one of the pharaohs.</p><p></p><p>Set's "job" (the aspect he is "neter" or divine teacher of) is the expanding of boundaries. They may be personal or material, but when you have pushed your limits further and have grown as a person, and become aware of that growth and change, you have experienced or undergone a phenomenon they called "khefer" (or Xeper in the older Greek translations - the letters chi, phi, rho.) If you become aware of that change, and embrace it as a new state of being, you can continue that growth.</p><p></p><p>(They even had a neter of the state of being itself, the dung beetle - named Khefri. Struggling to grow sometimes beyond my limitations often feels like I'm pushing a ball of dung bigger than I am, so I'd say the metaphor's pretty good. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> )</p><p></p><p>It isn't easy seeing that one has changed, especially as it brings into focus what one used to be. You can't know where you're going without knowing where you've been, and in my mind that makes a relapse even more likely (she says, eating old easter candy at 9:30am!) because it's easier to make yourself numb to the negative than embrace it as past and walk towards growth, pushing that d*mned ball of poo all the way.</p><p></p><p>And the secret? Inside that ball of poo is an egg, that can hatch into a new person, the one I can become that is a little better than the one I was.</p><p></p><p>OK, all done philosophy class. Back to the chocolate. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 637513, member: 15907"] I'll agree with many of the others here - it wasn't a curse, it was a test. And he passed that test. I'll get a tiny bit philosophical here. The avatar I use is Set (or Seth, or Sutekh, depending on your historical sources) teaching archery to one of the pharaohs. Set's "job" (the aspect he is "neter" or divine teacher of) is the expanding of boundaries. They may be personal or material, but when you have pushed your limits further and have grown as a person, and become aware of that growth and change, you have experienced or undergone a phenomenon they called "khefer" (or Xeper in the older Greek translations - the letters chi, phi, rho.) If you become aware of that change, and embrace it as a new state of being, you can continue that growth. (They even had a neter of the state of being itself, the dung beetle - named Khefri. Struggling to grow sometimes beyond my limitations often feels like I'm pushing a ball of dung bigger than I am, so I'd say the metaphor's pretty good. :) ) It isn't easy seeing that one has changed, especially as it brings into focus what one used to be. You can't know where you're going without knowing where you've been, and in my mind that makes a relapse even more likely (she says, eating old easter candy at 9:30am!) because it's easier to make yourself numb to the negative than embrace it as past and walk towards growth, pushing that d*mned ball of poo all the way. And the secret? Inside that ball of poo is an egg, that can hatch into a new person, the one I can become that is a little better than the one I was. OK, all done philosophy class. Back to the chocolate. :) [/QUOTE]
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