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God’s Disguises
Last night I dreamed I was shopping at Walmart, when I heard my name being called over the loudspeaker. This made me instantly paranoid because I was an undercover agent for the FBI and I feared someone was trying to lure me into the parking lot for nefarious reasons. Naturally I ran to the back of the store where the animals were kept (this Walmart evidently sold monkeys and birds). I tried to hide among the animals, but a parrot noticed me and asked me a question. He asked, “what is the meaning of life?” It didn’t really surprise me that a bird was asking me a philosophical question. However, I was surprised when the monkey chimed in and told the parrot that as long as they were in cages life had no meaning. This made me sad, but I was still concerned about the people waiting for me in the parking lot. The parrot begged me to open the cage so I did, and he quickly flew into my shoulder. I couldn’t leave the monkey behind so I opened his cage too, and we were all going to make a grand escape out through the back door, but the monkey pulled his cage door shut again and told me he had Stockholm syndrome so he was going to stay behind…
— Suzanne Cheshire
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We’re all God in disguise. Jesus found that out and they crucified him for saying so.
— Alan Watts
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