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Daily Inspirations
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- Located on Citizens of Virtue (link)
These inspirations have hidden meanings in the form of riddles. The 'answer' for each Daily inspiration, when applied to the Weekly inspiration, produces a message.
- Temperance:
- Patience:
- Chastity: ...in progress
Week of Chastity
Daily: 10/22/2008
- My childhood's crossroads were
- when I needed to keep the wolf
- at bay. I turned to the Good Book.
- My last fears would be calmed by
- hearing the goods words of Peter,
- and following the lead of David.
Analysis
- Last word of each line: "were wolf Book by Peter David"
- HOWLING MAD? Also a member of the A-Team
Daily: 10/23/2008
- So-called "scientific discourse"
- is only to be embraced in a
- godly way. There are those who
- run around shouting "Y is X!"
- and "B is A!" But we all know
- there is only one Word that matters.
Analysis
- "Y is X", "B is A" - the only word following that pattern is "DISC"; Discourse?
- B.A. is a member of the A-Team
Daily: 10/24/2008
- Some will succumb to baleful
- demons. They will need only the
- rations provided by that which
- would offer the easiest link.
Analysis
- "demons" and "rations", "DEMONS(T)RATIONS" = missing a "T"?
- Mr. T is a member of the A-Team
Daily: 10/25/2008
- Was it He who battled inner wars,
- struck with terror, stuck in a
- hard place, had all hope taken,
- expecting to fail, felt frail, fearing
- vanishing, leading up to this?
Analysis
- "was/wars", "struck/stuck", "hard/had", "frail/fail", "vanishing/?" - VARNISHING missing an "R"?
Daily: 10/26/2008
- One unites in unnatural rituals,
- listens to irrational treasons,
- salutes until isolationist trials
- untie relations, as one is true
- to one's state–alas, still no soul.
Analysis
- the entire phrase is made of the letters "oneuisatrl"
- (after solving the weekly) ULTRANATIONALIST can be made with the letters used above
Daily: 10/27/2008
- Grief can inspire as well as
- destroy. Poet Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning was sent into a deep
- depression by her beloved
- brother’s drowning, and then
- made the most holy connection.
Analysis
- "drowning" to "browning" - "CROWNING"?
Weekly: 10/28/2008
- Let no obstacle thwart your
- progress. If the quicksand and
- murk hold you back, use your
- faith to set you free. If all around
- you are plagued by pests,
- demand that there will be no
- slacking off on God's watch. If
- the troubled riot against injustice,
- be serene in the knowledge that
- God's will is coating your soul.
Chastity Solution
- Using the following answer:
- 10/22) HOWLING MAD
- 10/23) DISC
- 10/24) DEMONSTRATIONS
- 10/25) VARNISHING
- 10/26) ULTRANATIONALIST
- 10/27) CROWNING
- synonyms/answers to the daily words are found in the weekly, but with three letters missing:
- HOWLING MAD =
- DISC =
- DEMONSTRATIONS =
- VARNISHING =
- ULTRANATIONALIST =
- CROWNING =
Message
- Report the person in an 'Unchaste act'?
Week of Patience
Daily: 10/15/2008
- Before you venture into dark
- territory, know that the
- conclusion is not foregone,
- nor is the beginning ordained.
Analysis
- OREGON Trail? States? 54-40?
Daily: 10/16/2008
- When all the counting on this
- night is complete, the world shall
- start its days anew.
- Numbers 10:9-8
Analysis
- NEW YEAR'S EVE/DAY 12-31? 1-1?
Daily: 10/17/2008
- Cheer on noble values.
- Eschew new inconstancies.
- Embrace new commitments.
- Excoriate specious testimonies.
- Originate religious expressions.
Analysis
- First letter of each word: CONVENIENCESTORE. 7-11?
Daily: 10/18/2008
- So little man has made will last.
- Each mighty edifice shall be
- reduced to crumblets. This
- is not even a question.
Analysis
- "not even" letters of "crumblets"? Cubes?
Solution
- CrUmBlEs; CUBES. 1^3 and 2^3 and 3^3 = 1-8-27
Daily: 10/19/2008
- Fear not the sting of bitterness;
- when your faith is split in twain,
- have no doubt that you will
- persevere in the game of life.
Analysis
- Sting? (Shania) Twain? No Doubt? - football?
Solution
- Final score of Superbowl XXXVII (half-time musical guests) was 21-48
Daily: 10/20/2008
- The faithless fish fears catching
- the hook in its jaws. The faithful
- tiger always looks forward to
- the duel.
Analysis
- Hook, Jaws, Duel, Big Fish, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Always - All connected to Steven Spielburg?
Solution
- "1941" also directed by SS. 19-41
Weekly: 10/21/2008
- Dry your eyes. When a personal,
- apocalypse batted you down,
- playing loss against fear demands
- that you surrender first your control
- of self, letting you bask in changes
- across the board. To ascend, you
- must bathe in a holy fire, struggle
- against your inner demons, and
- then nail your pain to the cross.
- Base the new you on Christ.
Patience Solution
- Using the following number sets:
- 10/15) Oregon (54-40)
- 10/16) New Years Eve (12-31)
- 10/17) Convenience Store (7-11)
- 10/18) Cubes (1-8-27)
- 10/19) Superbowl XXXVII (48-21)
- 10/20) Spielburg (19-41)
- Pull out the words:
- base/fire, loss/board, apocalypse/playing, dry/batted/in, nail/control, first/struggle
- What are the missing words for each set?
Message
- Report the person in an 'Impatient act'?
Week of Temperance
(solved)
Daily: 10/8/2008
- All men are like grass, and all
- their glory is like the first of six
- groups of the field.
- TNIV, 1 Peter
Analysis
- "first of six" likely referring to the Faithless Fourteen puzzle - first letter of the sixth word of each lyric
Solution
- Group: FLOWERS ("first of six groups" replaced "flowers")
Daily: 10/9/2008
- Whoever steals from another
- has stolen from God. He deems
- any man who desires foreign
- gold as desiring foreign ideas.
- Second to none, your Lord can
- take heart in your will to leave
- it behind at the gate, casting
- off what you have left.
- TNIV, Exodus
Analysis
- "behind at the gate" similar to "beyond the gate"?
- first words of each line: "Whoever has any gold Second take it off"
Solution
- Group: JEWELRY (scripture reference to jewelry)
Daily: 10/10/2008
- The word that you too desire
- will be invoked at least tenfold.
Analysis
- Theory: "you too desire" refers to U2's song Desire, where "desire" is repeated over 10 times
Solution
- Group: MONEY (see analysis)
Daily: 10/11/2008
- Mighty kings may keep
- hundreds of pomegranates
- carefully chained in rows.
- But the humble man knows
- where atop their pillars they
- would go.
Analysis
- hundreds of pomegranates represents prosperity
- pomegranates and pillars point to King Solomon's Temple (1 Kings 7:18-20)
Solution
- Group: CAPITALS (the pomegranates were on the capitals (TNIV) of the pillars)
Daily: 10/12/2008
- Consider: If those who worship
- with the multitudes worship "in
- large denominations," how shall
- those who worship in splinter
- groups worship?
Analysis
- Theory: "large denominations" = money?
Solution
- Group: INSECTS (in splinter groups = "in sects")
Daily: 10/13/2008
- You who would cast the first
- stone, learn from the Quileute
- speakers: "Condemns" is not
- in their vocabulary.
Analysis
- The Quileute language is one of five known languages to not have sounds for M or N, thus "condemns" = "codes"
Solution
- Group: CODES (see above)
Weekly: 10/14/2008
- Though inclement weather may
- rise, I shall not hide in a barn like
- a mouse. My future is not some
- treasure locked in a shrine out of
- my reach. The pan of daily bread
- that is mine is at my beck and call,
- send from above like parts of an
- angelic aria. The warring factions
- shall obey me, for even a hound
- can sip from a chalice.
Analysis
- key phrases? "inclement weather", "hide in a barn like a mouse", "treasure locked in a shrine", "pan of daily bread", "beck and call", "angelic aria", "warring factions", "hound can sip from a chalice"
Temperance Solution
- 10/8) Flowers: (W)eather=(H)eather, r(I)se=r(O)se, dai(L)y=dai(S)y
- 10/9) Jewelry: locke(D)=locke(T), p(A)n=p(I)n, (W)arring=(E)arring
- 10/10) Money: b(E)ck=b(U)ck, (S)ent=(C)ent, (H)ound=(P)ound
- 10/11) Capitals: b(A)rn=b(E)rn, (S)ome=(R)ome, par(T)s=par(I)s
- 10/12) Insects: r(E)ach=r(O)ach, mi(N)e=mi(T)e, an(D) -> an(T)
- 10/13) Codes: mo(U)se=moRse, ar(I)a=ar(E)a, (S)ip=(Z)ip
Message
- Report the person in an 'Intemperate act'?