Ah yes, but if you disappoint Santa the most you’ll get is a lump of coal.
If you disappoint God (the type some Christian’s adhere to) you get to spend eternity suffering in a blaze of hellfire.
This, in my mind, would lead a person to look for as much evidence as possible-to make sure the religion they adhere to is the proper one, as opposed to the one they were born into.
There is an ancient ritual which is reputed to stop witches in which you may spill a box of matches or needles and the poor compulsive witch will have to count each and every one before proceeding.
With Old Nick you can attempt the sin of glutteny to bribe and dissuade Him. Leaving cookies and milk in your living room area is reputed to work although I have it from a good source that Jamaican rum and good cigars will work better.
Actually, judging from that post, the antecedent to which your valued pronoun refers can be easily misconstrued.
Regardless, a discussion of endophoras was not my point. When you post what you did without an upfront acknowledgment of the origin of the majority of your OP (if you don’t know to whom you should attribute the list, at the very least you should mention from where you got it), it looks as if you are claiming authorship. It shouldn’t be left up to the readers to discern when you have and have not lifted your writing.
In addition, keep in mind that copyrights don’t have to be present in a work for it to have copyright protection. To further clarify, that list was copyrighted upon creation:
They don’t, there is only the Oneness of God, or whatever name you wish to use. All see the same image, but through their filters of belief picked up in physical living. When they die, everyone sees the same as the same.