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Many thanks for all your useful comments -- I will certainly think things over and make a decision. 
 
I seem to have hit a little nerve with many people -- perhaps there has been other threads similar to this and I should have researched them more thoroughly before ...

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Thank you, Southern Belle -- you are right, of course -- I musn't whinge.

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<t>I have been cruelly victimized by my church and there's nothing I can do about it. 
 
Closed lying gossip networks and shaming (for no reason) from the pulpit are only two weapons used. Everyone believes everything church leaders say -- who would believe me? 
 
You have to obey ...

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<t>Wonderful story -- wonderful series! 
 
I remember hearing this story on the radio "Children's Hour" (UK) back in the 1950's (I think). 
 
I was stunned and have been ever since. 
 
Recent criticism of the Narnia series by another children's author have been very ...

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The first record I ever bought was:

Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" played by;

Jesus Maria Sanroma (there's a name from the past!)

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You're lucky!

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<t>Clint wrote: What is the most important thing a follower of Christ should be doing? 
 
If someone posts what you think is most important. What is second most in importance? 
 
 
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Stand with the Oppressed! 
 
Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the ...

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I'm told that Sherlock Holmes was antisemitic because a Jew extorted a revenge against him -- Sherlock had bought a Strad violin from him at knock-down price because he know more about violins than the Jew did.

What am I talking about??

What are you all talking about ???

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Bob who?

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<t>Bez wrote: Oh yes...but what made the evil ones turn bad ? 
 
 
 
Cause and effect.....a huge subject and firmly entrenched in Buddhist beliefs which I am studying. 
 
 
 
To my mind, all babies are born totally innocent....even the naughty little buggers ...

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Can you be a Mason and also a Christian?

I think not!

Can you be a Mason and also a churchgoer?

Certainly! My church (CE) has leaders who are Masons.

Something wrong here, I think.

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<t>chrisb84uk wrote: Racism is a pretty touchy subject where I live. In Birmingham, (the huge city next to where I live,) we always get huge gangland wars between the rival gangs of whites, blacks, asian and so on. 
 
The amount of rival shootings that go on is pretty extreme there, and at ...

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<r>capt_buzzard wrote: There is increasing evidence to show that getting close to nature can make us feel less stressed and better about ourselves. A new study from the University of Essex UK, shows that 'green' exercise can boost mood, physical fitness and self esteem. 
 
Prof Jules Pretty ...

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<t>koan wrote: Do you believe that people are essentially good or essentially evil, and why? 
 
I believe people are essentially good. That is why we have a conscience. If we were evil then our conscience wouldn't weigh on us so heavily when we do hurtful things or see others being hurt. <br ...

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<r>Churches can be so crucifying -- the church leaders so often forget that they should encourage us with our pilgrimages, but they can be very worldly with their status-seeking, power-grabbing, pulpit-propagandising. 
 
Jesus did not like the Saducees -- you are in good company. See the ...

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<t>Ted wrote: koan :-6 
 
I can agree with that. As a Christian Pluralist I must respect all other faiths and do so. As far as Christianity goes when it comes right down to it the symbols of our faith are not that important. Whati is important is that Christians live in a developing ...

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I think that you have had very bad church experiences -- I do sympathise with you: so many of us have been there. 
 
Some friends of mine advised me to find out about SpiritualAbuse, and this helped enormously to understand the difference between Church and Christ. Why don ...

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This is heroic!!

Christianity as it should be -- Christianity at its best -- no dogma, no Us/Them -- just Love.

Amen.

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<t>gmc wrote: Stone age priest, "I know what we can do let's move these massive stones and stand them on end in a big circle. Being polite and not wanting to hurt his feelings by telling him where to go those around agreed despite the overwhelming desire that there were more important things to do ...

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Older -- wiser? -- more depressed.

But no-one wants to hear that, do they?

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In Haworth, Yorkshire, home of the Bronte sisters, there is a shop for occult paraphernalia. 
 
The street sign where it is says "Purves Corner". 
 
It doesn't look like a regular street sign. 
 
Perhaps some wit has put it up. 
 
Appropriate ...

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Bacon and Eggs and Fried Bread.

Luvvly-Jubbly.

I'm low cholest and 11 stone and 67.

Life's GREAT.

:wah:

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:-5 All to do with the moon cycle, maybe!

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Sad.

Nice Lass.

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Oh! Low profile, folks --- we live in Interesting Times!

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Made my day -- crying with laughter.

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Your friends are Good.

Your enemies are Evil.

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<t>Shostakovich composed his piano concerto 2 purely to provide his son with an easy concerto as an audition piece for his entry into the music conservatoire. 
 
Just nepotism. 
 
It uses ideas from Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Prokofiev, etc. Why not just listen to ...

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Differences in religions?

No difference (except in story-myths). All are ideologies of social control.

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Read The Lord of the Rings.

Gandalf (meaning = elf-wizard) is actually an Odin-type character.

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You want to know me?

"I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes)."

And so say anyone.

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Smoking is dangerous.

People enjoy Risk.

Nuff said!

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The Kitchen-cook's prayer:

God bless

This mess.

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<r>OR]A modern Christian follows the example of the radical Jesus of Nazareth. 
 
Jesus took the side of the dispossessed, the marginalised, the victimised, the fall-guys, those rejected by institutions. 
 
See how he was angry in the forecourt of the Temple. See how he sought the ...

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<t>It is with deep sadness that I have begun to feel that Church-going and Christianity do not touch at any point. 
 
Well, perhaps at one point -- as an ideology for church elites to keep hoi polloi low and ignorant. But nowadays we are not low and ignorant. 
 
In any church the ...

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<t>Both Ethics and Morality change as Culture changes. They are the Herd-Mentality in the individual. 
 
The high-moral ground is when you can claim a Right within the larger community (perhaps through the legal process) that your position is more valid that your adversary's. Society's ...

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An interesting, if weird, novel about Hell:

"The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien.

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My recent experiences of church tell me that church leaders organise a church for their own benefit, justifying their decisions, that hoi polloi must obey, by cherry-picking from the bible. Note that hoi polloi must not cherry-pick from the bible -- that would be ...

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When I die, if there is an afterlife, I hope to meet my heroes: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, David Hume, Schweitzer, Darwin. So I guess I won't be going to a Christian heaven (or hell?).

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Hello there.

I'm having a shot at joining your forum -- a little nervous: I'm not very computer literatebut it all sounds fun.

Looking forward to it all.

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