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"Are you Religious" II
The opportunity to focus on matters of faith, belief and spiritual matters.
"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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No I'm not and sooner its fucking banned the better......to the hole
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Qualidy post. You're allowed to Flypast (V formation)...
Originally Posted by brettarider 
"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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I think I'd like to read what others have to say on the matter. Originally Posted by BoomShackerLacker
You seem like a chap who might be able to point me in the right direction. Perhaps the musings of some philosopher who thought everything consisted of earth, air, fire and water? Or maybe the thoughts of an illiterate who spent some time in the desert?
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I caught the last fifteen minutes of that Radio 4 thing from when they were discussing archaeology to try and verify what was written in the Bible with regards to Solomon. I tend to think of this line of approach as 'looking at the box'. Okay, it may help with building faith, and faith can help with the whole point of the exercise (spiritual transformation), but some folk just get stuck with the box and miss the contents. And do they really need to 'prove' the existence of people like Solomon anyway? Proof leaves very little room for faith.
I can't say I know much about the wise Solomon, but being an alike, I like Solomons description of an alcoholic
Thine eyes shall behold strange women = beer gogglesAt the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
I was not sick; they have beaten me, etc = Unidentifyable Drinking Injuries
And of course, alcoholism in the end does 'bite like the snake, etc'; hence we have 'rock bottoms' where we're sick and tired of being sick and tired, so we then go and do something about our alcoholism. But Solomon wasn't that wise; he described the symptoms of alcoholism, but as far as I can see, he didn't provide a solution to it.
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In timed honoured ARRSE tradition, I've fixed that for you. ;) Originally Posted by BoomShackerLacker Higgs_bosun and House Sparrow like this.© SBM Productions MMXIII
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No more so nor less so than the last thread!
"Patience is counting down without blasting off."
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Hear him out... Originally Posted by verticalgyro
- 07-06-2012, 10:59 #10
No. That is all
"Tho' I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!" Mr Kipling Poet and baker.
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