pushka
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Yep, definitely Lancashire vs Yorkshire or Mancunian. Have you been watching the X Factor? Diane Vickers is from Accrington (or Blackburn) and she speaks a lot like we do..unfortunately, lol!
I love the scouse accent..My ex said I viewed Liverpool and all people from there thru rosy coloured specs cos I spent a month in hospital there when I was 8, but that didn't really have anything to do with it..I just love most regional accents..not so keen on Somerset tho :)
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I'm from Burnley, which is quite a way from Preston..nearer to Accrington and Blackburn and the Yorkshire border, but I see what you mean..I don't suppose being nervous helps when reading things aloud, more and more commas would appear! :)
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I'm almost constantly concerned about my use of grammar, and whether it's correct..I loved English lessons at school but did better in English Literature than in English Language/Grammar. One of my main problems is the use of the comma, either too little or too much..I try to read something out loud, to see if commas are required, and find that I get out of breath (due to a medical condition) and so put in too many commas!!
Thanks for the laugh and the instruction :)
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Hi Outshined! Welcome Back! Great to hear you're safe and sound :)
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Thank you to those who answered my question about the church and Spiritualism..
My late grandfather was a Spiritualist, he claimed to have a red indian spirit guide. My lat grandmother (his wife) once tried out a little table knocking with her sister, while my grandfather was at work..apparently the table did levitate and 'danced' around the room with her sister and pinned her to the wall.
I always took my grandmother to be a very honest, religious woman, I wouldn't expect her to tell lies..so, did this really happen, and if so, it does seem a little evil of the spirit conjoured up, to pin her sister to the wall.
Following the incident my grandmother went to her Roman Catholic church and confessed to the priest, who kicked her out of the premises!! She still remained a staunch Roman Catholic however.
I've been to a few Spiritualist services and they are very respectful of God, they have an interesting website too, which outlines their objectives:
Objectives
The main objective of the SNU is to promote the advancement of a knowledge of the religion and religious philosophy of Spiritualism as based on the Seven Principles, as follows:-
1. The Fatherhood of God.
2. The Brotherhood of Man.
3. The Communion of Spirits and the Ministry of Angels.
4. The continuous existence of the human soul.
5. Personal responsibility.
6. Compensation & retribution hereafter for all the good & evil deeds
done on earth.
7. Eternal progress open to every human soul.
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Hiya, welcome to the site, I'm from the UK too, I live in sunny Lancashire :) Hope you enjoy yourself and stick around here.
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I must admit that common sense dictates to me that private companies, like private clubs (we have workingmen's clubs over here and private men's clubs too) should be able to choose their own customers, so I wouldn't find it acceptable to force a Christian Heterosexual dating site to set up potential dates for homosexuals if it didn't want to..
I don't agree with discrimination of any kind, however, but I do feel that all the business of discrimination, people being sued and whatnot has just grown into a big business for lawyers and has got out of hand.
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What do church members and GA's in general think about the Spiritualist church and its use of Mediums in it's services?
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Willow, thanks for taking the time to post back regarding my enquiry on Facebook..I'm sorry that I couldn't get on to this site quickly enough to let everyone know I'd spoken to you, before you reposted!
Looking forward to possibly seeing you this Saturday evening or Sunday morning.. :)
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Thanks for bumping up this thread Elphie..unfortunately I didn't get to the Stake centre meet and mingle during the conference, so haven't had a chance to see Willow in person.
I will send her a message/email and hopefully she will reply that she is well.. :)
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Okay, it's 6:30 pm here, and I am totally freaking out. I want to take ten xanaxes, drink a few, okay like twenty, Glenlevit scotch and sodas, and go to the dentist just for the gas!
So, just in case anyone is a frazzled as I am, here's a mental health break. It never fails to crack me up.
Elphaba
LOL, thanks for posting this Elphie!! I haven't listened to/watched it this time around, but I know it's cheered me up in the past!!
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Hiya, thanks for sharing your story with us..hope you enjoy sticking around the site :)
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Back in the late 70s, at my local ward, members didn't drink tea/coffee/coca cola, some members didn't consume or limited their consumption of chocolate too..I remember buying Carob bars at one point, as a chocolate substitute. I was told that this was because of the caffeine content.
I was surprised to find that members are now allowed to drink coca cola, the cynical side of me wondered if the church had bought shares into the coca cola industry...I don't suppose anyone knows if they do, do they? lol :)
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Here's a couple of links to Buddhist message boards:
Yahoo! Message Boards - Buddhism
Buddhism - Message Board - People in Action
There should be lots of scope for learning about different kinds of Buddhism amongst those :)
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Is there a Buddhism discussion board somewhere else on the internet where we could go to learn more about it?
This is a website about the kind of Buddhism I was studying last year, it gives an overview of Buddhism as well as links to local meditation centres around Europe.
Kadampa Buddhist meditation centres in Europe - Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre
Ooops, just realised you were asking for a discussion board! Sorry!!
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Hi Elphie..it really is unbelievable what some people still believe...I'm wondering what the woman who helped me back to church believes about this, she has come up with some stunning versions of doctrine occasionally too, lol.
Great to see you too, Elphie! It's not often we get on the board at the same time these days! When I tried to reply in the Thanks thread that Iggy started, my laptop erased both attempts, so I gave up in the end..of course the people who need thanking by me already know who they are, I hope! :)
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It is unfortunate that such a book was written and taken notice of by so many people. At my Gospel Principles class recently, our teacher referred heavily to that book about certain points of doctrine..I didn't have the heart to tell her of the controversy surrounding it!
A mildly amusing thing happened to me at church last week. We have a number of African, West Indian etc. members attending our ward and as I was leaving with the woman who gives me a lift to church last week we saw a number of these people also getting into their cars to leave. My lift turned to me and said 'there's lots of coloured people attending our ward isn't there? Well, it does say that they will become white eventually doesn't it? I don't mind anyone of any colour myself tho..' I was speechless! Does this woman truly believe that all blacks attending the church will eventually turn white? Does anyone else believe this?!! Surely she is taking the 'white and delightsome people' reference a little too literally!!!
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Charley, I love the way your Christmas celebrations sound..I used to attend Midnight Mass occasionally at Christmas Eve, one year I took my children to the local Children's Mass at 6pm on Christmas Eve, where they placed the figure of Baby Jesus into the nativity scene at the front of the altar, my son was only 5 at the time and asked when it was time for Jesus to join us in the church, lol!!
I used to tell my children that we couldn't open any of the gifts beneath the tree until after Father Christmas had spread his magic dust over them when he called on Christmas Eve/Morning, it kept them happy for a few years, lol :)
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Wow! Your mother is really taking advantage of her 'rights' as a mother to touch you as she pleases..she is wrong and she is abusing you. Others have suggested talking to another close family relative, and if you feel close enough to a relative to do so, I think I would, maybe they can put an adult perspective on the situation for you, and be able to mediate between you and your mother over this?
Is there another family member who you could live with, if the situation doesn't improve/gets any worse? I know you feel guilty over the honour your mother and father commandment, but she is not honouring her role as your mother and it is not a safe environment for you to be living in...she could potentially go to jail for what she is doing to you, does she realise this?
I want to be compassionate towards your mother, and I know that this post doesn't sound that way, but she needs help if she isn't already getting it..somebody else mentioned a psychiatrist, I think she needs either one of those or somebody specifically trained to deal with sexually abusive people..is there a child abuse helpline you can call, confidentially, who could give you more advice about services available to you in your area?
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Since my husband and I separated/divorced ten years ago, my family is split each Christmas Day..one year the kids spend Christmas Eve and Boxing Day with me, and Christmas Day with their dad, the next the rota is reversed. Fortunately, the kids are with each of us for at least the morning on Christmas Day as they've spent the night before with one of us, and don't go to the other parent till lunch time, so we both get to see them for a little time that day. For the remainder of the holiday, I usually visit my parents/sister's houses with my kids on one of the 'big' days, and sometimes visit friends' houses on others. Occasionally I have had group gatherings at my house over the holiday, for parties, but not so often these days as I like a quieter, family time together more nowadays (I'm getting old and boring, lol!).
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please do not feel bad that you were too aggressive! i did not take what you had to say as aggressive at all. you were simply sharing emotions and thoughts that are important to you. along those same lines, i hope you do not take the quote i am about to share with you as didactic. i am certainly not hoping to repremand you in any way! it is simply a quote that has helped me when i've faced uncertainty about a various facet of buddhism.
"A man approached the Blessed One and wanted to have all his philosophical questions answered before he would practice.
In response, the Buddha said, 'It is as if a man had been wounded by a poisoned arrow and when attended to by a physician were to say, ‘I will not allow you to remove this arrow until I have learned the caste, the age, the occupation, the birthplace, and the motivation of the person who wounded me.’ That man would die before having learned all this. In exactly the same way, anyone who should say, ‘I will not follow the teaching of the Blessed One until the Blessed One has explained all the multiform truths of the world’-that person would die before the Buddha had explained all this.'"
Thanks for the quote above, it makes sense to me, it doesn't offend me..I haven't looked at the Buddhist books again since I stopped attending the classes, but I will do so again eventually, they are the books written by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and are really interesting. I always intended to visit the Buddhist temple in Grassington, here in the UK, but haven't got around to doing that either, yet..I think I will do one day.
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Thank you for your reply, it really is appreciated. I know what you are trying to say, and I can live with that explanation for the loss of my son's friend.
I still don't think that I'm completely over his passing, even tho I'm not related to him, his death affected me so much and still does...
Thanks again for your attempt to help me with your reply..I hope that I didn't sound a little too aggressive in my original post to you, I even forgot to welcome you to the site..
I would like to talk with you more about my son's friend, and other issues surrounding Buddhism, as I said before I loved the people and the philosophies, I still have the books which I purchased and started to study, and have learned much from them about how to cope with situations in my life..If I can only remember to put them into practice sometimes! :)
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Hi bodisgirlsmiles, I attended Buddhist meditation classes for a few months last year, and attended one local weekend retreat at a Buddhist centre too..in fact, I was hoping that I may be able to retire to the local Buddhist community around this area eventually but then the centre closed, due to lack of funds for the upkeep of the building they were based in, and now the nearest centre is a few more miles away, and not in quite so peaceful surroundings I imagine
I loved the idea of meditating for peace and for the control of various negative emotions within ourselves, I really felt at peace when I returned home from the classes I attended, and during the weekend retreat I took. I loved the people and the philosophies.
Unfortunately, at the time I was attending the classes, my son's school friend, aged 14, died of a rare cancer. He was a lovely boy, the cancer took his life within 7 months of him first feeling any symptoms..my son was devastated by the loss, I was too..unfortunately I couldn't view his death as being a possible result of some 'bad karma' that had ripened at his birth, which meant that he was supposed to die young..so I stopped attending the classes, feeling very disgruntled.
I'm sure that I was looking at that particular teaching in too stark a way, and that there is probably more to it than I allowed myself to know at that time, I was so upset and angry at his death..perhaps you could explain this to me a little more, and help me to come to terms with the teaching as I interpreted it?
I still love the Buddhist way of life and still wish that I could have given up everything to go and live at the retreat..maybe one day I still will, but at a different location.
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Aloren, if it's correct that your baptism is going to be allowed in spite of your living arrangements then I am very happy for you!
Ztodd, thanks for your reply to my comment, I'm afraid I just don't see 2 people who happen to be of the opposite sex sharing a house, as friends not as in a relationship, as being the appearance of evil and I would hope that their faith in the religion they are following would help them to overcome any temptation that may arise in this situation or any other..thanks tho, I think your reply was the 'standard' reply I was expecting to get :)
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We now have 5 cats, no recent pix stored on this computer, unfortunately:
Pushka (as in the profile pic), now aged 6 years (will be 7 in February)
Kitty, now aged 3 years and 4 months
Suki, now aged 1 year and 1 month
Socks, Suki's kitten, now aged 6 months and
Squealer, Suki's other kitten, now aged 6 months