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Does God Speak?
Your comment below about natural events as harmful or as helpful caused me to consider world ends.
A comment elsewhere, again in answer to previous observations and questions of mine, designates from Christian tradition fire as world ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Christian Hermits
To return at the appointed time is in the temptations of Christ in Luke's Gospel. Yes I'll be back is apt. Did you see the temptations of Christ in this story?
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

Irish myths and legends ( 1 ) - The Giant's Causeway
The last entry to the second subheading, Irish mythical creatures, advises us of "Fear Dearg - a mischievous spirit like a leprechaun but dressed all in red."
Can the other mythical creatures be color-coded in terms of signature dress?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Can You be Rational and Religious?
In the collapse of Roman Europe many, most in fact, documents were lost, and Aristotle'-s works were among those lost.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

An Island Castle
Orkney and Shetland were only joined to Scotland innthe fifteenth century. They havevavstrong identity of their own,
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

Irish Myths and Legends ( 2 ) - The Children of Lir
Reading your wizzley again caused me to consider that Ireland configures as Northern and as Republic.
Did swans lose royal-property protection with Irish independence outside Northern Ireland or did that protection transfer to someone or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Christian Hermits
Thank you for Genius loci.
The aforementioned short story is compelling even as it invokes the scariness of being on one's own away from all worldly help in times of other-worldy and worldly troubles and the unsettling presence of a walker with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Can You be Rational and Religious?
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Your comment April 3, 2023, that "The Greek influence came not from Pharaonic Egypt but much later from the Byzantine Greek culture of the Eastern ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

An Island Castle
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day question.
It intrigues me that Orkney law invokes ancient Norse law even as ancient Norse law perhaps informed other areas of the British Isles.
Is Orkney managing to be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Messages of Puss in Boots
The sole paragraph to the fourth subheading, Gifts Are the Key To One's Heart If you can't buy them, steal them!, advises us that "While it's not explicitly written who owns the forest where the cat caught the partridges and rabbits, it's ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

The Christian Teaching on the Holy Spirit
Quite right. How much beingbfirstbmattersvwith twins I do not know.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

Review of Paul: a biography
No date can be agreed on.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

Late Winter in the Garden
Becausevartificial fertilisers have often replaced rather than supplemented natural soil enhancers like manure, seaweed and leaf mould.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

Key Ideas in Catholicism
We have nothing like the blood drive. We have fish meals but with no set or traditional menu.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024

English Identities
Definitely Scaninavian influence derived from Norway is strong in the Isle of Man.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024