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English Hedges
True.what matters in prayer is that it be performed in the right spirit.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
Does God Speak?
We distinguish between natural events, which can be harmful but are part of nature, like a volcano, and moral evil, which arises from human vice.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
Christian Hermits
Thanks.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
Can You be Rational and Religious?
The Arabs were the inheritors of Grèk culture, so they came upon Aristotle in documents taken during the Arab conquests. His realism made sense to them, and they were not as smitten with the more mystical philosophy of Plato popular in ...
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
An Island Castle
The Orkney law on the issue of land ownership derives from ancient Norse law, but the seas around the land are not privately owned.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
English Hedges
Be Thou my vision does fit with night-time prayer, especially with the line "both waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light."
But I give myself permission for important day prayers because of the preceding line "be Thou my best thought in the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/08/2024
Does God Speak?
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question and in correction of my misdescription.
Yes, I agree that "excessively, extremely humid, muggy" weather cannot be evil even as it continues God's creation and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/08/2024
Christian Hermits
Best wishes -- with Nathan Pacheco's voice so strong, in Be Thou my vision, that it achieves ;-D sound waves all the way to you and Maureen and your family and to Veronica and her husband and their family -- with physiotherapy!
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/08/2024
Can You be Rational and Religious?
And yet Alexander (July 20/21, 356 BC-June 10/11, 323 BC) became versed in Greek culture through Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Macedonian culture through his father, Philip II (382 BC- Oct. 21, 336 BC), and Trojan culture through his mother, Queen ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/08/2024
An Island Castle
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
It interests me that Orkney -- alone of all lands within the United Kingdom? -- invokes individual, not Crown, ownership.
Is that always the case with Orkney ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/08/2024
Messages of Puss in Boots
My procedure generally begins at the beginning and goes through each subheading in order as I come up with comments and questions.
But the five links at the very end draw me.
The linked images, the linked information furnishes elaborations and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/08/2024
An Island Castle
It belongs to the individual owner.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
Can You be Rational and Religious?
I think that Alexander was too busy conquering to promote a philosopher
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
Christian Hermits
That e-mail address is no longer operative. Have you read the story. If not I will look through my records and try to find it. Otherwise I will rewrite it. I won't do it this morning as I am awaiting a visit from the physiotherapist.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024
Does God Speak?
I think that places can have a dark, unpleasant atmosphere. Comparing it to a dull muggy day might have poetic value, but such a day is not evil, as it is part of God's creation, so the metaphor is not fully apt.
frankbeswick, on 05/08/2024