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Why I am a Christian
The second paragraph to your second subheading, The Content of Faith, considers that "Over the years I began to develop an interest in religious experience, which is one of my specialist academic areas.I began to realize that at the root of all ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/11/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
The first stanza to your sixth subheading, Saint Colum Cille poem, cautions that "My hand is weary with writing / My sharp quill is not steady / My slender-beaked pen juts forth / A black draught of shining dark-blue ink."
There wasn't anything ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/11/2023
Wisdom: a forgotten concept
My masters degree in philosophy did not deal in
Hindu and Buddhist thought, but I have a certificate with distinction in world religions
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2023
Seeing a ghost
The pigs were in the pagan territory of Decapolis, where
Jewish rules were not followed.hence the inhabitants ate pork.What Jesus knew about science is unclear.
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
I understand not watching. I thought there was a chance it would have ended with the Queen's passing.
blackspanielgallery, on 04/10/2023
Wisdom: a forgotten concept
The third and fourth paragraphs to your second subheading, Outside the Judaeo-Christian tradition, consider Hindu illusional and Buddhist delusional interpretations of our reality.
Some Native American religions have those concepts within their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Seeing a ghost
Your comment of 12/03/2016 contains the observation that "In the tale of the Gerasene demoniac the evil spirits are clearly operative in the world, and hence not in Hell. They plead with Jesus not to send them into the pit, and he allows them to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Besides the Ocean of Time: reflections on the book
No, pencil monitor was specific to that particular school.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
A British Garden Society
It was given to the local council, who rented out land on a first co Mr, first served basis.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
A British Garden Society
The first paragraph to your first subheading, War Time, describes the World War I background to the modern allotment.
Was the Urmston-area land given out freely to its future cultivators, perhaps on a first-come first-serve basis?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Besides the Ocean of Time: reflections on the book
The first paragraph to your first subheading, Aliens and the Pencil Monitor, describes the pencil monitor as dutied "to give out the pencils."
Is pencil monitoring a position within every infant school? Would the students be expected to keep ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
The Garden Awakening
I could grow whatever vegetables I chose,but I could not have livestock, though my son is allowed chickens. As for where I would have liked to farm, where else but for the West of
Ireland. I love it there.I think that Veronica would understand ...
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
The English Meadow
The normal grazing land for cattle and sheep would be a field or part of one.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
The Garden Awakening
The first paragraph to your second subheading, Practical Wisdom, admits to being a "vegetable grower, with an unfulfilled longing to be a smallholder."
It appears from your wizzleys that you've grown quite quite a range on your allotment. Do ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
The English Meadow
Your first subheading, What Were Meadows, describes cattle and sheep as not supposed to be let loose in meadows, whose vegetation fed cattle during winter months.
What and where were cattle and sheep permitted to graze without calling forth ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023