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DOES JEALOUSY ROB YOU OF GOD’S GRACE?
Andrew Quernmore offers an online meditation course. He suggests that if one cannot meditate upon those one dislikes or perceives as enemies then one may achieve effective insights by meditating upon what one dislikes or feels uncomfortable ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/27/2022
Lough Corrib
Also, would you know whether I'm remembering accurately -- as something that I read from what was most likely a reliable source authority even as I don't recall which reliable source authority ;-{ it was -- the following: Celts accepted as Celts ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/27/2022
Pilate
It's interesting that Pontius Pilate's wife expressed her take on the situation and that she was comfortable and effective in so doing.
Is there any suggestion anywhere as to Pontius Pilate's wife's family background and social rank? Would it ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/27/2022
Lough Corrib
May we go back to your suggestion of Ivernic as the pre-Celtic language from which the name Oiribsean or Oiribsiu for Manannán mac Lir comes?
FrathWiki mentions Ivernic as the sole surviving language nowadays of the West Albic branch of the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/27/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
There is no consensus on the meaning of Iona. Some say that the original name was I, but while Ay is a Norse word for an island this name was pre-Norse. Others say that Iona is a Hebrew word for dove, given by the monks. As for the association ...
frankbeswick, on 05/27/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Pangaea split into two, so there were not eastern and western halves.
frankbeswick, on 05/27/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Also, is there a consensus as to the meaning of Iona? Online information seems to be gravitating around people and things related to yew (Taxus spp).
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/26/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Thank you!
Do the eastern, northern and southern halves have names that I should know ;-D but don't ;-{ !
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/26/2022
Lough Corrib
Herring used to shoal in their millions to Loch Fyne in Scotland until one year they mysteriously stopped. They seem to have gone north,which makes me think that they went to Iceland. Where they went after the nineteen seventies I know not,but ...
frankbeswick, on 05/24/2022
Lough Corrib
Yes,the lands of the Earth move around, and several billion years are time sufficient for much movement. Did you know that Scotland north of the Great Glen is geologically a bit of Canada?
frankbeswick, on 05/24/2022
Dating pictures through fashion part 2 . 1910 - 1940s
It appears that materials are lighter-weight as the 20th century progresses. If so, does that make it more likely that hemlines will rise or, without hem weights, less likely because of what may be exposed under billowing skirts in blustery ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
Your mentioning trout at the beginning of your article brought to mind something that I'd meant to ask elsewhere, on one of your fish articles.
Trout still can be found too off Iceland.
But do you know about the herring trade that was quite ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
Big Bro and BSG,
Interestingly, when I was in Belfast a few years ago, I visited the Ulster Museum and in one room I was astonished to learn that there is a diagonal line from approx Dublin in the East to Limerick in the West. The geology ...
Veronica, on 05/23/2022
Lough Corrib
I think that a tectonic plate boundarý runs through North west Ireland from West Mayo to Donegal.
frankbeswick, on 05/23/2022
Getting the children to eat veg
May 2022
Today, I was given an idea for disguising broccoli so children will not know they have eaten it. Absolutely pulverise it in to smithereens in a blender and add it to spaghetti ragu just before the end of cooking.
Veronica, on 05/23/2022