"I bet it shook up the superstitious Vatican though!"
Why do you call the Vatican superstitious, Loz?
Chariklo
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VATICAN HIT BY LIGHTNING
by Prefect inhours after the pope said he was leaving lighting strikes.. see picture on link below.. .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-21427713.
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What's in your handbag?
by usualusername inhi people.
in all my life i have only looked in a womans handbag once.
it was close to looking at the arc of the covenant.
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Chariklo
Finally awake, your bag is related to the Tardis, right?
Return of parakeet, I knew there was something I've always wanted! A Leatherman! I'd forgotten about those! I DEFINITELY want one!
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Please worship our god or he will kill you!
by snare&racket inwhy were we so suprised people did not join in droves!
what an awful message we shared......
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Chariklo
"Like all christian denominations the Anglican church believe there are rewards for the faithful and unspecified peril for the rest."
Speaking as one who was brought up in the Anglican Church and has been Catholic for 25 years, Cofty, this really isn't how it is. Your version is distorted, like looking into a wobbly mirror at a fairground, a bit like the way the Watchtower's pictures in books like the infamous "Bible Teach" distort how other religions are.
I remember how angry I was at the page where there's a picture of the Laughing Buddha and how that image is distorted somehow to make it look demonic, and you can see the same effect again and again. There's another picture in another publication of a Catholic bishop on the steps of a large church or cathedral, also made to look evil and sinister.
Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Quakers...they all teach the gospel of love.
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What's in your handbag?
by usualusername inhi people.
in all my life i have only looked in a womans handbag once.
it was close to looking at the arc of the covenant.
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Chariklo
Comb, purse (i.e. wallet if you're American), tissues, notes in a zip compartment, diary, moleskine, pens, tickets, a paperback book, keys, ID card.
My phone and I can't be separated, and it lives in my pocket.
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A comet coming to end the world? Useful information?
by EntirelyPossible inthoughts?
a woman named amanda started hearing a voiced telling them that a comet was going to destroy the earth.
they bought a house in the north carolina mountains to prepare, thinking the voice belongs to the dead former owner of the house.
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Chariklo
LOL Qcmbr!
It's an old one, but makes me chuckle every time!
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Question about unbaptised publishers
by XPeterX injws are over 7.5 million.do they count unbaptised publishers as jws?do we know how many baptised jws are there today?.
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Chariklo
I was an unbaptised publisher and was so proud that they included me in the figures.
That's how brainwashed I was.
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Chariklo
Apologising and apologizing are actually optional, though you are correct in assuming the s to be more generally used this side of the Atlantic.Have you checked a good Oxford English dictionary?
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Chariklo
I don't think England did actually try to suppress the Irish language and culture, actually. That's not historically correct. The Irish language began to decline due to the depopulating of rural parts of Ireland due to the massive starvation caused by the potato famine in the nineteenth century. Irish emigration took place on a massive scale, to America, Australia and most of all to Britain itself.
Most English people have Scottish, Welsh and Irish in their blood, as well as English, and I am an example of that...no Scottish in me, but pretty well equal parts of the other three countries.
Irish resentment of England goes back to the savage treatment they received under Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century. That wasn't colonialism, just one of the many highly regrettable things the Roundheads did.
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Chariklo
Brilliantly written, Cedars!
Diest, who do you think the English were oppressing in the Falklands?
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Chariklo
The invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 was certainly ill-fated...for Argentina. Ill-fated for the Falklanders too, because to wake up and find that one is under sudden occupation is no fun for anyone.
Ill-fated for the Argentinian crew of the Belgrano whose duty saw them obey their country's orders despite the fact that it had become an aggressor very bit the equal of Germany when it invaded other countries, and ill-fated for the British servicemen to gave their lives defending the Falkland Islanders.
But liberation for the occupied Falklanders, for whom the outcome was not ill-fated at all, though a war with their land-grabbing neighbour was the last thing any of them would have wanted.