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  What are you up to this summer?

  by Xanthippe in

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  i really enjoy hearing about other people's lives.

  feeling a little lonely this evening so please tell me if you have plans for the summer months.

  i may go to some outdoor theatre with my daughter who's home from uni; with a picnic and a bottle of wine.

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  Heaven sorry you're going through that I know how horrible it is.

  Sowhatnow, phew busy, busy! At least you're having some fun in between work. Had to apply for my own job again this year. Local authority job, we keep having our budget cut and they keep cutting staff. Applied for my own job twice in three years and managed to hang on to it.

  Very stressful and it will probably happen again in three years.Thats why I'm trying to talk about happy stuff to keep myself sane. Not sure it's working lol!
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  What are you up to this summer?

  by Xanthippe in

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  i really enjoy hearing about other people's lives.

  feeling a little lonely this evening so please tell me if you have plans for the summer months.

  i may go to some outdoor theatre with my daughter who's home from uni; with a picnic and a bottle of wine.

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  Thanks Gulf Coaster, I love Greek food too.

  FMF ????
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  What can you tell me about this painting?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  It's traditional to paint the madonna's dress in blue FMF.
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  What can you tell me about this painting?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  Blond madonna and child paintings have been done before. Here's one by Raphael

  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Raffaello_Madonna_Cowper.jpg
  
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  What can you tell me about this painting?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  Looks like a madonna and child. Do you have a title, artist?
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  What are you up to this summer?

  by Xanthippe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i really enjoy hearing about other people's lives.

  feeling a little lonely this evening so please tell me if you have plans for the summer months.

  i may go to some outdoor theatre with my daughter who's home from uni; with a picnic and a bottle of wine.

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  Well I decided to do it, yesterday I booked flights to Athens for myself and my daughter. I've been watching all the news about Greece, poor souls they are really struggling. Apparently it is safe to go there and they need the influx of cash, they don't want the tourists to stay away.

  Actually I have wanted to visit Athens for nearly thirty years since I started studying about ancient Greece before I left the cult. So we're going. Yippee!

  Anyone else have plans for this summer they want to share?
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  James Horner dies

  by Xanthippe in

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  i'm shocked to hear that composer james horner has been killed in a plane crash aged 61. so many film scores, titanic, avatar, braveheart, field of dreams, aliens, cocoon, patriot games, bicentennial man, star trek iii: the search for spock, sneakers, batteries not included, the name of the rose and many, many more.

  a genius who will be sadly missed.

  he gave us so much beautiful music..

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  Apparently he secretly wrote a music score for a remake of The Magnificent Seven before his death. Some people have such creative energy. I wish I knew how they did it.

  http://screencrush.com/james-horner-magnificent-seven/
  
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  Shall I go to the meeting? Would you?

  by KateWild in

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  hi guys,.

  i might go to the meeting.

  i stopped going in my heart properly in nov 2013, but i went to a couple of meetings to support a love one that was df'd and tried to teach them a little ttatt.. now another df'd loved one is coming to see me today and will likely encourage me to try and get ri'd, and i want to support her.

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  Kate you strike me as a friendly, positive and likeable person. They would warm to you wherever you go. My advice would be to join a group that deserves you and not one whose affection is conditional on your beliefs.
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  Futility of being right

  by JWdaughter in

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  so, on another thread, about pluto, grreat teacher said something that speaks to my feelings about religon.

  "i've kinda been sad since pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet.. you talk about 9 planets and all the little kids at school will correct you real quick and tell you that now there are only 8 planets in the solar system!".

  nothing in the universe has changed but the opinion of men.

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  Leonardo da Vinci, artist, inventor and polymath wrote copious notes (many now reside at Windsor Castle for some strange reason). Among his ideas and sketches for inventions he wrote that everything has already been discovered, everything has already been done!

  Which shocked me when you think of all we have discovered and invented since Leonardo's lifetime (1452 - 1519). I feel sure that one day we will look back at what we now know and howl with laughter at our present understanding of the world and the universe.

  Edit: I actually have a great deal of affection for Leonardo because in my late twenties when I decided I was ignorant I thought I would start reading things that interested me. Art History was one of the subjects and Ancient Greece another. Soon after studying these subjects I reached my own crisis of conscience.
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  Very good article on Religious Trauma

  by umbertoecho in

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  i have found this article and wonder if any here would like to read it.

  it could help explain some of the depression and other associated emotional problems that are experienced by those who are leaving, have left, been dfd or had to fade................ .

  http://www.babcp.com/review/rts-trauma-from-leaving-religion.aspx.

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  Thank you Umbertoecho, I have seen this article before on here but it bears looking at again.

  Problems with self-worth and fear of terrible punishment continue. Virtually all controlling religions teach fear about the evil in ‘the world’ and the danger of being alone without the group. Ordinary setbacks can cause panic attacks, especially when one feels like a small child in a very foreign world. Coming out of a sheltered, repressed environment can result in a lack of coping skills and personal maturity.

  A lack of coping skills is true and especially as we were taught the world is full of evil people who want to harm us. I have met so many different types of people from very conservative types who enjoy working at management level in big organisations to people who love to make jewellery or paint fantasy landscapes. One artist friend likes to paint penis pictures. Freud would have a field day!

  There are so many interesting people it is criminal to make us afraid of them. I look forward to meeting even more interesting people.