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@jen_jen wrote:
I rarely discuss religion and faith on forums as it can be so contentious…hence my reluctance to share anything of my views here initially. Even now I have only shared the tip of my iceberg.
The thing is, we can all hold our beliefs dear to us but we can’t prove them any more than anyone else can disprove them…it doesn’t matter to me whether people agree or disagree with my beliefs, they are mine and resonate with me. My personal experiences are another matter and much harder to share as I can see how they could be mocked and used as a weapon against me, yet for me they are significant and deeply appreciated.
Actually jen I have things that have happened to me in my life that are not explainable… I think if we were honest we all have…. even possibly Mr Wakeup. Like you Im reticent to share them because people may just think Im a fruit cake :D … Im not its just I cant explain them and as you say they are my experiences and I prefer not to put them under scrutiny or have them mocked. Sometimes its better just to accept and not over analyse things
Pacem in terris
Look what you did Sgt….
You set us all off debating about heaven and religion…. then you abandoned us…. we don’t even know what your beliefs are?….. come on…. spill the beans :D
@a certain sadness wrote:
@pepsi wrote:
Pacem in terris
quando omni flunkus moritati
Gawd i love that word flunkus :lol:
That’s the think about Latin ….
“You have to say something and move on. It’s not like French and some of these philosophical languages where you can write a whole page and say nothing – in Latin you can’t do that!”
And it is said…. its a dead language ? Surely not so ……
love the ‘flunkus moritati’ …..
Bliddy ‘ell – I googled – I am trying to! – it came up with ‘Studeo!’! :shock:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
Look what you did Sgt….
You set us all off debating about heaven and religion…. then you abandoned us…. we don’t even know what your beliefs are?….. come on…. spill the beans :D
last time i seen him he was heading of rucksack on his back and wearing just a loincloth(rather fetching as it goes ) on a scientology pilgrimage in mecca :D
Ha Ha Poli….. here he is
Looks like a man (coughs) but walks like an ape. He could be the missing link! :shock:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
Ha Ha Poli….. here he is
Looks like a man (coughs) but walks like an ape. He could be the missing link! :shock:
made me laff :)
Thought I would share this.
A customer came into the shop with her granddaughter who was around 8 or 9 years old and the only way I can describe this little girl is that whilst she looked like any other little girl her age, it was if she had a light inside her that glowed softly. We chatted and the granddaughter asked if she could have an angel card reading. I told her that I was sorry but she was too young and she said “I don’t see why, the angels talk to me all the time about what it will be like when I go home…it won’t be long now either.”Then off she went to look at the fairies and dragons, leaving me and the grandmother together. I looked at her, questioningly but not wanting to pry, and the grandmother smiled and said “She’s very special isn’t she? She was an early talker and when she was coming up to her 4th birthday she told her mother “the angels say I have to make the most of everything because I will be going home sooner than others.” When we told her that she was home she said “not THIS home silly, the other home, the one where we lived before we were babies.” When she was 7 she fell ill – she has a very rare form of cancer, untreatable. The doctors say she could live another 10 years but she says she’s going home soon and we mustn’t be upset because the angels have told her it will be a very happy time for her.”
I just didn’t know what to say…we should have been sad for her, maybe a little tearful, but her faith, her conviction, was so absolute and her joy in life now and the prospect of “going home” was contagious and you just couldn’t feel sad for her, just for the life that could have been. Just before they left I commented that it must be reassuring to the whole family to have such a strong faith and the gran looked at me in surprise and said “oh but we don’t, none of us are religious or believe in God or angels…well, we didn’t believe in angels until this one came along and told us.”
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