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And the art too. Obviously the Renaissance work is amazing but even the lesser works are wonderful. My wife got me this for Christmas this year (prompted by me). He sits looking over me whilst I work on the computer. I also have an icon on the wall I bought in Poland whilst I was working...

I sang Fauré's Requiem many years ago in a choir. I am jealous.

Also check out the Missa Luba. A Congolese Mass and the music they used in the film 'If...'

If you can listen to Monteverdi; Palestrina; Bach's Passions; Fauré's Requim and Allegri's Miserere and not like Christian music then you're not human. ;)

I don't like Paul. He seems so officious and bossy. I have always got the feeling that I wouldn't have liked him had I met him. I was going to mention on the bad hair thread that I look like Esau at the moment but didn't because I didn't think many would get it. :)

It's not ideal, Marty but I think it's as good a place to start as any. I started this way and still pop some in that have gone to chit from the bottom of the potato bag. The risk you have is disease, so keep them away from each other when you plant. If it works and you fancy doing more next...

I don't believe that there is a God that interferes for the good or bad of individual people. There seems to be too much evidence to me that points to it being very unlikely.

I prefer your third paragraph to your first. For the first, just bear in mind that all religious teachings were written by humans (apologies to Pete, I don't believe they were written by God). They were written by numerous people with different agendas for people within different cultures over...

That's true. But then everything will have some bad. This is fundamental to my own home-grown philosophy: accept that there is no perfection and there will always be unhappiness and bullying etc. and make the best of what there is.

Good morning! Went to bed early last night. I aspire to the same thing but without the faith bit. Having said that, I am considering getting involved in the church again. We're moving to a new house opposite a church in a small community and we may go. I think I originally left the church...

I think I was about the same age. Possibly slightly younger but not much.

Proof of divine intervention, maybe.

You added more later! Why would admitting I don't know enough to hold a position on something so meta and with so little knowledge, mean that I don't believe in anything at all? That's one hell of an abuse of proof by induction.

OK, so we may actually agree with each other but are getting in a muddle because of definition of terms. If that is the definition of an atheist, then what is the definition of an agnostic? Because I call myself an agnostic deliberately because I don't know and have no evidence either way.

I don't pontificate on the existence of a God. My position is quite simple. I think that the human race understands very little about the nature of the Universe and nothing about what, if anything, is outside the Universe. * I don't believe in any of the Gods that humans have imagined...

There is also zero scientific evidence that God does not exist.

Atheism is a religion, IMO. Atheists believe with certainty that there is no God. Prove it. IMO, Agnosticism makes sense.

Gandhi? Suffragettes? Rosa Parks? Berlin Wall? Mandela after his arrest? What doesn't work is violent protest: unless you have greater military power or get lucky (Winter Palace 1917) everyone will dig their heels in, in defiance of the disciples causing mayhem. Despite the best efforts of...

Yes. As Nick has already said, Godden is our saviour and will score all the goals we could ever need.

You probably know loads more than me, I'm just self-teaching and making it up as I go along. I agree they look like normal spuds but I always plant them out when they chit (albeit in a different bag in case of disease) and it's always worked out ok.