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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 10:37:15 GMT
In answer to the OP, I read this on Facebook today and really liked it... "The origin of christianity was a lie to cover up an affair and it simply got out of hand" I'm not sure which question you are trying to answer there. The bit about did you go to church and then stop. As I got older i twigged the whole thing was a delusional fantasy (I guess I was about 12 or 13) and stopped going to church if I could. Living in a strongly Catholic household this sometimes required a bit of ingenuity. The phrase above sums it up for me.
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Post by peterboat on Jul 25, 2016 10:42:09 GMT
@bp thanks. Actually, it would be a jolly for my wife. I was once a PPL and did one glider flight near Brum. It was £40 an hour back then! The glider I flew had no radio but lots of masking tape!!! Ha ha...it was probably there to cover the gaps and edges to make it fly for longer (reduce drag). I rarely used the radio except sometimes when taking off when nobody was in the mobile tower. I'm sure you'd both enjoy a day on the field. I did gliding whilst in the ARMY enjoyed it immensely I just liked how quiet it is up there. Did it for 3 years or so but never got over the thrill of takeoff its the same when I go out in the boat cast off big smile. I like mooring in Doncaster for the bells brings a smile to my face
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Post by PaulG2 on Jul 25, 2016 12:53:19 GMT
In answer to the OP, I read this on Facebook today and really liked it... "The origin of christianity was a lie to cover up an affair and it simply got out of hand" I'm not sure which question you are trying to answer there. Regarding the quote, I think the key word is 'origin'. Is there any evidence for it? To begin with, it's a joke - albeit one with a historical basis and a message of sorts. According to christian mythology, Jesus was conceived by the union of the virgin Mary with the angel Gabriel, who was acting on behalf of Jehovah (god almighty - the big guy). Mary was supposedly a virgin, betrothed to Joseph the carpenter when she got knocked up. Being as she was supposedly a virgin at the time, Mary needed to explain her dalliance to Joe. who was a bit of a simpleton apparently. She blamed the pregnancy on god and his angel. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 26, 2016 10:19:23 GMT
I went up in a glider near Iisalmi in Finland 17 years ago. It went round and round and round and round and round and round on the way up. It was hot under the perspex lid. I took the controls and it lurched about. Then we went down by going round and round and round and round and round and round. I was sick.
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Post by Andyberg on Sept 4, 2016 6:47:24 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 4, 2016 7:07:06 GMT
I rang at practice nights this June-Aug at: Heham Abbey, Chirk, Middlewich and Nantwich. It's a great 'hobby' and I'd recommend to anyone who is curious about this strange art, to check out the situation in their local area and seriously consider joining a bell ringing team. It's a very precise thingy, and you get the same kind of satisfaction after having rung well, as you do when getting a narrowboat in a narrow lock without having touched the sides at all. It's not 'tunes' and 'melodies', rather an 'awful din' made by following 'routes' (in 'methods'). Here's the method Grandsire Triples ('triples' meaning rung on 7 bells):
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 4, 2016 7:16:19 GMT
Each bell can only move one place at a time in a 'method'. There are 40,320 different combinations of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8! A 'ring' of 8 bells is what I'd call 'normal and nice', but churches do have rings of 6, 10 and 12. These days you'll find bell ringing videos on Youtube so you can learn about it much quicker than when was a teenager. There are professional 'snobs' in the ringing world such as at the finest cathedrals, but usually at your local churches you'll find friendly 'ordinary' folk. You get to climb up ancient church towers, and travel around the countryside (cycle to a church on a Sunday morning?) and meet all kinds of weird and wonderful and quirky characters - it's a bit like canal boating - and there's something nice about being in charge of a heavy object and wielding it with skill, a bit like driving a truck or a bus
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 4, 2016 7:40:48 GMT
Here's 3 examples:
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