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Nov 26, 2019Nov 2019

Its cold and damp here today in the UK, was yesterday, will be tomorrow. Oh, for and hour in a scented garden under a warm sun. Especially with appropriate music. ( Don't know about snow? )

“To a philosopher all news is gossip.” Henry David Thoreau

There are no things could, so much enduring give, As fragile things, that swiftly die; and live. Those ageless hosts, who lived and died. That with nature, might, in us provide. The fragments of the ancient life and woe, Becoming every feeling, that...

Some may think this a little sentimental but I like it.

Hello. So the only thing that I think I know about Religious Naturalism, comes from reading a book called The Sacred Depths Of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough, many years ago, is this the same thing ?

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Nov 19, 2019Nov 2019

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This is so well known it is almost corny, but have you ever heard it with a male voice. I like it.

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Anthropology and Archaeology

Nov 19, 2019Nov 2019

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With just a little hand crafting, you too could make something smart to wear when you go out. ( Irony. ) How beautiful and long forgotten things may have been made.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

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OK so its a dismal cold wet month but some days nice things happen. Chin up.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

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Just posted a Tom And Jerry, but here is another unusual rendering, which is fun in a quite different way. PS,. Does anyone remember the Guinness advert ?

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UK Atheists & Agnostics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

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When the weather is cold and grey. Find ye shelter where ye may. ( Hope you are all keeping your heads above water. )

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Anthropology and Archaeology

Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

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The very early dawn of perhaps one of the world great thought systems, and a beautiful couple of objects.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

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Love science bits which still leave some question unanswered. Enjoy.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

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I think this is a lovely overview, much more interesting than it sounds.

Every so often the old question crops up. Why does a site for agnostic/atheists spend so much time on the main forum talking about religion. Well perhaps for a lot of people who come here, while this is one of the upper rungs on the ladder on their...

So if you or I come to something which we find dull and uninteresting, but other people seem to find fascinating. How can you or I know if it is the thing which is truly dull and uninteresting or if it is us ?

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

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Not just a wonderful mellow rhapsody, but comes with beautiful paintings too.

OK so we all get bored to death with the meaning of 'spiritual' question. But a lot of people here list themselves as 'Free-thinker'. What the does free-thinker mean ?

The autumn is cold and late now, but down at the bottom of the garden something still grows and thrives.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

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Heres one to listen to tomorrow, though you can listen today as well. ( Remembering they gave their todays for our tomorrows. )

We have had two good frosts now, but a couple of summer flowers are still hanging on. The Lamium or dead nettles, which are wonderful value as ground cover and just seem always to flower, plus one last Lupin. But the winter flowers are starting with ...

I hurt my back yesterday sweeping up in the yard, so I am now reduced to sitting catching up with the accounts today. But at least the winter sun is streaming in through the windows, sometimes I think that for all the clever philosophy in the world, ...

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

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I hurt my back sweeping the yard yesterday, so I a forced to spend today sitting and catching up with the accounts. But at least the winter sun is streaming in through the window.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 7, 2019Nov 2019

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Both science and history. This is something everyone has heard of, but you rarely see it explained and it is pretty.

Everything in the garden and the field hedgerows seems to be turning red now. With Rose hips, Haws (hawthorn berries), Guelder rose, and Rowan everywhere. (For those having problems I had to reduce size and quality of photo to load, but it worked at ...

Still can't get it to load photos, even quite small ones now.

They are back. For a long time I have not had a visit from the JW banging on the door. I understood that they had stopped doing it in the UK on health and safety grounds. But yesterday, perfectly on the day after Halloween, like the monsters in a ...

Just took this in the garden, and could not resist quoting Thomas Moore. Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone;

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

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So are some phobias instinctive, what do you think before you watch this, and after. ( Cute alert too. )

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Anthropology and Archaeology

Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

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This is the story of just one beautiful work of art, which throws a light on some ancient history. Also posted on the science/history page.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

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A pleasant ten minutes with a beautiful work of art and a little history.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Oct 28, 2019Oct 2019

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I love the mysteries that are just on the edge of knowledge, especially when they are about old times.

For a short while I own a vast golden treasure, and then the Ginkgo will drop its leaves.

My local town on a rainy day. The church old and new, the town is famous for having the tallest church spire in the UK, quite beautiful and dating from the middle ages. The modern church seems to be a portable leaflet board. Some progress there then....

I once thought that 'youtube' was the most interesting site on the web, until I discovered this one. But 'youtube' is still very good. So question, which is your second best website and why ? Or in other words do you know about something we may all ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Oct 17, 2019Oct 2019

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Something sad, but beautiful. Both the video and its content.

"The statesman has still to oust the politician from his lairs and weapons heaps. History has still to become a record of human dignity." H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells "How clever and cunning men may be, how subtle in contention, how brilliant in pretence, and how utterly wanting in wisdom or grace of spirit."

H. G. Wells on the Roman empire, anything sounding familiar ? "We find man after man asking "What has happened to Rome." Various answers are made - a decline in religion, a decline in the virtues of the Roman forefathers, Greek 'intellectual ...

"Never ask more of fortune than she is able to grant." Napoleon Bonaparte. Did not always follow his own advice, me thinks.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Oct 8, 2019Oct 2019

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Another story from the deep past, but with some interest for todays world.

The secret of happiness is often said to be many things, such as living in the moment, awareness, sharing. But for a second ask yourself, who gains, (cui bono ) from unhappiness. There is for example a huge industry called advertising, which some ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Sep 30, 2019Sep 2019

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You never know we may see something wonderful .

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Sep 29, 2019Sep 2019

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Well that's it for this year, I shut up shop today for the winter. There is a great advantage in being a seasonal business, (plant nursery) because now that the season is over I can regroup, make repairs and changes. I sometimes think it must be very...

Just a thought, but I joined this group sometime ago, not especially to comment or make posts, but because I thought that the members here make interesting posts which I would like to read. Yet I do not seem to get notifications from this group. ...

This came up on another post, but your opinions please ? Can a believer do philosophy ? Or do you either adopt philosophy or theology, nothing in between ? When historically the christian church especially, tried to make a compromise with certain ...

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Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology

Sep 25, 2019Sep 2019

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Factors which may exacerbate the effects of global warming. It is a common argument used by those opposed to taking a responsible stance on global warming, to say that the climate has warmed before and that it did not cause mass extinctions then, so...

Perhaps sometimes a collection in a tiny space is good, like this one I saw the other day.

Perhaps sometimes you can do great things with just one plant. I visited this garden where they had a border of just Verbena bonarensis and it looked great, and just imagine the bees and butterflies it attracts when the day is warm.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

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You don't often hear a zither, yet I love the sound of it.

How do you feel about light hearted things in the garden. Do you think that a sense of fun is good, or should gardens be taken seriously, is it possible to live with them longterm ? I visited today a garden which is unashamedly light hearted with a ...

A party from the county gardeners trust was the last group visit of the year to the garden yesterday. The weather was good and they greatly enjoyed it, then sat in the sun with tea, coffee an cakes. From this point my only contact with other ...

I thought that being the people you are, you would like to see a photo of a ruined church. This is Rievaulx Abbey it was once great in power and wealth, owning perhaps great lands and many hundreds of cottages, but that brings envy, and it fell to ...

This occurred in a comment on another post, but I thought it worth quoting. All religion is a confidence trick. Yet why is it that if someone sells you a car which does not exist, you expect them to end up in prison. But if someone sells you a ...

Someone quoted this to me today, though who said it first he did not know. "As an adult, try to be the person you most needed to meet when you were younger."

Maybe this describes your views on things.

How do you answer the question often put by theists, that a view of a purely material world where we are products of blind evolution, is bound to be dismal and bleak without wonder or joy. For what it is worth, this works for me. Inheritance. ...

Now at last I can have the vicar to tea, because finally I have something really suitable to wear. And it came timely too, since this weekend marks the first full year spent on the site, I have learned a lot and met some great and interesting people ...

Had to go out on business yesterday, and on the way back I called in at P's Garden. The gardens here are starting to fade now a little, but thanks to her good planning and planting P's still holds up well. It is very much an old English garden, ...

I do not think many here really care what happens to their remains after they die. But suppose that you are cremated, and in your will you have one last chance to take your loved ones to somewhere wonderful they will enjoy, for the purpose of ...

Some people think that the typical image of Christ that we have today was originally modeled on Cesare Borgia. The evidence is thin but certainly the image of Christ we have today first became popular at the right time. The odd one or two before, ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 31, 2019Aug 2019

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Interesting story about early humans, and perhaps why we are such odd animals.

This one seems to be an ad redirecting to a website, I do not know if that is ok or not .

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 27, 2019Aug 2019

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Here is someone who not only lists the problems with social media, which is common, but also has an answer to one of them , which is not.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 27, 2019Aug 2019

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Heres a puzzle to get your cells to work on, and part of another story from deep time.

When one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone. Kahlil Gibran

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill ? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. Kahlil Gibran.

Here's one from a Christian writer, but I like it anyway. "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." Kahlil Gibran

Many years ago when photographic equipment was in real terms much more expensive, and I was much poorer. I wanted to take macro/close up photos, but could not afford bellows units and extension tubes even for my cheap SLR. So I made this box ...

I have got a new name!... Two young women rang my doorbell the other day. When I answered they said. “You have heard of all the horrible things that are happening in the world today, do you think that god is to blame for that ? ” They then ...

The Echinops ritro are in full flower, really big thistle like plants growing to six feet (2m) and like most thistles, they are really loved by the insects.

Should people get together and organize a boycott of electric card payments, at least until governments are forced to issue cards of their own, so that you can use national cards which contribute to tax revenue and social projects. Electronic ...

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Aug 16, 2019Aug 2019

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Lush, grand, and more than slightly sad. For those in the northern hemisphere, as we begin the fade towards Autumn.

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not a single event - but a habit." Aristotle

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Aug 16, 2019Aug 2019

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This is a bit different for most people in the West, though only classical in the widest sense , and I do not know how it works a a lullaby, but I loved it.

So being very under employed today, I thought that it would perhaps be a good idea to take a look at the sister site Humanist, never been before. But what I can not understand is how do I log in, it does not seem to be automatic when I click the link...

The Agapanthus are in full flower now. I am always amazed that we can grow these exotic bulbs in our climate, the trick is good drainage and full sun, though where I have seen them in the wild, in the warm south, they tend to grow in the shade. The ...

ABOUT MUFFINS. I see that the issue of Atheist/Agnostic has been rearing its head again, as it does every few days, so since some people find this a bit tiresome, I thought that a post on muffins would be more interesting. Suppose for a minute, and ...

The Acanthus are coming to the end of their flowering now. The one I grow is Acanthus spinosus, it is very spiny, even the flowers are untouchable, but the thistle like leaves are spectacular. It is of course one of the most celebrated of all plants ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Aug 10, 2019Aug 2019

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Nice overview and a good narrative about the deep past. Which I always love.

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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Aug 8, 2019Aug 2019

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These are a bit chopped up I am sorry, but it does pose an interesting question. If you could only ever listen to three pieces, what would they be.

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Aug 5, 2019Aug 2019

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One of the best ways I found to promote a small business and get sales, is to give talks and demos to clubs etc.. The big advantage of it is that you will often sell quite a lot of your products, and do very good publicity, but unlike hiring market ...

BoingoOingo42 posted a quote from Shelley, 'The Necessity of Atheism.' the other day, I thought it would be worth looking up, and despite the old fashioned English it is good, here is another from the same work. Man would have been too happy, if, ...

If there is no afterlife/god then we have to do our very best with this life. If this life is a preparation for an afterlife, then we had better do our very best with this life as well. No difference. The only time there is a difference, is if, ...

The wild Chicory is just going over in the hedgerows now. It is a beautiful sky blue, though sometimes tinted with pink and it looks spectacular where it grows on top of the chalk downs, under a blue sky. But sadly, when I tried growing it in the ...

"Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a...

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of ...

The Buddleja is also out now, called the Butterfly Bush it is covered in them. This is the white form, though the natural blue is very good, and I can see no difference in the numbers of insects attracted.

The Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, is coming into flower in the garden now by the pond. It was once a common UK native but like a lot of wetland plants, modern drainage, river straightening and agro-chemicals are making it rare, so that you ...

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 29, 2019Jul 2019

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I do a lot of my business on line and by mail order. Fortunately not all of it, because mail order can be a pain, so it should not be undertaken lightly. If you try, you will have to learn to live with a percentage of people each year who can not ...

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Since most small business people have a story to tell, which is usually very interesting, it may be a good idea to ask people if they would like to share their CV, just for fun if nothing else.

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Better tell you about myself. We were a family run plant nursery in the UK which was grown from an enthusiasm over the last thirty years, though sadly due to bereavements I am now left running it alone. I started my gardening life at horticultural ...

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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed

Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Ok, so that make two of us now all I have to do is post something.

Generally, as perhaps too often said before, I'm a broad church skeptic, and have little interest in debates about the small differences between Atheist/ Agnostic/ Humanist etc.. Neither does it seem good, to be hard on believers, since for the most...

Sometimes you just get happy accidents. I never thought about it when I planted the climbing rose but having the silver willow behind, seems to set it off very well, to my mind at least.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 20, 2019Jul 2019

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Another story from long ago, on one of my favorite subjects, convergent evolution. And if you thought that there was only one sort of marine reptile, then this is amazing.

Not really a garden flower but certainly related to many, the meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria, is in full flower now in the hedgerows all around. It was once used as a herb since it contains aspirin, and as a sweetener for drinks. You may grow a ...

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 15, 2019Jul 2019

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This is interesting despite the chirpy nature of the presentation, it is at least self critical and does not end as you expect.

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jul 15, 2019Jul 2019

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This is just an overview, but I thought it was quite interesting to take a world tour, especially the most interesting bits.

It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence we have of their help. Epicurus

Come fill the cup, and in the fire of spring, Your winter-garment of Repentance fling: The bird of time has but a little way, To flutter - and the bird is on the wing. E. Fitzgerald / Khayyam

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