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miggy

Wordsmith wrote: »

And some people just love to fight ... any excuse. If they weren't doing it in the name of religion, they would find another reason.

They do, don't they? Have you by any chance been listening to my children this evening? :rotfl:

miggy

And dinner today was... fajitas! Nom, nom, nom. DS cooked again.

Otherwise I haven't spent today. I seem to have been running round but I'm sure I wasn't really, it's just that walking anywhere is harder when it's hot weather, and although I could have had a lift, overheated cars are a pet hate of mine.

Balance of cupboards remains the same. The freezer is so marginally improved that only the expert eye can see there's more space. Over the last couple of days we've finished a bag of little cauliflower-cheesy things which went out of date in Nov '09 (! don't tell the family!) and a bag of cooked chicken, some pastry and a few mushrooms. I found some h/m soup so we're having that for tomorrow's lunch.

I have a feeling we are getting chicken for Sunday lunch and the remains will go into the freezer... again (sob). I'm the only one who likes it in sandwiches or salads, DD seems to prefer to cook from raw if she has chicken, I make casseroles, pies and soup - I get so sick of chicken! I think I will skulk around the O/S board and try to find something original to do with chicken and pasta.

(*Thought!*) I could have some with that 8p curry sauce! Result!

P.S. Working nights over this weekend so if I'm absent, assume that's where I've gone.

ani_26

"Egocentricity (is there such a word?) is at the root of the love of money." Discuss.

Yes Miss


Egocentrictity means confusing what we see and think with reality. Therefore it cannot be at the root of the love of money, by definition.

Sorry, i don't have a thousand words. Why waste a thousand words?



I wonder if 'all kinds of evil' means exactly the same as 'all evil'? I have a feeling there's a subtle difference but my brain can't hack it at a quarter to midnight.



I'm sure there is a subtle difference. Categorising? Please seperate into types. All evil is definitive.



Ah, here I beg to differ though to some extent it depends what you mean. If there's only one God, then perhaps all God-seeking is directed to him, even if people understand him differently. However, concepts of God differ between cultures, countries, sub-cultures, even individuals - so if you look at it from that angle, religious people are projecting their relationship onto different things: a god of forgiveness? Vengeance? Disinterested? Involved? Angry? Complacent? Singular? Plural? etc, etc.

I suppose I ought to confess I studied anthroplology as part of my degree and I found it fascinating that religion as a phenomenon is so widespread even if it shows itself very differently. To me that's evidence for the 'God-shaped hole' which someone said exists in us all, waiting for God to fill it.


I would suggest there is only one god. I'm not sure if concepts of god differ between cultures, or if this is subject to mans interpretation. Take the koran for instance. , ( i'm not singling out one group, its the only example i can think of at the moment). I saw a very interesting programme on tv, some time ago.I don't know too much about the koran and i don't know to what extent this is propaganda, ( by humans ), But the koran has several interprations / transcriptions, and has significantly changed from its original arabic? ( i think ), translation. Have other works of religion changed too? I'm sure there are lots of ways in which god never intended us to live our lives. Nor do i think you have to go to church, mosque, whatever, to what effect?

I like to think i'm a kind hearted, giving, generous, human being, and to me, thats what comes from within a person. You don't have to follow the writings of someone else, go to church, a mosque, pray several times a day, to be this person. So what is religion. Discuss?


True. And sometimes people project what they want onto God, which is a recipe for trouble.



No comment.


I've lost the comment about going to a religious school, but you are right. I never ' got ' it. I've never managed to find this elusiveness of faith, so maybe i should just accept my, ( what god would say ), failings, in that respect, too. However, going back to my old school, a few years ago, gave such a feeling of calm, i've never experienced, before. I could have stayed in the old school chapel, for the rest of my life, and never torn myself away. However, god still did'nt magically appear. I question his existence?

ani_26

I'm surprised the shortbread is'nt past its best, too.

I've been making ' proper ' chicken sandwiches recently, whilst i've been buying my reduced chickens. Tastes so much better than plastic slices out of a plastic pack, labelled as chicken, ( which i never buy ).

Yum

ani_26

Hmmm. Did i just describe myself as a human being?

ani_26

The dishwasher is full in here and no one has switched it on.

Are you ok miggy?

miggy

Hi ani, I'm fine thanks, sorry to disappear, I was doing nights and I've only just woken up!

You may switch the dishwasher on now, it won't disturb me.

Fairly M/S weekend though emergency spending occured on ibuprofen when I ricked my ankle - which has miraculousy got completely well after threatening long-term industrial action, so I am once more skipping merrily (or will be once I get over waking up at this unearthly hour).

I'll write a proper reply when I get time and concentration together.

For now a brief report on the weekend: we managed to make useful inroads into the freezer/larder. Soup, rolls, teacakes and blackberries used up from the freezer, and flour, apple puree and milk from the larder, though I had to throw out some long-life milk which had curdled :eek:. It still smelled all right but was definitely dodgy.
Now I have made a little bit of space I must be careful not to fill it - at least until we've made further inroads. Having a limit of how much we spend is helping not only financially but space-wise.

I am sure there was more to the weekend than this... car boot sale on Saturday and I bought some old kitchen utensils, a stocking-filler for mum and a plant, total £2.95. Other than that it was about work and sleep.

miggy

It took about four hours but... the computer has had various stuffs done to it and now works at what seems like an amazing speed after the snail's pace yesterday!

I've had some spending to do on food, which I shouldn't feel guilty about but crisps and bottled water feature in there somewhere. I feel guiltier about having to throw things out of the fridge, but hummous doesn't keep well, week-old (opened) tinned tomatoes are probably past their best, etc.

Anyway I am not going to feel too guilty, as I haven't given the family food poisoning. DH has saved us £££ with his work on the computer and DD came home from work with a huge bag of discounted goodies - though I don't know if she managed to fit them into the fridge!

I've also paid DD a backlog of allowance and paid out £10 for my piano lesson. If I were really cunning I could get the neighbours to fund it by offering to let them buy my silence for a few hours...
Yesterday was a 'sleep' day, today was mostly about visiting mum - tomorrow is an at-home day which I am looking forward to though I might go down to the market as they've been having some good food bargains recently. I think I have just nearly trained myself out of buying junk food just because it's a bargain. That training alone saves us quite a lot of money!

By the way, a while ago I started a list of people I would like to catch up with. The coffee I arranged fell through, I bumped into a couple of the people unexpectedly so have had chats and other than that I haven't got very far. I suppose half term intervened at some stage. I need to go back and find the list or even just ring somebody up and make sociable sounds... not this time of night, though.

miggy

miggy wrote: »

Wordsmith's right - make the most of your friends.

List off the top of my head:

Ring Pat Sent her a postcard
Email Dee and give her my mobile number Fail
Arrange coffee with Lynda Arranged but fell through
Arrange coffee with Jill Hasn't happened yet

Not sure how to go about getting back in touch with Kate? A mutaul friend invited us to the same thing so we cought up a bit.

Janet? DH met her Saw Mildred yesterday in the middle of the High Street, stopped and had a lovely chat. She's invited me over some time and I think I could possibly join them the week after next for sandwiches and chat (we used to go to a home group from church together: we all met over bring-our-own lunch before a fellowship and study time and I have a standing invitation to go back... would be nice. I had to stop as I was just doing too much that day). Haven't made it yet - usually too tired on that day.

There are others, just not ready on the tip of my tongue as I've neglected them too long.

So that's it so far.

miggy

ani_26 wrote: »

Hmmm. Did i just describe myself as a human being?

Oops, better be careful Ani!