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I agree with you, Bandit, as a kid I thought Halloween was the next best thing to Christmas...especially since at my school we always had a Halloween party - everyone wore their costumes to class, including the teachers, and brought candy to share, and there were no lessons. In my memory it...

I've got "Gangster's Paradise" - goodness knows why - I don't even like the song! I've also got the video scrolling through my head. What makes it additionally frustrating is I've only got about five seconds of it. Anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of the earworm?

I love these message boards...I get more spiritual food and comfort here than I ever found at church during my last few years of being a churchgoer. What a great bunch of people. Thanks, all.

Bandit, that's hilarious...but your engineer is forgetting that not all Christian children receive their presents from Santa...as far as I know he's pretty much an American (and Canadian?) phenomenon... Granted, my ideas of a British Christmas come pretty much straight from Dickens and Albert...

That's really cool, Phyllis - do you have any references for that? I tried doing a google search but couldn't find anything about it being based on an actual person, or about his descendants. And what does 17th Angel refer to?

Well, I don't know what Awaiting the fifth means! :) My screen name is pretty mundane - when I first started posting on usenet groups, I was an overly-romantic 16-year-old, and The Scarlet Pimpernel was my favorite novel. Since then I've always used it - no one else ever has it, and that way...

:D Here!! I was just starting to feel left out. :) Anyway, InLove, I don't know what you were going through when you started this thread, but I'm glad you decided to stay. I, too, would miss your wise and inspiring presence. My summer got suddenly a lot busier than I expected, which is a...

...batch of peanut butter and jelly bean cookies for you. When you get here, we can take that book and...

...Trudy would take her meds more regularly. I mean, if the book is that important to her I'm glad I left it alone (gotta respect your roommate's boundaries), but she's really heading off the deep end now. Maybe I should just call her case worker myself. Maybe I should just put the book back...

path-of-one, I pretty much agree with your idea of the afterlife, although I've never been able to formulate it so clearly. Thank you. I also have the awareness that I could be all wet, but I know that God knows I'm doing my best to understand, and I think God would forgive me for being wrong...

Hard to get.:D I sing, as I've mentioned in another thread. I've had a few guitar and tuba lessons, as well as violin lessons in childhood, but I never got far on any of them because I'm lazy. ;) Or maybe "unmotivated" is a better term. And despite four years of piano, I'm completely...

Those are great tips and great links, Ben. Thanks.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to rid yourself of a deck? My first deck is the Hanson-Roberts - it's based on Rider-Waite. After a few years I felt the need to work with a different deck and picked up the Motherpeace round deck. In the store it seemed to work for me, but once I'd...

I definitely agree with InLove on this one. Even when I still considered myself a Christian, I have to admit this verse meant more to me even than John 3:16. As far as I'm concerned, every religion in the world boils down to these two points.

...except maybe an STD...

rrrrr - that's what I get for going away for a while - people disappear before I get a chance to say have a great trip. Well, in case any of you are able to see this while you are gone - dauer, lunamoth, Kaldayen, I hope each of you is having a rewarding and safe trip, and I can't wait to hear...

JonMarc, I was really struck by the fact that your parents were both missionary kids in Japan - obviously it made such a huge impression on them that they both decided to continue their parents' work. I only know one person who was a missionary kid, in Africa (I forget where specifically), and...

Wow, InLove, thank you so much - that was beautiful. You always have something uplifting to say, and you always write it so beautifully. I ended up calling Amsterdam - turned out they'd misread my email address, so I never got the rejection letter. I could have called again to get the jury's...

I wish my piano skills were better - despite four years of lessons, I just can't seem to get my fingers to do what I want them to. Of course, practicing more frequently might help.:D It's not a silly question at all - I guess that's one way to describe coloratura. It's the acrobatic stuff...

InLove, what a kind thing to say - I don't know how to respond. As for my arias, I started with "Lucia! Go send a messenger" from The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (the person before me also started with that one :( ), and the second one, which they chose, was "Non so più cosa son" from...