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Has anyone had any problems accessing this site with Firefox? After trying everything else I have finally managed to read and post to the forum using Chrome. Under Firefox, after a few pages or an attempted log in to the forum, the browser window would go blank, and remain blank for any page...

Can anyone help? As a result of some technical changes to this site, some of the avatars have got lost. I've now lost the original copy of mine and I really liked it. Brian has lost his avatar too. Has anyone ever saved any pages from the forum on to their computer? If so, they may find the...

I seem to have dedicated my life to seeing the other person's point of view, and being nice to people. I always thought that was good. And here comes Granny Weatherwax the Discworld witch, telling me I've got it all wrong. The trouble is, I can't read this passage without an inward cheer. Are we...

I was brought up to believe that gambling was wrong. That included games of chance etc although curiously it did not seem to apply to premium bonds. The reasoning goes that if you need the money God will provide, and it would be wrong to believe in luck (or money) rather than God. But maybe...

Hi Brian, just paying a quick visit after a prolonged absence. I notice the irritating time-out is still there, but now instead of prompting you to re-enter your username and password, it now insists you refresh the page, so unless you remember to copy it to the clipboard first you lose your...

I wonder if there is any call for a forum for comparative mystical discussions. I'm thinking of Christian mystics, Sufis, and the Kabaala (spelling?). Should the Gnostics be included? Seems to me we have some interesting overlaps. Is anyone else interested in this stuff?

Is there an instruction page on how to use the features of this forum? I still don't know for example what a buddy list is or what message tracking entails. cliff

Now that Halloween has been taken over by merchandisers as a commercial festival and we have to endure children and others in cute Tesco witch masks going around begging from house to house, is it too late to rescue this ancient celebration? I think the trouble started with the Church trying...

I remember seeing an anthropologist on the TV a few months ago, in the remoter parts of Papua New Guinea. He was asked by a tribal leader to take off his clothes because they made him feel uncomfortable. I wonder if Jack Straw would feel OK about going nude to put his host at ease. I had...

I recently watched the film "Pleasantville" which portrays some people in black and white as "rule-followers" and some in colour as "free-thinkers". I think the implication was that free-thinking is a good thing but it brings problems with it. When we look at the three Abrahamic faiths I think...

The passage from the book of Job that inspired Handel's famous music, everyone knows it and loves it - "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." But is this really what it...

This is a question that came up in another discussion: What is the definition of life? We all learn at school a list of characteristics of living organisms on our planet - things like procreation, growth etc - but even this list is inconclusive when applied to viruses, for example. This is still...

A quick intro from the narrowboat "Lothlorien" near Bath, England. I came across this site a few days ago and keep coming back to it. I read the thread on "The Fall" and was amazed by the clarity of thought, the level of understanding and the gentleness of expression. It made me realise how much...