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What is a catalyst? + the importance of assurance

Today, visit to the optician in Radstock to test my eyes in their post cataract state. New glasses required and I have to do without my regular glasses for two weeks. Without the NHS, I would be functionally blind and walking with a stick. Cataracts are horrible things. People look like ghosts and everything is blurry. My prescription involves more money, such is life.  I would have to be on...

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More thoughts on peace + more on conversation

Peace is not stasis. Peace is not 'doing nothing'. Peace is active, a dynamic.  We have a choice of two vectors, and only two. We can either do things to bring people together, or we can do things to cause people  to move apart. This is the core of what it means for us as human beings with free will. We can think of the idea of a moral compass. In other words what are our priorities? A clue is...

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Let’s Hear It for free flowing conversation!

Today in the Vineyard Church, We had what we call 'Super Sunday' which is a funny name for informal meeting and talking, with entertainment for the children but for adults to meet in small groups as they wish and converse not only about matters of faith but about how they have been getting on. We do have complete strangers coming along with their children and for them I suppose you could call it...

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Dealing with the media – What is a good person?

News, news Just when you thought the news couldn't get any worse, it does. I switched on the TV early, 07:10 actually, and apparently the Israelis have given the main hospital one hour to get everybody out and go to the south of the Gaza area. This includes people who are physically unable to get up from their beds. They have to walk in single file and this includes patients and doctors a...

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Various horrors + The Wells Carnival.

We are watching actual genocide in you know where.  I don't want to become a political whinger and complainer but this chart shows the damage being done in terms of statistics.  Is it a 'hate crime' to object to this indeed to be repulsed by it? As a human being with feelings, I do not like to see other human beings suffering. <fanfare of trumpets> I can 'empathize!!!!  Empathy??? What is...

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Is it easier to work at night?

I went to bed relatively early last night at 11:00 p.m. But after about 2:30 a.m. Did not find myself in any need or further sleep and so I arose. I checked a few messages, read a couple of articles, I noticed that I was able to concentrate more consistently. It may well be that the special type of silence that prevails at night is helpful in this respect. For me, silence is not an absence of...

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