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A congregation with life: February 2007

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A congregation with life. Wednesday, 28 February 2007. Becoming lost in time. As Phil could testify, often one requires provocation to tease out thoughts and feelings on a matter. Today I was provoked by something. She would exclaim over and over. And there was a woman who didn't even belong in the ward, but with her mind elsewhere, she wandered aimlessly, perhaps guided by the loneliness of the hospital ward. And he supposedly broke down and cried. Perhaps if I were to ignore my emotions, I would accept...

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A congregation with life: April 2007

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A congregation with life. Saturday, 28 April 2007. I recently decided to put a post on an MSN discussion forum to do with the low self-esteem of young women and whether beauty polls were linked to it. The furthering of the rights of women gave not only the power for women to vote, but for those of a more feminist streak to challenge the will of man. Such challenging coupled with the desire for avant garde led to the inevitable shedding of layers. How? Beauty used to be about a nice face, a gentle smile a...

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A congregation with life: How does this look?

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A congregation with life. Sunday, 8 April 2007. How does this look? I dislike complaining about things because I always have this profound sense of guilt after complaining. I feel that it would perhaps be better to just accept the problems that I want to complain about and get on with life. But if you just accept the problems, the problems are never challenged and so they never go away. What am I and will continue to be identifying here? Why do we care so damn much about how we are perceived by others?

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A congregation with life: Becoming lost in time

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A congregation with life. Wednesday, 28 February 2007. Becoming lost in time. As Phil could testify, often one requires provocation to tease out thoughts and feelings on a matter. Today I was provoked by something. She would exclaim over and over. And there was a woman who didn't even belong in the ward, but with her mind elsewhere, she wandered aimlessly, perhaps guided by the loneliness of the hospital ward. And he supposedly broke down and cried. Perhaps if I were to ignore my emotions, I would accept...

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A congregation with life: March 2007

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A congregation with life. Saturday, 10 March 2007. Maybe it's better to be left. Because sometimes it really sucks to be right. No, it is not a reference to my political stance. Once again I have managed to give my vanity an ego trip by successfully predicting the outcome of a relationship. I won't say whose because that's their own affair and they'll suffer enough natural embarassment and despair without my assistance in rallying up more people to pass comment. Why should I write about it then? What cou...

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A congregation with life: Is intolerance the path to loneliness?

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A congregation with life. Sunday, 15 April 2007. Is intolerance the path to loneliness? I was talking with my Dad about disputes in society and I have also spoken to Phil about it at some point, and I suddenly realised that I couldn't call Hitler wrong, unless, like Phil, I accept that there is an absolute truth and that good is not relative, but written into the very fabric of our being. In your eyes, yes. But in everyone else's eyes, no. This need not be as extreme as killing others, but if you ignore ...

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A congregation with life: Plastering

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A congregation with life. Monday, 12 February 2007. You may ask why this post is titled plastering. What better way is there to fill a gap? I'm currently in the middle of writing a rather long post on an interesting topic. Depending upon it's length after completion, I shall either post it as instalments or one big blog entry. Alright, I've finished being an arse.yeah right :D. Good on you Tom, but did you really have any to spare? 13 February 2007 at 08:43. Once an are always an arse.apparently.

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A congregation with life: Maybe it's better to be left...

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A congregation with life. Saturday, 10 March 2007. Maybe it's better to be left. Because sometimes it really sucks to be right. No, it is not a reference to my political stance. Once again I have managed to give my vanity an ego trip by successfully predicting the outcome of a relationship. I won't say whose because that's their own affair and they'll suffer enough natural embarassment and despair without my assistance in rallying up more people to pass comment. Why should I write about it then? What cou...

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A congregation with life: Upon further reflection...A Social Observation (2) : More love?

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A congregation with life. Sunday, 1 April 2007. Upon further reflection.A Social Observation (2) : More love? Well I shall begin this with my springboard as I said I would. The question I came across was "why was Charlotte's marriage to Mr Collins a bad thing? I really don't like these leading questions, so allow me to rephrase it; "was Charlotte's marriage to Mr Collins a bad thing? Upon putting the question to her, we made seemingly obvious conclusions. I quote from our conversation (apologies for ...