Recent content by Francis king

...Dear All, the time for me to journey on has arrived...I am leaving IO for pastures new... I request my name be expunged from the records, and my email addy deleted... thank you in advance for that, Brian... ...why am I leaving?... because, mainly, I am bored now...I have discovered that...

lol.. thanks astral...

hurrah! sounds like a positive move- try the drugs first, then maybe surgery! Did pray, but didn't want to add to the post in case I looked like a sycophant, or such.. glad to hear positive news... x

astral... who did this...? .

lol, yes tao, thats exactly who I mean! william waterhouse...

yes- it was superb- beautifully shot, sexy cast, decent story- the paintings were great, too. Of the pre-raphelites, I always liked william woodhouse the best...

mm, sexy pizza... what's the topping? or should I not ask?

lol- we could add another virtuous dimension, too- think of the energy we'll save in central heating bills- rich AND enviromentally friendly AND thin! thanks Tao!

Tao... ur OP was fine- or I am a pleb who didn't see its glaring inadequacies...? But that doesn't matter... ... as you probably know, I was raised catholic, but today describe myself as "buddhist"... an old school pal contacted me recently, as he's trying to build a school in Zambia... a...

...yet... there is no gap, not really... instead, there is an absence of perception or knowledge, and that absence we interpret as "gap", or we fill with "god"... ...sometimes, Tao, all a person has is God... take away God, and the wretches have no succour... take away God, and there is nobody...

Thomas- take no notice- I read ur posts, even if I don't reply (too many big words for me!) it would be a bum deal if you stopped doing what u do!

jesus said... I have come to give you a New Testament... stuff the OT- Jesus isn't there, is he? Oh, some old fart mentions something about a Messiah a few times, but nobody ever says his name will be Jesus and he will be a Jew from Galillee, do they? Christians that lay great store in the...

will, re: dangers, in ur above post- most people with a first episode of psychosis will recover and never have another episode in their entire lives. Some will have another, perhaps two, in their lives, say, triggered by major life events, yet only around 15-20% of those first episode people...

Personally, I think Shawn has a point. Pharmaceutical companies are profit driven businesses and it is in their interests to legislate against the use of herbal medicines, especially when those medicines are self-prescribed. There is a deliberate push by drugs reps to ensure their product is...

As some of you may or may not know, for the past year I have been working on a novel. It currently stands at... 211,000 words and I am at last on the final edit! Soon I will send it away and try to find a buyer... Now, I am aware that, conventionally speaking, this novel is far too long. Most...