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Hi LongingDervish, and welcome to CR! It's always nice to welcome diversity here, and hope you'll be happy to add your Sufi perspective on various topics. :)

I like the way you worked that towards the end. Very nice. Have you ever considered becoming a writer? ;)

No problem - and feel free to use your signature link privilege to add your own personalised message with every post. The signature feature can be found in the "USER CP" here: Images are not permitted in signatures, but your very welcome to use text and links in it. :)

Do I need to justify why I am ehre as well? :) Actually, okay, I will - simply put, I've always been compelled to start up this project - like an instinct that I could not ignore. The prototype was an MSN community called "Theism Debate", which was spawned on the fly, without much...

I feel a bit odd in that I've never really had any particular heroes that I've looked up to. I just sort of get on with life as myself. Do people here tend to have "heroes" of some form or other (these can be religious as well as secular, of course)?

Hi Khaledistani - and welcome to CR! That's quite some life-experience you must have yourself there. do you ever write about it in prose? I hear many married women say that they need a sense of humour to deal with their husbands. :D

Hi kensho, and a sincere welcome to CR! Yes, mutual respect is a founding principle of this forum. Luckily, however, most of the time people abide by that quite naturally. A quiet word or two to steer thoughts or clear mis-understandings can work wonders. :) Anyway, glad to be introduced -...

Unhealthy children are also cute! I remember once Hannah - the eldest - had to go to the local hospital for a bloodtest after a false positive to a phenyalanine intolerance test. There was only one other child there - about the same age - excepting that he had a serious genetic condition, that...

No probs, and thanks for that. Everybody's children are cute, though. :)

This is turning into quite an interesting thread - not least on how age affects social perceptions. It's funny how age can often be completely unrelated to behaviour - I've met 15-year olds who were incredibly mature, and yet also met 50+ yr old men who act like such bratish pre-teens in...

I wouldn't care much for Scunthorpe - but Wetwang I could. :) I often take the family that way to various ancient sites, not least Wharram Percy, the old mediaeval village just up the road from WetWang. There's a lot of great history across the wolds, and there's some especially great...

No religion here - a personal path, nothing more. A sense of incompleteness? There is always uncertainty and mystery. I can accept that, though. What I cannot accept are answers I have not discovered for myself.

I'm very surprised you call yourself "Atheist" - Agnostic would have ben the least ground I would have imagined for you. I share many of your frustrations with Atheism, though - especially US Atheism, which in many instances is nothing more than "anti-Christian Fundamentalism". Maybe it's...

Hi Nogodnomasters - (using my other alias here as I am out away from home) The point about my comment is - although perhaps yourself (and others) may or may not mind a roll in the dirt, I make no provision for dirt here. I expect members of this forum to be able to carry themselves in a...

A general semi-serious question - what wuold you change most about the world, and why? Presume you have the power to do so. :) I'd love to see a change in the way that human civilisation is orientated - which at the moment is entirely directed towards short-term gains despite long-term losses...

I would certainly be interested in postings of the text - especially if I can reproduce them on the Taoism section of the main website - which I'm in the midst of updating. I really should touch upon meditation techniques. Feel free to recommend other texts for the Taoism section - simply...

Good point - and one not often made. :)

Gld to see this brought up. :) I'd be very interested in you describing more of your own experiences - not just examples that perhaps you want to tell of, but how it affects you, and how the process works on you - and how you've been received. I figure you must have more than a few interesting...

Glad you found your way back! It's hard not to forget your opening story of your ride across America, and how that ended. Certainly strong constructive writing. And like everyone else here you bring your own important insights. I am merely the host - it is the company that entirely makes a place...

My dreams are always surprising. :) I'd love to track down some of these dream landscapes, though. Can't wait to visit the east coast of Scotland, in an attempt to track down a particular aera. And who lives in that big tudor house? If the dreams I mentioned are related to my future, then...