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Absolutely 🤪

Well said 👍

l'd never have guessed :p

S Shucks..and I was starting to like the guy 😫😉

Some sites will go to any extreme to hinder my wondrous postings 🤪. Get well soon, Brother. Blessings.

From a BBC website: Two years after the Báb's death, Bahá'u'lláh was imprisoned in Tihran, accused of taking part in the attempted assassination of the Shah of Persia. He was put in stocks and, for three days, given neither food nor water. Other Bábis were imprisoned with him and as they sat...

I like your style!

Whoooops....Senior Moment......It wasn't around fifty years ago when I started iaido (Post 196)......it was around 38! Now you know why I don't practice anymore!!! :eek:

Musō Shinden-ryū for me, also. Snap! 👍

Not for many years. Dojo closed down. Still have my gear, but not my sense of balance! 🤪

Oh Oh dear. Glad to hear you're now ok. My 'like' is because you survived. Blessings.

Yes Yes. One of my favourites also. Blessings.

Thank you. That's very kind of you. My wife.....and grandkids.....might well suggest that you are too easily pleased 🤪😉. Blessings.

Greetings, Sister. About fifty years ago I worked for a Japanese manufacturing Company, and decided to learn iaidō (a form of swordsmanship). On one occasion, I made a complete mess of a kata. When asked – by my sensei – why this had happened, I replied: ‘Too much mind!’ In short, instead of...

Greetings. Allāh (subḥānahu ūta'āla) refers to Himself as ‘We’ simply because the Qur’an was revealed in Arabic. In this language, it is linguistically correct to use pronoun ‘We’ (nahnu) when speaking of one who is worthy of the utmost respect. In classical Arabic, ‘We’ denotes divine...

Yes. St. Benedict writes: ‘If a brother, who through his own fault leaveth the monastery or is expelled, desireth to return, let him first promise full amendment of the fault for which he left; and thus let him be received in the last place, that by this means his humility may be tried. If he...

Yes. The Qur'an is considered to be the Speech of Allāh (subḥānahu ūta'āla).

Greetings, Sister, For me, it was St John of the Cross. His was the name I took at my profession. St. Therese will do just nicely. :) Carmelite spirituality is sound, and a tonic for both heart and soul. I recommend you hasten to embrace it! Not so great a change. For sure there are...

Wa alaykum s-salāmu wa Rahmatullāhi wa Barakātuhu, Brother. Thank you for your greeting. May Allāh (subḥānahu ūta'āla) reward you for your kindness.

My journey: I first attended a Welsh Baptist Sunday School at the age of six (almost seventy-two years ago). I became, at the age of fifteen, a Catholic; and remained one for over fifty years. For ten years of these years, I was a professed member of the Carmelite Third Order – with a love of...