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Where did YOU come from?
I used to think that studying the family tree, (or genealogy to give it it's proper name), was some weird hobby that only older people did, as they sat poring over dusty tomes in little known libraries across the world, desperately trying to find that tenuous link to some royal lineage.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-01 11:00:52 | Rating:

| Views: 159 | Comments: 4 | Tags: family history genealogy

Published article
On Monday, October 13th, 1997, I got this article published in the Glasgow Evening Times. It was the second article I had had published, the other being in a nursing magazine, and I got paid the princely sum of fifty pounds (about just under a hundred dollars) for it. Thought......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-02 10:15:48 | Rating:

| Views: 119 | Comments: 3 | Tags: pavement rage city

Do you dare to care?
Look across the world and it is obvious that the caring aspects of our humanity have suffered an almost irreversible downturn. In almost every news broadcast, in every newspaper, tabloid and broadsheet alike, there is ample evidence that we, as humans, no longer care enough for each other.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-07 15:02:43 | Rating:

| Views: 128 | Comments: 6 | Tags: care caring world

The future for Christianity?
It is said by some that Christianity is in decline with fewer people attending church regularly and difficulty in recruitment for ministers, priests and nuns being experienced across the board. Well, I believe the greatest threat facing Christianity are Christians themselves. Not all, of......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-08 13:39:34 | Rating:

| Views: 108 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Christian Christianity problems

Is life about Attitude?
Is life about attitude? That depends. The word 'attitude' may conjure up negative feelings and emotions for some so I would say that it may be better to ask, "Is life really about your responses?" We all have myriad encounters with varying circumstances as we weave our troubled......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-08 13:42:42 | Rating:

| Views: 125 | Comments: 6 | Tags: attitude life choices

Look at your gifts
It is said that life sometimes gives with one hand and takes away with the other, but does it? Sometimes that good thing turns out to be less than it seemed at face value. The diamond crystal proves to be nothing more than cut glass, the once in a lifetime opportunity turns out to be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-09 14:12:51 | Rating:

| Views: 130 | Comments: 3 | Tags: gifts look see

We are ALL the same!
I hated the Nazi regime and the idea of a "master race" is as stupid to me as toddlers ruling the world. The whole concept is as abhorrent and ignorant as the latter day white supremists, of which there are many spread across the world. This sort of attitude also......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-12 14:50:14 | Rating:

| Views: 134 | Comments: 1 | Tags: people same god differences

Childhood nostalgia
Nostalgia allows us to look back at where we have come from, be it through rose tinted glasses or not. Whether your childhood was good, bad or indifferent, the experiences you had there, make you what you are now. It is somewhat disconcerting to see aspects of your personal history......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-14 12:39:22 | Rating:

| Views: 131 | Comments: 2 | Tags: childhood nostalgia remembering

The way to God
I am Spiritual, not religious but that doesn’t make me any better than anyone else and I don’t have a ‘holier than thou’ attitude to my life nor my beliefs. All those who choose to sit in church, praising Jesus Christ, or Allah, or whoever, none of them are any better......Read More

Posted on: 2008-05-15 14:27:48 | Rating:

| Views: 174 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Spiritual Religious God

Religion = Magic and Illusion
All religion is a tale of magic, illusion, superstition, control, opression, faith, belief.......... I am being controversial and perhaps more than a little "tongue-in-cheek" here, but that's why I have made this a blog rather than a forum thread...... I could do this with any of......Read More