naomi, you have often said that you believe that Jesus existed but that he wasn't who his followers thought he was, or words to that effect. I have always had difficulty in understanding this. Many...
I was investigating the price of Microsoft Word for my wife to install in her new laptop and discovered, to my surprise, a site from which Word 2007 can be downloaded free! Anyone tried this? What are...
The other day I heard a senior Catholic clergyman dismiss as nonsense the idea that the celibacy imposed on RC priests has a connection with the appalling revelations that are coming out about the...
At least ten years ago I predicted that the EU common currency system would show its first crack early in the second decade of the 21st Century, when one of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy,...
On another site I tried to refer to the proper zoological name for mankind, which we all know is moho sapiens. But when I spelt that first word correctly (instead of using the anagram above) it was...
This may be an old chestnut; I have certainly thought about it for years: If analogue clocks and watches, and all memory of them, disappeared, how would one define clockwise? Unlike north, south, east...
This may be an old chestnut; I have certainly thought about it for years: If analogue clocks and watches, and all memory of them, disappeared, how would one define clockwise? Unlike north, south, east...
When my wife makes pickled onions or shallots, following all the rules, we reckon that they're at their best something like 6-8 weeks later, after which they become more and more soggy and...
Three years ago I noticed that my local pharmacy (then Alliance) was selling magnetic bracelets. I wrote to the manager, pointing out that I would expect a shop up the road called Beyond The Senses to...
I do, because the late and much-missed Alan Coren tells us in one of his pieces. He says that when he took Princess Michael of Kent to see it "her response was so earthy a giggle that grown men...
Solar panels produce d.c. Where and how is that converted to 50Hz a.c.? Assuming that wind turbines have alternators to produce a.c. how is the output maintained at 50Hz regardless of the speed of...
The idea of Question Closed is new to me. I would, though, like to correct 123everton on something he said in a previous thread. Here goes: 123everton, let me give you one example of becoming an...
How did the idea come about that the Judaeo/Christian ‘God’ is a loving god? The atrocities committed against humanity in the OT by God have been well-rehearsed on this site, as have all...
I sometimes receive e-mails addressed to, say, 20 or 30 people. When I try to Reply All I get an error report saying that there are too many addressees and identifying one of them. When I erase that...
We know that the God of the Old Testament is a monster. To list his crimes against humanity would take up too much space here, but they include ordering the wholesale slaughter of tribes ? men, women,...
I notice that there have been only five posts to this site (six now) in the last ten days, and that this will be the first for three days. My own non-involvement for some time now has been because AB...
My fridge-freezer has stopped working (just out of guarantee!), though its light comes on and there is a hum. My hunch is that the thermostat is at fault. If I buy a replacement ( which comprises a...
This subject comes up, sometimes heatedly, on individual threads here, so I thought I'd start a general discussion so that people can get their views off their chests. I'll start: I have been doing...
Has anyone read/is anyone reading a book by David Craig and Matthew Elliott (published only a week or two ago by Random House) called The Great European Rip-off. How the corrupt, wasteful EU is taking...
