Does Jim still...?

[fluffy]

Y'know, it's interesting reading the responses and matching the corresponding ages..............
I guess when you are younger it is so confusing.........which direction to go in faithwise.......there are so many choices.......do you go with your Christian upbringing?......... or shave your head and dress in an orange sheet whilst chanting down Sunset Strip?..........

I'm in my early 30's now and the older i get the less defined i need things to be..........it's easier to go with the flow of life, and experience teaches you there are good and bad elements in all faiths...........
So you begin to adapt the bits which suit your life and if that means praying AND meditation and a bit of Yogic Flying then so be it............
and i guess that's what Jim means..........

'whatever makes you happy'...................

Fluffy

[quirky]

or shave your head and dress in an orange sheet whilst chanting down Sunset Strip?..........

Do I get a tambourine? I got rhythm....I got music.....

Wait...they'd make me shave my head, wouldn't they? Nope. That's out. I like my head fur too much.

a bit of Yogic Flying

Impossible. Even with bottle rockets not that I tried or anything.

We are the same age. The older I get, the more I think there is no "correct" faith...but the MORE I look around me at things and worry and wish that more people had some sort of spirituality and moral scaffolding upon which to build a life...especially younger people.

Some days, there just seems to be an overabundance of ugly.

My spiritual comfort food is beef jerky.

[fluffy]

Mine would be mashed potato.................or 'Mashed tatties' as we say over here.........
or tuna and salad cream..(yum yum) .....NOT that muck mayonnaise....lol
but i appreciate your views...........i'm a teacher and i really feel for my pupils......they come from ropey backgrounds, drugs drink and crime are rife....and that's with their parents...........we try our best to give them some security and stability but we can't take them home with us.......and they are only young, 4-11......some are still babies.......

But it has to be said that 'the times they are a'changin'.......and moral values have changed with them.................sigh.... bring back good old victorian values.......lol....

fluffy

[quirky]

Fluffy...I'm guessing you're in England?

It's the same over here.

[fluffy]

Nope, ..............not England,.........somewhere FAR FAR nicer.....more beautiful, cleaner, friendlier and just altogether better.....(lol....wait for the deluge of hate mail from the English......lol )

SCOTLAND!!!!.........

(LOL......we're similiar to the Irish in charm and we share a universal loathing of those South of the border........ .)

plus we have a wonderful sense of humour, warm hearts and cosy souls...........

ps i don't work for the Scottish tourist board on the side......lol

pps..............only joking my English chums........ i love you really

fluffy

[quirky]

delete the post that looks exactly like the first one. it's getting tiring reading the same posts over and over.

I think fluffy just made an honest mistake. This board can be a bit cantankerous at times.

Fluffy - Oh, so you're English then.

[fluffy]

lol ................hmm.......crafty.............

no no no.............

SCOTTISH of course....................think windswept Highlands, roaring log fires, Scottish castles, tartan and Haggis(yuk)......lol..........

fluffy

[mav]

quirky - The UK has English, Scottish and Irish people. Am I right fluffy?

fluffy - You have me drooling over Scotland. If I were Jim I would accept your invitation

[fluffy]

Oh and i forgot to mention we are world renowned for our hospitality.........think Edinburgh at Hogmany(new years eve).......

So if you mix up the peace and beauty of the highlands, the kindness and humour of the people and our warmth and open hospitality you have Scotland............

and yes the UK consists of Scotland England Ireland and Wales......hence the united Kingdom....................but the funny thing is we all tease each other about hating the English........we don't........it's just funny ....not a seriously racial thing, that would be too shocking.............

fluffy

[quirky]

Maverick, I know....I was teasing fluffy.

I think the Scottish accent is beautiful.

In college, one of the ladies who cleaned our hall of residence (in London) was Scottish. Is it Burns' Night that they traditionally have haggis? Anyway, she invited me to this Scottish Pub to have haggis.

No comment.

But it was sweet, and I had a great time at the Scottish Pub.

[fluffy]

i know ...........haggis is an aquired taste..............but you can get a beautiful veggie haggis which is lovely ..........all oatmeal, onions , neeps, carrots and spices............it's really lovely...... .

ps what did you study in London Quirky?

fLUFFY

[fluffy]

PS I KNEW YOU WERE TEASING ME......................LOL......I WAS TEASING BACK........

FLUFFY

[quirky]

but you can get a beautiful veggie haggis which is lovely

OK....but when they shove all the vegetables inside a stomach lining doesn't it sort of blow the whole *veggie* concept?

In London, I studied Drama and English.

Also known as pub conversation, theatre outings, and cider and black.

The professor had us pretending to be marshmallows once. It was this moment of giggly angst for me. I thought to myself..."I'm being a marshmallow. This is so Stanislavsky....but when would I EVER play a marshmallow?"

Then I remembered Ghostbusters, but still...I'm pretty sure it was more the costume there that conveyed the character.

So then I thought, "Maybe in some Ionesco play, there's a marshmallow...and the character of the marshmallow is symbolic of the shallowness of mankind."

I'm still glad I was the marshmallow for awhile, because it's something to look back on and laugh.

[fluffy]

lol.....................they use a sort of plastic skin instead............

so do you act or teach drama?......

FLUFFY

[quirky]

I'm putting vegetarian haggis in my mental filing cabinet right into the folder that contains non-alcoholic beer and decaffeinated coffee. It's the "What's the point?" file.

I don't teach or act. I'm one of those puzzle pieces that hasn't yet found a fitting slot in the big picture.