Searching for GOD...

[torridon]

Best thing about this time of year is to step outside at night to find it's cool and slightly damp, and the air is filled with the scent of honeysuckle. Utterly perfect.

a touch of magic about you 

we ought to bottle it, a little splash of Rhi whenever you are feeling down ...

[Rhiannon]

It's because we slow down in bad weather. Rather than think we have to do stuff we just stop.

I have similarly clear memories of lying in grass on warm days.

You're probably right, Rhiannon, nostalgia more than anything.  I just don't know why of all my memories of the kids, that one always gives me a warm feeling!  Odd, humans beings, aren't we!

Why not? And like many seaside towns, Southend is an easy place to feel nostalgic about. 

We are all nostalgic about our home town. Mostly anyway.  Some time ago there was a light-hearted local radio piece which was asking for a slogan for your home city (Nottingham, in my case.)   I had a go, and my entry was: Nottingham: easy to get out of."  I didn't win.

I'm not a Saarfender. But like many an EastEnder, that was my family's go-to place on a sunny day.

I don't feel much in the way of nostalgia for where I grew up though. Yet I feel sad I have no reason ever to go back there now.

[Shaker]

The reason is that you want to.

[Rhiannon]

Best thing about this time of year is to step outside at night to find it's cool and slightly damp, and the air is filled with the scent of honeysuckle. Utterly perfect.

a touch of magic about you 

we ought to bottle it, a little splash of Rhi whenever you are feeling down ...

Thank you. 
 
It's why we are here, isn't it? To smell the honeysuckle? 

[Rhiannon]

Im sorry to hear about the bad days, my days are wading through treacle combined with utter uncertainty

Meh. It's all treacle and utter uncertainty. Get me and wigginhall to strap you into a chair in a dark room with an anglepoise lamp in your chops and beat you smartly about the back of the head with Alan Watts's This Is It while he does the Zen whatsit of sunyata and the emptiness of all being and various assorted koans while I do the Western philosophical tradition of bastinado of the soles of your feet with Russell's Problems of Philosophy whilst expounding upon Kant's tripartite model of opinion, belief and justified knowledge and see how you like them apples.

If he ever reads this, Wiggy will know. And, probably, laugh 

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

 

[Shaker]

"That'll do, pig."

From that existentialist cinematic masterpiece, Babe.

Works for me, anyhow.

[Nearly Sane]

As used before from the Tv series Angel

'If nothing you do matters, then all that matters is what you do'

[Rhiannon]

'You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'

[Rhiannon]

Oh, and...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[BashfulAnthony]

It's got to be: "Go ahead, make my day."

[Shaker]

Oh, and...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

That's a nice and true sentiment in a good film 

[Nearly Sane]

Now, Voyager

"Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

[Rhiannon]

Oh, and...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

That's a nice and true sentiment in a good film 

Yeah, but sadly my life is more like the quote from the Italian Job. 

[Shaker]

Yes, mine too.

So bugger the doors 

[BashfulAnthony]

...Or, Clint, again:  "Now you're laughing? I don't think it's nice, you laughing. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea that you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him you really didn't mean it."

I'm a sucker for the tough guy stuff!

[Shaker]

I'm a sucker for the tough guy stuff!

See James, Leonard 

[Nearly Sane]

Of course Bill and Ted

'Be excellent to each other'

[Shaker]

Of course Bill and Ted

'Be excellent to each other'

That's about all it takes. Never mind your silly wibbly bobbly talk of walking on water and flying horse up to heaven nonsense.

I must be old-fashioned and unsophisticated and behind the curve because so many people don't seem to get it and I don't know why

I am not a Hindu, a Buddhist or a Jain, but what they say about ahimsa (non-violence) and karuna (compassion) seems to me to be good enough. Perhaps it's more complicated than that, more complex than I give it credit for? I don't know. Doesn't seem it to me.

[Nearly Sane]

Network

'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore'

And on that The Waltons

'Goodnight, Mary Ellen'

[Sebastian Toe]

Animal Crackers

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas.
  - How he got in my pyjamas, I don't know." 

[Alan Burns]

So let us thank God for the amazing gift of perception.   

Good night all

[Enki]

Network

'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore'

And on that The Waltons

'Goodnight, Mary Ellen'

We have our grandaughter staying with us at the moment, while her Dad has just today been looking at mountain gorillas in Uganda. She is 12 going on thirteen, and I've just said goodnight to her. as usual with  'Goodnight Mary Ellen' and she still has enough of the child in her to respond 'Goodnight, John Boy'. To me that is a precious moment, which alas will disappear all too quickly. For me, no God needed.

[BashfulAnthony]

Network

'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore'

And on that The Waltons

'Goodnight, Mary Ellen'

We have our grandaughter staying with us at the moment, while her Dad has just today been looking at mountain gorillas in Uganda. She is 12 going on thirteen, and I've just said goodnight to her. as usual with  'Goodnight Mary Ellen' and she still has enough of the child in her to respond 'Goodnight, John Boy'. To me that is a precious moment, which alas will disappear all too quickly. For me, no God needed.

And why can't you have God as well?

[Shaker]

So let us thank God for the amazing gift of perception.

Why on earth would we do a silly thing like that.

[Enki]

Network

'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore'

And on that The Waltons

'Goodnight, Mary Ellen'

We have our grandaughter staying with us at the moment, while her Dad has just today been looking at mountain gorillas in Uganda. She is 12 going on thirteen, and I've just said goodnight to her. as usual with  'Goodnight Mary Ellen' and she still has enough of the child in her to respond 'Goodnight, John Boy'. To me that is a precious moment, which alas will disappear all too quickly. For me, no God needed.

And why can't you have God as well?

No problem. You can if you want to. I don't.