What is the answer to this ecclesiastic question?

[Bruce]

I reckon its great that a female ( Friday) got in there. Better than the all-male trinity and other middle-eastern misogynistic stuff huh.

 

Christianity actually came to Scandinavia quite late in history. But they made the mistake of martyring the missionaries.

 

The Japanese never became christianised, because they mocked the missionaries but let them live after they denounced their stuff. Their mocking method was pretty nasty though.

 

 

[facthunter]

Put downs and come ons. All manipulation/bullying. Pete "think" at your own peril. Often you will be lonely if you do much of it. We are all naïve, trusting and idealistic when young but unfortunately experience is such that you must change to survive. When you are old you don't have as much time for $#1t. What time you have should be spent more wisely. Nev

 

 

[nomadpete]

Ok , Nev. Good philosophy.

 

Let's go flying!

 

 

[facthunter]

Make it happen. This is not a dress rehearsal. Nev

 

 

[nomadpete]

Make it happen. This is not a dress rehearsal. Nev

That's a relief. I never wanted to see you in a dress.

 

We pass this way but once......

 

 

[Marty_d]

That's a relief. I never wanted to see you in a dress.

We pass this way but once......

How do you know? This character Facthunter who has taken on the persona of a knowledgeable elder statesman of flight may, in fact, be a 29-year old female underwear model.

 

Unlikely, I grant you, but this is the internet. Stranger things have happened!

 

 

[facthunter]

A "dress" rehearsal is when they actually wear the costumes they will use on the final opening.

 

I wouldn't trust anyone who considered themselves an elder "statesman" who tells everyone what to do. It's more thinking about what "WE" are doing and being prepared to question at least some of it as to how it might be done better (mostly from the safety point of view). It grows from not wishing to harm anyone in my care, in an aviation sense and that extends to not having someone die for what I didn't do particularly in the instructional aspects of my duties as well as when I'm up the front, doing the driving. My view is a pilot should know enough to handle any likely situation they might be reasonably expected to encounter at the stage of flying they are doing. Also I believe U/L's are often more difficult to fly than more sophisticated types, so the training should be fitting the purpose. Nev

 

 

[Yenn]

So. Now I have this picture of a 29 year old female underwear model sitting up the front of an aircraft all caring for her passengers and students. Wow!

 

 

[old man emu]

So. Now I have this picture of a 29 year old female underwear model sitting up the front of an aircraft all caring for her passengers and students. Wow!

Yenn, have you be listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno - Wikipedia ? That description suits the protagonist, Belinda. But she's no pro. She'e the international sales manager for a British pots & pans manufacturer.

 

Episode 1 - My Dad Wrote A Porno - British Comedy Guide

 

 

[nomadpete]

OK where is the connection with Ecclesiatical anything?

 

Ian,

 

please rename this whole forum "Thread drafters anonymous"

 

I don't think a single thread has stayed anywhere near OP's subject.

 

 

[old man emu]

This thread drifts more than a Clown Fish in the EAC.

 

OME

 

https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/322826/East-Australian-Current.pdf

 

 

[facthunter]

Who has "the" answer to any ecclesiastical question? The Poem has some relevence to SOME but perhaps much less to others. The post office and card makers charge a lot for the privilege/custom. Email may have superseded the "Physical" card for many. Are the Christmas, Birthday. Get well etc cards really inspiring, or do you spend ages looking for the least worst that will do the job of those presenting? Nev

 

 

[Bruce]

Here's my theological question...  Who or what is/are the holy trinity?

 

According to the pop song... " the 3 men I admire the most, /

 

the father son and the holy ghost,/ took the last train to the coast,/ the day the music died "

 

So the lyric writer  thinks it is a junta of 3.

 

Or is it one being holding 3 personalities ? A schizoid?

 

Or, like Zaphod Beeblebrox, only with 3 heads not 2?

 

Is it an attempt to have he advantages of polytheism and monotheism at once  with some nonsensical idea? Of course, but what exactly do they mean?

 

 

[Bruce]

I just realized that the junta of 3 idea is polytheistic, which I don't think is allowed.

 

 

[Marty_d]

It has to be 3 blokes because they can't stand the idea of a female.

 

I mean, really.  Jesus is the son of god but has no mother - instead is born to a virgin human?

 

It's funny how they say that man is created in the image of god, which logically infers that the man upstairs is fully equipped with working wedding tackle... which has never been used.

 

Poor bugger!

 

 

[Bruce]

I know this guy who has a phd in philosophy and who lives in Trinity Gardens ( no kidding, this is a suburb of Adelaide ). He  was very devout when we were kids, so I asked him.

 

He knew the answer, which is....  to say that the  very question is serious evidence of heresy, from which the questioner needs cleansing with fire.

 

 

[facthunter]

The Holy Trinity (triumvirate) was determined/ proclaimed by Constantine I believe, when the cartholic Bishops couldn't agree on a form to standardise the issue. The later Prophet of the Abrahamic "lot/tribe" Mohammed, was happy to get away from the 3 thing by saying there is Only ONE true God and that's ALLAH so appearing to score a bit higher on the logic scale and "trumping" if one can still use the term, these days,  the "Christian" concept though Christ is still recognised as a prophet in Islam, obviously the latest one has more validity for them and just to finalise, there is not permitted to be any more Prophets or variations of this form of God's word.  So there! Nev

 

 

[Bruce]

Nev, it is NOT kosher to say you have been trumped these days. Guess who has put the term into disrepute.

 

But the "3 thing " would be hard to explain to a moslem you are trying to convert huh. What would you say when he asked just what you meant?

 

I had a book of the world's most wicked men, and Constantine had a whole chapter. So maybe he was trying to cause trouble?

 

( Stalin and Hitler and Constantine and a few others were in the book )

 

 

[Bruce]

Idi Amin, Pol Pot too and NO TRUMP! But the book was 20 years old.

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in that plane crash. The day the music died.

 

 

[Bruce]

I liked their music too ( Buddy Holly etc ) .  But getting back to religion, the 3 abrahamic religions ( Judaism, Christianity and Islam ) have a great deal in common. I reckon that if Judaism is an FJ holden then Islam is like the Commodore and Christianity is maybe the Kingswood.

 

Their common god is one of the nastiest characters in all fiction.

 

 

[Marty_d]

And yet the bible (and, I'm assuming, the torah and the koran) are in the non-fiction part of the library.  Go figure.

 

 

[facthunter]

 And isn't astrology, taught as science in some places? Perhaps reading palms is too?  People who don't believe in science don't care for facts and facts are not a belief based thing.

 

    IF you don't accept the "scientific Method " you are dealing yourself out of the equation. You are of course able to "believe" what you like as long as it doesn't result in adversely affecting others severely.  People must be able to defend themselves from  attack by whacko's who wish to eliminate them  for not having the same "belief".. Nev

 

 

[Bruce]

Tiw lost his hand to a monster wolf. They were tying it up with magical ropes, and the wolf only agreed to let them do this ( he didn't know the ropes were magical ) if he had one of their ( the viking gods) hands in his mouth, as a surety against being double-crossed.

 

Well that wolf sure was doublecrossed, and Tiw lost his hand.

 

Woden had one eye, but this is another story. Thor dressed as a woman to be married to an ice-giant, yet another good story. They had fun, those old viking gods.

 

 

[old man emu]

One of the great disappointments of the study of pre-Roman Britain is that there are no written records of the mythology of Ancient Britains. All we have are the writings of the Romans, and we all know that the story told by the victors is not "the Truth; the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth".  You can only surmise so much from the physical things we expose by digging in the ground, and what we surmise is affected by pre-conceived notions. Were the "Dark Ages" centuries of violence, or do we only hear the war stories?