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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    No … ‘cos that’s not the point or purpose of the Bible … the Old Testament is a history book … not a set of rules. 

    The Old Testament is a bunch of fables, not history.
    only the old one?

    Devon.
  • No not fables … a fable is a deliberately constructed story with a moral. 

    The books of the Old Testament may not be factual, but they are the way a nation tribe understood and recorded the history of their ancestors. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Diana was not innocent in the failure of her marriage. They hurt each other, it was a mistake that made them both miserable and they should have been allowed to walk away much sooner because prolonging it just made it all worse - as it always does. Stiff necked attitudes condemned them both to that pain and still condemn him today, even though he has admitted his mistake. I am not a monarchist, I'd rather he wasn't in the position he is, but not because he made a bad marriage.

    Relationships are as individual as the people in them. It is cruel and unnecessary to impose rules about how they ought to work. If they work, they work, if they don't, they don't and neither is the business of anyone except the people in them.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I remember the first time I was giving evidence in the Coroners Court and I asked to affirm, rather than swear on the Bible, there was almost a sense of panic in the court.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you're a liar, you'll swear by whatever they offer you to hold. If you're not a liar, you don't need to swear on anything. I assume taking an oath on whatever means you can be done for perjury if you're caught out.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Perjury is a crime, whatever you swear on.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What if you don't swear? Can you do that?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I think that's classed as contempt of court @b3.

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm curmudgeonly that I have to wait for this royal crap to die off blow over before this thread gets back to normal levels of curmudgeonlyness.
    I'm curmudgeonly that I can't seem to give cooking apples away. Why was that baking program so popular if no one actually bakes anything?
    I'm curmudgeonly about dog crap. Seriously why is it knee-deep everywhere I go right now? It seems especially bad around the school here though and trying to get two small children home without someone treading in something is like an extreme sport. You have to be especially scummy to not pick up around a school. :|
    I'm curmudgeonly because after five days back in school we've got the first illness and the house will be a non-stop lake of snot until Christmas now.



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Lock down dogs might account for the extra sh**e. They'll probably be disposed of by Christmas.. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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