Posts by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
(DIR) Post #ASSI7NAQgq2g4oPCtc by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-07T23:14:44Z
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[Replying to: "How can you have no friends?"] - You see, I live as though I might one day actually have to give an account of myself before God. Add living without television or liquor, and any offers of “friendship” never extend past the first visit.Not owning a “cell phone” - Folk can not pass 10 minutes without ‘checking’ a screen of some type: your presence pricks their Conscience. Be Sure: Get rid of the “tech” and you WILL be alone. Keep it, and I promise that you WILL be its slave.
(DIR) Post #ASSPV5XgZOM82jXU00 by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-08T03:39:15Z
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@StephanieAnneLR ... Dear Stephanie, You are very kind. Thank you for being so considerate. Thoughts from a life that did not turn out the way I had anticipated. Perhaps, the observations and experiences are something that will benefit some conscientious young person ... ? Kind regards to you, Philip Livingstone
(DIR) Post #ASSQwhZvMPQNmbJir2 by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-08T03:55:27Z
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@Phil - Dear Phil, I taught for three months, which allowed direct insight into an highly obvious agenda of 'dumbing down' ... with which, I absolutely refused to participate. "Career" ended due to a refusal to compromise my own Moral Integrity and Conscience. Spent the rest of my life as a private lecturer. Now, leaving experience on a newly-created Internet Site to, perhaps, help some young person who is starting out in life. Sad, and not at all the way I thought life would be.
(DIR) Post #ASSST7ySrBOmrvoyqO by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-08T04:12:30Z
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@cully45 - It took me a few moments, Ann, But, Yes, I have you now. Cannot understand how - when it so patently obvious what these things are for - that folk 'who know' continue to carry these 'phones. I am corresponding with you on a 2nd-hand Macbook, via a White Box hauled up in a tree, which affords us very 'slow' Internet. Cannot see any use in my being here, I just wanted to try. Once there seems no point, I take down the White Box. Bewildered at the mass addiction to technology. PL
(DIR) Post #ASUSIGCwIF9VXFKVGq by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-09T00:19:24Z
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A Personal Word ... https://youtu.be/Iqg0XVchRkg
(DIR) Post #ASWAAX5SF7Wwi4ujmi by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-09T23:06:19Z
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@SkatyG - Dear Katy, Whilst I did want to have A Personal Word with nice folk like yourself - it greatly bothered me to use YT to do so. I have gone back and closed an (obligatory if using YT) account with them ... I hope that anyone who had commented (and not seen that video) can see the "new" one here. Thank you for letting me know that I was able to "speak to you" (and a few others) through that video. Regards, PL
(DIR) Post #ASWF6m9Ao9FS1vgJ8a by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-09T23:38:21Z
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(Reply to QUERY - Wuthering Heights: "The character is so heartless: Why do people like this book?")Alas, you are missing Miss Bronte's point. The key to the whole story - everything - is CATHY. The change in her brought the change in Heathcliffe.How was Heathcliffe treated in the beginning? Human beings are tribal, Name-Calling Emotional Infants towards ANYONE who will Not Do as they do. Witness the past few years! Heathcliffe was despised, degraded, isolated - treated like disease ...
(DIR) Post #ASWGQ2TwOnLs9G91xQ by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T00:04:44Z
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Most who are quick to claim "poverty" and refuse to consider buying a dress shirt, have no shortage of funds when it comes to buying liquor or any toy that facilitates their pursuit of entertainment.They "don't have the time". BUT, they have the "time" to sit in front of a TV.Proper Dress will never 'MAKE' a Sophisticated Individual. But Dressing Properly is the PRACTICE of a Sophisticated Individual.Never be upset by the scoffing of lazy humanity. Consider the source, and be encouraged.
(DIR) Post #ASWHMIdOVD6J2YLaAC by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-09T23:34:15Z
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WH - I have been despised by EVERYONE that ever said they wanted to be my friend Because I would NOT do what Cathy did. What THEY all Did. IF you do not 'follow' the tribe, you are despised BECAUSE people have not the self discipline to say "No". Cathy said "Yes" to "society" - married into it. Which is WHY Heathcliffe was so cruel.Do try the book again: It is the Frustration - the inner turmoil of Heathcliffe AND Cathy (who knows she chose wrongly) that is the appeal of Wuthering Heights.
(DIR) Post #ASWNykm8vEr5309trs by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T01:41:03Z
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@cully45 - Hello Ann, Much bettter, surely, to be content with Needs being met, rather than always 'wanting more' - In englisc, hlaf syle us todæg ..."Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me."It has always seemed to me that people pursue Greed with enthusiasm; while willing to discard those for whom they should be most grateful. Which ends up, as you note, costing them far more.
(DIR) Post #ASWO99XDirAMjV8aem by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T01:42:56Z
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@SkatyG - Dear Katy, ... I am NOT going to refer to Anything I do in life as ... "tooting" !!!!! Very good to hear from you once again. PL
(DIR) Post #ASWbrusyKiuTjbzGBE by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T04:16:41Z
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@SkatyG - Yes, Well ... I shall be tooting off now. Good Night to you.
(DIR) Post #ASY1Me43cFxaYOshgO by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T20:36:34Z
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MORAL DECENCY is "OFFENSIVE" ... to those who have None.TRUTH is regarded as HATE, to those who Hate TRUTH.So-called "THEORISTS" are people who have the Mental Integrity to ask questions, rather than blindly Believe.Degrading people by CALLING them NAMES, was once conduct practiced only by Sadistic or Impudent Children.CENSORSHIP is always the domain of Liars.It is highly unsettling to be constantly reminded that this is not the same human race amidst which I grew up in the 1960's.
(DIR) Post #ASY3OzRzH4KjMvJuyW by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T20:59:46Z
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Cræft bið bætera þonne æht."Skill is better than possessions."
(DIR) Post #ASY4PZBUW4ZA9LRWwS by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-10T21:01:59Z
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manegum menn spræcan:swiðe feawum þæt he seo gesceadwis."Many men speak:Few with wisdom."
(DIR) Post #AScdwsiTK7ZdRJDnpw by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-13T00:05:38Z
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Taking time with a cup of tea before 'signing in' on Friday past, allowed me to notice 'posts'. I am about as useful here as a milk bucket under a bull.Never having TV or radio, and always understanding that the only intent of "The News" is to manipulate mass perception - I truly am of no sociable value here. There is no performing politician, or magick distraction put out by the media, of which I would spend time. Am thinking of just quietly slipping away, hoping that folk will understand.
(DIR) Post #ASeTR4AObaroSaORZQ by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-13T23:11:11Z
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Whenever God is said to "tempt" a redeemed soul ... it is in order to demonstrate the level of Integrity in that man or woman. When Satan "tempts" ... it is in order to entice, or persuade, a person to commit Sin.Satan CANNOT COMPEL anyone to do anything. A man or woman MUST give their consent (to the temptation) BEFORE Satan can bring about that person's ruin.
(DIR) Post #ASeTS2OIh1dlF5MOZc by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-13T23:04:55Z
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Judge the Tree by the Fruit that it bears ...Worldly love consists in a desire to Gratify the Emotions of people.Christian love consists in a desire to Honour the Holiness of God.-Worldly love consists in a desire to be liked.Christian love consists in a desire to be faithful.-Worldly love is superficial.Christian love is supernatural.-The object of Worldly love is Man.The object of Christian love is God.
(DIR) Post #ASelNj3YR24fIGkYvQ by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-13T23:45:10Z
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Biblical Standard - KINDNESS to Mankind – Proverbs 3:30to Animals – Proverbs 12:10to Livestock – Exodus 23 4-5, Deuteronomy 22:4“If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.”to Enemies – Proverbs 25:21-22 Matthew 10:23to Prisoners of War – 2 Kings 6:22“… wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captivewith thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”
(DIR) Post #ASey4pY1NIYDKQJxYG by oldthoughts@freeatlantis.com
2023-02-14T05:03:13Z
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@StephanieAnneLR - Hello Stephanie, No ... I use an Anglo Saxon Bible (1175) -God lufede middan-eard swa þæt he sealde hys akennedan sune þæt nan ne for-wurðe þe on hine ge-lefð. Ac habbe þt eche lyf.[John 3.16]Quotes here are from my lectures over the years - I would have translated Old Englisc to "modern" using the Geneva Bible (1599) or Authorised Version (1769) ("KJV"). I Think in OldEng, and not sure which are Geneva or AV.