The 'Today' Topic

• karo: the joys 
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:59 PM
• karo: I've been busy doing this Summer School for Access to Uni thing.  For the past week or two I have had at least one big essay per week(by big I mean 1500 words, so not massive but still a fair bit for a weekly essay) got one due Monday this week and another due Friday
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:46 PM
• E.Maree: That must have taken some organisation, wow. :O Mega congratulations!
  July 15, 2010, 09:24:08 PM
• Triss: We're hoping to make it an annual event since the first was pretty successful.
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:40 PM
• Triss: A group of us from the LARP society I'm part of decided to put on a role-playing convention, catering to roleplayers of all types from tabletop to LARP, so we got in a whole load of traders and people promoting their groups and stuff. There's quite a big, active RP community in the north-east, so we thought we'd tap into that. So 'Nerd East' was born!
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:13 PM
• E.Maree: Running a convention? Oooh, tell me more! :O
  June 27, 2010, 11:34:45 AM
• Triss: 'lo guys - I'm good, still busy, alternating between a degree and convention running. I didn't predict anything of this sort this time last year...
  June 25, 2010, 11:17:06 PM
• E.Maree: I think everyone's lives have taken a turn for the busier lately, I know mine has. xD How are you?
  June 22, 2010, 09:55:21 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: I have not been on here for a long time but I am very busy. It is my bastard degree; it takes up almost all of my time.
  June 16, 2010, 11:00:12 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: Hello.
  June 16, 2010, 10:59:49 PM
• E.Maree: Tightened up the anti-spam measures on the forum.
  May 31, 2010, 01:47:46 PM
• karo: we need to spark up activity again... hardly anyone comes on anymore...
  April 30, 2010, 01:40:19 PM
• E.Maree: Hi XGIANNIX, how are you?
  April 26, 2010, 09:27:37 PM
• XGIANNIX: E.Maree
  April 20, 2010, 01:34:32 PM
• XGIANNIX: euhmm hello
  April 20, 2010, 01:32:18 PM
• E.Maree: The new forum domain is now live, please change your bookmarks to emmamaree.com/forum.
  April 13, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
• E.Maree: I made a logo!
  April 06, 2010, 12:48:12 PM
• E.Maree: http://emmamaree.com/ is well along its way now. I'll have to move this place over soon. :O
  March 21, 2010, 10:38:08 PM
• E.Maree: Oh man, it's so cold around here, even with the snow gone. 
  January 22, 2010, 08:31:36 AM
• karo: thank you
  January 18, 2010, 05:43:17 PM

[MysticSafewayBag]

It's shocking you'd not read it before.

You should also read the Book of Exodus, the Gospel according to Matthew and the Book of Revelation.

[karo]

I have read it before.

I haven't sat down and read the whole thing.  But I have read it before.

[Ben ~ Phoenix]

I bought the Book of revelations as a separate and never got round to reading it. Although I was 11 at the time so it would have been heavy stuff. Interesting though..

Today I canoed down the deveron from Turriff to Banff. I got sun-burnt.

My cousins are over so my parents have found an excuse to do lots of fun things this week. Tomorrow we are boating to see dolphins and on Friday off to Landmark.

[Triss]

Revelations is the most interesting book of the Bible, and probably one of the less useful ones.

I kid, but I'd recommend reading the Gospels before anything else if you're new to the Bible, and for goodness' sake, don't start at the beginning thinking of taking it literally and reading it from cover to cover. The Bible is more of a library than a book, containing 66 books and something like 5 different genres (eg. prophecy, poetry, history etc.).

Today I got back from a trip to Birmingham where I met people I haven't seen in seven years.

[karo]

I bought the Book of revelations as a separate and never got round to reading it. Although I was 11 at the time so it would have been heavy stuff. Interesting though..

Today I canoed down the deveron from Turriff to Banff. I got sun-burnt.

My cousins are over so my parents have found an excuse to do lots of fun things this week. Tomorrow we are boating to see dolphins and on Friday off to Landmark.

I used to live near Landmark :p.  Fun stuff. Went their every holiday.

Well when I say near... I mean about an hour away...

I've never read the book of Revelations.  Is that the one written by the guy who had a dream he was in heaven and he saw God release the 4 horse men and Jesus fights the Devil in the so called... war to end all wars(where have I heard that before?   )?

[MysticSafewayBag]

You've got the read the Book of Revelations. It's the best part!

[karo]

I would but the thought of sitting down and reading the bible puts me off because I felt that schools and all these things were forcing Christianity on me.

[Ben ~ Phoenix]

Yeah you show them karo. That will totally get them. 

I might read some of the books. Could be interesting.

[karo]

Yeah fight the good fight.

[Triss]

I think it's silly not to read books like the Bible even if you are not a Christian. Without a proper understanding of a religion, you cannot make any arguments about whether it is true or not.

It's like someone refusing to read the God Delusion if they're a Christian. Although I wouldn't recommend that book to anyone simply because all the arguments in it are horrible and Richard Dawkins has done a lot better.

Today I woke up from a decent night's sleep for once.

[Nick]

Richard Dawkins is the most self-contradictory individual I have ever ceom across - he's not against God, he's against organised religion. Seiously I feel like just slapping him and shouting "THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING YOU BLOODY FOOL!"

Yesterday, I read a lot of Elizabeth Gaskell and listened to Les Miserables-it's really quite depressing. I cried my eyes out, even though I have no idea what was going on half the time as I only had 'Highlights from the Musical' - ther were many deaths and one chap who seemed to be on the run from some other chap and then there were more deaths and anyway, I got really upset at lines like "Oh, my friends, my friends,forgive me, that I live and you are gone, there's a grief that can't be spoken, there's a pain goes on and on. Phantom Faces at the window, phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will meet no more. Oh, my friends, my friends, don't ask me, what your sacrifice was for. Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will sing no more..."

[MysticSafewayBag]

Today I got my A-level results.

[spoiler]
I'm going to Oxford 
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[Ben ~ Phoenix]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

*proudbeam* 

I knew you could do it m'boy!

[karo]

congratulations.

what did you get?

[Triss]

Really MSB? That's awesome!

[spoiler]An Oxbridge high-five to you! [/spoiler]