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Yes, including conan doyle and some other very respectable people. I dont know how, mind, the photos are so obviously, to our eyes, faked. But respect for the girls, they made a good job of it and left a lot of people with egg on their faces!

The real marvel of the Cottingley fairies is that little girls could compose a photograph that would fool so many for so long.

Really enjoyed that, my sense of humour ;-)


Carol

Chaotic yes, good one. Its sort of like Pascalls wager. You might as well hedge your bets on the belief thing in case it turns out to be real.

I think people are inherently good when they are born. It takes religion to make them bad. Of course, bad is a subjective viewpoint. What is bad to you or i might be perfectly acceptable to someone else . Take the case of suicide bomber or an anti abortionist murderer. They really believe they are doing their gods work and that it is a good thing that they do. Do we respect that.....? That question is always avoided Lol

No, morality is a human condition that is altered, twisted and warped by religion. After all, if you didnt have an innate sense of morality, how would you know which bits of religion to ignore? How would you know it was wrong to keep slaves?

Janet Its good to know someone else has heard of the cottingley fairies. Right up until the 1980's lots of people believed they were real. Even those who had seen the photographs hahahahaha :-D :-D

..............most people have heard of astrologers, religious freedom and unicorns but........... cottingley fairies.........without looking on the net how many people know about these??? ...this is getting too close for comfort.-jl

:-D :-D :-D

"Practising a system of ethics based on the promise of a reward, in your case an afterlife, is certainly preferable to practising a system of ethics based on it simply being the right thing to do."

On a serious note here, who is the better person? The one who does something because s/he is promised something or the person who does something because it's a good thing to do.

sounds like something from from Monty Python :-D

I don't read my "stars"...... except if I find the astrology page in the newspaper I use to wrap up potato peelings.......... very interesting to find out what should have happened last week :-D

Oh, done that. It was on amazon but it got RR'd by the british society of real astrologers (membership1) and the council for religious freedom, which wasnt in the slightest bit ironic. The publishers received death threats from the royal unicorn society and the cottingley fairies camping club.

I was forced to withdraw it in fear of my life. No, really, i was. :-D

Eldrick - you should write a book.

"Thoughts of.......... "

I'd buy it :-D

nudge for C :-D

.......well lets face it, if we did agree, .......well that would be b-o-r-i-n-g- jl


edit: or worrying- lol

Well, thats good then. So you're not psychic and you're not an astrologer. I know that you know that I'm only kidding, there, 'cos theres no such things hahahahaha.

I nearly went on that thread to say I thought it was boring and not funny, but it wasn't, it was quite funny actually so I permitted myself a quiet chuckle, despite it being Oestre. All the bible threads make me smile, actually, so its a win win situation for everyone!

Thank you E for the explanation but I did have a laugh at Dermot's biblical funny the other day and I do remember not expecting the punch line. So still a little confused-.....I remember a rush of endorphins when I drunk my coffee this morning but when I went back to the thread it had been whooshed -jl

Brilliant! lol :-D

It's called humour. There's different types.....there's the psychic and astrological type, where you know in advance what the punch line is so you can laugh before you hear it, which is why you see so many astrologers walking round the street with wide grins on their faces and sometimes even drooling from the corner of their mouths through laughing so much even though they haven't seen or heard anything funny! How cool is that!

Then theres biblical humour, which means you aren't allowed to laugh at anything, so it's a sort of anti - humour really, but apparently being happy and laughing are two different things. This sort of humour is only understood by the devout believers in Pickiwickidoodah and those that wear hair shirts and beat themselvs with nettles and raw fish.

Then there's real humour that makes the majority of people laugh in one way or another, it's difficult to define but, like lots of things in life, it gives you a warm feeling and the laughter gene kicks in for those that are blessed with it. A rush of endorphins evokes a strange sensation and makes you forget about being miserable - hence the old saying 'laughter is the best medicine'. A wave of humour-based neurons rushes your brain and central nervous system and makes you want to be friends with people and share funny stories. Sadly, not everyone shares this ability. Many of them realise this and branch off into being warlords, archbishops and politicians.

So, you may be non the wiser now but at least you are better informed.

:-D

I must be on a different planet ....so b-o-r-i-n-g. Obviously the writer must enjoy being the centre of attention. Why couldn't he just say 'no'. -jl

:-D :-D very good x

har har har, I'm cackling away here, OH in other room "What's so funny?'......... can hardly type for laffin, never mind tell him.

That's a corker! Gonna send the link to loads of people

That dad sounds like he writes letters to the editor of the Byron Shire News.

Love it :-D :-D :-D

Thanks Sue :-D <3 ;-)

Ha ha! Pure gold!



xxxx mick

I agree Ann, it reads just as if Eldrick had written it...fair wore me out to read it ......please God don't let there be two of them :-D