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    Looking forward to seeing the thread on here Manny. I think it should be titled Lenten Scripts and you encourage all to post a sample script/cursive sample using a scripture passage they wish to share.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manny View Post
    So you're giving up FPN for Lent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manny View Post
    That would be January of last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manny View Post
    I read that and I wondered "How does Manny know that the mod has a post count less than GOD?".
    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
    and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wile E Coyote View Post
    So you're giving up FPN for Lent.
    Bingo!

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    Congratulations on your merit badge.

    For your next badge get the entire thread removed. I have a fuzzy idea how you might accomplish this.

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    Wait. I'm not clear what happened. You posted some calligraphy for Lent and got blocked somehow at FPN? Whoever did that needs to go to confession.

    I'm way Catholic. I've been here a few months and no one has stacked any firewood around my feet yet...
    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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    Quote Originally Posted by VertOlive View Post
    I'm way Catholic. I've been here a few months and no one has stacked any firewood around my feet yet...
    Well, precisely. FPG is *not* FPN. They have specific rules that prohibit the posting of religious or political threads. The implication was that if someone used some religious text as the body for an example of handwriting, that was one thing, but posting such so that it became the 'content' of the thread crossed a line. Or so they say. It's all judgmental, and that is the way they roll over there.

    It's different here.
    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
    and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post

    It's different here.
    And I for one am very,very thankful for that. Do you reckon that'll get me booted out of FPN?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farmboy View Post
    Congratulations on your merit badge.

    For your next badge get the entire thread removed. I have a fuzzy idea how you might accomplish this.

    There's that pesky fuzz again.


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    At this time of year when we are approaching rebirth and renewal it is good to get outdoors and take up the sport in which Jesus commanded we participate.

    "Take up Lacrosse and follow me".

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    You guys are too funny. From Lent to lint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farmboy View Post
    Congratulations on your merit badge.

    For your next badge get the entire thread removed. I have a fuzzy idea how you might accomplish this.
    Don't know what your idea might be,but mine would involve the use of choice sections
    of Matthew 23.


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    I am sure we will all be astounded to see the number of threads that are locked at Christmas.

    Although not a religious person myself, enough is finally enough of that FPN crap (OMG I can say crap! (in fact OMG I can say G!!)).

    I have moved all my pens and inks over here; the peace lily and litter tray arrive tomorrow.




    Hello!

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    Long long ago and in a land far far away, here was one of my lesson handouts when I was teaching adult and youth Sunday School

    Easter and the Pentecost; Passover and Shavuot.

    Easter and Pentecost. On Easter Day we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus and on Pentecost the arrival of the Holy Spirit. As a Jew, Jesus would have celebrated Passover and Shavuot at the same times.

    But what are Passover and Shavuot?

    Jesus had made his annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. Passover is one of the three Pilgrimage Feasts mandated in the Torah. The other two mandated Pilgrimages are Shavuot and Sukkoth.

    Most of us grew up learning the stories of Exodus, how the Israelites were warned to stay inside their homes and to paint the door frame with blood so the Angel of the Lord would pass over their homes as he killed the first born son of the Egyptians.

    Shavuot is likely less familiar, but like the other two Pilgrimage Festivals, is related to the Exodus story. It celebrates the day that Moses was given the Torah on the Mountain of Sinai, and the day that the Jews accepted God’s Law, became a Nation of God.

    Like Easter, it is a movable feast and falls seven, seven day weeks after the Second Day of Passover. It is called “The Feast of Counting” as the Jews anticipate the days, count the days, from Passover to the day of acceptance.

    But how did the exact time of celebration come about?

    No one actually knows when the Passover happened, or when exactly Moses received the Torah, so why do we celebrate Passover, Shavuot, Easter and Pentecost at these particular times of year?

    Historically, Passover was celebrated with the first offerings of Barley. Wheat ripened slightly later and Shavuot was also the first offering from the Wheat harvest. The timing for these Pilgrimages corresponded to bringing the first of the harvests to the Temple, as offerings and for blessings.

    The Third Mandatory Pilgrimage is Sukkoth. It too is related to the Exodus and when I was growing up it was one of the most fun celebrations.


    I grew up in an almost all Jewish neighborhood, so all my friends were Jewish. I was the Shabbat Goy, the Christian boy the orthodox Jews could call on to do things on Shabbat, turn on lights, turn on or off the stove, run errands.

    One advantage though was getting to celebrate Sukkoth with my friends. Sukkoth commemorates living in the desert while on the Exodus march. All the kids get to make tents from tables and we got to sleep in them and have our meals on the floor and eat with our hands and get dirty and all the things we couldn’t do at other times.

    But even Sukkoth is timed with the harvest. One of the traditions of Sukkoth is shaking the Four Species. The Four Species are Date Palm Fronds, Willow Branches, Myrtle and Citron, a fruit like lemons. As folk living here in the Valley know, citrus fruits are a Fall Harvest. It's why oranges and grapefruit are often gifts at Christmas.

    To celebrate, you take the Date Palm Frond, some Myrtle and the Willow in the left hand, and hold the Citron in your right. As you bring the two hands together, they are blessed. You then shake them three times to each of the four corners, to North, East, South and West.

    The ceremony is a prayer of thanks for the year’s bounty and that there be rain enough for all the coming years’ growth.

    Beyond the symbolic meanings of the Exodus in Passover, Shavuot and Sukkoth, beyond the symbolic meanings of Easter and the Pentecost, there was life, and an acknowledgement of the cycles of life and the harvest.

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    I am a very lapsed Catholic. I reckon if I shuffled off to confession now, nearly 40 years since the last one, the poor priest would have an attack of the vapours and I doubt there's enough Hail Marys and Our Fathers he could give me. I'm doomed, I know this - prolly going to hell on a handcart and you do actually have to repent and mostly, I don't.

    Meanwhile, back with the idea that Manny's thoughts on whatever religion he holds dear could or should be locked out of 'the other place' is just nuts. That the thread was locked tells me that the rules are being stuck to. However batshit crazy I find that, however much I disagree with it, I defend their right to do it and in doing so, to show that the whole ethos of the place is against any principle I may have and I say this as one who doesn't have that many.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wile E Coyote View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Manny View Post
    So you're giving up FPN for Lent.


    It's kinda sad all around.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD

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    Giving up FPN for Lent? (Sorry, I hadn't read to the end of the thread).

    Gotta say I do love your handwriting and I also love meditating on Scripture. So this is a perfect combination, AFAIC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    I reckon if I shuffled off to confession now, nearly 40 years since the last one, the poor priest would have an attack of the vapours and I doubt there's enough Hail Marys and Our Fathers he could give me. I'm doomed, I know this - prolly going to hell on a handcart and you do actually have to repent and mostly, I don't.
    They tend to be quite good about that sort of thing, vis-a-vis The Prodigal Son. You're probably looking at 5 of each, tops, i.e. no big deal. But you make a good point about the repentance part. Coming home to work in your father's fields is a bit different from crashing in your old bedroom overnight on the way to the next neighboring country for another year of riotous living.
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