Michel - Administrator. (beliefs, follower, creation, pray, Christian)

[robtex]

Michel, its hard to ask you questions cause I already know so much about you. You are pretty much an open book on here. If it isn't putting you on the spot you decided to be UU for about less than a month than went back to Christianty. Why the toggle back and forth and what caused you to decide to be a follower of Christ. Also, how does your atheist son react to your beliefs?

[michel]

Originally Posted by robtex

Michel, its hard to ask you questions cause I already know so much about you. You are pretty much an open book on here. If it isn't putting you on the spot you decided to be UU for about less than a month than went back to Christianty. Why the toggle back and forth and what caused you to decide to be a follower of Christ. Also, how does your atheist son react to your beliefs?

When I first came, with a 'mongrel' type of beliefs, UU was immediately attractive. What then spoilt it for me was that there is no UU in England, and therefore messed up my hopes of the companionship that I would have enjoyed (though I am not very good at socialising).

So I have gone back to being the 'Mongrel' I was. I am not sure about my son; I think he thinks he is an athiest, but is probably more of an agnostic. My other son won't talk about religion (although he has said that he believes in a God, as has my wife, although she won't discuss anything religious either).

That's why I am here.

[michel]

Originally Posted by dawny0826

What type of music do you enjoy singing the most?

Do you like art? Do you have a favorite artist?

Church music - hymns, folk music, Balads, Rock..anything really. I guess the piece that give me the biggest "kick" is "Oh holy night" - I find it so inspiring. My favourite (one of my favourites, Had you asked tomorrow night, you would have had a different answer), is most likely Joan Baez........some of the songs she sings are wonderful.

But then again, there's Neil Diamond, Charley Pride, Dire Straits, The Who...............aw heck, I love 'em all.

Art ? As in painting - I am very conservative; I love the Dutch artists, but to be quite frank, I can be entranced by anything as long as it is good (some of the stuff drawn by members here is just as inspiring, to me).

[dawny0826]

Originally Posted by michel

Church music - hymns, folk music, Balads, Rock..anything really. I guess the piece that give me the biggest "kick" is "Oh holy night" - I find it so inspiring. My favourite (one of my favourites, Had you asked tomorrow night, you would have had a different answer), is most likely Joan Baez........some of the songs she sings are wonderful.

But then again, there's Neil Diamond, Charley Pride, Dire Straits, The Who...............aw heck, I love 'em all.

Art ? As in painting - I am very conservative; I love the Dutch artists, but to be quite frank, I can be entranced by anything as long as it is good (some of the stuff drawn by members here is just as inspiring, to me).

"Oh Holy Night" is my favorite Christmas Hymn of all time. I've heard of Joan Baez but I can't recall the music.

Do you live in the city or in the country?

Do you have any pictures of the area whre you live?

[michel]

Originally Posted by dawny0826

"Oh Holy Night" is my favorite Christmas Hymn of all time. I've heard of Joan Baez but I can't recall the music.

Do you live in the city or in the country?

Do you have any pictures of the area whre you live?

Joan Baez sang a whole range of songs; she was a protester - a snapshot of her early days from http://www.joanbaez.com/chronology.html
1941
Joan Chandos Baez is born on January 9 in Staten Island, New York, the middle daughter of Albert Vinicio and Joan Bridge Baez.
1951
Joan spends a year living in Baghdad, Iraq, with her family when her father accepts a job there. Upon their return to the U.S., the family moves to California.
1956
For the first time, Joan hears a young Martin Luther King, Jr. lecture on nonviolence and civil rights. She also buys her first guitar.
1957
Joan commits her first act of civil disobedience by refusing to leave her high school (Palo Alto High School) during an air-raid drill. She also meets Gandhian scholar, Ira Sandperl, who becomes one of her strongest political influences.
1958
Joan graduates from Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California in June. She also records a demonstration album, but it fails to garner interest from record company executives and the project is shelved.
In late summer, the Baez family moves to Belmont, Massachusetts, when Joan's father accepts a teaching post at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joan's interest in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, folk scene grows as she begins visiting the local coffeehouses. She registers as a student at Boston University, but only sporadically attends classes and soon quits school to concentrate on her blossoming singing career.

Her songs range from protest songs to love songs to ballads - she sings a lot of religious songs; she has a fantastic range. She can go from Bass to soprano without any problem.

I live within 10 mins walk (when I used to be able to walk properly) of the town center of Bournemouth (believe it or not, it features:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournemouth,
but, looking out of the back and front windows, all you see are trees.

Pictures ? there are some here, but few of Bournemouth itself. The Wikipedia page has some photos.

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by michel

You must have realised by now that I am not a great believer in the Bible (I call it flying by the seat of my pants); besides, why make do with the mesenger when you can go straight to the guy at the top ?

How do you go straight to the guy at the top, and how easy is he to understand?

[michel]

Originally Posted by ChrisP

How do you go straight to the guy at the top, and how easy is he to understand?

I just pray to him........sometimes he answers; it's strange, because I often pray, and I seem to get someone giving me 'hints', but there are times when I hear a voice which is totally different (it feels as if it 'booms' inside my head).

Maybe I should have more water with the wiskey!

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by michel

I just pray to him........sometimes he answers; it's strange, because I often pray, and I seem to get someone giving me 'hints', but there are times when I hear a voice which is totally different (it feels as if it 'booms' inside my head).

Maybe I should have more water with the wiskey!

Water in your whiskey???

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