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There's no need to worry about the Greens. Once they get into a position where their policies come under public scrutiny they will sink back into a street corner protest party.
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>> There's no need to worry about the Greens. Once they get into a position where
>> their policies come under public scrutiny they will sink back into a street corner protest
>> party.
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....having well and truly split the Labour vote...hopefully.
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As I understand it, Muslims won't tolerate any image of man, but particularly of Mohamed.
They'll take photo's and watch the telly?
Exclusive Brethren won't 'break bread' with non-brethren, or will use any computers or suchlike, but will gladly drive cars with ECUs and listen to digital radios while eating.
Glad I'm an atheist.
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>> Glad I'm an atheist.
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Thank God!!
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>> Exclusive Brethren won't 'break bread' with non-brethren, or will use any computers or suchlike, but
>> will gladly drive cars with ECUs and listen to digital radios while eating.
I used to work for a small transport company in Nottingham, owned by Plymouth Brethren. They could be exasperating at times; but they were honest and decent folk too, and by no means pushy about their faith. You may be interested to know that they don't celebrate Christmas, at least not in the conventional sense; though my boss gave me an extra £50 the week before, a tidy sum in the mid-80's. They always looked after me well and paid me on time, you can't ask for more than that.
None of their trucks had radios, in line with their beliefs which was a bit of a bind; occasionally though they would hire an extra lorry in which had a radio fitted, and it always used to amuse me that if one of them had driven it the day after I did, the radio had somehow magically re-tuned itself from Radio 2 to Radio 4 when I got it back. I often wonder if they confessed to it later or kept it as a guilty secret.
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We had Exclusive Brethren as next door neighbours for a few years in the 80s. They were nice enough folk. A bit anti-social at times with their Sunday morning prayer meetings, letting the kids run round the garden before 7 am shouting and playing football.
They never socialised, as such, but were always ready for a short chat over the fence. They let me look after the car...they had an old HC Viva with a Colt engine fitted by a relative. They bred fairly rapidly and by the time they moved on they had 4 kids and a big Peugeot estate with 7 seats...a 60something, I think.
The women always wore headscarves and never wore skirts...just trousers ( and stuff up top ).
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When I was about 15 we lived in a farmhouse. The farmyard was just over the wall and the farmer and his family lived in two converted labourers' cottages in the farmyard. They kept cattle and sheep in the surrounding fields, which all belonged to the admiralty. About half their farm was shut off behind high spiked steel fences, being above some underground caverns where ordnance was kept. When they wanted to move animals in or out they had to send for an MoD policeman with the keys. They were Jehovah's Witnesses.
They had very strong belief in the sect's rather odd dogmas, but were pleasant, humorous and not above a bit of mischief. But the Witnesses never give up trying to convert everyone else. Years later one of my grandchildren was at school with the child of neighbours who were some sort of Baptist fundamentalists. These evangelical sects are nearly as solid in their beliefs as Muslims (of whom 88%, I read, believe absolutely in the existence of God), when CofE and Catholics only have a quarter or a third of genuinely convinced members. On/off vague part-time agnostic semi-belief is widespread in the mainstream Christian churches.
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No doubt other religious followers were also less than keen to exhibit doubt when their "faith" possessed severe sanctions against dissent.
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>> and listen to digital radios while eating.
They have the aerial disconnected on their new cars before taking delivery though. Which confused me greatly the first time I came across it!
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Who's left? - Roger.
