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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, we're not far apart in our thinking.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 15h

How would you define spirituality? (I'm not trying to be awkward!)

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 16h

I'd agree with your last paragraph, except that I think there are exceptions to your last sentence. Lord Shaftesbury is an example.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 16h

If he believed this he would be a fool. But he doesn't - he just wants others to believe it, which makes him downright evil. But we knew that.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 16h

We'd agree about a lot - maybe more than you think. But it's you last sentence that troubles me. Christ himself, as far as we know, never advocated any of those things.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 16h

I'm reading this on a Dell computer and feeling very guilty.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 17h

All these are Old Testament. The only 'Christianity' I recognise is those who follow Christ's teaching in the 'Sermon on the Mount'. Christ isn't in the Old Testament at all, so all those 'commandments' are not his. Please believe that there are genuine 'good' Christians in existence.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can you enlarge on that? All the genuine Christians I know would be horrified by that statement.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve had an instagram profile for some time but not used it. Because I’ve involved myself in helping #SaveSquareChapelArts in Halifax, I’m going to be over on there a lot more. Here’s the link if you’d like to follow me there & see more of my content. x www.instagram.com/mrreecedinsd...

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Erewhon, and Erewhon Revisited are definitely worth reading. In the latter, the author revisits and finds he's being worshipped as a god - but there are numerous branches of the ensuing religions.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The man has shown himself as a total fake. He's changed his speech (and chewing) to appear 'folksy', and in his questioning of Jack Smith made himself look stupid both by the childishness of his questioning (Easter Bunny etc) and by the fact that he got his facts totally wrong.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We know. It fell into our laps, totally unexpectedly over 25 years ago. So now we rent it out non-profit, as we can't be there all the time.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The cottage is on the Isle of Lismore in Argyll. She's going there next week. I'll join her later. Both happy alone, both happy together. It works well.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sounds like my wife. (Mind you, I love the cottage too, and feel much the same. But we know that.)

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(Did the Daleks reach the USA??)

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can he go up and down stairs, or is he Dalek-disabled?

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Curry's are usually pretty useless. I've found if I ask about something, they just read the labels to me, as if I couldn't read them myself. Sometimes you can strike lucky and get a member of staff who knows what they're talking about. Sadly, Curry's are not unique.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By 'swamp' he meant 'reflecting pool'.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My wife is just under 5ft. I'm about 5ft 10.5in. In ALDI I have to step on the bottom shelf to reach the kind of yoghurts I want, and search through them for the flavours I like. As I'm 80, that might be my ultimate downfall (literally), but how are shorter people, m or f, supposed to cope?

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love that picture of Kennedy and Schmitt with their 'Gotcha' faces on, just seconds before they'd be wiped off!

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nasty inadequate little man. Totally unsuited for any job I can think of apart from road sweeping or selling cinema tickets.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see the words 'Allister' 'Heath' 'mad' 'nasty' and 'shockingly extreme'.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wasn't so interested in USA politics then, but from here (UK) it seemed as if that election was stolen. Looking back and seeing who was behind it more than confirms my suspicion that Gore won.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's always puzzled me why people wear that kind of cap back-to-front. It doesn't even keep the sun off the back of your neck. 'Fashion' has a lot to answer for, and people are such sheep.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She's a perfect example of how deceptive appearances can be.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wonder what sort of terrible music it is that you think snobs like?

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A particularly obnoxious one. Smug and demeaning.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's not what 'extol' means. The man's a moron. Probably confusing it with 'exhort'.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a mistake! We all know it's the Untied States.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry - I meant 'promenade'. Realised after I'd posted.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But which of the pictures was it? Or was it the 'in between' bit, the parade, that keeps recurring in the original?

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Typical example of (mainly) American destructive linguistic stupidity. Take a perfectly reasonable word or phrase (in this instance a cupboard where you store random things), choose to give it a new meaning, then snigger at anyone who uses it in it's original form. It's almost like teenage bullying.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But I love the opportunity to buy cartloads of classical CDs that people have decided are obsolete. I get maybe 200 in a batch from ebay, keep the ones I want and and give the rest (duplicates, 'excerpts from') to a Charity shop. Wins all round. Works out about 50p per CD.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many of us live lives full of music without ever coming across a DJ.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks - I don't think it'll find its way into my vocabulary, in that sense anyway. I'll just stick with 'ignored'!

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My guess is that this is a fairly recent use of the word, and one that's passed me by! I'd tend to think of it as 'having a ghost writer', or a synonym for 'haunted'.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He did that 'pointing at someone in the crowd as if he knows them' thing. How are we supposed to interpret that?

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Gary Keenan @gerardpkeenan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is too much good music to worry about knowing "hit songs" or to care what anyone thinks about them. One benefit of being old and listening to a lot of music is learning about music itself, its cultural history and amazing varieties. Music is a dynamic practice, not just mass-market hits.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ghosted?? But that's not really a synonym for 'ignored', surely?

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A year before I left school - remember steam locos having to blow steam on frozen diesels to get them going. Also the most postponed FA Cup football match (Bradford City v Newcastle), not played till mid-March after 13 postponements. And then we lost 1-6.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But the shorthand you mention isn't really relevant. LSO stands for London Symphony Orchestra. It's not the 'LS'. And the other example is the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; a 'Philharmonic' isn't a musical form. I don't mind abbreviations, provided the abbreviation doesn't mean something else.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great that you're enjoying it. But I'm puzzled by the way in USA you use the word 'symphony'. A symphony is a particular kind of musical construction, like a concerto or a suite or a film score. A group of musicians who can play a symphony is a Symphony Orchestra.

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's honest to lie. It's kind to be cruel. It's generous to be miserly. Etc, etc. Does Thiel think we can't see through him?

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone compiling a list of the world's most civilised countries would put one that had virtually universal gun ownership but no universal health care pretty close to the bottom. How did Americans, or anyone else, get the idea that they were nation to be admired?

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Ralph Berry @rdrberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Bradford and the #FlowerCarpet today Nice way to see summer end . Everyone enjoyed it..together @bradfordculture.co.uk @bradfordtanda.bsky.social

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Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Try singing! You have more direct contact with the music than with any instrument. No financial outlay. You are both the instrument and the carrying case. Meet like-minded music-reading friends - make music any time, anywhere (except where you'd be regarded as a public nuisance!)

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