tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post1822649799866632375..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: Mice, the Universe and EverythingWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-39527447284960195572012-07-18T14:02:49.078+01:002012-07-18T14:02:49.078+01:00Don't talk to me about hitch-hiking.
It once ...Don't talk to me about hitch-hiking.<br /><br />It once took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw. And that poor little dog we tried to ride from Pittsburgh got a broken back.Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849759985107161674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-10459952599079528472012-07-18T12:24:49.534+01:002012-07-18T12:24:49.534+01:00I once picked up a hitch-hiker carrying a gun (unu...I once picked up a hitch-hiker carrying a gun (unusual in the UK). A nice chap but he was having difficulties getting lifts.Pidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242786151475408065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-70818291117528239812012-07-18T11:45:50.121+01:002012-07-18T11:45:50.121+01:00As usual - I don't seem to fit anywhere, but t...As usual - I don't seem to fit anywhere, but then again I haven't owned or operated a car for years. Or a bike, for even longer. And I'm used to sort of partly fitting into different categories.<br /><br />I did hitch-hike in the distant past. My most vivid memory was the time I was hitch-hiking with a female friend, and I suspected a certain ride was offered by the kind of guy who took females on one-way trips into the wilderness, and she disagreed but I won and we waited for another ride.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17343576593315811633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-26970037966934158072012-07-18T11:10:41.010+01:002012-07-18T11:10:41.010+01:00I'm not sure whether you have ever hitch hiked...I'm not sure whether you have ever hitch hiked literally. If you do, it can be a lottery. The range of people who pick up hitchhikers range from the clearly innocent (not fearing for their own safety) to the seriously deluded (believing that they are invincible drivers). <br /><br />I think that the way some drive reflects how they live and what they believe. <br /><br />Fast and furious = Angry, atheist, no idea of who made them and frustrated that nobody can prove it to them.<br /><br />Safe and steady = Religious soft conservative. Content with the biblical explanations for all of life, unchallenging and satisfied with their lot.<br /><br />Making good progress safely = Religious liberal. Able to discern that the bible isn't literal, and able to interpret it's meaning in a way that is inoffensive and doesn't rock the boat to much, unless it involves gender or sexuality (than they get the hump).<br /><br />Erratic, risk taking, accident prone = Religious risk taker, experimenter, moderniser, not afraid of taking risks with the Gospel message, fresh expressions exponent, disciple. (Could also be a cyclist :)).<br /><br />Plodder, middle lane hogger = Religious traditionalist. believes in safety in what is, resents change, likes things as they are and will defend the status quo because if it was good enough for their parents and grand parents, why change it?<br /><br />Road Rager = Religious right wing conservative, describe themselves as orthodox to hide creationist tendencies, have huge angst over anything that threatens their view of the world.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-8289113350907273782012-07-17T20:09:02.909+01:002012-07-17T20:09:02.909+01:00I have this theory that it is not by sticking stea...I have this theory that it is not by sticking steadfastly to what we think we know that our faith grows but when our perspective shifts. (The Anglo-Saxon notion of giedd/gidd) I had such a moment the other day when coincidently I read in the Gospel of Thomas (21a),<br /><br />Mary said to Jesus, "Whom are Your disciples like?"<br /> He said, "They are like children who have settled in a field<br />which is not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will<br />say, 'Let us have back our field.' They (will) undress in their<br />presence in order to let them have back their field and give it<br />back to them.<br /><br />at the same time I read in Herzog about the 'expendables' of Jesus' day; the children whose parents couldn't afford to keep them who might find work for some of the year as itinerant day labourers but having done their bit for the landowners were moved on. The image of the disciples being like the homeless children who lost what little they had was in stark contrast to the abominable 'prosperity doctrine.'Pidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242786151475408065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-44131083349795991522012-07-17T17:34:37.844+01:002012-07-17T17:34:37.844+01:00I have a sneaky suspicion that Sydney Carter had a...I have a sneaky suspicion that Sydney Carter had a strong point when he wrote this little ditty: http://sarah.wibsite.com/2005/03/26/thoughts_on_a_good_day/ I find myself often quoting it.<br /><br />We apologise for the inconvenience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com