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Done lots of work in churchyards . It can lead to more work in the community. (As long as people understand your not a community payback crew!) Just an observation but you don't see many mosques with vegetation on their land.....

Are my eyes going or have you changed your shade of blue, Bob?

I thought I could see spike marks....

Great footage as always Reg. See you're back on the Stihl again. Thanks for sharing.

Ally Bashlins. Tried the stein x2 and Buckingham ones but much prefer the ally's

They'll be looking at you right now for posting those very phrases....... 👁👁

My 150 does the same. I just use the choke.

Scary stuff... The thick plottens

I'm tempted to get mine done.... Would it shorten its lifespan? Mines just had a new pot and piston.

Any privacy we might of had, disappeared a long time ago. This new bill probably changes very little in reality.

Husky 346xp would be right up your alley. Good compact saw with plenty of poke for its size.

We've got one of these. More or less identical. Honda engine. We hardly use it. Definitely not worth £3.5k I'll check the make tomorrow.

Park it outside the dealers with a full mechanics report taped to the inside of the windows. Warning potential customers/victims to beware. I've known this happen before with a good outcome. Plus Bob's advice.

Richard Nixon Bill Clinton ??

This thread is becoming very "seasonal" all of a sudden... 🙂

This is my journey.., sort of. I was raised an atheist by atheist parents. I got into exploring spirituality by way of psychedelic substances in my youth. Probing the boundaries of consciousness, exploring eastern mysticism, etc.. I found Christianity by accident really. I certainly wasn't looking for it. I found that it was the only religion that delivered what it said it would. The radical transformation of my life stands as a testimony to its authenticity. Despite the fact I'm still far from perfect.... I came across this quote recently: [1] Grant Osborne says, “The purpose of this is evangelistic, to say that what the Greeks have known only as myth has now been actualized in history…What the pagans longed for in their myths has now become true in Jesus. Therefore, the form is both deliberate and brilliant, using what in our time has been called a ‘redemptive analogy’ to present the gospel in such a way as the capture the interest and hearts of the non-Christian reader.” Grant Osborne, Revelation: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002) p. 454.

Are you trying to say that Jesus never lived? And...are these written accounts of the birth of stars you love to read written by eye witnesses by any chance? or are you just taking someone's word for it? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! 🙂

And as most of the Apostles that wrote the New Testament were eye witnesses (for the most part) of some "remarkable" events that happened 2000 years ago. To willingly give their lives for it, they must have been pretty convinced of the veracity of what they witnessed and wrote about. If they were part of the established elite of the day and they stood to gain from it then fair enough I would be sceptical. They were just a bunch of ordinary guys or in the case of Paul a former persecutor of the early Church.

If all of the Authors of the New Testament had an agenda, based on greed and corruption as you say then it didn't work out for them very well did it? Just about all of them were killed for it. Which, incidentally they all gladly accepted. Not really the hallmark of corruption is it?

Classic 🤐

Not quite everyone......

The Biblical narrative describes a world where mankind had become become continually and only evil and God couldn't bear to let it continue. Whatever you believe about life the universe and everything there is no getting away from the fact that humanity is deeply flawed and getting worse. Man is not evolving into a better species. Humanity is degenerating at an alarming rate. You have to teach kids how to be good and it's hard work. You don't have to teach them to be bad... that seems to come naturally.

If God does exist and he is just, righteous and perfect then surely he would punish wrongdoing. If someone killed your children and the killer went before a judge, wouldn't you expect the judge to punish the perpetrator?

It's seems to me that a few of the "science has buried God" camp on here are writing cheques that current scientific knowledge just cannot cash. No-one has been able to re-create "life" No one has ever been able to create "something" out of nothing. I can fully understand that people don't want to believe in a creative intelligence (even though they possess a form of one themselves). I can also understand why people do want to put their faith in a creator. Throwing insults about gets us nowhere. I have friends that are atheists, I have friends that are Christian, Muslim, Seikh etc. I also have friends that are Gay. Republican and Liberal (not at the same time) Christianity as I understand and study it tells me I should love my neighbour.

Science and faith in a creator are not mutually exclusive. A great many scientists are also people of faith.