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Listening to some of these as I'm making truffles to give away tomorrow.

Sang "O Night Divine" as part of the Christmas choir I sing with in a broadcast to the local hospital radio service (and via internet, worldwide). Nice rendition on the video, though (IMO) it might have benefited from not having the shepherds and wise men wandering about. Thanks for posting.

That was very nice, Rocky. Very enjoyable.

Funky!

Nice, DWBH.

Heh heh heh, WW.

Jolly choice, WW. Looks like nobody else listens to anything. C'mon,, guys!

When I first read this, I didn't think it was a "fear" thing for Job. I thought it was something that a loving and responsible parent might do, to pray for his children. It took PFAL to show me that it might be a fear-filled thing to do. Don't parents in our time also pray for their children, to ask for their safety, and to ask for mercy if/when those kids have done foolish things? God help us all, if the slightest smidgeon of doubt or fear were to open the doors of hell upon us.

Hi, Bill, and welcome. I found this article in Keith Hagin's website. It covers the relevant section of Job: https://www.rhema.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2246:quit-blaming-god&catid=236:2014-april&Itemid=813 but it doesn't really cover what I meant, and a search in his website using only the word "idiom" brings up nothing at all that's useful. I don't think I can agree with you that God will rain down judgment on bad people: he wants all to be saved and to come to a knowledge of Him. Many times, good things happen to bad people (at least in the short term - maybe days, years or decades), and bad things happen to good people. We can learn fortitude from such. But that's tangential to any "idiom of permission" - if such exists. Maybe I will ask on one of the many Jewish websites that there are - Chabad, maybe.

What song most symbolises, or encapsulates, Christmas, for you? A piece of classical music? A pop song (please, no Bing!)? A carol or hymn? Something choral, or maybe something orchestral? Me, I'm thinking Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Lighthearted fun.

Different!!

Yes, I thought that, too. If they'd looked at this site, they'd've found a lot of other material. And if they'd talked with Ralph D, they'd've found a lot of info, if not "too much information." But for a couple of hours for a podcast, this was a good exposé.

Mince and cheese pie??????????? You know mince isn't meat, don't you? It's chopped up mixed fruit (sultanas, currants, apples and such like, together with spices), sometimes a few nuts mixed in. Originally called "mincemeat" - used to include mutton or beef, and is still traditionally bound together by suet (beef fat), but I don't know that that's always still a component. Is mince pie and cheese an Ozzie speciality?

Hmm. End of the second podcast: RFR is rumored to be [LCM]'s wife's former lover. Errr - former lover? Are they not shacked up together any more? Has one of them "got a life" outside (Donna has gone back to LCM? Hahaha!) As Ham might say: enquiring minds want to know!

Hey, willpower! I went to the supermarket and bought not mince pies - but carrots and a cauliflower!

Random thought for today: should I stop at the supermarket [store] on my way home this evening, and buy some more mince pies? Hmm. Well, maybe not so random, considering I ate the last but one half an hour ago.

Well done, TaxiDev. You took a thorough look and found it was just another flavor of Kool-Aid.

Much confusion, disillusion, all of our fears, no doubt.

Strange one! Welcome back! Where've you been?

Does nobody visit here any more? Have y'all gone down to the pub for a bevy or two? Did y'all get gathered together and somehow I got missed? (weeps quietly)

I suffered under LCM's reign of terror. He could be very manipulative - knew when to facemelt and when to play it quiet and sorrowful that (I) was so ... whatever he perceived me to be. Some of his horrible words still ring in my ears. I wish I could answer him back, now, and tell him that what he said was true (or not) but not in the way he meant. Because now I have a genuine Christian relationship and I know God and the Lord Jesus are at work in my life as I reach out to help others as they would wish. Anyway - what I've wondered since I first saw this thread was: I wonder how much retirement pension he gets? Because if he was paid anything like the HQ staff, he was on such a low wage that pension contributions would have been minimal. And he wouldn't have made up much in years in later "real" working life. Perhaps that was supposed to be covered by the big pay-off he allegedly received.

Cheers. Raf!

Old enough to draw his retirement pension. What contribs did TWI make towards that, I wonder?

Heck, I'm really glad I got some special toenail fungus killer from my doctor. After 12 months treatment, my horrible-looking toenails are gradually growing out. You saying, Raf, that I might have been harbouring demons???

Come join us in the UK. You can buy a beer at age 18. Do the other things you mention, too. You forgot to mention, drive a car, a potentially lethal item. Yes, it's a weird distinction, stemming from who knows what time; a distinction that, I suspect, is widely ignored by very many young people.