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Post by Bonobo on Dec 31, 2017 23:49:35 GMT 1
It is quarter to midnight. We have just come back home from letting off fireworks. It is time to prepare the sparkling wine.  The best wishes to you. Another good year is over, let the new year not be worse than the passing one. |
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Post by jeanne on Dec 31, 2017 23:55:07 GMT 1
It is quarter to midnight. We have just come back home from letting off fireworks. It is time to prepare the sparkling wine. The best wishes to you. Another good year is over, let the new year not be worse than the passing one. To all on the forum: Happy New Year to you and yours! Let's all hope for a year full of goodness for humankind! |
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Post by pjotr on Jan 1, 2018 0:47:52 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Jan 1, 2018 0:55:12 GMT 1
Dear Jeanne and Bonobo,
Happy New Year from the Walcheren Peninsula in Zeeland in the town Vlissingen where I spend christmas en the last day of 2017 and now the first day of 2018 with my parents. I wish a good, healthy, creative, happy, constructive, and positive New Year to Bonobo, Jeanne and all the other Forum members, your families, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acqaintences and others who are dear to you.
That for Bo there may be positive changes in Poland in the sense of opposition building, and long term preparation for the elections in a few years. For your farm, family, and job in Kraków with your students and colleagues. For Jeanne another good year with your daughters and their families and your good work for the church.
Cheers,
Pieter
P.S.- I received a wonderful christmas card of the Nortbertine Monks of the abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther. I hope that 2018 will give me more time, patience and chances to visit the abbey more.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 1, 2018 21:01:32 GMT 1
It is quarter to midnight. We have just come back home from letting off fireworks. It is time to prepare the sparkling wine. The best wishes to you. Another good year is over, let the new year not be worse than the passing one. To all on the forum: Happy New Year to you and yours! Let's all hope for a year full of goodness for humankind! Full of goodness for humankind is fairly impossible, let`s be realistic. . But full of goodness for us - why not? Dear Jeanne and Bonobo, That for Bo there may be positive changes in Poland in the sense of opposition building, and long term preparation for the elections in a few years. For your farm, family, and job in Kraków with your students and colleagues. For Jeanne another good year with your daughters and their families and your good work for the church. Cheers, Pieter P.S.- I received a wonderful christmas card of the Nortbertine Monks of the abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther. I hope that 2018 will give me more time, patience and chances to visit the abbey more.Thanks for wishes. Are you thinking of joining the abbey one day? |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 1, 2018 23:51:16 GMT 1
Full of goodness for humankind is fairly impossible, let`s be realistic. . But full of goodness for us - why not? If we can't be optimistic on New Year's Day, when can we be?! Today I opt for being optimistic/hopeful, rather than realistic! |
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Post by pjotr on Jan 5, 2018 17:20:21 GMT 1
For the first time in years I spend the 'Old & New', the moment that a new year follows up the last one with my parents in the South-West. There was less fire work over there due to the fact that it is a less densly populated area than Arnhem, but the fire work was wonderful and I enjoyed French Champagne with my parents. Mostly I celebrate christmas with my parents and New Years Eve with friends. It was good to have spend a few days longer with my parents. |
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Post by pjotr on Jan 5, 2018 17:34:04 GMT 1
Dear Jeanne and Bonobo, That for Bo there may be positive changes in Poland in the sense of opposition building, and long term preparation for the elections in a few years. For your farm, family, and job in Kraków with your students and colleagues. For Jeanne another good year with your daughters and their families and your good work for the church. Cheers, Pieter P.S.- I received a wonderful christmas card of the Nortbertine Monks of the abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther. I hope that 2018 will give me more time, patience and chances to visit the abbey more.I wish I could, but some reasons still keep me a from becoming a Nortbertine brother or monk. Secularism, attraction of the opposite sex and a connection to art, media (press) and big city life curbs my enthousiasm for becoming a monk. Maybe it has also something to do with the fact that you and Jeanne are more Catholic than I am. I am a 'Calvinist Catholic' or a Roman-Catholic who was raised in a Calvinist (Dutch Reformed; Gereformeerde en Nederlands Hervormde omgeving in Dutch) environment in the Netherlands. Most of my friends, colleagues and Dutch acquaintances are not Roman-Catholic or secular (people with a Roman-Catholic or Calvinist or Jewish family past who know nohting or very little bit about their Catholic, Calvinist, Jewish and in some cases Lutheran, Methodist, Huguenot -French protestant in the case of Dutch people with French surnames- past). Many churches are gone. Demolished or have become museums, art galleries, apartments, company or law firm headquarters and etc. Empty churches with sometimes 10%, 15% and sometimes if they (the parish) is lucky 30% of the original (100%) of the community that show up while in the past the churches were full. How about Poland and the USA Bonobo and Jeanne. I I would become a Norbertine or another (Benedictine, Dominican) monk I would be an un-orthodox, excentric and probably a Bohemian one.  Cheers, Pieter |
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Post by pjotr on Jan 5, 2018 17:56:04 GMT 1
You can not marry with more than one partners in the Netherlands, and red light districts are limited area's and most Dutch cities and towns do not have Red Light districts. But interesting in this video is the spokesman of the Dutch Roman-Catholic church. It is right what he says. I am part of the generation which is greatly influenced by secularism, West-European liberalism, Humanism and the 1968 Protest generation.
The Roman-Catholic church, faith and culture are not the largest part of my life. I a way culture, art, pop culture, philosophy, a secular ideology and Darwinism replaced christianity. The space of the church and faith is forced back in the Second half of the 20th century. Not only by leftwing forces, but also by conservative secularism, Nationalist and Populist secularism (which sometimes is anti-islam, and critical of Judaism and christianity).
Ethnicity (race, gender, culture, and Faith only as a notion of a national, ethnic and cultural entity or past), materialism, consumerism, idolism, secular icons (Pop stars, musicians, politicians, bloggers) have replaced the Roman-Catholic and Protestant churches and the christian faith.
From the other side traditional communities survive and new 'new born' christians and charismatic Catholic movements appeared and Roman-Catholics and Dutch Reformed people are still there.
I I talk about Calvinism her I often mean a Calvinist culture, a Calvinist mentality which comes from the Calvinist ideology and faith, but which lives on in Secular calvininism, in the mentality, attitude, ethics and social behaviour of some Dutch people. I am not a Calvinist, but nou doubt will cary some Calvinist elements in me, because I am *a Dutch Roman-Catholic.
Cheers,
Pieter
P.S.- * A mainly secular Dutch Roman-Catholic.
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