Easter has come and gone again. The heathen eggs eaten, and the taste of chocolate still deliciously on our tongues. But was it also a religious festival for you? The existence of God can be neither proven nor disproven.But experts agree that whoever believes in God lives longer. But the power of prayer when used [...]
Monika Schmid is head of the Catholic Community in the town that I live. A Woman. It is difficult to find enough Catholic Priests these days in a country where half the population is Catholic. Maybe people can’t believe in the preachings of the Catholic Church any more. In a five minute TV programme which [...]
For a Sunday the Bahnhofstrasse was surprisingly busy this afternoon. The weather was cold, but sunny so we thought everyone was out taking advantage of the Spring like day. We heared the tooting of car horns and at first thought it was coming from supporters of a football derby being played in the Hardturm,but then [...]
Although I do sometimes get homesick for England but I think I would probably go mad if I lived there. It was bad enough that England decided they needed an Italian to show them how to play football, but now the Archbishop of Canterbury, of all people rants on about how we should accept the [...]
I have seen many beautiful Buddhist Temples in Asia. It is impossible to travel on that side of our world without being affected by Buddhism, and its’ houses of worship. The harmony of the spectral colours enriched by the gold in the paintwork and Buddha images transmit a feeling of, well-being, the air rich with [...]
Euthanasia <Greek eu-well + thanatos-death> is, thank liberal laws allowed in Switzerland. No it doesn’t mean you can dispose of your Mother-in-law here when you get tired of looking after her. There are quite a few paragraphs to stop you doing this. But it does mean anyone suffering physically beyond his limits, and without any [...]
There is a long interesting discussion going on between a few of my fellow Bloggers about ‘Belief’. Thought you might like to know what some other great thinkers might have commented. “A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism,but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion” Francis Bacon 1561-1626 “By night an atheist [...]
“For the Fallen” “They shall not grow old,as we who are left grow old, Age will not weary them,or the years comdemn. At the going down of the sun,and in the morning, We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon .1914 These words were engraved on a wooden plaque fixed to a wall of the Aula in [...]
