How Not to Answer a Religious Ed Quiz - if you are a Teen Boy.

1. Who was St Anthony and what was his relationship to monasticism?
WRONG:- St Anthony was the pope’s evil brother who tried to take control of the monastery
RIGHT:- Helped to spread the concept of monasticism, particularly in Western Europe through Latin translations.

2. In what ways did monasteries help people respond to gods call to know him better?
WRONG:- Monasteries helped people get closer to god by getting them high for them to believe they are able to talk to god.
RIGHT:- Monasteries helped people respond to gods call by giving them a place to pray and practise their religions.

3. Among other things what did monasteries develop into?
WRONG:- Monasteries mostly developed into churches buy some did end up turning into night brothels
RIGHT:- Monasteries developed into churches.

4. Describe the two different ways of being in a religious order?
a) Monastic order
WRONG:- When they weren’t allowed to have sexual intercourse in a relationship with another woman.
RIGHT:- Living by yourself and only coming together for holy gatherings.
b) Apostolic order
WRONG:- When they are allowed to have sexual intercourse with women but they have to apologise and pray afterwards.
RIGHT:- Apostolic order is when you live with others all the time.

5. What is a monk or a nun?
WRONG:- A monk is a man that is not allowed to have sexual intercourse with a woman until married.
RIGHT:- A Monk is a man who takes the Celibate vow and a Nun is a woman who takes the vow.

6. What was the ideal that underpinned monastic life?
WRONG:- Pray, east, sleep, pray, eat, sleep and then pray again.
RIGHT:- Monastic life was underpinned with the ideal of celibacy.

7. In what ways was monastic life of service to others?
WRONG:- Because they raised finds for the poor.
RIGHT:- It helped them because it gave them a life to live free and closer to god.

8. Which lines from st Matthews gospel motivated the monks and nuns to serve?
WRONG:- Everyone for themselves.
RIGHT:- The short answer is the book of Matthew proves Jesus legitimate authority by highlighting His wise teachings and righteous life.

9. Describe each of the three main types of prayer to be found in a monastery?
WRONG:- The bored prayer, The sleep prayer, The food prayer
RIGHT:- Prayer, meditation and contemplation.

10. What is the message that is being suggested in the illustration in the top left hand corner of page 80?
WRONG:- People
RIGHT:- To trust other people and live in equality.

11. Describe the variety of books that might be found in a monastery library?
WRONG:- Theology, Bibles
RIGHT:- Theology and bibles.

12. Describe the scriptorium and list its contents.
WRONG:- Is where they re-write all old books by hand, onto newer paper
RIGHT:- A room in monasteries devoted to the copying of books by monastic writers.

13. What motivated such care in the copying of the scriptures?
WRONG:- They treasured the teachings of knowledge to others.
RIGHT:- Them being able to say “a person can hold the Bible in his hand and say without fear that he holds the Word of God, handed down from generation to generation through the centuries.

14. What was the chapter house and what role did it play in the life of the monastery?
WRONG:- Where they all met up
RIGHT:- The chapter house was a room where monks met daily, to discuss business and to hear a chapter of the monastic rule

15. What was on the daily menu in a monastery?
NOT ANSWERED
RIGHT:- In a monastery the daily menu was vegan food.

16. What is the cloister?
NOT ANSWERED
RIGHT:- A cloister was a monastery devoted to religious seclusion.

17. Why could it be said that monasteries provided the first hospitals and schools?
NOT ANSWERED
RIGHT:- St. Benedict required in the monastery an infirmary for the ailing, and to organize particular care of them as a special Christian duty.

18. What was the herbarium?
NOT ANSWERED
RIGHT:- A collection of dried plants mounted, labelled, arranged for use in scientific study

19. Describe one of the functions that needed to be fulfilled in the monastery?
NOT ANSWERED
RIGHT:- To offer a home to the poor and unfortunate

20. Name two monastic orders that can be found in Australians and say where they are.
NOT ANSWERED
RIGHT:- Third Order of St. Dominic – Ballarat
Anglican Order of Preachers – Warnambool

LETTER OF APOLOGY!

I’m sorry for you finding offence in what I wrote and it will not happen again. I have realised what I had wrote was inappropriate and it will not happen again.

Thanks,

The child has been punished, that I can promise.

When I received the letter from school, I had to try very hard not to laugh!!!!!!!! I mean seriously? Didn't you dream of doing something like this when you were his age?

Anyway, I doubt VERY much that ANYTHING like this will occur again, because next time.... he has been warned - you will be removed from the school, not because the school asks, but because I say so. (He loves the school, just not R.E.)

My Favourite photos of the week

Taken by me for your enjoyment!

This is a marble/granite ball, floating on water. spinning and absoutely brilliant to look at, but for me the brillance this day was the refelctions held with the artwork. Look at the gum tree, beautiful. Photo taken at the Melbourne Flower and Garden show on the 31st March 2012

Here what looks like an overgrown dam, is actually what appears to be a natural water pool up in Mt Disappointment, which is to the North of Melbourne. Could be seen from one side of approach, but not the other. Had to double back to take this photo. Photo taken 12th March 2012

An Orb Spider, had made herself comfortable in the vegetable patch. Took less than two days to set the huge web up. You can see it below. Don't let looks deceive you. This spider was almost hand-size. Makes me shudder! Photo taken 7th April 2012

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Enjoy all of natures beauty!

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Life of a casual employee

For most of my 'career' I have been a casual employee. It's never really bothered me before, although you don't get sick leave, annual leave or long service leave.  The hourly rate does allow for sick leave and annual leave and with careful budgeting, you can make all that work for you.

My reason for being predominately casual, is that it allows for me to work around my family.

I don't let any of my employers down, ever, but often (in fact more often than not) they let me down, frequently at very short notice, frequently attempting to jib hours paid etc and many think they don't have to pay superannuation!!!!!!!! (Go figure)

I enjoy the variety of casual employment, I enjoy the  different tasks I get to do on a daily basis. Boredom is certainly not a problem!

Today for example (being Sunday) I was informed that my 'employment' at one place (for tomorrow)  was no longer required (well maybe in 1-2 weeks time, they'll have me back) but I can't wait for them. So I sent a text to my contacts. 6 hours later I have work for tomorrow and most likely ongoing!

So the life of a casual is not that uncertain, just requires a little lateral thinking!

So if you are looking for an employee in Melbourne's North, someone who is reliable and not concerned if the work is permanent or not, or ongoing or not, why not drop me a line via www.hsamsa.blogspot.com or use the contact details there!

You never know - I've been assisting some of my people in excess of 10 years in a temporary capacity!

My Favourite photos of the week

Taken by me for your enjoyment!

Sculptures of chickens at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, 2012. The biggest, the rooster, was taller than your average human! Brilliant artwork. Photo taken 31st March 2012.

Photo taken of the Growling Frog Golf Course Dam at sunset, Located in Yan Yean, just mear Whittlesea, supposed to be a very good golf course!Photo taken 18th April 2012

Photo taken of the Growling Frog Golf Course Dam at sunset, Located in Yan Yean, just mear Whittlesea, supposed to be a very good golf course!Photo taken 18th April 2012

This photo is a cropped photo of the overpass on the Hume Highway bypass. Located at the west end of Thomastown, it provides and interesting vista. Photo taken 10th February 2012.

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Enjoy all of natures beauty!

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To BCC or Not? - Let's Stop the Spam

I mean seriously is it too hard to understand a simple email program and use the bloody thing correctly to protect peoples privacy?

Computers have been around since ….. what 1990 (common use) email for just about a long. Email has been common use since 2000 (or thereabouts)

How many spam emails do you receive daily? 10, 20, 30? or more? I imagine that businesses receive 100's if not 1000's.

If employees used BCC for group emails, then spam would be greatly reduced. Just tonight I received an email from a sporting organisation (state based) and in the CC section, there are 25 email addresses.

6 are ISP addresses, like Telstra and Optus
1 is Government defence address
1 private business
15 are free email addresses (predominately hotmail!)
1 is a large business
1 is a "mobileme" address

So big deal you say………………

If everyone on that list forwarded the email without cleaning up the email addresses in the CC line - YOUR email address has been exposed 1 x 25 = 25, and each recipient forwarded that email twice, and  every person who received that email also sent it forward by two. Your email address has been sent to 30,065,107 people (If I am not mistaken) IN SEVEN (7) days……………………….

See how evil not using BCC can be?

Do you know how much a viable (working) email address is worth? It's worth between $10 and $30 on the black market. Value of Email on the Black Market Now add to that any other personal information a hacker or spammer has been able to determine and you can immediately double that value!

So USE BCC, Train your staff, train your parents, train your children and stop the spam.

The meaning of  CC and BCC (Old School)
CC = Carbon Copy
BCC - Blind Carbon Copy

My Favourite photos of the week

Taken by me for your enjoyment!

Bee in flight, collecting pollen from a red-flowering gum. Photo Taken 5th March 2012

Bee in flight, collecting pollen from a native flower. Photo Taken 20th March 2012

Bee in flight, collecting pollen from a native flower. Photo Taken 20th March 2012

Bee, just landed ready to collect pollen from a red-flowering gum. Photo Taken 20th March 2012

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Enjoy all of natures beauty!

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Update on Long-Term Issues with Telstra Service - Good News!

This week I received a phone call from a staff member within the Telstra Faults area. She had promised some weeks ago to pull the archived faults reports for my phone line. I really didn't expect to hear anything back. It wouldn’t be the first time!

Well I got a phone call!!!!!!!!!

I received the phone call and the caller, advised that yes, faults directly affecting my phone line over the past 10-15years was unacceptably high. I was advised that the delay in returning my call, was due to the fact that the Telstra employee wanted to ensure that works on the phone lines and exchange were completed before I was advised of such.

Things had previously improved slightly when we switched over from the old house to the new house and consequently by-passed the underground pit outside the property, but faults were still too common. We moved into the new house, on the same property in 2003. But even so, there were too many faults as outlined in these posts:-

27.11.09 I've Never Been So Scared (Not Telstra equipment fault)

13.11.10 How Many Faults and How Many Deaths?

16.11.10 Update on Telstra fault of 13th November 2010

17.11.10 Update No. 2 on Telstra fault of 13th November 2010

30.03.12 Most Recent Fault 2012

Noting that no posts have been made to any prior incidents, but the most memorable are listed in the post dated 30th March 2012.

I would just like to say thank-you the anonymous Telstra employee who actually did her job (Anon - to protect her identity) But thank-you, hopefully all will be rectified and I won't have to use that number written on the back of handset any longer (Fingers Crossed)

Thank-you Telstra for having an employee who cares!

Laziness is not a disability

Once again in Melbourne it's wet, it's raining and the footpaths and white lines are slippery, especially for those using crutches, wheelchairs and sticks.

I nearly came unstuck thanks to the following people, who were parked, where I am LEGALLY allowed to park, but because they were ILLEGALLY parked I could not, consequently I nearly fell on the return to my car, some 50m FURTHER away.

This was at Northlands Shopping Centre, in Preston, Victoria, on the 3rd June 2012 at 9.15pm. So if you know any of the these morons, tell them their registrations have been photographed and noted for public viewing!

 OVE-400

 TYM4ME

YLT-568

Watch for more photos of more morons as the days turn into weeks, which turn into years.

if you'd like to add disabled parking infringement photos, pleases feel free!

My Favourite photos of the week

Taken by me for your enjoyment!

Some simple photos, I don't think they need explaination, enjoy them for what they are!

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Enjoy all of natures beauty!
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