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Jengie jon

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Brief analysis:

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64 maximum contributions from a single poster: Eutychus

Languages included English, French, Hebrew, Gaelic (I think Louise), Polish and German (Again I think Rosa Winkel), and Hebrew

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lily pad
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It's a strange feeling reading that again - another example of the new pathways being etched in our brains and in the world. I usually consider well what I type on the boards as editing must be done quickly or not at all and the results are there for all to see. As far as the Café goes, I seem to have a different "gear" and think of it all as being right in the moment and then gone.

What you have provided in transcript form, is a spontaneous act of worship by a body of people joined only through this medium of a keyboard, some cables, their love and the death of one of their own whom none had ever seen. I expected only to experience it in the moment but am glad that now others will catch a glimpse of something true and good.

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Eutychus
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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
64 maximum contributions from a single poster: Eutychus

[Hot and Hormonal] But I'm so shy and retiring!

Thanks for the transcript. Up there with Fields of Gold.

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Jengie jon

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Put it down to doing it in two languages.

Jengie

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Louise
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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:


Languages included English, French, Hebrew, Gaelic (I think Louise), Polish and German (Again I think Rosa Winkel), and Hebrew

Yep, The Lord's Prayer in Scots Gaelic.

L.

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Autenrieth Road

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Thank you for putting that up, Pease.

It's moving to read. Unlike any other format I've ever read online. I mean, I read that format when in the Cafe, but you don't really notice when it's happening in real time.

I'm not making any sense, are I?

I was very moved to read the Kaddish from nicolemrw. I attend a Torah study on Saturday mornings in the summer; I'm (I think) the only Christian in the group. We frequently have a yahrzeit (one year anniversary of a death) to mark, and everyone stands and recites the Kaddish. Except me, because I don't know it. But the words and rhythms are familiar to me now, from hearing it so often, so reading it from nicolemrw gives me the same sense I have when standing with that group.

I wonder if it's allowed to recite it with that group for people whose yahrzeit falls outside of the summer; I will ask the rabbi.

(ETA: This Torah study meets only in the summer because the rabbi summers here in the state of Starlight; about half the group participants are summer residents. If it were a year-round group I'd just toddle off next December for the yahrzeit.)

[ 10. January 2011, 17:53: Message edited by: Autenrieth Road ]

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Wow.

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I had ducked out before the singing and praying started, thinking it would stop shipmates of longer standing being washed overboard, so I had missed what now thoughtfully has been made available in the transcript. Thank you. Even reading through was a moving experience.
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Thanks Simon. A good record of the event.

And, of course, a chance to re-read all the bits I missed while I was typing!

And a chance for those of us who were unceremoniously thrown overboard, dunked or keel hauled from time to time to catch up on what we missed.

Given the fact that, as well as disappearing, many of us couldn't see who was speaking (hey, who turned out the lights?), the service / vigil reads as an amazing whole.

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Rosa Winkel

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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Polish and German (Again I think Rosa Winkel)

I guess the person most likely to post Polish would be me, but it wasn't. I posted using the Cyrillic alphabet in Old Slavonic.

I did post in German, though.

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Arrietty said:
quote:
the shipmeet where we get to meet Erin!
Amen to that!

Your singing was magnificent. It was like a mighty fugue with everything fitting together and Heavenly harmonies that don't exist in normal life.

Thank you for letting me experience your memorial service.

(OK, a lot more kleenexes to gather up. I suspect the crying isn't nearly done.)

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Thank you Smudgie. I was the one who said I couldn't imagine Erin resting, and you quoted me. I couldn't get in to the wake, but you got me there anyway.

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The transcript is amazing.

My wife asked me what virtual praise was like; I said, "like waves". Nor was it virtual, come to think of it. It was very, very real.

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Kelly Alves

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Yout final song about made me late for work this morning Marv. [Tear]

(Perfect, in other words.)

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Marvin the Martian

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"You'll Never Walk Alone"? It seemed appropriate, especially with the amount of people from across the globe who were - and are - united in mourning.

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Rosa Winkel

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Looking back at the singing of that song interspersed with various Bible quotations about God's love for us, and the Resurrection was cool especially for this Liverpool fan who associates that song with Hillsborough.

[ 11. January 2011, 10:21: Message edited by: Rosa Winkel ]

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Jengie jon

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Thank you for the transcript and thanks to Pease for all his work to keep the cafe running at the time.

Jengie

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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Languages included English, French, Hebrew, Gaelic (I think Louise), Polish and German (Again I think Rosa Winkel), and Hebrew

Welsh. Just a little. Dyfrig was standing with me as we prayed the Lord's prayer, so I added a line in his words.

'frin

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Spike

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Nor was it virtual, come to think of it. It was very, very real.

Absolutely. It was amazing to think that a crowd of us from all over the world were praying simultaneously.

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Ancient Mariner

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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas62:
Nor was it virtual, come to think of it. It was very, very real.

Absolutely. It was amazing to think that a crowd of us from all over the world were praying simultaneously.
It's been happening in St Pixels for many years! In fact, the wake was like Church of Fools in its most primitive form all over again. [Cool]

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Indeed it was, AM! In fact, when everyone launched into the Lord's Prayer, I was sad that I wasn't able to be there, since no one was saying it in Latin.

jedijudy is quite right that it came across as a fugue. I especially loved nicole's Kaddish (I think?) going along steadily 'underneath' the prayers and hymns and odd bits all weaving in and out.

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