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The Economic Downturn

Rebekah your posting is so beautiful and I don't think any of this is to do with anything you said, it's just a semantic debate, though I think through it people are expressing their fears of the "other" - fears that you not only overcome but totally over-ride welcoming the stranger into your...
- francisco
- Post #28
- Mar 17, 2009
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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The Economic Downturn

People enter into thigs for many different reasons, what happens along the way is something else. Say some guy makes for the camino enticed by cheap food and an easy ride... and what he encounters are some of the deepest questions that a human being can ever face... If we filtered out people...
- francisco
- Post #23
- Mar 17, 2009
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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The Economic Downturn

Birds have nests, foxes have holes... the thing to hold in mind is that the camino is not some kind of closed club for the "right" people with the right credentials, if "drifters" and "the unemplyed" etc are joining the mighty throng on the raod it's because economic circumstances have finally...
- francisco
- Post #21
- Mar 17, 2009
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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The Varieties of Camino Experiences

Just an un-wishy-washy C of E moment for our Brother :). There are a number of central London C of E churches that open up as night shelters in the winter months. These are run on a shoe-string budget and are staffed by members of the congregation. Homemess men and women doss down on the...
- francisco
- Post #43
- Dec 17, 2007
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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The Varieties of Camino Experiences

I agree that it might seem beside the point to look at such isues in THIS context, but people were talking about their attitude to the Catholic faith and difficulties posed by the behaviour of some of its "shepherds". As it was pointed out, whether people like it or not, the Catholic faith has...
- francisco
- Post #35
- Dec 17, 2007
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics
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The Varieties of Camino Experiences

I've been following this thread with such interest, why has it been thwarted? Do not religion and theology count among varieties of camino experience? Don't take your discussion off the public forum please! If people want something that's "light and altogehter fun" let them start a different...
- francisco
- Post #33
- Dec 17, 2007
- Camino de Santiago Forum: Life on the Camino - Miscellaneous Topics