derek_a

@derek_a (10873)

Age 77

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Discussions (79)

derek_a's Discussions

My Take on Karma

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 29 Mar 16

There is no doubt about it, karma is created every day. Good, bad or neutral, I create it constantly. The intense unpleasant karma, is not so much a matter of what I do, but the baggage that I have regarding the deed that I...

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What is the Mind?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 27 Mar 16

So what's on my mind? What is my mind? It is made of of thoughts. Where do those thoughts come from? The must come from memory. Memory is always in the past. Can I know anything other than my mind? Well, whatever it is that...

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Are we really back up and running!

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 27 Mar 16

Well, it has been quite some time since I visited the site. I thought the site had moved away from a paid site. But by accident I found this in my saved bookmarks and was curious to know it was still here. Feels good to find that...

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Recent Freezing Weather in UK... Is there more to come? There is an up-side!

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 12 Dec 10

The weather here, even in the south of the UK has been very freezing. According to my car temperature it was down to minus 7°C outside and when I got out of the car, it was like stepping into a freezer! We don't often get...

air frost

picture

silver birch

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Have you heard of Ghosts in Haunted Places...

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 24 Sep 10

There are many ghost and legend stories her in the U.K. and some are right here in Wales, where I was born. There is a "fairy-tale" castle here in South Wales (see picture) that was built a few hundred years ago on the site of an...

haunted castle

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Shopkeepers not to report thefts?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 23 Jul 10

I read in the news today that police are telling shopkeepers not to report thefts of under £20 in the UK. Do you feel that theft is theft and should always be reported? And could this mean that young people will now start...

police

shop

theft

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I love gadgets... Just got a new photo scanner

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 26 Jun 10

I have just purchased a new photo scanner called a Pandigital Photolink. I just used it for the first time yesterday and I am amazed how quick and easy it is to use when compared with my flatbed scanner. It will only take...

gadgets

photo scanner

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Some Advice Needed about Wii

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 26 Jun 10

Hi everyone, A friend of mine was telling me about her Wii that she and her husband uses regularly and every time I have contact with her, she is telling me that I simply must get a Wii. When I look though, I am in two...

exercise

games

nintendo wii

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Do You Practice a Spiritual Discipline.

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 9 Apr 10

I practice zazen, which is a type of Zen meditation where one concentrates on the in-breath and out-breath to the exclusion of all other thoughts.. Zen is certainly not for everyone. and its rewards hard come by at time and almost...

meditation

spiritual discipline

zen

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Security on the Internet.. What are you thoughts?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 29 Aug 09

What do we have to do to keep our details safe on the Internet? I read the other day that we should never divulge things like the town of our birth, our true birthday or our real names and lots more. When I think of it, I have...

internet

security

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New Spyware/Malware Doing the Rounds.

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 8 Aug 09

I have just learned from a computer advisory newletter I take that there is a new scareware doing the rounds. Scareware is a type of message that you download that tells you that your computer is infected and you need to download...

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Do you back up your computer?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 30 Jul 09

I had a fatal crash on my computer about 10 years ago and I hadn't backed anything up at all. I lost all my writing, all my photographs, my address book and it was beyond recovery. I vowed then to back up regularly using in those...

backup

crash

hard drive

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Problems with Sony Ericsson w580i (Emergency Calls Only).

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 17 Jul 09

Hi Mylotters, I have just bought a Sony Erricsson (w580i) for my wife and after just about a month, it keeps coming up on the screen, "Emergency Calls Only". It does this at the most inconvenient times and often switches itself...

emergency calls only

fault

sony ericsson

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On-Line tasks that can be boring.

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 17 Mar 09

I have found that there are lots of tasks I do on line that are interesting, but then there are some boring tasks, like surfing some sites to get referrals. Although these sites tend to work, the success ratio can be low. For...

business

referral

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Do You Like Reading Motivating Quotations?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 18 Feb 09

I have a large book of quotations at home and often open it to a random page. Sometimes what I read doesn't mean anything to me, but then at other times, something really seems to jump out at me. Today I decided to open the book...

motivating quotations

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How Has Positive Thinking and Visualization Worked for You?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 8 Feb 09

As a therapist, I have used self-hypnosis and meditation techniques to help people use positive suggestion and visualization to get the results they wanted in life. Many times people were amazingly successful but sometimes we had...

meditation

positive thinking

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Recession: Not so out of the ordinary or the worst ever?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 16 Jan 09

I read today in the newspaper that this recession is about the tenth to occur here in the U.K. since the end of World War II. And that the housing market has slumped before. And that each recession has been followed by a period of...

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Is Blogging a Waste of Time?

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 29 Dec 08

I read an article on line this morning that was saying that blogging was a waste of time, because where once there weren't a great many blogs, now there are millions of them all competing with each other. I have had a blog for...

blogging

blogs

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River Staff: After the Storms

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 13 Dec 08

I was out walking this morning after ferocious wind and rain we had last night. This is the River Taff, about 10 minutes walk away from my home. As I approached I could hear the water which is rare with this usually slow moving...

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Power of Trees..

derek_a @derek_a (10873) 11 Dec 08

I was out just after sunrise walking down the River Taff near my home in Cardiff South Wales, when I saw this majestic tree, standing tall in the low December sun. It is not that I hadn't seen it before, it was just that this...

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