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SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Life / Religions in Poland. [64]

Life is buying food, paying bills, making friends, playing sports, staying healthy etc etc. Nothing so deep about that.

That is a part of life, again you make it as deep or as shallow as you wish.

I understood you are not aligned with any particular faith.
So what does it mean to understand the foundations of these religions, if you can (and people do all the time) pick and choose what is "deep" or "suitable" for their lives and religions, that is not just good advise and common sense?.

Why do u think Holy texts attract such scholarly treatment and attention?

Many things attract attention, old books are a great source of history, be it fiction or fiction in the making. I think some actually are looking for the truth and "He who seeks shall find".

I don't bother with that spiritual stuff, God is everything or God is the universe, I mean if you look at things like that there is always going to be a God.

Oh, I only get worried when people say I am right, I am also trying to do my best and improve.
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Life / Religions in Poland. [64]

Religion is meant to be deep, not a superficial label.

I got the impression from this woman that it was superficial, she used to go on rants about some bloke but i do not think she understood it herself.

The exact opposite is also true about what you said, that I see the faults in the misinterpretation of the foundations.
This only tells me that people see what they want, you see the merits, some see the silver lining of the cloud and are probably happier for it.

"Religion is deep", I would say life is deep, but religion is misunderstood in probably every way, except community and to be good, which you do not need religion for.
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Life / Religions in Poland. [64]

Hi Lodz_The_Boat,
I don't know about all that, all I see is packed Catholic churches on Sundays.
I once knew a Baha'i woman in Ireland, funny woman, her brother was Buddhist, father Muslim and mother Catholic, I asked her was it difficult around Christmas, she said they all fought especially on Christmas, seemed like a spiritually deficient family, whatever that means.
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
News / Venezuela is voted happiest place to live ,Poland? [33]

outintheyard

Are you out to drive me up the wall?

Venezuela is voted happiest place to live ,Poland?

I don't understand this.

I offer these questions for who have visited Poland only as compared to other places one may have visited.

I don't understand this.

1. Are polish people rude?
2. Do Polish smile often?
3. Are Polish people less compasionate?
4. Are polish people forgiving?
5. Are Polish people too serious?
6. Do you feel honesty and trust when meeting them?

This is the only bit i do understand, they are loaded questions.
I will change them when I get my meds Mr.Indiana USA

NURSE!?! GET MY MEDS!?!
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Love / Marry the Polish Girls [17]

Hello jenn007:,
The best thing to do would be to go to your priest and talk to him. There is a religious marriage and a legal one. If you are afraid of being deported go to your priest. And relax, if you are in love and want to get married, congratulations!.
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
News / Has there ever been gold found in Poland? [21]

This quantity would be probably enough to kill all active and some inactive members of PF ;)

Remind me NOT to go for a drink with you, ha ha ha nice story though
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Travel / Driving from Poznan to Croatia. Best way? [23]

Zgubiony

Good to have you back, yet another thread I missed, not that I would have been much help.
SHow us some pictures.
I am driving to Lithuania this week, then flying to Portugal and driving back here (Poland) but I got a GPS system ha ha ha, it aparently takes a week but I want to take my time (if the places are nice) maybe even go through Slovinia's coast. we'll see.
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Life / Appreciate any remarks on life in Kraków [41]

Hello serwinv,
And welcome to the Polish Forum.
I missed your introduction.
I am Irish and I used to live in Krakow and now I live just south of Krakow in the mountains.
Krakow is a beautiful city, the most beautiful in Poland in my opinion.
You will have a great time here.
You must get your accommodation very very quickly. Krakow is a student town and they take everything, this time of year. Otherwise you will be overcharged and live far away from the centre.

It might be difficult to get a job that pays and accommodation, if you do not speak the language.
The sites in English are usually much more expensive, so try to get someone to help you with that.
Why do you want to move to Krakow? not that you need a reason but maybe you have one.

Best of luck,
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Life / Do I need a license to use a scooter in Poland? [8]

Hello mrmcenglish,

Yes, of course and insurance.
It is a part of the E.U.
I can't help you with companies but the insurance works different to England, the vehicle is insured, I think this is a better system.
SeanBM   
8 Sep 2008
Life / rural poland's music life 100 years ago? [2]

Hello pc701,
I don't know about 500 years ago (Chopin 1840s) but I think this can not be far off



This is mountain music and I don't think it is typical in the rest of Poland. But given the costume and instruments it must be a very old traditional music. I like it for it's originality and it is good craic after a dozen beers but I could not listen to it sober.

The costumes are beautiful but all European traditional costumes seem very similar.



The unofficial national anthem has to be



Originally it is for birthday celebration but Polish people sing it at ALL occasions. And is a great source of merriment!.

I would hate to have my people go to bed when the work is done not dance and sing

Very good point, I like your thinking.

My momther say's that they hired/or a guy came from some other part of poland and came with an orchestra and had a party once in a while.:is this true? Only once in a while?!!

Weddings are the BIG occasion here, lasting for days and drinking and singing like hell, good fun.

In my opinion I would like to see some traditions or new traditions come to reality with respect to indigenous music in automonous rural communities. This idea really makes me sad:what if poland had no electricity ?what would the people do in terms of musical culture?

Do not dispear, Zakopane is alive and doing very very well. Infact it has a fair balance of old and new. Funnily enough there are a massive amount of tourists in Zakopane 99% of whom are Polish, which I like, as an Irish man living here, I appreciate being immersed in the culture (e.g. without other Irish).

In my opinion, unless one believes that the world can sustain this unsustainable, industrialized, and globalized world civilization,we cannot wait until the era comes where humankind will have to go back to more simpler and natural times and start to develop it's indigenous musical culture.

Again don't worry, come over, you'll love it.
In Ireland there is a huge appreciation for traditional music and because of numerous reasons like our pub culture it has been able to flourish. I know this sounds silly but I know or have met more people here who do traditional dancing in full costume than play or sing it.

Lastly but by no means least some very good Polish folk music, this I can listen to.


SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Life / Should I take my motorbikes to Poland? [14]

Hello sawesa,

And welcome to the Polish Forum.
Yes bring your bike, is it a scrambler?. You will have to get winter tyres for it. It does not rain much here. And there are plenty of really cool places to go mad on the bike. I saw loads of bikers and people on quads today up the mountains.

A normal winter here is about -15 but don't let it put you off, it is much dryer here.
I have seen cars with two batteries, one for the car (normal) the other to heat the engine up, that was in Lithuania though.
SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Travel / Walks up the Beskids mountains [44]

Not at all, There are religious (catholic) shrines in the mountain walks here.
Some are for the mass graves from the second world war and some are from when people had an epiphany.
The statue is of Jesus and his clothes are tree bark.
SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Travel / Walks up the Beskids mountains [44]

the worst thing you could do is get between a mother and her cubs.

ha ha ha, yeah sure, i am laughing because it would be the last stupid thing you do.

I have seen a few deer, squirrels (red ones I think) (the grey ones have almost killed off the indigenous red squirrels on the Celtic Islands), Fire flies, loads and loads of birds (which with my new camera I hope to photograph document and learn who they are), little fish, a snake and a lizard and not many mosquitoes I will photograph all these and put some on here.


I am a photography enthusiast and love to travel but because of the nature of this forum I will stick to Poland.
SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Travel / Walks up the Beskids mountains [44]

I am actually afraid of snakes, I like snakes and respect them, I am just worried that I will stand on one and it will (understandably) bite me.

Coming from Ireland, where there are no snakes.

Here are photos of the view from Luboń Wielki.
I like the way the statue of Jesus has clothes of bark.
You can see the high Tatras from all these places on a clear day. I love the Tatras too but there are too many people for my liking.


Never mind the dates on the photos, my old (recently broken) camera was a bit funny with dates


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SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Travel / Walks up the Beskids mountains [44]

They say that u should back away slowly when confronted by one.

Run like hell...

Apparently because the bear comes up to the Luboń Wielki lodge they have had to "train" it, basically put food out in a special place for the bear, the logic being that it will just come and go through the dustbins anyway.



I am not scared of meeting a bear (until it happens) but would love to set up my camera on either a time laps or a motion detector and film the bear, I might talk to some one about that.
SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Travel / Walks up the Beskids mountains [44]

Yes on Luboń Wielki there were two local bears but one tried to cross the motorway and did not make it but the other one is still there.

I have photos of that mountain too, I will try to find them. This is all just behind where I live.
SeanBM   
7 Sep 2008
Travel / Walks up the Beskids mountains [44]

Hello everyone.

I am just back from a 30 KM hike up the mountains, I stayed last night in a lovely Lodge up the mountains, cost 15 PLN (aprox 3 pound or 4 Euro)per night another 5 PLN (1 pound or 1:50 Euro) That's the fist photo there.

The Beskid mountains Beskids, Poland are between Krakow and Zakopane and are kinda the foot hills of the Carpathian mountains.

There are many treks here, some harder than others. Most of this range is covered in forest, Deciduous and evergreen.

The observatory is brand new and was built on the burned remains of the original one. The Nazi Germans were defeated by pockets of resistance in the area, apparently 5 Nazis escaped and returned with thousand and they burned 2 villages and the observatory, everything except that telescope (maybe because it was made in Dresden, German). They took out the insides though. that telescope discovered two comets before any of that carry on.

There is a museum in the observatory now and it will be fully open (hopefully) in December but today for the first time in my life I saw the sun through the telescope.

Apparently there are still quite a few mass graves around from the wars.

The last pic there are of some Deciduous tree in there "Arms race" notice how they mostly do not have branches until the very top (canopy) that they are in a rush, with each other to be the tallest and therefore get the most sun, except the one in the middle of the photo which is in sunlight and therefore can "afford" to have branches all the way up, at least that is the way I see it.


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SeanBM   
5 Sep 2008
Travel / Train from Warsaw to Vilnius/kaunas [8]

found out from the source and there is a train that doesnt go through Belarus and there is only ONE change.

Stop moaning and post it then
SeanBM   
5 Sep 2008
USA, Canada / How to ship pierogi from Poland to USA (not frozen)? [15]

How to ship pierogi from Poland to USA (not frozen)?

You can swallow them in condoms and jump on a plane.
But whatever you do, don't make your own, I believe you can go to prison for that.
SeanBM   
5 Sep 2008
Travel / Train from Warsaw to Vilnius/kaunas [8]

Ironic how you confirmed my point. You can't trust that people here have any idea what they are talking about.

He was telling the truth but you were so offensive that your comment was deleted. I myself am reluctant to post an answer, manners go a long way and are completely free.

He is not 100% right but he's not wrong and you should not be so quick to judge yourself.
There is a train but it goes through Belarus and because of the different size tracks you will have to change trains 3 times and the bureaucracy at the boarder do not make it a viable option. You are better off renting a car cycling or flying.
SeanBM   
5 Sep 2008
Life / Karta pobytu help - property ownership problem [13]

aren't you getting karta pobytu from regional, not local administration ?

First local for 3 months, then you have to get a regional one but I got the local one and 2 weeks before it was "out of date", I went to get the regional one but they needed a month to process it, so it was already out of date (before it was out of date)????. If you understand it, you need your head examined. I counted the girl had 13 stamps in front of her, so I just left.

It is not as bad here as in other countries in the E.U, but this is a Polish forum soooo.

Isn't there talk of getting rid of this whole mirigmaroal?
SeanBM   
1 Sep 2008
Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

And for her to show me around would be great.

Yeah, cool, a local guide mate is always good and you never know she might have some mates....

I found the trip cheap 7pln for a beer

I know how this sounds but 7 PLN is expensive. I pay 5 in my local ha ha ha not bloody euros anyway....

You sound fairly enthusiastic about it still, good stuff, there is a lot to this place, I mean loads of things to explore, sure I don't even know the half of it.
SeanBM   
1 Sep 2008
Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

You can only post 2 at a time if you use that method.

Ah ha, that answerd my next question.

I most certaintly am not, she said she was goin for christmas and I invited myself ;)

It was just the way you said "a friend from work who lives near and went to uni there said I could go", is she cute?

blend in

Incognito, I get you.
It was not always like that, before very few people spoke English. I used to look at the Polish menu and just do the chicken dance to get some food (chicken) and sure it was a laugh, don't worry, I think what you are looking for is easy to find. Like McCoy says the jewish quarters is great craic, check out Alchemia" next time, great bar but prices have been rising there too, I am not impressed ha ha ha
SeanBM   
1 Sep 2008
Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

Im going to post my thread in the next day or so and tell all but I dont know how to post pictures.

Just above where you type in there is a thing saying attach file [?] use that to download pictures'

I will say that I found it to be more of an introduction as opposed to the experience I had wanted,

It is usually a problem to have too many expectations.

Im defo going back at christmas a friend from work who lives near and went to uni there said I could go,

Glad to see you ain't ***** whipped, just messin

. I did enjoy it but I dont like touristy things

By tourists, I presume you mean none Polish, cause there are more Pole tourist than anything else and there should be loads of places that do not have foreign tourists.

And think about coming for the skiing, snowboarding rocks!
SeanBM   
1 Sep 2008
Travel / I miss Kraków... What do You miss...? [95]

Yep, isn't it the same except it has wild mushrooms and bits of meat? no~?
I am not 100% I dislike saeurkraut and therefore do not eat bigos, so I put them into the same category.

Poor Edward

Tell us what was the craic?
I'm in Craicow at the moment but no time to go out