Food / Activia/Danone - why so popular in Poland? [13]

That's huge marketing campains and advertising, but when you check the ingredients - you'll see that it is crap. Tastes bad, can give you runs (quite often actually) and you can buy yoghurt that has more of those bacteria and different species too AND for a much lower price. All in all 3 better yoghurts for one bottle of this shite.

Real Estate / Relocating in Poland - what's the best area? [56]


- well, there are obvious disadvantages, but depending on schools this system forms very good specialists and generally people with huge general knowledge, unlike most of other shooling systems. You Delph should know it,recieving your education in the UK (am I right?) and living in Poland. It is not a contest, but I had mine partially in Poland, and I bet I have huge advantages because of that.

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

- sciecne indoctrinates? So do you put science on the same shelf as religions? Does science and facts need publicity and followers?? Now you are sounding like Mr Giertych - the professor who once tried to be a president in Poland. He said we definitely don't come from apes. Check Maciej Giertych (father of the LPR leader I guess).


- Where else? I am not hoping for anything more. Enough is enough and I'd be insane to think there is something after life. Ghosts? Holy afterlife? That is really rediculous, pleeeease. I know a lot of poeple need to hope for something better later, but the only thing I cans say is let them better focus on their lifes right now because there isn't any other, none, whatsoever and that is it. [that is my hope ;) ]

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


Not the best side you are showing, Barney. WHO is trolling? Seanus asks questions and thinks logically, so far - even on more than one thread. You see to be troubled by this...

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


- but religion indoctrinates, science does not. And now that you have your conscience and free will, you don't feel like rejecting the Church - but I bet there's a hge chance you wouldn't choose any, or not this one if you were brought up in a lay environment, or your parents didn't put you into this without asking.


- Touche!


- again, science can prove its existence, and if you keep your head under water for about 2 minutes you will stop questioning that you need it and that air exists:))). But you can live without religion perfectly well...

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


- well both fish and vitamins you can check in a lab or if you trust science - by reading results of scientists discoveries.
Can you show me some relevant source that can be the basis for rational, logical belief (then it wouldn't be a belief but KNOWLEDGE)? Because right now it is closer to bedtime stories of the Grimm brothers than to knowledge, thruth, rational way of thinking etc.


- I would need proof. Nothing more. If I get it - I will not have to belive but KNOW. Thatt's the difference. I know, you believe.


- that is what I meant! :)

Life / Is Poland split into two religions: catholicism and non-believers? [103]


- well not really, because when it comes to the one-and-only-tru religion in Poland, and I bet my sneakers on it that in many other countries too - the taxes and money from the govt. is flowing to the Church even if you are e.g. Jewish or aheist and you wouldn't like your money to go on that. But you do not have any choice. One of countless examples is this Światynia Boza Opatrzności - loads of money on that from Polish govt.

So do not say we have any choice.
I only have a choice to watch or not a footbal game.


- I say more wierzący-niepraktykujący and very little truely believing and following the word of God.

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


- oh, come on, this sounds like "I was taught to think that way, and I've had no desire to think outside the box since then".


- true, but I'd like to look earlier than 50 or 60 years or so - Polish tradition was that of a great tolerance, no matter the religion. That should have a greater tradition and is worth nurturing.


- wrong - what about much older religions in the world?


- you've been waiting for 2000 years and nothing. Maybe he's not gonna show up, or is he being that late?


- nicely put, but if you want the source then you should be Jewish.

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


Wow! Great insight. Labels! That's what it is. Club thing. Membership. Catholicism here isn't any different from any religion, which is about gathering as many followers as possible and making them feel united, giving hope etc. at the same time enlarging their influence and squeezing their pockets to get the last penny.

Life / Is Poland split into two religions: catholicism and non-believers? [103]


- correct me if I am wrong, but there is the one and only right doctrine of what the pope says. All other opinions are heresy/blasphemy. That's the RC Church approach. Not so progressive and evolving or open to debate.


- please elaborate so I can feed on this while alowing myself for a fleshy reply.


- I wouldn't pay a dime on that either!

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]


...or maybe rather there are lots of people who should be descreibed as "non-believer but practising".
My observations are that there is in fact quite a large number of people practising compared to their inside feelings - I mean their faith is often very shallow still they attend masses, take church weddings, baptise their children ("what would my grandma say if I didn't!") and are buried with the presence of a priest. It is more like a herding instinct than faith. If millions of people do it - there must be something in it, right?

And that reminds me of a certain slogan about flies: People! Eat s**t! - Billions of flies cannot be wrong.

Life / Poland Religion in daily life/ INTERVIEW for school paper [28]


they usually have marble. It would be a shame to cover it:)

Life / The major religion of Poland? [33]


- sadly the method is efficient: registering (by baptising) newborn babies means joining the club. And that's how you work on the statistics. If it was only by choice and because of one's faith - the percentage would be much lower. The only way not to be counted as a Catholic is to go through the pains of apostasia.

Life / Is Poland split into two religions: catholicism and non-believers? [103]


- in Catholicism it's "either you're with us or against" - there is no place for individual thinking and questioning. And similarly if you don't go to church every Sunday you commit sins (the additional Church 5 commandaments - I guess 10 from the God was not enough and they deicided to add 5 more, just to be sure).


- well one of the 5 Church commandaments (basically designed to keep you loyal and pay money) is that every Catholic is obliged to support the Church. Support method preffered are donations;)


- a very large number of people attend masses because they are used to. I have seen it, I have heard it too. Now, that's the fundament for a deep understanding of your faith;)

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]


most surely!

Stupid prices like 4.99 etc. cause it - I am polite, but it's not my problem if they don't have the change (why actually - they should go to a bank and get some change) because they invent such stupid pricing.

Travel / Internet for 1 month in Kraków? [11]

Tough nut - I don't know about Azory, but maybe GH Net is already there. Check their website or call them and they can tell you if they provide basing on the adress you tell them...

Travel / Internet for 1 month in Kraków? [11]

In GH Net and I think Aster too you can get a contract for an indefinite period too, but it is more expensive. My advice is to check smaller, local providers - I use one and I have indefinite period contract. Which area you are going to be?

Real Estate / Relocating in Poland - what's the best area? [56]

I wouldn't say it's dead. It's rather... switched to "holiday or summer mode' ;)
There's still plenty of places to go not all closing down, at 2 o'clock it would be enough for me, it's a pub right? But for all-night clubbing go to a club - last Saturday me at Eskulap prooves that you might have just gone to the wrong place if you were looking for all night party;)

cheers

Real Estate / Relocating in Poland - what's the best area? [56]

Yes, Piła can be all right, though it is smaller (can be an advantage, of course, depending what you like). Is the deer statue on the building still there?

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

And if you pay with your card on the A4 motorway - you are not protected at all! No PIN, no signature. And they always need to take away your card from your sight - totally unacceptable!

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

I think I wrote it before, long ago - an average in Poland is close to 3500 PLN, somone was probably thinking about the minimal.

Real Estate / Relocating in Poland - what's the best area? [56]

As far as work and social life is cooncerned, it'd be Kraków, Poznań, and well, Warzsawa. But personally I think there's no good life in Warsaw, as there is in Kraków. Pretty much the same options there, plus great atmosphere and history in the first two ones. So choosing either of the two you'd actually have West or South as you wanted, Mr. Wroclaw Boy;)

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Yep. Pretty much, ha ha. - Or if you come from a province or speak a dialect of some kind;). Skåne being an example - hard to understand and sounds funny everywhere outside Skåne län region.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

When you see Å - you say /o/ actually. Once knowing this it stops being funny. But before that.... I agree ;)

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

I completly understand your frustration with it, Rychlik. These words are flooding and replacing native language easily, as everyone of us would use from time to time word jogging instead of biegać, etc...

Law / "FART" shop in Poland - WHAT DOES THIS SHOP SELL? [55]

They sell canned fart, obviously undercover pretending to sell regular merchandise:)

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

I would suggest to produce coins and banknotes with .99 value, e.g. 10.99 etc. - THAT would help :D

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


it pi***s me off every time man. I actually threw away my tv set as apart from movies there was nothing on the telly. And the movies were dubbed...

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

Trevek
I guess we all sometimes comply to this really stupid lack of sense - it is in the shop's interest to give you change and not your problem. In these cases I sometimes wait for them giving mie the exact change. Another thing is that they all are trying to make morons of clients by having prices like: 19.99 10.98. That is how they loose the small penny.

Law / Business Etiquette (Polish companies' dealings with clients in other counties) [14]


This sounds not any worse than it would in English