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Saint Gall's Church of Ireland - Congregation in the west of the town. Church history, details of cross-community work, reflections, details of youth work and organisations.
Darren Beggs Music, Fiction and Philosophy - Original music, fiction and philosophy by a Northern Ireland artist. You can download music, read selected works and offer your comments in the author's guestbook.
Ballyholme Parish Church - St Columbanus Church Of Ireland. Worship information and schedules, organisations and staff information, online access to church magazine.
Church of Christ at Bangor - Contact details, directions and an interactive study of their distinctive teachings including baptism, styles of worship, and false churches.
Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church - Contact details, information on the ministry team and the work and missions of the church, a programme of sermons, an e-zine, and a linked youth ministry site.
West Presbyterian Church - Christian guidance opportunities in the church, view of Bible and fellowship, details of youth activities and social outreach.
Shining - Christian youth event in the town. Providing a setting for young people to meet and worship. Event news, weekly thought, Christianity overview, and multimedia samples.
Bangor RNLI Lifeboat Station - Follows the work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution as carried out by the volunteers.
Bangor Branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society - Includes meeting programme and directions.
Ballycrochan Baptist Church - Includes calendar, photos and contact information.
Beggs Family - Information about the Beggs family members throughout the world.
Chris McFetridge - An online portfolio consisting of web sites, multimedia and creative writing.
Bangor Worldwide Missionary Convention - Annual Christian event. Includes history, programme, contacts and photos.
Cottown Masonic Lodge No. 430 - Includes history, news, diary and contacts.
Bangor Union Masonic Lodge No. 746 - Includes history and meeting information.
Queen's Parade Methodist Church - History, staff, worship, youth, activities, coffee shop, drop in centre and calendar.
Ballyholme Crusaders - Information, events, news and photographs from the branch of the bible study organisation.
Darren Beggs - Local artist, site contains real player streaming music, philosophy, fiction, links to other artists.
Bangor YMCA - Voluntary organisation with the aim of demonstrating Christian love and values to all young people of the Borough. Site includes news, programmes and contact details.
Hamilton Road Baptist Church - Web site contains church ethos, events, youth information and contact details.
G.I.G. (Growing In God) - Youth Fellowship of Ballycrochan Presbyterian Church, web site includes information on the organisation, pictures, news, events, online games, guestbooks and forums.
1st Bangor Boys Brigade - Includes events, activities and photos.
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Society and Culture "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Society and Culture Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S Society and Culture He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Society and Culture Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Society and Culture The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Society and Culture Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) May you never leave your marriage alive. Society and Culture "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Society and Culture Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Society and Culture "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Society and Culture Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
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