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and many other matters of the soul from different perspectives from those handed down through the then closely held traditions of the church it is this freedom of interpretation and of the need for structural adjustment to changing circumstances that has allowed our church to leave many things to the individual s conscience but also to make serious advancements such as the ordination of women to the priesthood when we have veered from this freedom we have for instance caused ourselves the embarrassment of condemning darwin at the heart of this very attractive aspect of the church of england s life is the knowledge that we are a diverse and highly inclusive church from which there can be no unified voice or opinion in these matters and it this aspect of our church that has kept me faithful to anglicanism all my life so i am forced to say that those of my colleagues who have spoken out on same sex marriage do not speak for me and neither i dare to say do they speak for the church of england they are rehearsing their own opinions posted in uncategorized some things i don t understand may 22 2012 leave a comment there s one or two things which i still don t understand about life such as why can mark zuckerberg reap 20 billion from the sale of facebook whilst simultaneously around a billion people globally starve why is it that those who were least able to create the credit crisis the marginalised and deprived are affected most by austerity whilst some bankers who created the crisis continue to take big bonuses how is it that we subsidise our farmers so there is no economic benefit in over producing food when 45 of the yemen s population starve some 10 million people in one of the driest least developed countries in the world i d also love to know why we happily pay our footballers many thousands of pounds a week whilst our nurses and teachers command around the same sort of sums in two or three years and whilst i m on it didn t the sci fi comics of my youth promise us that in the future machines and robots would do all the work for us and we would all live luxurious lives as all the wealth was fairly distributed to us all instead of as we can now see they simply rob many people of work further i still can t understand why we find it perfectly acceptable to march into iraq afghanistan and kuwait to free the oppressed and downtrodden people but somehow find it unacceptable to do the same in north korea and zimbabwe where unspeakable atrocities are a daily occurrence and why is it that what is a crisis and cataclysm of biblical proportions for the indigenous people of those countries somehow becomes a business and profit making opportunity for the west and why when we fight these wars of liberation do we call the accidental deaths of innocent women and children in the wake of our bombs collateral damage whilst those who kill innocents on our own shores are terrorists it seems also that we find it routine that we should be able to move to live and work in other countries mainly sunny and opportunity laden ones and yet often deny or restrict the ability of people from other countries to come here to do the same why oh why is it that we acknowledge the rising tide of unemployment in our country sometimes accepting it is a necessary economic tool for growth and then brand the unemployed benefit scroungers we are entitled to the biblical three score years and ten and yet recent studies show that the poor in our land die significantly younger than the rich then why when bob geldof highlighted the horror of global poverty all those years ago do we still live in a world where the difference between rich and poor is getting ever wider and more and more people suffer in a world of plenty these are some of the things that i don t understand but i m beginning to understand this that in 1980s there was a significant shift in the world to accept the theories of milton friedman as the basis of our economic structures asserting that there must be no barriers to free trade and no restrictions or accountability the western developed countries followed swiftly by those which wanted to develop rapidly were urged to let the tall grass grow taller and to let the bull free eschewing government interference in business profit became the only motive and we were encouraged to believe the newly created wealth would trickle down and so the theories of milton friedman became reaganomics so here we stand today in a world beset by debt crises and recession which in turn is a mere symptom of the greater world crisis which the things i do not understand point us to yet another thing i don t understand is after all this mayhem is over and the austerity has caused its suicides family breakups and brought more people into poverty and starvation why it is i have the lurking suspicion that some people will actually profit from this mess and the rich will continue to get richer and the poor poorer and will live in an ever more sharply economically divided world and communities is it too much to hope that after the putative withdrawal of greece from the euro and after the worst has happened in spain and the ripples of these two disasters are felt on our own shores and throughout the globe that we stand back and say i don t understand why we stand for this and demand a new and fairer way of running the economic affairs of the world shortly after the revolution in poland which brought lech walesa to power with the promise of a new order he was asked what would replace the severity of communism he answered a mixture it won t be capitalism it will be a system that is better than capitalism that will reject everything that is evil in capitalism i m waiting and i don t understand why we are being so patient posted in uncategorized a fantasy world may 14 2012 leave a comment thought for the day lincsfm it s true what they say having grandchildren is very different to bringing up your own kids released from the anxiety of having to ensure that the child behaves himself eats properly and shows appropriate good manners you can instead enjoy the wonders of childhood once again through the senses and emotions of the grandkid so one happy corollary of growing older and having kids who themselves have kids is that you can sit and watch children s tv completely unconcerned about whether it s educational or not and contributing to the child s maturation process it s simply fun recently my attempts to rediscover the unalloyed joys of our early years have led me into the the previously undiscovered and actually rather intimidating arena of the theme park disneyland paris beckoned as an entree into the genre and lately a rather drizzly visit to legoland confirmed both my grandson and i in the belief that there is nothing more exhilarating or fun than being jiggled about on a roller coaster like a human milk shake wandering through the imaginative delights of the minute cities all made out of the magic plastic bricks and suspending reality as we explored the lost world of atlantis ancient egypt and the scary unfamiliarity of the futuristic star wars display all was fantasy and fun a make believe world that just for a few moments allowed us to escape the real world outside and experience one full of unending wonder glitter and childish hope and awe we had of course to return and as i left behind my newly returned childish persona and re assumed my adult personality in the harsh world of reality outside the multi coloured doors i was left with two thoughts i wonder why it is that we can so easily create these worlds of wonder and awe with plastic and glitter and yet find it so difficult to work to make our real world one of hope and joy and love i also wondered why we often find ourselves blinded to and cynical about the wonders and beauty of this incredible creation we have been given to live in a world infinitely more wondrous than those created by the toymakers for we truly inhabit the mother of all miraculous worlds and perhaps we must all live and work to make it more so posted in uncategorized we re going up may 9 2012 4 comments so it s final after several months of some of the best and most committed football i have seen from a sheffield wednesday team for several years we have finished second in league one and earned automatic promotion the final day match with wycombe wanderers was something of a foregone conclusion and after a reasonable few minutes of wednesday besieging the already relegated opposition our winger antonio broke through and scored one of the tightest and classiest goals we have seen for some time in the second half nile ranger found the net with his head and sealed the deal that we would triumph over the blades and climb into the championship without having to go through the tension of the playoffs it was a suitably special and exciting occasion and thousands of blue and white clad fans stormed the pitch and carried the triumphant team on their shoulders i for one am delighted that we are going up and confidently predict that we will not remain the second tier too long before we reach once again the promised land of the premiership as exciting as it all was i was not left as exhilarated at this promotion as i was at our last one when we won the playoff final in cardiff it s worth examining why on reflection my slight doubts about saturday s occasion were borne out of the reality that both our goals were scored by on loan players from top class clubs these were players who had been brought to the club with our chairman s money the millionaire milan manderic at one point in the midst of saturday s dizzy excitement the crowd of some 38 000 people began to sing his name clearly hailing him as the saviour of our historic and venerable club with its roots deep in the working class community of sheffield threatened with extinction just a few months ago because of crippling debts which to my mind an incompetent former directorship had recklessly accrued milan had come to a deal with the lenders and bought sheffield wednesday as he had done leicester and portsmouth before for a mere 10 million pounds less than the cost of a lesser premiership player on saturday the crowd invested mandaric with all sorts of emotions and fine principles that they hoped he acted out of surely he poured money into the club because he loved it as much as we fans he must have saved wednesday because he felt sympathy and respect for a venerable institution did he not feel the same pain and pleasure at the club s fortunes was he not truly one of us the reality is that as badly run as the club was at that time when we last gained promotion we did it through the craft of an excellent manager paul sturrock who used to the full and with strategic genius the limited ability of the players we could then afford this time players capable of playing two leagues higher have seen us promoted there was something noble about the former as opposed to the uneasy feeling that this time promotion has been bought and bought at the expense of other worthy clubs who do not enjoy the attentions of the sugar daddy there is a whiff of unfairness in the air and what of milan s higher motives in all this well when he sacked gary megson and received the approbation of the fans his immediate response was to the effect that it was his money and his business and he would do what he liked and the fans could like it or lump it in truth milan is only at hillsborough because it represents a significant financial opportunity and when it stops being a putative cash cow he will sell the club just as he has elsewhere in fairness to him i don t think he has ever claimed otherwise in the meantime those 38 000 fans all of whom had paid high prices to attend the match and who lauded milan as a saviour should enjoy the new and i hope continued success of the club in the full knowledge that they are also contributing to certain individual s personal fortunes and are willing collaborators in this and that for some the only success that is of any consequence is financial and not the higher sporting achievements of humanity in the meantime i too will enjoy our climb up the league and the prospect of a higher standard of football and the consequent pride in our club and team but it will be with the uneasy feeling that all this will be achieved not for the general good and welfare of sheffield wednesday and its fans and the creation of a true club but for the personal gain of the few who will then take their capital elsewhere when the owls no longer represent a good investment or not as good as the next one posted in uncategorized it s all the same to me april 25 2012 1 comment as if the initial reports about anders breivik s murderous spree in oslo and the island of utoya wasn t enough to make us sick with grief for those innocents who were gunned down and numb with disbelief that such a thing could ever happen we are now having the drama replayed in the norwegian courtroom and it makes for distressing hearing as we remind ourselves that 77 unaware people unknown as individuals to breivik died it is chilling to hear of his mental preparations the deliberate sublimating of any human empathy about his actions we hear also how he strolled through the youth camp picking his targets shooting those close by with a hand gun and those further away and swimming in the lake with a high powered rifle there is speculation whether the organisation he ostensibly collaborates with exists are there other breiviks out there secretly bearing arms for the knights templar it is doubtful but then we didn t know of the existence of the murderous anders breivik describes his rampage as necessary and gives as his justification the fact that the youngsters belonged to the labour party and were therefore sympathisers with the multiculturalist cause that wished to both integrate and honour islamic and other cultures in european society he spared one man his life because his appearance made him look right wing now all this evidence of a seriously damaged and perverted mind builds up and it must be decided whether anders breivik is sane or insane if sane he is a dangerous terrorist and calculating assassin this is how he would like to be judged if insane we await a diagnosis of what particular illness afflicts him and whether it can be cured and prevented in others breivik does not want this verdict as it will portray him not as a heroic crusader for white european culture but as a sad and deeply flawed human being incapable of rational thought and action technically medically and scientifically the jury is out and agonised decisions are pored over by the experts but to any ordinary person looking on the cold hearted violence and twisted political posturing anders breivik is the very definition of insanity if not technically insane as an individual his actions are undoubtedly insane as they contradict every fibre of a right thinking person 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