dandelion patch
Get over it. This has nothing to do with God...
but everything to do with people; the failings of people and our people oriented systems. And I don't mean the jaunty angle of this coastal horizon. Where do we start? I appreciate finding a relevant voice for events last Friday is almost impossible given the foolish words uttered by so many (with scriptwriters) obliged to say something. I closed down posts for the past 10 days to find my voice... my privilege and given my own reaction to our world's leadership comments (i). It is a time for thought and taking stock of how far we have traveled in the past thousand years. The Paris trauma is nothing new. Lebanon attacks the day before. The Russian aircraft earlier in the month. Tunisia and right back into recent history. Atrocities in Palestine and Israel... Syria and Iraq provide the wallpaper of failures. Is this war? No... is this Islam? No. Given the energy inherent in the French motto "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" the first sublimation of sense arrived very quickly with the international plea for solidarity... humanity. Theological, philosophical and political leadership is washed up and washed out... bankrupt. Saying nothing... too silent and evidently just not fit for purpose. In truth this soft but essential infrastructure has probably never evolved beyond the acclaimed age of enlightenment and has yet to present in ways to influence and temper the presiding partisan narrative. I hear a report of something spoken by Archbishop Welby in the national news. Maybe reported incorrectly and out of context but I found facile, stupid and serving no value. I appreciate this is harsh but does he need to highlight the fact that faith leaders are capable of normal thoughts around ideology and interpretation of it. "Saturday morning, I was out and as I was walking I was praying and saying: 'God, why – why is this happening? Where are you in all of this?'" Welby said during an interview with the BBC's Songs of Praise."
People everywhere need to see and hear of compassion in its most robust and inclusive form. The atrocities are inspired entirely by a group of people exercising a wholly unpalatable ideology against society complicit in ideology Daesh find unpalatable. The patient tracking and timely capture and then trial of known people (from Osama binLadin to Emwazi) would have been far more constructive than the official default prospect... years of bombing sorties and missile strikes deliver only more misery. There are a number of ideologies that conduct a regime of fundamental... selective interpretation of teachings to maintain a context of intolerance to others and that demand eternal fearfulness, separateness, repression and hate from their followers, Wisdom and sense and not airplanes and bombs should have been working to win the day over the decade. Given the standing forces of 'professional' faith leaders, no corrupted ideology on the world stage should present any great challenge to demobilize the multitudes of lost and misguided minds and souls. Come on faith leaders begin to earn your crust... sprinkle dust to visible give form to sick ideologies.
22.11.2015. Sunday: J catches early morning train for Gib. Here cold with temperature sitting around 1 or 2C with a few showers and very few sunny spells. (overnight had some rain given the condition of one of my primed pluviometers. Visit to the coast with friends visiting from the Penines and then the Low Lights for warmth and comfort.
(i). Because the dandelion patch is intended as a daily contribution, I will record the images and some thoughts of those 10 days in reverse.
Get over it. This has nothing to do with God...
but everything to do with people; the failings of people and our people oriented systems. And I don't mean the jaunty angle of this coastal horizon. Where do we start? I appreciate finding a relevant voice for events last Friday is almost impossible given the foolish words uttered by so many (with scriptwriters) obliged to say something. I closed down posts for the past 10 days to find my voice... my privilege and given my own reaction to our world's leadership comments (i). It is a time for thought and taking stock of how far we have traveled in the past thousand years. The Paris trauma is nothing new. Lebanon attacks the day before. The Russian aircraft earlier in the month. Tunisia and right back into recent history. Atrocities in Palestine and Israel... Syria and Iraq provide the wallpaper of failures. Is this war? No... is this Islam? No. Given the energy inherent in the French motto "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" the first sublimation of sense arrived very quickly with the international plea for solidarity... humanity. Theological, philosophical and political leadership is washed up and washed out... bankrupt. Saying nothing... too silent and evidently just not fit for purpose. In truth this soft but essential infrastructure has probably never evolved beyond the acclaimed age of enlightenment and has yet to present in ways to influence and temper the presiding partisan narrative. I hear a report of something spoken by Archbishop Welby in the national news. Maybe reported incorrectly and out of context but I found facile, stupid and serving no value. I appreciate this is harsh but does he need to highlight the fact that faith leaders are capable of normal thoughts around ideology and interpretation of it. "Saturday morning, I was out and as I was walking I was praying and saying: 'God, why – why is this happening? Where are you in all of this?'" Welby said during an interview with the BBC's Songs of Praise."
People everywhere need to see and hear of compassion in its most robust and inclusive form. The atrocities are inspired entirely by a group of people exercising a wholly unpalatable ideology against society complicit in ideology Daesh find unpalatable. The patient tracking and timely capture and then trial of known people (from Osama binLadin to Emwazi) would have been far more constructive than the official default prospect... years of bombing sorties and missile strikes deliver only more misery. There are a number of ideologies that conduct a regime of fundamental... selective interpretation of teachings to maintain a context of intolerance to others and that demand eternal fearfulness, separateness, repression and hate from their followers, Wisdom and sense and not airplanes and bombs should have been working to win the day over the decade. Given the standing forces of 'professional' faith leaders, no corrupted ideology on the world stage should present any great challenge to demobilize the multitudes of lost and misguided minds and souls. Come on faith leaders begin to earn your crust... sprinkle dust to visible give form to sick ideologies.
22.11.2015. Sunday: J catches early morning train for Gib. Here cold with temperature sitting around 1 or 2C with a few showers and very few sunny spells. (overnight had some rain given the condition of one of my primed pluviometers. Visit to the coast with friends visiting from the Penines and then the Low Lights for warmth and comfort.
(i). Because the dandelion patch is intended as a daily contribution, I will record the images and some thoughts of those 10 days in reverse.