Won't Get Fooled Again

[poliphilo]

 "I think we were wrong to close the Meeting House during lockdown," he said.

And the three of us who were having this conversation agreed.

"Some clergy did refuse to close their churches," said another of us.

"And what happened?"

"They may have been fined."

"And did they pay the fines?"

Shrug.

And then we got to discussing the Hancock whatsapps- and how they show just how he and his gang were ramping up the fear.

Hancock- the same guy who later went on a gameshow and ate bugs and kangaroo anuses for the entertainment of the masses and in order to display his "human side"- what a pipsqueak!

Next time this happens- and the likes of Hancock tell us to do things that go against our higher instincts there will be more- and better organised- non-compliance. First time they caught us on the hop. Next time we'll see them coming. 

Would George Fox- founder of the Society of Friends- have obeyed an order to discontinue his meetings? Course not. He'd have had something to say. Something coruscating. And he'd have gone to prison rather than knuckle under.

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What would George Fox have done?

[lauradi7dw]

I wondered. It seemed to me that we could make a good guess by seeing what he actually did when faced with a deadly contagious disease outbreak (the 1665 Bubonic plague in London and thereabouts). The answer is that he was in prison for the duration, so we don't get to see whether he chose to be in a meetinghouse or preached out in fields, which he had done earlier in his life.
I am glad to have spent the time with Wikipedia. I knew a little about George, but nothing about Margaret. She was fascinating.

Re: What would George Fox have done?

[poliphilo]

The early Quakers were an awe-inspiring bunch of people.