Won't Get Fooled Again
Mar. 6th, 2023 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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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Date: 2023-03-06 01:48 pm (UTC)weekmonth face-to-face but I take the laptop and yesterday there were three of us in person and two joining remotely. One member has just adopted a new dog and can't leave him alone for the time it would take to travel to meeting, attend and then travel back. We're hoping the dog may actually be able to join us in future. Dolobran (one of the oldest meeting houses) near the Welsh border usually has a couple of dogs who attend.