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With @jontsta & @supritffion on way to #keepnhspublic #saveournhs demonstration http://www.keepournhspublic.com/meetings/20130518London.pdf
"… Hell isn’t all that Biblical
Very few of these ideas are from the Bible. The Bible does refer to Hell and its fires, but more of the details in Dante are drawn from Greek and Roman myths, and the vast majority are the creation of medieval Western imagination. Eastern Christian artists never shared their interest, and even in the West it was a late development - the doctrine of perpetual torment was propounded by the Lateran Council of 1215, just a century before Dante wrote. In modern times Christians have become increasingly sceptical about Hell. There are 622 verses in the Bible (in the New International Version) which mention Heaven, and 15 that mention Hell."
"Britain is in deep trouble. The privatising is out of the control, the militarising is out of control and the financialising is out of control. And what I mean from that is you have a cold-hearted, mean-spirited budget that the Queen just read; you have working and poor people under panic, you have this obsession with immigration that tends to scapegoat the most vulnerable rather than confront the most powerful. And it is not just black immigrants, but also our brothers and sisters from Poland and Bulgaria, Romania; right across the board.” He isn’t ranting. He doesn’t rant. He smiles, he growls gently, he leans in and whispers conspiratorily. There is an upside, he says. “Britain has a rich history of bouncing back too."
Cornel West is spot on: http://m.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/13/cornel-west-they-say-i-am-unamerican?CMP=twt_gu
"Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly…
“Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God"
“A Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe.
The Radical History Of (US) Mothers Day http://huff.to/137MzfU
Trying to end night on a positive: Was fun to finally practice on my old trombone again today. #happySabbath everyone
NHS privatisation explained - YouTube
Get Lucy Reynolds on all UK media - we need the truth!
Privatisation is a virus spreading across the world. The NHS back to it’s founding principles is the cure. Damn you Conservatives, New Labour and the Liberal Democrats for letting this happen!!!
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Epictetus http://thinkexist.com/quotation/be_careful_to_leave_your_sons_well_instructed/147575.html
