Beyond Imagination
Volume 1 2022
I
IN THE BLINK of an eye, Humankind sees that which was incomprehensible a hundred and twenty years ago.
A little before that, mention that one day a man would land on the moon meant swift dispatch to a lunatic asylum. A little before that, death by the state by the foulest means possible.
When the Wright Brothers flew those 120 feet ( just a tip short of 37 meters) above ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, not many, if any, foresaw the sophisticated dogfights over the trenches on the Western Front in World War I, nor indeed any world wars.
Few saw transatlantic flight as ever being able to take precedence over the liners.
Fewer still would have envisaged the ferocious air battles of World War II, or even of that war.
Few if any in 1900 would have envisaged that image so beautifully caught through the artist’s lens by Amanda Fewings.
What? Liners in the sky?
What? Landing every two minutes?
What? aeriel liners “stacking up” like we stack the bricks up in the yard?
Away with you! You’ve had too much to drink, or you’re filling your head with religious twaddle, or maybe even worse, you’ve been concocting potions from mushrooms again!
Be away with you.
II
No. None of us would have foreseen this, even though our ingenuity in every sphere of development and discovery was moving at such a pace that we could be forgiven for saying that it was all too much and must therefore be unreal.
But in this dimension, I know full well that I have that incontrovertible evidence that we are indeed no accident.
I find too that the more intelligent and able a person is, the more likely that person is to insist that everything did indeed happen by chance. They can see the incredibly complex multi-layered systems we all build for ourselves, the precision, the intellect; but faced with the Cosmos, no such perfection apparently exists. It is all happenchance.
Thankfully, even greater minds remain ahead of them - those able to remove religion and all its corruption from the equation, I speak of the likes of Albert Einstein here - and to see the equation, the ultimate act of engineering, and conclude with quiet and grateful humility that, yes, we are indeed a curious phenomenon and that there is no ending to this, and that life in the spirit and the soul does indeed go on ad infinitum.
Moreover, planned, created, and then set in motion.
Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool and Gloucestershire
14 August 2022
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
One of the Fifteen Founding Members of the Leaders Lodge
Written December 13, 2020
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
