MfH Vigour
Moments from History
Volume 2 : August 18, 2014
ON THIS Monday morning and the new week, let us step forward with vigour and determination; let us have a spring in our step and not be daunted by those who would seek to change our way of life. Let us guard our freedoms, the freedom that freeborn men and women hold dear.
Let us all - men and women alike - heed the advice, when it seemed to us in the west that the world, though dangerous, was still a safer place.
Let us be vigilant.
Let us guard our freedoms.
Let us remember the sacrifices paid by our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, and not throw in the towel, when they withstood.
Let us recall those astounding words, that unbelievable warning that, eighty years on, takes on fresh meaning, fresh impetus, renewed strength:
… that if we fail to stand up to tyranny...
“... the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have hoped and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science...
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves... [ibid]”
Whatever faith or creed we live by, we can and do live peaceably together, and to the common good.
No one man or woman, no one community or people, no one religion, no single colour can state with even the vaguest assurance that they alone have the ear of their Deity. That is arrogance.
Arrogance flaunts the stage, demanding the footlights.
The oft-quoted promise of seventy awaiting in paradise, masks an ugly promise that could only possibly come from a debased mind …
… if you do this act of outrage and carnage for me,
then you will have all the sex you want
for ever and ever in paradise.
[informal]
History, though, shines the blinding searchlight of white light from high up, high in the upper circle, exposing darkness in full retreat and from whose light there is literally no escape.
How strange! This notion of “vestal virgins”.
How revealing, on the motivations and actions of filthy-minded men who kneel, chins to the sand, bottoms high to the sky. How strange that this should be a man’s only thought, his only aim.
Let us therefore be encouraged and assured.
Let us not be weighed in the balances and found wanting.
Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool
August 18, 2014
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2021
One of the Fifteen Founding Members of Leaders Lodge
First written August 18, 2014
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.
