The Queen

 (I did this 10 years ago for the Diamond Jubilee.)

 

Wh H Th

This pleases me:

Where	Here	There
Whither	Hither	Thither
Whence	Hence	Thence

 Also:

Off	On
Doff	Don

 

Wish I'd thought of this sooner

I've had a bit of a tidying bug recently (about time) and I've been greatly helped by this file. I got it years ago and never used it, but I eventually found it hiding in the loft.

So much tidying involves going through heaps of paper. A lot can be recycled, but I never know what to do with the stuff I really do want to keep, so it accumulates in piles, that then need to be sorted through again...

But now it has a home!

Out of sight

I was recently rewatching the original Stargate movie. MASSIVE SPOILER FOLLOWS

In it, Ra is waited on by an entourage of child attendants, who, when he is threatened, are trained to instantly act as a human shield.

Of course, when they do that, our guys stop their attack. They're not going to shoot a bunch of children.

However, all's well that ends well. Ra is finally defeated, and Earth is saved, when O'Neil nukes his ship and kills him.

And, in the process, presumably kills those same children (and the cat).

 

This made me think of Hiroshima. It has been argued that the bombing was justified, because of the many more lives it potentially saved.

However, would those who ordered or carried out the attacks have considered it an acceptable loss of life if they had had to individually execute all of those tens of thousands of civilian men, women and children? Or even mow a crowd of them down with machine guns?

It seems to me that, if war is considered to be ethical at all, the more hands on the better. If you are fighting hand to hand with an enemy who you can see (and who also has a fair chance of killing you) you know what you're doing, and you're putting your life on the line for your cause, whatever it is.

Throwing death from a distance at unseen enemies dehumanises them - and hardens you.

Colosseum / Herod's temple size comparison

 Answer to question in previous post:

(very simplified plans)

Questions I was asked in Sunday School yesterday

What was the date of the Flood? (Note, the lesson did not refer to the flood, even obliquely).

Was the Temple (Herod's) bigger or smaller than the Colliseum?

A few weeks ago, we had: How could Jesus give up his life? He was on the cross so he couldn't do anything to kill himself.

They certainly keep us on our toes 😁

Remember and Proclaim

To celebrate our church's Good Friday meal restarting after a 2 year gap.

A lot shorter (and cheerier) than the previous music video I posted!