GOOD CHRISTIAN VIBES FIRST THING IN THE MORNING

A contact of mine, Matt, is making an attempt to revive the Men’s Christian group here in Midsomer Norton and suggested that we meet this morning Saturday the 11th of January in our local Wetherspoons. It was a breakfast meeting so started at 8 a.m thus necessitating setting my alarm and rising in the dark

I decided to walk instead of taking the car because I couldn’t be bothered to clean all the ice off the windows for such a short journey. The sun was about to rise as I walked. I arrived at the pub to find as is normal a very few people there, a couple eating breakfast, two single men sitting on their own, the cleaning staff on their way out.

There was my friend David looking out for visitors. There were only three of us for the first half hour or so. I  I’ve always taken the view that it doesn’t matter about the number of people so long as the feeling of fellowship is there. Brits have the great talent of making the best of things and this was no exception.

We spoke a little bit about the world situation, particularly the fires in California and I commented that there was virtually we could do and the situation was just plain sad. There’s no point in getting angry.

The fires were evidentially started deliberately by DEW Directed Energy Weapons steered from Area 51and if you have been following the developments they (the Deep State) tried it previously and succeeded in Paradise which is a small town, Maui which is in Hawaii and now Los Angeles.

You can tell it was a directed energy weapon because trees which you would normally expect to burn are un-singed and in the real world you don’t get high winds combined with selective burning in five or six places at the same time with some houses left intact and others burnt to a  cinder.

I knew it was only a matter of time before the news came out and sure enough pretty much on cue it’s appeared. The insurance companies refused to pay out and have left the state for some reason best known to them and it’s now up to the government to pick up the tap. Good luck with 10,000 homes many of high value. Negotiators will spend many happy hours trying to pair down the amount they pay in compensation and looking at the extent of the problem

I do wonder whether rebuilding will ever occur. Why the headline of this entry? Sad as an interesting history. From the old English sæd meaning sated, full, having had once filled or food, weary of, we come to the current meaning, weary, tired of, unhappy, sorrowful, melon collie, mournful. I can save that I was saddened by the news which means it made me sorrowful.

SAD SAD SAD

About the California fires I just felt not depressed, not down, but just sad. What is it about human nature that decides that 10,000 homes should be destroyed and the recipients denied realistic compensation. They must have a contempt for human beings

There is a more current use  of the word sad and that is in connection with someone who performs an action time and time again that is considered pathetic or unworthy or inappropriate for example ‘he’s one of these sad individuals that does not have a social life’.  California makes me sad, that someone could deliberately burn a place down, which again in my view to make way for the planned 15 minute cities.

I said many things to the group that I hoped were of value in my usual over-enthusiastic manner. It was sparked off by Dave who said that as a previous occasion he set down with a friend to eat and a single older man asked if he could join them.

This was an unusual request to say the least but David invited him to join them.  It was quite obvious that this man needed to converse and was lonely and sure enough they had a good conversation including the history of the area going back to when this old man went to school which he told me was originally situated  in the car park of the current Sainsbury’s.

I said that the need to converse was hard wired in to us and it is not a sign of weakness but of humanity. I told the group about my forth coming trips to the Isle of Wight and to Dorset for a conference about the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene.

We left about 9:30 a.m catalyzed by a group of people including for teenagers entering our cabin room who made no bones about their enthusiasm and joy in life.  Wetherspoons has created the environment which is suitable for families and if there is someone making a noise then that’s part of the informal protocol – you put up with it or move away.