On This Day – 30th May 1381

On the 30th of May 1381, a chief tax-collector went to Fobbing in Essex to levy the second installment of the third Poll Tax. He was told in no uncertain terms where he could go, and the villagers refused to pay. This incident is seen as the starting point of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

Much has been written about this tax; it is said that it was onerous, that it was inequitable and that there was widespread evasion. Poll taxes were certainly ‘new and novel’, and, like all new taxes, were designed to ensure that those who did not normally contribute to taxation did so in future.

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My ‘God’ opinion

Ok, so in reply to a couple of posts on here, here is my response to the whole question of gods/God and if this offends, or the admin want to remove it, then so be it.

I have studied history, to quite a good level and have covered many time zones in this study and also looked into many leaders or Kings and seen how they have manipulated the religion subject to their own end.

Obviously Henry 8th is a good question in point.  He didn’t like his mrs, so he created a new religion that allowed himself to get divorced, almost as many times as he liked and this religion is the main religion in the UK as we speak.  There is also evidence, lots of it against the catholic church, paganism, sun worshiping and most other organised religions.

Egotististical monsters, such as Hitler, Marx, Ceaser….you pick a number have only ever manipulated it as a way of controlling people.  Back in the 18/1900’s there is much evidence to suggest that men worked all the hours that god sent monday to saturday and to stop people from straying, sundays were not only taken up with church in the morning, but church activites all day, so that people thought that the church was marvellous, but also gave them no time to think for themselves.

I used to do all of the church stuff, even used to be a sunday school teacher, but then I realised that life was out of there.  If ‘God’ was truely all around then why did I have to go to church on a sunday for the most boring hour of my life, when he was  ‘all around’?.

I believe in people, their spirits, and also an afterlife.  I cannot see why even the most complex chemical reactions in out brains would actually just be it, when we spend our lives living and learning, and then nothing.  I acutally, and you can be as sceptical as you like here, saw my mum’s spirit leave her body when she died, and that has got to have moved onto the next plane/plain, but this has nothing to do with somebody declaring that priests should not be allowed to marry, that you must go and be bored on a sunday and whenever else to worship your own ‘god’ and anything else.

I think that the essence of most religions should be applied to our everyday lives-the ten commandments, the comapssion and the following the ‘rules’ etc, this is and has to be the way that mankind gets on, on this planet, but the way that us humans are ‘programmed’ is that somebody or something has to be responsible for the bad and good things in our lives ends up in us believeing in something that is beyond our control.  Each and everyone of us has to believe in something higher or better than ourselves in order to survive.  I don’t consider myself to be aethiest, if anything a pagan, but whenever we need help in something we all say ‘please god’ or something good happens we say ‘thankyou god’.

I know nothing, but you decide, just my humble point of view.

xxxx

Today we were all Sowetans

Today the spirit of camradiership and togetherness flowed through the spirit and blood of the people of South Africa just as in 1995 (RWC) and 1996 (CAF), today we are a nation united.

The decision by the Blue Bulls management to play their remainingSuper14  games (a semi-final against the mighty NZ Crusaders) and today’s final (against the Cape Town based Stormers) at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto was a masterstroke.

We the sports loving people of South Africa were the winners, the football world cup is less than two weeks away, our football team had two very credible results this week (a draw with Bulgaria and a win against Columbia) Our cricketers are 3-0 up in a 5 match series against the Windies

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Quick Catch Up

I realise that this is of no interest to most of you on here, but I like to blog about my life, get it out ‘there’ and see if anyone can give me some input, in anyway.

So, Paul, my partner, went into rehab last friday, for 3 months.  I will be perfectly honest with you here, I had NO idea that I was going to miss him, not really, but as soon as he got on the bus to go, I knew that the bottom was dropping out of my world and that I was going to miss him with all my heart.  This hasn’t changed.  I miss his company, I miss cuddles, I miss his offbeat sense of humour, I miss everything about him.  I really love and admire him for what he is doing, because yes, he does like a drink, but he is doing it to prove to Talwyn how much he wants to make this family work and how much he wants to try and put their relationship back on track. Continue reading “Quick Catch Up”

The trouble with gods…

…is incompetence. If a supposed omnipotent being cannot deliver a single, clear message to all of its creations, what does that say about omnipotence? If not omnipotent, then not a god. That makes all the mummery the same, whether a shaman rattling the bones or a priest shaking a censer while they both mutter magic spells, no difference, just superstition, that’s all.