Social class is definitively an issue for us here in the UK
If some are upwardly mobile
It seems some must go down?
Unless we all get equal pay…?

We keep seeing this in the paper…will the public school educated etc step down?Seems unlikely.

I seem to lack the energy for writing prose.No doubt 3 weeks on antibiotics might not be altogether good for one even if it’s necessary.I feel too weak to post a  letter.Writing it was hard enough.Maybe I’ll have to do some kind of art without words.

Please do not speak during the General Erection.

Kindly keep off the Mass at all chimes,owls and whispers/

Do not keel for prayer today.Stand up.

In  our religion, we are buried 24 hours before death…….we use guesstimates.

Holy Communion didn’t prevent the Shoa.

Digression has almost died out in the Catholic mind

i have always found life a hard druggle but birthwhile in the end for some

Grass has no leaves

After church women gossip and men get drunk.What’s the weed? Grass

i am an illegible variant.

What’s wrong with fake,anyway?

Am I upwardly nubile?

Our doctor cured the ham but not me.

God moves in his wisteria’d plays so we never see her now.

Was Jesus a Jew?Am I  a poet ? This is logical disparity as we call it in Nuxford.The scales fell off my eyes so the machine didn’t balance.Just like us.

Civilisation is the price of war.

Men like it shot

Apparently I  ought to blaspheme now.That is kosher or as Cleopatra said,where is the bed?Jews,Arabs. Egyptians,garages, borders,walls,they are all won to me by my teapot which is very large,almost a barge in a very feeling  sense.Just knock it off and drink  it up together ,buoys.

Men are very confused and it’s not good for them

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/23/offensive-art-holy-book-bomb-chocolate-jesus

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/28/i-admire-charlie-hebdos-courage-but-it-does-not-deserve-a-pen-award

Francine Prose is a well thought of American writer.She was against Charlie Hebdo being given the PEN awar but she says she believes in total freedom of speech.

I used to take that position.When we had no internet  and other mass communication it was usually freedom of speech within your own country or ones nearby.But even here freedom of speech has not always been allowed,.I mean by that there was a struggle to attain it just as Catholics struggled to get the vote and only got it in the UK in about 1817.Similarly racial discrimination was  completely legal  until  the race relations act in 1964 when Harold Wilson was PM.

The problem with world-wide free speech is that when newspapers or magazines publish very nasty cartoons about another country’s religion,if that country is what we meanly call ” behind” us politically then they are going to be very wounded and hurt like Catholics might be  if one   made  cruel jokes about Holy Communion or Jesus.But Catholics here are used to a certain amount of that and are unlikely to react violently..They know that certain magazines would be only to happy to know that Christians were very hurt.Similarly Jews have been subjected to  derogatory cartoons and stories but if they live here they understand the notion of free speech.And with the internet nasty stories or cartoons are seen across the world very rapidity

Yet someone I know who was born here nearly 100 years ago to a Russian Jewish family still recalls with pain how he and his wife who just escaped from Germany before WW 2 were refused admission to a superior local golf club which all his colleagues  and their wives/husbands  went to.Hard to imagine  but it is only 60 years ago.

People living in countries which were catapulted into the modern era from being mainly peasants and farmers probably because oil was found  in their country will not yet have become inured to the notion that people csn insult their religion as a mere joke or a teasing  of them.If we want peace we must have some empathy for the Other even if we disagree with their  attitudes.

And as a woman I would not like it if Private Eye constantly had jokes about the stupidity  of  women.

Obviously it will be hard to say where the line should be drawn but I emphasis the need for respect of others’ treasured  beliefs and the need to treat them with understanding. and dignity.Yet we do not wish to return to censorship either

As  bloggers I am sure that many of us have moderated or deleted comments.In other words, we don’t allow totally  free speech in our comments section.We can even block certain people of we choose presumably thinking they will criticise us in a nasty way.Yet we expect Muslims and Jews and Christians to  take insults to their values and beliefs without protest.

If we eat a meal with others we do not say whatever we think of however rude.We are concerned to be courteous and kind to guests even if they disagree politically or religiously.If we discuss those ihings we show  guests respect if we can.

I know we would not wish to shoot people who said rude things about Jesus [ blasphemy]  and any violent attack ih those who hurt is evil and illegal.But as I read yesterday,people become terrorists when they have nothing to lose.Unfortunately there are quite a  lot of people in the Middle East where they may feel they have little to lose and so are willing to die for their beliefs.If they had more to lose that would restrain them.