Rosie Wench's Cottage

okay bb.

1. israel is the reestablished JEWISH STATE. judaism permeates EVERYTHING IN ISRAEL LMAO. the work week, the school systems (jewish religious schools are still public. you have public secular, public arab, public religious AND THAT’S JEWISH. you can send your kid to another religious school but the main ones are jewish), the bus schedules, the names of streets, THE HISTORIC SITES, the food, the calendar, many of the laws.

2. half the world’s jews live there.

“i’m talking about zionists not jews”

zionism is the jewish rights movement, my good googly eyed bitch. it was created BY jews FOR jews.

what did zionists want to establish? a JEWISH STATE.

“christians are zionists.”

dude i’ve seen muslims claim to be zionists. plenty of non indigenous people supported AIM. plenty of non black people supported the freedom riders and joined them even. doesnt mean shit.

in addition, why do you call it jewish supremacy if youre not talking about jews? why do you list out every antisemitic libel and stereotype if it somehow isnt about jews? why do you mock jewish holy texts and erase jewish history if you somehow don’t mean jews?

The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Can I also add.

I've been reading a lot about the idea of 're-enchantment'. And what's being said is right. The enchantment itself hasn't gone anywhere.

Just like our own forebears embraced it as part of life, children still do, and many cultures still do. It's a case of us learning to see it again too.

Symbolism, the idea of the world around us as living and breathing, just like ourselves, the power of myth, folklore and fairy tale.

The material world is real, yes. But it's only one layer, not the only one. We might not see the other layers with our adult eyes in quite the same way as our childhood eyes did. But it's there, waiting for us to become reaquainted.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying things from childhood again. In fact it can be great to look on them again with adult eyes.

And that's the point. It won't look quite the same as adults as it did when we were children, and that's OK. A new relationship can be good on its own terms.

But as it's said above, we mustn't let it be used to get us buying absolute rubbish based on nostalgia.

If it doesn't have the quality and standards of what we originally enjoyed, then it's not worth the nostalgia, and definitely not worth the money.

Many corporations have been guilty of this. But it's hard to not be hyper aware of Disney, largely because of the especial mess they've made.

It sucks to have to admit that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Mussollini,Ceausescu etc, everyone famous for mass murder and other atrocities, were human beings just like the rest of us.

But we need to do just that. OK, we might not go so far as these people did.

But history is full of examples of ordinary people, just like ourselves, being persuaded into doing some seriously terrible things.

we often see ordinary time as “boring” as opposed to lent or easter

but during ordinary time, Jesus, the son of God, was doing normal things just like what you and me do

Did he talk walks and with joke with his disciples between preaching? Did he ever visit Our Lady and check up on her? Did he cook with his disciples and pray with them?

Happy 13th Birthday, George! 🎉

✍️ The Prince and Princess of Wales

With traffic in London increasing and with it congestion and parking issues, the Police and Police Constables on the beat had jurisdiction over all things traffic, to directing traffic and parking to also dealing with injury and non injury accidents alike. In April 1960 the first Traffic Wardens were introduced in the Westminster area to take the pressure of the Police.

Double yellow lines and parking meters had both of course been introduced in London during the late 1950s, and after the Westminster experiment, wardens were rolled out across London in September 1960. They were employed by the police to enforce parking restrictions, and had powers of enforcement over parking and traffic management such as directing traffic.

It's interesting that because parking was delt with by the Police via wardens, it was actually a criminal offence. The process for challenging a ticket was to go to a Magistrates Court and be tried, risking a far bigger fine if found guilty, and ignoring a ticket could actually lead to a prison sentence (not directly, but via contempt of court for not paying a fine). 

The Road Traffic Act of 1991 eventually decriminalised parking enforcement, and this allowed councils to apply for the power to enforce some of the restrictions themselves, and to encourage them to do so, it allowed them to keep the money raised. So eventually traffic wardens employed by the Police were phased out, with parking jurisdiction passing to Councils as today. But interestingly some traffic jurisdiction passing back to the police to enforce. This film from 1967 gives us a little insight into a 60s London wardens duties.