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Perhaps the most remarkable thing for us all as people, is the ease with which we can both ‘see and solve’ other people’s problems whilst being incapable of doing the same for ourselves, we may be ‘Angels to others’ but we are assuredly ‘Angels with broken wings’ when it comes to ourselves.

Of course the reality is simply that of ‘emotional involvement’. We can take a Helicopter View of other people’s problems simply because they are not ours and we can therefore be totally objective and because all changes carry costs, we are insulated from those costs which is not the case whilst going through our own “changes”. So this little essay is about me asking someone else for help…

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It is both amusing if rather sad also that one only need put “Pope” somewhere in a headline to bring out a lot of lickspittle spite from those who are anti theist by default or those who consider themselves “far too intellectually smart”, no different whether in the reader’s columns of the Telegraph, Independent or Guardian.

I suppose my conclusion on these things is quite simple, the Pope must be doing something right to attract such mindless bile because the opposite of Love is not Hate, it is indifference.

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As we are now in mid November, I have reached the point where I as usual, just stop shopping until the New Year and that includes the Internet which is my favourite form of shopping. This may just be an age and stage thing, but still…

When I moved down to Somerset to look after my Parents, my children, their grandchildren would often ask me what Nan and Granddad wanted for Christmas/Birthday and my replies were just never that helpful because when you reach a certain age and stage, the simple answer is “nothing” or at least, nothing you could expect someone else to buy you.

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A 70 year old idiot called Ray Gosling went on a regional chat show and claimed that he had killed a former lover suffering from Aids by smothering him with a pillow. The Independent wrote an Editorial questioning all this: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-misguided-intervention-1902769.html

Gosling’s claim (if true), was to say the least, totally absurd and if he is campaigning for a “Right to Die”, totally counter productive to the “cause”. This man is no martyr, just another vain attention seeking old gay fart who can’t get a shag and because being GAY is all now ‘de rigeur in the Media’ let his gob runaway with him without regard to the potential audience. It is highly likely that because of idiots like him, the ‘acceptance’ of Gay People generally by the public at large will be put back somewhat rather than’advanced’, silly old Queer !

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I have always found little to distinguish between the sheer bestiality of both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia towards human beings. From this as a young man I used to joke about people being Communist but with Fascist tendencies which was to say, these two apparent extremes are really the same.

I believe that right across the globe, change for the better will come and will sweep away the Socialist scourge that we have seen in Europe and most especially in the UK where under New Labour we have seen the the combination of a Government of control freaks who have also managed to be totally incompetent and corrupt at the same time as failing to control anything.

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In the 1688 Bill of Rights and later reinforced in the Act of Settlement in 1701, Catholics were positively discriminated against so that they could never marry into the Royal Family and become therefore Queen or Queen’s Consort and retain their religion and therefore an assumed “allegiance to Rome”.

The proposal is in a Private Members Bill launched by Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris which as most do, will fail without Government support. However in terms of changing the current state of affairs, even as a Catholic, I oppose such changes and any modifications should be considered carefully and over time.

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I was watching a DT blog the other day written by George Pitcher concerning British Muslims and advocating tolerance and so forth. In no time at all there were quite a flood of comments 90% of which were negative, a number of which were very anti-religion of any kind.

As a Catholic of Irish origins but London born, I have an empathy with all British Asians (note not just Muslims), following 9/11 and 7/7 they are often viewed as the “Enemy Within”. This has always been so for Catholics, take a “Catholic Stance” on anything even today and watch the vitriol and bile flow in the “Reader’s Comments of the DT, if you doubt me.

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