Is that single area of damage really the reason to close the WHOLE site, indefinitely ?

Yet the leave the M11 open, a mere 200 metres away…

Staying with the prayer theme a moment……( light hearted but very resonant)

A reporter goes to Israel to cover the fighting. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest. Something like that guy in Sarajevo who risked his life to play the cello everyday in the town square.

In Jerusalem, she heard about an old Jew who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She goes to the Wailing Wall and there he is!

So she watches him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turns to leave, she approaches him for an interview.

“Rebecca Smith, CNN News. Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall and praying?”

“For about 50 years.”

“What do you pray for?”

“For peace between the Jews and the Arabs. For all the hatred to stop. For our children to grow up in safety and friendship.”

“How do you feel after doing this for 50 years?”

“Like I’m talking to a fecking wall.”

I have slight admiration for RpR, and his dogged, solitary defense, a triumph of tenacity over rationality.

I suspect he will not be ‘enlightened’ or ‘turned’ away from his faith, and there is no need that he should be , unless by his own volition and broader contemplation.

Increasingly though , people are no longer in thrall of religious dogma, questioning the logic, the motivation, and the message itself, and when examined with any critical appraisal it really begins to look barking mad, and dangerous with it.

I like the buildings, some of the music, a few of the traditions, a lot of the people ( for their compassion and humanity) but really, I think it is time to let it all go.

Its looking approximately north east, with part of the village of Whittlesford in the background. The ground behind Sally B is rising from right to left away from Duxford village and up towards the A505 (pre M11).
The hills / trees in the far distance are known locally as Wandlebury !

Rob

So am I right in supposing that all that hard-standing has gone under the plough, since it isn’t there now as far as I can see. This must be pretty near where the Movie ‘chateau’ was erected.

If it was the same year (as I remember) the Hellcat was flown by Hoof Proudfoot. I have some pictures of him sitting in the cockpit.
It was a very sunny day and he did a very nice display IIRC.

Not sure about that. Stephen Grey’s first fighter was P51 ‘Moose’ , and he did not take delivery until 1981

Great news ! Richly deserved.

I very happily would leave anyone to worship whomsoever they like, and leave them to get on with it.

The trouble is, so many of those with ‘faith’, have no intention of leaving the non-believers alone. Take a look around the globe, and witness the thousands of people who are losing more than the ‘skin off their nose’

The issue of conflict rooted in religion is getting worse, not better, but the real worry is the scope and ambition to inflict ever greater damage and casualties upon those societies with an increasingly secular bias. Look at all the news events which have rocked our world, and you will struggle to find one not rooted in religious convictions. Take the 9/11 attacks as a starting point. Then ask the family of Lee Rigby. Or maybe the London bombings.

As we sit here, there are people without doubt working out how they might unleash some sort of nuclear hell upon us and our society. That will probably come out of the chaotic melting pot of Iran, Irag Pakistan, or Syria.

Why are they doing it? Because it is God’s will, apparently.

Many people are quite rightly frightened of the threats which now face us, they look around at all the insanity arising from the corrupted ‘faith’ of the believers, and they say ‘Enough!’ . Seriously, religion could be the death of us.

My invisible friend is better than your invisible friend, and my invisible friend says i should kill you (horribly) if you say anything different.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Personally, I believe in the magic pixie who lives in the volcano. You may not believe in him, but I demand that you respect my mental delusions.

Then again, we could move from the stone-age into the 21st century, admit that thunder is not God being angry, and dump the whole nonsensical, toxic, controlling, contradictory claptrap in the bin.