Re: change-over ceremony ad/eo....eccentric ?

the power of an idea in people's heads is well-known. i have evidence for this one : when arrested by our good sargeant o'sullivan (the same who helped consign you gillies, to newcastle) in dunlavin late november ad 1978, he enquired if i had anything to say. "i appeal to jesus" was my reply, which took him aback for a moment, but was duly written down. subsequently he and garda quigley (who lives to tell his tale) conspired to halt the hearing (from mountjoy) in naas, the judge was taken aback and the sarge came forward and spoke to the clerk, who spoke to the judge, who enquired if i wished the case to be dismissed at that point. (he had been caught out, and it had been brought home to him) i replied that i wished it to go ahead , and was found technically guilty but let off , with notice to probation officer to contact me and see if he could help with my difficulties. outside the court-room the superintendant from baltinglass, who had come for the case , shook my hand, and o'sullivan drove me back, enquiring conditions in the gaol. (ok i said except too cold,,,,he didn't like that. ) after that my family survived against local hostility with the protection of the gardai.

i have ever since treated the district gardai with especial respect (except when the rural policing system was changed and both o's and quigley prematurely retired....it took some time for the dust to settle, and alma was dying just then), as i have often written to them, including in the present issue. without them my family and i would have been driven out of here. i'm grateful to welfare, too....astonishingly tolerant and helpful, in my experience.

nor does not calling myself a theist make me an atheist. ( i do not deny the possibility of a loving divinity, as you can read on my web-site para 9, reprinted below). this is the sort of trap you regularly claim i fall into. silly. your other points i register as points you make . (i'm grateful for all replies, as they stimulate me.....Stephen plays a similar role on the spot) as ever ~ hugh

obolworld.blogspot para 9 :- "it is possible...that this phenomenon of intelligent love will suddenly, and soon, overcome our entire species......it may be that then we shall be convinced that an "extra-cosmic" Intelligent Love exists to which the intelligent love in us responds, as the mystics more or less everywhere relate........buT i doubt very much whether this belief, or any other, can profitably be maintained before the transcendence i (have experienced and) imagine. that transcendence is reported by mystics, and experienced by me as requiring the loss of attachment to all previous vaues: A STATE OF TOTAL DESPAIR, ACCEPTED AS THE END-STATE OF HUMAN VANITY. "

I AM USED , gILLIES, TO PEOPLE MIS-REPRESENTING ME, BUT THIS IS ON THE WEB SINCE LAST SUMMER, AND YOU WROTE THAT "OF COURSE" YOU HAD READ IT. SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS . must close, Ronnie Drew on kenny live ~h
----- Original Message -----
From: gillies macbain
To: Sacker
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: change-over ceremony ad/eo


ecentric decision for an atheist . . .



On 16 Mar 2006, at 07:49, Sacker wrote:


i put my trust, as i have done before, in the power of christ jesus in their heads......hugh

gillies

gillies macbain
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