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Jytte	[Jun. 15th, 2026\|11:21 am] Tony Grist
So, I've done some digging and I find "J" is on Facebook and her first name is Jytte- which is pronounced You-tah- with the emphasis on the first syllable- so not unpronouncable at all, just daunting to the English eye.....
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"J"	[Jun. 15th, 2026\|09:47 am] Tony Grist
"J" is a regular attender. I call her "J" not just to conceal her identity but because it's what she asks us to call her. Her real name is Danish and- she maintains- unpronouncable . She is also a spirit medium and Spiritualist minister, who turns up sometimes wearing her dog collar. She's well-known in Denmark, maybe less so over here- where she now lives. I'd asked her to give us a talk and yesterday she did. I was nervous because it would have been my fault if it had fallen flat, but I needn't have worried because she's used to standing on platforms- and did famously. I know something about spiritualism and so does Ailz and so does Edna but I think the subject was new to everyone else. I'm always taken aback by how very few people care to look into the subject.....
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Let's Not Fight.....	[Jun. 14th, 2026\|09:14 am] Tony Grist
Quakers veer to the left and a Friend who admires right-wing demagogues like Rupert Lowe is an anomaly, but not so much of an anomaly that he wouldn't find supporters among the Friends if he made a point of broadcasting his views. There is a potential here for in-fighting and schism. As a Quietist I think we should leave our political views at the Meeting House door, though I'm aware that this is also a political view. Some people love conflict and thrive on it. I don't. Not any more.....
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A Bit Wild	[Jun. 13th, 2026\|03:34 pm] Tony Grist
I cut the grass. Or, rather, I cut some of it. I like a garden to be a bit wild.....
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Disclosure Day- As If......	[Jun. 13th, 2026\|09:05 am] Tony Grist
Steven Spielberg is a member of the elite. He'll have been read into a lot of their secrets. I think he feels a certain nostalgia for the days before he owned a yacht and that accounts for the sentimentality that oils his movies. They are big machines that leak blood. I gather there's no particular need to see his latest one, Disclosure Day. It has aliens in it but tells us very little about them. It's basically a tease.... His elite friends will have said, "OK, we sort of want to you to tell the little people this, but on no account must you tell them that...." I think he'd like to tell us that- the way Stanley Kubrick did- but his elite pals have got him by the balls.....
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It's A Pity	[Jun. 12th, 2026\|11:40 am] Tony Grist
We have a Friend (Capital "F" meaning Quaker) who appears to be lapsing into strident Islamophobia. He quotes Rupert Lowe and Ant Middleton with approval. He is also very old and ill- and it's a pity.... It would be a matter for private grief if he weren't doing all he can do to propagate his views. Who'd have thought we'd have to tell a fellow Quaker not to be such a fascist. For those who don't know, Rupert Lowe is a 68 year old businessman and politician who used to be with Reform but has since formed his own party, somewhat to the right of Nigel Farage, because he wants to be The Leader. MAGA likes him and Elon Musk backs him. And Ant Middleton is a former SAS man who gets into scrapes and has been threatening that all it'll take is for him and his mates to say the word and millions will rise up and there'll be Civil War in the UK. We did our best to fight fascism yesterday by welcoming three women from the East Sussex Interfaith Group to our Meeting- one of whom was a Muslim. They wanted to find out what we're about. We talked to them, included them in our worship, gave them coffee and cake and a good time was had by all.
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Second Childhood	[Jun. 12th, 2026\|07:38 am] Tony Grist
I was watching raindrops race one another down the window pane. Sometimes they go fast, sometimes they dawdle and sometimes one of them will pause or hit obstacles so it's a real race. Unpredictable. You could place bets. Sometimes they run together and became one. And then I remembered a poem by A.A. Milne on just this subject. I looked it up. It's called "At the Window" and it's in Now We Are Six- the second collection of Christopher Robin poems. The child in the poem follows the progress of two raindrops- one called James and the other called John. John is his favourite. John wins. Well I never, I don't believe I've thought of that for sixty years or more......
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The Pit	[Jun. 11th, 2026\|07:09 am] Tony Grist
I had slid back into looking at newspapers. I didn't let them get to me, only scanned the headlines to find what out what they wanted us to be obsessing about, but a slippery slope is a slippery slope and I've now dug my heels in to stop the descent and clawed my way out of the pit.
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Untouchable	[Jun. 10th, 2026\|09:35 am] Tony Grist
I dreamed the victims of Jimmy Savile were scattered across the landscape like broken dolls. I had to tell someone about this so I told a person who turned out to be..... Jimmy Savile. How do you expose and take down an evil when the worst practitioners of it are the rulers of the world- politicians, influencers, billionaires, men of God- and they have corrupted and intimidated all the forces that might otherwise be marshalled against them? Savile and Epstein were procurers to the elites. Diddy was another. In Belgium there was a man called Marc Dutroux who had girls banged up in his cellar. They weren't at the apex of the pyramid, those at the top are untouchable. Prince Andrew? Pretty low-level, expendable. But notice how he is still protected....
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YouTubers: For The Attention Of	[Jun. 9th, 2026\|09:37 am] Tony Grist
"Terrifying", "Disturbing", Worse than we thought"- Sorry, chaps, but your revelations are none of these things. Yes, I want to know what's new in archaeology etc, but I'm an old bird and you can't tell me anything that's going to knock me off my perch. Sell, but don't oversell- and please stop appealing to the lowest emotions. Sometimes when scrolling down through your latest offerings I think, "I don't want to do this anymore"..... Also, there's good AI and there's crap AI- and if a vid is too obviously being narrated by a machine or is illustrated with bog standard AI images of the kind I've seen many times before it has to be very, very interesting to prevent me from clicking out. Yet again, come to the point and don't string me along, because if you do I'll abandon you and find something to read on the subject- and that'll take me a couple of minutes and not the three quarters of an hour you're hoping to hold me for. Now for something positive. I've been watching 30 year old episodes of Cadfael with Derek Jacobi- and I do love how you guys archive such things.
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