TonyGosling
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 Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: Sad erosion of trust, community & Christianity |
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With the rise of political correctness and the end of Christian values.
Okay, a bit of nostalgia ... but also the destructon of trust.
".........Wartime values were still very strong. Respectability, conformity, restraint and trust were what underpinned the Fifties.
There had been a degree of democratisation in the war as soldiers and civilians of all classes shared its dangers and privations........
| Quote: | WHEN THE 11-PLUS RULED YOUR LIFE
With comprehensive schools virtually unheard of, the defining life event for most Fifties schoolchildren was the 11-plus exam to decide whether they would go to a grammar school, which took the pick of the bunch academically, or a secondary modern.
Sometimes, the successful working-class child was self-motivating. 'I didn't want to become one of the hapless ones who worked in a car factory or drove a lorry,' is how actor Terence Stamp explained what got him to grammar school.
But more often the push was external, either a teacher or a parent, usually the mother.
The Daily Mail's Lynda Lee-Potter, daughter of a Lancashire miner-turned painter/decorator married to a shoe-shop assistant, remembered how she and her parents talked of little else for a year before.
'I practised writing what we called "stories" and we did extra sums after school. My mother had an agile mathematical brain and we did mental arithmetic together.
'The dress I was to wear on exam day was washed and immaculately pressed weeks in advance. On the evening before, she filled the tin bath with hot water in front of the fire so that I didn't have to use the tiny, freezing bathroom.
'On the Saturday morning, neither of us could eat, but we had a cup of hot, sweet tea. "Give it all you've got, love," she said, and there were tears in her eyes. I was desperate to do my best and make my mother happy. She did so much for me and passing the scholarship was the one thing I could do for her.
'In the exam room, I sat down and looked at the title of the composition, which was where my greatest hopes of success rested. I still remember my feelings of hopelessness when I saw the dreary, uninspiring title - "Write a composition on the difference between an apple and an orange."
'I was heartbroken and I walked home convinced I'd failed. My mother put her arms round me and we cried in despair together. Three months later, we got the letter telling me I'd passed. It was the happiest day of my mother's life.' |
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fish5133
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Obviously not something that atheist will accept but the biblical prophecies of an emerging one world government spear headed by politicians and religous figures under the spiritual influence of Satan and his demonic forces will result in attacks against and the withering away of good moral values that at present cross the boundaries of different faiths and none.
As a Christian iI would like to see a religous awakening like the ones in Wales and the Outer Hebrides earlier last century which saw great changes in the societies affected. One story i liked was about the welsh pit ponies who could no longer understand the instructions from the miners because the miners had stopped swearing.
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