The Willesden Herald's interview with God

Herald: Welcome, God, and thank you for honouring our very small blog, the last place I would have expected, with your first interview.

God: Not at all. As I think I said before, “The last shall be first.”

Herald: Haha. I like that.

God: I know.

Harrow is part of Willesden, y'know

St John's Road, Harrow

Even though we have moved HQ to Sudbury Hill, Harrow, we still can be called The Willesden Herald as this photo proves. It's a picture of St John the Baptist church, Harrow and on the sign outside it says "Diocese of London, Willesden Area". So there.

It's a miracle.

True Buddha temple - Friday

Bunting blowing in the wind

True Buddha temple

Today (Willesden Lane)

Flags out at True Buddha Temple

True Buddha Temple

Willesden High Road

Something to do with this? Geezer styles himself: "His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng".

St Andrew's wildflowers

The flowerbeds on the high street side of St Andrew's church, which were overgrown with weeds, look as if they have had some attention and turned themselves into pleasant wildflower displays. There is another smaller one, which has also improved and has some wild hollyhocks inter alia.

New school building

Harlesden Road entrance

View from St. Andrew's Road

The new school is across the yard from the existing Islamic high school. Possibly a primary school? That side of St. Andrew's Road is now entirely occupied by the two school buildings from Harlesden Road down to Willesden High Road. The site was derelict before.

St Augustine's church

A view towards St Augustine's church, Kilburn Park Road

"Known as the 'Cathedral of North London', S. Augustine’s has its roots in the 'Oxford' or 'Tractarian' Movement which began with a Sermon preached in 1833 by John Keble" (Ref: History)

The Vatican in high resolution

The Sistine Chapel

A marvellous page that lets you pan in three dimensions and zoom in and out on the details. It has choral music playing, which you can turn off if preferred.

Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011)

Sinister religious shouting and moaning

Recorded about 8 pm on Wednesday, September 21^st, in Grange Road outside Willesden Library Centre. There is another longer recording of similar angry ranting accompanied by crying and moaning. The recording cannot convey the sheer volume and nastiness of the shouting. Bear in mind that this was recorded on a phone cam from the street, while the meeting was going on upstairs in the library centre behind closed curtains. There is no real need to close those curtains up there, normally.

Ossian

Willesden Green Baptist church

Willesden High Road

The rapture rap

It falls to the Willy to commemorate the latest landmark in the annals of religious stupidity with this specially composed rap warning about the man from Mars...

Nativity play from New Zealand

Here's $300 Lord, super size me

Tonight, a bunch of despicable frauds ripping people off in the UK and worldwide courtesy of cable TV. They are jibbering and jabbering ("speaking in tongues") in between telling people to go to their phones and donate money to go onto the virtual altar that they are then going to pray over and they will get "double portion" from God. You couldn't make this shit up. And of course, the offer is for one day only, bizarrely Yom Kippur is the pretext. Notice they can't even keep a straight face about 2 minutes in when the holy tart makes up a story that she has "just heard about a court case that was impossible ... I can't name names ... involving a child ... and it has just been won! ..." and the Brit twat or whatever he is "... has just been won? ... Praise the Lord." ... "And if you knew just how impossible this case was!" wibba-bibba-jibba-jabba-floba-lboba-lobo-abopalob-cooroocoocoo Go to your phones now, time is running out. "That's £200 in the UK. I don't know what it is in Euros."

There are a few disgusting things in the media and online but by crikey, if this isn't among the most disgusting and nauseating of the lot. (Ed.)

The daily lemma: Fed up being a god?

Boy chosen by Dalai Lama as reincarnation of spiritual leader turns back on Buddhist order

'I was amazed to watch everyone dance. What were all those people doing, bouncing, stuck to one another, enclosed in a box full of smoke?' (Guardian)

That has to be one of the best quotes ever. The funny thing is, it's rather what one would expect a god to make of humanity.

Feargal

Trees

 I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
 
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

The justice of the jobsworth

Now we treat our fishermen like drug dealers

"On this basis Judge Nigel Gilmour not only imposed on them fines of £385,000 – infinitely more than the value of the fish they had wrongly declared – but ruled that all their assets should be frozen as 'proceeds of crime', even though the home and boat had been bought before the offences were committed. He also told the men that, unless they paid the fines within six months, they would go to prison for up to three years." (Telegraph)

Travesties like this, while the army is away helping the rapists of Kabul* so that the slovenly swine who govern us can canoodle with US presidents and fill their mansions at our expense.

Zoz

* Update 5 April 2009: ' "I phoned the president immediately about this because anybody who looks at Afghanistan will be worried if we are going to see laws brought in that discriminate against women and put women at risk," [Gordon] Brown said. "I made it absolutely clear to the president that we could not tolerate that situation. You cannot have British troops fighting, and in some cases dying, to save a democracy where that democracy is infringing human rights." ' (Karzai bows to international calls to scrap Afghan 'rape' law**)

** Comment: It is far from clear from that article whether the law will be rescinded, it's really a very vague fudge about its implementation - which still leaves Muslim women humiliated by this outrage. From Kandahar to Kilburn, they are shamefaced today to know that religious zealots have in mind to imprison, enslave, rape and disenfranchise them. Ed

Moronic religion

Religion in action: Clerical rule

"Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman, defended the punishment as appropriate under Islamic law, but said it should have been applied by a pre-pubescent boy in a private setting. 'She had to be punished,' he told Geo News. 'The punishment administered by local Taliban was in our knowledge and they did the right thing, but the method was wrong.'" (Guardian)

The one thing you can guarantee about the religious, their old men always like to inflict corporal punishment on young people. And they also blood the innocent by making them complicit in their perversions. Rise up and destroy religion throughout the world. Humanity first, now and always, secula seculorum, amen!

Zoz

True Buddha Temple

 

True Buddha Temple, Willesden (formerly Capel Cymraeg)

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