Couldn't resist putting this picture on blog before retiring. It is our Church, St. Mary's. Taken in the snow on Saturday morning on my way to choir practice. Looks like a young cathedral, doesn't it ?
Was the predecessor of St. Mary's a Bishop's seat(cathedral). I understand the Local King of East Anglia, Guthrum the Dane, was at Headleage/Hadleigh in 890 when he died. I think he had embraced christianity some years before, if so, it seems likely he would have wanted a bishop on standby to 'fess him out on his death-bed. Would there otherwise have been a Saxon deanery in town as predecessor to the present mediaeval Deanery Tower?
Sorry Mike, here is your favourite v-word - I kid you not! 'pickomik'. It may seem spooky but I am almost persuaded that Pootatu is trying to convert you to intellectual technophilism!
Yes, Guthrum had a (slightly political converion I think) to Christianity, and made this town the capital of East Anglia, which is indirectly why we are a Deanery to this day. Also with regard to your Pootatos attempts to convert me to ineffectual nihilism, well two of its efforts (Pickomik and eurpic) 'almost persuede me to believe'.... But not quite. In fact not at all. They're soulless machines; but those two are nice coincidences. Love, Mike.
I expect you are right, and even I can't bring myself to accept nihilism... Philistinism perhaps... My only serious point being that intelligence is a pattern-based reality and 'pooters are barking at the edge of this kind of reality. Given chaos as a starting point, once the creative intelligence imposed a tendency to cluster upon the chaos it is inevitable that intelligence will arise in peculiar cluster-patterns. We humans have a penchant for recognising patterns, given sufficient random clusters of letters we will always be able to give a warped sense of meaning to a proportion of what was intended to be meaningless.
Sorry. Misread you. When you said intellectual technophilism, I read it as ineffectual nihilism. But it's alright 'cause I don't know what any of it means.
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Beautiful....dignified....
I suspect that St. Mary's would make Coventry Cathedral feel very young indeed!
Was the predecessor of St. Mary's a Bishop's seat(cathedral). I understand the Local King of East Anglia, Guthrum the Dane, was at Headleage/Hadleigh in 890 when he died. I think he had embraced christianity some years before, if so, it seems likely he would have wanted a bishop on standby to 'fess him out on his death-bed.
Would there otherwise have been a Saxon deanery in town as predecessor to the present mediaeval Deanery Tower?
Sorry Mike,
here is your favourite v-word - I kid you not! 'pickomik'. It may seem spooky but I am almost persuaded that Pootatu is trying to convert you to intellectual technophilism!
I also think Pootatu knows where you live. Her next v-word is 'eurbic'... you do live on the East side of Town?
May I suggest that you pacify Pootatu with a bag of aniseed balls? her next verification-word is 'anese'.
Yes, Guthrum had a (slightly political converion I think) to Christianity, and made this town the capital of East Anglia, which is indirectly why we are a Deanery to this day.
Also with regard to your Pootatos attempts to convert me to ineffectual nihilism, well two of its efforts (Pickomik and eurpic) 'almost persuede me to believe'.... But not quite. In fact not at all. They're soulless machines; but those two are nice coincidences.
Love, Mike.
I expect you are right, and even I can't bring myself to accept nihilism... Philistinism perhaps... My only serious point being that intelligence is a pattern-based reality and 'pooters are barking at the edge of this kind of reality.
Given chaos as a starting point, once the creative intelligence imposed a tendency to cluster upon the chaos it is inevitable that intelligence will arise in peculiar cluster-patterns.
We humans have a penchant for recognising patterns, given sufficient random clusters of letters we will always be able to give a warped sense of meaning to a proportion of what was intended to be meaningless.
Sorry. Misread you. When you said intellectual technophilism, I read it as ineffectual nihilism. But it's alright 'cause I don't know what any of it means.
P.s. I should have said a half grown cathedral rather than a young one.
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