Greenbelt 09 - The Long Now

[latestarter]

It was a fairly quiet week leading up to the Bank Holiday weekend, a chance to clean out the garden shed.

I attended my first British Citizenship Ceremony for P who lives locally with his partner - a simple but meaningful affair, welcoming those who have chosen to state their allegiance to our Monarch (though P had to take things slowly to get

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[bdouville]

I did not simply make do with the picture (which is beautiful, by the way). I read this post from beginning to end, and I'm glad that I did

[latestarter]

I've heard one or two people mention Cornerstone, so that comparison holds, despite some differences.

I found out why SCM was virtually invisible during my student days. It seems that after the late 60s love generation, some of the SCM leaders went radical in '73 and decided to club together to buy a big house and have a hippy commune. Needless to say, it wasn't the success hoped for (random young children wandering round with no idea who the real father was) - and it crashed, leaving the SCM in debt for many years.

It seems the one thing that did come from the Canadian SCM was one of their protest songs, which each country added their own extra verses to.

[bdouville]

I'm not surprised at the fate of the British SCM. In the United States, the National Student Christian Federation (the equivalent of the SCM) became increasingly radical, and in 1968 decided to cease their existence, because they deemed the organization no longer valuable to the revolution. And since the revolution was obviously about to happen anyways...well, you get the picture. The American SCM has recently been re-started.

I wonder if the song is "Poisoning the Student Mind"?

Cheers,

Bruce

[latestarter]

"Poisoning the Student Mind"?

That sounds like the one!