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eternity then their minds must be open to the belief that there is some godly power beyond what man can imagine. It vyould therefore seem that religion, in its many forms, might be justifiable. ■ Religion is a comfort to liiankind. If
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a person cannot absorb the'concept of eternity then that person must believe that there is soemthing out there that is beyond our knowledge. Religion and a belief in our various gods offer comfort. However, each man should identify his own god and religion should never be a reason for conflict. I have got to an age when I wonder a .
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100 years ago
DURING the cattle fair, which was held in the streets, on Monday a remarkable occurrence took place, it was reported, at the Red Lion Hotel at Castle Gate. A number of cows were standing in the street when one of them strayed away, entered the hotel and made its way into the bar, doing a considerable amount of
damage to glasses etc, before it could be ejected.
• Parish councillor Mr W. CocRshutt
resigned his seat on Chatburn Parish Council after 18 years’ service. Mean-
{ while, following the sad death of Coun- cillbr Wells if appeared there could be a
; three-cornered contest for a seat on Clit- heroe Town Council. Mr Wells was in his ■ fifth year on the council.
: •
BACK in the.1980s everyone .was talking about Rio’s Show- bar at The Sandpiper in Whal- ley.
;. Resident DJ/comedy drag; act/fire eater at Rio’s was ^
I Keith Boden, who has sent in this photo of one of the ven ue’s last staff dinners. ■ “Over the years I have said •
that there was a curse on the staff and management of the original R io ’s Showbar in
-the ’80s, the first ever-large fun pub open till late,” writes
. Keith, who still lives locally. “I now believe that it’s true
as almost every member of staff involved in Rio’s Show- bar has had some kind of trag edy or'died very young. First
! was Paul, who was killed in a car accident on New Year’s ay, returning form a night out in
•Manchester in the’80s. •' “Then, it was Peter, the
owner of The Sandpiper, who went to Ibiza to start work on"
the second Rio’s Showbar but died suddenly before his 40th birthday. Then my sister, re turning home from the show-
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lot about what bur existence is all about. I wonder what will become of mankind. Will humans develop to a stage where they will self-destruct? Will they find a way of limiting the world’s population to sclf-satisfy man’s basic needs? . In the relatiyely few years that mankind
has existed on earth the species has grown and is still growing towards a point when some catastrophic event must doublessly occur that will drastically control the'over expansion of the species. , , . This event could be man-made, such
as war, the nuclear bomb is a reality of course. Another possibility is famine. As the pressure of mankind bears down on limited resources, mass starvation on a scale that to date has not been envisaged is a real possibility. This in spite of the fact
that we waste half the food we produce. The third possibility is pestilence, i.e. disease. It is not beyond the realms of pos sibility that man’s forays into space and other planets could introduce some infec tious matter that mankind will be unable to counter.
• I had at one time thought that HIV
would be the controlling factor, which may still prove the case. As these factors become self-evident,
dictate as to those people who would be permitted to inhabit the new world. I f it was habitable but relatively poor, then the poor and downtrodden of oiir world would be shipped out. If, however, it was an “astral Florida’’, the top echelon of so ciety would claim it for their own use. ■ There are three consistent factors that I ,
no doubt man will continue the search for more habitable space within space itself in an attempt to find an “overflow pool” for life as we know it to cairy on. I doubt it. If mankind were to be successfol in this search it can be guaranteed that genetic control will be implanted and take over. Those at the top of the then society will.
can see will govern our world in the future ‘ as in the past. These are:
lookingback 50 years ago
AT Clitheroe’s The Grand cinema, the romantic comedy “It Happened in Ath ens was showing. The film, which is cen tred around the first modem revival of the Olympic Games, tells the story of a young Greek shepherd-boy who becomes the hero of the nation. Meanwhile, the spec tacular action drama “White Slave Ship” was showing at the Palladium.
• The Ribblesdale Table Tennis
League season was coming to a climax with the individual knockout taking place at rile Trinity (Wesley) Schoolroom. _ • A coffee evening and Tupperware
demonstration was held at Clitheroe Toe H s headquarters on Duck Street: Organ ised by Clitheroe Youth Action Group it raised £6 towards the annual Toe H party
Time, the overall factor of existence.
Man does not have the brain power or ability to truthfully imagine. Time is eter nal. When you consider that life in any known form only came into existence some 560 million years ago, it is beyond the concept of the human brain to even imagine how that momentous occasion developed or what preceded it. Alongside, time there is space. Again
eternal and in spite of man’s puny expedi tions into the void there is no way that the species will master it. Beyond our galaxy is another, and another, ad infinitum. Eter nity. The third factor, is nature itself, in that
there is only one species of animal that, if it became extinct, would not be missed by My other species of the world. That un important species is, of course, mankind. Nature will no doubt survive when man kind ceases to exist. Indeed, the natural world existed many millions of years be fore man, or indeed animals, existed on earth. It is said that if all mankind were to be
taken put of New York City, it would only take nature 50 years or so to absorb the city. In that time major buildings would collapse and plants would grow every where. Animals would take over and kill only for food and their immediate surviv-
:: al. War would be a forgotten past. :• The one final thought I have is that it
■;is said that the sun will burn out in some 300,000 million years or so. So yoii don’t need to worry at this moment, Just make sure that you have a torch handy.
CLITHEROE Wolves under 14s proudly wear their new strips before their game against Lam- mack Juniors, Blackburn.' The team, managed by
Stephen King and Ben Walker, received strips donated by two specialist motor firms; Dapa Enter prises, of Whalley Indus- trial Park, Barrow, and Grafx, of Link 59 Clithe roe. Dapa carry out win
dow and headlight tint ing, body repairs, valet cleaning and alloy wheel refurbishment, and Grafe • specialise in vehicle wraps and graphics, signage, corporate and team wear, banners. A'boards and large format printing.
KITTED OUT: Clitheroe Wolves under 14s proudly wear their ' new strip before their game against Lammack Juniors, Blackburn.
Hey presto! It’s magic at Abbeyfield
M A G IC was in the air for the resi dents of Abbeyfield House, Low Moor as they enjoyed a show from a special visitor. Magician Paul
25 years ago
THERE was a favourable reaction to Clitheroe’s new litter gobbler, which had been busy cleaning the pavements in Clitheroe town centre. Businessman Mr Brian Dent and operator Mr John Dewhurst were delighted at the public response to the footway cleaning exer cise, which will continue for a year. John has got used to the curious stares from bystanders as the machine sweeps up crisp and cigarette packs from 6-30 a.m. onwards. • A suggestion to relieve traffic con
gestion in Whalley by introducing a parking restriction’on part of King Lane was backed by Ribble Valley councillors. It was agreed on a limited parking re striction outside the village’s banks.
bar,-was taken ill and now is paralyzed from the neck down.
/, “There have also been some of the customers from the , showbar that have been killed
’ ■ in car and bike accidents over the years. Most tragic was Sandra, a member of staff for
. a long time, and her husband David, who were killed in a
bad car accident. •
“Now it’s my turn, as I end
ed up not being able to get Put,of bed on the May bank
.holiday 2011. After three op erations on my spine, 1 am still having to have pain manage ment and just about able to
. -walk slowly. So tell me, am 1 wronjg in thinking that the staff are, cursed? I would like to
■: know if any of the other staff ■ . have had similar problems •'over the years.”
Kay performed magic tricks, in cluding card and metal ring illusions and the residents were given balloon animals. A fun afternoon
was enjoyed by all and the residents especially enjoyed being called up to act as the magicians assistants.
Thought For The Week
-up a Church. One of the greatest cities of the ancient
world, a crossroad for trade routes, its cos mopolitan people were aspirationai, rela tively well-off and, as for the church folk, “stroppy” doesn’t begin to cover it! . So when St Paul engaged in corre
spondence with them (sadly, we possess only one side of the conversation), you can imagine his annoyance that he had to spell out, probably for the umpteenth ■ time, the basis of their new faith. I f you don’t believe in Christ’s Resurrection, he somewhat testily wrote, then “our procla mation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain...' I f for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied” (1 Corinthians 15:14,19).: Indeed, We
are.Tf the Resurrection nev
er happened, then let’s close our churches and spend Sunday mornings with the rest of the world at those modern templeitp materialism: shopping and garden cen tres!
. • - Last Sunday was Easter Day. What
did it mean to you and yours? Chocolate eggs? More hot cross buns (really meant’ , for Good Friday, but who’s watching)? Just another Sunday? For Christians it
. is the most important festival of all. It is not only a celebration; it is an affirmation
"N retrospect Corinth was always goingto be an unlikely place to set
of Resurrection life. But what really hap pened oyer that spring weekend almost 2000 years ago? As a teacher of theology, I ask my stu
dents (training for Ministry in the Church of England) to .imagine’that archaeolo gists in Palestine have come up with ir refutable proof (actually impossible) that they have found the bones of Jesus. How would that affect their faith? For many, the answer is clear: it would destroy it! That is because they believe in a physical resurrection: Jesus’ dead body “got up and walked”. But it is important to understand if,
dear reader, you are interested in such things, that this is By no means the only way of understanding the Resurrection. The former Bishop of Durham, Dav id Jenkins, caused a furore in the .’80s when he said that the Resurrection was not “God’s conjuring trick with a bag of bones”!
> But all he meant by this pithy remark
was that the Resurrection was something father more subtle, elusive and mysterious
. than “dead men walking”. Indeed if,, as Christians claim, Jesus’
Resurrection is a precursor of what hap pens to us’ (all) when we die, then it is ■. important that it should not be discon tinuous with that “experience”. We know full well that,’when we die, our bodies will
decay either instantly in an oven or more slowly in the ground. To believe that what happened to Jesus was radically different would undermine the,significance of his Resurrection for the rest of us. Of course, the Biblical witness is allu
sive and ambiguous, and inevitably Chris tians understand the nature of the Res urrection in quite different ways. Apart from the “physicalists”, there are those who believe J t to have involved a kind of metamorphosis, in which the physical was changed into something different (in' which case, there would still have been no bones to be found, and Jesus’ Resurrec tion would have been of a different kind to that anticipated by Christians). Others understand it to have been an
auditionMsion, real enough to provide ev idence that Jesus continued to live, but in a spiritual form reflecting oiir true natures as centres of consciousness transcending the material. That conception offers huge support to the Christian hope that we too, in our time, will be called by God to share in this wonderful gift. To be pitied? Not at all, for “He is
Risen indeed. Alleluia”! And if true, it is surely the most important news in the world for every one of us; better even than chocolate! •
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