Comments by "John Warner" (@johncrwarner) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. Plus the "chip pan" for home made fish and chips.
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  2. I was born in Britain in the North East of England and the biggest deep water fishing ports were in our area (or more precisely in our regional television news area) so I remember the "Cod Wars" of the 1970s The Icelandic Coastguard also developed cutting devices to cut the nets of the trawlers I don't believe they did it often as there is a great deal of danger in doing it for personnel on both ships. Weirdly where I grew up we tended to eat Haddock and Chips rather than Cod and Chips which was associated with the south of England. We didn't go to the chippy but cooked it at home and had it at least once a week -deep fried haddock in a beer batter and thick chips
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  3. An interesting story I come from a non-religious background culturally Christian but the family didn't go to Church I became knowledgeable of the iconography and some practices because to navigate Western European culture (note: my parents took me to visit art galleries, museums stately homes and churches most weekends) and understand the literatures of Europe I needed to know some Christianity. I as a teenager developed to the consternation of my parents religious impulses - reading the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist texts as well as reading Nietzsche as well as Bertrand Russell and then the logical positivists Weirdly the book "Language, Truth and Logic" by A. J. Ayer (a book attacking metaphysics amongst other things) made me realise that I had a "bias for God" With a long journey I made it to Quakerism where I stayed for 25 years where I focused on the theologies of church governance, ecumenical understanding and inter-faith dialogue. I drifted away when I moved to Germany though I married my partner at the Quaker meeting I had called home. That drift and failure to connect to a new "family" in Germany led to me adopting my current faith of Sikhi.
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  4. Interesting but as a teenager in Britain in the 1970s studying history as part of a "compulsory minimum" I learnt about the Spanish-American War of 1898 and understood it as a continuation of "Manifest Destiny" having got to fill out the Pacific coast. And the scrabble by Western powers for an empire. Perhaps being from a large Imperial power Britain saw the same desires in the USA amongst the elites at least for a place in the "imperial sun"
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