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Thread: ken - R.I.P.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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"I preached as never sure to preach again and as a dying man to dying men."
Richard Baxter
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koshatnik
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Oh no.
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Divine Outlaw
Gin-soaked boy
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Desperately sad. May he rest in peace. Prayers also for Persephone and all those mourning a thoroughly nice, decent, and thought-provoking man. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Panda
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Love and prayers. Rest in peace, ken.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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May he rest in peace and rise in glory and may God comfort those who mourn their loss.
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Dog Activity Monitor
My shop
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
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...... and weeping o'er the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
For Ken, for PH and all the family. Such a gift, such a loss. In grief let us not fall away from you Lord.
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It is better to be Kind than right.
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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"I don't feel like smiling." "You're English dear; fake it!" (Colin Firth "Easy Virtue")
Growing Greenpatches
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ToujoursDan
Ship's prole
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He was a man of brilliant wit and compassion. I will miss him greatly. RIP Ken.
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"Many people say I embarrass them with my humility" - Archbishop Peter Akinola
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Ps 23:6 KJV
Prayers for his mother, daughter, brother and sister and all other members of his family.
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Kitten
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Ken will be missed, so much.
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Maius intra qua extra
Never accept a ride from a stranger, unless they are in a big blue box
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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Oh, ken. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
When such a man goes peacefully, we know he's truly gone.
Go well.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
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Malin
Shipmate
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Til we meet again Ken. Many thanks for the wise words and help youve given me that you are probably unaware of. Yours posts have always been so worth reading.
Enjoy the life hid with Christ in its new chapter.
Love and comfort to all who will miss you dreadfully.
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'Is it a true bird or is it something that exists within a-'
'It's a thing that is,' said Granny sharply. 'Don't go spilling allegory all down your shirt.' Terry Pratchett
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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{{{{{{{Ken and all who love him}}}}}}}
May the Fools of the Celestial Ship welcome him.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Latchkey Kid
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We shall not see his like again.
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'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.'
Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
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mrs whibley
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I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous - Mike Yaconelli
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Sioni Sais
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Hazey*Jane
Ship's Biscuit Crumbs
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What sad news. He was an integral part of the Ship.
Thoughts and prayers with him and his loved ones.
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Angloid
Shipmate
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Percipient words from the man himself (his comments on his Easter sermon) quote:
People are always very nice so I can never be sure how a sermon goes down (perhaps that is a mercy) but some seemed very moved by it.
A few rather odd reactions that I did not expect. One person said I seemed to be "on fire" with what I was saying. I hardly know how to take that. I felt quite calm and very tired. The curate said that part of it reminded him of the Orthodox Kontakion for the Dead. Which was not in my mind at all.
He was in God's hands all along. Pray for us, Ken, as we will for you.
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Sipech
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Farewell ken. Until we meet on the renewed ship in the new seas and new dockyard...
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAlethiophile
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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He also said this on 26 February, on a thread about what you would do if you only had a year to live:
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It is possible that I am actually in this situation. Been thinking about it for some months. To my surprise I find I want to carry on as normally as possible. Even going to work.
There are of course those unwritten books howling to be born...
here
[ 19. May 2014, 12:04: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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Kittyville
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Another one shocked and saddened by this news. I was in Ken's part of London last year, and thought of him with a smile as I went past the parade of Sri Lankan shops on the bus to Lewisham station.
Persephone and Busyknitter, I am very sorry for your loss and that of all those who mourn Ken.
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Dafyd
Shipmate
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All powers of high imagining here failed.
But now my will and my desire were turned,
as wheels that move in equilibrium,
by love that moves the sun and other stars.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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iGeek
Number of the Feast
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Lord have Mercy - and welcome home, Ken.
Love, prayers and hopes for good memories and laughter to those who grieve. He is known and remembered and respected all over the world - not too shabby.
[hoists pint silently]
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jbohn
Shipmate
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So sorry to hear this - Ken's posts were always worth a serious read, even when we disagreed. Truly a great voice on the Ship. RIP, Ken.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
--Elbert Hubbard
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wanderingstar
Shipmate
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I never met Ken (I think I sat next to him outside the Jesus Arms once) but from my first day lurking aboard I've been struck, skewered and inspired by his wit, wisdom, honesty and goodness.
I will always miss his presence here. For his family & friends, I can barely imagine:
Rest in peace, Ken. I hope one day I'll sit next to you again.
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You know what you shouldn't have done? You should never have let me press all those buttons...
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Meg the Red
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Those heavenly shipmeets are gonna be amazing ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
Rest eternal, Ken, and God's comfort to all who loved you.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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And even you, most gentle Death,
You wait to hush our final breath,
You lead the child back home to God,
For Christ our lord this way has trod.
Ken has been led back home to God. I will miss him.
Moo
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See you later, alligator.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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I hope this link works
This photo was taken on my 40th birthday. The fact that Gambit is also in the picture makes it especially poignant.
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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Anglican_Brat
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May Ken rest in peace and rise with Christ in glory.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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I've got a few photos of ken - a couple already up on Flickr here when Kelly was over a few years ago, and here at the Third Gambit meet. But there are more at home - two in particular I'll find and put up: one with ken looking at plants at Kew and the other with a phone in hand posting on the Ship in the Mulberry Bush at the Ender's Shadow meet.
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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So sorry. Peace, ken.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Matt Black
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Shit shit shit.
Rest in peace and rise in glory, Ken.
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"Protestant and Reformed, according to the Tradition of the ancient Catholic Church" - + John Cosin (1594-1672)
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duchess
Ship's Blue Blooded Lady
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Persephone Hazard, I am praying for you, dear. And all of his family. And for him as he goes into heaven with God.
Such a smart guy, I mean Ken was brilliant. Always corrected me! On the ship, on my facebook, and I am a better person for it! So young. Rest in peace, Ken.
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul... - It Is Well with My Soul
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♬♭ We're setting sail to the place on the map from which nobody has ever returned ♫♪♮
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Stetson
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rest in peace, ken. And thank you.
For Persephone Hazard, for busyknitter, and for all who knew and loved him.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm
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Robertus Liverpolitanae
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Once the Government approves something, it stops being immoral
Rev Tim Lovejoy
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Albertus
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Just been reading the thread on trigger-warnings and found myself scrolling down, looking for ken's avatar becaue I thought he'd have something worthwhile to say. It is going to be very strange here without him. Never met him or even AFAIK crossed swords with him on the boards but I am already missing him terribly.
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My beard is a testament to my masculinity and virility, and demonstrates that I am a real man. Trouble is, bits of quiche sometimes get caught in it.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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I lie down in peace; at once I fall asleep; for only you, LORD, make me dwell in safety.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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snowgoose
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Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man? --Terry Pratchett
Save a Siamese!
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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The shadow of death lies upon your face, beloved,
but the Jesus of grace has His hand around you;
in nearness to the Trinity farewell to your pains,
Christ stands before you and peace is in His mind.
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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I am glad his end was peaceful, I will hold you all in my thoughts.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Holding ken's family in prayer.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Japes
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Rest in peace, ken, and rise in glory.
For all who will mourn him.
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Blog may or may not be of any interest.
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