On lap 22 of the 1977 South African Grand Prix Renzo Zorzi pulled off to the left side of the main straight, just after the brow of a hill and a bridge over the track. He was having problems with his fuel metering unit, and fuel was pumping directly onto the engine, which then caught fire. Zorzi did not immediately get out of his car as he could not disconnect the oxygen pipe from his helmet.WARNING: video is graphicThe situation caused two marshals from the pit wall on the opposite side of the track to intervene. The first marshal to cross the track was a 25-year-old panel beater named Bill, and the second was 19-year-old Frederik "Frikkie" Jansen van Vuuren, who was carrying a 40-pound (18 kg) fire extinguisher. George Witt, the chief pit marshal for the race, said that the policy of the circuit was that in cases of fire, two marshals must attend and a further two act as back-up in case the first pair's extinguishers were not effective enough. Witt also recalled that both marshals crossed the track without prior permission. The former narrowly made it across the track, but the latter did not. As the two men started to run across the track, the cars driven by Hans-Joachim Stuck and Tom Pryce came over the brow of a rise in the track.
Pryce was directly behind Stuck's car along the main straight. Stuck saw Jansen van Vuuren and moved to the right to avoid both marshals, missing Bill by what was called "millimetres". From his position Pryce could not see Jansen van Vuuren and was unable to react as quickly as Stuck had done. He struck the teenage marshal at approximately 270 km/h (170 mph). Jansen van Vuuren was thrown into the air and landed a few yards in front of Zorzi's car. He died on impact, and his body was badly mutilated by Pryce's car. The fire extinguisher he had been carrying smashed into Pryce's head, before striking the Shadow's roll hoop. The force of the impact was such that the extinguisher was thrown up and over the adjacent grandstand. It landed in the car park to the rear of the stand, where it hit a parked car and jammed its door shut.
The impact with the fire extinguisher wrenched Pryce's helmet upward sharply. Death was almost certainly instantaneous. Pryce's Shadow DN8, now with its driver dead at the wheel, continued at speed down the main straight towards the first corner, called Crowthorne. The car left the track to the right, scraping the metal barriers, hitting an entrance for emergency vehicles, and veering back onto the track. It then hit Jacques Laffite's Ligier, sending both Pryce and Laffite head-on into the barriers.
Jansen van Vuuren's injuries were so extensive that, initially, his body was identified only after the race director had summoned all of the race marshals and he was not among them.
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Father,The war we are in has escalated very quickly in the last few years and thankfulness is one of the weapons you have given us. Knowing we tend toward grumbling, you have repeatedly commanded us to be thankful. We want to be a thankful people and we ask you to make us such...
That being said,
Thank you for the insanity around us and that you are in control of it all.
Thank you for houses to take refuge in and to fix.
Thank you for problems and solutions.
Thank you for struggles and growth.
Thank you for weakness and your strength.
Thank you for death and life.
Thank you for what has gone and what is coming.
Thank you for conviction and repentance.
Thank you for birds in the sky and birds to eat.Thank you for your words written down...words that are affectual.
Thank you for continuing, in the midst of insanity, to show your people how you want them to live...forgiving, correcting, guiding.Of course, above it all...Thank you for Christ's life and death and life again.
As we come to this table, thank you for the food you have once again provided.
In Jesus name,
Amen- crucifyd -
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.- Unknown -
we did not and they have...
When something is completely illogical, it is not OK. You cannot simultaneously claim there are no essential characteristics of womanhood and also that “trans women are women”. If there are no essential characteristics of womanhood, then no one is a woman.- JShlabotnik on Twitter -
source: https://twitter.com/JShlabotnik2/status/1643693811300970496
Where we are today is no accident and has been progressing for (at least) 100 years. In my opinion the Hegelian dialectic is one of the main reasons our society has slowly been worn down over decades to buy any insanity presented to us...and we are living the culmination, to this point, of that...Force is obviously a quick way to take control, but lacks willing compliance. Use of words (the dialectic) to gain control is a slow plodding way to that end, but the positive result for the elites is willing compliance. Those who comply are manipulated and convinced, using the dialectic, that it was their own idea and they wanted whatever end result the dialectic is being used to acheive... It has also been used quite effectively in the church.
RC Sproul gives a quick description of the dialectic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCXghtImTZwDean Gotcher gives very long, in-depth lectures on this subject, but they are fascinating.
Here is a long version, about 3 hours, in three parts:
part 1 part 2 part 3
and a shorter version but more in depth than the Sproul video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crXQs6rH1R0&t=1427s- crucifyd -