Posts by Heather Gaye
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I'm surprised I haven't heard any fundie christians use the rainbow argument. "God promised he'd never again wipe out the earth with a flood."
On a more serious note the thing I don't understand is why do the anti-climate change groups get so uptight. What the scientists are saying is we should emit less carbon.
I concur. I don't understand how telling people not to consume can possibly be a self-serving gesture.
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I know your real name.
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I think a blogger code of conduct is just a manifestation of what PA seems to have discovered by the bad experiences of others. Civility is something that has to be designed into a forum, be it using a karma-points approach, or, like PA, simply stated from the outset and upheld by the mods. I think the problem that DPF and similar have is that they didn't think a comments policy was necessary, so didn't really consider it until a negative atmosphere had already been established.
I think the suggested code of conduct is a bit precious. But I also think it's worthwhile step for blutters to devise their own comment policy, based on what they want to achieve, preferably something that's implicitly agreed to when a commenter signs up (in my limited experience retroactive policy just makes trolls more nuts).
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A man came up to her and asked her if she'd like to come with him. She could drink some coke, play some Xbox, hang out with other kids, it'd be cool. After about ten minutes of trying to persuade her that no, she didn't really have to ask her parents first, he admitted that what he was inviting her to was a Christian Youth Group.
I'm a bit hesitant to take this at face value - your common-or-garden youth group leader isn't generally stupid enough to approach a young girl in such a fashion. Established churches are hella careful about how they attract new members, and there's no way they'd endorse recruiting someone that young without their parents' knowledge/permission. If he is affiliated with a christian group, and you know what it's called, I think you should complain. Plenty of penty churches have members that are all enthusiasm and no clue, but that's behaviour that the church'd want to address & discourage.
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To develop confidence in, and the ability to, communicate effectively.
Is it just me, or is that some really bad grammar?
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Since when did an MP whom wasn't even elected to parliament get to tell me how to bring up my kids?
That argument especially scrunches my panties! I heard a similar argument recently: "I don't like MMP because half the MPs are expected to toe the party line instead of represent the actual population". Well, I elected Sue Bradford to parliament, 5% of the voting public and I wanted the Greens to represent us; and that's exactly what we got.
On another thread, I raised the point (and got thoroughly rubbished for doing so) that I find 'time out' a psychologically abusive - if undeniably effective - form of bullying.
...and a whole stack of parents use far more damaging psychological tactics to cut their children down, often for no reason, and will never be hauled into a court for it. I'm not sure what to do about that. It makes me believe this whole repeal is an arbitrary line shift, and I think most of the arguments - both for and against - highlight that. Everyone's very emotional about it, but I think there's a distinct lack of convincing logic on either side. I don't like that either side - and I think the anti-repeal side's arguments seem especially tenuous - are still trying to justify their gut feelings in logical terms, when there is no discernable logical basis for their stance.
FWIW I hold to the emotional viewpoint that it'd be great to live in a country where there's no legal justification for violence against children. It'd also be great to live in a country where a handful of parents aren't telling their kids that they're worthless on a daily basis, but that's a fight for another day.
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We had an admin I begged our boss not to fire because every time she did something, I got to add a new section to the manual.
What a wonderful observation. Emma, you have changed the entire direction of my client discourse.
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Whenever I go back to NZ I am struck by two things, how poorly informed many New Zealanders are about the US and what it is actually like there and what is actually going on, it seems that just about everyone can cite inane and superficial platitudes they have picked up from the media, but not much else
I wager that goes for the majority anywhere, about their own and other countries' politics. That's why I read public address - greater proportion of wheat to chaff, by an order of magnitude. And why I try to avoid talking about politics with my workmates, family and people I meet at parties.
Frankly, I've found the whole discussion to be extremely informative, purely because I can read views from both inside and out. I hope that will continue.
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I suspect the people behind it realised that the opponents of the bill were already deluging MPs with their views and decided that at least some kind of voice from the other side of the argument should reach MPs.
I kinda cringed when I saw the email feature too, but there do seem to be a lot of people espousing the view that "70% of kiwis" or "90% of kiwis" (usually quoting badly-worded and partisan media polls) are against repeal, and lamenting the death of democracy. With that in mind, I think it's probably not a bad idea to redress the balance.
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wait a minute...LEGION?? is that you????