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Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:04:41 +1300

Sad – but inevitable – to hear that the AucklandPasifika Festival has been cancelled for a second year.

I hear a lot about social distancing – but surely we'd have to keep that up until a vaccine is available... a year or more they say (much less if you are…

andin

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:12:13 +1300

The act of making tea is quite different in English and Japanese cultures. The meditative zen mastery of the act is usually done in complete silence with the aim of stilling the mind through total concentration on the physical acts performed with the hope the stillness achieved has flow on…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:18:36 +1300

May I recommend this fine novel about tea and society:
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505844-memory-of-water

andin

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:05:45 +1300

churches foster community.
Thats one way of putting it and I am quite chill, thanks for your concern, always have been. My greatest happiness is helping others deal with all their life problems

Rob Stowell

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 22:43:06 +1300

If God is dead, your time is everything is the best thing I've read for ages on religion, atheism, community, Marx, and value :)

Russell Brown

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:45:54 +1300

I was hoping tea was some kind of euphemism, before I write the guy off as another dick selling snake oil.

Jeez, chill out. I asked him because I'm interested in the way churches foster community. Mark was recommended by my mate the Rev Frank Ritchie, with whom I disagree…

andin

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:09:46 +1300

god like creature who have developed spacetime engineering technology
Whatever!
We are incapable of taking responsibility for our own actions and will find any reason however fanciful to carry on what we are doing, is the human trait I find least endearing.

I was hoping tea was some kind of…

andin

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:41:01 +1300

Im sure he's a lovely chap, and maybe there is a meditative quality to tea making I dont have any experience in that.
Theres two broad categories when it comes to making societies "better" not the world please, individual and communal.
We're pretty much fucked at present communally (in the…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:17:49 +1300

pastor and “worship curator”
As long as he pays tax he can anoint himself with whatever fancy title he wants to

He's an interesting guy. Big on the qualities of tea.

andin

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:57:28 +1300

pastor and “worship curator”
As long as he pays tax he can anoint himself with whatever fancy title he wants to

Public Address

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:57:28 +1300

Discussion from blog post.