Posts by andin
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Can I just say that one reason I am not looking forward to the politics of this is that it will include some very very hard arguments to make, where, basically, we have a group of people who (a) had already started botching the response to the previous quake, and (b) are now hugely popular? I mean, this is Bob `Dave Henderson’ `School of Music’ Parker and Gerry `sexy coal’ Brownlee we’re talking about here
What if they turn out to be on opposite sides of the debate? I dunno, does anyone? until it starts. And I am in no haste for it to start while searchers are still looking for the dead.
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'Map of Tasmania'
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Russell Brown,
I bet her source of information is from the craigcult ...
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
classify them as unemployed and then actively manage them back into the workforce, with financial penalties after six months if they’re still jobless.
So thats how Nacts are going to get the country out of debt? Here's my suggestion all people with income or assets of over 5 mill will be classified as an arsehole. And the rest of the population can nurse them back to becoming a better human being.
(Or an arsehole with just one arsehole not two.) The second is usually used just for spouting shit anyway. By the judicious use of financial penalties. And if, after six months, they still refuse to join the human race, they will be sent to a nice little island I know of in the middle of the South Pacific. Difficult to get to but lovely when you are there. There they can spend balmy nights at the bar making themselves pina colada's. Then again there might not be a bar.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
marrying horses
I think Lenny Bruce was having a good old dig at WASP conventions around sex and marriage in Psychopathia Sexualis.
Unfortunately, back then it went over most peoples heads. And, it seems, it still does.
I can quote more verses if you like…….Sorry if I came across as flippant. -
philosophical and religious dialogues
yeah Tripitaka never really rang true.
Tho’ I did get the social commentary, even as an adolescent.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
but would still tread very carefully indeed before appropriating something as deeply culturally significant as The Journey to the West or The Tale of Genji. They’re not just literary classics to be plundered at will like some Orientalist dress up box. They exist suspended in incredibly complex social, political, religious and cultural contexts that should be treated carefully. Not out of political correctness, but simple honour for other cultures that deserve it.
Whaat? Did you not see Monkey? Was I not supposed to find it absofuckinglutely hilarious? Killjoy.
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I can see it clearly now: "Well I want to sleep with my horse, but not until we're married. Got to do these things right".
Bwahaha! 10 points, that male person!
Must have been listening to Lenny Bruce's Pscyh-o-pathia Sexualis
"Im in love with a horse that comes from Dallas.
Poor neurotica me" -
Kracklite
By “religion”, I meant the faith itself, a person’s spirituality, not the organisation.
If only it were that easy. Cause the number of people who use the loophole of, well I/we are human and fallible but my/our god/spirituality cant be judged by my failings, is truly mind boggling.
By “respect”, I mean that one should offer personal respect for a person who is presumably intelligent who sincerely believes something other than what one believes personally.again, I’m referring only to personal spirituality.
And they are all, I would say sincerely mistaken. But you won’t get any such admission out of spiritual's. And no I dont go around with a big club and hit 'em over the head.
I hope that clarifies things – I don’t think that we’re actually in disagreement.
Yes it does thanks, and yes we probably are in agreement.
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Religions, whatever one may think of them (and I am an agnostic myself), are not simply brands or franchises like utility companies.
If only they were utility companies and some kind of benign brand. I think this kind of thinking is a luxury only NZers can accommodate.
it is still not the faith in itself and that deserves some respect.
Sez who? You? And could you give a reason. It better be good.