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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Tess Rooney,
I acknowledge that many people disagree with the above paragraph, but I think it is factually true
Believing something does not make it a fact. Facts must be objectively verifiable or they aren't facts.
What I think is that the State should get out of the marriage business completely.
Religions don't tell the secular State what to do, that's what secular means. You have your own religious understanding of what marriage means, fine. But you don't get to define it for the rest of us.
And it would be nice if you could recognise that non-Catholics can form meaningful family relationships. You expect tolerance, how about giving some.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Tess Rooney,
The sacrament is far older than our State
And pair-bonding rituals are a hell of a lot older than Christianity. Not that older necessarily means better. Slavery is older than emancipation.
the sacrament is more real than a human legal construct
…to you . To me, what’s real is the people and their relationship. But the secular state only deals in the legal construct. Laws tell us what we can do, not how to feel about it.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Hebe,
Pegasus land has yet to convince me; it’s a good distance from the faults that have gone so far
Brooklands, Pines Beach and Waikuku Beach all had severe damage. OK Pegasus is further inland from the beach, but still.
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Hebe,
The man was searching the boy’s hair for the numbers on the lad’s scalp. One six appeared, another six. Then … “it’s a seven” someone bellowed, and the whole theatre roared with laughter.
Sometimes the audience has dramas of its own. I remember going to a quiet session of a Festival showing of Aki Kaurismaki’s Drifting Clouds , and a man in the audience laughing. A woman turned around and said, “ Do you mind?!! ”
He, startled, said, “But it’s meant to be a comedy!”
“Don’t be ridiculous !!” She hissed back. -
Wonderful pics. Thanks for posting them.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
crikey, that’s another layer
The layer that runs the actual buses :-)
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Celebration of Margaret Mahy’s Life
Oh good on you, Gudrun. Were there lots of people?
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
ECan’s public transport plan
Something more accessible here. 2 days to go for anyone else wanting to give feedback (online feedback form, just follow my link).
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
Idea is to make em easiest to fix/rebuild afterwards. Though that’s all relative.
“Ground repair”: making the ground more compacted and therefore stronger, can be done, with enough money. There is the much touted success of Pegasus Town relative to its neighbours in the earthquakes, as a result of major groundworks prior to building.
I think Ben is right: now we know what the risks are, we can mitigate them.
PS: that vibro-flotation sounds very relaxing. Perhaps in combination with a G & T. :-)
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I think if you take this as a guide to frequency of fault activity it would be hard to believe Maori had no experience of earthquake in the region.
Yet Maori lived in the Wellington and Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay regions. I believe they may well have experienced earthquakes here in Canterbury. And Kaiapoi, site of a major Maori settlement, was very hard hit in our 4/09/10 quake.
Avoiding the Chch area due to quakes just seems implausible to me.
Edit: my last comment wasn't well worded. What I meant was that I didn't think quakes had driven Maori settlement from Chch.