Posts by Mark Easterbrook
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Beautifully put, Graham.
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This from the Herald's Your Views:
Grace (Parnell)
NZ is a Christian nation. If we went to the Middle East we wouldn't expect them to become Christian for us.Jesus was clearly born in the other Middle East, not the one Grace is refering to.
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Put the band in a car!
Or just the camera.
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On the radio a few years back, I interviewed David Zwartz from the NZ Jewish Council, soon after the Malcolm Evans cartoons business.
What we discussed at length, but didn't really resolve, was the difference between a) the State of Israel; b) Judaism as a religion; and c) being Jewish.
It seems to me that debate so often breaks down when discussing a,b or c because the 3 have become too-tightly connnected in post-WWII discourse. It is hard to support/decry the actions of Israel without being seen to support/decry Jewish people or Judaism. I do think that there is some political deliberateness in that, and if anything it highlights the issues of state and religion being too buddy-buddy...
The thing with Israel is that nowhere else (that I can think of) are issues of state/religious/ethnic identity so tightly connected.
Imagine the confusion if American, Christian and Anglo Saxon were used almost interchangably...to me, that's the situation we have with Israel/Judaism/being Jewish.
How that's resolved? Pass...
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I wonder if anyone's spoken to ex-Otago coach, ex-cop and ex-All Black selector Gordon Hunter about the incident?
That would be a bit tricky, what with him being dead and all.
Ouch.
Feel free to delete that poorly researched joke, Russell. I'd completely forgotten that he'd passed away.
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I wonder if anyone's spoken to ex-Otago coach, ex-cop and ex-All Black selector Gordon Hunter about the incident?
He was there apparently, but may have just turned a blind eye to what was being screened (/lame joke).
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Congratulations to Russell, Damian, Jolisa, David, Fiona, Graham, Tze Ming, Keith, David, Che (if he still scraped in to the awards period ;), anyone who's contributed thru Speaker, those nice boys at Cactus Lab, and all of you who chip in on Public Address System.
I spend far to much time on PA, when I should be working, because it's the place I get 90% of my brain-stimulation these days. Keep it up!
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I don't have have a geeky cell in my body, and party because it's so hard to do well.
Craig, I'm waaaay late, but that's a beautiful typo (my bold). I can see the premise of a movie right there.
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And in Whangarei a couple of years ago.
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I should clarify that: the Police couldn't get away with directing much back.