Posts by Lilith __
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I've heard "se" suggested, which seems to me an acceptable and simple compromise. I've always found "they" a bit clumsy-feeling in the singular.
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Hard News: War, now and then, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
We will not cease
The whole book is readable through NZETC (NZ Electronic Text Centre)Thanks for that Ian. And good on Vic Uni for all the careful digitising.
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Capture: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Well i’ll be dipton…
Or Lipton?
But seriously, I guess that could work. You'd have to time it pretty carefully though, and I wonder how even the result would be.
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Hard News: War, now and then, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Mr. C. O. Bell (Crown representative): Would you pray for victory for our side?—I would pray that God’s purpose should be fulfilled. As far as I understand it, it is his purpose that England should win
Wow. Nice to know what God's purposes are.
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Hard News: War, now and then, in reply to Islander,
Dear Lilith (if I may) that has *never* been the case since Europeans arrived.
I'm happy to be dear :-) but it's funny the comforting notions we can assume are true, eh?
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Hard News: War, now and then, in reply to Joe Wylie,
BTW I’m old enough to have caught the tail end of having to register for national service. I still have my little conchie card.
If it's not a rude question, when was this?*
So many things about 20thC NZ that I don't know. I was surprised to see in the first part of the NZOS doco in Russell's post how silenced the local media were during WW2. I've always liked to think that freedom of speech and a free press were a given here in NZ.
ETA: *based on this, it looks like the 1960s. So recently!
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Capture: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, in reply to Lilith __,
They somehow are making use of window-box planters lined with a plastic sheet. They must roll up the paper into the bath??
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Capture: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, in reply to JacksonP,
And a bigger developing tank.
Yes, I was musing on that too. Quite a large tank!
But maybe we can do that at next year's workshop? ;-)
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Conscientious objectors now have some protection in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Amnesty International says:
The right to conscientious objection to military service is not a marginal concern outside the mainstream of international human rights protection and promotion. The right to conscientious objection is a basic component of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion
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Amnesty International considers a conscientious objector to be any person liable to conscription for military service or registration for conscription to military service who refuses to perform armed service or any other direct or indirect participation in wars or armed conflicts for reasons of conscience or profound conviction. Their profound conviction may arise from religious, ethical, moral, humanitarian, philosophical, political or similar motives. But regardless of the basis of their objection, the right of such individuals to refuse to carry weapons or to participate in wars or armed conflicts must be guaranteed. This right also extends to those individuals who have already been conscripted into military service, as well as to soldiers serving in professional armies who have developed a conscientious objection after joining the armed forces.
Wherever such a person is detained or imprisoned solely because they have been refused their right to register an objection or to perform a genuinely alternative service, Amnesty International will adopt that person as a prisoner of conscience. Its world-wide membership in more than 190 countries around the globe campaigns actively for the immediate and unconditional release of such imprisoned conscientious objectors
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Hard News: War, now and then, in reply to Joe Wylie,
To him all tyranny has its roots in ideology, including the ideologies, religious or not, of many of his fellow “conchies”.
He talks like an anarchist. Which is an ideology, too.
I doubt many people want real anarchy, I think most of us believe the state must enforce some control, and our battles are over how and when that control is exercised.
I think it's regrettable that conchies were imprisoned during WW2. Whatever their individual faults may have been, they made a principled stand, and were prepared to suffer for it.