Posts by Joe Wylie
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That doesn't mean we have to accept the Jesus that lived did all the things described in the New Testament.
Which is why people tend to, like, make their own Jesus from available materials? My favourite would be Mikail Bulgakov's Yeshua Ha-Notrsi/Ha-Nozri from The Master and Margarita , tried by the migraine-afflicted Pontius Pilate :
"No, no, Hegemon," the arrested man said, straining all over in his wish to convince, `there's one with a goatskin parchment who follows me, follows me and keeps writing all the time. But once I peeked into this parchment and was horrified. I said decidedly nothing of what's written there. I implored him: "Burn your parchment, I beg you!" But he tore it out of my hands and ran away."
"Who is that?" Pilate asked squeamishly and touched his temple with his hand.
"Matthew Levi," the prisoner explained willingly. "He used to be a tax collector..."
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http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5mlb3Bjzs
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Ruaumoko
Looked into his throat a while back at the Waimangu Valley. Very impressive. A close relative of the giant Japanese namazu, I reckon.
I didn't think this was a competition. Or evangelism. Just a safe place to express ideas.
You don't even have to evangelise. Just pursuing an 'impure' line of thought is enough to have the inherently authoritarian go all mediaeval on you.
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Oh, and a bloke called Giorgio Moroder
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Nor do I think compulsory voting has exactly done wonders for the depth and breadth of representation in Canberra.
Compulsory voting was certainly a factor in the rise of Pauline Hanson. Taking the opportunity to give a plague-on-both-of-your-houses finger to a self-absorbed dual party system that largely treated non-party members with contempt, voters knowingly sent a card-carrying idiot to Canberra.
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In living stereo, no less :)
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Squeeel
Lewis, don't play games with these people!
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Much of the media comment has been mean spirited or even minimal
Not just the media either.Last night National MP's chose to try one last dig (which I found deplorable) which made me turn off the channel.
Hey, it's still early days - she's not even 60. Let's not begrudge the pygmies their 15 minutes.
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. . . in The House and the Speaker is doing a great job of trying to see a way through for Pita . . .
Isn't he shaping up well. Must be those delicate hands, just made for locating the finest nuance in Standing Orders.
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I did expect that the nutroots and Key would fall out of love eventually, but not over something like this. It's hilarious.
Viz my comment on yesterday's thread about Key not lasting the term.
You might just be on to something, but somehow I doubt that Key's political fortunes are influenced in any way by the gnashings of around two-and-a-half dozen glow-in-the-dark acne cases.