Posts by Jackie Clark
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And one more to come, Jackie! /giggles with glee
I'm feeling a little gleeful, myself. Not only is it the holidays, not only do I get to meet YOU, and your lovely girls, but hopefully there will be a Wriggly Person there as well. Either way, the idea of nattering in the sun to you makes me want to clap my hands.
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Thankyou Emma - for that post, and for being the sweet, shy, stroppy sheila that you are, and for showing Cedric who was boss. It was a highlight of my year to meet you. It's been a very good PAS year for me personally, because I have got to meet so many of you, and have made some good friends, who are kindhearted, interested and interesting people. Although there are people still unmet, I am sure you will not remain that way. All of you make my life richer and more interesting. Thanks to Russell for providing a place for all these disparate people to come together. We are a community, and a damn good one at that.
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I am so sorry about your grandmother, Edmund. Never easy, I know.
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I recognise Tiaki Mira's name, Islander. Oh, yes. It reminds me to revisit. It's been such a long time.
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From my viewpoint there is another layer of interaction as soon as random people enter the discussion. There I think the discussion is located in a more virtual dimension.
I don't agree, Ben. I don't know you, but then, I don't know many of the people who post here. It makes you no less real to me, or what you say easier to dismiss.
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Was I too bossy, do you think?
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'A broad moral basis', in my opinion, can be established in several other ways "than intense philosophical studies."
*Relationship to land & other land-dwelling species.
*Relationship to the water bodies, especially the seas (in Maori terms, land & sea are antipathetical,) and most of all,
*Relationship to other humans, both in whakapapa terms, current whanau obligations, and experiential terms.Yes. You will note that a *lot* of Maori philosophy is based on relationships. In fact, pretty well * everything * is-
I am very glad that religion is going down the gurgler: it didnt actually have a lot to do with how we lived our lives here in ANZ originally (it was all about utu-keeping a balance, and not 'trespassing'- and much other stuff) and that 'notion of culture' was, for here, a wholly European - introduced idea.
Everything you said, Islander. I was trying to think how to say the same thing, and you said it so much more beautfully. The relationship to the land of Aotearoa is a very important one for me. I can feel my connection to it viscerally. One of the most aweinspiring moments of my life was sitting, in February, on the stony beach at Lake Hawea. The warm wind was howling, the lake was rough and clear and cold, and the mountains were a Colin McCahon painting. That's my moral compass, right there.
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Shouldn't be that bad. It is still a virtual discussion on a web blog.
Hello Ben, I'm Jackie. I'm not virtual, I am flesh and blood, therefore any discussion we have on this forum is also not virtual but real, and valid, and means as much as an offline face to face discussion. PAS is a community of people. Real, live, human beings. Not faceless robots. And thus.......do you see where I'm going with this? The reason most of us use our real names is that we recognise that this is a community made up of all different sorts of people. And we, by and large, don't say stuff to each other in our online discussions that we wouldn't say to each other in our offline discussions. Not real life discussions, because, you know, this is real life. Hard concept to grasp, I know.
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It's hard to tell about those who are dead. I have my Nana's & Grand-dad's love letters (my mother refuses to read them) and they are so polite and full of gaps....
After my Dad died, my Mum made me read love letters that he'd sent to her from overseas business trips in the first 6 years of their marriage. Now remember, she was a shy young thing of 23 when they marrried, and he was 47. And he was horny, horny, horny. OMG he was horny. At turns I was mortified at what I was reading, and pleased that he so obviously fancied his child bride. I have always recognised my father was not an ordinary man, but those letters fleshed out, if you will, just what a very sexual man he was. I was relieved to find that my behaviour in my 20's was so obviously genetic.
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I love your badge, Islander. Fantastic. And as for that chair, Sofie - a lovely red clitoris in your lounge. I can so see it!