Posts by Islander
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Tess Rooney,
t’s perfectly clear that the definition of marriage that I hold too is very much in the minority, you only have to look at divorce and contraception rates to see that. It’s up to our MPs to legislate following the new understanding of marriage.
However this is provided that as long as people and churches/faiths can hold their own ceremonies freely, and that religions can teach their own theological beliefs freely.
Kia ora Tess- as opposed to the time/s when religious authorities held sway, ANZ is quite happy that you & yours do you what you want within the bounds of our law/legal system.
I am very glad that religion no longer has sway within Aotearoa-NZ
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Speaker: Torture in the neighbourhood -…, in reply to Sacha,
Outside of Grant's issues-
I NEVER view/download this kind of crap (I spent too many years on the IDP tribunal to ever risk more of my brain being corrupted)
BUT-if that shows brutlisation of Fijian prisoners- why should we be surprised?
Fiji had(has?) one of the most brutal set of societies in the South Pacific - and, in my experience, one of the most hospitable-
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
I have "Ender's Game" & "Speaker for the Dead" in my sf library - but nothing else.
I gave up on Gene Wolfe after the first 3 books of his torturer series- yuk. And - meh. -
Hard News: A good soldier dies, in reply to George Darroch,
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Yeah, interesting link - got most of that stuff in my library (along with material on how difficult it is for humans to make *other* animals to kill on their behalf- )
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Hard News: A good soldier dies, in reply to Bob Williams,
I feel reluctant to drag out the old cliché about whether this chain of events, from the confrontation to the coroner, would have unfolded the way that it has if Corporal Hughes had been straight. But I have.
Kia ora Bob - I second George's welcome.
I have an odd sexuality - I am an asexual (no interest in/inclination towards any kind of sex whatsoever.) One of the very few other asexuals I have met is in the Airforce (NZ.) He is a)automatically assumed to be gay or b)weird or c)hiding some nasty proclivity. His inborn asexuality *has* affected his career path - and there are very few people indeed who he can talk to - or would understand what he is talking about-
the huge assumptions that people make - especially within the Armed Forces- that you are either this or that or - what did you say you were? Geddalife! Getoffthegrass!
And there is harrassment of the different- and, o George? I know another asexual who is also in the Armed forces - but she is female-
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Hard News: When the drug warriors turn, in reply to BenWilson,
10 years of smoking dope in large quantities, nothing like that had ever happened to him.
Geezus!
Marijuana has been used recreationally, medicinally, prophylactically for millenia-
the human system copes with it…but new whacko crap – not.
To downgrade the conversation- I think the same criterion applies to butter versus margerine (and yes, I am aware that certain human populations dont handle dairy products well- -
Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to BenWilson,
Edit 0.8 to 0.08 in the previous comment. Blowing 0.8 would be some kind of local record, I’d imagine
Bugger! I was about to wade in with comments that *even* in the OFR we never managed that…
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Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Islander,
The moth is a byebye for me- not you!
Take good care- stay well- -
Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Hebe,
O this site isnt really working-
]1- there are sites you can check up on the liklihood of southern aurora
2: Moeraki cool - but I need to get family labour
3: Nah, life has been miserable: my best friend and neighbour died on the 19th of January, and most energy has been spent in -tidying up?
Anyway: I am extremely tired, headed for the other side of the hill apopo- a nice moth has just arrived on the screen, so I take that as a byebye-
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Almost barbed wire swallows-