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Domestic violence incidents starting to roll in. Unfortunately all to common on a Saturday night.
What's special about saturday night that it occasions domestic violence?
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Speaker: The act of not eating doesn't…, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
the underlying concepts of asceticism.
No its not asceticism Lent is about penitence and is modelled on the forty day fast when apparently jesus saw god. And Ramadan is deeply misogynistic.
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Writing about these link experiences is in its infancy. We need words to describe and shape them. We need concepts on which to base the aesthetics. We need ways to describe the discoveries
Yes we do
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Speaker: The act of not eating doesn't…, in reply to Michael Savidge,
But we don’t so do-gooders try and pick up the slack.
Its those in power whose minds need rebooting and fast. Yet we all just seem to put it in the too hard basket and suddenly a decade or two wanders by.
And its OK to turn the education of future generations and care for the sick into profit making ventures. As for aid, well it gets turned into an industry. Its got to stop.
We invented money and god, never forget that, they are malleable institutions nothing is set in stone and we can change it anytime we like. Its just those with the most to loose (always materially) will try anything to stop it happening.Maybe it’s not a great solution, but no need to be a dick about people committing to what’s in front of them hoping it will help.
Sez you!
In front of them hoping it will help? what?
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Speaker: The act of not eating doesn't…, in reply to Hebe,
Aid is undoubtedly a global industry
It shouldnt be an industry it should be what we do as a matter of course.
But the loathing directed against god botherers raising money for aid projects is painful to read.
a reflexive reaction
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Speaker: The act of not eating doesn't…, in reply to Michael Savidge,
I’d give my left testicle for world peace and of course the question must go out. Got any better ideas?
Well yes I have, but it would take sacrifices on a scale way beyond such campaigns which serve only as a salve for some. And take a lot of painful self examination and looking at individual lives in a way most people would rather not. It seems we would rather bury ourselves in idiot campaigns to win pieces of silver in which money will always win. But hey we’re only human is the excuse usually trotted out on such occasions. So WTF would I know.
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It is a challenge that uses the concept of living off of much less as a reflective tool to both financially support our partners through fundraising, but also to create conversations about the reality of 1.2 billion people living below the poverty line
However we are convinced that Live Below the Line provides an avenue for many everyday Kiwi’s to engage with an issue that is otherwise out of reach.
I'm calling bullshit on that. But dont suppose we'll hear from you again now you've done your press release duty.
So why are 1.2 billion people living below the poverty line?
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Speaker: The act of not eating doesn't…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Farm subsidies are a major factor behind such unevenness, and organisers of campaigns like Live Below the Line would be better off spending their energies on fighting that
Yeah well half of them are sanctimonious, self righteous god botherers. Securing their foothold in a non existent world after their well fed lives and deaths is probably uppermost in their diseased minds.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Danielle,
Did you just call me the police,? first time I've been called that :))
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Lilith __,
And I really think the greenie-fringe-weirdo stereotype could be laid to rest.
I have to laugh when duhjohnkey calls people "hippies"