Posts by Jackie Clark
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I'm with you on that, Craig. I thought about going, just for the Violent Femmes, but decided against it, like I do every year at this time when I think "ooh, so and so is playing, that would make the ticket worth it, I could even put up with crowding throngs of little people". Whoever's playing is never enough of a drawcard for me to get past the St Luke's factor of it all.
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I don't use Internet dating - married for a long time to a man I met in a pub - but I do use it as just another social forum. I met my platonic soulmate online, and I have another 3 very close friends that I met online in the last ten years (good old chatrooms, eh?). Stigma is as stigma does, I think. I've had years of people looking at me strangely when I tell them about meeting people from online, offline (or "in real life" as some sad f**** still refer to it). I've met nutters, and as I've said, lots of lovely people. And that's the thing about it. It really is just another social forum. What a large world it is, out there, and how much we limit ourselves if we don't explore it. Some people travel thousands of miles to see the wonders of humanity. I just have to sit at my desk. Oh, and I can wear my dressing gown whilst meeting all these people. How wondrous is that? And why would you not choose to use the Internet to meet people to date?
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What an enriching holiday, Juliana. I am ashamed, yet slightly proud, to say that every day this week I have stayed in my dressing gown until at least 4pm. In this age of rushing around like mad things, I think I may start up a business teaching people to do nothing. It appears to be one of my natural talents. I'm awfully good at just "being".
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Brilliant. Well done.
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Lovely article, David, thankyou. What has always confused me is that the NZ tourist board and others tout our clean, green image, and yet the people who could ensure that we stay that way, seem to have no long term vision. Tourists come here partly because they see us as a pristine, clean, green place, I suspect. If we don't protect our wetlands, and our lakes, and our forests, and our waterways - then we need to acknowledge that we are no different to the places that the tourists come from. So why would they bother to come here? I'm of the firm opinion that tourism dollars are where it's at, really, in terms of economic, sustainable growth. And everything that can be done to protect our environment can only be a good thing for us all.
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Oh my god, JP - how brilliant is that website. So many thanks for that. Wow. Sly and the Family Stone live? Frigging genius.
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and Dave Dobbyn is a beautiful man. I unashamedly say out loud, and proud, I love his music. Always have. Always will. The gig he did with Runga and Finn a few years ago was just the best, the gig th'Dudes did just recently just stunning. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have ourselves a National Treasure.
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I don't think why you believe something IS arguable, Nick. There are far cleverer people than me, some of them here, who have tried over thousands of years to argue the toss, but I'm firmly convinced that you can't intellectualise spiritual belief. Believe me, I've been having this discussion for 30 years with various people, and I've yet to convince anyone that their idea of "God" as an old man with a white beard who lives in the sky, is ridiculous. I used to have arguments with all sorts of characters from the time I was 14. I pronounced myself an atheist at that age. My prounouncements amused people. Never got me nowhere, but interesting discourse was had, by one and all. Now, I'm older and more tolerant, and if people want to believe whatever it is that floats their boat, then that's up to them. I'll still have the discussion with them, but now it's in the recognition that we're sharing what may be opposing viewpoints, not arguing to convince the other he/she is wrong/right. Personally, I have no truck with organised religion. Large groups of people can only be a bad thing, in the long run.Although I can see that the sense of community that is often missing in our lives, some find in churches and such. Not for me, all that - but then, each person's beliefs are very much about making sense of the world around them in whatever form that may take. You cannot change the belief systems of people, nor should you. What you can do is accept that it's interesting and valuable when we're able to discuss our beliefs and find the commonalities without killing each other. But then that's just my view of the world........
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What fun! All that is unexplained in the universe, all that is unknowable. All the little scientists scurrying to prove or disprove. All the theologians/people with religion rushing to counter. All very existential and interesting except for one thing. The very definition of spirit/gods/God/the unbearable lightness of being is that it is not material therefore not tangible therefore not explicable. Doncha love it? What we believe or do not believe is not arguable. What we feel or do not feel is not arguable. Neither is it able to be proven or not. That is the point. It just is.
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I know nothing of sports, nor of the other civic issues involved with having a big stadium downtown but I am in complete agreement with Compie. Make it big and beautiful or give the bloody thing to someone else.