Month: December 2012
This is not the boxing day sales (St Stephen and all martyrs)
It is 0830. In about one hour the shops open, and the biggest retail day of the year starts. Boxing day was originally the day that food was given to the poor after the feast. But it is now the day that every big box takes 30% off, and people take…
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Love, not division, for (but) today.
Well, it is Christmas Morning. We are helping in the kitchen (which includes keeping out and letting the cook go for it, if needed). As is our tradition, we are watching Andre Reiu and other Carol songs and giving small gifts to children only -- we are not American, Read More
Liturgies against destruction
Some mornings the paper is simply depressing and the mores that are causing discussions in the androsphere are equally sad. Yet another group of women claiming to be traditional but wanting their own desires and their rebellion to be validated. As SSM noted…
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Perpetual Advent.
Today is the fourth Sunday in Advent. As expected, the pagan prophecies that the world will end two days ago have failed, it is apparently a dawn of a new era. Anyone who has knowledge of the cults of last century -- the adventists, the holiness…
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Postmodern ungoodthink
I;m looking at the electronic version of the herald and the Christmas message from the church leaders throughout Auckland. It is one of the few times something overtly religious is in the paper, and this year the lads have managed to sneak in something moderately…
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Lies make you foolish.
Last night my Dad said something about how those with no intelligence or common sense are having kids... while the jobs for those without any motivation, intelligence or common sense are disappearing. That there is a class dependent on the state. He recalled that Read More