Month: March 2013

Do not watch the news, watch TED.

Posted on By pukeko
When I was a child and young man, there were some verses my father quoted to me fairly consistently. He was particularly fond of the Philippians passage, but quoted "The heart is desperately wicked" enough times. Those I did not need to memorize.… Read More

Quotage.

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This is an odd week locally. Yesterday was Otago Anniversary Day. This is not celebrated by the university, who (by long tradition) account the anniversay as the Tuesday after Easter. However, Easter in early this year, and if you do not work on the Monday of this week you will be trying to cram five days work not onto four days,… Read More

The struggle of discipline.

Posted on By pukeko
The issue of discipline is one that I struggle with. After writing about it yesterday, I ended up not doing the work I should have and instead watching the last session of the current cricket test. If I was in Auckland I would be considering… Read More

We have rejected the disciplines of the Almighty for the Mall.

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Keoni Galt wrote yesterday about repetition. About writing a post and then deleting it, because it has been said before. And then, in the middle of his discussion about the consequences of blogging for five odd years -- which has been a self education and the development of critical thinking, he Read More

Power and protection cause love.

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Son and I have been out looking at scenery after a very depressing sermon. Our minister talked about how he could not wait for the prayer meeting, and used to attend praise meetings for an hour before church. How he expected God to… Read More

Confrontation.

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It is Palm Sunday, and locally the beginning of mid term break, which will lat until after Easter. And I slept in. Kirk starts at 0830: I need an alarm for that -- which is on my smartphone and I forgot to charge it overnight. So I am hoping to get… Read More

I made the press.

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I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago and then forgot it. They got my job wrong (I'm a psychiatrist not a psychologist -- They got that wrong.) I forgot that they talked to me for 30 minutes until a colleague said I was quoted in the university… Read More