Month: July 2013

The truth is not the prosperity heresy.

Posted on By pukeko
Anyone who says therapy is about being comforted and assuaging feelings has never been in therapy. And therapy uses myths, metaphors and agreed narratives (or lies) to allow insight to come. Insight hurts. And Jesus has some mercy. For he used… Read More

Administrivia.

Posted on By pukeko
I have put a sitemeter counter back in a widget: the old one had stopped working. This allows the blog to be ranked every month. I am changing ISPs tomorrow, which will involve fiberoptic cables being installed and new modems. I may have to post… Read More

Things ain’t truly nice.

Posted on By pukeko
Yesterday I put a quote up by Linus. The comment section from that piece was interesting. A lot of people said that you should have professional standards of behaviour. That Linus is wrong to abuse people via email: to vent. And then the… Read More

Quote of the week.

Posted on By pukeko
Linus Torvalds, via Wired. You have just got to love the guy. Someone told him to be nice... and this is the response.
The “whole venting of frustrations and anger is actually necessary, and trying to come up with some ‘code of conduct’ that says…
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Martha, Amos and Tapanui.

Posted on By pukeko
It's Sunday morning and it is school holidays, So the son and I are doing something we like, which is trying to find new parts of the country we have not visited. So yesterday we went to Tapanui. On the way, we went through Lawrence, which is an… Read More

Not merely a good teacher.

Posted on By pukeko
You cannot merely call Jesus Good. To do that would be to deny that the people of his time had any common sense. There were two clear reactions here. Those who loved him feared for him and considered that his talk about him being one with God was… Read More

You better be prepared to raise her kids…

Posted on By pukeko
My children are sick of that saying. When they ask about sex (and they do) I say that ideally you marry someone when you are young who is Godly and a virgin. And sleeping with another is not an option. If you leave sperm on her or in her, she… Read More