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being responsible with your bits

By Dale, on August 26th, 2008%

This post over at Scoop highlights the reality (whether we like it or not) that the ‘anything goes’ mindset (and more specifically the outworking of that mindset) toward sexuality is not healthy – literally. It does matter where you put your bits.

For me, an interesting angle is that of self-control. We have the ability to control even the most . . . → Read More: being responsible with your bits

anthropocentric ethics

By Dale, on August 25th, 2008%

Anthropocentric Ethics – In Ancient & Modern Perspective

The author/composer/poet/community which produced the text we know of as Genesis 1 observed many things. Just one of these is the uniqueness of humans in relation to our environment.

Day and night, earth and sky, sea and land, vegetation, and fruits, creatures great and tiny, both in the sea and on land…

. . . → Read More: anthropocentric ethics

the story of stuff

By Dale, on August 7th, 2008%

watch it here (worth all 20 minutes of your time).

Note: The scope of this thing is so huge, please don’t fault it for making sweeping statements – to cover what it does in 20 minutes, it has to make its statements as general as possible.

‘ribblesdale’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Dale, on July 9th, 2008%

For your enjoyment:

“Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leaves throng

And louched low grass, heaven that dost appeal

To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;

. . . → Read More: ‘ribblesdale’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins

what’s the problem with porn?

By Dale, on May 1st, 2008%

There are a few, perhaps, who would answer this question with a casual (or insistent) “None. Get over it”, but most, I suspect, would agree: porn (obviously only for societies that have it) is a problem.

Some better questions would be ‘what kind of problem is it?’, ‘where does it come from?’ and ‘how do people deal with it?’

Jason . . . → Read More: what’s the problem with porn?

trust and believe… criminals!?

By Dale, on April 28th, 2008%

Do you trust? Do you believe?

I’m not talking (at least in this post!) about God – I’m talking about convicted criminals!

Tapu Misa has written another thought-provoking piece about –among other things– the house-arrest conditions of Bailey Kurariki, suggesting that the public needs to trust him to learn how to live in society.

. . . → Read More: trust and believe… criminals!?

wisdom

By Dale, on April 24th, 2008%

For some reason, I respect people the most when they obviously are very smart, but are ever-concious that they don’t know everything.

Matter of fact, it seems that the more you know, the more you become aware of all the things you don’t know.

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