The idea of callings is a very fine one and I would like to see a return to thinking and talking about it, rather than trying to calculate what will gain us the most money or the most prestige or the most position in society and then making a plan to get there.
A prize for learning to be a conformist, agreeing with things that you know are not true… Really?
Is it fair, or even reasonable, to think that yours are more ‘clever’? All you’re really boasting about is the social status that you brought into the situation with you.
According to the Gisborne Herald, the council’s chief executive mused that “another option to slow traffic could be to reduce the speed limit”. After spending a million dollars, they finally think of that.
Every life that is saved makes it worthwhile. And it seems that the ‘safe areas’ are not changing that.
So the business of science is to find out knowledge. But scientific fact can never be just fact, brute fact. It isn’t fact unless it’s true and it isn’t true unless it is both correctly observed and truthfully reported.
Unproven hypotheses that are put forward as ‘truth’ or ‘scientific fact’, simply because powerful forces have decided to put them in that position, really have no more scientific validity than matauranga Māori.
If you say schools shouldn’t ‘indoctrinate’ children or ‘force a religious view’ on them, allow me to point out to you that the schools have been indoctrinating children with secular humanism and forcing its religious views on them for decades. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
We used to have outstanding early childhood education in this country. It was provided by mothers without qualifications, in homes without certification and at a cost to the taxpayer of precisely zip.
There are laws that are doing real harm and I would like to see that acknowledged in the public debate.
The occupation began on Monday, following a protest march through the streets, and is set to continue for ‘as long as it takes’.
People are going to look for solutions outside of the system because pain and suffering will not wait for change to take place at the snail’s pace of bureaucracy.
And, yes, women do suffer complications, sometimes severe complications, from taking these pills.
How could it be? Anzac Day was about courage, looking death in the face and doing one’s duty without regard for personal safety. How had we come to this strange place where all that mattered was saving one’s own life from a trifling threat and it was a virtue to leave the vulnerable to die alone?
