To be honest it’s been a few funerals, but specifically I’m thrown off by axis by one of which was this week, the other from 1988. This week the funeral … Continue reading →
Two stories in the media today outlining the lead up to the death of a woman from an invasive brain tumor having been under the care of a quack, … Continue reading →
New Zealand is on track to remove barriers to same sex marriages. We have Civil Union legislation, but this is a sort of half-way house thing. Removing an arbitrary sex … Continue reading →
Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz is a colourful larger than life character. He even lives local to me. But he is a rogue, and has done knowing and wilful things. … Continue reading →
My mother died just over a year ago March 2011, and despite her age suddenly, and without a will. I’m from what would now be considered a large family of 8 children … Continue reading →
It’s not like I ever thought I would have some understated life, a bohemian devil may care existence. But it gets to a point when all around you it’s gone a bit squiffy, As for this feeling of hopelessness and puzzlement, I’m hoping that this too shall pass.
My son has had an epiphany, his moment of realisation, that bit as a teenager when you have a stream of consciousness, the outpouring of everything that you think you’ve done … Continue reading →
“That my son is not a plan it’s actually a bit of a nightmare”
There are a couple of quotes that I’d like to call out in this “the theatre had “not met our audience targets in a very tough economic climate and within … Continue reading →
the New Zealand position seems to be the most English of all, arrogance in the face of facts that would indicate otherwise that the All Blacks are the best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be,
“What would lead you to believe that it was true”
For you Te Ururoa Flavell it’s about punishing the dead by punishing the living, and in the end it makes not one blind bit of difference if you bury a person outside the gates, whether you mourn only for 1 day not 2 or 3, and if you deny the dead person the dignity of remembrance, in the end it’s about how you’ve let that person down by not caring enough to prevent their death.
And that Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell is the bottom line.
you’re telling me that of all the criminals in the “afterlife” are reformed, and that not a one of them is willing to torment and wreak havoc on the living by passing this type of message to the “seer”
I get the need to believe that there is more, I get that some people think they can talk in cryptic to the dead, I do. However you’re all having a laugh, and you need to exercise you’re imagination a little to ponder why it should be that after your four score and ten on the earth you get a couple billion years in some other place?
or slamming and damning, counselling and group grieving and how I learned to react in a group. Led mostly by media snippets and reporting (often poorly repeated, and incomplete, inaccurate and … Continue reading →
I’ll start by stating off the bat that there is no doubting climate change. We have climate change, on a global scale. It is real. I belive it. How much … Continue reading →
Toll roads are contentious. Nobody want to pay to drive. Driving is a right. Unalienable, god-given right. I can drive anywhere at any time. I can even use my … Continue reading →
I’ve been listening to a number of skeptical podcasts, that is podcasts that have a skeptical look at things. I’d recommend the Righteous Indignation podcasts, they’ve been interviewing ‘believers’ in … Continue reading →
Swiss authorities have arrested film director Roman Polanski for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. yeah and? He’s been on the run since in France, scared to go … Continue reading →
A life just as ordinary 