tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1443476242134378750..comments2024-03-28T21:25:08.138+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Striking To Save The PlanetChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-92205861373362274052019-03-12T21:25:08.312+13:002019-03-12T21:25:08.312+13:00And Shane McDowall, as a Napier resident then, and...And Shane McDowall, as a Napier resident then, and a walker to primary school in the 70s, it was a vast over-reaction, understandable psychologically, but wrong. Just a help to the oligarchs in America, and here.<br /><br /><br />'Blind rage' caused the Napier police to persecute the wrong man for 10 years. A little child is safest in a democracy, not a red herring throwing safe place for rich dicks, as Douglas wished for.sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-86339522092983317842019-03-11T15:56:24.429+13:002019-03-11T15:56:24.429+13:00Tom Hunter. Perhaps you have forgotten WHY childre...Tom Hunter. Perhaps you have forgotten WHY children are ferried everywhere. This started after the horrific murder of Teresa Cormack in 1987. She was six years and one day old.<br /><br />It still fills me with deep sadness and blind rage when I think of her tragic fate.<br /><br />Her scumbag murderer - I won't use his name - was eventually convicted thanks to improvements in DNA testing.<br /><br />Scumbag should NEVER be released.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933320334462324482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-51263806602660741222019-03-11T14:50:45.075+13:002019-03-11T14:50:45.075+13:00"But the brainwashed can't think of anyth..."But the brainwashed can't think of anything different."<br />I think it's more that some people are making huge amounts of money out of the present system and are working very hard to keep it going. Particularly in the US, but probably everywhere. Plus the human propensity to keep putting things off.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-59546070695748253672019-03-10T08:06:29.362+13:002019-03-10T08:06:29.362+13:00This comment has been removed by the author.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72497905337783223742019-03-10T00:02:53.419+13:002019-03-10T00:02:53.419+13:00On National Radio Wallace-Wells of the New York Ma...On National Radio Wallace-Wells of the New York Magazine article painted the soberest picture in the circumstance -- 2 % and the disaster of that can't be prevented but every half degree on from that is even worse. It's all over bar the shouting, every other issue in his light is pretty weak piss, homeopathic.<br /><br />I put his interview up on Facebook and not a one addressed it. They think they know it enough but they don't. The younger ones see my extreme case as similar to those of less reason-based elders -- Alex Jones, religion et al. Cannot discern the vital difference of evidenced reality -- I'm just another shrieking woe-sayer to them.<br /><br />But my complacence in the back of my head that I had a 'RIGHT' to comfort lasted into my 40s. Someone who knew and loved history. And the Romans always needed 3 wars to defeat their formidable opponents, the first just to wake up. It's obvious, but it isn't optimistic.<br /><br />We knew this from 1990. The self-interests unleashed as the general interest from 1980 on delivered us here to our tombstone. But intelligence ever was just a device to achieve the same short-term ends as the other animals. sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40930535754913536442019-03-09T22:57:23.005+13:002019-03-09T22:57:23.005+13:00Change is needed. If everything that we have bee...Change is needed. If everything that we have been doing has produced the present calamity, this is obvious. But the brainwashed can't think of anything different. We need questioning, thinking youngsters. The ones now cannot rely on getting a job and getting an education in a functioning country with people who rub along together fairly well. We will have one where people don't believe in anything good, only in power and looking after their own. And we will get change all right, so much that we will be crying with the stress of it all. <br /><br />Another old saying that some philosopher probably said, 'A stitch in time saves nine'. Do it now or we'll be stitched up, and the young people will say you didn't sit us down and explain what we are up against. And that is only thinking of climate change. The government is on about science and dropping the study of human beings and our society. Does that ring a bell in anyone's belfry? Is it because it will only be machines that will be doing everything and who cares about the other humans, not 'our fellow humans', not counting 'the number of souls' on board. All past attitudes will be redundant. Do the Chinese think highly of their philosophers now.<br />Confucius is out I think, what about Taoism? <br /><br />George Constanza offers some change of idea and a new philosophy.<br />(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlYgreywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-50088488665587835852019-03-08T14:05:05.164+13:002019-03-08T14:05:05.164+13:00Shane McD
What's realism in talking about 1,00...Shane McD<br />What's realism in talking about 1,000 years hence? Tripe. Think of enjoying people around you, being grateful for good moments and friendships, and the amazing planet now, make some changes, and help others as they try to make changes and help the planet's health and that of society.<br />That is realism if you care to accept it.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56102513692284770012019-03-08T13:59:41.237+13:002019-03-08T13:59:41.237+13:00You don't always get what you ask for, but if ...You don't always get what you ask for, but if it is a good thing then try anyway. And there is a saying that sometimes when you get what you wanted, you find it isn't the right thing anyway. It is learning about life and trying to find the right path, not just following like we say sheep do. Because sheep don't always go docilely as watching Sheep and Dog Trials demonstrates. <br /><br />I have been reminded of Muriel Spark's book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a schoolteacher; some applicable quotes:<br /><i><br />“The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.” <br />“Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.” <br />“Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.”<br />https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13093.Muriel_Spark?page=4</i><br />greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-9784562347909642762019-03-08T11:54:19.774+13:002019-03-08T11:54:19.774+13:00I believe the most dramatic gesture in the history...I believe the most dramatic gesture in the history of New Zealand politics was Neil Robert's suicide bombing on the Wanganui Computer Centre in November 1982.<br /><br />Nothing says " Fuck You Big Brother! " more clearly.<br /><br />If Mr Roberts were around today he would probably be shocked at mass data surveillance and the ubiquity of cctv.<br /><br />As for climate change I have come to the conclusion that it is happening, there is nothing we can do about it, so we will just have to do what our ancestor have done for the last 200,000 years - adapt.<br /><br />Few people seem to know that we are in an inter-glacial period and that another ice age is, in geological term, just around the corner. Could be as soon 1,000 years.<br /><br />Back to Cheech And Chong: "The world's coming to an end/ I don't even care. As long as I can have my limo / And my orange hair".<br /><br />What others might see as fatalism/hedonism/nihilism I see as realism.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933320334462324482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-71472693042950553302019-03-08T11:53:40.177+13:002019-03-08T11:53:40.177+13:00I believe the most dramatic gesture in the history...I believe the most dramatic gesture in the history of New Zealand politics was Neil Robert's suicide bombing on the Wanganui Computer Centre in November 1982.<br /><br />Nothing says " Fuck You Big Brother! " more clearly.<br /><br />If Mr Roberts were around today he would probably be shocked at mass data surveillance and the ubiquity of cctv.<br /><br />As for climate change I have come to the conclusion that it is happening, there is nothing we can do about it, so we will just have to do what our ancestor have done for the last 200,000 years - adapt.<br /><br />Few people seem to know that we are in an inter-glacial period and that another ice age is, in geological term, just around the corner. Could be as soon 1,000 years.<br /><br />Back to Cheech And Chong: "The world's coming to an end/ I don't even care. As long as I can have my limo / And my orange hair".<br /><br />What others might see as fatalism/hedonism/nihilism I see as realism.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933320334462324482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-53437385310182375672019-03-08T10:10:47.428+13:002019-03-08T10:10:47.428+13:00Dear Student Leaders
Instead of a strike, organis...Dear Student Leaders<br /><br />Instead of a strike, organise a Get To School Under Your Own Steam (GTSUYOS) event and make it permanent?<br /><br />Biking, walking, running. Tell the parents you don’t need to be carted around by car to school and sporting events and parties. And hold to that promise in all weathers.<br /><br />Get some real CO2 emissions reductions.<br /><br />Chances of that happening?<br /><br />Zero.<br /><br />By contrast this is easy, fun and good for the soul as most people tell you how wonderful you are for caring.Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-65806104108644770572019-03-08T08:55:21.833+13:002019-03-08T08:55:21.833+13:00And what change in our way of personal living has...And what change in our way of personal living has been proposed to begin with ? Jens Mederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17304734497662325275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-5158931551068331702019-03-08T07:32:40.447+13:002019-03-08T07:32:40.447+13:00They will be dismissed, and they will of course be...They will be dismissed, and they will of course be patronised. Just like the Parklands survivors and any other group of young people that tells politicians what they don't want to know.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com