Saturday 02 July, 02005
Monday 04 July, 02005
Tuesday 05 July, 02005
Thoreau said:
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humanity; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountainhead.
Ivan Illich said:
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and ‘cold turkey’ – between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps – but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.
[via w-berry list]
Wednesday 06 July, 02005
Saturday 09 July, 02005
Overheard in my favourite internet ‘cafe’:
OMG! They’ve got one, two, three, four seige cannons!
They also have this no smoking sign on the toilet door with “offenders will be trespassed” written on it that never fails to cheer me up.
Saturday seminar &c.
Thursday 14 July, 02005
Half-hearted blog meme
cos Aaron sort of asked, here are the books are scattered around my bed:
The Post-Evangelical, Dave Tomlinson (lent by Cam H)
What is a Family?, Edith Schaeffer (given by David H)
Grigorii Rasputin, Alex de Jonge (stolen from Dad)
The Lunchtime Runner Vols I & II, by Cam Hockly (bought from Cam at LR2′s launch last Saturday night)
An NIV & an NASB NT & Psalms
Soul Shaper, Tony Jones (from the chaplaincy library)
The NZ Prayer Book (lent by the chaplain)
O and in the lounge from memory there’s:
The Act of Thinking by Derek Melser
What Saint Paul Really Said by NT Wright
an unpublished handwritten manuscript of a novel about suicide
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ooooo….!!!! by Hone Tuwhare
Penguin History of NZ by Michael King.
There are others but they’re slipping away.
um Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (in fact I better read that again ASAP, dig this quote from last year) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig really blew my mind. So did Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. EF Schumacher good. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy make me want to get up in the morning. Wendell Berry is changing me. They all change me. I’m climbing Schild’s ladder, I suppose.
I own maybe 100 books. I’d like to get rid of the stupid ones and get all the good ones in circulation; they’re pointless on (my (rented)) shelves.
I was thinking babies probably start off thinking in emotions (like the bear in That Hideous Strength), then later in poetry, and then when they start to speak, prose.
Tony Robbins says happiness comes from within. You set your own parameters for happiness. Like you might have decided, “I will allow myself to be happy if I succeed in this business venture” and then the condition is met (or not) and you’re happy (or not). So once you realise that, he says, you can change the conditions, and access the boundless resource of happiness which is your birthright. I’m happy now because it’s my 9,342nd day alive. And that’s fuckn amazing! Ha!
O yeah, and Richard and I are going to Fat Freddys Drop Friday the 22nd and we’d love you to come along too.
Friday 15 July, 02005
Monday 18 July, 02005
Daniel Nichols on America, the greatest nation
Lambert Zuidervaart: Earth’s Lament [700KB PDF, via DJM]
Three Rs of community development [via Rance D]
Tuesday 19 July, 02005
Cal Seerveld: The Halo of Human Imagination [15MB MP3, via Thinknet]
Optical illusion [via Bryan]
Tim Barnett on Graham Capill
Wednesday 20 July, 02005
Friday 22 July, 02005
Sunday 24 July, 02005
Wednesday 27 July, 02005
Blessed are the peacemakers
My guess is that shalom cannot be realised in a geographically dislocated ‘community’.
