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highlyeccentricoh dear...
Joel, to me just now: 'Prue's breasts are bigger than Andre's head! WOOOOOW!'
how did he find this out? Andre's hat is too big for his head, but just right for Prue's breast.
why? why? why, o God, did you have to make my brother turn into a BOY?
Another less disturbing tale about Joel
did i mention that i broke my brother at camp? It came about thus: we were all eating in a circle, and Joel decided to sit on the back of Gemma's chair- meaning partly on the back of Gemma. Poor girl was folded in half. I told him to remove himself. He decided then to sit on ME. I decided to get another roll. I got up. He went down. Chair went down on top of him. He was winded.
About a week later he still couldn't run without pain. Mum took him to the doctor to see if he had a broken rib; turns out i'd managed to do soft tissue damage to his lung.
On Anglicans
EU Think Week was this week, and thursday's lecture was advertised as 'Who Would Jesus Vote For?' When we got there the actual title was 'Christianity and Politics- turning the world upside down' (which they showed no inclination to do). I am utterly astonished by the ability of Gordon Cheng to speak for forty-five minutes without commiting to ANYTHING AT ALL. Apparently the bible has no real information on where we should put our political efforts, except that we should love our neighbour whilst doing so. (although he concedes a 'bias' towards 'widows and orphans' as in James. interesting choice- widows and orphans are a whole lot less threatening than 'the poor' or 'lepers' aren't they?)
On the assertion that Christians should steer away from politics entirely: Some people do that. They go off into the desert, they go off into monasteries, or at the very least they become Americans! (a puzzling assertion given the prevalence of religion in modern American politics)
When it got to question time someone up and asked him if Jesus would vote for John Howard. He fluffed around a bit, then said some good stuff (drawn from Jim Wallis) on the limitations of left-right categories. Just as we think he's going to evade answering anything once again...
'The Left have some good stuff going for them, but the Labour Party are just out to antagonise Christians with things we simply can't support, like abortion. So would Jesus vote for John Howard?' *speaks very fast and away from the micropone* 'Yes he would, but-' *moves back to microphone* '-the important thing is WOULD JOHN HOWARD VOTE FOR GOD?'
On Concerts and Kris
As I said in my breif late night post, the Whitlams were excellent. I feel slightly... adulterous, though, due to having fallen head over heels in love with The Live Room, the first support act. Brilliant, brilliant. Gut-wrenching violin :)
The Live Room are playing every thursday in June, at the Sando. I'm there.
It was wonderous to have a quisba :) He braved the college dining hall not once but twice- my status with the Pymbles has skyrocketed, i brought a man to brunch.
We did not buy any merchandise, go us. Although i do intend to go buy the Live Room album :DDD
really late... but Jim Wallis
having mentioned him above, I'll leave you all with a few Jim Wallis quotes from the tues before easter, when he spoke at syd. uni.
his seven year old son, coming home from school: 'Mummy, I'm worried about Max and Jo. I don't think they believe in God or Jesus. I think they're vegetarians!'
On the problem with the Religious Right in America: 'They say there are only two moral issues. They make it easy for us. Abortion, gay marriage. If I'm an unborn child in America, and I want suuport from the Right, I wanna stay unborn as long as I can. Once I'm born, I'm off their radar!... They're not pro-life, they're pro-birth!'
They talk about family. Oh, I love that one... In my house, it's family first every day. I'd like to actually do that, put family first... you can't overcome poverty with 80% single families... but explain to me how gay and lesbian people are the ones doing that? It has more to do with herterosexual dysfunction.
Anti-gay marriage has become the political surrogate for supporting the family... It's possible to be pro-family and pro-gay civil rights.
I'm not talking about a Religious Left to counter the Religious Right... what our folks are hungry for is a moral centre to our public life. Don't go left, don't go right, go deeper... the left/right thing has paralysed us.
Joel, to me just now: 'Prue's breasts are bigger than Andre's head! WOOOOOW!'
how did he find this out? Andre's hat is too big for his head, but just right for Prue's breast.
why? why? why, o God, did you have to make my brother turn into a BOY?
Another less disturbing tale about Joel
did i mention that i broke my brother at camp? It came about thus: we were all eating in a circle, and Joel decided to sit on the back of Gemma's chair- meaning partly on the back of Gemma. Poor girl was folded in half. I told him to remove himself. He decided then to sit on ME. I decided to get another roll. I got up. He went down. Chair went down on top of him. He was winded.
About a week later he still couldn't run without pain. Mum took him to the doctor to see if he had a broken rib; turns out i'd managed to do soft tissue damage to his lung.
On Anglicans
EU Think Week was this week, and thursday's lecture was advertised as 'Who Would Jesus Vote For?' When we got there the actual title was 'Christianity and Politics- turning the world upside down' (which they showed no inclination to do). I am utterly astonished by the ability of Gordon Cheng to speak for forty-five minutes without commiting to ANYTHING AT ALL. Apparently the bible has no real information on where we should put our political efforts, except that we should love our neighbour whilst doing so. (although he concedes a 'bias' towards 'widows and orphans' as in James. interesting choice- widows and orphans are a whole lot less threatening than 'the poor' or 'lepers' aren't they?)
On the assertion that Christians should steer away from politics entirely: Some people do that. They go off into the desert, they go off into monasteries, or at the very least they become Americans! (a puzzling assertion given the prevalence of religion in modern American politics)
When it got to question time someone up and asked him if Jesus would vote for John Howard. He fluffed around a bit, then said some good stuff (drawn from Jim Wallis) on the limitations of left-right categories. Just as we think he's going to evade answering anything once again...
'The Left have some good stuff going for them, but the Labour Party are just out to antagonise Christians with things we simply can't support, like abortion. So would Jesus vote for John Howard?' *speaks very fast and away from the micropone* 'Yes he would, but-' *moves back to microphone* '-the important thing is WOULD JOHN HOWARD VOTE FOR GOD?'
On Concerts and Kris
As I said in my breif late night post, the Whitlams were excellent. I feel slightly... adulterous, though, due to having fallen head over heels in love with The Live Room, the first support act. Brilliant, brilliant. Gut-wrenching violin :)
The Live Room are playing every thursday in June, at the Sando. I'm there.
It was wonderous to have a quisba :) He braved the college dining hall not once but twice- my status with the Pymbles has skyrocketed, i brought a man to brunch.
We did not buy any merchandise, go us. Although i do intend to go buy the Live Room album :DDD
really late... but Jim Wallis
having mentioned him above, I'll leave you all with a few Jim Wallis quotes from the tues before easter, when he spoke at syd. uni.
his seven year old son, coming home from school: 'Mummy, I'm worried about Max and Jo. I don't think they believe in God or Jesus. I think they're vegetarians!'
On the problem with the Religious Right in America: 'They say there are only two moral issues. They make it easy for us. Abortion, gay marriage. If I'm an unborn child in America, and I want suuport from the Right, I wanna stay unborn as long as I can. Once I'm born, I'm off their radar!... They're not pro-life, they're pro-birth!'
They talk about family. Oh, I love that one... In my house, it's family first every day. I'd like to actually do that, put family first... you can't overcome poverty with 80% single families... but explain to me how gay and lesbian people are the ones doing that? It has more to do with herterosexual dysfunction.
Anti-gay marriage has become the political surrogate for supporting the family... It's possible to be pro-family and pro-gay civil rights.
I'm not talking about a Religious Left to counter the Religious Right... what our folks are hungry for is a moral centre to our public life. Don't go left, don't go right, go deeper... the left/right thing has paralysed us.
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Date: 2006-05-07 02:31 pm (UTC)When I get some cash and some time, while convenient, I'll come back and do brunch again ;)
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Date: 2006-05-07 11:26 pm (UTC)