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polar exploration
What is it about humans that makes us want to polarise? Is it because we secretly like conflict – perhaps something left over from our cave-dwelling kill-or-be-eaten past? Maybe it’s because we want to know who’s on our side, and by definition who isn’t? If you listen to interviews on the radio phone-ins they always…
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you say ‘tomato’ I say ‘tomato’
A number of years ago I was in America as part of a committee that was planning a Baptist World Youth Conference. Our host kindly took a group of us out for brunch after church on the Sunday (how civilised!) and I was amazed at what was on offer at the buffets (hot, cold, cereal),…
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getting shirty
Taste is a funny thing. Two people can put the same food in their mouth and one may respond, “Yum” and the other, “Yuck!” Someone can tell a joke and some of their audience will LOL or ROTFL and others will remain unmoved. Today my wife Sally has shared a shopping experience with me. I…
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Deep Thought
On Tuesday night we held the first of a new gathering at our church under the general title of ‘Deep Thought’. The name comes from the computer in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Deep Thought) that was built to come up with the answer to “life, the universe and everything.” Our new gathering is a…
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baaah, baaah, baaaaah, bah bah (dum, dum, dum, dum)*
Regular blogites who visit this site will know that I have been given a calendar with a joke a day. This was from a member of our church, and I am not sure if it is because they know I like jokes (I know they do) and wanted to bless me, or because they think…
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