Archive for April, 2007
Sustainability and vegetarianism
I found myself explaining my thoughts about this in detail to a friend recently. The trouble is, there’s a lot of explaining. And in the end, although I bring up some ideas which are based in reason, it’s a personal choice located in my particular view of the world. It’s not a religion and apart [...]
How to hate…
I was walking to the bus the other day when an old man stopped me. He had been replacing a Rotary Club sign, and he was grumpy because the sign he was replacing had been damaged by vandals. We were in the grounds of a local Matric college (the last two years of high school, [...]
Bad feelings
I was out for a run the other day when I had a minor incident with two women and a pram. They were walking along, one of them pushing the pram, and I approached from the opposite direction in a place where it was impossible to leave the footpath because a handrail and some trees [...]
Exploitation and amahs
So long ago that it seems like a whole different life, I was a school teacher. It began to seem futile, though, for two reasons. In the first place I don’t really have the gift, but primarily it was because I was getting kids who had been through the whole of high school learning to [...]
Is it a friendly universe?
This morning I happened upon a blog post by a friend, quoting this horoscope:
Is the universe inherently friendly to human beings? The answer’s got to either be yes or no. It can’t be in between. [...] So then isn’t it stupid and self-destructive to live your life as if the universe is unfriendly? Doing so [...]
