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Tag: <span>culture</span>

Tag: culture

The ‘place’ of suicide

Reflecting today & doing some reading on depression and suicide. Despite having read & known the high rates, I was still surprised to read that there is a place on the planet where life is so bad that there are more than 14,000 calls to the ambulance for suicide every year…just from one city. That is THIRTY EIGHT per day! Can you imagine how bad things must be for this kind of epidemic? What hardship, pain, loss could account for these kind of horrific statistics?  It may be a surprise to you that this city is not in a poverty stricken …

Culture | for thought   | | |

King Charles Coronation It’s all about the King.

I only watched a little of the highlights of King Charles’ coronation – but of the few bits I saw…  1) Even though a lot of the ceremony was very subdued and for some quite boring, *nobody* else in the room got any attention. Live video coverage around the world from every angle, yet no mention of any of the ‘super important’ people in the room. In fact, if the *most* well known had dropped dead we wouldn’t know – the only thing important in the room? The king! And so it will be at the end of time – …

Culture | Fishing   |

Homeschool Play: His story

Yesterday I watched an incredibly powerful play put on by a group of homeschoolers. It traced just a few events in history that had a dramatic effect on the world I grew up in and still live in today.  They are events that still clearly reveal that our current world would be in a *much* worse place if our current cultural attitudes were allowed to flourish.  It showed how certain practises (like torture killing of criminals, forced sale of young girls for sex), perceived as fine by the culture, were ended due to the influence on One person. The ramifications …

Culture | for thought | Homeschool   | |