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on November 9, 2007
Culture is a necessary thing - it structures our lives in relationship, it adds meaning and depth to communal practices, it enlivens our history, and shapes our future.
You would know that I ardently encourage the adoption of the ideology of ubuntu as a principle for relationship based justice, ha ...
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on August 23, 2007
It is incredible to be back home!
If I was not so jet lagged I would have mustered all of my creative juices to write something as poetic and profound as my friend Pete did about his return home . All I can say (like many of my first year students do), is that I agree with him, and with what he sa ...
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on June 25, 2007
This book arrived in my post on Friday... What's so special about it!? Well, isn't it a nice cover?
Check out the last name and title of the chapter on the left hand side page (you may have to click on the image to enlarge it), and the fourth name and description on the right hand side page! ha h ...
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on October 31, 2010
Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said "A self-sufficient human being is sub human. God has made us for a delicate network of interdependence." ~Desmond Tutu
It is difficult to describe how much relationships have meant to our family over the last two months. We have been so richly and deeply blessed b ...
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on March 19, 2014
Today I had the joy of meeting with Francois Malherbe - an amazing guy who is facilitating a social revolution with 100 cups of coffee. You can read about his '100 Conversations for Social Innovation' here .
I was deeply challenged by Francois' passion for seeing people flourish through discoveri ...
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on July 17, 2009
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa
Please see this link for more on 'identity', belonging, community and identity ( ubuntu ).
Please aslso see this article, entitled, ' Do South Africans exist? '. It is an academic article on i ...
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on June 25, 2007
There are few things quite as boring as sitting through some strange man telling you all about neurons, dendrites, objective and subjective reality, quadrants, hierarchies and a host of things that would normally put the average person to sleep...
However, whilst there are few things as boring as ...
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on October 27, 2006
Some weeks ago I delivered a paper at the Southern African Science and Religion Forum. The title of my paper was:
Identity in relationship: The ethics of ubuntu as an answer to the impasse of individual consciousness
After presenting the paper I had to edit it to get it ready for a book in whi ...
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on January 26, 2008
My good friend Gus (see http://www.gruntle.co.za ) posted a picture of his desk at home.
Wessel , Murray , and I, all just think that it is a ploy to show off his new Macbook! It is a nice Macbook!
Well, I may not have a new Macbook, but I do have an old Macbook Pro (about a year and a bit old) ...
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Journal Entry
on February 8, 2008
Yup, it has finally happened. It is an abomination of the highest order! Surely the Bible says something about this?
What am I talking about? Well, today I was alerted to UNIX tools for Windows Users!!!
That's like fitting a Porche motor to your lawnmower! Why would you do it!?
Why not just bu ...
