tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post680063646201529760..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: "The role of the father"Lindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-11477361847179525642013-09-04T20:39:56.966+12:002013-09-04T20:39:56.966+12:00I suspect she was a believer in biblical values so...I suspect she was a believer in biblical values so here's some more from Galations 5.<br /><br />"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious:sexual immorality, impurity,debauchery,idolatry,witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage (before computers were invented),selfish ambition, envy and drunkeness (and so on).<br /><br />But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law."<br /><br />Sounds good to me and hardly seems obsolete.<br /><br />3:16Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-81025855852009907392013-09-03T21:55:25.184+12:002013-09-03T21:55:25.184+12:00Lady Stout's word's are both relevant and ...Lady Stout's word's are both relevant and irrelevant to us today.<br /><br />A century ago and earlier we were still the last colony with an abundance of rough male gold miners, farmers, whalers and laborers. We were coming out of the age of indentured servants and an illegitimacy rate second to none in the developed world coupled with the inevitable results of a corrupted Maori population. So its almost an irrelevancy to consider Lady Stout's views here.<br /><br />Then of course, one needs to consider Stout's determined view of feminism and the Temperance Movement at the time.. to paraphrase Mandy Rice Davies "Well, she would say that, wouldn't she".<br /><br />Incidentally, given the extreme isolation of a great many families, interracial liaisons etc her words on imbecility and heredity also sound like allusions to incest.<br /><br />JC<br />JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875768024598278750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-5386742822500430882013-09-03T13:53:41.913+12:002013-09-03T13:53:41.913+12:00Thanks Lindsay. One of the paragraphs struck a no...Thanks Lindsay. One of the paragraphs struck a note with me. The comment of the sins of the father being visited on the third and fourth generation.<br /><br />My father warned my brother and I that our great grandfather was an alcoholic and to be careful because it would manifest in our generation. Is that a coincidence?<br /><br /><br />(On a lighter note - as diligent teenagers we ignored my fathers advice and drank up a storm. How disappointed to learn we'd wasted our efforts in the wrong direction. At a later stage we discovered that he wasn't actually an alcoholic, he was in fact a philanderer.)Paranormalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09356284718669009511noreply@blogger.com