tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721983603505173708.post3196753638269425293..comments2012-08-29T16:30:36.861+10:00Comments on The art of distraction: Stopping All StationsGeoffreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05409350618909242278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721983603505173708.post-73363878454274391792007-04-06T11:01:00.000+10:002007-04-06T11:01:00.000+10:00Thank you Snidley.I've always believed that the eq...Thank you Snidley.<BR/><BR/>I've always believed that the equation is thus:Nature + Nurture + Fate = Me.Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409350618909242278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721983603505173708.post-15226900464448295602007-04-06T00:49:00.000+10:002007-04-06T00:49:00.000+10:00Good heavens, I'm speechless! Your story telling ...Good heavens, I'm speechless! Your story telling ability and talent at engaging with, no; engrossing the reader is without peer, Geoffrey. What a bloody marvellous story, and how beautifully told.<BR/><BR/>I've always been impressed with, among the many other aspects of your complex and fascinating psyche, how you can at once be dismissive of organised religions, say "bless you" when often you really want to say "fuck you", and yet are one of the most spiritually intuitive people I've ever met. It begs the question, nature or nurture? <BR/><BR/>I've no idea about Wesley or Methodism, apart from the fact they had the cutest rowers and tightest one-piece outfits at the Yarra boatsheds on the Wednesday arvos of my youth. As a devout catholic, though, I was taught that you're all pagans, there's only one real deal, and non-Catholics may have well had leprosy for all the social intercourse I was permitted.<BR/><BR/>Having read your lovely story, I wish I were with you that sleepy night long, long ago, as indeed I do now.<BR/><BR/>Bless you.Every Sailorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16111001157880348043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721983603505173708.post-44027225536732936452007-04-05T18:45:00.000+10:002007-04-05T18:45:00.000+10:00Nick, we've got to have that coffee!Metal! Welcome...Nick, we've got to have that coffee!<BR/><BR/>Metal! Welcome 'home'. I've been worried about you ... and fuck 'nice' darling, we prefer you just the way you are. Always have. Always will.Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409350618909242278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721983603505173708.post-52453843972676267142007-04-05T17:19:00.000+10:002007-04-05T17:19:00.000+10:00My parents sent me off to Catholic school and expe...My parents sent me off to Catholic school and expected the nuns to turn me into a nice young lady. They fucked that one up good and proper.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your message. My phone has been out of order for a few days, I have just discovered. No calls or messages in - that's now fixed, but no messages going out. Ho hum, we love Optus. Now where is that letter of complaint?metal_petalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15500018715034693911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3721983603505173708.post-26769249625362288642007-04-05T16:13:00.000+10:002007-04-05T16:13:00.000+10:00I appears we share more than just a passion of blo...I appears we share more than just a passion of blog distraction... I also have the dark shadow of methodism over my scottish descendents. A house full of bibles dusty from black clothed voyages from Forres.<BR/>However, secularism took its grip upon my great grandparents and they preferred to enjoy the calm life of nothern tasmania, where they lived an idyllic little existence.Nicholas Pickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06765213293334506905noreply@blogger.com