Re: The Cultural Pulse

[Ann Wansbrough]

Dear Tom At the risk of being pedantic: I would have thought that one goes to the pub (or wherever)  to find out where people are on the map, not to calibrate the compass. Ann (Rev. Dr.) Ann Wansbrough UnitingCare NSW.ACT PO Box A 2178 Sydney South 1235 Phone (61) (02) 8267 4280 Fax (61) (02) 9267 4842 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Stuart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: The Cultural Pulse I�ve become somewhat battered by castigates of the chattering class.  While, if I am a part of the chattering class, I would be at the bottom end, I confess (if such a membership is a sin) I to belong to it.  I have come to this conclusion because I seem to be interested in, and hold opinions, that often fit into the categories of the accusers.   As I often am, I am about to be presumptuous.  My hunch is that if I belong to this chattering class then a lot of the people on this list could also be described as fitting the same category.   Though I actually don�t think my membership is such a sin I am anxious that somehow my perspectives are somewhat blinkered and at present I am feeling dearly inclined to ratchet the blinkers back.  I would like to find a place (oh dear � I mean a website, ezine or something similar � is the place I am seeking my answers already denying me of them?� okay, a pub!) where I might discover what really matters to the ordinary Australian. And, by the way, when I look at Jesus and who it was that surrounded Jesus, and to whom he offered his message, who are they in Australian society? (There is a question in there of a particular � is it the blue collar worker that apparently the Prime Minister is pandering too and whose values I detest?  Maybe I can find the same anxieties in them but come up with different responses � hmmm)/   After the furore over refuges, war, a lying *&^% of a prime minister, homosexuality, I just need to calibrate my compass.   Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.milman.uniting.com.au Ph: 6862 5502  Mobile: 0427 625 502 14 Bushman St Parkes NSW 2870   'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable'. I prefer to die living than to live dying! "War is a poor chisel with which to carve out the future." - Martin Luther King, Jr     I've stopped 121 spam messages. You can too! One month FREE spam protection at www.cloudmark.com

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