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Community Action: How You Can Help
One of the best things about volunteering your time and effort to help your community is that doing so offers you purpose and meaning and helps to further heal any wounds which remain from your own suffering. As well as human connection, it seems that there is a crisis of meaning and purpose in modern society. People feel like insignificant ants whose existences mean little if anything to the world. Whilst this isn’t true, because we all have intrinsic value and potential.
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Legalised Extortion: The Dark World of New Zealand’s Debt Buyers
I was halfway through my second cup of coffee in the dim corner of a back-alley cafe when I received a tip-off about the shadowy practice of junk debt buying. The email was cryptic, almost paranoid, and signed with the initials P.A.H. It read...
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My long road to redemption.
There was once a time when my parents feared for my future. I was a wayward child, but all children are to varying degrees, so it didn’t arouse much concern. At first.
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The day that changed my life, and how it could help you
January 31st, 2007, 8:30 am. Oxford North Canterbury. I was working as a rural fencer and that day I was putting in a stay post on an already existing deer fence at the compound where I worked.
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Lockdown Life 4: Approval, Acceptance and Affirmations
We ended the last article with a brief description of disputation, accompanied by three interlocked disputation questions that can all be employed in cooperation with one another to unveil an alternate explanation for a troublesome thought or belief. We will return to disputation in a future article, but it would be most beneficial for us to continue to widen our understanding before deepening its focus on such specific practices.
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Bungee Jumping's Forgotten Pioneer
The first time I met David Kirke, New Zealand's forgotten pioneer and the worlds first bungee jumper. Who you ask? Most people in New Zealand would never have heard the name David Kirke the man that created the now quintessentially Kiwi extreme sport with an illegal jump from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in 1979 at the city of Bristol, England.
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