Tag Archives: consumerism

Join the Conspiracy

By Geoff | Published 27 November, 2008 9:04 am

Thanks to Jonathan Brink for the link – and I’m sure this’ll come back to bite me, but sometimes a message is just worth getting out there. Advent Conspiracy

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Lobbyist – possibly the funniest profession in the world

By Geoff | Published 12 May, 2008 12:05 pm

This is one of the most amusing attempts at gathering sympathy that I’ve heard in a long time: “The motor vehicle industry has slammed a budget plan to increase the tax on luxury cars, saying it will hurt families struggling with the higher cost of fuel and could force makers to drop safety features. Treasurer [...]

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Dangerous Story #3 – A healthy dose of (hyper)reality

By Geoff | Published 19 March, 2007 7:24 pm

The other really significant impact on me from the Forge “Dangerous Stories 2″ National Summit was from Mark Sayers. Mark’s got a pretty solid reputation as being a quality researcher on youth and young adults and discipleship. He’s a funny guy – in all senses of the word – and he communicates somewhat complex concepts [...]

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Can we really consider canning consumerism?

By Geoff | Published 27 November, 2006 11:33 pm

For those of you who have an adverse reaction to clicking on the “Comments” links, I wanted to quote a little bit of the exchange that I’ve been having with “Deri” (not Gerry’s real name…. oops) on my “The Greatest Show I’ve Ever Seen” post. Deri said: Since Bono is an anti-poverty campaigner, why does [...]

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Underlying Motivations

By Geoff | Published 28 October, 2006 12:29 pm

I’ve said it before, but when you start contemplating an idea, it seems to pop up just about everywhere. And after posting over at advoc8 on the (RED) project, and thinking about how much the motivation behind some of those benevolent actions actually matters, there are a number of issues that have hit home surrounding [...]

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