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A Moment of Grief: Memory and the Presence
I am crying, tears which have not been shed for some time. I am unwell. I had the flu on Friday, which was the onset of a nasty intestinal bacterial infection. I have been told from a reliable source that it is going around the Adelaide area. I was able…
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Conspiratorial Force, mostly no, mundane force of inertia, mostly yes…
As perspectivism — that we perceive as a perspective in the moment; each person can decide for themselves how the world is. It is then the argument of social reality of each. I do not see how direct realism is possible, however, our theoretical orientation cannot be simply stated (full-stop). There is not only mere…
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RESEARCH NOTE: ANGLO-AMERICAN MAJOR BELIEF-DOUBT SYSTEMS
This is a research note to preserve copyright and notice to this new and substantive thesis of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems, since the seventeenth century, which at the end of that century expanded, and transformed, the power of the English monarchy to a new entity known as the United Kingdom of…
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SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct
Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (the Planning Minister) PO Box 15009, City East, Queensland 4002 Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.1 of 2023 (Brisbane City Council) – DSDILGP Dear Stephen Miles [Planning Minister], cc. Environmental Minister cc. Health Minister Please accept…
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Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
On sending out an article from The New York Times, on how a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana claimed the American Federal administration was trying to silence its critics on social media, a dear friend asked me, “Isn’t free speech part of their constitution?” “Free speech” is not…
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Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 1: The Collapse of Schaefferan Apologetics
Image: An image of Francis Schaeffer, http://www.pcahistory.org/images/schaeffer01.jpg on the Wikipedia entry site. INTRODUCTION James Fodor, Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity (Hypatia Press, 2018) is a very generous critique towards the Christian apologist. Foder is making the argument for me on how apologetics completely miss the wider disciplinary critiques.…
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Revelatory and Recovery Moments: Assessing Life’s Journeys and Directions
Evangelicals offer a providential worldview, that centres on evangelical message(s) of the promise to have special access to God, and beyond that, that they – each member of God’s Kingdom – enjoy special access to God, as revelatory knowledge, through the person of the Holy Spirit. Outside of the evangelical bubble, persons find such…
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FULLER VIEW FOR TELLING THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN EVANGELICAL HISTORY
© EHA Inc. and Dr Neville Buch For the 2023 Evangelical History Association (EHA) Conference, “Telling Our Story”, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. 10.45-11.15. a.m. Saturday 20 May, 2023, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. This is the presentation handout version which is not the abbreviated 20 minutes speaking presentation, nor…
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Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History
Dr Neville Buch’s Philosophy and History Article: Downloadable PDF Version In the early morning, before dawn broke, I dreamed of how to explain my philosophy and history (historiography). It came as my mind recovered from the slightly-over twelve-hour drive from Glen Innes to Gumly Gumly, just outside of Wagga Wagga; no,…
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Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education
Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education [Teaching Document Copy] “Quora advertises with the slogan ‘The best answer to any question’, ‘Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users’ answers’” (Anon 2015, ‘quora’).”…