The Council is possibly in crisis, I sent the email, Tuesday 8 March 2022 to Lord Mayor, stating that his media response, to the criticisms of the Council's Flood Management Plan, and the policies which framed it, is unacceptable to the majority of residents...
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The Memories – Road Trip Day 2: Neville Still Alive, Ruth as History, the Great Journey we Wanted
Rated ‘M’, for mature audiences. Wednesday, 16 March 2022 What is it all about? INTRODUCTION From Armidale to Newcastle Start Odometer: 15557 Finish Odometer: 15945 Distance: 408 km Still half tank (much downhill breaking – makes more use of the electric engine). Fill...
The Beginning – Road Trip Day 1: Neville Still Alive, Ruth as History, the Great Journey we Wanted
Rated ‘M’, for mature audiences. Tuesday, 15 March 2022 What is it all about? INTRODUCTION From Brisbane to Armidale Start Odometer: 15094 Finish Odometer: 15557 Distance: 543 km From full tank to half (more petrol usage on large climbs through the ranges)....
History and Practice of Community Education. CET No. 1.
“Many educators and administrators feel that university public service programming will assume an even larger role in the university community due to declining enrollment and public demands for relevance.” Robert Sellers. Methodology for Evaluating University Public...
Sartre on Humanism – Annotated. CRT No. 2
The task on hand is to overcome misunderstandings of humanism, in the same way that Jean-Paul Sartre attempted to overcome misunderstandings of existentialism; explained in his ‘Existentialism Is a Humanism.’ It is beneficial to examine Jean-Paul Sartre’s statements...
The Framing of Signs and Wonders. Series CRT No. 1
This short post is the first in the blog series, Concepts in Religious Thought. ***** One of the advantage for old age, as a scholar, is that you frequently have the ‘eureka’ moment. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit...
Has the History and Philosophy Schools lost it in the New World of Online Learning and Community Education?
"The Engineering & Design Institute, known as TEDI-London, which believes that its mix of online learning and collaborative hands-on tutorial teaching, allied with deep industry links, will prove a hit with students and would-be employers alike." So, stated in the...
Cult-Like Separatism With A Public Face
Cult-Like Separatist Christianity never went away. It appears little has changed from the early days’ of 1920s fundamentalism and the first megachurches, but there is now a major change – institutions have had, in the last half century, a public face that attempts to...
Defining a Broad-Humanist Outlook: A Summary of Pew Research Center Report, What Makes Life Meaningful? (18 November 2021) From an Australian Perspective
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the broad-humanist outlook which exists across multiple worldviews of actual thinking persons, by way of a summary of the Pew Research Center’s report, entitled “What Makes Life Meaningful? Views From 17 Advanced...