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UNIVERSAL SURVIVAL
President Trump, under the cover of the culture war, is attempting to pull billions of dollars in funding from universities unless they agree to his ideological demands. After Harvard refused and sued the Trump administration, Trump tried banning all of its 27 percent of international students last week. Dana Milbank, Catherine Rampell and Jason…
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From 1989 to 2025. A Message from Dr Michael Macklin
The message from Dr Michael Macklin in 1989 to the Australian Senate: On Saturday October 28 1989, Senator (Dr) Macklin spoke at the second fund-raising dinner of the St Patrick’s Old Boys, on the topic of “How Green is my Party”. At the time, Senator Macklin was only person elected from…
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No Food to Eat. The Corrupt Thinking of Decision Makers
This is an image of my empty fridge today. Would a society be unhappy with the corrupt ways of thinking from managers in their decision making? Would Australian society be happy that many experts in different fields of learning are experiencing poverty, well below the poverty line as western countries’ averaged…
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An Invitation for Open Thinking
Neville Buch’s discussion with Dave Benson, an Australian theologian working in the United Kingdom. The discussion centres on the Bible Society’s recent report: BS-The Quiet Revival-Final-Digital-EG The Quiet Revival The following is what I communicated after considering the report and reading the comments by Steve Hollinghurst, and the comments of the…
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2025 SOFiA Notice
Sea of Faith in Australia 2025 Annual General Meeting June 14, 2025, noon (12.00 p.m.) Off-Screen Location: Home of Helen Mason, 53 Lucinda Street Taringa, Brisbane, Queensland. On-Screen Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84314961783?pwd=ABAc6WJJQrKKQ9W7fbNH7rE1pAUdfC.1 Meeting ID: 843 1496 1783 Paul Tonson will speak on “Reading the bible agnostically”, that is as if we know nothing…
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Interbelief and the Level Playing Field
SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA) – Melbourne. Interbelief and the Level Playing Field Australian Book. LPF. Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education – Dr Neville Buch Attitudes. Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism Some of us are participating in SoFiA’s online events. Dr. Neville Buch will present the topic and lead…
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Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality
“Attitudes: Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism,” Dr. Neville Buch” Today, I am looking at attitudes in Unitarian-Universalism, and they are not always good, but in critical thinking each person can renew, for themselves, better unitarian universalism thinking. Each of us has a free mind but we are not free in our thinking…
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Neil Van Leeuwen on Belief and Evidence
I have Neil Van Leeuwen’s permission to reproduce his paper, “Do religious ‘beliefs’ respond to evidence?”, published in Philosophical Explorations, 2017, Vol. 20, No. S1, S52–S72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2017.1287294 . At the end of the reproduced paper I come to several diagrammatic, sociological, conclusions of my own. DO RELIGIOUS “BELIEFS” RESPOND TO EVIDENCE? Neil Van…
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The Irretractable Argument
AI Overview: “Irretractable” means something that cannot be taken back, reversed, or retracted. It’s the opposite of “retractable”. Essentially, if something is irretractable, it’s final and cannot be undone. In an email group discussion, on the barriers which has prevent me gaining paid work since the end of 2017, Professor Lisa…
