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Category: What Is History Meaning?
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The Dirge for a Sentimental Bloke
‘The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke’, originally a poem novel by C. J. Dennis, tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing Bill’s transformation from a violence-prone gang member to…
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Why People Switch Off in a Global Pandemic or National Emergency
ID 31478396 © Iqoncept | Dreamstime.com There is a fundamental problem of the advertising and public relations industry. It is a problem that leads to persons switching off at the very moment that the message might be vital. The players play on cheap slogans, not intelligence. Intelligence is the capacity to deal with complex…
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Globalizing Horizon and the Social Imaginary
ID 144151396 © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com “…social theorists averted the previously dedicated gaze on a Spirit that moves amongst us in mysterious ways, and sought to shift our attention from a universalizing cosmology to a globalizing horizon where humans make that spirit. This can be described as a shift from cosmology to constructivism. By…
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Conscious Existence: Realistic or Romantic?
ID 144151396 © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com I know I am a romantic, but a romantic invested in realism. It is probably not as unusual as assumed. I make a claim for reality and I understand that such a claim is far too romantic. We grasp for what we individually want and it is always illusory;…
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Is it Really about Being Radical or Not?
ID 9805130 © Chelovek | Dreamstime.com It is a big news day. As I write this blog, the Impeachment Vote is being carried out in the United States House of Representatives. It is a radical action; an action that seeks the root intention of the American constitutional writers, a few centuries ago. Earlier I…
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Mapping Locations on the Mind-Brain Belief Spectrum
Here is a graph where a person can map their own beliefs on questions of mind-brain, and map the positioning of other thinkers across the past-present-future continuum. The movement from left to right are possibilities of belief from an unquestioning supernaturalism to an empty materialism. Supernaturalism hangs on the ancient idea…
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Typical Pathways of Belief
The meaning of history is entangled in the inherited orthodoxies of childhood, along with pathways which better and creative thinkers search out. The conventional and dull thinker will dwell in the security of old dogmas. Most believers do not wander far from home, but often are in the territory of heterodoxy unawares — deviation from…
