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The Political Class of Brisbane and Queensland, and solutions
28 December 2025 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA cc. Drs. Michael Macklin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Dear friends with a wide range of political views who nevertheless…
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The Future of the Western Belief System
https://www.academia.edu/145585195/The_Future_of_the_Western_Belief_System PDF File: The Future of the Western Belief System Dr Neville Buch ABN: 8670368664 Abstract The future of the Western belief system is currently being forged at the intersection of liberal Christian reform and a Post-Christian non-realist stance. This intellectual evolution marks a shift from a dogmatic, God-centred worldview toward a human-centered…
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Compatibility of Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts
Dr Neville Buch The Synoptic Vision: Harmonizing Science, Humanities, and the Arts https://www.academia.edu/145486590/Compatibility_of_Sciences_Humanities_and_the_Arts Abstract The compatibility of the Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts is often obscured by a historical and political “split” that pits technical calculation against human meaning. While Sciences often aspire to an “absolute conception of the world”—a representation that…
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Humanism: Understanding Virtues and Vices Together
Virtues and vices are often seen as opposing forces in moral philosophy. In Aristotle’s view, virtues are character traits that represent a balance or “mean” between two opposing vices. For example, courage is a virtue that exists between the vices of recklessness and cowardice. In contrast, vices are negative character traits that represent an excess…
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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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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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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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A CONSCIOUS EXAMINATION
The Setting I write this report, first thing after showering and dressing, eating with honey-toast and drinking coffee, to the computer with the Word document, to record the thoughts in the semi-dream state, an hour or so before. The occasions of the extraordinary phenomenological recall often come as a result of coming…
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The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing everywhere, it’s tempting to think that Maggie was just ahead of her time.…
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The Critical Review of Tom Holland: Great Errors in Apologetics and Historiographies
This blog article is Buch, Neville (2025; a plan for a book). Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 3: Understanding Historiography: defeating the culture-history warfare over the false binary in ‘religion’ and ‘secularity’, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, January 2025. I am sending out one of my past articles (link…