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Are Christianists Christian?
Christianist Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more Christianist /ˈkrɪstʃənɪst/ US noun an advocate or supporter of fundamentalist Christian beliefs. “radical Christianists” adjective relating to, advocating, or supporting fundamentalist Christian beliefs. “Christianist voters” Christian Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more Christian /ˈkrɪstʃ(ə)n,ˈkrɪstɪən/ adjective relating to or professing Christianity or its teachings. “the Christian Church” noun a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in…
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Erich Fromm and 21st Century Escapism
I would be interested to know if anyone is aware of a study of cultural-social psychology from the claim of Erich Fromm in 1960. “…and yet nobody has any true aim. We are alienated with ourselves, we don’t feel much, and certainly we don’t feel intensely, all we are after is not to be…
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The misery of rankings and machine thinking
“Oxford University’s Professor of Higher Education Simon Marginson said he disliked the Times rankings because there was no rationale for the mix and ratio of the weightings. Meanwhile, he said survey responses from academics were subjective and often unduly amplified some trends.” “University of Melbourne Professor Michael Wesley, who this year wrote a book…
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Specific Questions on Heritage that Council is required to Answer
Adrian Schrinner Brisbane Lord Mayor Brisbane City Council GPO Box 1434 Brisbane Qld 4001 3 September 2023 Dear Lord Mayor, I am deeply saddened by the news that the owner/developer Consolidated Property has decided to sell, 9 Macdevitt Street, Coopers Plains QLD, on the open market. I suggest that all…
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Letter to Professor Carolyn Evans, Vice-Chancellor, Griffith University (30 August 2023)
Dear Professor Evans, Many thanks for acknowledging my story. The only reason to share it with you is that there are no positions for a person of my high caliber. Looking, this morning, in the ‘Jobs at Griffith’ and filtering for the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, the only position advertised…
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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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The Trip, So Many Miles
The Trip Song by Still Corners Time has come to go Pack your bags, hit the open road Our hearts just won’t die It’s the trip, keeps us alive Ooh So many miles So many miles So many miles Away The falling sun burns a line Tearing into the night Watching you fall…
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I forewarned the Direction of the Megachurch 25 years ago…in Queensland
It seems that the Southern Baptist Convention is in the news again, and news in the scandal within Hillsong Church, and the fall of Australia’s first and (I cautiously predict) only Pentecostal Prime Minister. ‘Megachurch and Politics’ is a disaster for faith and reason. I could see it 25 years ago, as well as most…
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New Dawn
NEW DAWN This morning… This is what I said to my American colleague, Garrett Lang of the Free Thinker Institute (New York, NY), who I work with on these big ideas of education, and politics. … here today, on Sunday, we have a new government. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! It is the end of the uncompromising right-wing…
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Uncooked Lamb: Over-clever humorous Propaganda
Any serious historian or a sociologist in the broad Australian Studies areas must be puzzled at the messaging of the recent Australian Lamb promotional video, and the, alas, popular response on social media. We have been here before, so many times. Clever? or humorous propaganda, à la Morrison’s Where the Bloody Hell Are You? as…