tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25817600528471528492024-03-13T09:37:00.435-07:00The School of Mere DescriptionWhere people talk, but don't really learn. Where the label on the category door is more important to the author than what they stuff inside. Not good science ,but common wannabe, media, education and "leadership "practice in Australia.journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-44576971664358644832023-12-10T15:53:00.000-08:002023-12-10T16:05:04.831-08:00The fanciful nonsense of children <p>The shallow talk of freedom and our entitlement to it . </p><p><br /></p><p> Whether one has children, or has to live with them as adults, one longs for them to grow up --To mature .<br />A lot of my baby booming generation have clearly never grown up .They have had it all and it hasn't been good for them . Nor has it been good for their children who are not war ready and too rich to notice their dependancies and their real lack of freedom; their lack of awareness of choices and why one one needs to make good ones . <br /><br />Many of my generation have made a career out being the reactionaries they were as teenagers.<br />The only thing that is troubling them is old age and the realization that there are limits to growth and that resilience ( the thing you need to survive in the real world) comes not with mere freedom( but with resistance repentance and a return to the disciplined walking on the narrow road .<br /></p><p><b>eg Lerhmann/Higgins trial. The growth of the risk of unresolved domestic anger, violence and abandonment . </b><br /><br />Think about the overreaction so evident to men , of many modern single women who insist on post Christian lifestyle choices and then reject men's pressure on them. Why should men feel obliged to one women when all the talk is about everyone's freedom to " do what they feel like '' , for example. <br />If men are only animals, why can't men just play the predator? </p><p>I feel for such women and accept that the risk of violence , misunderstanding and abandonment is real , but their response of many of them to the sexual revolution is not complete or effective . </p><p>Some of these issues have been more deeply dealt with very effectively in a RECENT scholarly study by Mary Harrington of THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF REACTIONARY FEMINISM ( reviewed in News Weekly Nov 11th) .</p><p>Mary points to the reality that modern feminists ( many of whom appear in this stories frame ) have foisted an " atomised , dehumanized and commodified social order on women which doesn't work well. - and IMHO presumably means they don't know what to do sometimes but resist it, make men more of a target, and resist what is happening to them more strongly than ever. <br />The evidence is there in the <a href="fanaticism1.blogspot.com ">fanaticism</a> . </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-46835320467560235822023-03-15T19:49:00.004-07:002023-03-15T19:49:54.248-07:00Creating God in our own image <p> Our age seems determined to dumb itself down . Unwilling to follow the lengthy connections of logic , the<a href="http://quickfiz.blogspot.com"> quickfiddlers</a> insist we can change the world , not by changing the word connections s,but by changing the meaning of words .<br /> Its the dumbest nonsense ever and our popular medai are afraid to state the fact . It can only end in mindess crap and reationships betwen people that only end in unproductive distinctions ,isolation, no talk and divorce . <br />Take this excellent piece from Mark Durie https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6564055/2950692593657357613?hl=en# <br />. </p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-86270197111284406682022-06-07T21:50:00.003-07:002022-06-07T23:31:46.832-07:00Decomposition - The ignored friend amongst the fiends<p> Its June 8th 2022 and everybody is talking about gas .<br />You do not need to read this if you are panicking about global warming or severe climate change because if you are right , I can't offer any solutions . <br /><br />This site exists to expose the half baked fears and fancies of the hard boiled pedants who name the problem without really knowing what the problem is, let alone how to solve the problem .<br /><br />Lets for the sake of argument, lets ignore those who think Global warning and CC are a problem - see note below) _ <br /><b>Gas burning ( combustion ) is not a problem , only the exhaustion of fossil fuel supplies of it .</b> <br />I'm sticking with one challenge at a time. <br /><b>Every living space emits gas and the combsustion in all its many forms creates heat A</b>few weeks ago we we were told we didn't need it and it was just another evil threatening our future if it was burnt. <br />That suggests those who talk "decarbonising the economy" and not using combustion are half blind and advocating death to the living,<br />The confusion has got people in a panic about what they can and can't do, partly because GW is attached now to our burning of fuel in the public mind. <br />The city often now doesn't even allow you to burn wood unless you do it like cars do , burning it inside where no one can see you sinning or criticize you for doing something like that. So much hypocrisy and confusion and plenty of room for hypocrisy because the elements of concern are invisible. <br /> <br />You can't even see the mouths of plants expressing their opinion on all our production of carbon dioxide. some other time if you are interested . <br /><br /><b>Today ,</b> suggesting a moving feast , nearly<b> </b>everybody has come to confession and said "we still need it "vowing to never sin again once the cold is over and we find a way to never burn again . ( combustion is the correct term for a useful necessary and largely untalked about process that will keep going even if we stop burning.<br /><b><br />Compounding the problems <br /></b>1. We have those who think Global warning and CC are a problem. Before they talk, tell me ask why they haven't yet embraced decomposition <br />as its happening in quite a big way across the landscape right NOW and in the next few months , emitting even worse things than CO2 into the atmosphere . <br />2, Misplaced concreteness leads to misplaced investment, And I know that ; The above work using biological decomp ( and other sequestration concepts ) has not happened because projects for SW rural Australia that i put up 15 years ago have never been followed up )Universities and agencies have been funded for 20 years to the simple " find way to reduce CO2 emissions" with what result except to corrupt those agencies . And the new government think they are going to root out corruption with another ICAC ,<br /><b>That how bad and incompetent our political leadership on conservation is , you will notice i am not spelling it out for yet<a href="http://quickfiz.blogspot.com"> another meddler to mess with the idea and ruin it</a> ( Ellul)<br /></b><br /><br />3, Thoroughly lost and confused political arguments <br />Where is the sequestration on the ground? You wanna be smart tell the earths daily sequestering rate ? The Andrews government are so lost in there rotting old growth forests and against logging that they would rather bushfires ants, termites and fungi consume and produce the CO2 They are happy to close down half of Victoria and let it all rot . This nonsense is all in the name of " i hate logging " or something equally as narrow minded and religious as the magic charm and misanthropic words like " harvesting " listed for more fuller discussion on this blog. The result of <br /><br /></p><p><b>Summary ; the need for more clarity and less pedantry and evil agent labeling </b><br /><br />Sorry it's time the press got it right . We are not talking about the evil of burning gas but of the real challenge of living without fossil fuels . <br /><u>Make sure your noisy worry warriors stick to the subject and don't waver . </u><br />We all have a concern tha FFG ( fossil fuel gas) is going to run out and we should be working out ways to avoid relying on it .Instead of working together we have people running in all directions. <br /><b>Net Zero means what -</b>- same story ---who knows what it means . <br />If net zero means using gas from decomposition and fuel from recent sequestrations then we might have something to talk about , but so far the assumption is panic and we must stop all burning and harvesting ,<br />Not very clever country </p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-42294872541413379912022-06-07T20:51:00.004-07:002022-06-07T20:51:42.895-07:00Decarbonization <p> Decarbonisation or decarbonization hardly gets a mention without someone offering solutions to prevent it <br />for example it could mean <br />1.The term decarbonization literally means the reduction of carbon. Precisely meant is the conversion to an economic system that sustainably reduces and compensates the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂). The long-term goal is to create a CO₂-free global economy.12 Mar 2019</p><p>2, amore manageable concept might be ths one from Deloitte "Decarbonisation is the term used for removal or reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) output into the atmosphere. Decarbonisation is achieved by switching to usage of low carbon energy sources".</p><p><i>If I am confused so must lots of other people .Plants can't speak and neither can animals so i as an ecologist would like the idea to be better put because it involves them in every breath they take <br /><br />The problem is that the public are now not clear about what is trying to be achieved. The use of the term net Zero is also needing a clearer definition because it seems everybody SUDDENLY agrees ( november 2021 in Australia ) that its now possible --- so in theory there is no argument that's it nota matter of politics unless of course its not so poorly defined it means different things to different people <br /><br />If you know which maths song sheet the parties are singing from please post a link to it here <br /><br />iF you read the post on Decomposition you will note that this natural process in the carbon cycle maybe left out of a lot of discussions about whet has gotta happen to what carbon for what end before the dinosaurs out thee stop eating and getting warm on grass </i></p><p><br /></p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-49681622227844510112022-05-05T16:48:00.003-07:002022-05-05T19:56:48.482-07:00Battery Power <p><br /><br /> Labor will have to change direction after the election because, after following the adoring fans of new technology around for decades now they will have to face the fact that Greenlabor for all its promotion of good intentions knows zilch about HOW to get there <br />To be switched on and hooked up to the thought ( not a reality ) of new forms of battery power is to ignore the 50 years since we had any significant changes. ( Not to ignore many design and technology improvemnets -lithium like all alkaline and acid batteries still don't overcome the limits of ions being together) <br /><a href="greenlabor.blogspot.com ">Greenlabors</a> desperation is so evident to the people because they have nothing else to talk about , The whole lot are in a fanatical mood and I hope the public see that before they vote . <br /><br /><b>Technological fixes are the damnation drugs of our age </b> http://quickfiz.blogspot.com ( read Ellul) </p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-43017174796922974882020-08-09T16:51:00.004-07:002022-05-01T00:00:09.544-07:00Coronavirus crisis -- <p> Lots of things can kill us, but variations on the threats from respiratory failure will always feature among the worst because our lungs are a tennis courts of great inspiration and opportunity especially as substrates for infection. ... and especially when we are immunologically or physiologically vulnerable.<br />Or Stressed ---Like when we standout side our house in arctic breeze to greet our friends because the Andrews government has decided we can longer meet by the fire in our homes .<br /><b>Dr Andrews is particular focused on the high infectivity of the virus ( fair enough - 1 fact) , but if the only result of all his testing and high levels of transmission control is ( For eg - a very incomplete register of just where the 14 day response was acute ?) a lowered level of colds, viruses and deaths associated ( not caused) with the virus , all his talk of "wicked and dangerous" and " his way of getting through it '( when it will pass in spite of his brilliance ) will send his current high popularity into the dark of a stalled economy , work and sound "family" support <br />Proving "me a good poly who can do things" is seen to be what it is---- a desperate effort to prove same ? </b><br /><br />His East melbourne bubble group ( not one known for effectiveness in HH and family care ) are continuing to find new words and ideas to frame their ongoing confusion of the real microbial realities and risks , <br />Like so many the daily graph of my latest plot of ONLY 2 forms latest data suits the pedants. <br />The abuse of words like hotspots ( means UR happy to chase the horse) , waves( normally implies a degree of immunity, but used to threaten panic) hubs ( all close associations risk build up , so how can they be consistent when attacks on those who get too close together ? why don't they encourage events where people keep their distance - church and stadium , beach ) clusters , bubbles , <br /> The abuse of freedom . Dr Andrews has made on the spot fines apply when normally one has the chance to goto court for failing to show good judgement ( no we live in police state where laws are the quickest and most appropriate way to get things done ) <br /><b><br />All the threats, not just one conveniently named threat</b> ( mere description attempts ) eg Potentially lethal Respiratory tract association ( other agents are likely to be involved - not just COVID19) <br />So why have the ongoing threats from a virus infection we have uncomfortably lived with in various forms for decades become the reason to close down our society in the middle of 2020. Its not as though we really know how to stop these variations and associations of microbes and the failure of our comon means of inoculation from working, Things like hooping cough and antibiotic resistance have come back to remind us that <i><b><a href="http://quickfiz.blogspot.com">our technology for dealing with the threats of nature are not as strong as we like to think them to be</a></b></i> . We appear to standing on the edge of a cliff ,but is it just a virus ? - clearly not </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhBRYy_u6NLQtV66QX6S2mZvIYYgxFy9_faP04lJ4E0msoyNpXOK-7tFihuGPYFStusvZKFreXUTzZgnfacsluzBytIBnM7L9LXSZfggbSrpiUuvna1_ZgZ7Sd0b7Roy2yj5Ztw08qiSa/s686/cliffrisks.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="686" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhBRYy_u6NLQtV66QX6S2mZvIYYgxFy9_faP04lJ4E0msoyNpXOK-7tFihuGPYFStusvZKFreXUTzZgnfacsluzBytIBnM7L9LXSZfggbSrpiUuvna1_ZgZ7Sd0b7Roy2yj5Ztw08qiSa/s640/cliffrisks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>That's the point - we are in a panic mode . Suddenly the optimism that comes with technological faith is shown to be not working( as it does when you can't in crisis back fill the cracks as <a href="http://muddiedwater.blogspot.com">governments normally do )</a><br /><br />Epidemiologists the world over would have been shocked how the crass political mind has jumped at straws that are NOT proven to be helpful <br />-( masks( any masks)<br />-- tracing ( mouth to mouth when it might be mist to mist) <br />-arrowto the heart presumptions ( you get the risk you are done for)<br />- no discusion of herd immunity </p><p>-sanitisation ; <br />-the vain hope idea of inoculation <br />Expensive unproven ideas that even distract people from doing what measures we know do help ( sterilization of hard surfaces) to things we know do not ( sterilization of substrates- like our hands _) The medai too seem to milk the "fear motivates factor" by not publishing or asking questions about tracing asymptomatic 'cases" and further defining them (eg those people that die with COVID and those that die because of it ( as you would do with pneumonia ) <br /><br />The confusion in Victoria has extended to running around with a bus to test find and fear antigen responses in crowded areas where one would normally be expected to find large numbers of " cases : herd immunity to be developing . Instead of seeing this as a good thing" the testers and tracing pedants whose view does not understand thresholds and the complex basis of the tests themselves ( measuring antibodies ; Not presence or absence of the virus as is often presumed) ) <br /><br /><b>What ever happened to educating the public - bringing the people with you ? </b><br />The Victorian government are increasingly reverting back to their new bad habits of trying to coerce people rather than educate them . The idea that the people in charge know things is fine; not bringing the people with you in a time of threat is not . For some of us it makes us think our leaders are their limits of their theological and scientific epistemology.<br /><br />1. No policy appears to be in place to help the public understand why severely economic and social impacting measures are chosen and why exceptions for PC crowds and PC lifestyles are exempt) making Andrews government not only highly not credible, but in contempt ) <br />2. The normal nature and meaning of the waves is not explained resulting in predictable wild speculation about what CAN happen when what could be expected with waves is a sign of hope. ( increasing herd immunity. If normal immunological expectations have changed, the government should tell us - such sharing is also the safest way to prevent the revolt which now looks like threatening the cooperation of the public ; <br /><br /><b>Mr Andrews shallow ideas of what works and how to deal with things comes to the fore -</b><br /><b>If only the tracer chaser would stop sending his bus to the latest" hot spot" </b><br /><b> maybe the realisation will hit , that while tests don't show it ( the titre doesn't reach a threshold?) the infection is more widespread than dilittant Dr andrews crew suggest , <br />Instead of closing ourhome s and our faces we can all go back to minimizing risk and not trying to isolate in such an extreme fashion. </b><br />WE need confidence that the country is doing its best to come together to deal with the threats. that the possibility that mist to mist is happening not just mouth to mouth hs been considered. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b> no more hiding behind brute death and case figures ( detah from COVID ? death with COVID . where tests were taken and what they mean ) </b></p>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-63001801058466050292020-01-15T21:13:00.007-08:002022-06-07T20:10:19.151-07:00Climate change Quite large climate change ( patterns of seasonal weather ) occurs and the most we can say is that the many known strong causes like changes in the tilt of the earth ( due in part to changing magnetic field) , sun activity, atmospheric and reflective absorption dynamics ,ash clouds come from more reliable indicators ( geological record , the fossil record eg dinosaurs , volcanology ,atmospheric and radiation physics ) than our meagre records of accurate daily rainfall and temperature over less than several hundred years . <br />As an example, a major drop in temperature occurred across the world for several years with recent ash clouds. ( Mt Pinatubo in the 1980's and there are hundreds of these cones on the edge of earth plates) <br />In the early 2000's, I published many responses to the fears of long term<b> global warming</b> by the media and politicians but gave up about 10 years ago when the fearmongers changed the goal posts to <b>Climate change. </b><br />If these people were genuine about science led problem solving they would have stuck with one problem and the maybe then some solution/s . By expanding their concerns to any number of problems ( instead of sticking with global warming ) they have completely confused the grounds for solution development .Why the people still fall for fearmongers is a mystery to me . <br />I am still very interested in discussing what alternatives we have when fossil fuels become <a href="http://muddiedwater.blogspot.com">uneconomic ;</a> and whether we can realistically <a href="dogood.blogspot.com ">reduce the profligate use </a>of such resources <br />Maybe they think , with the advance of multi each way betting in the house of cards , it may still be year s before polys and wannabes realize that its no longer safe to create a fear and not deal with it .<br />Some leaders only survive by <a href="http://thestockade.blogspot.com ">predicting the change of public opinion</a> before it happens. <br /><br /><br />The name change decision gave them great scope for fearmongering, but made any reasonable scientific discussion nearly as big as the internet screed itself . God help the party who even mentions it again . Some of my posts are now buried in blogs such as these http://quickfiz.blogspot.com<br /><br />Rather than trust me , however because <a href="designwithnature.blogspot.com ">I merely use climatic data and study it in a small way </a><br />Here is a list of some scientists who, I think are better qualified to say why, we the people should not be worried about the connection between Co2 /CH4 levels and some sort of immanent and unchangeable atmospheric disaster ( The scenarios have yet to be convincingly stated as well what it would be and what could be done about it -- other matters of course ) <br />.<br /><b>
Dr Robert Balling:</b><br />
"The IPCC notes that "NO significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected."<br />
This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.<br /><b>
Dr Lucka Bogataj</b>:<br />
"Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide DON’T cause global temperatures to rise.... temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed."<br /><b>
Dr John Christy</b>:<br />
"Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do NOT agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicised with each succeeding report."<br /><b>
Dr Rosa Compagnucci:</b> "Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate."<br /><b>
Dr Richard Courtney</b>:<br />
"The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is WRONG."<br /><b>
Dr Judith Curry</b>:<br />
"I'm not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don't have confidence in the process."<br /><b>
Dr Robert Davis:</b><br />
"Global temperatures have NOT been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would.<br />
Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers."<br /><b>
Dr Willem de Lange:</b><br />
"In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 "scientists" who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I DID NOT. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities."<br /><b>
Dr Chris de Freitas</b>: "Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the longstanding claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of 'argument from ignorance' and predictions of computer models."<br /><br /><b>Professor Ian Plimer </b>( Australian author of <b>Heaven an Earth</b> a broadrangeing well cited tomme on this huge subject )<br /><b>
Dr Oliver Frauenfeld:</b><br />
"Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it."<br /><b>
Dr Peter Dietze:</b><br />
"Using a FLAWED eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake."<br /><b>
Dr John Everett:</b><br />
"It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change.<br />
I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is NOT a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios."<br /><b>
Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: </b>"The IPCC refused to consider the sun's effect on the Earth's climate as a topic worthy of investigation.<br />
The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change."<br /><b>
Dr Lee Gerhard:</b><br />
"I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA's James Hansen's wild claims in the late 1980s.<br />
I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were FALSE."<br /><b>
Dr Indur Goklany:</b><br />
"Climate change is unlikely to be the world's most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is NO signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.<br /><br /><b><i>In my view those who promote CC as urgent will face great historical criticism for ignoring the real threats to life on the planet</i></b><br /><b>
Dr Vincent Gray:</b><br />
"The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of LIES."<br /><b>
Dr Mike Hulme:</b><br />
"Claims such as '2500 of the world's leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate' are DISINGENUOUS ...<br />
The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was only a few dozen."<br /><b>
Dr Kiminori Itoh:</b><br />
"There are many factors which cause climate change. Considering only greenhouse gases is NONSENSE and harmful."<br /><b>
Dr Yuri Izrael:</b><br />
"There is NO proven link between human activity and global warming. I think the panic over global warming is totally UNJUSTIFIED.<br />
There is NO serious threat to the climate."<br /><b>
Dr Steven Japar:</b> "Temperature measurements show that the climate model-predicted mid-troposphere hot zone is NON-EXISTANT.<br />
This is more than sufficient to invalidate global climate models and projections made with them."<br /><b>
Dr Georg Kaser:</b><br />
"This number [of receding glaciers reported by the IPCC] is not just a little bit wrong, it is far out by any order of magnitude ... It is so WRONG that it is not even worth discussing."<br /><b>
Dr Aynsley Kellow</b>:<br />
"I'm not holding my breath for criticism to be taken on board, which underscores a fault in the whole peer review process for the IPCC: there is no chance of a chapter [of the IPCC report] ever being rejected for publication, no matter how FLAWED it might be."<br /><b>
Dr Madhav Khandekar:</b><br />
"I have carefully analysed adverse impacts of climate change as projected by the IPCC and have DISCOUNTED these claims as exaggerated and lacking any supporting evidence."<br /><b>
Dr Hans Labohm:</b><br />
"The alarmist passages in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers have been skewed through an elaborate and sophisticated process of SPIN-DOCTORING."<br /><b>
Dr Andrew Lacis:</b><br />
"There is NO scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary.<br />
The presentation reads like something put together by Greenpeace activists and their legal department."<br /><b>
Dr Chris Landsea:</b><br />
"I cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically UNSOUND."<br /><b>
Dr Richard Lindzen:</b><br />
"The IPCC process is driven by politics rather than science.<br />
It uses summaries to MISREPRESENT what scientists say and exploits public ignorance."<br /><b>
Dr Harry Lins:</b><br />
"Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been NO net global warming for over a decade now.<br />
The case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated."<br /><br /><br />Don' t ever stop asking questions , especially about something as complex as the interaction of invisible gases in the atmosphere . <br />I personally have no time to again do the same old same old world tour of the wannabes sites of great significance : the great barrier reef, icebergs , Antarctica , coastal cities , Kiribati and ....you name it journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-10273641816642472362018-11-21T03:45:00.001-08:002018-11-21T03:55:37.981-08:00Cheating -to get ahead G K Chesterton, in a brillant picture of our predicament as inventive minds ( at the tender age of only 30) shows how easily we play a certain game .A game that, in real life, is wrong<br />
<a href="http://progressin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cheating the Prophets.</a>( see link for the source)<br />
Fine, when you are a child do it as speculation, but as he later points in his review of his biography on Shaw ( after the second world war ) such otherworldliness ( one worldliness?)<br />IS dangerous and destructive if it only perpetuates homelessness and cynical and <a href="http://quickfiz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">reactionary merry go rounds</a>.<br />
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As the commandment rightly insists ;; cheating is stealing and its not good for you. Its not only not good for you its not good for the community . <a href="http://thechrist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">If you ask, you will recieve </a>.Think Bigjourneymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-77250710254124001722016-04-23T17:06:00.001-07:002016-06-10T06:13:00.338-07:00Progressive <br />
If we don't learn from the past we are doomed to repeat its worst mistakes . Until Niall ferguson arrived on the scene of big Ideas ABC last week my generation largely dismissed the idea that we were going to learn much from history . progressives have had their blinkers on and whether they like it not their faith system is quite foolishly simple and inadequate<br /><br />Progressives amongst us treat us like dinosaurs if we talk of <b>what</b> worked , The assumption is that the future is in innovation (confusing some science with all science) "drop the old dinosaurs"chatter often mean you ditch the foundations of the future<br />Such simpletons fail to recognise that some of our most successful businesses copy others ( Dick Smiths ) AND that much economic and spiritual life is enjoying what works long term ( We will benefit before thinking change when we know why the old stuff works)<br />
<br />The worship of change as the savior is losing its shine as the formative ABC show Utopia shows so well.<br />The worship of change as the savior is losing its power because participants , when they are not laughing , are noting that its not working and switching off<br /><br />No generation has seen the huge number and terror of tyrants who really believe and promote the above "drop the unfit dinosaurs") find that their simple faith doesn't work ( Hitler Ammin , Pol Pot , Stalin etc ) Many who drop the past so quickly do it in faith - a faith that has lots of popular appeal , but doesn't work.<br />
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First <a href="http://unweeddgarden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SHAKESPEARE</a> <br />
I will let others tell the story, Having rejected the idea of the divine comedy we have no comedy<br />
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Then CHESTERTON <i>"Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking ....everyman starts at the beginning , and goes , in all probability , just as far as his father before him , But if there really be anything of the nature of progress , it must mean , above all things, the careful study and assumptions of the whole of the past.</i> " Heretics<br />
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more recently ELLUL and WHITEHEAD<br />
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A recipe for throwing away what might have been quite satisfactory </span>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-26204126848825219712016-03-28T15:05:00.002-07:002016-04-23T16:35:36.200-07:00Innovation If I as an innovator hear another shallow Ad from Malcolm's name only solutions bureau I will throw up . No one needs more paper ply to survive than a politician whose popular for the wrong reason - who looks good , sounds good when really things are not good ; when the rich rip off the poor and pretend to care. <br />When all you can do is name a problem ( who can't ) - Malcolm T and Donald T are populat because they focus on it . <br />When your cut on the truth is as shallow as the public birdbath . When you are as rich as hell but not prepared to share. "you make me fell good about myself is always the most popular way to go in such circumstances.<br />
When you use all the right words for the day but forget about the lessons traditional meaning and its context in the full year lectionary. When you live away from<a href="http://ecomia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> the real world </a>and pretend to know it<br />
The real drivers of productivity are in the german genius ( see the book )-<b> respecting everyone's role and rewarding the most productive .</b><br />
Malcolm Turnbull's policy is much more simple ;ripping off the innovative and respecting those who retail and get high margins for taking what's not theirs and reselling it .<br />
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<b>My family are great innovators , but that means they back their own ideas with the little money they have</b> . They only ever develop and remain innovators if they know there stuff and get it right --over decades. They would join the huge class of hangers on if they , like most , failed to really know how the thing works - to be successful their own way . See my book "The Australian Genius". ( About the miner in us) To teach that a job done well is a job done successfully is the key . They don't even teach that in schools these days -- just get high marks like Tumbull gets high margins.<br />
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The media ,by contrast, as representative of the majority who only think they know how the thing works, are agreed - we will tell you how to succeed . ie make a profit a big profit . Like mixing oil with water.<br />
The world is not a monopoly of monoculture of business who know how to get a decent margin year or fie but a living diversity of symbiotic parts. Heaven too is not everon e doing the same thing and discussing the price of their shares . <br />
Turnbull policies are killing off innovators and he doesn't even know it - let alone why. Success is not indicated by the size of your bank balance but your <a href="http://thechrist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">efforts on the ground </a><br />
Such is the paradox that real innovators always succeed - its just that they don't get paid in the same way as dummies do. <br />
Blokes like Malcolm Turnbull have got rich , not so much by backing innovators but by asset stripping innovative institutions that build on the hard work of innovators . Its parasites like that who prevent people taking risks because, in the end, it only takes a bit of capital the innovator never has to leverage him/her out of his key role in industry .As for taxes!!!<br />
With Malcolm's friends advocating their high margin driven policy of "how to get rich "they forget we can't all get rich that way ; the way of trumping the real innovators . <br />
For all there bluster we can only hope that they aren't all Australian versions of Donald TRUMP . How terrifyingly simple. <br />
The greatest evil is done in the name of the best invention intention.journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-40290302000614436592016-02-23T14:22:00.001-08:002016-03-07T23:11:23.959-08:00Bullying Yes it's a big problem . . <br />
My problem is that no one can expect a new class program to reverse the growth in non coping with anger and assertiveness. <br />It's a world view problem that will only be better resolved by recognising we have somehow told ourselves, as a post Christian culture, that it is right to put the individual ( not the parent or teacher)<a href="http://childrenincharge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> in charge </a>..That such rampant individulaism actually works ( those watching our own cultural demose can see it) ..<br />We must find a way to give authority back to both parties before mere word stating reactions like <a href="http://ecomia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">"this is now a problem "</a> will make a difference .<br />
We now call anger a sin when for thousands of years we were told and trained to call it a risk ; the classical post modern crap of letting correlation be seen as causation , We weren't taught to sit on it like we are now ; were taught to deal with it .We weren't tutored in the desperate art of denial ( somehow adrenalin is not mentioned) but in the realistic art of expressing yourself . Minister Cash wants men to not be angry and just show respect ( Today ) This is foolish unnatural unworkable blind religious talk of a new kind <br /> Calling it a sin means we are tempted to deny it in ourselves( a simple reality) and then say the outward expression of it in others is "deeply wrong" . Jesus the master spoke to the inside , most moderns are hopelessly lost trying to read from the outside. <br />Our post Christian culture has no effective way of dealing with this projection guilt and denial; A program to" fix it " must involve radical surgery of ideas not the patches governments and reactionary medicine men will apply . <br />Denying that the old way is now wrong is denying history and experience . Denial leads to fanaticism and there is plenty of that in program ideas for schools at the moment. Watch it grow and fester as evidence of the denial it is.<br />
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Any wise parent with more than one child learns to deal with bullying before the kids go to school , So why would anyone expect a mere " education program ' at school to really resolve these things?. <br />
I fully accept that school can be the place where modelling how to cope with bullying can occur ( mainly through individual modelling and personal coping strategies )but only those who have never left school think you can deal with it easily in class . <br />Attitude standards is a very sensitive issue and hard work driving many teachers away from jobs they once loved - you can also be expected end up ALONE if you try to teach values carelessly making kids feel guilt and shame ; Whatever good you do there is more of the same behind the sheltershed. <br />
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It's also wrong to categorize all perceived "bullying " as wrong .Calling a spade a spade is calling a real sin a real sin and not getting diverted-( precision helps )- that of course was the old way which is the only way it works .( precision a prerequisites= )<br />
<b>Now - people are confused--- is it natural to lie or be aggressive<br />Yet years ago , telling a lie shouldn't mean you are called a liar - thats the law of lible .To call someone a liar is an offence under the eight commandment. Getting angry with your partner wasn't considered wrong and now that it is it means the path to resolution is NOW closed in some households .</b>The proper dealing of these complex matters is an urgent matter YES<br />
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Some people see bullying as assertiveness but we all need to learn assertiveness and whether you want to see it or not , we can learn it in the context of a situation of anger and mostly do.<br />
.What we perceive as someone else's problem may become our problem if we don't see our part in resisting the call .Maybe parent training would help more , but not back door and "out the door with anger" policy .<br />
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Advocates of the proposed program in schools think they can run assertiveness training in schools .They are focused on a few things they know and not the full picture which "who knows who really knows" . I don't know many teachers who could do it and parents MUST have a say in the contents as they would have had in methods classes before school. As <u>Neiman might say ,</u> its bringing uncertainty into the curriculum which it should not bear to achieve the great status Fairfax gave it . Keep teachers comfortable in the job by keeping it simple . The ideologues will cause even more early retirement . <br />
<b> Integration as a means to effectiveness</b><br />
Clearly both mentorship and modeling go together with insight on this . I simply don't accept secular schools should teach values unless they get parents approval to run those sorts of classes. As every one knows the system meddles with disintegrated concepts of "confidence , assertiveness and resilience " and in a fractured and incomplete way that sends thinking parents off to Private schools where subjects are subject to less pedantry .Humpty dumpty reactionary experimentation( non curriculum or temporary) instead of consistent competency ( known and accepted curriculum) Training not playing . Pedagogy not pedantry,<br />
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<br />journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-88221580018538073912015-10-04T17:38:00.000-07:002016-04-18T20:30:52.714-07:00Radicalization - Politicians and media's current use of the word radicalization show how out of touch they are with the <a href="http://muddiedwater.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">real world</a> . The audience too are confused. Maybe we all need some help to sort this out<br />
Radicalisation is not the problem . <br />
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The ideas you radicalize are the problem . ( These maybe examples but its the words in their books that you can criticize - not their radicalism )<br />
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<li>radical peace activists you have nice love ins with no violence expected </li>
<li>radical secularists you have government keeping us in order - someone has to ?. </li>
<li>radical materialists you will have constant reminders that only money matters in life </li>
<li>radical secular materialists think that everyone will be happy if they have enough money and cushions supplied by government . </li>
<li>radical pragmatists think we should not allow any idealism to enter our heads , we should all do what we like </li>
<li>radical progressives trust the future to be better whatever the past .</li>
<li>radical anti Christian says that morality is bunk self justification ; (very closely aligned with reactionary postmodernism which because it reacts to everything that is , doesn't know what is or is not - <a href="http://unweeddgarden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">To be or not to be is not a question</a> - one be's )<br /> Its says that all this stuff around us is just mind games and therefore we shouldn't think at all - just act on our natural feelings. Its a very quiet life because as soon as you say something you could be accused , under your own idealism, of word and value constructing to justify yourself . </li>
<li>radical optimists usually have a good bank balance </li>
<li>radical christians support much more grace ,love forgiveness and freedom for everyone , </li>
<li>radical greens think nature should rule and we should live in caves and eat berries </li>
<li>radical racists solve all environmental problems by getting rid of the neighbours.</li>
<li>radical non idealists fit in wherever they like at the time ( read Susan Neiman) They make the false claim that you can still be human even if you do not have ideals. Not sure I have met anyone who really lives that way - simple and appealing idea when you don't want to think ? . . </li>
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So where does all that leave most of us?. Its well known that many of us start radical and end up less so - is that a good thing ? <br />
Would the world be a better place if we abandoned idealism - If we saw ourselves as pure pragmatists . Would it say something about intellectual confusion ? If we we were all just nice people , maudlin soft and pliable , forever elastic, if not resilient from home base.<br />
I don't think so . <br />
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Let's be really clear about one thing ( the above list is indicative not complete ) . Its not just young people's problem, Older Australians Europeans and Americans have a problem too in particular - they may not be radical enough to resist the ideas they don't like . <br />
Kids just simply do not respect the wishy washy talk that can summarize those who talk radicalization without talking to the substance in each case . <br />
<br />journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-38074865435921582912015-08-25T19:19:00.000-07:002015-08-25T20:25:48.638-07:00Secular and secularism - not the same thing <b>Andrews Labor Victorian government have decided this August 2015 , despite one of the most honored social school experiments and a full history of over one hundred years of opportunity to engage , to put the subject of faith outside the curriculum and minds of all state school children, forever. <br />Mr Daniel Andrews says its simply not important enough . For the first time in Australian schools , kids we will be told "its not important enough " to ever get mentioned ever.( spare us the window dressing) Puts a new meaning to the idea of a dry area .<br />Most parents who used to send their children to state schools will disagree with him. </b><br />
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Daniels must change their minds - for the sake of the kids and the sharing of values and ideas .Elected leaders must face the shallow nonsense of those who advocate these changes - right now !<br />
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<b>Confused </b>are you - well join the club . Fairfax the man who set up our first papers wasn't confused ( his theology and practice sound) The State School system he helped set up has served Australia to socialize its children very well . So why in the world do we want to change what has worked so well in Australia? Its probably not perfect but it has worked well to keep us happy to participate in State Schools - up to now <span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br />
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Whats the panic ? Islam? Probably ! The scardicats and woort warriors are busy - afraid to play the game in the playground! Why do we so easily take away schools independence and right to decide and give it to the secularist faith alone ? Would it not be better to have this fear dealt with out in the open like it has been for decades , <b>A completely secular school would be a school for the mentally handicapped . </b><br />
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What's the ideologues within the Education Department excuse for this change at this time ? What makes them so wise ? is Parliament on the ball or just now an old folks home for sleepy sentimental stuff ? <br />
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Some dull witted Victorian ideologues think they can remove the old but real tensions, problems and threats that faith drives , informs and motivates. Their magic wand ministrations is to take the factors out of the formula -- by physically taking them away . "poof " and they are gone . No more problems <br />
Normal thinking and mentally stable people face their fears and the reality that faith will motivate ---- let all faiths compete for a space in the curriculum, as they could before. Out in the open<br />
<b><br />Defining secular</b> is fine and helpful but secularism says there is only one category for knowledge . Secularism simply limits the scope for knowledge <br />
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<b>The result of this major historic change</b> ,( if its not reversed ) The result will not be a big frame for Victorian State schools but a holy huddle. You can often tell a religious use of a word by the endearing love and pride with which the authors entreat its wholeness. Secular helps us define the uncontroversial in education so teachers can get on with the job of training minds around facts and fomulae. When what we know from mere formulate starts to limit our appreciation of the possibility of more we limit our education to the mundane.<br />
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<b>One is a category, the latter is a religion </b>. The former allows us to argue productively about where the boundary is between the secular and the sacred. Some think they will abolish the tension by dissolving the distinction in their favor . We all have different opinions about where that boundary is, so, how have schools involving a wide range of faith systems worked? On the current well tested principle of separation and respect for both. The way it should stay<br />
Better to have the boundary than not having it , Gives us all a starting point for a good debate .<br />
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Not , please God , just another holy huddle ! read the lesson woodya <a href="http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/health/pages/respectrel.aspx" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/health/pages/respectrel.aspx</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-35818996871105698882015-07-09T16:16:00.000-07:002015-07-09T16:19:09.162-07:00Resilience -ABC presenters and other wannabes who want to be taken seriously use this word because it's now popular and <a href="http://ecomia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">floating to the top</a> as an idea of importance. They understand enough to know its valuable and why; Would they know <a href="http://productionecologists.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">who to call ?</a>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-6431161955178402752015-07-06T00:24:00.001-07:002015-07-09T16:13:58.193-07:00Equality Imperatives for thinking people - Where reactionaries went wrong is to rely on bookeepingThere is always more than one way to skin a cat . Nothing wrong with sharing , but lets not be really Marx dumb about how we do it. Legislation is a blunt instrument, but it appears to be only one of the few available to reactionaries and so they sometimes get all fanatical about using it . As many even non believers point out about the tyrants of our own century, and the logic of goverance of evil they applied - this ideal is more than frightening in practice , as practiced ; The greatest evil was done in the name of good intention of making all equal - a process never complete; a tension of war not peace ,If the whole picture be put, its <a href="http://ecomia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">not even natural .</a><br />
While progressives will often resist what's written below, one party,at least, seems bent on denying themselves the opportunity to really move on and thereby will fail to push for a fully matured debate about whats possible with the mixed material of mankind . . <br />
In our own time, we have repeat bouts of same old same old solutions to the inequalities around us . Unequal treatment of women, aborigines and now gays .<br />
The point is, inequality occurs and its not all bad. Some of it is " natural "; some of it is perception based ( "poor me, poor them" ) and some self induced ( greed poor decisions, waste etc) .If we seek to reduce all of it, or say "it's the governments job to force it back to order" or call less "disadvantage "a sin ( which its not) we adopt an universal solution to a diverse origin and reality/myth . In funding these forced things amongst a free and diverse people, we insist on bankrupting our governments and productive sectors ; we insist on an<a href="http://ecomia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> unsustainable authority and parenting style .</a><br />
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As stated in previous posts, those who reject the Creators promise of all equal ( God can do it because his knowledge is perfect, His provision of manna provided to the Hebrews was equitable even though the human accountants list suggested otherwise ) are destined to limit themselves, not only to the material and the bleeding obvious , but to blind others to the greater wonder of actual abundance,diversity of gifts , cooperation, co dependence , miracle and diversity . Such blinkered accounting will miss the way it has drawn our civilization to a glass half full view of what we can do together . Its not brilliant , but dumb to let what we see dominate over what we can't. It is part of the big picture blessing given to our culture that we were taught to not worry about what we haven't got , believing that our gifts / foods are different and the ledger obscure . <br />
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If we can't motivate the people , how can we hope, even with the toughest tyrant , ( some prospect always of another) to change the world . Neiman makes the telling point that its no good relying on reason in these matters either as full reasoning is "missing" .The argument that the people are sheep and need to be led is fine till you think about the wolves , whose nature is to get what they want out of the deal .<br />
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To quote in part from "George Bernard Shaw " By G K Chesterton who made light of the Fabians now long standing fantasy with simple arguments and accountancy .<br />
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No word has got old Westerners into more trouble than the ideal of equality. No word has or is likely to run riot with a audience of us armchair experts (in our internet age ) than this powerful and useful idea because the ideal is a super simple and punchy one . The popularity of a simple idea needs no explanation to those who think deeply.<br />
No idea better symbolizes the pedantic blinkered view of the natural order than this one . Not that nature is simple; Its beyond simplicity to uncanny . Unity in diversity is possible, but talk of making all things equal is to ignore diversity completely - in both product and function. The modern western myth of legislating equality is thereby theoretically and practically unworkable. <br />
While we are not alone in being tempted by this myth , our generation does not have the experience to know when and where the word works. George Orwell was no dill, but we have become dull to his warnings on the word use .The greatest evil is still done in the name of misnaming this best intention . Equality is a good word to use in the right place ,<br />
<b>So why is the ideal so well held amongst us ?</b><br />
Clearly this idea originates in the West from at least as far back as the Bible where God asserts His care for all his creation equally, We are , according to the good book, all created equal .The God of the Bible GOB says its in "his DNA for men " even if we don't wanna accept it in ours. What makes us unequal in life is , if you take a fantastic view of life , our doing; either its what we do to ourselves or to others . So there is a case that we have gone wrong in not accepting the latter bit of our freedom ; our freedom to set things right --That bit of biblical doctrine on personal responsibility is often left out of modern Western dialogue between men ;God too has a bigger picture of how to hold equality and diversity together than we do . In providing for people He called into the desert he provided equally for the people so that those who had much had enough, while those who only collected a little had enough also( manna) .Take it or leave it its a faith thing expounded right through the book - GOB is no man's debtor . God maybe the best mathematician in the Universe but he doesn't insist on always using the actuary's two columns ( there being a strong array if you think about it ) GOB doesn't insist that mere 2 column maths should rule when it comes to giving equal potential for satisfaction for his creatures, His gifts , according to those who trust him,are perfect .<br />
. Maybe the consensus amongst many men is evidence that the Devil has no good ideas of his own and so has to distort the good and better concepts of the created order.....<br />
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George Orwell was not an ignorant man. His writing, unlike that of journos of our generation, was informed by harsh war experience of the human dilemma. Most pointedly, he came to realize that the focus on equality was an example in his own time of good intention producing great evil. Too easyjourneymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-8970324018915691112015-05-31T19:20:00.001-07:002015-05-31T19:39:24.368-07:00Equality - whatever happened to diversity <div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="c50h5-0-0" data-reactid=".c2.1:4:1:$comment889740671085182_890018397724076:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$c50h5" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTGkvs3KqYuBgcdkTVLJy7EYIyuJan4ZuRhWvmYnODHX4RRgnE_kXxs6wXG-9knvYQSB3KhBq_v-qyV2i5Ye8lqq8t4Nksjece0ObnXMEXnMEL27aSP46WUJya3MLkJKEs3fembnYNFGP/s1600/manbefore+thehorse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTGkvs3KqYuBgcdkTVLJy7EYIyuJan4ZuRhWvmYnODHX4RRgnE_kXxs6wXG-9knvYQSB3KhBq_v-qyV2i5Ye8lqq8t4Nksjece0ObnXMEXnMEL27aSP46WUJya3MLkJKEs3fembnYNFGP/s1600/manbefore+thehorse.jpg" /></a><span data-offset-key="c50h5-0-0" data-reactid=".c2.1:4:1:$comment889740671085182_890018397724076:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$c50h5.0:$c50h5-0-0">I don't see how any sane person can vote to change the definition of MARRIAGE when its clearly trying to change the substance of what it has meant </span>for centuries and clearly cross culturally . This is just another overly ambititous, almost tyranical, claim by reactionaries who as Chesterton said over 100 years ago about his Fabian friends ; they don't want democracy to mean a parliament or a republic , but just want what they haven't got . What do they want ? Do they know ?" An improved sense of their status"? So much for depth and sustainability if its a feeling or even thats where its coming from !</div>
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<span data-offset-key="bg20e-0-0" data-reactid=".c2.1:4:1:$comment889740671085182_890018397724076:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$bg20e.0:$bg20e-0-0">Our society. like science, is only functional if we maintain definitions that mean something. This whole effort to simplify will only confuse and restrict as the feminist movement did before it .
No longer will we feel free to have the full conversation about diversity because unity is the extremely dumb and constricting determinant .As the catholic paper points out "Only the conjugal view accounts for both facts." We could add "all the facts " needed to be considered here ; adoption , surrogacy, ideal marriage , disfunctional marriage , and civil marriage in an austrailian, christian or muslim context . </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3j73q-0-0" data-reactid=".c2.1:4:1:$comment889740671085182_890018397724076:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$3j73q.0:$3j73q-0-0">God help this country if we are no longer allowed our God given right to call things what we wanna call em =define things .</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9bn4i-0-0" data-reactid=".c2.1:4:1:$comment889740671085182_890018397724076:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$9bn4i.0:$9bn4i-0-0"> God help the government with their difficult decision about what civil marriage means if some smart arse legislation not only tells them how to do it , but doesn't help them find any clearer way of talking to it ; This is smartarse legislation that not only tries to tell people what love is, it but also wants to say what words we should use about all the different types of relationships existing . What will be a family for taxation purposes in ten years time ? .This is only one question for this very weak week in our history .
Born Equal and equal before the law - but they are religiuos </span>concepts ( see Neiman) This idea of equality contrasts with natures striving to maintain cooperation in diversity - equality is not a concept derived by deduction , peerreview or physiological or genetic drivers
I pity the man . Looking for identity but expecting the driver behind to know where its all going </div>
journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-62701585318147300832015-04-13T23:52:00.002-07:002015-04-26T21:42:17.657-07:00Guilt - just another area of confusion Tony Delroy (ABC radio evenings) normally makes for interesting radio , allowing lots of time to cover the territory -relaxed informative . Last nights program on "guilt" with the clinical psychologist Susan scared me -none of the people on the warm side of the microphone were prepared to get to the bottom of it . So much for intelligent radio<br />
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<li>"Its one of a number of bad feelings" -So instead of subdividing them we allowed all sorts of bad feelings to be lumped together into one . Clearly this diversion prevented proper medicine being applied to anger , false guilt , denial and obfuscation-- the realities so rarely recognised - the very serious and substantial issue of sin and offence . It clearly too reinforced the nonsense that we are happier if we ignore or deny the reality of the sin ? No wonder our children are in trouble --- they have so little basis for understanding " whats wrong " </li>
<li>Both presenters were willing to allow denial on the subject and try to wash away any substance to its positive role ( Susan ) . Moist callers were happy to smooth over .... but not all </li>
<li>False guilt is not something to be dismissed......soem listeners would have got no help from this hiding </li>
<li>The last caller was a symbol of the danger of just talking about it ( the only solution identified by moderns for the last few decades is talk --) Confession may have set the process of reconcialiation in train 20 years either with a different result ( Closer recognition of their weaknesses) </li>
<li>Not once did either party talk to the issue of the moral values and how both false and true guilt are developed form them . If they had ,,,,at least the listeners would have had something more than ducking and weaving so evident in their dealing with these issues<br /><br />It is not hard to see why Muslim families are more effective than modern families because whatever you think of their moral values they at least have them<br /><br /><b>Tony Delroy and others - talk about this properly . Our children need to to hear soemone other that poor lady confess to unresolved guilt over sexual matters . </b>Half the girls in the country need more than your careless crap on the subject . <br /><br />Too bad if you have to ditch the progressives ( you know themn are they really?) rubbish about us being in some sort of progressive sexual revolution . <br /><br />Your choice----- to either represent us or to ignore us . To face guilt or ignore it !</li>
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journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-34296605309608235892015-02-22T17:12:00.000-08:002015-02-22T17:16:57.842-08:00How did we ever get to be so reactive ? Simple - we have allowed ourselves to be confused . <br />
Instead of no devil and no angel in the picture and on our shoulder , we only have our own dataset to rely on . <br />
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Frankly, with all the signals from physio , mind and video the central processing unit is confused .Stalled <br />
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There is something to be said for seeing how we got into this mess in the first place .<br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f0e9; color: #204063; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The Parliament today want to but up barriers against violent people ; they don't quite get that we use to be far more effective in reducing physical assault by putting up barriers against verbal assault .</span></span><br />
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Here is just one connection we have lost in the last 30 years . The connection between verbal and physical violence.<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">In our law ,verbal assault is similiar to physical assault because one is often a precursor to the other . Woosy leaders everywhere who do not understand or operate in a proactive manner.</span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599987030029px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".5j.1:3:1:$comment1067390359954566_1067938093233126:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599987030029px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">More <a href="http://ondewolf.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/jumping-at-shadows.html" target="_blank">here</a> </span></span></span></span><a href="http://ondewolf.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/jumping-at-shadows.html" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">http://ondewolf.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/jumping-at-shadows.html</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-14353702955192301502014-09-30T16:06:00.005-07:002014-09-30T16:10:26.666-07:00Why don't we learn the basics? - like how to cook good food <br />
While this issue is clearly one that is relevant to this thread , I have posted a response<a href="http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/why-dont-we-learn-basics.html" target="_blank"> here </a>. The issue goes to the heart of the ongoing failures in our education system and more deeply--- the pedantic way we approach thinking about real life and living .<br />
<br />journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-46261922595584891102014-03-09T16:06:00.000-07:002014-03-09T17:47:23.978-07:00Dominion or Domination We should all know there is a difference between the two D's but many are still confused enough to call one the other. Christine Milne, in an irrational outburst at Tony Abbotts statements this week, like many in the audience, doesn't realise she's confusing two ideas and perpetuating a complete nonsense. Sadly she's not the only one who thinks they are logical about cutting edge conservation when they fail to study these matters , and their origins and practical implications fully.<br />
It's true, of course that dominion can be taken clearly to give licence to domination , but that's the full context ; are we complaining that men have a choice to be careless ignorant and arrogant? How clever do we expect governments to be? You can't have dignity and freedom if you aren't allowed the opportunity to sin . Many of the Greens(party) seem to think they will get the peasants to stop sinning-presumably by giving even more power to the bureau .We all know the Greens attitude to regulation reduction ------because of their theology .<br />
The leader of the Greens is not alone in this because, like all the old reactionaries , they have sat on any good discussion on the myths and unworkable doctrines that the Green religions have perpetuated . (for eg ; that equality means we all should own the same ; that ownership is sort of "to be discouraged" ; their failure to promote diversity which implies that it " right and proper for diversity of capital investment to be encouraged" ; their ever so predictable default position " that nature can't be touched." Too easy , too ideological incarcerated <br />
The Greens, in the face of the reality of diversity and interconnectedness they don't fully understand prefer the easy road of "doing nothing" and advocating their predictable " no touch" policies. All too easy for a difficult beast. If you can't touch Nature, can you care for it? Why have a Carbon Tax if we are not allowed" to touch "<br />
The book of Genesis has been dismissed as irrelevant but it is the authority of this idea of dominion, so its best to study it properly and fully. Not only is Genesis the origin ( in our culture at least) of the idea of dominion as an imperative and right of every man and woman ( Genesis also portrays the paradox by talking to realities of abuse ) this neither positive or negative concept is perpetuated consistently through this awefully boring ( to some) bit of foundational story telling /doctrine for Western Commonwealth discipline. Its served us very well -- till we lost sight of it .<br />
Bertrand Russell could see some paradoxes like D&D are never resolved ideologically but are resolved, as they were for thousands of years premarxist in our culture. just because you don't understand the logic behind something doesn't mean the logic is not there or that we shouldn't use <a href="http://designwithnature.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">experience</a> to teach us limits and realities ( Russell's point)<br />
The Marxists of course thought they knew a better way but its been proved shallow ,wrong in both theory and practice. So why is any thinking person still allowing some old pedantic and shallow remnants of their logic a voice?<br />
There is no point in the reactionaries seeking to defend the empty rhetoric of anti dominion talk . They are living in the past and playing games with words and ideas they don't even understand. <br />
When they have any common sense, even reactionaries <a href="http://childrenincharge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">who aren't behaving like children </a>teach their children to have dominion over their bedrooms and toys . Copyright Emperors Academy 10th March 2014journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-71612271752554189702013-11-04T14:33:00.002-08:002014-09-05T09:15:17.546-07:00Pedants paradigms run out of steam <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB6N-Fhtml485TKev2hYR2-iw891L38NVOWXDTToA251YzGj3HTxXAh1GdIg5Z9Zc7bjdSDroP4n0WyvOKD6A4OTkxZGIYJzlxsSC9qFU5LgfAhPmPM3KqnSMCxVF6JkQg0HE00LOwUycr/s1600/ducksinline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB6N-Fhtml485TKev2hYR2-iw891L38NVOWXDTToA251YzGj3HTxXAh1GdIg5Z9Zc7bjdSDroP4n0WyvOKD6A4OTkxZGIYJzlxsSC9qFU5LgfAhPmPM3KqnSMCxVF6JkQg0HE00LOwUycr/s320/ducksinline.jpg" height="130" width="320" /></a>Q&A ABCTV last night . Greer doesn't like <b>marriage</b> cause it doesn't work for her , Dan isn't convinced by anything but thinks a bunch of <b>stats </b>will do it ( The typical excuse of someone who can't and won't make up their mind is <a href="http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">someone who talks stats </a>) and Hanna gets married because " its the <b>done thing to do</b>".( How reactionary in action ) If these selfies and their stale old reactionary doctrines were dangerous ideas, its only because they were some years ago- when they were teenagers??. Young women prefer a burka to following the frustrated and tired old diatribe against <b>church</b> and <b>men</b> or whatever ( "<b>what I think </b>is wrong") of Germaine. How come The ABC don't see this - blinkered not dangerous ideas , threatened not threatening ; sensing the disease but in denial, lest they find they have had the disease for decades.<br />
The real revolutionary who still drives revivals and an ongoing sense of liberal democracy in the West , thankfully, got a mention . ABCTV are as agents for the pregressives not alone in not saying too much about the good things that have gone before but to mention he leader on the others side - taboo .ABCTV do the same thing to Jesus as Islam does - puts him in the old hat basket ( category error of course created by your worldview) <br />
Some of our kids do think . They might not think broadly enough to switch channels to half full but they know the ABC preach utopia but teach dsytopia. Few in our education devolution culture have found their way back to a glimpse of the real world which is neither-- ecomia . Young people observe the disconnect between the depession in the real world adult painted world and its trumped upoptimsim of the positivsist on the TV They see that the <a href="http://childrenincharge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">children that are in charge</a> and they see grown adults as children because the children in charge have never grown up - to see the big picture , the good that's possible ;that everything is not as bad as a young tennager might be xepecetd to think ( but not a mature man)Utopia might be real if they had to both have a job and the commitment that protects mother and child , they can safely reject its simplicities ( juvenile or infantile was Hitchens word) . After all the B&W label ( first question ) didn't work because the real world is both <b>B &W AND technicolour . Bigger than one side or any side. </b><br />
These tired old fanatics in charge should know that while they only believe in things they can see , they may be missing out on a lot thats happening . They should know that if they really want to talk dangerous ideas the radical revolutionary who was killed by the political forces of his day just might make his presence known - scary........ He did .<br />
To be really radical you have to be ----not be line but on the edge . The centre may appear safe but it no place for those who think - Its comfortable being in the centre... like sheep , you can see both sides of the argument ( but only from a pedants non dialectic standpoint )but you have no real view and be quite unmoved over which of the Hitchen brothers is right ( Are they standing on the edge of territory worth fighting for and whose claims are best supported by the landscape <a href="http://ecomia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">beyond </a>? .)journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-73421219710630616972013-08-20T20:34:00.003-07:002013-08-20T20:39:17.288-07:00Shorten is embarassing on education The more Bill Shorten speaks on Education as he did at the press club today , the more he reveals the weaknesses in Labors education policy-- its a facade undermined by a commitment to a nonsense ( the idea of disadvantage ) . The Freudian slip where he used "entitlement "instead of "enlightenment" said it all . <br />
The Labor party are on the drip feed to presuming they, of all people can decide on what others need . I accept that Libs too <a href="http://govtisnotbusiness.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">entitle </a>some of the wrong things<br />
Needs based funding would be OK if Governments KNOW and can decide what kids need . Parents should decide such things and Labor supporters are deciding to pay more to send their kids to the schools they dare to see as overly advantaged.<br />
If I was a Fabian or on Emily's list I would be worried - Shortens desperate use of "progressive and innovative and challenging "is a look back, not a look better or forward- a fanatical defence of whats been 6years of talking andbeing taken for ride ---- as if they have gone somewhere . <br />
Australia will judge all the talk about a future "good society" knowing that Labors society of last few years is just talk - the dummies can't see it yet - they have been givin de money to the entitlement and children in charge culture.journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-61160413060118866392013-08-13T02:47:00.002-07:002013-08-13T02:54:24.726-07:00Political realities - noone is interested in detail -including journos In a moment of truth on The Drum today, Kerry questions Greg about his sources to reveal he has no credible ones; Greg reveals just how shallow much news journalism is, even on the ABC.<br />
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The journos are happy to just chant data data data , as if it tells us something revealing . All such pedantry in bookkeeping worship proves, is that they too are easily lead . <i>more interested in bookkeeping trivia than real accountability?Like the public they get lost is stats so why do they ask for them ? </i><br />
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The panel were agreeing that most Australians don't want any detail . On questioning, Greg reveals his " survey " was largely based on those on his facebook page etc .<br />
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This is after a week of repeat choruses from the press that " the opposition aren't showing us the figures " all they were interested in was piece of paper with 2 numbers on it - a total of two columns - no detail please .Maybe the Libs should have had more but budget is never intended to be final and yet the press will use it so <br />
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In another side to this shallowness, you have Rudd in the debate with Abbott picking and choosing the data from his own cheat sheet. journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581760052847152849.post-53056034124496022282013-07-24T06:32:00.000-07:002013-07-24T06:38:14.208-07:00Too many loose threads -giving you a headache? Its amazing how long the people (in the now reactionary West) can be strung along . New color and movement seems to be what has revived interest in what Rudd is doing. For some obscene reason we are all in the jungles of PNG this week. <br />
What happens when such leaders run out of salvation destinations to send our problems to?<br />
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Perhaps more importantly , what instability of mind leads to people not being sure of what they know ?<br />
Gary Furnell makes a good case for the traditional view of why a real education revolution is needed . Australians are some of the most pedantic of any . see first posts on this blog . Worse they don't understand that you can actually understand something without having to prove it point by point . Most of us are too busy making high level risk decisions to try and explain even the first few steps to a certainty that's become part of our science understanding .<br />
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Our now tired and predictable education system has ALSO given in to idea that ideas evolve and therefore stringing along is anything but wrong. This means we no longer focus well enough on the building idea in education.There are steps but some routes go nowhere but down or out.<br />
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Furnell's point too is that paradox is a way to box understanding without spending your life in space travel . Its a great article , but won't suit those who have spent their lives trying to find a place to hide inside their own limited logic. QUADRANT magazine May 2013journeymanjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11679612023619721683noreply@blogger.com1