In a day and age where family structure and roles are becoming increasingly fragmented, and where the cost of living is rapidly increasing, we can ask: How do we ‘have it all’ (a phrase now so overused it has been parodied)? My younger sister, who is now 11, once wished to be a bikie, or,…
My grandmother goes through her life with a sense of purpose, which is served every moment of the day. Whether she is paying a bill or attending a concert, it is what she is doing. Nothing will distract her from her task. From rising at 5.00 am, whereupon she immediately sets to work doing paperwork…
BBC MISLEADING ABOUT MELTING ANTARCTIC GLACIER The Global Warming Policy Forum has criticised the BBC for misleading the public about the melting of the Thwaites Glacier. In its numerous reports online, on radio and on television, the BBC has blamed the melting of this Antarctic glacier on climate change. However, the BBC’s reports do not mention an important fact that has been widely known and that the BBC itself has reported previously – the influence of volcanoes beneath the glacier. Scientists have known for years that subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal “hotspots” beneath the glacier are contributing to the melting…
JUST A THOUGHT … What if it turned out that traditional Christian morality is the template for “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”? John Stuart Mill’s formula offered as a rational substitute for the “unfounded” superstitious dogmas of received religion is in fact impossible of rational application to the chaos (as in “chaos” theory) of human society, where none can trace with any plausibility the interaction of the infinite number of variables in play. The default formula has been the cultivation of individualism, which is, in effect, the unleashing of the bullies. Divine direction, or the millennia of trial…
