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» 7/11/2012 11:21:44 PM Noel Preston writes: <<Is it inevitable that those who seek a spirituality, informe.....
» 23/10/2012 12:47:15 PM Brian, thank you for an engaging piece. I share your sentiments about the importance of th.....
» 12/08/2012 2:35:07 PM Saltpetre: Consider injunctions to “love your enemy” and “welcome the stranger”. The soci.....
» 9/07/2012 1:40:03 PM I love "firkytoodle", Wm Trevor! I now seek--and will bring about, if needs be--.....
» 24/04/2012 8:52:54 PM Pericles writes: << It would help is you could describe a consciousness that is not .....
» 24/04/2012 12:37:41 PM Within spatio-temporal parameters of cognition I concur with Pericles here: << The v.....
» 10/04/2012 6:27:56 PM I've become quite tired of the eagerness of some people to twist a patchwork of scriptural.....
» 10/04/2012 12:20:10 PM Daffy Duck: As far as I can understand your posts, your argument seems to rest largely on.....
» 30/03/2012 11:02:02 AM Squeers, I also thank you for that link to B.A. Wallace! I've now bought it on my Kindle......
» 24/02/2012 4:27:00 PM Pericles: <<Most people I know take note of the words used by Christians on matters.....
» 24/02/2012 11:13:25 AM Nigel, thank you for this article and your continuing advocacy for theological approaches .....
» 27/01/2012 10:16:20 AM Yvonne, Thank you for your interesting article. I'm always interested in Australian ficti.....
» 25/01/2012 10:15:02 AM Diver Dan, your "opinion" as stated is that every person in the Vietnamese ethni.....
» 24/01/2012 12:42:39 PM Diver Dan, that comment is one of the most offensive I've come across lately on this site!.....
» 14/12/2011 8:46:34 PM Brian, thank you for a thought-provoking article. I'm no mathematician but you opened my m.....
» 15/11/2011 2:38:27 PM AJ Phillips: I have not been aiming to win a debate about atheism-vs.- theism or to ".....
» 15/11/2011 9:34:03 AM Oops! Correction to the end of previous post: "...but certainly not to the history of.....
» 14/11/2011 7:58:41 PM Yuyutsu, thank you for reminding us of the Upanishads, written all those thousands of year.....
» 11/11/2011 1:05:19 PM AJ Phillips, Pericles and anyone else: 1 You both seem to be as hooked on literalism as t.....
» 10/11/2011 4:52:47 PM Yuyutsu: <<'Cogito ergo sum': I am under the illusion that I think, therefore I am d.....
» 8/11/2011 4:22:07 PM Acolyte: <<You realise that this statement is paradoxical, don't you?>> Only.....
» 8/11/2011 2:28:18 PM Poirot, <<If you didn't first hold the concept, you would be unable to project love.....
» 5/11/2011 11:48:02 AM Speaking as a Christian, I can only agree with the author that there is no “benevolent, in.....
» 21/10/2011 7:38:35 PM Squeers' last post has touched on a couple of ideas that we should consider at length. To .....
» 8/08/2011 4:51:19 PM I spent about 18 years as an active member of the Australian Democrats. Most of that time .....
» 29/07/2011 10:06:11 AM Peter, thanks for the article -- a good one. Yuyutsu, you and I seem to be very close in .....
» 28/07/2011 12:20:45 PM If my article has stirred some thought about your own assumptions, beliefs and world-view .....
» 25/07/2011 5:54:24 PM Pericles: Once again it seems I have to assure you that I am quite happy to call myself a .....
» 25/07/2011 5:40:12 PM Thank you all who are contributing to the discussion of my article. My main purpose in wri.....
» 16/07/2011 12:04:54 AM Poirot, Yuyutsu, Lexi, OUG, Squeers, et al. Poirot's suggestion is very pertinent. The na.....
» 15/07/2011 4:23:44 PM Still enjoying this discussion, and still finding it poses questions worth pondering. Let .....
» 14/07/2011 4:32:24 PM Poirot, Yuyutsu, Squeers, George, and anyone else: This is indeed a very stimulating disc.....
» 9/07/2011 12:41:26 PM George, it's good to have you with us again. Thank you for your reminder of the Toynbee pe.....
» 8/07/2011 8:19:09 PM Lexy, thanks for the topic. The word "religion" has both a psycho-spiritual and.....
» 17/06/2011 11:36:49 AM William Trevor and Poirot, Thank you for bringing to this thread some stimulating thought.....
» 12/06/2011 8:32:19 PM Saltpetre, Wm Trevor, Trav et al. This seems to be one of those moments in a thread when .....
» 4/06/2011 12:19:34 PM I’ve been following the thread with some interest but deliberately stayed out of it becaus.....
» 26/05/2011 4:32:40 PM The problem, Houellebecq & runner, is that the Word is often not just "the words".....
» 21/02/2011 5:32:37 PM G'day Rusty: You persist in demanding evidence that “religious” (I would say spiritual) e.....
» 19/02/2011 3:12:09 PM Rusty Catheter: Sorry, your last post comes nowhere near the previous one in clarity. Th.....
» 19/02/2011 12:25:35 PM Rusty Catheter: Thank you for your last post -- a very clear presentation of your position.....
» 18/02/2011 1:26:24 AM briar rose: We agree in part about the religious institutions. a) << they don't c.....
» 17/02/2011 2:12:50 PM Pericles: Why is it that so often you attribute to me intentions that are simply not there.....
» 17/02/2011 11:43:56 AM Thank you Peter. Your article is worth much further thought. Cronus: Rather than “seeking.....
» 15/02/2011 10:44:04 PM G'day Grim (and anyone else interested), <<Same as women wanting to be priests. It .....
» 8/02/2011 2:05:01 PM Chris C, Pelican et al: <<I repeat: the research evidence is that smaller classes i.....
» 7/02/2011 4:12:38 PM Gregory Storer: Don't try to disguise yourself! Your action against OLO has confirmed you.....
» 4/02/2011 3:31:01 PM AJPhilips (continuing): These people are taking the tree as a symbol; their observations .....
» 4/02/2011 3:23:43 PM AJPhilips: We’re making no progress here, are we? I’m wondering whether to end it all by .....
» 2/02/2011 12:17:29 PM Shintaro, I must say I'm impressed by the way you are using haiku as a discipline for you.....
» 2/02/2011 12:08:32 PM I've also thought the goal-setting by government was actually arse-up: we should first get.....
» 1/02/2011 8:25:36 PM Jennifer, thanks for a highly pertinent article. It's a sad reflection on our society, how.....
» 31/01/2011 7:23:00 PM AJPhilips(et al): Either I have expressed myself very poorly indeed, or you simply refuse.....
» 31/01/2011 2:03:17 PM ...Continued. You assert that “any other method [than logic] is totally indistinguishable.....
» 31/01/2011 1:52:48 PM AJPhilips (et al): << I would suggest that if everyone cared about the truth of the.....
» 30/01/2011 11:29:40 PM AJ Phillips et al: I am not worried if people declare themselves atheist, agnostic, relig.....
» 30/01/2011 5:07:39 PM In his last post David, representing the Atheist Foundation of Australia, has declared tha.....
» 29/01/2011 8:42:37 PM AFA-David: <<Only arguments or testimony based on logic and empirical data should b.....
» 29/01/2011 2:15:24 PM ASA-David: As a representative of the Atheist Foundation of Australia, through your style.....
» 28/01/2011 11:45:20 PM GlenC (and anyone else): You write: <<Where did this other reality, this spiritual .....
» 28/01/2011 8:41:44 PM ASA-David If you haven’t read my earlier post (immediately prior to yours) you should do .....
» 28/01/2011 7:23:36 PM AFA-David, Rhian and others: The Atheist Foundation of Australia uses this definition: “A.....
» 12/01/2011 9:12:10 AM Jennifer, thank you for yelling out what should be the bleeding obvious to every Australia.....
» 27/12/2010 6:35:40 PM grateful: Thanks for the link. I'll keep it on my list for when I have more time......
» 26/12/2010 10:48:58 PM Yes Pericles, I have to agree that I used poor language that time. <<But I dispute .....
» 25/12/2010 6:02:09 PM Pericles, Thanks for your opinion. << I note that you studiously ignore the entire,.....
» 25/12/2010 12:20:52 PM grateful & oug: Thanks for your comments. When I was writing the previous article I need.....
» 21/12/2010 8:42:41 PM AJ Phillips: << Faith is simply a term applied to beliefs that we have no good reaso.....
» 20/12/2010 5:24:05 PM McReal, Boxgum, Rhian, and others: The historicity of Jesus is a fascinating question and.....
» 20/12/2010 10:05:06 AM McReal: 1 << An appeal to authority is fallacious if the appeal is to the authority .....
» 19/12/2010 1:12:09 PM Pericles: The Jensens represent a peculiar pocket of Anglicanism that seems to be found on.....
» 19/12/2010 9:44:18 AM Glen C: "Confessional" in the sense you are using it is certainly quite applica.....
» 16/12/2010 8:11:53 PM Pelican: Thanks for your comments. I think we are very close in our views on human relati.....
» 16/12/2010 7:50:48 PM Pericles: <<It is obviously a struggle for you, Stephen.>> Not at all. I f.....
» 11/12/2010 1:39:06 PM VK3AUU <<You bible thumpers take a lot of convincing that the fairy tales that you .....
» 29/11/2010 11:03:45 PM King Hazza: Actually you are the one who finally has got it. Peter had it all along. If yo.....
» 29/11/2010 1:56:43 PM Peter, I think you've explained the situation clearly. Unfortunately, apart from those who.....
» 28/11/2010 7:50:04 PM Proxy: <<When a person has a lack of self esteem and being, due to their aberrant se.....
» 28/11/2010 1:47:54 PM False assertion #1: Marriage has always been between a man and a woman. There were perio.....
» 23/11/2010 9:48:51 AM Otonoko, your description of the practical problem of time-tabling for Philosophy is reali.....
» 22/11/2010 5:42:56 PM Yuyutsu, The philosophy programme is not a collection of information: it comprises activi.....
» 22/11/2010 5:09:50 PM I agree with Foyle about the need for philosophy in school curricula. A philosophy program.....
» 19/10/2010 11:33:09 PM GlenC: Icons have not been a strong part of my own spiritual practice, but I’ll try to ex.....
» 19/10/2010 2:02:55 PM Rodney Crisp: Thanks for a clearly presented viewpoint. It would be difficult not to agre.....
» 11/10/2010 6:33:36 PM Susan: You have been an indomitable spirit and your skills have been a great contribution .....
» 7/10/2010 4:28:11 PM A clearly written article on a very important topic, although not saying anything really n.....
» 5/10/2010 9:12:25 AM Banjo: Thank you for your interesting contribution to the discussion. I agree that truth .....
» 4/10/2010 6:23:06 PM Peter Hume, Socratease, duncan mills: Thanks for you questioning. “Naming the divine” as.....
» 28/09/2010 4:58:34 PM Pericles: <If you have a moment to spare, could you clarify how you reconcile these two.....
» 28/09/2010 12:24:29 AM Pericles: <…your assertion that this particular prefix "'in' implies interiority&q.....
» 27/09/2010 7:02:13 PM Pericles: <At least I am giving your sophistry muscles a good workout, Mr Crabbe.> .....
» 27/09/2010 5:18:26 PM Severin: I understand your distaste for hierarchical authority; I often feel the same. But.....
» 27/09/2010 3:39:53 PM Pericles, Pelican (and anyone else): Allow me to gurgle a response from the “primeval ooz.....
» 26/09/2010 2:32:15 PM Firesnake: Thanks for offering your point of view. I’ll try to respond to some of your mor.....
» 25/09/2010 7:04:36 PM Pelican: I appreciate your response. It's heartening to find that my writing forges some d.....
» 25/09/2010 12:12:38 PM Thank you to the readers who have posted words of appreciation. I especially thank David F.....
» 24/09/2010 4:09:23 PM Leo Lane: Thanks for your encouraging response. I didn’t bring Jung or his psychology into.....
» 24/09/2010 10:17:56 AM Jon J writes: <So you believe in God because you want to, just like everyone else...>.....
» 5/09/2010 7:23:43 PM I read a report that long-term research has shown nearly 50% of galahs to be homosexual. G.....
» 4/09/2010 6:55:27 PM Nate10 <Crabsy, as a Christian maybe you should review what the bible says about homos.....
» 4/09/2010 2:07:20 PM If there is justification in making the interests of the child paramount when deciding who.....
» 4/09/2010 12:11:50 PM If our aim is to find a way for people of all kinds to share this wide brown land wisely, .....
» 1/08/2010 5:49:39 PM Peter, thanks for your considered explanation of your view. I think I’m in sympathy with t.....
» 31/07/2010 6:47:27 PM Peter and others: I tend to agree with your view that this election is dispiriting and th.....
» 24/04/2010 6:29:46 PM Thanks Glen. I have used some recorder arrangements of rock tunes in the repertoire for m.....
» 24/04/2010 12:33:53 PM Squeers, Mitchell (and anyone else): I have read your posts with interest. Near the start.....
» 23/04/2010 12:28:47 PM Glen, you encourage people to play the recorder. Full marks to you! I have spent many year.....
» 15/04/2010 12:45:14 PM I agree that some religious leaders have made ridiculous, offensive and even plain wrong s.....
» 2/04/2010 7:14:53 PM Alan Matheson, Thank you for your article. I quietly call myself a Christian, while takin.....
» 23/03/2010 8:52:29 PM Having followed this thread for a while I’ll throw in a couple of observations. Many Chri.....
» 19/02/2010 5:18:37 PM Thank you, David, for another thoughtful, clearly worded and honest article. Especially re.....
» 2/02/2010 11:31:09 AM David, Thank you for one of the most fascinating pieces I've read on biblical scholarship.....
» 12/01/2010 5:45:37 PM CJ, <I agree crabsy - at least to the extent that, as a biological term, 'race' is mea.....
» 11/01/2010 5:05:46 PM The problem with the whole debate is that it is based on the notion of “race”. The term is.....
» 8/01/2010 12:41:04 PM Squeers, Jon J, Stevenlmeyer, and others: Some people do seem to want to escape from “th.....
» 6/12/2009 6:16:12 PM Bushbasher: Thanks for taking the time to spell out your position. I'm thinking about it. .....
» 5/12/2009 10:25:58 AM Bushbasher and anyone else, I really sorry if my words seemed to “trivialise” you or anyo.....
» 5/12/2009 12:29:21 AM Brilliant! In his attempt at rebuttal, Jon J’s three short sentences exemplify the very pr.....
» 9/11/2009 4:48:48 PM Pericles assumes that empirical perception is the only mode of human perception and on thi.....
» 8/11/2009 11:37:21 PM George, I agree that "immanence" is the word to use. I'm not sure why you quote.....
» 8/11/2009 2:53:55 PM Relda, Oliver, Squeers et al. Since panentheism has entered the discussion I would sugges.....
» 1/11/2009 1:58:46 PM Spindoc, Relda, George et al. When arguments about “knowledge” are based on words like “d.....
» 24/10/2009 1:16:42 AM Oh dear, Blue Cross, I should not have tried to make a quick contribution with the five mi.....
» 23/10/2009 12:42:20 PM For OLO Forum: Squeers, I agree with most of what you say. The cacophony is coming from t.....
» 6/10/2009 6:17:07 PM Phanto: You need to accept that not all reality is experienced through our senses. Theolo.....
» 5/09/2009 2:26:34 PM Sells, I agree with you that God is “not a body, not a person, not a being”. I agree that.....
» 5/09/2009 1:18:13 AM Sells, My acceptance of the simultaneous masculinity and femininity of God dates from at l.....
» 3/09/2009 11:28:18 PM George, Waterboy and others, Much unnecessary anxiety and suffering results from our not .....
» 1/09/2009 8:35:02 PM The roots of the Anglican Church are actually to be found more than a thousand years befor.....
» 16/08/2009 7:38:06 PM Fractelle and anyone else: Every person is born with the potential to be fully human and .....
» 16/08/2009 12:11:57 AM Bushbasher: <who is arguing for scientism?> Well, in the current thread bitey, Fir.....
» 15/08/2009 3:41:27 PM Many of the forum participants continually decry Peter Sellick’s so-called irrational or u.....
» 4/06/2009 7:14:19 PM Relda, Glorfindel, George et al. I have for many years said that the Sufi way would lead .....
» 1/06/2009 5:39:26 PM Sells, You are too fond of using that word “liberals” as a weapon to divide and conquer......
» 31/05/2009 1:45:45 PM Yes, Jesus is “the way, the truth, the light” – for me. But I am impelled to say that, in .....
» 30/05/2009 4:15:23 PM I must say that I am quite uncomfortable with some of the language and implications of Sel.....
» 15/05/2009 12:29:51 AM Of course it was quite right of Waterboy to point out that I had over-simplified my charac.....
» 12/05/2009 7:45:26 PM And so is the debate now heading for a horribly fruitless end between the Scylla and Chary.....
» 7/04/2009 11:08:12 AM Happy birthday OLO and congratulations to Graham and Susan for an exceptional achievement......
» 5/04/2009 5:53:29 PM Relda, Sells and others, If we could put our discussion into music and pictures and dance.....
» 30/03/2009 7:43:38 PM Sells, How do you define “Liberal Protestantism”? In everyday denominational terms, which.....
» 2/03/2009 10:59:45 PM Daviy: <What is generally called Christianity today is not the only form of Christiani.....
» 27/02/2009 10:51:10 AM Mac: <You are making a straw man when you say "the god atheists object to," .....
» 24/02/2009 12:52:09 PM Waterboy and George, Thank you for your appreciative responses. And I’m glad you recognis.....
» 23/02/2009 7:02:01 PM Waterboy, Sells et al. <"What more can we say about Jesus and why bother?...Why i.....
» 13/02/2009 8:31:11 PM In my last post I said that there is more than one reality. This of course, begs for much .....
» 13/02/2009 12:11:13 AM Brian, the picture you so vividly paint rings true with my impressions from living in Chin.....
» 11/02/2009 10:59:10 PM Waterboy, thank you for bringing some valuable insight into an argument that has been more.....
» 1/02/2009 10:06:54 PM Despite everything several of us have written some, as shown in Foxy’s last post, are stil.....
» 30/01/2009 7:37:29 PM With this, the second of my contributions to this thread, I’m about to give up because mos.....
» 29/01/2009 6:16:08 PM Here we go again! Peter Sellick publishes another article and at the sight of his name a h.....
» 10/01/2009 6:31:07 PM Phanto: Your reply to my previous post fascinates me. Let’s pursue your reasoning a littl.....
» 10/01/2009 8:54:52 AM Phanto You say: <Many people ‘act out’ their emotional needs by using sexual behavio.....
» 9/01/2009 1:12:16 PM Many of you obviously have not carefully read the speech by the Pope before going off half.....
» 8/01/2009 5:04:50 PM Sells, In case you missed it, I refer you to my earlier post (5 January 2009) regarding t.....
» 5/01/2009 11:40:57 AM Thank you Sells, Relda and George for your responses to my suggestion of formulating a qua.....
» 3/01/2009 11:43:20 AM Relda, George, Waterboy: It seems to me that beneath this conversation is a basic tension.....
» 31/12/2008 7:15:17 PM George, Relda and Waterboy: Thank you for some very thoughtful and stimulating posts. I .....
» 30/11/2008 1:32:36 PM Like Rhian and Peter Sellick, I am one of those Christians who do not believe in a life af.....
» 5/09/2008 7:28:27 PM This is possibly the most fruitful thread I can remember being attached to one of Peter’s .....
» 2/09/2008 12:24:41 PM Ponder: Exquisitely put! How about offering that gem of a post as the text for Fathers' Da.....
» 31/08/2008 4:49:40 PM CJMorgan: I really have to point out that your protestations do not ring true. Even as you.....
» 30/08/2008 10:23:49 PM CJ Morgan: You’ve just proved my earlier point. You are saying that subjectivity (or the “.....
» 29/08/2008 7:25:16 PM Peter, I strongly agree with the general thrust of your argument. I also suggest there are.....
» 10/07/2008 1:47:42 PM Foyle, isn’t it interesting how we use that word “indoctrination” when describing a teachi.....
» 9/07/2008 4:18:48 PM Peter, one of your best pieces I believe. Godo, where you see intellectual contortions I .....
» 9/07/2008 2:21:27 PM Couldn't agree more, Peter. I abandoned writing poetry some time ago, partly for the reaso.....
» 2/06/2008 7:28:18 PM Efranke, The article is suggesting that the "celebrate diversity" catch-cry an.....
» 30/05/2008 12:44:43 PM Matthew, thanks for your article and enthusiasm. The notion of language immersion in every.....
» 28/05/2008 6:01:04 PM Some posters keep asserting that a second-language school program distracts students from .....
» 5/03/2008 11:11:57 AM I agree with Tena. In a nutshell, the economy must be seen as nothing more than a tool to .....
» 24/02/2008 10:30:53 PM Romany and Rainier, That interesting jumbled passage from the Cambridge research was read.....
» 22/02/2008 4:10:49 PM Twenty years ago I persuaded the primary school in which I taught to let me teach the prog.....
» 22/02/2008 12:48:19 PM I tend to agree with most of what FrankGol says but I suggest that the reality of the teac.....
» 20/02/2008 7:12:57 PM I want to see some of the posters above take on the challenge set by Grey. He's shown you .....
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