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» 27/09/2011 5:01:40 PM [Deleted as off-topic.].....
» 27/09/2011 10:19:03 AM Re "traditional" values (etc) again. This in your face video clip is very much a.....
» 27/09/2011 10:09:42 AM Speaking of "traditionalists" and organized piracy too (and even "free".....
» 23/09/2011 8:46:35 AM Yes! This book provides a comprehensive overview of how China operates on the world stage,.....
» 20/09/2011 8:47:16 AM What a wishy-washy essay! This reference describes how the media works. It is especially .....
» 19/09/2011 12:56:27 PM Since the comments on this essay are now about the never-ending shouting match between sci.....
» 15/09/2011 5:06:31 PM There probably was a certain of coming together in the USA as a response to Sept 11. But n.....
» 15/09/2011 3:44:36 PM Meanwhile of course the "catholic" church claims, via its "magisterium".....
» 15/09/2011 8:50:43 AM Why do we call the Vatican the "holy" see. When in reality it is a vipers nest o.....
» 14/09/2011 11:53:05 AM "marriage" relationships have always been determined and shaped by economics and.....
» 14/09/2011 11:07:50 AM My the usual intolerant barbarians are predictably out in force again today. I found it t.....
» 13/09/2011 4:57:10 PM So Wendell Berry is a "reactionary" while George Bush and the various members of.....
» 13/09/2011 2:41:02 PM Its really quite simple. The politics of fear trumps everything else, every time. Those o.....
» 13/09/2011 9:03:44 AM Stephen is of course a senior journalist for the Oz "news"-paper.And one of its .....
» 13/09/2011 8:47:00 AM Speaking of cults and "working for god" too, why not check out this sight on an .....
» 8/09/2011 2:57:36 PM I really liked the point re how some people consider the Australian to be left-wing! And .....
» 31/08/2011 11:14:47 AM The author wrote : (making) "children subservient to adult emotional needs". Th.....
» 26/08/2011 10:43:18 AM Personally I have always suspected that the justifications for unlimited so called "f.....
» 24/08/2011 8:45:02 AM Nice essay. The author of this book has been arguing a similar case for years. http://www.....
» 15/08/2011 5:10:21 PM Never mind that Tony Blair is no longer the Prime Minister of the UK, but a private citize.....
» 15/08/2011 2:34:55 PM Regardless of his point of view what was interesting about this article was the context in.....
» 15/08/2011 1:08:41 PM My the barbarians are out in force today! Not Gym-Fish. Hooray for Martha. This has bee.....
» 9/08/2011 10:43:15 AM Australia does of course have a massive problem with feral animals of all kinds: pigs, cam.....
» 9/08/2011 9:19:47 AM Good stuff. It raises some important questions. This essay confirms the authors ideas. ht.....
» 8/08/2011 3:27:42 PM Or you will put in a bag and dumped at sea!.....
» 8/08/2011 1:58:42 PM I would suggest that the title of the book by the mad monk Tony Abbott points to the absen.....
» 8/08/2011 12:37:14 PM But where does the now toxic argument "culture" come from? I would suggest that.....
» 8/08/2011 11:38:51 AM Richard claims that the Fairfax media are completely humorous. Perhaps so! But with the e.....
» 27/07/2011 4:42:31 PM Actually when I chose my OLO name I was thinking of a pigs rear end as in pigs bottom (jus.....
» 27/07/2011 11:39:58 AM Perhaps so! But if you do a Google on the author you will find some interesting stuff abou.....
» 27/07/2011 8:57:48 AM [Abuse of author].....
» 26/07/2011 1:57:05 PM I made my criticism of the "emergent-church" movement on the basis of a familiar.....
» 26/07/2011 10:33:26 AM What an unfortunate title for this essay. Rupert is not being hacked in any sense whatsoev.....
» 25/07/2011 5:04:50 PM Re the "religion" of atheism and its now world-wide cultural program (or extensi.....
» 25/07/2011 3:23:41 PM Once we accept life within a technically mediated reality, we become less aware of anythin.....
» 25/07/2011 2:56:20 PM The message of TV: American Disneyland "culture" has become a commercial from wh.....
» 25/07/2011 2:33:47 PM Of course the most important all-consuming medium is TV. TV has quite literally "crea.....
» 25/07/2011 12:44:13 PM A further comment. Both John Shelby Spong and Matthew Fox are either uniformly ignored or .....
» 25/07/2011 12:28:08 PM Jesus of course was a Jew, a radical Spiritual Teacher who appeared and taught on the marg.....
» 22/07/2011 4:29:27 PM RPG It is really quite simple, the first war against Saddam Hussein was backed up by inter.....
» 22/07/2011 2:56:25 PM Amicus, speaking of wall to wall lies, how many lies did Howard tell us when he joined up .....
» 22/07/2011 2:50:51 PM Amicus, Can you really speak your mind in the Liberal party? How come NOT one single memb.....
» 22/07/2011 1:31:47 PM Kenny was of course correct. Allan writes regular columns for the OZ which is on the pub.....
» 22/07/2011 11:09:07 AM A good summary of the situation. It is truly laughable that this is the best that they co.....
» 22/07/2011 10:54:59 AM Yes business as usual has always been the way things work, but perhaps some minor changes .....
» 20/07/2011 6:52:33 PM Part 2 Please check out this profoundly sobering assessment of the state of the world in.....
» 20/07/2011 6:24:38 PM Great stuff from Geoff in Perth. There is nothing at all conservative about right-wing pol.....
» 20/07/2011 11:25:32 AM Seems like a reasonable enough assessment of the situation. This essay describes how the .....
» 19/07/2011 11:39:56 AM Yes a very accurate assessment of the situation that all of Earthkind is now in. This quo.....
» 19/07/2011 11:19:29 AM In her well researched and much foot-noted book This Little Kiddy went To Market: The Corp.....
» 14/07/2011 8:41:12 PM Jon J all of your posts say essentially the same thing over and over again. As such your i.....
» 14/07/2011 4:55:11 PM Col, never mind that EVERY-thing that you are, do, think, feel, purchase etc etc is a prod.....
» 14/07/2011 1:41:25 PM Yes everybody is religious including those that presume to be stridently anti-religious. A.....
» 14/07/2011 10:37:31 AM Seems like a balanced assessment of the situation to me. All political parties are motivat.....
» 13/07/2011 5:59:56 PM Please also find this assessment of the Wisdom-less dismal reductionism that now mis-infor.....
» 13/07/2011 12:58:01 PM Yes an interesting essay. It is a theme which is now being hotly debated in higher educati.....
» 22/06/2011 5:15:07 PM Lego, everybody is dissatisfied or frustrated and thus wishes that things could be differe.....
» 22/06/2011 12:54:11 PM If we followed Lego's "logic" to its inevitable conclusion we would have to abol.....
» 21/06/2011 11:13:12 AM Part 2. This essay from by favorite "tee-hugger" magazine by the ever marvellou.....
» 21/06/2011 11:03:28 AM Some good points - but. Lego, it is not the "tree-huggers" who are trashing the .....
» 14/06/2011 10:56:41 AM This must be one of the most unmitigated load of garbage that has ever been featured on OL.....
» 14/06/2011 8:55:23 AM Perhaps the suffering and killing of animals is a necessary lens through which to assess h.....
» 9/06/2011 2:29:03 PM Hooray for popnperish - he/she summed the situation up perfectly. Meanwhile there was an .....
» 6/06/2011 4:55:08 PM This is of course related to Fridays essay about how right-wing populist media functions. .....
» 3/06/2011 2:30:24 PM Speaking of USA populist zombie-land they even have their own Zombie Queen in the form of .....
» 3/06/2011 12:17:51 PM This essay describes how right-wing populist media works. http://www.dabase.org/popdisgu......
» 2/06/2011 5:58:47 PM There was a related item in todays news relative to this very important topic. Notably the.....
» 2/06/2011 5:53:05 PM Please find a completely different Understanding of the non-humans, and of killing too, vi.....
» 30/05/2011 9:30:11 AM Barack Obama has definitely been a disappointment. But does anyone think that he could hav.....
» 30/05/2011 8:51:10 AM An interesting foot-note to this topic. While browsing the other day I came across the fac.....
» 25/05/2011 11:12:43 AM For an in your face example of christian-ISM as uniformed militant intolerance why not try.....
» 25/05/2011 9:07:18 AM I much prefer this Understanding of the Universal, non-Christian, non-sectarian, Spirit-Br.....
» 23/05/2011 11:19:22 AM Ah the "good" book! Applied Christian history 101 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sp.....
» 19/05/2011 3:53:36 PM I basically agree with what Kellie has to say. But which state is the biggest terrorist of.....
» 19/05/2011 9:03:46 AM What a load garbage. Typical of the kind of simplistic straw-man nonsense that the Centre.....
» 17/05/2011 2:25:09 PM If you check out this chaps website - A Splinter in the Mind - you will find all of the us.....
» 17/05/2011 11:33:23 AM The facts, the facts, and nothing but the facts and all you need to know re the origins an.....
» 17/05/2011 11:20:12 AM Yes what is this rant about? It is a typical example of Ben's smarmy adolescent ignorance,.....
» 9/05/2011 9:00:11 AM My understanding of the CODEX is that it is an initiative sponsored and promoted by big PH.....
» 9/05/2011 8:48:59 AM My the barbarians are out in force today - first Matt Ridley now this one. Western ".....
» 6/05/2011 10:54:23 AM Yes an excellent essay. I would suggest that is also very much related to the posting by G.....
» 5/05/2011 4:02:06 PM Another oblique comment: Ah, John Howard the great humanitarian visionary and supposed &q.....
» 5/05/2011 9:09:18 AM The fact of the matter is is that we now all live in a multi-cultural world where everythi.....
» 4/05/2011 10:47:05 AM Once again of course in my usual pedantic fashion: the truth about applied christian-ISM 1.....
» 4/05/2011 10:29:26 AM Someone can be naively religious when young, and then, quite rightly, as part of the proce.....
» 3/05/2011 1:17:09 PM Spindoc, I would suggest that one has to first of be be very clear of the nature of the si.....
» 3/05/2011 10:44:05 AM How does one even begin to respond to this garbage. And yes Graham it IS garbage. It i.....
» 6/04/2011 10:37:30 AM What would you expect from an associate of the IPA? Meanwhile I much prefer the assessmen.....
» 29/03/2011 12:06:08 PM Our civilization is entirely secular, superficial, materialistic, outward and object direc.....
» 29/03/2011 11:26:59 AM I always find it amusing when anyone from the IPA (the home of one-dimensional man)prattle.....
» 29/03/2011 9:43:23 AM Of course Christianity was an integral player in the history of the West and by extension .....
» 24/03/2011 2:44:24 PM I basically agree with the contents of this essay. Re the motivations of right-wing religi.....
» 24/03/2011 2:02:09 PM I would argue that nobody really knows what to do about educating children and young peopl.....
» 14/03/2011 7:55:24 PM My oh my, look how all of the usual narrow minded curmudgeons have come out of the wood-wo.....
» 14/03/2011 7:49:45 PM Hooray for Evelyn. A good essay and summary of the situation which really has nothing wh.....
» 11/03/2011 2:14:31 PM Interesting choice of words in the title - "corrupted by public money". The OZ .....
» 11/03/2011 12:16:00 PM Yes Janet is an ignorant twit when it comes to social commentary - full of sound and fury .....
» 4/03/2011 11:35:20 AM Why is it that in 2011 we still manage to call this blood-soaked piece of real estate the .....
» 25/02/2011 2:35:49 PM Ben, your arguments, or more accurately rants, are as subtle as a sledge hammer. You have .....
» 25/02/2011 1:30:52 PM The great social problem of the present time is not the fragmentation of the family, which.....
» 25/02/2011 1:07:31 PM The usual Western Christian puritanical double-minded sexual script is full of essentially.....
» 23/02/2011 1:51:31 PM Hooray for Michael in Adelaide!.....
» 17/02/2011 4:30:48 PM Pericles. That adapted quote was taken from this essay on the Cosmic Mandala http://www.h.....
» 17/02/2011 3:06:15 PM This world IS, itself Unqualified Existence, Being, Consciousness, Intelligence, Love-Blis.....
» 17/02/2011 10:08:35 AM At last, and inevitably, the ancient exoteric rulerships have failed, and "official&q.....
» 17/02/2011 9:38:44 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 16/02/2011 3:46:12 PM A curious tale about the origins and consequences of the Bottom Line. Once upon a time th.....
» 16/02/2011 9:35:43 AM Yes more and more we are being driven by the imperative of the Bottom Line. The line draw.....
» 15/02/2011 3:39:11 PM The King (Hazza) has spoken therefore it must be so!.....
» 14/02/2011 3:59:14 PM At various times in my life, for one reason or another, I have had to have teeth pulled. O.....
» 12/02/2011 12:51:04 PM Yes if we can only get rid of all of these leftie parasites from the academy then we can g.....
» 12/02/2011 12:08:32 PM Work has nothing do do with the crisis in Western Civilization. Nor whether one is on the .....
» 12/02/2011 9:23:26 AM Modern conventional drugs and surgery medicine is very good at crisis intervention, patchi.....
» 11/02/2011 5:50:06 PM In my opinion John is one of the best public philosophers in Australia. His books are alwa.....
» 11/02/2011 4:44:11 PM Also check out references to a book titled Rediscovering Real Medicine by Dr Jean Elmiger .....
» 11/02/2011 4:29:38 PM My the barbarians ARE out in force today. Why not check out some work on the more than ho.....
» 10/02/2011 11:17:19 AM Julian may or may not be correct re his you aint seen nothing yet prediction re the weathe.....
» 10/02/2011 10:55:39 AM So feminism is a destructive ideology. How then do you account for the contents of these t.....
» 9/02/2011 3:48:47 PM More lines from the same essay: " There have always been insane human beings, but in.....
» 9/02/2011 3:14:51 PM My favorite Spiritual Philosopher has always pointed out that Western "civilization&q.....
» 9/02/2011 10:12:26 AM Oddly enough lots of Italian people seem to like, even admire him and his theatrics. I wo.....
» 9/02/2011 9:49:07 AM Of course it could be argued that rants like this are evidence of hysterical shouting by t.....
» 8/02/2011 2:55:00 PM The role and actions of the right-wing stink tanks (Des's ideological fellow travelers) in.....
» 7/02/2011 2:10:39 PM If the principle of telling the truth, and of being held accountable for both the intended.....
» 7/02/2011 12:21:10 PM Of course Des and the various people and outfits that he associates with and promotes do n.....
» 7/02/2011 12:10:02 PM All very well put. But what has Bill Muehlenberg got to do with the values and presumed t.....
» 20/01/2011 1:55:07 PM Clown fish why not try this essay and website: http://www.fearnomorezoo.org/literature/co.....
» 20/01/2011 11:24:29 AM Alan of course recently wrote an essay in the IPA Review in praise of Mad Men and how we s.....
» 20/01/2011 10:52:42 AM This essay tells us more about the author than about Bob Brown or what he believes and has.....
» 19/01/2011 9:48:06 AM I agree with Squeers. This rant WAS a hotch potch of bilge, especially the first half whic.....
» 15/01/2011 2:56:33 PM A picture says a thousand words - re the origins of the toxic emotions and vitriol describ.....
» 12/01/2011 5:25:42 PM Babette of course belongs to the same stable of propaganda hacks as Bill Muehlenberg where.....
» 10/01/2011 9:23:51 AM Science can of course be used to "prove" almost anything. It all depends on wher.....
» 7/01/2011 11:01:21 AM Whatever else can be said about the Jewish state of Israel is that it is essentially a wel.....
» 6/01/2011 7:54:21 AM In the case of the USA I would recommend the essay by Henry Giroux titled In the Twilight .....
» 5/01/2011 12:08:56 PM A foot note to my previous post. Art is always coincident with culture. Films in one form.....
» 5/01/2011 9:52:44 AM Great stuff. The trouble is is that we are an unconscious "Civilization" which.....
» 5/01/2011 7:52:00 AM I would suggest that to even begin to talk about peace in this part of the world we should.....
» 4/01/2011 2:41:30 PM Rubbish! Two more quotes from the same source: "True art heals. True art restores e.....
» 4/01/2011 1:35:54 PM Essays on the devastating inevitable applied politics of revenge and hatred (of both mom a.....
» 4/01/2011 11:51:13 AM Poor Sells - still stuck in the reductionist Victorian mortal meat-body "vision".....
» 30/12/2010 9:00:21 AM Speaking of the "catholic" church, many right-wing "catholics" are in .....
» 29/12/2010 9:54:22 AM Great stuff. A refreshing change to all the usual angular male stuff that gets featured on.....
» 21/12/2010 3:52:06 PM But if you REALLY read the "news" you will find that the entire world is dying u.....
» 21/12/2010 1:20:15 PM So what! As with with all neo-liberal propaganda hacks Oliver is incapable of seeing the B.....
» 21/12/2010 12:32:39 PM People such as Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole, John Pilger, George Monbiot, David Korten, the lat.....
» 17/12/2010 7:00:45 PM How Christian-ISM as a would be world conquering power and control seeking IDEOLOGY system.....
» 16/12/2010 8:35:40 PM Me-thinks AlGoreIsRich works for the "ministry of truth". Most of what he says i.....
» 16/12/2010 1:49:07 PM Wars have never been reported honestly - full stop. Once upon a time they were almost con.....
» 3/12/2010 7:42:36 PM The point of my comments are that to even to begin to understand what anyone has to say ab.....
» 3/12/2010 10:01:16 AM Unfortunately nobody really knows what the situation is, and certainly not the ordinary la.....
» 2/12/2010 10:49:30 AM The author made this blooper at the start of her essay which implies that she has made a t.....
» 30/11/2010 12:57:57 PM Energy is Eternal Delite (Light) declared Billy Blake. Old William Blake was one of the f.....
» 30/11/2010 10:12:23 AM Ah the much hyped "trinity". Has anybody ever seen this trinity? Where is the ph.....
» 25/11/2010 9:29:48 AM Chris Berg is not a conservative, he is a libertarian which is really a form of prolonged .....
» 25/11/2010 9:25:01 AM Herr or Chairman Bill has spoken therefore it must be so. Meanwhile why not check out thi.....
» 23/11/2010 12:13:04 PM So art is about left-wing communist propaganda is it? Are you channeling Goebbels? The Ge.....
» 23/11/2010 11:55:42 AM Why has there been such unmitigated nastiness in response to this essay? After all she is.....
» 19/11/2010 8:25:03 AM Did Howard really make much of the principle of "mutual responsibility", and for.....
» 18/11/2010 11:40:09 AM Has anyone ever noticed how people on the right of the culture wars divide are always accu.....
» 18/11/2010 8:01:19 AM Perhaps the two previous opinions would prefer Sarah Palin as President of the USA?.....
» 17/11/2010 7:42:12 AM As far as I can make out this is a good summary of the situation. Meanwhile why not check.....
» 12/11/2010 9:19:27 AM Meanwhile it even gets worse. Check out a reference re John Shimkus at Informed Consent. I.....
» 11/11/2010 9:34:20 AM Yes Ludwig I agree. There was an essay titled Populate and Perish? in the OZ on Monday b.....
» 10/11/2010 2:01:37 PM One wonders which century or even millennia Richie 10 lives in to write such a comment. Pe.....
» 9/11/2010 9:24:10 AM Yes the USA body politic could do with some soothing/healing honey balm. Of course you fin.....
» 8/11/2010 10:18:36 AM I used to subscribe to the Co-Evolution Quarterly and purchased The Whole Earth Catalog to.....
» 8/11/2010 8:16:50 AM Interesting choice of words scattered throughout this article which masquerades as being b.....
» 4/11/2010 5:03:10 PM This quote from Culture Against Man by Jules Henry (1962) sums up the situation we are in......
» 4/11/2010 3:53:27 PM Someone throws a shoe at John Howard in an obviously humorous gesture, and all of the righ.....
» 4/11/2010 7:39:19 AM For the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth re the legacy that the war criminal How.....
» 2/11/2010 8:07:13 AM Sin is active denial of, and dissociation from The Divine Condition. Sin is the worst can.....
» 1/11/2010 3:02:17 PM Christianity does not even have a fully comprehensive model of what we are as human beings.....
» 29/10/2010 10:07:32 AM Every body wants to use reason to either prove or disprove the existence of The Beautiful .....
» 27/10/2010 3:52:02 PM And of course the cargo cult has failed for many people in the USA. And what we are seeing.....
» 27/10/2010 9:47:07 AM Speaking of cargo cults, our entire "culture" is essentially a cargo cult. The.....
» 25/10/2010 2:28:23 PM Hardly anybody in the world has a workable plan B. Although world-wide lots of small gro.....
» 25/10/2010 1:08:09 PM But then again Runner everything described in this reference was done by self-righteous tr.....
» 25/10/2010 1:00:53 PM "common sense" written in the scriptures! The "resurrection of christ&quo.....
» 21/10/2010 6:00:44 PM Speaking of conspiracies, that is the process of breathing with others, why not Google: de.....
» 21/10/2010 10:29:01 AM Of course this entire circus event comes straight out of the modern now dominant tradition.....
» 19/10/2010 10:27:21 AM The process described by the author has been going on for countless thousands of years in .....
» 15/10/2010 2:20:16 PM There is/was a very funny play titled The Vagina Monologues. I am sure that if anyone tr.....
» 15/10/2010 10:20:05 AM This essay is a typical example of how anti-abortionists love to be hysterical drama queen.....
» 14/10/2010 4:41:37 PM This author has some very interesting and challenging things to say about what happens in .....
» 14/10/2010 4:36:26 PM Water is now sold as a commodity, the buyers and sellers of which do not even have to use .....
» 12/10/2010 6:59:05 PM Shrode: There are currently about 7 billion human beings on the planet. The human species .....
» 12/10/2010 6:34:11 PM Of course Des belongs to the same Quadrant sponsored school of open minds that includes Da.....
» 12/10/2010 3:52:18 PM But we live in a profoundly sub-human essentially psychotic "culture". Most of r.....
» 12/10/2010 3:35:07 PM This is not a place for anyone to be righteous about anything. We are all entirely mortal .....
» 12/10/2010 3:12:03 PM Tony Abbott IS a blunder-buss. The title of his book should be Battle Lines or My Blunder.....
» 12/10/2010 2:15:57 PM What a hoot. A propaganda hack writing for Quadrant magazine complaining or writing about .....
» 6/10/2010 7:56:43 PM Of course those that argue for a classless society have NO class, as in classy. This is e.....
» 24/09/2010 1:25:53 PM Love Comes To Here In Time, and Numbers All the Things of Beauty In the House. Only Light .....
» 22/09/2010 8:24:23 PM Almost every body on the planet is now dependent on the viability of the one inter-connect.....
» 22/09/2010 2:59:19 PM Adam Smith was of course primarily a moral philosopher and as such he would probably agree.....
» 22/09/2010 1:34:05 PM A good essay which sums up the situation of the world altogether. Peter has obviously don.....
» 20/09/2010 10:36:24 AM Speaking of Hitler, the nazis and the Holocaust, many right-wing "catholics" wer.....
» 17/09/2010 11:06:32 AM Newman was obviously a remarkable man but he was not a Saint. This exercise in making him .....
» 15/09/2010 2:40:36 PM Be careful what you pray for! Anyone who thinks the "populist" Tea Party or Sar.....
» 15/09/2010 10:10:43 AM And of course the empty vessels or the hollow men at the IPA are very much in favor of the.....
» 14/09/2010 2:06:30 PM Real education is the process of getting to the root of what human existence is about. In .....
» 14/09/2010 1:52:45 PM I was a bit over the top in my statement re what I was taught in school. All films, even .....
» 14/09/2010 11:24:18 AM What an interesting choice of name: The Frontier Institute. The inevitable result of the .....
» 14/09/2010 10:59:15 AM These two references give a completely different Understanding of the non-humans as natura.....
» 14/09/2010 10:33:54 AM the phrase "verbose empty vessel" is a very apt summary of all the self-importan.....
» 11/09/2010 12:29:36 PM Why the presumption that only the "left" are full of self-righteousness, and are.....
» 9/09/2010 5:56:52 PM Jardine Radical or Real Politics for ordinary people. http://www.dabase.org/radicpol.ht.....
» 9/09/2010 2:16:08 PM Of course the simplistic and false rantings of Goldberg are much favored and promoted over.....
» 9/09/2010 2:08:45 PM "At last, and inevitably, the ancient exoteric rulerships have failed, and "offi.....
» 9/09/2010 1:49:08 PM Why is it in this day and age, that when ever anyone turns or returns to religion, they al.....
» 9/09/2010 11:50:29 AM This essay is really just an exercise in sophistry. The on the ground reality produced b.....
» 9/09/2010 8:55:08 AM Is this our weekly comedy segment?.....
» 8/09/2010 12:32:40 PM These essays give an Illuminated Understanding of the all important relation between relig.....
» 8/09/2010 12:02:02 PM It is interesting that Sells used the word DOGMA in the title of this essay. What has dog.....
» 6/09/2010 2:52:59 PM Why do so many people loathe Geoff Davies? His book Economia is easily the best and most .....
» 2/09/2010 12:46:56 PM Yes a well reasoned balanced essay. How can we even begin to have a rational politics (if.....
» 30/08/2010 10:57:42 AM An interesting essay altogether. But like everyone else the author does not have any real .....
» 27/08/2010 10:05:05 AM Aldous Huxley also studied at and graduated from Balliol College. He wrote both Brave New.....
» 27/08/2010 8:57:11 AM Yes get over the Rudd being deposed syndrome. The ruling party can change its leader ever.....
» 25/08/2010 3:50:36 PM Speaking of faceless men again. What about the behind the scenes faceless men who orches.....
» 25/08/2010 10:27:01 AM Speaking of faceless men and women, this syndrome was illustrated during the Howard years .....
» 20/08/2010 9:17:54 AM Being pedantic again I would suggest that the recent Avatar film was a necessary parable f.....
» 19/08/2010 9:41:12 PM Great essay. Orion Magazine http://www.orionmagazine.org has been telling us this for yea.....
» 19/08/2010 9:28:51 PM It is really quite simple. Every environmental problem all over the world is essentially .....
» 19/08/2010 10:45:35 AM Being a tedious bore as usual, this image sums up Tony's world-view--or rather formative e.....
» 18/08/2010 12:55:27 PM Of course Bill is also a featured blogger over at Quadrant where his uni-dimensional rants.....
» 16/08/2010 5:25:12 PM Kenny and I make two brief comments re the turpitude of this vacuous rant. Kenny's being.....
» 16/08/2010 2:59:29 PM The only thing that this essay proves is how dreadful Quadrant has really become--especial.....
» 13/08/2010 2:28:35 PM On the primacy or perhaps onliness of emotions. All the possible kinds of actual or poten.....
» 13/08/2010 1:26:40 PM Of course Gary was or is a fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, the applied politics.....
» 13/08/2010 11:58:08 AM My very favorite book on how emotions are the only things that matter in politics is Betwe.....
» 13/08/2010 11:05:32 AM Meanwhile the Howard Center promotes the American apple pie myth of the freedom loving, se.....
» 13/08/2010 9:09:57 AM Natural families and "normal" sexuality? I much prefer the contents of this ess.....
» 12/08/2010 10:27:58 AM Obviously a silly title. The trouble is is that like everybody else, Christians are cripp.....
» 11/08/2010 2:16:33 PM This is interesting. Today I received an email/newsletter from a USA right-wing "ca.....
» 11/08/2010 2:07:43 PM A good essay, especially as this topic is currently part of the shouting match in the USA .....
» 11/08/2010 11:48:03 AM Yes the Christian vote is quite complex. But Wisdom barely enters the picture in what Mar.....
» 10/08/2010 10:31:20 AM Arjay,with respect to an investigation to what really happened on Sept 11 I would not be a.....
» 9/08/2010 10:37:18 AM Well said Geoff. Of course it is alright for the Oz Christian lobby to put "moral&qu.....
» 4/08/2010 6:30:00 PM If I remember rightly Philip Tang is a right-wing propaganda hack for the Sydney Anglicans.....
» 4/08/2010 4:11:14 PM Men are angular. Women are spherical. If you paint women, you paint the entire universe. .....
» 30/07/2010 1:53:37 PM Of course one of the most controversial bits of recent Christian propaganda, and hence the.....
» 30/07/2010 1:26:27 PM Some assorted one liners and paragraphs too, re our inherent urge to self-transcending ecs.....
» 30/07/2010 1:00:44 PM What is usually promoted and defended as religion in our age is only the most superficial .....
» 30/07/2010 11:11:54 AM At last, and inevitably, the ancient exoteric rulerships have failed, and "official&q.....
» 26/07/2010 4:19:25 PM And of course our very own Australian christian lobby is essentially Calvinist through and.....
» 26/07/2010 4:07:10 PM Great stuff. Such indisputable facts are of course always conveniently ignored, or justifi.....
» 23/07/2010 4:03:03 PM Of course ALL of the "skeptics" and their many backers would have supported the .....
» 23/07/2010 1:41:40 PM It really has nothing to do with "skepticism". And certainly nothing to do with .....
» 12/07/2010 11:23:25 AM Yes and the Pentagon is also a major producer of bang-bang-you-are-dead video games for yo.....
» 10/07/2010 11:00:11 AM I vote for the Greens because they are the only political movement which asks real questio.....
» 7/07/2010 11:42:40 AM The "resurrection" of the body--which body is going to be resurrected? A toddle.....
» 7/06/2010 12:01:14 PM Of course the key to understanding the situation in Israel/Palestine and the entire Middle.....
» 31/05/2010 11:42:44 AM Re the origins of the entirely worldly power and control seeking "religion" call.....
» 31/05/2010 10:52:52 AM These three reference provide a unique understanding of the now world dominant ideology of.....
» 25/05/2010 8:53:52 AM But some of the quietly in the background environmental organizations have been communicat.....
» 24/05/2010 11:26:35 AM The trouble is, is that corporations now rule the world, and almost everything that we do,.....
» 21/05/2010 10:41:57 AM I find that the very last sentence is the key to this topic. Men should take responsibil.....
» 20/05/2010 11:45:02 AM Yes I agree that the pill has altogether been bad news. Yes this will be, and is the favo.....
» 20/05/2010 11:11:00 AM Yes what is unique about the Oz and NZ is that they feature the emblem of another country .....
» 17/05/2010 12:39:10 PM I am in the process of reading a marvelous book titled Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt. It.....
» 17/05/2010 12:00:21 PM Some good points in this article, but the entire world is in deep trouble, not just Greece.....
» 14/05/2010 10:13:18 AM Of course the purpose of the ID movement is fundamentally about politics and not at all ab.....
» 13/05/2010 3:36:44 PM Mac: Of course Bruce Thornton is a fully paid up subscriber to the never-ending war on ter.....
» 13/05/2010 10:15:07 AM Yes it is an interesting essay but of what relevance are the dreadful politics pf the anci.....
» 12/05/2010 2:25:57 PM Why isnt it completely obvious that sooner or late, in a finite world, we human beings wil.....
» 8/05/2010 11:14:12 AM Re Coming To Our Senses & the regeneration of culture. If you have no Pleasure Dome, you .....
» 7/05/2010 12:47:11 PM There is no conspiracy--just a vast historical power and control seeking PATTERN, patterni.....
» 6/05/2010 10:17:31 AM Meanwhile there was no real systematic infrastructure planning or expenditure by the Howar.....
» 21/04/2010 1:55:41 PM What a refreshing change, especially compared to the usual christian attempts to reconcile.....
» 20/04/2010 10:47:24 AM Yes western power and control seeking technocratic man rules--OK. Lewis Mumford wrote ext.....
» 19/04/2010 10:25:57 AM Perhaps some parents do need to be "parented". Though relatively minor in the s.....
» 14/04/2010 11:04:25 AM Oh and I forgot--all of this murder and plundering was justified as being part of "go.....
» 14/04/2010 10:19:22 AM This is apparently what passes for "informed" poltical and cultural anal-ysis by.....
» 9/04/2010 3:04:22 PM Crossing the line---interesting choice of words. Who gets to define the line? The commis.....
» 6/04/2010 12:56:32 PM In this day and age the entire human world is now ruled by the point of view of scientific.....
» 6/04/2010 10:27:53 AM The "creation" Museum aint faith. It is pig-headed no nothing ignorance. It is e.....
» 29/03/2010 6:22:44 PM I found the essay titled A Personal Issue: The Catholic Church Scandal by John Cory over a.....
» 29/03/2010 10:45:20 AM I read the said article by Christopher Hitchens, and agreed with it. It was a good example.....
» 29/03/2010 9:58:40 AM The subtitle of this nonsense contained references to the power and competition, plus plea.....
» 26/03/2010 4:07:38 PM Jon, whatever else the Theosophists may or may not have done, they were one of the early g.....
» 26/03/2010 12:21:58 PM Where oh where is Runner?.....
» 19/03/2010 9:39:25 AM When someone (any one) starts talking about pseudo-science you immediately know that they .....
» 18/03/2010 11:28:34 AM Yes REXV the rant by Phillips was strident, and awful, and ignorant too. This was publishe.....
» 15/03/2010 10:21:49 AM Notice too that "heritage" is very much associated with the murdochracy describe.....
» 15/03/2010 9:58:43 AM The first thing to remember is that Saint Jesus of Galilee was NOT a social worker, nor di.....
» 15/03/2010 9:43:51 AM Do we really need the opinion of a Heritage Foundation propaganda hack. The "heritag.....
» 11/03/2010 12:35:49 PM Of course Johns is also a clone and propaganda hack for the IPA (the institute of hollow m.....
» 4/03/2010 4:05:12 PM Speaking of religion and terror/horror, as far as I know a priest "blessed" the .....
» 4/03/2010 3:44:54 PM Speaking of vampires I love this image. The vampire thus depicted sucking the life out of.....
» 4/03/2010 11:52:46 AM The book VAMPIRE GOD by Mary Hallab gives a superb analysis of the relation between vampir.....
» 4/03/2010 9:40:16 AM Yes! One of the best books written on this topic, or how this situation came to be, was/i.....
» 3/03/2010 10:40:11 AM Everybody likes to use the word conservative but what does it really mean---Russ Limbaugh .....
» 2/03/2010 12:04:46 PM JP how then do you explain the continuing horror story of christian his-story prior to the.....
» 1/03/2010 1:06:07 PM Try to destroy nature, wilderness and the Green Domain which was here first (upon which al.....
» 1/03/2010 12:23:13 PM The truth about christianity as a power and control seeking killer meme--as advocated by r.....
» 25/02/2010 11:16:36 AM Leave It To Beaver "personified" the One Dimensional Man which was the then ruli.....
» 18/02/2010 12:02:57 PM continued: The creationist/rationalist debate is a public theatre of ego-based power game.....
» 18/02/2010 11:33:31 AM The never-ending arguments between exoteric religionists and advocates of scientism are no.....
» 18/02/2010 10:58:02 AM I have to disagree. The trouble is is that we have been relentlessly propagandized into p.....
» 12/02/2010 9:11:08 AM What about Sarah Palin and her "message" to the Tea Party protestors who pretend.....
» 11/02/2010 12:56:46 PM Yes, I have a book in front of me titled: The Coming China Wars by Peter Navarro. Altoget.....
» 11/02/2010 12:44:38 PM My comment re Andrew the DOLT was a sarcastic criticism.The Dolt belongs in the same rat-i.....
» 10/02/2010 12:30:27 PM Ah yes--Andrew Bolt as a source of deeply considered discriminative intelligence! Re the g.....
» 10/02/2010 9:53:26 AM Why do people on the right spend so much time criticizing Robert Manne? I find him to be.....
» 8/02/2010 12:33:33 PM What has the history of the "martyrs", whether in recent or in ancient times, go.....
» 4/02/2010 11:39:57 AM Child pornography is horrible. This comment is not exactly about child pornography, but i.....
» 4/02/2010 10:33:53 AM The images featured on Sells post are horrible. The image of a tortured body nailed to a c.....
» 3/02/2010 9:36:57 AM This reference provides all the information one needs to understand the history of Haiti a.....
» 2/02/2010 3:06:01 PM He is exactly write on his insistence that we can only even begin to understand the Bible .....
» 20/01/2010 3:27:26 PM That having been said, yes the Chinese have been able to take a really long view of things.....
» 20/01/2010 3:07:45 PM From my usual source. ".....The only means by which the West was able to pursue its .....
» 14/01/2010 10:29:52 AM This essay also addresses what a Truly Human and humanizing culture would be based on--tha.....
» 14/01/2010 10:14:44 AM Ah yes let the Barbaric Heart and techno-"man" rule, and hence inevitably destro.....
» 14/01/2010 9:58:17 AM What a perverse degrading use of the word avatar, the significance of which is fully descr.....
» 11/01/2010 6:09:02 PM This heavy weight dude is supposed to be one of the leading propagandists for the so calle.....
» 11/01/2010 3:43:40 PM Speaking of banks and peoples banks, or the pros and cons of various banking systems. And .....
» 8/01/2010 2:10:31 PM Poor Arjay, he is so obsessed and committed to his one-dimensional adolescent "libert.....
» 8/01/2010 11:44:17 AM Michael, Do no be so harsh on Peter, besides which you have no idea as to what he does alt.....
» 6/01/2010 9:47:07 AM Why should you be upset because Robin Williams quite rightly criticizes, and makes fun of,.....
» 6/01/2010 9:27:11 AM What a refreshing change. An article which is unambiguously positive. In some sense the m.....
» 29/12/2009 2:02:11 PM Unfortunately this scenario is entirely possible. The book Pandemonium by Andrew Nikiforu.....
» 29/12/2009 1:57:41 PM Meanwhile we whiteys stole the entire continent from the "aborigines". And most .....
» 29/12/2009 1:51:14 PM Christ-mas, or the re-appearance of the Light is/was an appropriation by Christians of the.....
» 26/12/2009 8:21:13 AM Hermanyutic--a further quote re how Adi Da perceives everything. "Through the bodily.....
» 24/12/2009 12:25:09 PM These words spoken 10 years ago by my favourite Spiritual "philosopher". ".....
» 24/12/2009 11:37:55 AM It is also interesting that many right-wing catholics who otherwise think that Benedict (s.....
» 24/12/2009 11:13:38 AM Yes Ben specializes in crap. Why does Online Opinion continue to feature him. He never ha.....
» 24/12/2009 11:08:28 AM Simon is obviously not very smart. Because the "religion" and the "creator.....
» 22/12/2009 8:38:07 PM Four paragraphs from the person who created and inspired the Zoo in my previous post. The.....
» 22/12/2009 10:33:11 AM Sophistry all the way down the line. What a joke to write: "human use of the environ.....
» 18/12/2009 12:15:13 PM Unfortunately for all of us this will probably be the case, especially if "business a.....
» 18/12/2009 11:31:25 AM Who is distorting the truth? And who is driven by ideology--and yet pretends not to be. T.....
» 14/12/2009 2:18:10 PM But this is not a uniquely characteristic of Australia. It occurs in most, but not all, pl.....
» 11/12/2009 10:39:49 AM And the solution! To create a human sanctuary for higher adaptation and the ultimate tran.....
» 11/12/2009 10:24:58 AM A possible explanation as to why we as a species altogether deem it necessary to reproduce.....
» 8/12/2009 9:41:50 AM Of course the "skeptics" have been very clever in their use of the word skeptic......
» 4/12/2009 12:09:57 PM continued: "The "old view" did not rightly represent Reality-Truth---but n.....
» 4/12/2009 11:46:41 AM Poor Sells--he is unconsciously trapped in the "world"-view created at the time .....
» 2/12/2009 7:27:04 AM I quite like the Understanding of the non-humans communicated in this essay and website. .....
» 27/11/2009 7:47:24 AM The availability of relatively cheap abundant food is something that we all take for grant.....
» 19/11/2009 11:04:02 AM Rants like this just show how pathetic Quadrant has become in recent years, especially wit.....
» 24/09/2009 1:02:32 PM Hooray for Kellie. I quite like these two references which are very much about standing u.....
» 17/09/2009 10:19:15 AM Ah yes the "university" of Buckingham. Another link in the world-wide network of.....
» 14/09/2009 11:39:07 AM The Black Adder summed all of this in his classic exclamation: utter crap! Mono-theism is.....
» 11/09/2009 1:39:04 PM Such people are given high honours in the USA. Robert Oppenheimer who was the "father.....
» 11/09/2009 10:41:37 AM I wonder what the people that design all of our hi-tech weapons such as nuclear bombs, clu.....
» 10/09/2009 10:34:28 AM Has anyone noticed the interesting juxtaposition here. This is an essay re the topic of su.....
» 10/09/2009 10:27:34 AM Of course we dreadfully sane Westerners are not into suicide bombing--are we. We use unma.....
» 4/09/2009 6:26:10 PM Yes and this "love"-revolution is being promoted by essentially the same self-ri.....
» 4/09/2009 6:07:33 PM Here is an interesting essay which, among other things, describes the effort to encircle, .....
» 3/09/2009 11:52:22 AM Of course such gross street level advertising campaigns reduce "Jesus" to anothe.....
» 1/09/2009 10:20:25 AM This is a simplification but everyone conveniently forgets that the founder of what is now.....
» 21/08/2009 6:26:25 PM The pre-contact culture of the aborigines may or may not have been brutal or completely aw.....
» 21/08/2009 6:11:49 PM It seems to me that the point about criticizing the "catholic" church re its chi.....
» 20/08/2009 9:10:45 AM Yes some how in the scheme of things I get sent an obnoxious newsletter Inside "catho.....
» 19/08/2009 3:46:58 PM Sells tells us that the "theological problem of modernity has yet to be completely ar.....
» 17/08/2009 12:46:42 PM The webpage url was a reference to This Little Kiddy Went To Market by Sharon Beder. Spea.....
» 17/08/2009 12:31:56 PM And this is supposed to be an informed comment by a scientist who perhaps knows his stuff......
» 15/08/2009 8:05:56 PM Ah yes the USA medal of freedom. It has been given to all kinds of people for all kinds o.....
» 14/08/2009 11:46:42 AM Always remember that your inherent heart-disposition wants and needs Infinite, Absolute, T.....
» 13/08/2009 11:04:00 AM Very good essay. I checked out David's website too. It is hard to believe that he was a m.....
» 11/08/2009 12:22:40 PM It is not only books about Anzac that are being published, there is a huge and growing ind.....
» 7/08/2009 11:13:59 AM In Truth, and demonstrated throughout their HIS-stories, both Islam and Christianity have .....
» 7/08/2009 10:48:33 AM Is that the minister for very dark shadows? Because there is seldom, if ever, any light,.....
» 5/08/2009 12:55:31 PM So some think that Vandava can be dismissed as a nit-wit dreamer. All I can say is check o.....
» 5/08/2009 12:47:50 PM This dumbing down of everything in the USA was predicted by Alexis De Tocqueville in his c.....
» 5/08/2009 10:13:13 AM Yes. There are many books etc which describe and chronicle this decline into a dark age. O.....
» 29/07/2009 7:54:54 PM These two images (accessed from Mumford's The Pentagon of Power)give a stark description o.....
» 29/07/2009 3:24:22 PM Speaking of laughter and human understanding why not read this essay. http://www.beezone......
» 29/07/2009 10:43:36 AM Speaking of what we as human beings, double helixs, the search for knowledge, and the limi.....
» 29/07/2009 10:29:49 AM I agree with Godo. OLO is heavily biased towards the ideas promoted by right wing think t.....
» 23/07/2009 3:11:14 PM Dishonest atheists--no doubt about that. But what about dishonest power and control seeki.....
» 23/07/2009 2:38:02 PM ALWAYS remember that your inherent heart-disposition wants and needs Infinite, Absolute, T.....
» 20/07/2009 9:17:49 PM The "catholic" church at the time was rotten to the core and needed a revolution.....
» 20/07/2009 8:34:34 PM Speaking of Truth these sets of essays provide a unique template for the assessment of eve.....
» 17/07/2009 7:35:20 PM Of course Sarah Palin was championed by such stalwarts of well reasoned argument, and deep.....
» 17/07/2009 12:18:30 PM Curmudgeon. Those who oppose GM "foods" and therefore propose organic and natu.....
» 17/07/2009 10:55:50 AM Yes, and as a corollary to the authors first point about being accused of supporting genoc.....
» 17/07/2009 10:30:07 AM Yes but does what is taught as religion, especially the kind of essentially dim-witted rel.....
» 15/07/2009 11:02:52 AM One of my English born girl friends used to use the word bollocks --which is a completely .....
» 11/07/2009 11:33:41 AM These two related references provide a unique perspective on the method of science as open.....
» 30/06/2009 12:56:14 PM The fundamental human urge and need is not gross in its nature. The fundamental human urg.....
» 30/06/2009 12:41:55 PM The first half of this essay was good---the second half is unmitigated drivel. Convention.....
» 22/06/2009 5:57:19 PM Some reflections on the "culture" that Ronald obviously champions. A global tra.....
» 22/06/2009 11:35:18 AM Another IPA, CIS, (totally dead heart)Heartland Institute clone speaks, therefore it must .....
» 19/06/2009 6:50:54 PM Once again this excellent book describes the extraordinary complexity re all of the world-.....
» 19/06/2009 10:43:55 AM Hooray for Sharon? There are many reasons why. One was because she published a book titl.....
» 18/06/2009 3:40:42 PM Following on from the logic of the brutalists why dont we close most of the universities d.....
» 18/06/2009 12:57:23 PM The nay-saying brutalists are out in force today!.....
» 17/06/2009 9:05:49 PM I came across this book last week. Tt was a real eye opener---the eye of informed awarenes.....
» 17/06/2009 5:55:07 PM These two very stark images also express the power mad barbaric and psychotic world-view o.....
» 17/06/2009 4:52:12 PM This reference sums up the world-view and "culture" that the Heart(less)land Ins.....
» 17/06/2009 11:26:33 AM I agree with Ozymandias. Most righteous so called conservatives such as Abbott are really .....
» 17/06/2009 10:21:54 AM Check out the first letter re Costello in the letters section of the Australian today--not.....
» 2/06/2009 11:28:45 AM continued: "Exoteric scientism achieves physically effective control over human popu.....
» 2/06/2009 11:07:41 AM I see that Wing is a true believer in the ideology of scientism or scientific materialism-.....
» 29/05/2009 11:30:58 AM Actually there are three perennial problems or realities. The third is, what to do with p.....
» 25/05/2009 5:52:40 PM Would you send your children to a Sunday or religious school where this nonsense is taught.....
» 25/05/2009 5:23:51 PM I find that these two related references address this question with unique clarity. http:.....
» 19/05/2009 12:52:26 PM This reference gives a unique Understanding of the role of science as a method of free enq.....
» 14/05/2009 1:49:50 PM It seems to me that Valerie is essentially correct. This organization has been keeping tr.....
» 12/05/2009 7:19:12 PM For the truth about Margaret Thatcher why not Google: The First Post Neil Clark Dont Belie.....
» 5/05/2009 5:49:54 PM Yes its probably true that all of the silent micro-invaders will take us down. There are .....
» 1/05/2009 4:26:30 PM And this is what passes for "informed" opinion by those on the right side of the.....
» 27/04/2009 12:23:52 PM Cheryl asks "what do the Greens think"? Such is not a real question but a rheto.....
» 27/04/2009 11:55:34 AM The base line paramater for assessing population growth, sustainability, and most importan.....
» 24/04/2009 11:33:56 AM These are the secrets of the Kingdom of God taught by Saint Jesus of Galilee while he was .....
» 24/04/2009 10:46:20 AM What Sells apparently doesnt understand is that he is totally convicted of the mortalist &.....
» 24/04/2009 10:11:38 AM Oh yes we are the ones that suffered and became the victims! The nightmare that was the A.....
» 23/04/2009 10:16:06 AM I would suggest that before anyone starts debating the future of the economy and everythin.....
» 20/04/2009 1:19:01 PM There is a quote from the founder of the Bahai Faith in the window of their Glenferrie sho.....
» 20/04/2009 12:49:25 PM Good essay altogether, and yes it is time that we threw away all of the usual institutiona.....
» 11/04/2009 5:04:04 PM Why not check out this two reference on the Truth Out site re the real (and always) nature.....
» 10/04/2009 3:55:40 PM If you walking through the woods today you might come across a teddy bears picnic. In fact.....
» 9/04/2009 3:39:15 PM What is the great calling of Jesus? To FIRST love the Lord thy god with all of ones heart.....
» 9/04/2009 12:37:20 PM It is true. Much of the trouble in the world IS caused by benighted GODLESS exoteric relig.....
» 8/04/2009 9:35:34 AM Runner tells us that the "socialist" press is incapable of not vilifying. If yo.....
» 6/04/2009 12:18:56 PM Perhaps if this twit read books such as When Corporations Ruled the World by David Korten .....
» 3/04/2009 2:45:24 PM So who do you call a "strong" politician? Someone who is not going to blink whe.....
» 3/04/2009 1:20:59 PM In Truth and Reality the disaster has already happened, and nobody has a clue as to what t.....
» 30/03/2009 3:34:58 PM Sells--why do you think Jesus was executed? Because he was a threat to the worldly power .....
» 30/03/2009 10:32:30 AM Right life is ecstatic mindless participation in unboundless feeling-radiance. Poor Sells.....
» 26/03/2009 4:11:14 PM Trav, Methinks you really ought to read by blog reference Common Sense Atheism re the geno.....
» 25/03/2009 8:18:46 PM Speaking of "abrahamic" right and wrong I quite like this reference and what it .....
» 25/03/2009 9:52:32 AM The first thing we have to understand that none of these faiths has anything to do with Re.....
» 24/03/2009 12:06:22 PM One wonders how much intelligence the author really has when he (right from the start) use.....
» 24/03/2009 11:52:01 AM Who is the "new class" or those that REALLY control what goes on in Australia an.....
» 20/03/2009 12:14:07 PM What a strange response from Leigh. This topic is arguably one of the most important issu.....
» 20/03/2009 9:48:59 AM Mister Cook and his usual "righteous" politics of binary exclusions. Mister Coo.....
» 16/03/2009 12:02:52 PM What a load of rubbish! It is interesting to note that Marxists and Randian "objectiv.....
» 13/03/2009 10:22:14 AM I much prefer the perspectives on "free" trade presented in the book The Case Ag.....
» 13/03/2009 9:55:36 AM Great stuff. I particularly liked his comments re Chifley and his predictions re the futur.....
» 11/03/2009 9:31:19 AM The appearance of a few or even many "free"-thinkers will not make the slightest.....
» 9/03/2009 12:01:15 PM The difference is is that the catholic (universal?) church, via the "Magisterium".....
» 9/03/2009 11:22:11 AM Perhaps there is something useful here, but nobody really knows what to do because we now .....
» 6/03/2009 12:49:06 PM Here is a sinister and unfortunately, highly plausible, way to deal with the over-populati.....
» 6/03/2009 12:42:14 PM Dammed if you do and dammed if you dont? Perhaps this reference could provide some pointe.....
» 27/02/2009 12:52:16 PM Perhaps they are correct. My favourite "philosopher" asserts that we should rapi.....
» 27/02/2009 12:28:47 PM Poor Sells, if he was any more solid he would be like a rock. Plus his writings have as mu.....
» 27/02/2009 9:51:48 AM Right life is conscious participation in boundless Radiance. Yes indeed, Christianity sta.....
» 26/02/2009 10:01:59 AM Universal health care begins with self-responsibility. Being responsible for what you put.....
» 25/02/2009 11:47:15 AM Speaking of Red and Blue pills, I am obviously referring to the Matrix Trilogy. Agent Smi.....
» 25/02/2009 11:03:54 AM Yes, but how do we incarnate an ecological consciousness? Especially when the current co.....
» 21/02/2009 8:46:05 AM Speaking of the vision thing, John Howard and George Bush used to tell us that they werent.....
» 20/02/2009 11:28:20 AM This reference describes the nature of the technocratic "culture" that now domin.....
» 20/02/2009 11:19:03 AM Yes I think Kevin is trying to articulate a vision of what the collective good-life might .....
» 20/02/2009 10:54:51 AM From by favourite Spiritual "philosopher"---re the inherent totalitarian nature .....
» 17/02/2009 3:59:47 PM ALL of the usual arguments are primitive power efforts. And all of them are thoroughly b.....
» 17/02/2009 9:59:03 AM It all goes back to, or rather extends, in every present moment, from trees. Doesnt it. .....
» 12/02/2009 2:18:16 PM This is good up to a point. Unfortunately it reduces religion and by extension all of cul.....
» 12/02/2009 12:54:06 PM Following on from the other comments and particularly those of jpw2040 one of the distingu.....
» 11/02/2009 10:46:30 AM Meanwhile some of the most strident supporters of the never-ending "war on terror&quo.....
» 11/02/2009 9:49:46 AM Fighting to build peace?.....
» 10/02/2009 9:22:31 AM This is a typical example of the sort of facile rubbish that Berg specialises in.....
» 6/02/2009 1:17:42 PM And this is supposed to be what passes for an "intelligent" critique of Kevin Ru.....
» 3/02/2009 10:36:45 AM Perhaps the threat of Islam is true or perhaps it is not. There are many internet referenc.....
» 29/01/2009 7:49:31 PM You can be sure that whenever a religionist such as Sells starts talking about the "t.....
» 28/01/2009 8:18:40 PM Spin/lies, spin/lies and more spin/lies. The best food, which also promotes good health a.....
» 22/01/2009 2:33:14 PM Why "jesus"? Speaking of the "reality" of that comic book character c.....
» 22/01/2009 11:27:57 AM Some quotes from my favourite Spiritual Philosopher "The now-time staus quo is a pat.....
» 19/01/2009 3:40:05 PM Unfortunately our capacity to enter into free psychic participation with the the non-human.....
» 19/01/2009 9:44:15 AM Nice essay. I rather like Sophie's fictional works. But its about time we started rela.....
» 16/01/2009 11:23:36 AM The Olympics sucks! I much prefer the attitude to sport expressed in the book Body Mind &.....
» 15/01/2009 8:38:26 PM Plus this thoroughly "postmodernist" essay (etc) describes the origins of the po.....
» 15/01/2009 8:16:05 PM It seems to me that we really need to think and act outside of our current rigid boxes re .....
» 15/01/2009 8:03:01 PM This reference provides both a thorough-going critique of the fragmentary and devisive way.....
» 15/01/2009 7:48:37 PM I quite like the analysis of the situation given at this site. http://www.medialens.org/a.....
» 14/01/2009 10:58:58 AM Interesting essay but I dont really get the point of it. By contrast this reference http:.....
» 14/01/2009 10:03:50 AM "Religion" is mental, emotional and physical method, or an ego-based strategy fo.....
» 14/01/2009 9:41:45 AM This quote seems very applicable to Hillsong and indeed all of what is usually called &quo.....
» 12/01/2009 5:18:04 PM Im definitely biased but I much prefer the arguments given in Climate Code Red, a book whi.....
» 24/12/2008 2:02:32 PM The fundamental human urge and need is not gross in its nature. The fundamental human urge.....
» 23/12/2008 10:17:37 AM The fact of the matter is, is that we really know ALL the causative factors that resulted .....
» 23/12/2008 9:59:55 AM Some of what the author says is no doubt true, but then again what he describes is an inhe.....
» 23/12/2008 9:53:07 AM What Michael doesnt tell us is that the purpose of the Wycliffe organisation is to bring t.....
» 19/12/2008 10:47:14 AM Perhaps we should let the meltdown occur. And then when we all totally shocked and awed i.....
» 19/12/2008 10:01:10 AM Yes its quite strange isnt it. Being a parent is the most demanding function that one can.....
» 11/12/2008 8:51:58 AM Of course the really bold economists of our times were the Chicago Boyz inspired by Hayek .....
» 9/12/2008 1:51:08 PM Speaking of the "religious" right in the USA, I would argue that a NECESSARY pre.....
» 9/12/2008 1:12:12 PM Meanwhile much/most/all of the "expert" opinion that promotes all of these grand.....
» 9/12/2008 12:46:13 PM What is the point of this rant? Actually Dalrymple is an intelligent man who works in the.....
» 8/12/2008 10:18:41 AM There is some truth in what Bill has to say but the old authoritarian ways are NOT THE ANS.....
» 2/12/2008 12:24:56 PM I see that we have three or possibly four posts by IPA clones today. T S Eliot was antica.....
» 28/11/2008 10:25:18 AM I would even go further and say that Obamas election was potentially THE most important po.....
» 28/11/2008 10:11:45 AM The election of Obama represents a window of opportunity for something positive to emerge......
» 26/11/2008 11:08:53 AM Everything we do both personally and collectively is an attempt to deny the overwhelming r.....
» 25/11/2008 1:37:22 PM What Sells calls "religion" is a form of pious and childish consumerism. Full of.....
» 25/11/2008 12:47:20 PM When is Sells going to get hip and truly sophisticated? Doesnt the existence of Real God d.....
» 21/11/2008 6:49:01 PM Plus remember that most, if not all of the writers that feature on American Thinker, and t.....
» 21/11/2008 4:29:10 PM Speaking of the symbolic power of the President why not check out the sick psycho-path at .....
» 20/11/2008 10:52:02 AM Of all the thousands of commentaries that have been made in response to Obama's election w.....
» 19/11/2008 10:57:13 AM Such a conflict is a storm in a teacup or rather a narcisstic fish bowl, full of sound and.....
» 17/11/2008 8:55:19 PM Personally I think those us on the left should at least wait and see how things develop an.....
» 17/11/2008 11:53:49 AM Beginning with his book The Crack In The Cosmic Egg and through to A Biology of Transcende.....
» 17/11/2008 11:36:21 AM Mr Right. Even so called "entertainment" is propaganda---all of it, even the mo.....
» 17/11/2008 9:33:13 AM I wonder which planet darron C lives on? Formal mass schooling only began in the 19th cen.....
» 14/11/2008 8:42:48 PM Perhaps, maybe we will all have to relearn how to grow our own food again because the curr.....
» 14/11/2008 10:20:15 AM Interesting article about the most crucial item of them all-- how to feed us all. I find t.....
» 7/11/2008 5:40:03 PM A rule of thumb for assessing anyone who calls themselves a "sceptic" in whateve.....
» 7/11/2008 2:03:37 PM If anyone needs or wants a daily dose of unrelenting toxic sour grapes whining and whingin.....
» 6/11/2008 10:02:27 AM The consequences will be both out there in nature, via all sorts of mutations, and also mo.....
» 6/11/2008 8:17:28 AM Isnt it completely obvious that somewhere down the line (decades, even centuries) there wi.....
» 31/10/2008 10:48:10 AM Some good points but essentially a load of drivel. What has the "culture of natality.....
» 22/10/2008 6:33:09 PM A bit late in the day but, among other things, this talk and essay gives a unique understa.....
» 17/10/2008 1:58:17 PM This reference re the Republican Noise Machine has much relevance to the tactics now being.....
» 17/10/2008 10:07:00 AM I quite like this reference which features a man who moved in the inner circles of the psy.....
» 14/10/2008 12:42:55 PM I find trying to read the "apologetics" of C S Lewis a painfully boring experien.....
» 7/10/2008 3:44:47 PM Bearing in mind that human politics and culture is esentialy irrational it is impossible t.....
» 7/10/2008 1:33:13 PM I must make an apology to Jonathan---I arrogantly mistook him for Ben Terpstra......
» 7/10/2008 10:27:09 AM Has anyone ever noticed that most of Ariel's "essays" are usually a collection o.....
» 6/10/2008 12:54:52 PM More This reference: A Prophetic Criticism of the "Great" Religions provides a .....
» 6/10/2008 12:10:43 PM This reference points out that conventional exoteric religiosity is very much an expressio.....
» 1/10/2008 2:28:49 PM Happiness is the now-and-forever Mystery that IS the Real Heart and the Only Real God of e.....
» 27/09/2008 10:11:38 AM This book and author addresses the issues raised here at least in America. http://www.we-.....
» 26/09/2008 4:47:06 PM Feminism presents a radical challenge to the entire patriarchal "order" of Weste.....
» 26/09/2008 3:15:53 PM Whatever else has or could be said about the situation in Israel/Palestine, is that it wil.....
» 24/09/2008 9:01:48 AM What has any of that really got to do with living a life of Spiritually informed intellige.....
» 23/09/2008 10:37:41 AM Michael accuses Leslie of being a relativist. Perhaps he should read the contents of thes.....
» 19/09/2008 4:32:00 PM I visit and read the websites of many political, cultural and literary organizations on bo.....
» 19/09/2008 11:06:09 AM Good rejoinder. The fact of the matter is that it is impossible to have a rational debate.....
» 12/09/2008 6:36:36 PM Keith. No one is being "bashed"--- yet. Though there is still a possibility that.....
» 11/09/2008 6:42:03 PM More dark ironies. His dreadfully sane grey eminence Greg Sheridan wrote an article in to.....
» 11/09/2008 11:28:43 AM Great stuff including the last brief paragraph. Of course none of that will be mentioned .....
» 11/09/2008 11:03:29 AM Oh the irony! I wonder if Frank is a fan of James Dobson and Focus on the Family and othe.....
» 10/09/2008 10:42:30 AM It is hard to take anyone seriously who uses such cliched language, especially when preten.....
» 5/09/2008 1:51:59 PM The author is right. All the said lady represents is more of the same toxic psychosis, but.....
» 4/09/2008 8:01:37 PM I find the USA christian religionists infatuation with guns quite bizarre. I wonder which.....
» 29/08/2008 11:10:01 AM Why not begin any conversations about Real God as Conscious Light and The Happiness of the.....
» 28/08/2008 4:55:05 PM Speaking of the "ancient" mind-body problem please check out the work of this au.....
» 28/08/2008 4:18:33 PM Bravo for a post which suggests the possibility a cultural opportunity other than endless .....
» 22/08/2008 1:35:16 PM Speaking of The Adelaide Review it was founded by Christopher Pearson who is now one of th.....
» 21/08/2008 11:07:59 AM I have a great deal of respect for Marcia Langton and this essay is very good. However, I.....
» 20/08/2008 3:28:56 PM Everybody likes to talk about and defend "reason", especially those on the ".....
» 20/08/2008 10:08:17 AM I quite like this analysis of what happened in Yugoslavia alogether. It fits in with John .....
» 19/08/2008 3:30:03 PM He is obviously mad and doesnt have any respect for "reason". Who's reason? Br.....
» 19/08/2008 11:10:31 AM Bollocks! And bollocks again! According to the gospel of "free" trade the impov.....
» 19/08/2008 10:49:32 AM Mercator is a propaganda outlet for that deeply fascist power and control seeking cult whi.....
» 15/08/2008 10:40:25 AM Will Shakespeare got it right about the Olympics--it is tale told by an idiot, full of sou.....
» 14/08/2008 2:26:03 PM Foyle. The article that I posted was not just about depleted uranium. It was about the i.....
» 14/08/2008 10:25:22 AM Yes. And speaking of atomic plagues, plus wall to wall lies: 1. http://www.truthout.org/.....
» 13/08/2008 7:53:17 PM Why use the word BASH in this context. No-one is being bashed. Perhaps the term moral pan.....
» 13/08/2008 7:47:10 PM I find this essay quite compelling re the inherent feudalism, and altogether bad intention.....
» 12/08/2008 2:31:42 PM For something completely different please check out this site which altogether argues that.....
» 11/08/2008 2:33:20 PM Speaking of Redwood trees, and what they have to teach us. And even pigs for that matter,.....
» 11/08/2008 2:24:15 PM All that this essay does is draw together a series of ideas and opinions to "prove&qu.....
» 11/08/2008 1:51:10 PM Sells, pray tell what exactly is the "righteousness of god"? Such concepts alw.....
» 5/08/2008 11:13:54 AM The under appreciated prophetic seer William Blake had much to say about the relation betw.....
» 5/08/2008 9:05:34 AM Catholics love to split hairs to avoid true responsibility for their actions---always have.....
» 4/08/2008 12:44:15 PM The fact that an extract from this book was featured in the Australian immediately makes i.....
» 4/08/2008 9:43:01 AM This is an unusually good essay by Sells. Among other things this reference describes the.....
» 1/08/2008 9:17:58 AM Perhaps we could gain some clarity on this issue if we scrapped the pretentious and totall.....
» 25/07/2008 11:13:24 AM There have always been many excellent catholic priests. And there has always some (nobody.....
» 25/07/2008 10:41:51 AM Good article and quite disturbing. And as Ziuddin Sardar quite rightly pointed out, if th.....
» 24/07/2008 8:31:03 PM Now let me see. Peter was the head honcho at the CIS which is a propaganda factory, or re.....
» 23/07/2008 2:15:15 PM What a refreshing and interestng change. I have read (and have on my desk right now) Mich.....
» 19/07/2008 9:54:14 AM Eyejawe accuses me of "sneering" His post was one long sneer----full stop. Per.....
» 18/07/2008 8:56:30 AM Speaking of sado-masochistic pornography Melinda herself belongs to a would be world conqu.....
» 17/07/2008 10:44:13 AM Copenhagen Consensus! Whose consensus? Massive research is clearly the way to go.Plus the.....
» 16/07/2008 5:29:49 PM Is this supposed to be an exercise in intelligent thinking and cultural analysis? I wonde.....
» 15/07/2008 12:27:57 PM This is a throughly naive idea based on the naive romanticism of Rousseau. Rousseau had s.....
» 11/07/2008 9:19:26 AM The shape of ones genitals has no influence whatsoever on ones capacity to worship god. No.....
» 19/06/2008 9:41:15 PM Food and food security seem to be the flavour of the week on the forum. There is an intere.....
» 18/06/2008 6:35:59 PM There are many reasons for the chaos and poverty in Africa. Much (perhaps all) of it bein.....
» 13/06/2008 11:20:17 AM Speaking of mass enthusiasm and/or collective hysteria, Sydney is soon to experience such .....
» 13/06/2008 10:32:52 AM Its really quite simple. Follow the money and propaganda or SPIN trail. 1. http://www.see.....
» 6/06/2008 3:14:54 PM On the one hand the author writes about human dignity. On the other hand his homebase Opu.....
» 4/06/2008 9:31:01 AM It is interesting to compare this blinkered ideological rant (masquerading as an exercise.....
» 30/05/2008 3:55:27 PM Seems like a highly plausible argument to me. What if it is true? Perhaps then the enem.....
» 26/05/2008 9:58:53 PM All I cn say is that I have read Geoff's book Economia: New Economic Systems To Empower Pe.....
» 22/05/2008 1:10:02 PM I am always amused when those on the "right" prattle on about "elitists&quo.....
» 22/05/2008 8:41:22 AM What is the point of this drivel?.....
» 20/05/2008 10:05:23 PM I stand by everything that I said. I have not read the DaVinci Code nor similar rubbish ab.....
» 20/05/2008 12:45:30 PM Also http://valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com/2004/10/catastrophic-success-of-republican.ht.....
» 20/05/2008 12:31:01 PM Why pick on Hilary? Since when has truth had anything whatsoever to do with USA politics? .....
» 19/05/2008 7:29:53 PM Did you know that Robert Oppenheimer who was called the "father" of the atomic b.....
» 19/05/2008 9:36:14 AM A further comment on mister Cook's agenda. This posting is part and parcel of the campaig.....
» 19/05/2008 9:18:10 AM The entire nuclear mis-adventure is a tragic drama of the hubris of short term thinking. .....
» 16/05/2008 12:13:09 PM Another IPA clone pretending to offer an "objective" opinion as to how the proce.....
» 16/05/2008 11:11:47 AM My usual riposte to mister Cook. Mercator is a propaganda outlet for that charming organi.....
» 14/05/2008 10:51:06 AM Doesnt the use of the word HYSTERIA in the title of this essay say it all re the authors p.....
» 13/05/2008 5:53:55 PM The poor pathetic things. Like all of the moaners and whingers on the "right" o.....
» 12/05/2008 1:18:00 PM Mr Right. In the context of present time Australian, UK, Europe and USA culture (and indee.....
» 12/05/2008 12:32:04 PM Great stuff altogether. Mr "right" is at his usual nit-picking narkiness. Its .....
» 12/05/2008 11:48:54 AM Exactly the sort of cherry-picking ideologicaly based polemic that you would expect from t.....
» 9/05/2008 11:57:25 AM I found the authors essay to be quite superficial. By contrast please check out these ess.....
» 9/05/2008 11:32:06 AM The large numbers of Moslems in Europe is certainly creating very complex problems, to say.....
» 8/05/2008 1:54:54 PM Isnt Runner "living" proof that evolution doesnt exist? Anyone who points to th.....
» 7/05/2008 5:24:01 PM Speaking of eco-vandals and the tactics that they use please check out Monsanto's Harvest .....
» 7/05/2008 10:47:56 AM Mr Right has said so, therefore it obviously must be right......
» 7/05/2008 10:44:49 AM I would say that studying other languages has other benefits too. Because each and every.....
» 5/05/2008 9:44:11 AM Poor Sells engaging in his nostalgia for the return to the comforting Parental Deity. Nev.....
» 3/05/2008 5:31:56 PM Billie is exactly right---it was the MAXIM GUNS that made the difference and enabled us wh.....
» 2/05/2008 12:45:53 PM Boaz is EXACTLY RIGHT. It is NEVER EVER the fault of the person who is being bashed. It .....
» 2/05/2008 11:14:45 AM Some of what is said here is true enough, and a certain percentage of people will be hard .....
» 2/05/2008 9:25:08 AM Yes the "questions" referred to in this essay are not real questions that deal w.....
» 29/04/2008 5:26:32 PM The USA is supposedly the most "religious" country on the planet, or so the hype.....
» 29/04/2008 12:40:08 PM Good essay. I find this entire topic quite baffling. We seem to be indulging in a collect.....
» 23/04/2008 12:22:54 PM This is the same kind of the necessary "revisionist" history, speaking to the li.....
» 23/04/2008 10:31:40 AM Just goes to show that there is more than one version of HIS-story--- that is the story to.....
» 22/04/2008 5:09:37 PM PaulL is you bother to check out my reference 12 Reasons Why at TomDispatch you will find .....
» 22/04/2008 10:27:29 AM Dilip also features on TomDispatch which is also associated with Nation Books that publish.....
» 19/04/2008 9:56:44 AM Bravo for Dirk and Marilyn's comment. Meanwhile five other authors which in one way or an.....
» 17/04/2008 1:32:18 PM I have just checked out the contents of Ben's blog---such as it so far. The title of the .....
» 17/04/2008 11:20:27 AM The now-time world is vastly complex, beyond imagination. Hayek was one of the benighted .....
» 17/04/2008 11:04:19 AM Hayek was one of the benighted god-fathers of the adolescent Chicago-boyz who gave us the .....
» 17/04/2008 10:36:02 AM Perhaps I'm a bit thick but what is the point of this article. Seems like another example .....
» 15/04/2008 10:37:57 AM This is a bit blunt. But if Israel is so important to all thes hawks, then why dont they g.....
» 14/04/2008 3:31:15 PM Perhaps Roskam and all his "right"-thinking comrades at the IPA and in the Murdo.....
» 11/04/2008 5:23:48 PM I stand by my phrase re the psychotic crazies in Washington. Such psychotic crazies, where.....
» 11/04/2008 12:30:16 PM The author writes: ".... rise of new fundamentalisms, whether they revolve around tri.....
» 11/04/2008 12:07:12 PM Great stuff---unfortunately. Very sobering compared to Russell Trood's niave optimism re t.....
» 9/04/2008 4:01:59 PM Has anyone ever noticed that those on the "right" seldom, if ever, make any real.....
» 7/04/2008 1:43:09 PM As usual Sells doesnt really say anything particularly useful. This posting would seem to .....
» 4/04/2008 4:22:13 PM Paul L writes "what you and those like you". What an all inclusive amazing stat.....
» 4/04/2008 9:47:49 AM Whatever else may be said about what is happening in Israel/Palestine the over-riding fact.....
» 28/03/2008 8:21:49 PM I suppose everyone knows that Mercator is a propaganda outlet for that charming organizati.....
» 26/03/2008 9:36:40 AM There is nothing funny or humorous in this essay. It is just another example of dim-witte.....
» 26/03/2008 9:24:47 AM Of course like all "right" thinkers the author dosent have any ideological biase.....
» 20/03/2008 9:50:15 AM This is an interesting topic because it says a lot about "right" wing attitudes .....
» 18/03/2008 9:47:18 AM William Countryman is a committed Christian who bothered to do his home-work, the findings.....
» 18/03/2008 9:35:00 AM Speaking of the "right" in the USA and other parts of the Western world, many of.....
» 18/03/2008 9:19:11 AM So what? Ben has obviously been hitting the turps again. And this is the kind of nyah nyah.....
» 14/03/2008 4:44:54 PM Jennifer is course a full paid up propaganda hack for G-M so called foods and the "fr.....
» 14/03/2008 4:21:57 PM Jennifer is of course talking about, and being an apologist for, the "freedom" o.....
» 12/03/2008 12:09:07 PM Perhaps the recent Matrix series of films is useful here. In my interpretation John Howar.....
» 12/03/2008 9:43:23 AM The sheer fact that Howard associates with, and his lauded by, the right wing psychopaths .....
» 10/03/2008 11:31:38 AM Great stuff. A concise summary of the role of puritannical sex-paranoid righteous religi.....
» 7/03/2008 9:58:52 AM Another one-dimensional tin-man IPA clone except that he presented his paper at that big-t.....
» 7/03/2008 9:24:57 AM Another IPA type clone---though more sophisticated in her use of language. The real questi.....
» 6/03/2008 10:17:52 AM Another facile piece from the usual one-dimensional tin-man IPA propaganda hacks. Note h.....
» 4/03/2008 9:20:10 AM CJ Morgan is correct. If our culture was run on strictly Biblical (the so called "hol.....
» 29/02/2008 11:15:24 AM What the good author doesnt tell us is that ALL national economies are at the mercy of the.....
» 29/02/2008 11:01:29 AM The trouble is is that "relgion" that Sells would promote was produced in the ch.....
» 29/02/2008 10:33:02 AM Contary to Matthew I would recommend that David quite literally lighten up instead. Einst.....
» 27/02/2008 9:14:56 AM Now every little adolescent punk, both male and female, now think they are masters of the .....
» 25/02/2008 1:43:14 PM I have no trouble with this essay as it seems like an accurate, even under-stated, assessm.....
» 22/02/2008 9:15:19 AM Not another simplistic rose coloured glasses portrait of Castro and Cuba. But when its all.....
» 15/02/2008 9:44:42 AM The situation in the UK and Europe is very difficult to say the least.But rants like this .....
» 4/02/2008 1:20:20 PM Poor Sells stuck in the absurd dilemmas of his own provincial "religious" mind a.....
» 4/02/2008 12:02:24 PM Runners post is typical of thos on the "right" wing of the culture wars divide: .....
» 1/02/2008 9:52:03 AM This essay is a classic example of what passes for "intelligent" cultural anal-y.....
» 1/02/2008 9:34:27 AM Conventional religionists might live in a consoling fairy world but they know that their m.....
» 1/02/2008 9:11:01 AM This sophisticated essay addresses both the scientism vs exoteric religion culture wars &q.....
» 23/01/2008 11:08:53 AM Please check out these references which points out the ecstatic Happiness is the PRIMARY u.....
» 23/01/2008 9:53:27 AM Excuse me from being pedantic as usual but I sent Noel Pearson a copy of this book as a re.....
» 23/01/2008 9:42:21 AM This Post is related to the one by Jane Rankin Read re the military in Pakistan. Why/how?.....
» 16/01/2008 5:47:37 PM When things get really bad any where in time and space the factors that enable survival ar.....
» 16/01/2008 12:08:12 PM THE BIGGEST DANGER in the current religious and culture wars comes from the "right&qu.....
» 16/01/2008 11:45:53 AM There is no spiritual content whatsoever in any of Sells writings. In fact any "relig.....
» 16/01/2008 10:38:17 AM As usual Sells does not really address anything fundamental. By fundamental I mean what .....
» 16/01/2008 9:28:47 AM A very touchy topic indeed. But then I much prefer a Christian politics inspired by Boenho.....
» 3/01/2008 3:29:35 PM God article. But there is another side to the current use of names, especially in the west.....
» 3/01/2008 3:18:37 PM Unfortunately my post yesterday had a typo error. It should have been. 1. http://www.logo.....
» 2/01/2008 3:19:42 PM The sex paranoid puritans at Opus Dei were essentially behind the production and promotion.....
» 2/01/2008 2:36:32 PM Perhaps we should all wear hair shirts and whip ourselves during our daily "prayer&qu.....
» 28/12/2007 11:45:33 AM A concise description of the "world"-view promoted by the IPA, which was, by the.....
» 28/12/2007 9:15:48 AM Chris Berg! Oh he is that punk adolescent android that writes those banal one-dimensional .....
» 27/12/2007 9:55:26 AM That should have been; If you are not appalled, you havent been paying attention......
» 27/12/2007 9:26:41 AM I came across this American bumper sticker. If you are appalled, you havent been paying a.....
» 24/12/2007 9:52:48 AM Unfortunately for Melinda the dreadful scenario she writes about is the INEVITABLE histori.....
» 24/12/2007 9:28:27 AM Jennifer wants to bring us all back to "reason" and "reality". Implic.....
» 21/12/2007 9:47:07 AM Strange article especially from a highly respected thinker who specialises in European Tho.....
» 21/12/2007 9:14:11 AM The Australian "Environment" Foundation---another one dimensional IPA clone full.....
» 20/12/2007 10:08:53 AM In a culture that is based on the anti-ethic of unbridled competition, everyone, including.....
» 14/12/2007 12:03:39 PM An after thought. Simon's (and hence Cook's) use of language is interesting. They refer.....
» 14/12/2007 9:12:53 AM Ah yes Mr Cook a pully paid up member and propagandist for Opus Dei with their obnoxious c.....
» 10/12/2007 9:39:50 AM A very interesting article but too technical for me. But then again one wonders about som.....
» 7/12/2007 10:03:45 AM This reference gives a very disturbing assessment of the state of the world. And in my opi.....
» 7/12/2007 9:54:29 AM The catholic church is the most grotesque and obnoxious institution on this planet. It is .....
» 6/12/2007 9:28:32 AM Bravo. In my opinion we have been systematically enveloped by a grey cloud of stifling pol.....
» 6/12/2007 9:10:06 AM Perhaps Stephen is too young or has a selective historical memory but in the 1996 election.....
» 5/12/2007 9:34:20 AM What Is being described here is all within the great American tradition of hucksterism sho.....
» 28/11/2007 9:49:17 AM George Patton was definitely a hero of the moment in his time and place of Europe in World.....
» 28/11/2007 9:29:06 AM Sour grapes all the way down. Perhaps Jonathan is upset that the prize wasnt awarded to th.....
» 14/11/2007 9:10:22 AM Unfortunately conversations are not enough because the system as it is has an almost unsto.....
» 9/11/2007 9:35:42 AM Speaking of the imposition of mono-culture, and via the barrel of a gun or the point of a .....
» 6/11/2007 4:47:31 PM I think this is a very important topic, as is the topic of privatisation altogether. In re.....
» 6/11/2007 12:24:57 PM Boaz was/is always good for a laugh---though nothing that he writes is at all funny. He no.....
» 6/11/2007 9:10:12 AM Sooner or later Humankind as a whole is going to have to realize that in a finite world we.....
» 5/11/2007 10:03:21 AM As usual Sells is describing his own reductionism and confusion. The "religion" .....
» 27/10/2007 11:52:14 AM Once upon a time, and not so long ago, most child care arrangements were done via various .....
» 27/10/2007 10:52:32 AM Perhaps its a bit late in the day but please check out the work of Alfie Kohn via his marv.....
» 26/10/2007 10:27:03 AM I know I get a bit pedantic but The Shock Doctrine explains exactly how capitalism---Ayn R.....
» 23/10/2007 1:15:01 PM Santamaria was a raving looney psychotic. He was quite partial to the use of nuclear wea.....
» 23/10/2007 1:06:19 PM Good article but its not a question of "humble democracy". It depends on who is .....
» 19/10/2007 10:50:36 AM It is also interesting that this ghoul praises the invention of dynamite. There is an inte.....
» 19/10/2007 10:33:40 AM Anyone on Centrelink social security benefits that makes a minor mistake gets hounded to t.....
» 19/10/2007 10:26:42 AM Garbage all the way down. The Enterprise Institute is one of those "right" thin.....
» 18/10/2007 12:25:16 PM Bravo. I wonder who has their head in a paper bag? I read an article recently which pointe.....
» 17/10/2007 7:28:44 PM A bit late in the day but this very interesting website supports the necessity for a globa.....
» 17/10/2007 7:16:33 PM Perhaps Im a bit thick Runner but I couldnt find any hate in this essay. To me it was a we.....
» 16/10/2007 10:10:58 AM So its come to this. What are the effects postive or negative on the "economy" .....
» 11/10/2007 5:18:57 PM Who really gives a damn about Che. He has become a highly mythologized and hence entirely .....
» 10/10/2007 10:11:33 AM Good article up to a point. But why the typically provocative right wing title......
» 6/10/2007 1:37:29 PM Sharkfin seems to blame all the worlds problems on multi-culturalism. Is he somehow preten.....
» 5/10/2007 10:22:22 AM Space exploration is just the eternal adolescent fantasy of "indepenndent" weste.....
» 5/10/2007 10:07:28 AM This forum advertises itself as a Socratic dialogue not a place for the posting of turpent.....
» 4/10/2007 7:44:21 PM Turn Right. Yes there is some good journalism, even (occasionally) in the Murdoch media. N.....
» 4/10/2007 10:05:32 AM Nothing new here. The media has ALWAYS served the interests of its owners. Noam Chomsky .....
» 1/10/2007 11:07:56 AM Which trinity is Sells talking about? Perhaps the tooth fairy, santa claus and the easter.....
» 1/10/2007 10:52:28 AM Another exercise in dismal left brained reductionism, trying to "prove" that the.....
» 1/10/2007 10:23:47 AM Bravo! It shows how complex the question of nuclear power really is, and yes how it very m.....
» 28/09/2007 3:28:42 PM I much prefer the assessment of Nuclear Power given by Ian Lowe in the new Quarterly Essay.....
» 27/09/2007 10:15:50 AM This site backs up everything that John Pilger says and much more too. 1. http://www.thir.....
» 27/09/2007 10:06:51 AM Good article. I guess what it also shows is how incredibly complex the politics of the Mid.....
» 25/09/2007 10:09:58 AM The truth of thye matter is that Australia is already divided on racial grounds---as are a.....
» 21/09/2007 10:32:43 AM Good article. The fact of the matter is that we live in a "culture" saturated .....
» 21/09/2007 9:54:17 AM BRAVO. The reference to Schicklegrubers famous laura norder speech is particularly relev.....
» 20/09/2007 10:24:31 AM Blah, blah blah. Me thinks the good Felicity ought to check out these four publications, e.....
» 18/09/2007 3:36:31 PM Speaking of "obeying god" and not killing the fact of the matter is that, at lea.....
» 18/09/2007 10:25:20 AM Bravo, bravissimo. Yes I think its all about the frightened child within the essentially c.....
» 14/09/2007 10:27:30 AM This reminds me of something I came cross a few years ago. For whatever reason an America.....
» 13/09/2007 11:06:45 AM Especially in this time with wall to wall 24 hour "news" politics is essentially.....
» 12/09/2007 10:19:06 AM Excellent essay. This essay was written in response to that event in New York. It gives a.....
» 12/09/2007 10:13:46 AM There are dozens, hundreds, thousands of people who are saying the same thing as Perkins. .....
» 12/09/2007 9:53:17 AM What an extraordinary load of arrogant irrational drivel. The Tories are born to rule OK......
» 11/09/2007 10:05:45 AM Yeah, Im sure the Australian and their "right" wing fellow travellers were quite.....
» 11/09/2007 10:02:47 AM What a load of arrogant tosh. The tories are born to rule. Only we know what is good for .....
» 6/09/2007 4:37:08 PM Is Runner capable of an intelligent comment on any topic? Has he ever made a reasoned and.....
» 6/09/2007 10:36:05 AM I dont know much about economics but I agree with the author of this article. To my mind .....
» 3/09/2007 11:28:33 AM I quite like this link between "righteous" Christians and a certain chap who mis.....
» 3/09/2007 11:02:20 AM Ah, Fascism with a smiling face---all in the name of "freedom" of course......
» 29/08/2007 1:30:32 PM A very tragic situation indeed. But why in 2007 do we still call Palestine/Israel etc the.....
» 27/08/2007 11:15:27 AM Dont Christians (and some Moslems) just love lots of blood every where! And arent they bot.....
» 21/08/2007 12:10:01 PM For better or worse ALL Traditional Cultures were governed by the Wise and the Wise Elders.....
» 21/08/2007 11:51:00 AM To teach children the usual fairy stories about "jesus" is to do them a dis-serv.....
» 21/08/2007 10:16:37 AM I wonder how many people really subscribe to this Caliphate idea? And how much power to t.....
» 16/08/2007 12:53:40 PM Isnt this also related to the attempt by the government to ban and censor books and intern.....
» 16/08/2007 12:28:34 PM I like a gadlfy party that pokes fun at the major parties and asks difficult and real ques.....
» 16/08/2007 11:17:00 AM Excellent essay. But Runner, why on an overpopulated planet, with an exploding arms race, .....
» 16/08/2007 10:51:37 AM I am one of those dreadful lefties to whom it is completely obvious that the use of the bo.....
» 13/08/2007 11:21:34 AM I would argue that human life begins at the moment of conception. At least this is the arg.....
» 13/08/2007 11:08:09 AM Of course their are to many abortions. One of the principal legacies bequeathed to one an.....
» 11/08/2007 3:39:41 PM Yes I am suggesting, and good reason to believe that the collective activities of humankin.....
» 10/08/2007 2:08:09 PM Xoddan. If only that were so. Unfortunately and dreadfully the scenarios envisioned by L.....
» 10/08/2007 11:29:11 AM Speaking of Gaia. It is an unarguable fact that the earth is a total energy system which o.....
» 8/08/2007 10:13:47 AM ALL media IS propaganda,and is inherently and inevitably full of presumptions (often unins.....
» 31/07/2007 1:56:44 PM BeeTee. Perhaps/maybe after 2000 years and in a totally interconnected world it is time f.....
» 31/07/2007 10:55:03 AM Yawn, how boring. Written using the same dismally reductionist language that Dawkins uses-.....
» 27/07/2007 3:18:01 PM Francis, Have you have made a thorough-going study of the training manual for the priests .....
» 27/07/2007 3:01:29 PM An oblique comment. I wonder what Plato would have thought of the practice of putting babi.....
» 26/07/2007 2:41:04 PM Isnt it about time that this conceipt about the "universal" church and the impli.....
» 26/07/2007 10:07:46 AM Science as genuine free enquiry is definitely apolitical. The trouble is that most of the.....
» 26/07/2007 10:01:27 AM I agree with Kevin and persons such as Robert Manne who put a very persuasive argument re .....
» 24/07/2007 3:07:00 PM If you want to read a horror story of epic proportions about the internal state of China a.....
» 24/07/2007 3:00:42 PM The fact of the matter the pope is the head (why not heart) of an institution that for 150.....
» 21/06/2007 5:45:58 PM The theme of this essay is excellent---but the explanation was truly woeful---almost as th.....
» 8/06/2007 11:09:07 AM Bravo! There is an good review in the new Oz Literary Review which covers this theme of un.....
» 8/06/2007 10:54:58 AM I have always suspected that many people on the "right" of the culture wars divi.....
» 6/06/2007 10:42:46 AM A good article in some ways but I must disagree. It seems to me that the fundamental myth.....
» 5/06/2007 11:22:05 AM She is of course much reviled and criticised by the "right" thinking IPA clones......
» 4/06/2007 11:02:04 AM We think that we acquire scientific knowledge and then naturally use it for various purpos.....
» 4/06/2007 10:32:23 AM The same so called Environmental organisation---another IPA front organisation whose purpo.....
» 1/06/2007 11:19:09 AM I came across these two references yesterday. One in Readings in Carlton and the other via.....
» 1/06/2007 11:00:57 AM Why use the word "bashing" in your title? A typical right wing polarising ploy m.....
» 28/05/2007 4:07:35 PM I read an article recently pointing out that the relatively simple "life-style" .....
» 28/05/2007 3:08:32 PM A few years a venerable old sage named Howard Shapiro vistited our shores. There was even .....
» 28/05/2007 12:20:56 PM I much this assessment of the effects of the countless thousands of toxic chemicals releas.....
» 23/05/2007 10:44:45 AM A quote from my favourite "philosopher". "The human world has become a kin.....
» 23/05/2007 10:31:03 AM If we are so wonderfully happy then how come there how come so many people at all levels o.....
» 11/05/2007 4:38:26 PM JamesH---what exactly is a special interest group---one that you dont like perhaps? That .....
» 10/05/2007 4:13:09 PM "To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings an.....
» 10/05/2007 11:23:28 AM Did anyone notice that even Rupert Murdoch acknowledged the reality of global warming toda.....
» 10/05/2007 11:16:28 AM My the barbarians are out in force today......
» 10/05/2007 11:13:23 AM Sille---or is that just plain silly. Your comment about stepping on egg shells is compelet.....
» 9/05/2007 10:46:42 AM Excellent essay but what has Fred Nile got to do with the politics and culture of Grace---.....
» 7/05/2007 10:22:51 AM The times have always been bad to one degree or another. I agree will Sells that our times.....
» 26/04/2007 10:28:13 AM Spin rules OK. Has anyone read the superb Global Spin by Sharon Beder? The media also pla.....
» 24/04/2007 11:56:37 AM There is a very interesting article in the current issue of Dissent Magazine---the title i.....
» 24/04/2007 11:04:17 AM Maybe Im cold hearted, and a very small minority, but I cant relate to anything whatsoever.....
» 23/04/2007 10:56:20 AM Whats happened to Online Opinion forum? All of todays posts are on the "left" si.....
» 23/04/2007 10:42:37 AM Isnt that the image that John Howard has been promoting for the last 10 years with lots of.....
» 19/04/2007 10:03:24 AM I wonder how the good economist (or is he a robotic drone) explains the phenomena describe.....
» 17/04/2007 10:31:02 AM I guess you could say that "public good research" relates to my posting re alter.....
» 17/04/2007 10:18:04 AM I remember reading once that President Carter put into place a system of R&D laws which pr.....
» 14/04/2007 9:39:14 AM The IPA neo barbarians rule OK! Through their influence and propaganda they have systema.....
» 5/04/2007 10:47:46 AM "god" this man is so boringly one dimensional and also full of sentimental nosta.....
» 4/04/2007 10:53:37 AM If you check out Bills blog Culture Watch you will find that one of the ideas that he cele.....
» 2/04/2007 1:02:43 PM Dear Capitan where exactly IS this "truth" that you are referring to? And who i.....
» 29/03/2007 4:55:45 PM What a hoot the Heritage Foundation is THE MODERNIST insitution par excellence--rigid, pat.....
» 29/03/2007 10:24:26 AM Perhaps I am a bit thick but I couldnt see the point of this article. I am a leftie and ha.....
» 22/03/2007 11:14:56 AM Two more points. Methinks that the author of this essay is full of self-serving delusions-.....
» 22/03/2007 9:51:22 AM What is this enttity called the "church"? There are only human beings who act bo.....
» 20/03/2007 8:53:03 AM Where do the people who edit and compile this forum get such people as the writer of this .....
» 16/03/2007 9:28:31 AM Isnt it about time people stopped using the vacious phrase "Howard-haters" to de.....
» 13/03/2007 9:21:05 AM Confession is actualy quite limited unless it is followed up by a change of action with th.....
» 12/03/2007 3:01:39 PM I have sources of inspiration re my claim about OEDIPAL dramatisation. I will refer to one.....
» 12/03/2007 9:11:17 AM We now live in a multi-dimensional quantum world(we always did) in which everything is qui.....
» 9/03/2007 12:57:44 PM In my opinion Modernism is a world-view created in the image of scientific materialism. As.....
» 1/03/2007 9:58:25 AM Why does this forum continue to publish this man. He is a bad joke--especially for someone.....
» 23/02/2007 9:15:58 AM Chris what a superbly apt dark reference to that benighted ghoul now darkening our shores......
» 21/02/2007 11:18:15 AM Me again. Once upon a time the theft and plunder of western imperialism was justified with.....
» 21/02/2007 9:47:22 AM The IPA: the institute of one-dimensional man and his one dimensional "reason". .....
» 20/02/2007 9:13:44 AM Black Adder sums up this article perfectly with his immortal words: Utter Crapp. I would a.....
» 15/02/2007 9:02:35 AM A quote from my favourite "philosopher". "The human world has become a kin.....
» 15/02/2007 8:49:36 AM Amazing. The Greens have no real power and yet they somehow have to be responsible for add.....
» 12/02/2007 9:22:40 AM This essay gives a unique understanding of the origins and limitations of the essentially .....
» 10/02/2007 9:24:32 AM This site provides a very interesting perspective on the Israel vs Palestine conflict.1. w.....
» 8/02/2007 9:21:54 AM Ray Evans and his fellow "true believers" over at the IPA etc etc are the very e.....
» 8/02/2007 9:08:41 AM Bob Dylan: "You dont need a weathervane to see which way the wind is blowing".....
» 1/02/2007 1:37:50 PM Speaking of how so called "values" can be used to create and justify any possibl.....
» 31/01/2007 9:25:47 AM Meanwhile dreadfully sane peace-loving America is responsible for 48% of the worlds armame.....
» 30/01/2007 9:54:37 AM These 2 related references give a unique understanding of the inherent urge of human being.....
» 24/01/2007 11:54:10 AM These paragraphs were written by the same person who wrote the essay referred to in my com.....
» 24/01/2007 11:30:44 AM I came across the book yesterday in Readings Carlton. I sat down and read much of it. It .....
» 15/01/2007 12:08:39 PM We live in a time when the the ancient "cults" of the childhood of Man have been.....
» 15/01/2007 11:35:09 AM Things are looking up. I think it is the first time that an article from Arena has been pu.....
» 11/01/2007 10:27:50 AM Runners use of language is a typical example of the use of the black and white language of.....
» 11/01/2007 9:27:08 AM The author ends his essay with the phrase "persons of goodwill". I would sugges.....
» 5/01/2007 1:41:16 PM Sells tired old entirely exoteric speculations about something that didnt even happen. And.....
» 4/01/2007 12:04:51 PM pope whats' his name is deluded in his claim that the jesus christianity STORY is the only.....
» 27/12/2006 11:46:45 AM I would suggest the health of cultures is far more multi-dimensional than the author sugge.....
» 21/12/2006 8:59:54 AM What a refreshing change to read an item informed by an INTEGRAL perspective on history an.....
» 18/12/2006 4:40:46 PM I would suggest thay anyone who accepts and identifies with Col Rouge's definition of what.....
» 13/12/2006 11:07:45 AM Speaking of Michael Casey,his boss George Pell is a frequent visitor and participant at va.....
» 13/12/2006 9:42:38 AM The culture of western man has been totally embedded in the secular world view for over 20.....
» 7/12/2006 1:01:17 PM Boaz, When I was a child I was taught about 4 good-luck parental-deity story book charact.....
» 1/12/2006 9:56:50 AM Speaking of one dimensional clock work man has anyone ever noticed that most of the so cal.....
» 1/12/2006 9:44:19 AM I would suggest that Friedman was so influential because he was a champion of the one dime.....
» 1/12/2006 9:33:53 AM I would suggest that the fundamentalists are on the other side of the culture wars divide......
» 29/11/2006 9:52:57 AM If present trends continue the scenario described in this essay will most probably come tr.....
» 22/11/2006 10:42:48 AM I would suggest that Japan is not a successful culture.There are enormous psychic pressure.....
» 22/11/2006 9:40:30 AM Poor David, Trying to turn the clock back to some imagined state of purity. The fact of t.....
» 21/11/2006 8:53:23 AM How hilarious John Stone having a posting under Religion & Spirituality. I would suggest J.....
» 9/11/2006 10:36:33 AM Another example of Sells dimwitted "religious" provincialism! Especially in a d.....
» 3/11/2006 9:36:19 AM Has anyone ever noticed that those on the "right" side of the culture wars who a.....
» 3/11/2006 9:28:02 AM Has anyone ever noticed how people on the right wing of the culture wars quite often use e.....

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