Rowland Croucher
Eastern Germany: the most godless place on Earth
East German atheism can be seen as a form of continuing political and regional identification ¢â‚¬“ and a taste of the future Saturday 22 September 2012 A woman dressed as an angel waves from a roof top near the German Reichstag on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty […]
Bhutan: Putting People before Profit
The Happiness Index Putting people before profit in Bhutan BY GRETCHEN LEGLER Published in the January/February 2014 issue of Orion magazine FROM THE FORESTED HILLSIDE above us, a bulldozer sends giant rocks and tree limbs sailing down onto the hundreds-of-years-old footpath leading us from the Paro Valley floor to Dra Lhakhang, a cliffside temple where the six of us […]
Weddings and Marriages January 2014
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/weddings/younger-couples-prefer-marriage-survey-shows-20140118-311gu.html :
The Father’s Love for a Fatherless Son
We all experience God ¢â‚¬â„¢s love from a different perspective – this is mine, but not at all uncommon. My home life as a child consisted of my mum and I. My dad was never under the same roof, apart from a few times he took me to his football club while he poured beers behind […]
Mercy and Zeal
There ¢â‚¬â„¢s a wideness in God ¢â‚¬â„¢s mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There ¢â‚¬â„¢s a kindness in His justice, Which is more than liberty. There is no place where earth ¢â‚¬â„¢s sorrows Are more felt than up in Heaven; There is no place where earth ¢â‚¬â„¢s failings Have such kindly judgment given. For the love of God is […]
LOVE’S AS WARM AS TEARS (C S Lewis)
Love’s as warm as tears, Love is tears: Pressure within the brain, Tension at the throat, Deluge, weeks of rain, Haystacks afloat, Featureless seas between Hedges, where once was green. Love’s as fierce as fire, Love is fire: All sorts – infernal heat Clinkered with greed and pride, Lyric desire, sharp-sweet, Laughing, even when denied, […]
Bill Gates predicts almost no poor countries left by 2035
Bill Gates predicts almost no poor countries left by 2035 in annual letter By Ashley Hall Updated 49 minutes ago PHOTO: Former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicts there will be almost no poor countries by 2035. (Rick Wilking: Reuters) Billionaire software baron Bill Gates has made the bold prediction that there will be almost no poor countries left […]
‘False Memory Syndrome’ ???
The memory wars: testing the vagaries of human testimony Tuesday 21 January 2014 5:30PM IMAGE: ELIZABETH LOFTUS HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE SO-CALLED ‘MEMORY WARS’, AND THROUGH HER WORK HAS CALLED INTO QUESTION THE USE OF REPRESSED MEMORIES IN COURTROOM SETTINGS. Can the legal system trust verdicts based on witnesses memories? One expert has […]
Australia’s Forgotten War: colonizers vs aborigines
BOOK REVIEW: Forgotten War JAMES ROSE | SEP 24, 2013 Henry Reynolds ¢â‚¬â„¢ new book explores the dark history of Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s Frontier Wars and finds that Australian history is in denial. Let ¢â‚¬â„¢s go fishing. With E.H.Carr. It was Carr, the celebrated relativist historiographer, who wrote in his circuit-breaking ¢â‚¬Å“What is History ¢â‚¬ , ¢â‚¬Å“(Historical facts) are like fish swimming […]
Monsanto: one of the greatest corporate scandals of our time
Got this today (22/01/2014) from SumOfUs Is Monsanto the selfish multinational I hear about all the time? Rowland, Monsanto: it’s one of the greatest corporate scandals of our time. This mega-corporation has paid off our politicians, taken over our regulators, and bullied public opponents into submission while it silently monopolizes our food system with its genetically-engineered […]
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