Last week a friend asked me if I had taken the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. My verbal response was “That is personal medical information” to which he replied “Oh so you haven’t taken it!” Before I explain why this conversation is so messed up, let me point out that I am not an “anti-vaxxer”, and [...]
No this is not a post about a Roman general called "Vicarious", though it does sound like one. Vicarious is a word which means "taking the place of" someone or something else. I just finished reading the science fiction novel "Leviathon Wakes" by James S Corey. It is, in part, about the destruction of 1.5 [...]
I wrote this non fiction book in 2013 with the idea of supporting those people who struggle with self-acceptance, who are religious refugees, or who , like me, just want to have a belief that is consistent with love, science, humanity, ecology and common sense. It has behind it a premise that love is what [...]
“Does the moon exist only when I look at it?” Albert Einstein I live in a city, a large city, and everywhere I go I see concrete and walls, and particularly I see lots of signs and advertisements. When I drive my eyes are trained to flick from one sign to another, you have to, [...]
“All my relations” now include talking animals, shrinking hides that become shields, and wisdom from the oldest in the village.I have just finished reading a book by Joseph Marshall III, which has a lot of interesting and engaging stories about life on the North American plains before the white two-leggeds came. I must say that [...]
I have recently completed reading a book called “The Greening” by Margaret Coles. This book is a novel, but one with a twist, and this is my review of it… I chose to read this book because I hoped to find characters with four dimensions, based on my understanding of the fly cover. Yes, four [...]
A diamond is the hardest material in the world. It can easily score steel, glass, ceramics and other hard objects. However it has another characteristic. It is easily shattered. I remember reading a story by Wilbur Smith where a protagonist destroys millions of dollars of diamonds with a simple hammer and anvil. […]
Einstein proved a relationship between energy, matter and time. (E=MC2) In the realm of time, Energy is the tension that holds the equation together, outside of time, Energy just IS.. Science now is based on the premises of relativity. The thing is, if there is no matter, then time does not exist, but energy can [...]
Written in 2000, this is another Philosofree song from the Australian Dream album. Below are the lyrics… […]
