fourhares sisu blog
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photographic delights
Every so often, I peruse Robert Mealing‘s site. And each time, there are new wonderful additions to the gallery. Here is someone who has a keen eye for balanced detail… his photography (and his thoughts – but that’s another story) well worth perusing. As an example, have a look at this incredibly sensitive and ever…
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Site updates
… I’ve only made some rather quick changes to this blog. What I’m very pleased about, however, are the updates (and moving over 70 pages) to the Newsletters of the Association for Tarot Studies (now at their own subdomain: Newsletter.TarotStudies.org, and the registration of steiner.edu.au (though I do need to do a fair amount of…
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Schapelle Corby not over yet!
When will the new government pick up the pieces left by the previous one with regards to leaving an innocent victim of a regime that has… let’s be sensitive in this description… ‘different’ values to our own and imprisons someone without a fair trial!? It’s about time that perhaps Australia looks at Israel in terms…
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Israel’s crisis
A number of years ago, I wrote a brief reflection which I titled ‘On the lie of suicide bombings: how to maximise support by presenting murder as suicide’ (this was prior to the establishment of this blog, but basically the equivalent, ‘published’ as ‘octant‘). If I can reflect a little on the worldwide current situation,…
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Step 2: Government filters internet
…and we all thought that mainland China was over the top! Now it seems that our still new-ish Federal Government is intent on stepping up its invasive prohibitions. This is certainly another (and unexpected) example of the kind of stuff my previous post mentioned, without only a few days ago aware that this was on…
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Oft fear of an evil drives us to another worse
Those words, penned in 1674 by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (Canto I, l.64) in his L’Art Poetique, has unfortunately so many resonances in today’s socio-political climate. At one level, this can be seen on a common basis as one boards flights: the fear of some flight incident is driving society to measures reminiscent of fascism – and…
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Rudolf Steiner and Freemasonry
Now how about this… Finally a workshop that crosses two of my principal interests, namely the works of Rudolf Steiner and Freemasonry, and such on the other side of the globe. The University of Sheffield’s Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism is presenting the following: Workshop on The Temple Legend November 1 2008 The…
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Adobe CS-4
ok. I’m impressed. Having just returned from an Adobe launch of the suite, it also makes me feel that my poor fourhares.com site (which I have only the past week given a major face-lift) is some decade behind the times, and likewise my skills and abilities! I look forward to fiddling around with both DreamWeaver…
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World’s Second Oldest Grand Lodge (finally) admits women!
It’s about time. Actually, it’s really quite overdue: France’s oldest Grand Lodge, the Grand Orient de France, has so far not prevented its Lodges from initiating amongst its ranks women. Presumably such move will be explicitly supported at its next meeting in September. Of course, women have been in Freemasonry for quite some time, with…
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New Forum
In many ways, it’s a pity it had to come to that. I suppose that at least in the online world, when rules and regulations begin to be applied in manners that have a deadening effect, one can easily move on to another domain, without feeling as though those who remain have no choice. Would…
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