fourhares sisu blog
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30 Weeks pdf
I have to admit that writing these has so far been both tiring and absolutely wonderful: tiring, as it is on top of my teaching, association for tarot studies, and masonic commitments (as well as my personal life); wonderful in that each week I find myself having to isolate elements I consider more important and…
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Blogging hits FourHares
Here it is! Finally decided to copy-cat what so many others are doing and create my own weblog! …but of course, this does not mean that my main site is being left – in fact, I suspect that I’ll still be spending more time updating and creating pages there than I’ll do here, but we…
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towards safer airports and the loss of human dignity.
[originally published in my Octant, October 2006] Electronically tagging passengers at airports is itself an act of terrorism, freethinkers may say! I simply found it incredulous to consider that BBC online could report on the possibility of electronically tagging passengers as though this was something that could even be considered of remote social good. What…
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Tarotpaedia
[from LiveJournal] What wonderful things to be involved with! First, there is the ongoing involvement and contributions to Aeclectic’s Tarotforum, then there was the International Tarot Conference last year… and now, Tarotpedia. If nothing else, it’s great to not only be able to engage in so many different ways, but in each case with a…
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Concerning the Catholic Church’s Parochial Discernment on the Admission of Homosexuals to Holy Orders.
[originally published in my Octant, issue 1, December 2005, Simply two areas of concern – the first on genetic engineering; and the second on basically using the gay community as a scape-goat for sexual harassment of minors by a small number of those within Catholic orders.] This is a brief personal response to the English…
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Are Asian nuns being used as guinea pigs for genetically modified food-stuff?
[originally published in my Octant, issue 1, December 2005, Simply two areas of concern – the first on genetic engineering; and the second on basically using the gay community as a scape-goat for sexual harassment of minors by a small number of those within Catholic orders.] Genetically modified rice? Radio can be quite informative at…
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[from LiveJournal – no title] Didn’t much reflect today – too busy trying to catch up with eight weeks of gardening, and trying to burn off fallen branches and leaves before the fire season begins. Already tommorrow will be in the 30s – another hot Cup day… perhaps hot enough to have a swim, though…
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Further papal reflections
[from LiveJournal] Well – I at least predicted the correct name of the Pope, even if not the correct person. The other prediction, more likely given the age of the current Pope than the person I had predicted, is that he would only last until 2008. This we shall see, and perhaps we shall then…
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Forecasting the new Pope and personal preferences
[original on LiveJournal: http://jmdavid.livejournal.com/1697.html] As I have already posted a reading for the forthcoming Pope, I shall not here mention it in any details. Simply refer to http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=39947 and, even more stepping out with possibly totally incorrect forecast, http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=40059 I write here, however, to reflect on what are some of the changes I would like…
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Ethics
[from LiveJournal] Seems that the more I read, the more it seems that there is a lack of understanding as to what ethics is. Many seem to base ethical views on deontological statements, or on emotivism, or on socially or psychologically determined dispositions. One of the papers I will need to prepare – perhaps as…
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