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Let’s continue with the meaning theme I started with The Pursuit of Meaning and illustrated with an Australian example, Spearing Pay Back: Retribution for Peace? Some of the providers of the most profound sense of meaning are some cults, providing their members with a very powerful sense of purpose or identity not easily found outside [...]

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Yesterday I had another of those “Should I import into Facebook? Should I not import into Facebook?” moments. I chose “no, don’t import”, as part of the general idea of separating and unlinking the “identities” I have on the ‘net. So I unimported my notes, then promptly, or not so promptly, manually deleted each of [...]

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With this post I mean to talk to newcomers to this blog, and in particular, the subset that might hold reasons to not want to read some of the posts or comments here. I’ve tried to generalise as much as I can, but in the end I think I know of only one particular demographic [...]

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In previous discussions contemplating evil and sin (the equality/inequality of) and “not-good-behaviour”, we explored to some degree the kinds of differences of opinion to be had on such matters. While further exploration of the diversity is possible, I thought I’d cut to the chase by directly asking the question with regards to this blog: Is [...]

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From Australia’s ABC News, Indigenous leaders urge recognition of traditional punishments: Senior Indigenous people in the Northern Territory have called on the Prime Minister to officially recognise their customary laws including traditional punishments such as spearing. Apparently our Western culture’s methods of punishment, namely jail time, is insufficient — relative to traditions, it seems unsatisfactory [...]

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