vol VII: Notes
1983
Notes
Sunday 9 January 1983 - Saturday 15 January 1983
notebook: DREAMING DB 1
Sunday 9 January 1982
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Monday 10 January 2003
Still think of you continuously and miss you badly. What a lot to lose out of one life. Have just returned from a short trip to Kempsey with Q and P where I visited some old haunts and people looking for reassurance, company, respite from the cloying closeness of Elands, for all its warm mountain beauty a closed community. . . . Everybody there seems happily / unhappily / resignedly married settled and not very
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inspiring, doing nothing but living - sad to me but good, no doubt, for them, I loved you because you were searching, moving, trying to get somewhere in the abstract space of knowing, . . .
Next night I slept at Yarrahappini. . . . Have been somewhat restless, confused and angry since you died. I then dreamt of some sort of Church ceremony conducted by Peter Searson, who as Marist Brother Bonaventure had been one of my teachers at Marist Brothers College Mount Gambier. He was very much into manliness and competition, a disciplinarian, doctrinaire. As a member of some group or other I was involved in picketing his church in Adelaide, probably after I left the Dominicans, and he delivered a strong attack on us after the sermon, no doubt asserting the authority of the church against its members. I cannot remember if in fact one of us stood up in church at that time (an almost unheard of liberty) and remonstrated with him.
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In the dream his sermon seemed to be on the relief of tension and the dissipation of anger, He distinguished time scales of feeling, from short to long, the length being related to the integrity of the feeling involved and therefore the amount of mental effort (and time) necessary to evolve an intelligent resolution of the elements of the conflict. Quentin McDermott and Peter Cronau
Next evening (Sunday) stayed at . . . Crescent Head. Raved to S about science fiction ideas and became clearer in my vocation as science fiction writer / citizen of the universe to offset all the current misunderstandings about science and information technology. Saw a little of their video with blue movies. It is interesting how we identify with the mating rituals of our own species / planet. It might be interesting to write interplanetary erotica. To understand is to move beyond the sensual and perhaps feed back into it.
Tuesday 11 January 2003
Birthday eve. . . . What will I do. My time of complete absorption is coming to a close. Time to start giving out, the transformation from contemplation to
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action . . .
Recall no dreams . . ..
Wednesday 12 January 2003
Thursday 13 January 2003
Friday 14 January 2003
Saturday 15 January 2003
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Armstrong, Karen, Holy War: The Crusades and their impact on today's world, Anchor Books (Random House) 2001 Jacket: 'In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem from Islam. It was to be the first of the Crusades, a holy war that would focus the power of the European kingdoms against a common enemy. The Crusades became the stuff of romantic legend, but in reality were a series of rabidly savage battles carried out in the name of Christian piety to advance the power of the Western Church. Their legacy of religious violence is felt today as the age old conflict of Christians, Muslims and Jews persists.'
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Ford, David, The Modern Theologians : An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century, Blackwell 1997 Preface: 'The main aim of this volume is to introduce the theology of most leading twentieth-century Christian theologians and movements in theology. . . . The contributors are mostly based in Europe of North America and come from a wide range of institutions, denominational backgrounds, and countries. Most are themselves constructively engaged in modern theology, and their purpose has been to produce a scholarly account of their subject and also carry further the theological dialogue in each case.'
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, W W Norton and Company 2004 Preface: '... Ten Commissoners - five Republicans and five Democrats ... present this report withour dissent. ... Our mandate was sweeping. The law deirected us to investigate "facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, " including those relating to intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, diplomacy, immigration issues and border control, the flow of assets to terrorist organisations, commercial aviateion, the role of cogressional oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. ...'
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Reynolds, Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, The Social Ecology of Religion, Oxford University Press 1995 Jacket: 'No society exists in which religion does not play a significant part in the lives of ordinary people. Yet the functions of the world's diverse religions have never been fully described and analyzed, nor has the impact of adherence to those religions on the health and survival of the populations that practice them. . . . this extraordinary text reveals how religions in all parts of the world meet the needs of ordinary people and frequently play an important part in helping them to manage their affairs.'
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Wohlstetter, Roberta, Pearl Harbour: Warning and Decision, Stanford University Press 1962 Amazon Customer Review: 'This work is the definitive analysis of the intelligence failures leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It is not an historical account of the attack, but is rather a concise analysis of the mistakes made by naval intelligence authorities in Hawaii and the U.S. during the months leading up to the attack.
The book offers a unique analysis of the attack, and doesn't pull any punches. Human failures are analyzed, as well as bureaucratic failures, which were many. The reader comes away with a better understanding of the attitudes prevelant among intelligence authorities of the time, as well as an insight into their workings.
This is not a book for those just beginning their studies of the attack. It is more appropriate for someone who already has a good understanding of the historical timelines of the attack, the Japanese perspective of U.S. military policy at the time, and the military and civilian authorities involved in the attack and their roles.
The only negative comment regarding the book is that it offers rather tedious reading at times. But to serious researchers this is more than offset by the volumes of information gleaned from it.
This is a "must-have" book for serious Pearl Harbor researchers. Gary W. Roberson (Arlington, VA United States)
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Links
| Aquinas 30, Is goodness divided into the virtuous [honestum] the useful [utile] and the pleasant [delectabile]?, 'I answer that, This division properly concerns human goodness. But if we consider the nature of goodness from a higher and more universal point of view, we shall find that this division properly concerns goodness as such. For everything is good so far as it is desirable, and is a term of the movement of the appetite; the term of whose movement can be seen from a consideration of the movement of a natural body. Now the movement of a natural body is terminated by the end absolutely; and relatively by the means through which it comes to the end, where the movement ceases; so a thing is called a term of movement, so far as it terminates any part of that movement. Now the ultimate term of movement can be taken in two ways, either as the thing itself towards which it tends, e.g. a place or form; or a state of rest in that thing. Thus, in the movement of the appetite, the thing desired that terminates the movement of the appetite relatively, as a means by which something tends towards another, is called the useful; but that sought after as the last thing absolutely terminating the movement of the appetite, as a thing towards which for its own sake the appetite tends, is called the virtuous; for the virtuous is that which is desired for its own sake; but that which terminates the movement of the appetite in the form of rest in the thing desired, is called the pleasant.'
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| Ecole Biblique - Wikipedia, Ecole Biblique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The École Biblique, strictly the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, is a French academic establishment in Jerusalem, founded by Dominicans, and specialising in archaeology and Biblical exegesis.' back |
| Fundamentalism - Wikipedia, Fundamentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines, usually understood as a reaction to Modernist theology. The term was originally coined by its supporters to describe five specific classic theological beliefs of Christianity, and that developed into a Christian fundamentalist movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century.' back |
| Ian Ramsay Centre for Science and Religion, Special Divine Action, ' Is there special divine action in the world, beyond the effects of a first or uncaused cause? If so, what is such action like and how would we know? Are there particular ways of thinking about the world that make such actions probable, possible or impossible? How does contemporary research in philosophy, theology, and science bear on these questions? What tools of scholarship can and should be used? Are there advantages and disadvantages, from the point of view of knowledge and human flourishing, of taking a stance for or against the possibility of special divine action?' back |
| Quentin McDermott and Peter Cronau, Secret Catholic Church report found parish priest Peter Searson was guity of child sex abuse, despite no charges ever being laid against him, 'A secret Catholic Church report concluded a parish priest was guilty of child sexual abuse, despite no charges ever being laid against him.
The internal report of a confidential 1997 investigation into Father Peter Searson, of the outer-Melbourne parish of Doveton, made a finding that "the parish priest had been guilty of sexual abuse", Four Corners has revealed.' back |
| Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia, Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia, 'The second law of thermodynamics states that in a natural thermodynamic process, there is an increase in the sum of the entropies of the participating systems.
The second law is an empirical finding that has been accepted as an axiom of thermodynamic theory. back |
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