I was born in 1969. The cool decade, apparently. I made may have technically made the sixties by 3 months, but they never managed to provide me with any sense of inherent 'coolness'. The sixties to me were just the time my parents ran around looking pretty much like young people do today. My nana explained to me once that 'patchwork' evolved as a way of making use of clothing that had worn out in certain places. These days, these type of 'useful' trends are everywhere. My time has come ! ...
I was born in 1969. The cool decade, apparently. I made may have technically made the sixties by 3 months, but they never managed to provide me with any sense of inherent 'coolness'. The sixties to me were just the time my parents ran around looking pretty much like young people do today. My nana explained to me once that 'patchwork' evolved as a way of making use of clothing that had worn out in certain places. These days, these type of 'useful' trends are everywhere. My time has come ! ...
the question 'what sways your vote ?' was recently posed in a local (australian) newspaper article. amongst the garden-variety replies invariably motivated by the individuals personal circumstances (or, in some cases, prejudices), i noticed this response: (i would vote for a person who said) ... "my qualifications and abilities are not an issue, and i will put to vote any issue i have control in and follow the public consensus" at first glance, that statement seems reasonable enoug...
presently there is no legal culpability for committing adultery in our 'western' world. the criminal code of “civilised” countries does allow for legal, monetary, or other compensation for physical or “visible damage”. this extends to take into account “emotional” consequences for a limited number of “approved” pre-existing circumstances (ie: 'victims’ of crime compensation act'; which makes certain allowances for a victims’ mental distress). in the eyes of the law, an individual is n...
it has always fascinated me that humans need interaction with other humans, and that generally this interaction needs to be largely positive in order to be able to live a peaceful life. yet it has long been said that humans require other humans to satisfy an emotional need. individuals deprived of any human contact invariably suffer degrees of emotional distress, and it is well documented that children of emotionally distant parents suffer later in life, often failing to adequately exp...
can i ask you, did you ever see a statue erected to a critic ?. didn't think so. so why are so many people afraid to follow their dreams ? why are so many people afraid what others will 'think' of them if they become who they really are ?. i used to have a lot of dreams, and dreams are exactly what most of them remained. some slipped through my grasp, but mostly i thought i just ‘outgrew’ them. dreams are important. they sustain us in bad times. but it is turning dreams into...
in 1973, an australian doctor named john holt tried a form of radio therapy on a terminally ill cancer patient for the first time. after injecting the patient with a solution to temporarily disable glucose suspension in the blood, dr holt used radiotherapy applied by directing waves in bursts directly at the site of the tumour. this caused the destruction of the tumour via overheating without causing any damage to surrounding healthy tissue. after the patients' complete recovery, d...
science can now manipulate the human race so effectively that cloning people is theoretically possible. why don’t they invent some kind of useful genetic manipulation ?. i propose: the number of your sexual partners is tattooed on your forehead. it changes automatically whenever you sleep with someone new. the potential consequences are mind-boggling. such as: married men with 0 ! your father with 2. (and you with 63. “well, son ….”) one little threesome and you’ve go...
science can now manipulate the human race so effectively that cloning people is theoretically possible. why don’t they invent some kind of useful genetic manipulation ?. i propose: the number of your sexual partners is tattooed on your forehead. it changes automatically whenever you sleep with someone new. the potential consequences are mind-boggling. such as: married men with 0 ! your father with 2. (and you with 63. “well, son ….”) one little threesome and you’ve go...
every time i went to the fields i returned disappointed without understanding the cause of my disappointment. every time i looked at the gray sky i felt my heart contract. every time i heard the singing of the birds and babbling of the spring i suffered without understanding the reason for my suffering. it is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree. it may be true among those who were born dead and who exist like frozen corpses; ...
i read recently some statistics from one of the ‘oldest’ blogsites on the internet. i am aware that it probably includes everyone who ever registered there, so i can’t vouch for it’s currency, as many of the bloggers 'registered' would be long gone by now, having jumped on the first blog site available then run out of steam shortly thereafter. it is, however, a very interesting snapshot of the age of your ‘average’ blogger (if there can be such a thing as an ‘average blogger’) when bl...
an interesting change has taken over me since i started my blog. i am no longer just another australian able to view america as a vast and distant land separated by thousands of physical miles and populated with people whose motivations i could never relate to. the average australians’ view of the united states changed dramatically as it lead us into what some australians believe to be an unnecessary conflict. public opinion of the united states has plummeted, closely followed by a...
i once dated someone whose father could not be understood by any unrelated person. on my initial encounter with ‘dad’, i was at his front door, and he looked right at me and shouted “nissan final termite chew”. upon my non-response, he repeated himself. louder this time “NISSAN TERMITE FINAL CHEW”. he then stood there, obviously expecting a response. he seemed cheerful enough, so i guessed and said “thanks”. my boyfriend then nudged me and whispered “say it’s nice to finally meet y...
there exists in russia an erotic museum which contains the preserved penis of (evil monkand legendary lover) rasputin on public display in a glass jar as part of an exhibit on sexuality. the museums’ curator, de igor knyaskin, says he has been astounded by the attention the preserved penis is getting, stating that “it is our biggest attraction” (no pun intended). viewing rasputins’ mutilated member has spurred a trend amongst museum visitors, who now rub their hands over the jar con...
by the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in 'the chase'. the stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. the contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation, and i soon notice...