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- Shakespeare: The Journey into the Sacred now available
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- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 1
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- The WEMP
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- Introducing Archetypology
- A Xmas Gift
- The Power of Archetypes: Raygun Edition
- The Games People Play
- Australia’s “let them eat cake” moment?
- Children of anti-nature
- What happens when your government’s a junkie?
- ChatWTF
- It’s the vegetables, stupid
- The American Comedy Rolls On
- Neoliberalism Must Die
- On hiatus (sort of)
- Midwife’s Advice
Hi Simon, What’s your position on zombies? They seem like bad news, and apparently began via a lab leak. I…
Chris – well, that’s the point. There was all this kerfuffle about Nolan’s choice of actors for the film and…
Hi Simon, I’ve never met the guy, so have no idea as to your question, but did enjoy his take…
Chris – not sure about Nolan. I’m not a huge fan of his work anyway, but why would you choose…
Hi Simon, I read an interesting book on this very subject by an an author and anthropologist (Michael D Jackson)…
Chris – the local council in my area recently rolled out green bins to everybody. So, at least food and…
Hi Simon, Ah, say no more! 🙂 One of the craziest things our civilisation does is that flow of minerals.…
Chris – well, most gardens tend to have one more large primates around that produce a nitrogen-rich liquid on a…
Hi Simon, Exactly! Every plant has it’s own requirements in relation to their preferred soil mineral mix. It’s complicated and…
Sandra – hah! Don’t get me started on spacing. I just had to move a tree I’d planted too close…
Hi Simon, There are so many lessons to learn about gardening! I sometimes feel that basic knowledge about growing food…
Chris – well, there’s another subject that turns out to be complicated. Which plants actually need lots of nitrogen? Apart…
Hi Simon, Total respect for figuring this situation out by pure observation alone. Well done! 🙂 I on the other…
Sandra – consider me sceptical. Over the past few decades the state has legalised all kinds of things that used…
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I bet the zombies are eating all the damn avocados!