Tag Archives: musings

Dear All,
There was once a fish­er­man. Every day he cast his net into the lake, caught a few fish to sell in the local mar­ket. How­ever the fish were dwind­ling in the area he usu­ally worked and thus, he was forced to go fur­ther and fur­ther. One day he rowed out to the fur­thest reaches of the […]

Dear All,
In all hon­esty, I am some­what in agree­ment with Dire Assas­sin about the latest turn of events. I am appalled by the blatant dis­reg­ard for human rights that is espoused by the Howard Gov­ern­ment in terms of the new “anti-terrorism” bill. I am also some­what afraid that the unlikely her­oes of demo­cracy, Barn­aby Joyce, or that Family […]

Dear All,

At what point is it that someone’s per­son­al­ity ceases to be their per­son­al­ity, and instead becomes a dis­order? When does it cease to be what makes them a per­son, and rather, what makes theirs and oth­ers’ lives a misery? How do you define traits that are within the bounds of nor­mal for some as hav­ing reached that stage?
My […]

Dear All,
In one of those dis­cus­sions on MSN that one has about essays and the nature of mean­ing with Josh, I have the fol­low­ing random thing:

Dear All,
I had pre­vi­ously thought emo­tion to be purely the res­ult of one’s reac­tions to the envir­on­ment. Now I am not so sure. It is inter­est­ing how cer­tain emo­tions seem to take on a life of their own, quite inde­pend­ent of external events, or one’s free will. They seem to reach a crit­ical mass and exist purely of […]

Dear All,
I have a pet pro­ject, in con­junc­tion with the Fog Mon­ster, and that is to pos­sibly write a med­ical text­book. I am not sure how it will be struc­tured, as I believe that we agree as well has dis­agree in many aspects of how to approach it. Here is a quick guide to the rad­ic­ally dif­fer­ent and new way […]