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Regarding belief and meaning in the modern era ... Sydney in 1970s ...

"You'd have to go back to the Silk Routes, I should say, to discover a comparable religious promiscuity. In 1253 Friar William of Rubruk encountered in the court of Manghu Khan a kind of Adyar bookshop of Orthodox Christian Alans, Tibetan Lamaic Buddhists, Muslim Turks, Monophysite Armenians, Nestorian Mongols, Manichaean Uighurs, not to mention Chinese Taoists and Korean Confucians. In the last days of the fifth century AD, the neoplatonist philosopher Proclus apparently observed the holy days of every religion on earth. Welcome to the festival of Mind, Body and Spirit" - David Foster, "The Glade within the Grove", footnote to page 22.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Möngke_Khan

F.U.

Female labrador urine burning lawns https://www.puppyleaks.com/female-dogs-dead-grass/ https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1451975/labrador-urine-kills-grass-suggestions

north[ern] Macedonia shenanigans

Wentworth

Urantia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book

Some movement on reffos

The 'Apology' and rank hypocrisy

Things

Gun lobby and political advertising in Victoria https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/23/gun-lobby-makes-no-mention-of-guns-in-victorian-election-ad-blitz

Harm minimisation ignored in NSW ... moar harm please https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/23/nsw-premier-says-drug-dealers-could-be-jailed-for-25-years-after-music-festival-deaths

Anna Wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Wood_(born_1980)

Pot problems https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-marijuana-legal-weed-shortage-pot-running-out-a8593861.html https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house-official-called-trudeau-that-little-punk-kid-running-canada

Facebook shareholders https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-shareholders-back-proposal-remove-zuckerberg-chairman-n921346

Immunisation, air pollution and road mortality

or 'How much should other people (or things) be able to kill us and why not?''

https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/08/25/anti-vax-fears-drive-a-measles-outbreak-in-europe

"A survey of French doctors in 2014, for example, found that nearly a quarter believed that some of the officially recommended vaccines were not useful." From the article. It presents as controversial that so many doctors should believe that "some of the officially recommended vaccines were not useful". The thing is that that is a demonstrable statement of fact; I would like more than a quarter of doctors to be aware of that.

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-air-pollution-europeans-year.html

https://www.eea.europa.eu/media/newsreleases/many-europeans-still-exposed-to-air-pollution-2015/premature-deaths-attributable-to-air-pollution

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/09/study-measures-crash-risk-for-clunkers/index.htm

SMART car crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKGfo1wmOM