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Treasuring Transcendent Words

Reflections on the Transcendent Power of Words

Feb 9

Photo from the International Space Station showing the layers of Earth’s atmosphere in the sunset. CREDIT NASA. Overlaid with the words “Transcendent words bring forth the wondrous universe in our souls.”

Feb 9

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Dave McArthur

Tongue-tied by the English Language (On untying the bonds of the mother tongue)

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Mar 15, 2022

Tongue-tied by the English Language
(On untying the bonds of the mother tongue)

Mar 15, 2022

Dave McArthur

ChatGPT at Our Peril

Preamble

Apr 28

Information is physical and we are our language. The cartoon illustrates how our “Artificial Intelligence” reflects our contemporary Anglo culture, which is founded in the English Combustion Revolution and the associated belief that Earth’s atmosphere works like a greenhouse.

Apr 28

Dave McArthur

What is Science?

Welcome to all fellow scientists and that includes you, regardless of your age, education, gender or religion. It even includes those of…

Aug 29, 2023

What is Science?

Aug 29, 2023

Dave McArthur

What is Physics?

Welcome all fellow physicists and that includes you, regardless of your age, education, gender or religion. It even includes those of you…

Aug 5, 2023

What is Physics?

Aug 5, 2023

Dave McArthur

What and Who is a Conservative?

Adult Stuff

Jun 3, 2023

What and Who is a Conservative?

Jun 3, 2023

Dave McArthur

What is The Environment?

What is “the environment”? What is the nature of the word “environment”? And what, if anything, is the matter with it? Most people seem…

Apr 23, 2023

This cartoon is adapted from a cartoon for five year-olds discussing how the Maori word “kaiako” means both “teacher” and “student” whereas English has no word transcending these two words and the child is seen to be an “Empty Vessel” for the teacher to fill with knowledge. Information is understood to be an exclusive one-way process rather than a simultaneous exchange of information. Hence modern English culture tends to be more dualistic and divisive.

Apr 23, 2023

Dave McArthur

What’s with “The Ego~Compassion”?

So, what’s with the ego~compassion? What on Earth and in the heavens do these two words have to do with each other? The answer is…

Mar 1, 2023

What’s with “The Ego~Compassion”?

Mar 1, 2023

Dave McArthur

What is A Resource?

“R.E.S.O.U.R.C.E. So Mummy, Daddy, come again. Repeat. Do me a reboot. Remind me. Help me remember. What really is a resource?” Imagine how…

Jan 29, 2023

What is A Resource?

Jan 29, 2023

Dave McArthur

What is a Fossil Fuel?

“Mum. Dad. Why is a fossil fuel?” Chances are if you were a parent answering this question you might patiently explain to your child that a…

Nov 23, 2022

What is a Fossil Fuel?

Nov 23, 2022

Dave McArthur

Dave McArthur

I am an ordinary sort of bloke, long a school cleaner, who is unlearning my life and recovering my childhood spirit of inquiry so compassion can flourish.

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