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Beautiful Clifton Beach, a few minutes walk from our new home nestled between the rainforest clad mountains and the coral sea in tropical North Queensland
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DAVE
ROBINSON'S
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Philosophy, Travel,
Humanism, Culture
Music, Photos
and oddments from
Down Under
david robinson daverobinson.id.au david robinson
ethics, empiricism, logic, maths, Central Humanism, Australian society and social issues,
worldwide travel, ergonomic computer keyboards, classical music, traditional jazz,
popular music, poetry, wildlife, soccer and more - watch this space for developments
Philosophy, Logic,
Ethics and Sociology |
Travel and Places |
Music and
Miscellaneous |
Central Humanism Hub
New: A paradox-reducing
system of logic
When Society comes First
Six Kinds of Proposition
and the Edges of Normality
New: A natural mod-2 logic
out of nowhere
Religious Gunk
Wotser Proper Filossofer?
Re-vamp: The physical
nature of mathematics
My philosophical outlook
& the great unsolved problem
On the way:
What Existence
is not, and what it might be
(unfinished article)
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Lautoka! Lautoka! -
All about Lautoka!
New Zealand - Kirra Tours
Cairns by Tilt Train
Darwin to Adelaide by
the Ghan, plus the
Great Ocean Road
Brisbane photos
Tasmania in 17 days
A trip through Egypt,
Southern Europe,
Turkey & India (2002)
The Other Side of Fiji
Finale: Will travel,
won't track
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Aicha and other delights -
top music of all kinds
RICK computer keyboard
system
New: Musical trifles - scores,
lead-sheets, audio
Epigrams & Maxims
Number theory - almost primes
(now with computer programs)
Poetry, song lyrics etc
Christmas Crackers - paradoxes
of Relativity & Zeno (with
tsunami/bushfire intro)
Eight low-cost "3+3" digital
cameras
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"Those things that unite us as Australians are much greater
and more enduring than those that divide us"
(John Howard, conceding defeat in the July 1987 Federal election)
Hi! - Thanks for visiting this site. The various articles cover quite a wide range of topics, so I hope you'll find something of interest. The level of writing is very uneven: a passing acquaintance with western academic philosophy, logic and/or mathematics would assist the digestion of some of the more esoteric stuff.
I'm an ex-agricultural researcher, a zoologist by training, born in India of English parents, educated mainly in the UK, married with two children (of mature age), now an Australian citizen living in Queensland - the State which I fondly call home, yet which I believe should be abolished! (along with all the other States and Territories - see Footnote*). My reasons for migrating included the weather, environment, working conditions and escaping from English (especially female) obliqueness, which I could never handle (I'm the world's worst mind reader).
Never was a person luckier than one raised in the Devonshire countryside, then settled in Australia. Since my arrival in 1971, my family has moved house many times, living in Sydney's western suburbs, the NSW Northern Tablelands, various Brisbane suburbs, the Sunshine Coast and currently in far north Queensland (see photos). The vagrant life is entertaining but not necessarily to be recommended. There's something more solidly human about picking a pleasant spot in the country and building up a permanent home and lifestyle there from scratch. In today's world few people are able to go down this road.
Dave Robinson is an exceedingly common name. Because of my amateurish interest in philosophy, I had better mention that I am definitely not the Dave Robinson who is a professional philosopher and writer of the fascinating book "Introducing Philosophy" and several other books in the "Introducing ..." series.
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Another view of Clifton Beach
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Interests – Mainly music, philosophy, humanism, wildlife and travel. See below for more detail and other pursuits. It's obvious my interest in website design is minimal, but at least the entire site (except for two pages) was assembled from first principles without the help of a webpage builder.
"Antirests" – These are entrenched interests, persuasions, predispositions or customs that other people may hold but which I happen to find deeply disturbing or just futile. Examples are religion (see below and this article), prolificacy (the population explosion), torture and cruelty, child abuse (especially psychological abuse), genocide ("ethnic cleansing"), the United Nations (incredible impotence and inconsistency), Australian federalism (see Footnote 1), politicians in general, logging of natural forest, current animal production and fishing practices, land, water and energy misuse (especially by large corporations), the Australian taxation system (suffocating effluent breeding faster than flies), "political correctness" (a pitiful kind of deceit), foreign English (I rue the day that Esperanto fell by the wayside) and miscellaneous other social trends. (Notice how I say all this in the same breath!).
Disinterests – These are things that leave me totally unmoved (except, perhaps, for a feeling of baffled amusement), although in most cases I acknowledge their worth and generally believe the world would be a poorer place without them. Examples are Shakespeare, athletics, gossip, line dancing, computer games and about 95% of movies.
My idols and heroes include Beethoven, Kant, Einstein, Mandela, our "diggers" and war veterans and my wife, whose efforts in voluntary community work I especially applaud. Many Australians, believe it or not, have never heard of one or more of the four celebrities in this list, but few would fail to recognise my idol of the moment, that remarkable youngster, Bindy Irwin, daughter of Terri and deceased “crocodile hunter”, Steve Irwin. Long may she reign! (but I don't hold the same opinion about the crocs - see Footnote 2 ).
Knowledge has no end, they say, but there comes a time in life when the ability to acquire new information slows down and you feel a need – even a duty – to consolidate your thoughts and let others know some of what you’ve learnt. These pages, in part, contribute to that undertaking.
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