Melbourne Murders..You don't have to look much beyond the facts with the guy who killed and damaged all those people in Melbourne...1: he used a smart phone, 2: he had a facebook account, and 3: he smoked cigarettes. If that doesn't create a multiple murderer, then I don't know what does.

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I think the problem with our understanding of the various cancers is that we don't understand their purpose, and we refuse to.

The Cancers are normal and essential for the future survival of the human species.

Cancers are not something that goes wrong within a body, they are simply catalysts for the future of the species.

Some are bad, some are good. Cancers are evolution at work. Cancers are Nature.

I think this is an interesting position for someone who has worked in that area for a lifetime.

My genetic stream doesn't include cancers, my genetics are purely cardiac. My life will reach its end due to the impact of my heart-genetics in the scheme of things...that is normal. That is quite good.

Cardiac is another realm of evolution at work every day.

These diseases all make sense when one looks beyond the self for meaning.

Dementia, too, makes sense in the holy human paradigm.

The human body and mind is always at the behest of nature, being bended through physical and mental illness, towards a long time viability of the collective.

I wonder if it is somehow still wrong to say what one thinks.

I accept that these are our Modern Times, to us, but I can't accept that these times are in any way Enlightened Times. Enlightenment does not involve refusal to accept Humanity as it is.

It was good to watch the US Presidential Inauguration as a historical event. I recall watching the initial inauguration of Barak Obama when he said 'Change has come to America'. Looking back, I guess, little did he know that the change would, in fact, be Donald Trump. It appears as though the USA is going into a relatively Isolationist mode which I think is a very good thing for America, firstly, and for the rest of us. Although I would have preferred a Socialist Bernie Sanders as US President, I still think Trump may be very good for America. He is, essentially, an "American President" and his interests seem to be, in prime focus, at home, which is great for everyone else. I wish the Americans well in the country of their own making.

It was good to watch the US Presidential Inauguration as a historical event.
I recall watching the initial inauguration of Barak Obama when he said 'Change has come to America'.
Looking back, I guess, little did he know that the change would, in fact, be Donald Trump.
It appears as though the USA is going into a relatively Isolationist mode which I think is a very good thing for America, firstly, and for the rest of us.
Although I would have preferred a Socialist Bernie Sanders as US President, I still think Trump may be very good for America. He is, essentially, an "American President" and his interests seem to be, in prime focus, at home, which is great for everyone else.
I wish the Americans well in the country of their own making.

I recall reading an auto-biographical note by the superb humorist, Spike Milligan, recalling, in World War 2, as a UK soldier being in an open caboose on a train at the top of a high mountain in the Middle East when the train driver was shot and the train rolled fast backwards down the steep incline into a steep murderous valley whilst he was being shot at by the Enemy. His comment: "Roll on, brave new bloody world, roll on". Now, I have used this comment a few times in my life at various intersections. The important thing was that , although he had a great sense of humour about life on earth, he, following this event, through surviving it, developed an even better one.

"The Deconstruction of Ambition" by John Fitzpatrick 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Medium: Metal Wire and Pig Skin on Wood, with unlocked door knob. "You can aim and aim at this goal or that goal, or you can just open the door."

"The Deconstruction of Ambition" by John Fitzpatrick 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Medium: Metal Wire and Pig Skin on Wood, with unlocked door knob. "You can aim and aim at this goal or that goal, or you can just open the door."

I'm sorry I dropped off the screen during the odyssey from Cairns to Melbourne but half way through I left my coffee maker in the hotel...

So we are in Melbourne now, and it is good to be in better weather and within 7 miles of the cbd of a city, a basically happy and liveable city of around 4 million.

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