Polish Man in New World

I slowly start to forget how good it is to live in Australia. It is because good things happen here literally every day. This time my University sponsored a weekly trip for me to Brisbane International Conference on Ecology. So far, the first lecture I’ve seen here - presented by Ian was the one which impressed me most. He dig out the books which were well-covered with dust. And as it turned out within the field of ecology we still keep on asking the same questions. We still want to understand the mechanism which drives the matrix full of numbers and we are hardly getting there : ) Although we use better computing technologies than 100 years ago, better experimental techniques we are still left with some kind of frustration, dumb-standing. All we can see are numbers: 145.8365g. 6423.97 cm2, 33.333 m/s. There is many of numbers. And lecture is followed by lecture. There are many of lectures. One can see many figures and graphs. They are usually very complex and they show something. Most...

Yes. Maybe bishop didn’t was as inventive as one Polish guy may think but in my opinion he is still a brave person. Because why I couldn’t change my attitude toward homosexual people before I left catholic country, before I reached for that book? I noticed for the first time that bible is full of contradictions. Even the issue of divinity of Jesus is not clear. Is he considered as a God from the moment of resurrection or maybe from the moment when Holy Spirit has visited a womb of Mary – Joseph’s wife? Homosexuality is wrong, is sick, and is evil perversion. Priests are able to use much more negative epithets on that topic. What is a basis for it? “There is not one reference to homosexuality in any of the 4 Gospels” (page 135). I do not believe that Jesus was blind. Bible is such a big book but with so little about homosexuality in there. The major reference is found in one place in Old Testament. But this part of Bible describes time on be-or-not-to-be of small tribe during the exile....

Why bible is biased against women? I am set comfortably in my new home. All heavy material things you need to exist are set in our flat too. I can enjoy reading and writing again : ) I was dragged in. Totally absorbed by one brave bishop from New York: “Yahweh was a solitary male god who did not need a female partner to create life. He created instead by speaking the Word. His Spirit was the essential principle of life itself. Baal worship, on other hand, was intensely sexual, with the sexual power of reproduction honoured as the source of life” (p. 120). Bible appears to be a never-ending struggle to enslave Mother Nature, to kill a worship of goddess. Marriage seems to be more a contract upon which property of male dominant might be passed forth on next generation. Wife as a subhuman is treated by patriarchal tradition more as a possession. Possession, what Jewish kings used to share between each other. Virginity is important part of contract because it is proving the quality of t...

Thanks Kate for very stimulating comment. I think the last post was kind of scream for freedom : ) which develops after you are boiled again and again in the same kind of soup. It is like you want to rebel against the constraints. Nevertheless I am happy low-CO2 bicycle rider. Today I had my first ride after long winter. Sun was awesome. I took even a picture on the way showing nice contrast between empty biking road running along the busy 5 lanes Epping Road - all packed up with cars. I cant find wires at the moment to upload the photo. They are gone somewhere in one of the hundreds boxes around here. We move out from St Leonards. Tomorrow we rent a van and organize stuff for our new flat in Macquarie Park. This is going to be our first flat. Only us. Freedom :)

An ad on main page of my uni + interesting description made us go to the lecture of Peter Singer: http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/events/index.asp?ItemID=3834 Subconsciously I have more respect to the professors who try to look in a dissent way. Suit is a standard, they are usually shaved too : ). Peter Singer didn't bother to look good. But OK. I put off all the prejudices and I decided to stay and to listen to his lecture on "Climate Change". There was nothing new to me about this topic. I think I repeat myself if I say we witness the birth of new religion: Climatology. Peter is like one of its Apostles. He is vegan, he is enlightened. I had a fun on producing new Decalogue for him which fully follows his believes. 1. There is one Climate Change 2. You shall have no other fears 3. You shall not make yourself any other idol 4. Stop criticising Climate Change 5. Honour abortion and euthanasia - they reduce our population 6. You shall not kill any trees - they absorb dangerous CO...

Sarah Dunant a writer of "Sacred Heart" reveals in last Saturday Spectrum how contemporary art, religion and politics are tightly interwoven with each other. She does it by describing XVI Venice. I think the things has not been changed much in that matter. How could you explain fact that Australian Government spent more money on storing the carbon deep under than on reducing it? http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html So. Jewish religion developed the rule which prevent the believers from swine meat consumption. It was at the time of very dangerous parasite called trichina transmitted by pigs. No one knew it at that time. In the Middle Age religion put more constraints on people. Peasants were pressed down this way so that more goods would go to their Master, In Current Age things turned upside down. We deploy anything what makes us constrained. Consumption is guru. Contemporary art connects extremes. Behave as freely as you can because it brings ...

I do not comprehend the things. It is so hard to grasp this all mentally. 1. Ecology Discussing Table made me feel that phylogenetic biology is like walking across the labyrinth with too many exits : ) which lead to another labyrinths. 2. Minister Of Environment sits proudly in the hybrid car powered by power point. You simply have to plug it in. No one says that energy which is transferred through grid is produced by coal burning stations. The energy use efficiency of grid and electrical engine is never 100%. Greenhouse gas production is shifted away from the car to the country side :)))) 3. Lecture on modelling was kind of hard nut to crack for a beginner like me. We try to predict the the way the population of individual plants will grow. Very intelligent approach made by very intelligent people. Sometimes I wish someone proves chaos to be a driving force in a nature :))) 4. And the look of this girl from behind the arms of young man. A Poster on the train station in Chatswood. Mini...