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Andrew Stadtmauer
- Mar 21
- 5 min
How If— by Kipling Helps Me
Over the last few challenging months, there has been one poem that I have turned to again and again to buttress my resolve against the...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Mar 15
- 3 min
How My Beliefs Helped Me To Survive
The last few months have been tough. Objectively I’d say they have been some of the most challenging months I have ever experienced. I am...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
The Hidden Life Of Trees
Recently, I finished reading Peter Wohlleben's excellent The Hidden Life of Trees. If you haven't read it yet, I cannot recommend it...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Belonging
Feeling like you belong can be hard. But for us it is simple.
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
Do We Need A New NATO
During the Cold War, Soviet aggression against Berlin and West Germany was discouraged by the stationing of hundreds of thousands of...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Oct 18, 2021
- 6 min
Beware of Should
How often have you heard someone say, "That's not how it should be", or "They should do this or that"? Hidden in these commonplace…
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Oct 11, 2021
- 8 min
Do We Have Rights?
What are Rights? Like Hobbes we believe we are born with complete liberty. This natural right to do as we please is limited by mutual...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Why Is It So Hard
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? So tired and hurt that we just want to crawl away and give up. So, what do we do?
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 27, 2021
- 4 min
Lord Jim: A Wonderfully Great Book
Thi story touched me in a way that only those rare, genuinely great books can touch you. On finishing the book, I spent hours just thinking
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
Victoria's Protests: What Has Happened To Our Country?
I have watched the protests over the last few days in Melbourne with mounting anger and frustration. I am normally pro-police and pro-vac...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
What is a Religion?
What constitutes a religion, and are they different from a philosophical system or folk superstition? We argue that it is personal...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Virtue of Temperance & Why You Need It
Temperance or moderation in action is essential to both living well, developing wisdom and achieving our purpose in life.
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 16, 2021
- 5 min
The Trouble With Giving and Receiving Gifts
Giving and receiving gifts can be wonderful, but the unscrupulous can also use them to trap the unwary.
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
How to Wake Up Happy!
Waking up sucks, or that's what I used to think. I've found the secret to waking up not only easier but happier as well. Want to know how?
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
The Virtue of Patience and Why You Need It
Why is patience a virtue, and why do we all need it? Today we discuss one of the hardest virtues to master patience.
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 5, 2021
- 11 min
Are Compulsory Vaccinations a Good Thing?
Should vaccines be compulsory? We take a look at the arguments against this infringement of liberty and propose alternatives.
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Sep 2, 2021
- 10 min
The Morality of (Killing in) War
Is it moral to kill during war, and what if any limitations does morality provide to the infliction of harm in war? In part 5, we seek to...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Don’t Waste Your Time!
We waste so much of the little time we have being frustrated by the things we can't change. What would happen if instead...
Andrew Stadtmauer
- Aug 26, 2021
- 7 min
Is It Right to Kill to Eat?
We like all animals can only survive by eating other organisms be they plants or animals. This begs the question is it right to kill to eat?