- What do you really want?
- Going with the flow
- God in our innermost being: Mundaka Upanishad
- Distilling the search for God
- The more I think, the less I feel
- Bad Cholerics in the Catholic hierarchy
- Retrospective on a spiritual journey
- Is it time to consider the lily?
- Parenting advice from a low-energy father
- What is introverted Thinking (Ti)?
- Why people can’t describe introverted Feeling
- How does Fi work (in an INFP/Melancholic)?
- The benefits of getting sick
- The importance of looking within
- Positive thinking for INFP/Melancholics
- Fixing a melancholic
- Choleric Villains: a Kung Fu Panda case study
- Stages of positive thinking
- Mindfulness for people who hate mindfulness
- How positive thinking works
- A diet for the mind
- Ghost in the Shell: what is it really about?
- Why you should watch Cobra Kai instead of The Last Jedi
- Learning to feel better
- Seriously, anxiety?
- What is reality, really?
- Practicing (un)Happiness
- Ghost in the Shell: what makes sci-fi immersive?
- Is it okay to be happy?
- How to unlearn conditional happiness
- “If you want to make God laugh…”
- Fear of getting it wrong
- Abiding insecurity
- Imagine you’re relaxing
- How to “positive”
- God, happiness, participation and transcendence
- Bespoke Artisanal Handcrafted English
- Sackcloth and ashes on Valentine’s Day
- Your world is a reflection
- The practice of love
- Turning J and P on their heads
- True self vs Ego
- Sin and Feeling
- Law of attraction vs principle of reflection
- A process for personal change
- Cosmic Christmas Symbolism
- Myers-Briggs functions vs temperamental factors
- Can you trust your feelings?
- The service-provider state
- MBTI and psychogenic illness
- God writes straight with crooked lines
- Are more guns the answer?
- Why INFP = Melancholic-Phlegmatic
- introverted Feeling
- I just don’t feel like it
- Zuckerberg: the world’s biggest dictator
- To Hell with an Aussie Halloween
- OCEAN follow-up: disorganised and disagreeable
- OCEANs of meaning for the INFP/Melancholic-Phlegmatic
- Follow your feelings?
- Weinstein, ‘rape culture’, and one-punch assaults
- Happiness and the motivation to change
- Addiction and pornography: rediscovering virtue in the internet age
- A note on interpreting old temperament material
- Medieval Latin rhymes about temperament
- Kant on the melancholic
- A brief history of temperament
- Not-love: the paradox of evil
- Melancholics and inhibited body language/facial expressions
- How much should we hate our enemies?
- Do you make your own luck? The Landlord’s sin of pride.
- Towards a spiritual psychology
- Melancholics and trauma
- Reflecting on love and neglect
- Emotional regulation and chronic pain
- Love and doubt: the central truth of existence
- The Weight-Loss Paradox: paperback re-release
- Vale Dr John Sarno
- How I overcame ankylosing spondylitis
- Want answers? Learn to ask the right questions
- Perfect love and complete joy
- Seven Deadly Landlord Sins
- Fiction versus non-fiction: which is easier?
- Consolations of a reflective landlord
- People who can eat whatever they want…and not put on weight.
- Why is losing weight so difficult?
- The Weight-Loss Paradox – Paperback now available!
- Promoting The Weight-Loss Paradox
- My first non-fiction ebook!
- Tripping over joy
- The knight of faith against the absurd
- Nondualism and working on yourself
- My next book, smoked pork, fan-mail and all-consuming inner turmoil
- Why are melancholics tired all the time?
- Autoimmune and Myopia – parallels
- Looking for answers to refine your search
- The eyes have it
- Miracle cures and short-sightedness
- Your beliefs do shape your experience
- The zone of silence: rediscovering non-fiction
- Temperament Tests
- Melancholic learning styles
- Ups and downs and spiritual experience
- Getting to the bottom of pride in practice
- The antidote to Pride
- The writing process: attack from all sides!
- Fake news, junk knowledge, and learning to reason again
- The meaning of life in fiction
- Writing with the power of panic
- To Create a World: another great review!
- Fat, non-fiction and the philosophy of losing weight
- TCAW: Corporal punishment for Goblins
- My first-ever ebook review!
- Are fantasy stories worth telling?
- Overcoming Low Elf-esteem
- To Create a World – and an ebook!
- Enlightenment and Depression
- Searching for Four Temperaments info?
- Revisiting the ideal diet
- Do you create your own reality?
- Ebooks aren’t books, don’t have covers
- Everyday heroism and the value of fiction
- Symbolism of posture
- When suffering is good for you
- On being special
- On knowing what you’re doing
- On not knowing who you are
- Saving our best advice for others
- All thoughts come from the same place
- There is a crack in everything
- Blessed are those who mourn
- On being conceited, arrogant, proud and vain.
- Glory to God in the Lowest
- Who practices?
- Unpacking Pride
- Two Birds on a Tree: different models of selflessness
- When you grapple with a problem
- Sickness and pride
- Karma: when the past catches up with you
- The self that doesn’t exist
- What can you learn from the common cold?
- Who is in control?
- Untying knots
- Regime-change in the USA
- Analogies of Selflessness: Siri and Live Classical Music
- How we vote: the four temperaments
- Faith and works and self-delusion
- Are you perfect?
- Brief thoughts on Lucifer
- Better to reign in hell?
- What is your experience?
- Pride and the delusion of self
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy vs spiritual event-horizon
- What is understanding?
- Acceptance: nothing changes, everything changes
- On Trump’s video leak
- The great denial
- Acceptance: spiritual and mundane
- Taking what is offered.
- Dieting retrospective
- The missing voices of Western chant
- The use of being useless
- Buddhism and Christianity: a brief convergence
- Form and Formlessness
- The ‘it never happened’ button
- Finding your inner Trump
- Are hate crimes motivated by hate?
- Election ’16
- Racism and homophobia
- Not your grandfather’s transgenderism
- Who owns the horror?
- Gorillas in our midst
- T comes right after LGB
- Paypal gay picnic threat: a symbolic masterpiece in disguise
- La Mian / Ramen noodles
- How do we know what is good?
- Just one look
- Is morality rational?
- Dharma and Natural Law
- Rethinking the Is-Ought problem
- I identify as underappreciated
- The history of the center of the world
- Intuition: a logical interlude
- Who’s afraid of the MBTI?
- Temperaments and the MBTI
- What are you trying to prove?
- Good Friday notes 2016
- Exercise your demons
- It’s the pride, stupid.
- Melancholic resentment
- Show and Tell
- Remind me not to get sick in Australia
- Discerning The Donald
- Fiction update – so, so tired.
- Fiction update: my writing timeline
- Learning to forget
- Fiction update
- Do you like being overweight?
- 2015: a musical retrospective
- Feast of Thomas Aquinas
- Quell the appetite
- Endless striving
- More dieting tips
- Dieting Tips
- A fifth temperament?
- Melancholic with Type A Personality
- Have yourself an avaricious Christmas
- Philosopher rejects Orthodoxy, Christianity, all religion
- The paradox of “you create your own reality”
- Rice wine tips
- Are you really a cynic?
- Celebrating the Trolley Problem
- We are all rich men now
- I don’t like “God”
- If thine eye offend thee…
- Beautiful writing
- Blue cheese, rice wine, beer, pickled vegetables and glorious shelving!
- Nice, Western, Consensus Buddhism
- Cynical and amoral: the dark side of the mindfulness fad
- Heideggerian Anti-Mosque Protest
- The burden of free speech
- Dtcwee’s working holiday
- Pope in sheep’s clothing
- Anxiety and the Melancholic: part three
- C. S. Lewis’s “No Right to Happiness”
- J’Accuse! Dissecting an accusatory comment
- Limitations of a lustful life
- Anxiety and the Melancholic: part two
- Anxiety and the Melancholic: part one
- A painful attitude
- A PhD in Philosophy: more useful than expected!
- ‘Overcoming’ Auto-immune disease
- Will robots take your job?
- Reversion in Buddhism?
- Buddhism, emptiness and pride
- Metaphysics, creativity, and the tyranny of conventions
- The myth of total war
- MBTI and the melancholic
- How to remember Hiroshima
- The Moral Fallout of Hiroshima
- Quid est Veritas?
- You think too much
- Beatitudes
- So Dominican…
- Saturn devours his children
- Self-will gets in the Way
- Brooding on breeding
- Cognitive dissonance and same-sex marriage
- Contemptus Mundi
- Twitter devours its children
- Low mood
- The paradox of fiction
- Is Bruce Jenner now a woman?
- How not to heresy
- Life without indulgent eating
- Execution style
- Wine time
- Desire and the Dao
- The melancholic posture
- The ‘I’ in ‘team’
- Dtcwee’s hobby is a temple
- Language games
- Supermarket monsters
- The real price of cheap food
- Has “natural” been de-natured?
- What’s work for you?
- Another bacon update
- The Chinese version of me doesn’t do kung fu
- The limits of non-fiction
- The conflicted storyteller
- Resurrecting old religions
- Trauma and the ingratiate melancholic
- Easter vigil notes
- Good Friday notes
- Imagine you’re a phleg
- Fun with melancholics
- The obligated melancholic
- How much for your happiness?
- The safeguard of virtue
- My passive self
- How to win an internet argument
- The rectification of names
- When is a war crime not a war crime?
- On the virtues of cherry-picking
- The lost vision of our ethical heritage
- Yoga ethics or empty posturing
- Uncommon voices
- Why Catholics can’t sing
- The power of smoke
- Associate Editor looks askance at frozen berries
- I am a great person
- What ISIS really wants
- Making a difference in the age of high-speed politics
- Bacon comparison
- Monks with guitars
- My Funny Valentine
- The true men of old
- Eugenics and the artifice of man
- Islam, terrorism, and the Westboro Baptists
- Islam and violence: how stupid are we really?
- Terrifying moral dilemmas
- Let’s not call it bacon
- 60 sqm homestead
- Bacon day nine
- Home-made butter
- A murderous blame game
- The rise and fall of religious music
- If only my music were popular…
- Home-made bacon
- Home-made soy sauce
- “We cannot all be Charlie Hebdo”
- The pride of life
- Blaming Charlie Hebdo
- Challenging Radical Islam
- Provocation is no defence for the Jihadi murderers
- Blame and provocation
- Learn to crush your dreams
- The ideal approach
- Auto-Immunity: stop hitting thyself?
- Home-made pasta sauce
- I’m fine; like ‘fine art’ fine.
- New You Resolution
- Home-made bread
- A suitably obscure definition of mysticism
- The merits of mysticism
- Home-made update
- Man Ready To Hate Pope Again This Christmas
- Dangerous Aussie Fauna
- Who moved my brain?
- Fresh home-made yogurt
- Comparative mysticism at Christmas
- This debauched medium
- Decisions and choices
- The gift of satire
- Home-made rice wine
- Australia’s complex multi-culture
- The uselessness of a martial art
- Creative dismay
- Give me the spurious ephedrine
- Funnelly enough
- Adelaide’s Wakefield Experiment
- Childhood 2.0 is a little buggy
- Adelaide Feng Shui
- What makes you happy?
- What do you live for?
- Freedom from desire
- Serving two masters
- Adelaide and the uncanny valley
- Your money, or your life?
- Adelaide Contingent
- How do you make a living?
- The modesty of water
- What it means to be free
- DadFit
- The Dao of Parenting
- Ba-Ba-Ba
- A man of many parts-time
- The end of employment and a new path
- The melancholic exercise compromise
- Imago Dei and the basis of human dignity
- Tiny-house movement
- The moral betrayal of corporate dysfunction
- The pitfalls of careerism
- Stress and the melancholic temperament
- The nature of wealth
- Other people’s minds
- Home-brewed beer
- “I’m confused. Does he have three houses or one?”
- The awe-full truth of human dignity
- Canaries in the coal-mine
- Tonti-Filippini’s intellectual quest undaunted by physical pain
- 354
- The Kid Handicap
- Mammon triumphs over the everyman, flaunts codpiece
- I can’t handle being useful
- Is it really satire though?
- Anywhere but there
- Home-roasted coffee
- Learning Chinese the eccentric way
- “In springtime the dragon is useless”
- A richer life on a lower income
- The vibe of ‘white genocide’
- You can’t spell conspiracist without…
- I’m moving to Finland, to be with my people
- Not inspiring enough
- ‘White’ identity in a multicultural world
- Discovering the New Age author within
- Self-defense as an ethical ideal
- Why learn a martial art?
- Stoic Papa
- Evolution and the Catholic Church
- Violence and the masculine ideal
- Critiquing masculinity
- Stuck in my head
- “Follow your blisters”
- Indulging in satire
- An intellectual journey: dodging the culture wars, thinking for myself
- Reason and reality – a talk
- Inefficiencies of the labour market
- The Pope on evolution
- Weekly dose of satire
- Doing what teacher says
- The ethics of management: hypocrisy
- Happiness ensues…
- Overcoming the mental boundary
- Coherence of character
- The ethics of management: honesty
- More to life
- The ethics of management
- Finding a balance
- Routine destruction of off-spec food
- How Google Works
- China’s Virtuous President
- The greatest gift of all
- Arguing on the internet
- What is the sound of one hand clapping?
- What does it take to be a writer?
- Why I’m not on Facebook
- The critical challenge of gender equality
- The unfolding logic of euthanasia
- iWant! iWant! iWant!
- ‘Success’ brings out the worst in us
- The superior man needs an income
- The Melancholic Emperor
- Thinking beyond gender equality etiquette
- If you won the lottery tomorrow…
- The unexamined iphone is not worth buying
- Style over substance
- Rise of the management class
- Joan Rivers and the price of victory
- What makes an endeavour shallow?
- The Disadvantages of Depth
- Sexpo and University Open Days
- A Scrupulous Writer
- Stifling Creativity
- Sickness and Eternity
- Lost in the Process
- Melancholic Facades and the Challenge of Sincerity
- Stoicism and the Dao
- The Natural Appeal of Stoicism
- Vale, Robin Williams, Hollywood’s melancholy funnyman
- Communicating Value
- There’s No Money in That
- Pigs and Fishes – Dealing with Intractable People
- The Power of Sincerity
- Pitfalls of the Melancholic
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