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TagsHistory (751), (511), Ireland (449), military (260), Ulster (212), Philosophy (198), Judaism (191), Spirituality (187), Theology (176), WW II (169) — see all tags

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About meUn-fence-ible-in Free Spirit & Un-categorizable. FACEBOOK & YOUTUBE fan. Profile on www.LinkedIn.com & www.ZoomedInfo.com & Blogspot & Amazon
Available for media appearances, articles, commissions, panels, talks. Irish BLOGGER & Writer & Philosopher. "Strenuus pro Virili Libertatis Vindicator" [Dean Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745]. Activist, a radical reformer but Counter-Revolutionary. A ROUNDHEAD, neither Cavalier, nor Digger. A GIRONDIN, neither Ancien Regime, nor Jacobin. A TRUDOV(N)IK, neither Tzarist nor Bolshevik. For Lilburne, Condorcet & Kerensky, neither Winstanley, Robespierre nor Lenin. With Socrates, not Euthyphro. With Aristotle more than Plato. With Job & Epicurus. Chronic Refractory Night-Owl. Acutely & chronically Gyno-tropic. Avid reader.

Independent Re-SEARCH-er, ANALYST, COMMENTATOR, especially on ME conflict, Israel, Islamicist Jihadi Ideology and movements, Principled [Interest-based ] Conflict Resolution, Mediation, Security/Defence, and Ethics.
Also member of: SPME -Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Chair of Ireland-Israel Friendship League, TUFI - Trade Union Friends of Israel, TULIP - Trade Unions Linking Israel & Palestine. Admirer of HDCA [ Human Development and Capability Association]. Director on Advisory Board: Foundation for Constitutional Democracy, Jerusalem. Former National President, & Honorary Life Member [from 2005]-Public Service Executive Union. Former Secretary/Treasurer [a] Post Office Trade Union Group & [b] Peace Train Organization & [c] STOP-96 [Solidarity To Organize Peace] & [d ] AGM Recording Secretary, JRT -Journey of Reconciliation Trust [Mesen/Messines Round Tower, Flanders, Island of Ireland WW I War Memorial. Member former DAG-Divorce Action Group & Dublin West Co-ordinator 1982-83 AAC [Anti-Amendment Campaign, against absolute Constitutional ban on abortion]

Passionate explorer of people, places, ideas & periods. Supporting Principled Interventionist Internationalism, I believe in strong, open UNIVERSAL Democracy & universal Human Rights, in a context of national sovereignty, & in the indivisible Atlantic & wider Anglo-Spheric freedoms, culture, ethics and heritage, and in the total defeat of terror gangs from Belfast to Bali, from Madrid to Basra, from Kabul to Haifa, from Manhattan to Istanbul, from Adare to Beirut, from Bogota to Tehran, from London to Beslan, from Casablanca to Karachi, and from Manila to Mumbai.

Freedom is never free - you are either an ARMED Democrat, or else you end up a Dead SLAVE. Strength is necessary, but not sufficient, for Freedom. And the Bleu in the French tricolor- LIBERTE, is the foundation of [ and indeed the primary & over-riding value among ] both the Blanc- Fraternite, and the Red-Equalite. The Good is what we grasp by the un-fettered operation of free, open, critical reasoning, and for reasons verified in such a structured process, and then embrace and authentically live - not driven by either feelings or by any external command, or fashion, or tradition, but because we recognize & freely assent to its real & intrinsic merits, which we have personally discovered in thinking FOR, but not merely BY, ourselves.

You back either the Arsonist or the Fire-Fighter, the Drug Gang or the Drug Squad, the Suicide-Bomber or the Bomb Squad.

A Zetetic, Tri-chotomic Tri-Lemma-ist, and Critical Realist, I reject the 12 simplistic Dualistic Binary Di-Lemmas of [a] tyranny or terror, [b] pacifist neutrality or belligerent partiality, [c] totally unrestricted, unregulated market or statist, centralized monopoly, [d] obscurantist fideism or arrogant rationalism, [e] puritanical repression or porno obsession, [f] moral absolutism or anarchic relativism, [g] alienated individualism or coercive collectivism, [h] patri-archy or mis-andry, [i] body or mind, [j] feeling or thinking, [k] nature or culture, and [l] cynical exploitation or naive optimism, which may be Mutually Exclusive dichotomies, but are certainly not Collectively Exhaustive options. Any Text without a Context, is a pre-text.
I believe in "Both-And", not "Either/Or", & in the "Via Media". I believe in the dynamic "Virtuous Spiral", not the static "Vicious Circle". A simple "Contradictory" [denial] is not a total "Contrary" [OPPOSITE position, nature, tendency, direction]. "Not-A" is not necessarily "Anti-A". Re-frame the old, Closed Question & you may create a new, Open Answer. Our present interests, concerns, awareness & assumptions do not necessarily provide the solution or the strategy. And the strategy does not define the tactics.

My 14 mottos would be:
[1] Be the Hammer OR the Anvil - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832,
[2] What goes with the flow ? Dead fish! - Dr. Roy Maurice Keane [ born Aug 10, 1971, Mayfield, Cork City, ex-Capt of both Man Utd FC (2008 3rd-time European Champions winner) & Rep of Ireland, then Sunderland FC and Ipswich Town Manager].
[3] Those who can make you believe Absurdities can make you commit Atrocities - Voltaire =Francois-Marie Arouet [1694-1778].
[4] Life is for living, not denying, for enjoying, not controlling. Energy is for guiding, not suppressing. And challenges are for confronting, and winning, not for evading or ignoring.
Who never dares never wins.
[5] Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty - Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
[6] The RHF [Royal Highland Fusiliers] motto - Nemo Nos Impune Lacessit [ no-one provokes us with impunity.
[7] Pote Paradidomai - I never surrender.
[8] And I cherish those 6 words of Ulster poet, Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963, - the drunkenness of things being various.
[9] Thaumazein esti Arches tes Sofias - To wonder is the root of wisdom - Aristotle, 384-322 BCE, {Metaphysics].
[10] Ho de Anexestatos Bios ou Biwtos Anthrwpou - The un-examined life is not worth living for humans - Socrates in the Apology - Plato, 427-347 BCE .
[11] The clouds are lies. They cannot last. The blue sky is the truth [Geoffrey A. Studdert-Kennedy, 1883-1929, WW I Chaplain - **Woodbine Willy**].
[12] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy - Tanakh, Psalm 126, verse 5.
[13] Put not your trust in princes -Tanakh, Psalm 146, verse 3.
[14] Strenuus pro Virili Libertatis Vindicator - Dean Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.

An INTP/ENTJ personality on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,and a Type 8 [The Challenger] on the Enneagram, born in the Chinese Year of the Ox, and a Leo.

About my libraryOnly some [2,158 ] cataloged so far. Interests include: Irish, Ulster, European, US, Military, Greek and Jewish History and Literature, Philosophy, Aviation, Space, Poetry, Spirituality, Theology, Israel/Middle East, Sam Keen, Sam Beckett, Albert Camus, Martin Gilbert, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Nikos Kazantzakis, Richard Kearney, Hubert Butler, Neal Acherson, Claudio Magris, Karl R. Popper, Paul Tillich, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, Martha C. Nussbaum, Susan Neiman, Hilary Putnam, Rebecca Goldstein, Asa Kasher, Kathryn Schulz, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

GroupsA Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Ancient History, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Aviation, Banned Books, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Beautiful Game, Biblical History, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographiesshow all groups

Favorite authorsAmitai Etzioni (Shared favorites)

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Real nameTom Carew [ *NEAPA* =NE Atlantic Pretannic Archipelago ]

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Member sinceJun 28, 2006

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Hi Tom, I see we are the only members with Bill Kautt's Ambushes and Armour. It's nice to meet you and you have an interesting profile on here. John "Doc" B
I noticed that you and I both have a copy of "The Logic of the Faith by Bouillard. I uploaded a copy of my cover since for the library. I just thought you might be interested.
FYI
I have uploaded a cover for The Little Field-Marshal: Sir John French by Richard Holmes. This is from the 1981 Jonathon Cape hardcover edition.
Thanks for the Kimon Friar recommendation - will track it down.
Ok; thanks.... I will check this out;

Liam
Thanks for referring me to Kimon Friar. I did a Google search and he does, indeed, look to be an interesting author. I'll check out his books. :-)
i am glad u like my library. i will take a look at yours. where do u live? tell me about yourself and your interests. thx. best, sigmund
Interesting library, have you read Water's Lapsed Agnostic, typically I bought it a few weeks ago and have it on my 'to read' shelf with luck I will over Christmas, anyway interested in what you think
Liam
Tom,
found your comments interesting and thought provoking. Seems i need to get busy recording more of my books as we have only one book in common... but it's a good one. Fascinating. love your profile though.

Iris
Thank you for finding my library interesting. I take that as a compliment! I haven't had time to log in all my books nor participate much in the discussion groups, since I have been traveling a lot lately. I just checked out your profile and find it quite interesting, Ireland's history being one of my great reading interests for years now. I'd be interested in knowing if you subscribe to the both/and & the either/or at the same time, thus taking a multi-phasetic position on all subjects, or if you shift from one position to the other--either either/or or both/and--depending on the subject? ;o) Sorry, just enjoy meeting complex minds and also, enjoy complicating stuff sometimes. Best,

Trudy
Thanks for the comment, Tom! I'm actually quite interested in philosophy and spirituality--I just tend to express and explore my ideas through fiction. My invite isn't a form of untargeted book marketing. My goal is to avoid any hierarchical thinking on my part, and invite anyone and everyone to connect with me. I usually have preconceived notions about who will appreciate my sense of humor, my ideas, my e-companionship. So I'd rather put myself out there, see who feels a connection, and go from there. It's worked for me so far--I've made some awesome friends who I never expected to enjoy speaking with me.

Here's wishing you the best in all aspects of your life.

-Jeremy :)
Hello,

Thank your for leaving me a comment! I have spent a lot of time thinking of 1) the 14 books (other than the Mills and Boon) we have in common and 2) Why did you did you buy the Mills & Boon book at all? I do not have any really good ideas. I do know I read the Mills & Boon (American Harlequin) and other romances to escape from my reality. Als, I realized that most of the 15 books are from university classes or my son's high school curriculum. I do not know if that challenges your assumptions, but I do not apologize for my choices. I like the romance genre and understand its limitations. At this point it my life I need fantasy in my romantic life. It might sound strange but "happy ever after" is a wonderful fantasy.

I have a huge library that spans many years of my life(that makes me sound ancient, but I do not think I am old, but I do not want to apologize for my tastes in books, with my very romance bent. I have many boxes of books to catalog that have not be added to my library.

Sigh, I just wanted you to know 1) the romance book you chose is probably not the greatest example and 2) we have some interesting books in common, but not I am not sure what it means.

A

(Oh no, others will know you bought a Mills & Boon)
Thanks for letting me know! I wonder what the problem is?
Buzz Aldrin! (How could anyone forget. And he's in the most famous photographs of the event, too.)
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