NCAT ORDERS REGARDING TEMAN PTY LTD

 

Regarding a recent newspaper article about my wife and I, it should be noted that we won our application to NCAT.

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RV 20/33760

3 Ridge Estate by Teman Pty Ltd is to comply with s 66 of the Retirement Villages Act 1999, and in particular

(1) is to take all reasonable steps to ensure that all residents meet their obligations under their village contracts, the village rules and this Act, so that a resident does not unreasonably interfere with the peace, comfort and quiet enjoyment of his or her fellow residents, and

(2) is to use its best endeavours to ensure that each resident lives in an environment free from harassment and intimidation.

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"In Search of C S Lewis" edited by Stephen Schofield

 

From "In Search of C S Lewis" edited by Stephen Schofield (Bridge Publishing Inc, New Jersey: Undated)

1. Stephen Scholfield (Interviewer)

Lewis ... he drank a pint of ale with lunch, and after we settled in armchairs. p. 1

2. Kenneth Tynan (Interviewer)

... the interviewer and I went to see Lewis in Headington ... "Tell me Professor Lewis, what do you think of the use of four-letter words in literature?" "Lewis answered,'I find them objectionable because they are not erotic enough'. p. 5

He never brought his religious beliefs into is literary tutorials. p. 6

3. Alan Rock (Pupil)

... he was not warm, and to be continually up against his ineluctable logic was distinctly chilling. p. 11

I never felt any warmth in my encounters with Lewis. No real human contact. p. 12

Once he said, 'Rook, you think of me as a Medievalist and a scholar. You're making a mistake. I'm nothing more than a butcher - a rough and brutal man.' Those were his words. p.13

4. Norman Bradshaw (Pupil)

... always smoking, generally a pipe. p. 18

He suffered from a bladder weakness (caused by World War 1 service at the front.) p.19

He would not, in my time, ever act as tutor to women. He seemed almost afraid of them. It was a standing joke at Magdalen that whenever he saw a woman enter the College he would run as fast as he could and lock himself in his rooms. p. 21

He liked to win. He liked to demolish an opponent's argument. ... Lewis would take up the argument and knock the other chap as flat as a house of cards ... And Lewis would sit back and take another sip of port. pp. 22-23

I know of several dons with theological degrees who denigrated Lewis because he was not a professional theologian - that is, he had no degree in theology - and yet he was becoming a household name. p. 24

... Lewis ... enjoyed beer, and who smoked a perpetual succession of pipes and 'gaspers' (Will's Gold Flake, or 'yellow perils', to be exact). p.34

... so generous and outpouring with 'fags' [cigarettes] and pipes, with beer and wine flowing ... p. 35

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This is only from the first 35 pages! The same themes come back over and over again. C S Lewis would not be accepted by most evangelicals today if they read Stephen Schofield's interviews with those who knew him "In Search Of C S Lewis". http://www.amazon.com/Search-C-S-Lewis.../dp/088270544X He was a high Anglican who liked the "bells and smells". His favourite food was a pie and pint of beer. He smoked a pipe. He was sexist and barred Dorothy L Sayers from the Inklings merely because she was a woman. He told dirty jokes all his life. His "Liar, Lunatic, Lord' thesis does not work and does not include all alternatives.

LOGICAL FALLACY: Argumentum ad Aurum - 'Follow the Money' Fallacy

A wonderful article found at https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/09/08/argumentum-ad-aurum-follow-money-fallacy-10133

This fallacious argument is thrown over and over again at scientists and journalists, in particular. Don't like a scientist's research? Follow the money! Don't like a journalist's opinion? Follow the money! For many, the only conceivable reason that a person dares to disagree is because he or she is being paid off by [Insert BIG ______ here]. In this bizarre worldview, there are only two types of people: truth-tellers and paid shills. ...

Why does the "follow the money" argument fail so miserably? There are three major reasons.

First, everybody has to get their money from somebody. ...

Second, as counterintuitive as this is going to sound, money usually doesn't change people's opinions. ...

Third, research suggests that people who are paid to support a particular cause are less persuasive. So, hiring "paid shills" would be a bad business decision.

CREDENTIALS: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki versus Andrew Bolt

FROM Carrick Ryan: Andrew Bolt keeps calling Dr Karl a "scientific fraud", so I decided to look up their scientific credentials.Can you guess whose is whose?

Paul Tournier - Learning To Grow Old (Quotes)

From Paul Tournier 'Learning To Grow Old' (SCM Press:1972)

We have to give up all sorts of things, and accept with serenity the prospect of death, while remaining as active, as sociable and friendly as we can, despite an unavoidable measure of loneliness. We must learn to use leisure profitably, take up new interests, interest ourselves in young people and new ideas. pp 1-2

What each of us needs is a 'reconversion' from earning our living to cultural activity. ... To acquire culture ... is to develop oneself, to progress, to contribute to the progress of the human race, to find a meaning in life which can survive the cessation of professional activity. p. 5

The active person allows many of his talents to lie fallow in order to develop a few which are indispensable to his professional and social success. The integration to which Jung calls him in the second part of his life, this new advance towards a more complete human fulfilment, involves the reawakening of everything that he has for a long time had to sacrifice to his career. p. 11

... lots of retired people are bored because they do not know what to do with their enforced liberty! p. 20

Moreover, when one grows old, as Mauriac remarks, I believe one finds special pleasure in re-reading old books one has read in the past. p. 33 *[As I am doing now with this book.] 

.. moral injustices. One of the gravest is the fact that the retired and the aged do not feel that they are looked upon as of equal value with the other members of society, as members with a 'full share', as General de Gaulle remarked in another context. p. 37

We have given things a priority over persons, we have built up a civilization based on things rather than on person. p. 40

... those in the autumn of their lives, are reaching the summer of their wisdom. p. 123

We must change in order to stay the same. To live is to grow old. p. 182

"Super Patriot meme from 1968" from Mad Magazine #129 1969

The Super Patriot meme that is doing the rounds on Facebook is actually from Mad Magazine #129 September 69.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry PERSPECTIVE

And there I stayed a bit, ruminating and telling myself that a man was able to adapt himself to anything. The notion that he is to die in thirty years has probably never spoiled any man's fun. Thirty years ... or thirty days: It's all a matter of perspective. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - (Wind, Sand and Stars p. 124)